Did you first discover prog online?
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Topic: Did you first discover prog online?
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Subject: Did you first discover prog online?
Date Posted: November 29 2023 at 10:54
| I'm just curious how many prog fans first discovered prog online versus before you first went online. For me it's before I got online. |
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Posted By: Frets N Worries
Date Posted: November 29 2023 at 11:06
Discovered it online I suppose, the term and main artists. First heard Floyd's 'Money' on the radio. First exposure to Prog! An epic moment! (Also got Pizza in the same trip  )------------- I repeat myself when under stress, I repeat myself when under stress, I repeat myself when under stress, I repeat myself when under stress, I repeat... |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: November 29 2023 at 11:07
| Before |
Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: November 29 2023 at 11:19
Before. 
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: November 29 2023 at 11:28
At least 95% of the prog I listen to today I've discovered through ProgArchives. 
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Posted By: wiz_d_kidd
Date Posted: November 29 2023 at 11:45
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"Online" was probably 20 years in the future at the time I discovered prog... ------------- "Instrumental music is an expression that words can never capture." -- Peter Baumann |
Posted By: suitkees
Date Posted: November 29 2023 at 11:53
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I guess these forums are dominated by old farts like me, so before the Internet times. I only discovered prog in the early/mid 80s when it was still called symphonic rock in my country. A subscription to a symphonic rock magazine (called Sym Info at that time) made me discover many other and to me new bands that were not played on the radio. The local library helped a lot too to make me discover lots of more other prog bands... ------------- The razamataz is a pain in the bum |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: November 29 2023 at 12:12
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I discovered it before the Earth formed. I'm older than an ironing board. ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: November 29 2023 at 12:18
A pop tune for the radio, nothing more. ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Frets N Worries wrote:Posted By: Frets N Worries
Date Posted: November 29 2023 at 12:19
Doesn't matter, it worked, didn't it?  ------------- I repeat myself when under stress, I repeat myself when under stress, I repeat myself when under stress, I repeat myself when under stress, I repeat... |
Posted By: suitkees
Date Posted: November 29 2023 at 12:26
I don't believe you. ------------- The razamataz is a pain in the bum |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: November 29 2023 at 12:42
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I am immortal and hundreds of years ago when i was hanging out with Nostradamus, he prognosticated prog to coalesce in the 20th century. We peeked through his crystal ball and watched a Yes concert from 1971. I was hooked and spent the next few centuries in agony because the gods forbid me to access the future in order to incorporate ideas into the current timeline on which i resided. As soon as the actual 60s hit i was dognapped and taken to an iceworld where i lay dormant for decades and didn't emerge from my cryogenic cocoon until the 21st century so most prog i discovered has been online although i was teased with glimpses of a distant future in a previous indognation. -------------  https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: Frets N Worries
Date Posted: November 29 2023 at 12:48
He is THE 21st Century Schizoid Man! No wonder he has no birthday on his Profile, PA doesn't go back that far ------------- I repeat myself when under stress, I repeat myself when under stress, I repeat myself when under stress, I repeat myself when under stress, I repeat... |
Posted By: Easy Money
Date Posted: November 29 2023 at 13:55
| We didn't have online in the late 60s, but my big brother had a cool record collection for me to explore when he wasn't around. There was also "underground" FM radio. |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: November 29 2023 at 13:57
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I'm honestly surprised there aren't more who said "yes" on here so far. Maybe they are still in school.
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Posted By: JD
Date Posted: November 29 2023 at 14:46
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No - before I got online, because as you said...  ------------- Thank you for supporting independently produced music |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: November 29 2023 at 14:54
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I discovered progressive music back in the late 60s. I really got into it in the early 70s, and never looked back, even though I still like some other genres of music, like classical, folk, Blues, and some world/ethnic music. |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: November 29 2023 at 15:19
Hey, I'm sure no one on here actually looks like that since this is a prog site and not an aging porn stars website.
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Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: November 29 2023 at 15:20
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Didn't know it was called prog until the 90's. What's online?
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Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: November 29 2023 at 15:31
Online is the internet.
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Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: November 29 2023 at 15:34
Whoops. I mixed the words up.  I discovered it before the ironing board formed. I'm older than the Earth. I feel better now that I've eaten some monoids.------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: November 29 2023 at 15:37
Monoids? I get it, stereoids are dangerous.
