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    Posted: November 07 2009 at 20:31
Growing up in St. Louis back in the 70's, we had a great radio station...KSHE 95.  It was one of the original album oriented stations on FM of its day.  As a little kid, I hated the pop/commercial stuff as I got older and finally my folks let me start buying stuff I wanted.  So I had heard a great variety of stuff , but what nailed it for me was a KANSAS concert in 1976 at Six Flags over Mid-America.  They were just incredible and such amazing players...Song For America, Belexes, Journey from Mariabronn, The Pinnacle.....just to name a few.  Got me very hooked on Prog as much as I could hear....moving to Arkansas however for college and most of my career made it pretty tough to get access to much in the 80's, 90's etc....but the internet came along and I was finally able to hear and learn that lots of stuff had still been going on..and I have enjoyed it all over again over the last 10 years or so.  

KANSAS was where it all started for me.....

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Through Metal.
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Through Metal.
Hug A familiar story for alot of my friends (though none of them are brave enough for any prog unless its part metal)
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Metal is were I have ended up, after months of symphonic prog.
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I went to black metal, to technical death metal, then went to progressive death, and finally got to Dream Theater, moving to prog rock soon after.
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I was brought in by way of seeking out music that used Moogs - I was (and still am) addicted to the sound of Moog synthesizers...but I absolutely prefer it in the context of rock music, and I am also drawn to acoustic guitars and harmony vocals, so I began finding it in early Heart, Rush, Steve Miller Band, Styx, Pink Floyd, and quickly found a treasure trove of it in ELP and Yes...
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I was around when it started (yes I'm that old!!) One of the bands that I saw in it's infancy was the band from the public school a mile up the road from where I grew up. The school was Charterhouse, near Godalming and the band was.....................................well. you all know the answer to that one, don't you???
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I really liked Phil Collins' In The Air Tonight when it came out so I went to buy the album. The clerk suggested I might like Phil's band, Genesis, so I bought a copy of And Then There Were Three. I played the first song, Down And Out, and I thought the record was skipping, so I took it back. The clerk explained to me the concept of 5/4 time . . . . completely foreign to me at the time, but I was fascinated. Plus I really enjoyed the sound of Tony's synths so I explored more Genesis. The next one I bought was Foxtrot, and I was hooked and have been ever since. 
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My story is pretty simple.  I wanted to check out "The Dark Side of The Moon" because I had heard a lot of great things about the album.  Once I listened to it, I was on hooked on Pink Floyd.  However, when I heard this album was when I truly understood what Progressive Rock was:
 
 
How coincidential that my first "true" Prog album, was also the world's first "true" Prog album.
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In 1975. a friend of mine turned me on to Todd Rundgren's Utopia and The Ikon just blew my 17 year old
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Prog still continues to blow my mind, even after a year.
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Replace "a year" with "terrifying scads of time" and you have my mixture of feelings more or less.  Now if only I could figure out a way to get paid for having my mind blown. 

Why must my spell-checker continually underline the word "prog"?

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Originally posted by American Khatru

Replace "a year" with "terrifying scads of time" and you have my mixture of feelings more or less.  Now if only I could figure out a way to get paid for having my mind blown. 
 
We would all be billionaires.LOLBig smile
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In the mid-80s a friend was telling me about a hair metal band called Lilian Axe (he knew one of the members). He mistakenly referred to them as being a progressive rock band. I had not heard the term before, but it did get me curious about what he meant (as all I heard in Lilian Axe was a mainstream metal/hard rock band). I did a little research in rock music books and discovered that progressive rock usually typically refered to bands along the likes of Rush and Kansas. I already liked these bands and sort of realised they had some common elements, but didn't know that they were considered to be part of a separate genre. I gradually became interested in Jethro Tull and Yes, and my taste in metal similarly drifted toward Queensryche and Fates Warning. Some 25 years later,  I'm a well-rounded prog fan and have a taste for hundreds of bands and most sub-genres (with the possible exception of RIO).
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1971   I  first heard ELPs first album ,then my life changed .  prog forever.
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It's simple. I borrowed Theater's Live at Budokan DVD from my friend about three years ago. Didn't know what the heck that music was, but I remember I really liked Beyond This Life because of the improvisation part and following Hollow Years with the great solo. After some time I listened to Images and Words and Metropolis2 but I didn't become a fan until late 2008. The progressive aspect of DT brought me to Pink Floyd and Polish Riverside. I also got into prog because simultaneously I started to play keyboard, so I loved the technical side of this music.

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I didn't find Prog; Prog found me.  That was before anyone used the term.  In high school I was going to see live acts like Cream, Hendrix, Zappa and Big Brother.  Here in Cleveland at that time, every act that wanted to make it in Rock had to come to Cleveland. Late 60s, early 70s we had the best FM station, WNCR; on that station is where I first heard the term Progressive.  It was applied then to acts like Super Session as well as Tull, Yes, or King Crimson. WNCR played them all.
 
I didn't find Prog, Prog found me.
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I got really into Muse who have a progressive influence in their music without a doubt. A lot of Muse fans recommended Radiohead and then Porcupine Tree (who I fell in love with). I also became a fan of The Mars Volta and British new prog bands like Oceansize, PRR and Amplifier.

Basically I've grown to love music with ambition.
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