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The Truth 
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 Posted: October 02 2011 at 22:14 |
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What are teens doing listening to prog? Have some spirit!
I FEEL STUPID AND CONTAGIOUS
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Andy Webb
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Posted: October 02 2011 at 21:05 |
 Conor Fynes wrote:
I am 19 now. I guess looking back on it, I did start in metal, but I moved into prog, and now I'm into avant-jazz, noise, Zeuhl, operatic fusion and all sorts of things that girls are turned on by.
my quick music history
Age 8-11: beatles, led zeppelin, beach boys, queen, u2 (all good music, but fairly broad) all of this changed when i was 11 and a friend showed me AC/DC. 12: getting interested alot more in zeppelin, buying my first band shirts, then by the end of elementary school, i am getting big into classic 'metal' like yngwie malmsteen, crimson glory, and motley crue. those are all still great to me. at this age i walso buy rush's moving pictures after loving them from the radio, but i have no idea they are prog. 13: hear dream theater and am amazed so i buy SFAM and love it. all the while getting more into metal, but sticking mostly to the bands i already know 14: big year, I hear Opeth's the drapery falls and am amazed, so i start getting into extreme forms of metal that i didn't like before. 15-16: my 'metalhead' years, going to lots of local shows, becoming knowledgable and stuff. 17: i start listening to classic prog and loving it. 18: i start getting big into avant garde metal and the like, looking for more challenging sorts of music. 19: zeuhl. |
I am more or less exactly 2 years behind you in my musical progression. 
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Zombywoof
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Posted: October 02 2011 at 20:53 |
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Continue the prog discussion here: http://zombyprog.proboards.com/index.cgi ...
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Conor Fynes
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Posted: October 02 2011 at 20:53 |
I am 19 now. I guess looking back on it, I did start in metal, but I moved into prog, and now I'm into avant-jazz, noise, Zeuhl, operatic fusion and all sorts of things that girls are turned on by.
my quick music history
Age 8-11: beatles, led zeppelin, beach boys, queen, u2 (all good music, but fairly broad) all of this changed when i was 11 and a friend showed me AC/DC. 12: getting interested alot more in zeppelin, buying my first band shirts, then by the end of elementary school, i am getting big into classic 'metal' like yngwie malmsteen, crimson glory, and motley crue. those are all still great to me. at this age i walso buy rush's moving pictures after loving them from the radio, but i have no idea they are prog. 13: hear dream theater and am amazed so i buy SFAM and love it. all the while getting more into metal, but sticking mostly to the bands i already know 14: big year, I hear Opeth's the drapery falls and am amazed, so i start getting into extreme forms of metal that i didn't like before. 15-16: my 'metalhead' years, going to lots of local shows, becoming knowledgable and stuff. 17: i start listening to classic prog and loving it. 18: i start getting big into avant garde metal and the like, looking for more challenging sorts of music. 19: zeuhl.
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Andy Webb
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Posted: October 02 2011 at 20:50 |
 You're an old man now, so start fapping to Genesis. 
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Conor Fynes
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Posted: October 02 2011 at 20:44 |
Just looking at the first page of this, I was surprised to see how many young proggers are on PA... I feel very old and obsolete all of a sudden. 
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GoldenGod2112
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Posted: October 02 2011 at 19:54 |
Fragile wrote:
goldengod what caravan are you listening to I' ve been into Girls who go plump for weeks now a truly brilliant album.
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that's weird because I was definitely listening to plump in the night as well. It's just a really cool album. It really sucks I can't find any of their other albums besides grey and pink.
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The future's uncertain and the end is always near. - Jim Morrison
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Slaughternalia
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Posted: October 02 2011 at 18:00 |
purplesnake wrote:
Finnforest wrote:
Nope. All proggers under 18 only like prog-metal, and all old guys only like Genesis.
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I'm 15 and I'm a progger. I don't mind prog-metal but it's probably not even 1% of the prog I listen to.
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Edited by Slaughternalia - October 02 2011 at 18:01
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I'm so mad that you enjoy a certain combination of noises that I don't
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Fragile
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Posted: October 02 2011 at 17:49 |
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goldengod what caravan are you listening to I' ve been into Girls who go plump for weeks now a truly brilliant album.
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fromtheashes
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Posted: October 01 2011 at 18:07 |
I can see why prog metal is popular with the under 18s.
The majority of kids growing up would have only been exposed to the mainstream and most won't start questioning what else is out there until they reach their teens.
Prog Metal is a good transition for some as it isn't a million miles away from sounding like regular metal (a reasonably popular genre most would have been exposed to) so it has some familarity for the listener.