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Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: November 29 2023 at 15:42
| Come on, I know there's people under 30 on this site. Is it only us "old" folks who participate in these polls? By the way when is prog bingo tonight? |
Posted By: Frets N Worries
Date Posted: November 29 2023 at 15:50
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I discovered the Majority of Prog online, that's where I heard basically everything. Term, Definition, Close to the Edge, Suppers Ready. There aren't many albums I haven't discovered online ------------- I repeat myself when under stress, I repeat myself when under stress, I repeat myself when under stress, I repeat myself when under stress, I repeat... |
Posted By: suitkees
Date Posted: November 29 2023 at 15:58
Don't you never dry your laundry? ------------- The razamataz is a pain in the bum |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: November 29 2023 at 16:10
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Posted By: suitkees
Date Posted: November 29 2023 at 16:23
Oh, don't mention it. I know how awkward it is to go to a job interview in a dripping costume... ------------- The razamataz is a pain in the bum |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: November 29 2023 at 16:50
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B4 online (80s) ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: November 29 2023 at 16:52
Same here. I always figured you were around my age (but just a little bit more immature
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Posted By: Hrychu
Date Posted: November 29 2023 at 18:32
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The answer is yes. I discovered prog online. I was checking out whosampled.com and samples used by the artist Medium, which led me to discovering the band SBB. I really liked that type of music, and then I found out they were labeled as this "progressive rock" genre. Then, I stumbled upon ProgArchives.com and the rest is history. ------------- 
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Posted By: zwordser
Date Posted: November 29 2023 at 21:36
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No... BUT my expansion of prog-listening was mostly due to being online. I often used to listen to the short-lived YES station on AOL Radio. When it went away, i started listening to their Prog Rock station. I believe that is where I first heard Renaissance and other bands like Ozric Tentacles that I'd never heard of before. Then started doing research and found this site, which is how I discovered most of the Prog music I currently know a and love. ------------- Z |
Posted By: Progishness
Date Posted: November 30 2023 at 02:55
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Well considering I discovered prog circa 1972... ------------- "We're going to need a bigger swear jar." Chloë Grace Moretz as Mindy McCready aka 'Hit Girl' in Kick-Ass 2 |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: November 30 2023 at 03:07
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OK, close enough. not 1968, but 1973 I did follow GEPR from 1998 onwards, I believe, though. . ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: November 30 2023 at 05:25
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Before, when "online" meant clothes and clothespins on a bit of rope ;-) ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: November 30 2023 at 05:39
Hi, In America? Nahhh ... in my young days in Brazil, yeahhhh ... but here? Just like these folks do not understand when I say that STEREO was what made "progressive" music famous ... not anything else ... but 50 years later, these folks can not relate to the incredible jolt you get at the opening of 2001, which is now laughed at and believed to be played by the Portsmouth Synfonia! So they think that the new album by XXYYZZOO is the next big thing, because it has yet another over done solo, and even a growl to show for it! AND, of course ... IT'S LOUD! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: November 30 2023 at 09:32
Maybe it depends on where you lived in America. Clothes dryers were considered a luxury where I grew up in Philadelphia in the 1970s and 1980s. Everyone in my family were using clotheslines to hang their clothes up to dry. So, were many of our neighbors. I used to like to burp into the clothespin bag. ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: VianaProghead
Date Posted: November 30 2023 at 10:14
Much earlier, in 1974, one of the best prog years ever.  ------------- "PROG IS MY FERRARI". Jem Godfrey (Frost*) |
Posted By: b_olariu
Date Posted: November 30 2023 at 10:19
| No - before I got online (I'm old / older) |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: November 30 2023 at 16:44
Hi, Madison, WI in the early days to 1971 and then Santa Barbara, CA to 1981 ... and then Pacific Northwest, where "there is" no progressive or prog music, except in the ugliest and smallest bars you ever saw! Madison, was HUGE with the incredibly large number of students (50K at the time!!!) ... which makes it a very lively place with lots of music and the arts. And the UW is often given credit for having brought FM radio to life, btw ... and you should have heard some of the dj's in the rinky dinky AM stations attack Jimi, Janis, Jim, and even the ugly mops! And the attacks on many of the bands in Woodstock, and it only stopped when the film cemented its event ... and AM radio lost a lot of business ... when the sales and the music was going elsewhere that they did not play. Online was an idea at the time. ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: November 30 2023 at 17:05
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There was no "online" back when I first heard prog. In fact, there was no such thing as "prog" for that matter. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: November 30 2023 at 23:02
| Before I got online. I discovered prog through a girl in art class - still one of my best friends - who told me she listened a lot to older Genesis albums. Which (as I was only familiar with some of their 1980's and 1990's hits from the radio) I found to be a shockingly unhip answer coming from this otherwise freakish/pretty and seemingly cool girl. But thanks to her I picked up the visually intriguing Nursery Cryme, once I noticed it in the cheap bins, for about a dollar/euro. I quickly learned she wasn't unhip, but simply had more advanced tastes than myself. I already owned some music later somewhat associated with prog - at least here at PA, but halfway into The Musical Box I was a changed person. It was what I had been looking for all my life. |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: December 01 2023 at 00:13
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I came upon the term "progressive rock" around the time Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells was released. I was in prog for about a year or so. ------------- 
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Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: December 01 2023 at 08:37
So you knew it was called prog or progressive rock before you got online?
