Newbie here, filled with pretense and bluster

Like a lot of folks, I started out in the kiddie pool. It was all Rush, Jethro Tull and Pink Floyd before the craving for complexity, novelty and challenge drove me toward more obscure avenues. I moved on to the mainstays next: Yes, Genesis, King Crimson, ELP, Camel, Frank Zappa, Marillion, Gentle Giant, Dream Theater, Pain of Salvation, Opeth, etc before finally discovering the more extreme acts that came to really define what progressive rock means to me now. Hoyry-Kone, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Univers Zero, Magma, Koenjihyakkei, maudlin of the Well, Kayo Dot, and so on. 

Thanks to this fantastic site, I recently discovered an entire subgenre of progressive rock (Canterbury) that I had somehow missed in my youth. Or perhaps I didn't miss it, just dismissed it due to folly. If it didn't work for me then, it sure works for me now. I'll also write (excessively long winded) reviews (filled with inappropriate parentheses), so hopefully I won't be a completely worthless carcass around here. Hoping to give and get recommendations whenever possible, too. Got to stave off stagnation; it's become way too easy for me just to put on something familiar night after night when there's so many amazing new acts out there.

Anyway, that's it. Hope you'll have me.