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fcoulter
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Posted: August 11 2011 at 14:15 |
Sometime in middle school, I noticed that my parents had an album called Emerson Lake and Palmer. At that point I had gone to National Music Camp in Interlochen, MI, so I was pretty exposed to classical music. The only other music I knew was the stuff on the radio. (The first album I bought was of Van Cliburn. The first song I remember was Knock Three Times. Sad, isn't it.)
But I really liked the music on that album. (My father, a classical pianist, had heard of Keith Emerson as a childhood prodigy, not as a rock musician.)
While my mother was getting her Ph.D. in Princeton, I saw Genesis playing on campus. I was a bit young, but I distinctly remember Dancing with the Moonlit Knight, Suppers Ready, and Watcher of the Skies. This would have been seventh grade. I was bitten at that point.
I dragged my mother to see them play the following year when they returned. By this time they were popular enough that they had two shows that night. We couldn't get tickets to the earlier show, so we saw the midnight show.
There was no going back at that point.
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jav1919
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Posted: August 11 2011 at 19:26 |
My dad is a big Pink Floyd/Led Zeppelin fan and I used to listen to those bands since I was little... around 14 he introduced me to Dream Theater and I rediscovered his old Pink Floyd/Led Zep records and... well you guys probably can imagine the rest
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mrbean667
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Posted: August 12 2011 at 01:47 |
A few years back in adolescence when I discovered this thing called metal. Began to listen to random stuff and luckily Opeth's Blackwater Park was one of the first things I heard.
My brain changed that day. It was only when I heard Ayreon's The Human Equation when I called myself a 'true' prog fan, as it opened me up to Devin Townsend, Dream Theater, and every other prog band I now like.
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Drew
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Posted: August 12 2011 at 02:10 |
Listening to this around the year 1998: And saying something along the lines of..."Holy **** balls this is amazing"
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GypsyJoker
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Posted: August 12 2011 at 10:13 |
I was 12, and my brother brought home Rush's H emispheres from college (he's a drummer, natch). It was the coolest thing I'd ever heard, and my dad hated it, so it had to be awesome. I used to put the headphones on and try to sing like Geddy Lee (which was easier when I was 12). My mother thought I had rabies.
From there, it was to the Mahavishnu Orchestra, back several steps to Asia, accidental exposure to King Crimson's Three of a Perfect Pair (then following Asia through John Wetton into older Crimson), and on into Yes' Fragile--I knew Asia's guitarist and keyboardist used to play with Yes (and I vaguely recalled "Tempus Fugit" on the radio, with the vocoded "yes, yes" telling me who the band was). I had avoided Yes up 'til then, because their bassist sure sounded like he was "better" than Geddy Lee, who was already a hero of mine.
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Hober Mallow
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Posted: August 12 2011 at 13:54 |
Genesis
Edited by Hober Mallow - November 25 2011 at 13:51
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“When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life.” John Kennedy Toole
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KABSA
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Posted: August 12 2011 at 14:19 |
I was 13 to 14 when i got what it was (my sisters collection) Groundhogs : who will save the world Grand Funk Railroad : survival B.Sabbath : master of reality The radio played a part, enthusing me to buy : Genesis_trick of the tail And the local record store also, finding with my means (cheap) B.Eno_another green world. People i knew also. A german lass borrowed me a tape : TD_phaedra . Neighbour `taped me` Black Sabbs_volume 4 & paranoid. School environs also : my year were very much into SAHB My mate from the other school told me `his` year were into Italian bands : PFM & Banco.
Then Punk Happened. The local `market stall` also threw some interesting things into the mix (by random chance) ie. This Heat_s/t
Edited by KABSA - August 12 2011 at 14:21
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Tall Tales of Topographic Inconsequence
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jav1919
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Posted: August 12 2011 at 22:00 |
Drew wrote:
Listening to this around the year 1998:
And saying something along the lines of..."Holy **** balls this is amazing"
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Most prog fans tend to forget how great Dream Theater was, Images and Words is a freaking masterpiece.
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infocat
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Posted: August 12 2011 at 22:58 |
The thing I find most interesting about this thread is the number of "young people" who got into prog because their dad is a fan. How many generations can say that (kids liking their parents music). Very cool! Frank
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-- Frank Swarbrick Belief is not Truth.
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zachfive
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Posted: August 13 2011 at 03:27 |
Rush. Fly By Night. 12 years old, asked mom what that was on the radio and she bought me the album, cause she too loved Rush.After that it exploded. Thank you PA and dear ol' mum.
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Zappa21
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Posted: August 13 2011 at 17:04 |
I don't remember when I just remember it including me and the first track of some album they for some reason called "In the Court of the Crimson King"
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DiamondDog
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Location: Cambridge
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Posted: August 15 2011 at 07:11 |
The early days at the Marquee did it for me, just saw it all explode before my eyes and ears.
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EchoeWho?
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Posted: August 15 2011 at 19:59 |
I recently got into prog. My mind was just craving something different. Don't know how it happened but everything came at the right time and I encountered this website and recently bought Close to the Edge by Yes and fell in love
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wjohnd
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Posted: August 16 2011 at 19:12 |
Mid 70s..sitting in my friends house when his brother put on Pink Floyd-Animals and then Jethro Tull's Life's a Long Song EP... after that it was Rush 2112 and I was hooked.
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Electross
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Posted: October 16 2011 at 07:54 |
sitting around at a party and this guy started to play king crimson and yes and other stuff cant remember. I was always into it a bit but he really raised a curtain from my eyes that night thank god for me friend sandman
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ExittheLemming
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Posted: October 16 2011 at 08:10 |
This has probably been posted before (I can't be ar*sed to read the whole thread - shame on me) but Prog is more akin to an antibiotic than a virus.
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wjohnd
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Posted: October 16 2011 at 08:17 |
zachfive wrote:
Rush. Fly By Night. 12 years old, asked mom what that was on the radio and she bought me the album, cause she too loved Rush.After that it exploded. Thank you PA and dear ol' mum. |
Now that is the definition of a cool Mum back in the 70s....
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A Smart Kid
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Joined: October 12 2011
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Posted: October 16 2011 at 19:06 |
I am 17 now and I think it was about three years ago when I got hooked. I was mainly listening to classic rock: The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, and The Who. Then a friend of mine introduced me to Yes, Genesis, King Crimson, and Pink Floyd. It exploded from there of course.
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progistoomainstream
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Joined: October 07 2011
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Posted: October 16 2011 at 21:43 |
I remember the first time I decided to darken my room and close my eyes and listen to Supper's Ready. It was absolutely indescribable. At Willow Farm, My heart started beating in time with the music. I had never had a greater expirience.
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sideburndude...
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Posted: October 17 2011 at 18:27 |
Ever since i was twelve I was a big fan of Psychedelic Rock, that eventually led me into Pink Floyd and it kept on going from there. But it the moment it really clicked was listening to 2112 in a long car ride it completely took me to another realm and that is when I discovered Progressive rock's potential soon after I purchased Camel's Mirage, that solidified my love for the genre.
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