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Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: December 01 2023 at 10:00
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I discovered prog long before the internet existed. In fact I used to listen to early prog when punching out cards to input into my department's first computer. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: Progishness
Date Posted: December 01 2023 at 10:16
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^ I remember using those back in the day when prog was in its pomp. ------------- "We're going to need a bigger swear jar." Chloë Grace Moretz as Mindy McCready aka 'Hit Girl' in Kick-Ass 2 |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: December 02 2023 at 04:32
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: December 02 2023 at 07:08
in Southern/central Canada, in the 70's, we spoke of Art Rock I only came to know about "prog" in the 92/3 time range, upon my return to the old world everyone understood Art Rock as Hard Rock, when they asl7ked what I listebned to ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: December 03 2023 at 10:50
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I remember when Roundabout, Lucky Man, Teacher, and many others were contemporary hits. ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: Jacob Schoolcraft
Date Posted: December 03 2023 at 11:57
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I had an older sister who was a hippie. Both my parents were musicians. My sister turned me on to many bands. I was 14 years old in 1969. People around me were calling The Moody Blues, Procol Harum and King Crimson ART ROCK. Around age 15 I began listening to Krautrock. Bands like Guru Guru , Ash Ra Tempel, Can, early Tangerine Dream etc. I was a huge fan of Gong and Hawkwind too. Rare Bird, Atomic Rooster, The Nice, Curved Air and many more. Eventually people began calling it Progressive Rock. That was probably in 1970 or 71' ?? I can't recall. I just remember ART ROCK becoming a term that I never heard again. |
Posted By: Floydoid
Date Posted: December 13 2023 at 09:16
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I first discovered prog around 30 years before I ever got online! ------------- "Christ, where would rock & roll be without feedback?" - D. Gimour |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: December 13 2023 at 09:58
My prog journey began in 1973 with debut albums by Barclay James Harvest, Camel, Mike Oldfield, Renaissance & Rick Wakeman, although it would take another forty years and the arrival of the Internet before I "discovered" the music of ELP, Genesis, Jethro Tull, King Crimson, Pink Floyd, Van der Graaf Generator & YES.
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Posted By: Floydoid
Date Posted: December 13 2023 at 10:02
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It was discovering albums by Pink Floyd, ELP, Yes, Focus, Curved Air, Jethro Tull etc around 1972 (prog's greatest ever year?) which all contributed to my Road to Damascus conversion. ------------- "Christ, where would rock & roll be without feedback?" - D. Gimour |
Posted By: Hector Enrique
Date Posted: December 15 2023 at 14:17
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I discovered progressive music when the world was still black and white, and I did college homework on typewriters... ------------- Héctor Enrique |
Posted By: Rick1
Date Posted: December 18 2023 at 07:27
| ...but it wasn't called prog in the mid 70s - I remember in record shops the classification of 'contemporary rock' but we weren't conscious of a label. My main influence was from the radio - in particular, Alan Freeman's Saturday Rock Show on Radio 1, not 'arf! |
Posted By: Boi_da_boi_124
Date Posted: December 27 2023 at 21:49
| I got into prog after hearing Yes's Heart of The Sunrise on a video game. Before that, it was all just jazz and blues for me. |