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Points: 64349 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 02 2015 at 21:10
Originally posted by MrWizard1234 MrWizard1234 wrote:

I'm 15, and I started listening through Pink Floyd. I don't really care for today's prog.

Good for you for being true to your tastes.   Do many fifteen year-olds still listen to Floyd?  I'm guessing they do which is pretty great.
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Points: 46828 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 02 2015 at 21:12
come on David.. you know all those 15 year olds are smoking the sh*t and getting stoned. What better music has there EVER been for that. 

As long as weed will be around.. there will be new crops of Floyd fans.
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Points: 64349 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 02 2015 at 21:16
^ You better believe it--  not to mention Sabbath, Zep, Maiden, AC/DC, the Who, Police .....
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Points: 46828 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 02 2015 at 21:20
hell yeah...

though Billie Holiday was my music of choice. Or more to the point of this chick in college that I scored my stuff from.. we'd smoking up some mother nature and  just veg out on her couch listening that 10 CD set of hers.. perfect music. Perhaps even more so than Floyd.
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Points: 64349 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 02 2015 at 22:04
True; whether Satie or Satriani, the revolution goes better with weed.
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I suppose it's been awhile since I posted in here. I feel like without the classic 70s prog period, my musical tastes would have stagnated somewhere. It introduced me to electronic music with Jarre, new wave music with Talking Heads, and folk music with Fairport Convention, Nick Drake, and Renaissance. I guess a timeline would be something like this

symphonic prog from 2013 onwards, got my first taste of electronic music at the end of that year with Jean Michel Jarre and folk influenced music with Renaissance
I loved Jarre so much I got into Tangerine Dream, Klaus, Tim Blake, etc.
I loved Renaissance so much that it got me into a bunch of folk and psychedelic folk bands
Talking Heads was an attempt to broaden my horizons outside of prog, and I loved them. 
Got into Japan, Ultravox, and Patti Smith
More recently after seeing the glowing praise it's been getting, Talk Talk blew me away. Might very well be the band who starts to push me further into the 90s for music discovery. A really awesome group.

In other words, that spark with Yes, Genesis, ELP, and co. caused me to find so much music I never thought I'd be listening to now in a timespan of roughly three years. While I didn't discover prog through 70s bands, the 70s bands cemented my passion for music a whole on a scale I never thought would happen.
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Points: 1422 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 03 2015 at 09:10
Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

you know all those 15 year olds are smoking the sh*t and getting stoned. What better music has there EVER been for that. 

As long as weed will be around.. there will be new crops of Floyd fans.

Very true.,except that i got weed much later..i guess i was 21 then.
Floyd, The Who, Deep Purple, Sabbath..Zep..giv me a joint and play me any late 60's - early 70's stuff by them.
How about 'We Don't Get Fooled Again'?
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Points: 1422 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 03 2015 at 09:15
A metalhead that i was..(and i still am...)but it was some great classic rock bands and Radiohead that got me to prog.
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Points: 841 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 03 2015 at 15:57
Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

come on David.. you know all those 15 year olds are smoking the sh*t and getting stoned. What better music has there EVER been for that. 

As long as weed will be around.. there will be new crops of Floyd fans.


Smile In the 70s I grew the best grass around, rarely smoked the stuff myself, thought it was boring. Still was a great Floyd fan.
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Points: 10213 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 03 2015 at 17:01
Originally posted by addictedtoprog addictedtoprog wrote:

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How about 'We Don't Get Fooled Again'?
Unlike prog, for me that 70s The Who's aggressiveness always were better with whiskey more than with any other stuff.
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