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Poll Question: In what decade did you first get into prog?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 09 2013 at 16:01
I was born in 66. I was aware of some Prog in the 70s. I was vaguely aware of Selling England by the Pound and Wind & Wuthering from the radio and a friend of mine had and played me The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway when it first came out. I had a lot of friends who were into Rush (I grew up in the States just two hours from Toronto). But I entered high school in 1980, and it was then that I bought Abacab and then moved onward into Prog, listening many hours to the Lamb. I found out about a lot of Prog through an anthology of Rolling Stone reviews at a Walden's bookstore.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 09 2013 at 16:58
The early 70s, with Tull, Yes, ELP, King Crimson, Genesis and Floyd.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 09 2013 at 18:41
Not when I got in to prog, but I recall when my step-sister (older than me by 5 years) bought a cassette of what she called this "really strange album".  It was Abacab.

She also had a boyfriend who brought Yessongs (all 3 LPs) over and left it for a while.  (Along with 90125, of all things.)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 09 2013 at 18:57
Later '70's.
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 09 2013 at 22:25
I started getting into prog around 2010 or so, the year I turned 21. And yes, I am just a pup Embarrassed
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 09 2013 at 22:36
Damn I have kids the same age as you.

Get off my lawn!!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2013 at 02:19
Me? I'm just a lawnmower. You can tell me by the way i walk.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2013 at 02:34
Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Damn I have kids the same age as you.

Get off my lawn!!


I've got parents the same age as you, wait what?

But your lawn is so soft and comfy.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2013 at 08:37
Originally posted by Metalmarsh89 Metalmarsh89 wrote:

Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Damn I have kids the same age as you.

Get off my lawn!!


I've got parents the same age as you, wait what?

But your lawn is so soft and comfy.
My daughter is actually a prog fan as well, I took her to the last Nearfest, it was probably all those times I played Amarok on the school run. Smile


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2013 at 12:29
70s with Demons and Wizards being the kicker--though The Beatles and Days of Future Passed had certainly laid the groundwork.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2013 at 13:29
I'm only a youngin on this site, well compared to most guys, Smile so it's only been so recently. I actually started off with a lot of Prog Metal, like DT of course, Protest the Hero, Between the Buried And Me, Meshuggah, etc. So that was around like ending of grade 8, beginning of grade 9; went to the classic from there on. I actually find my self appreciating those bands more now then I did then.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2013 at 14:47
Somewhere in the 17th century. All you newcomers...pfft
 Can't remember an exact date - it's been a while. 


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Crushed like a rose in the riverflow.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2013 at 16:36
2009, if I remember correctly 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2013 at 22:47
It's funny how so few people, so far anyway, got into prog in the 90's. In the eighties prog was pretty invisible for the most part although in reality the big named seventies bands such as Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd as well as Rush were all pretty big and also ELP(with the ELPowell lineup) to some degree. I think a lot of us who got into these bands in the eighties(including myself) just discovered these bands back catalogs and got into prog that way.

In the nineties prog was just starting to gain some momentum again but it was mainly limited to newsgroups and websites. In the 2000's there were social media sites like Myspace, Facebook and the increasing popularity of prog festivals such as Rosfest and Nearfest to help the genres visibility.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2013 at 22:56
Please read!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:



Earlier someone mentioned they didn't vote for sixties because they didnt' see that option. I have since added a vote to the 1960's to honor that posters initial choice.

So now I would like to ask one person(only one) who did not yet vote who would vote for the seventies to not vote in order to have things equal. Please respond here if you would have voted for the seventies but didn't. Just one person. Thanks. I know it's a strange request but I want this to be as accurate and as fair as possible so please humor me. Smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2013 at 23:45
I got into Rush around 2008/09 that was when I was unaware of Progressive Rock's existence. In late 2011 I decided to listen to Yes, Genesis, and King Crimson that's when it started...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 11 2013 at 06:26
Mid '80's
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 11 2013 at 06:31

72-73 i think.

 
 
Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 11 2013 at 06:46
Originally posted by Prog_Traveller Prog_Traveller wrote:

Please read!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:Earlier someone mentioned
they didn't vote for sixties because they didnt' see that option. I have
since added a vote to the 1960's to honor that posters initial choice.So now I would like to ask one person(only one) who did not yet vote who would vote for the seventies to not vote in order to have things equal. Please respond here if you would have voted for the seventies but didn't. Just one person. Thanks. I know it's a strange request but I want this to be as accurate and as fair as possible so please humor me. Smile

I have honoured your request, even though my dearest mother was only 4 in 1970.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 11 2013 at 13:07
Some time around 2007-2008.  I'm a young fellow.
"I am the one who crossed through space...or stayed where I was...or didn't exist in the first place...."
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