When I was 15 and in my Metallica phase (For the record, I still like them but nowhere near as much as I did back then!) I realised I needed to start listening to other bands and stumbled across Dream Theater. This led to me to then discovering the non-metal prog bands out there. It was quite hard though, I didn't quite get Close to the Edge by Yes right away, as it was so different from anything I've ever heard!
So it's perfectly fine for under 18s to like non-metal prog, in fact the more the better! I would say though that prog metal is probably an easier transition for most.
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: October 01 2011 at 07:18 |
If you're younger than 18 just wait a while. Before you know it you won't be and then you can like Genesis. 
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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purplesnake
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Posted: September 30 2011 at 22:48 |
Finnforest wrote:
Nope. All proggers under 18 only like prog-metal, and all old guys only like Genesis.
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I'm 15 and I'm a progger. I don't mind prog-metal but it's probably not even 1% of the prog I listen to.
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Propu
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Posted: September 30 2011 at 04:41 |
18 years here.
The first song I listened which was fully prog was Aqualung by Jethro TUll, then The Knife by Genesis. So I can say I got taught in a prog-rock way, not prog-metal. Of course then I met Prog-Metal too, the first real approach to it was Ayreon... But still, now, I don't consider Ayreon properly prog-metal, it's more prog-rockish imho.
My favourite band of all the time is Minstrel (RPI), and both of their albums are in my top 5 best albums of all the time. Followed by Thick As A Brick by JT, Doomsday Afternoon by Phideaux and BE by Pain Of Salvation. Yep, Pos, which is marked as "Prog-Metal". But BE is EVERYTHING but Prog-Metal :P
Personally I don't even like "Classic Prog Metal". I mean Dream Theater's one, which has influenced 70-80% of the modern progressive metal bands. Pain Of Salvation is one of that 20-30% which has its own influences, and that's why I like them so much. The only band I appreciate of that prog-metal style is Shadow Gallery, at least Baker wasn't (rip) screaming like a fool lol
That's it :3
Edited by Propu - September 30 2011 at 04:43
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mongofa
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Posted: September 29 2011 at 11:34 |
As much as I hate when people on YouTube say tell their age and then say "...and I love progressive rock" just to prove that they are different, I'll do it just this once
I'm 16, and I don't like prog-metal or metal in general. Unless you consider Heart of the Sunrise prog-metal...which it isn't
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B_Hammock
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Posted: September 27 2011 at 03:05 |
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I'm 18 now but I got into prog metal when I was 15 thanks to my brother convincing me to listen to Dream Theater, I soon discovered Pain of Salvation, Symphony X and a couple of other prog metal bands. A year or so later I started exploring the genre more and listening to a wider range of prog.
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JS19
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Posted: September 26 2011 at 18:30 |
GoldenGod2112 wrote:
I'm 17 and right now I'm listening to Caravan right now!
that's definitely not prog metal.:P
The only prog metal I even listen to is procupine tree, if they are even considered metal. Haha.
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You'll venture out in a bit. Look forward to it 
I started off very restricted and now I basically love all music. I just happen to be drawn towards prog the most. Give me a bit of Stevie Wonder any day though.
And no-more posting in this thread for me. I keep forgetting whether I've said all this before several months ago....
Edited by JS19 - September 26 2011 at 18:33
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crimhead
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Posted: September 25 2011 at 22:51 |
Finnforest wrote:
Nope. All proggers under 18 only like prog-metal, and all old guys only like Genesis.
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Is that Genesis or post Peter Genesis?
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GoldenGod2112
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Posted: September 25 2011 at 20:22 |
I'm 17 and right now I'm listening to Caravan right now!
that's definitely not prog metal.:P
The only prog metal I even listen to is procupine tree, if they are even considered metal. Haha.
I've been into prog since around the beginning of this year.
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The future's uncertain and the end is always near. - Jim Morrison
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Jörgemeister
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Posted: September 16 2011 at 19:42 |
I started listening to Floyd, Genesis, Yes, Tull, and a lot more of the 70s prog at 12 years old. thanks to my old man and his music collection of cassetes and his cassete player.
man, golden moments fisrt times I listened to genesis's Selling Englang... without even knowing what kind of music was it or what was the band of its music about. mindf**k indeed.
edit: forgot to mention Rush
/ I just got a dirt in my eye, hhmmm
Edited by Jörgemeister - September 16 2011 at 19:43
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Algonquin_John
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Posted: September 16 2011 at 19:05 |
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I was 15-16 when I got really into prog. A lot of Rush (saw them live when I was 18), Gentle Giant, Pink Floyd, Hawkwind, Jethro Tull (I was 15-16 when I saw them live), tons of Krautrock, Tangerine Dream (saw them live when I was 18), Eno, Nektar, Kraftwerk, and Klaus Schulze just to name a few. All I did during high school was play and listen to prog. I don't even know any prog-metal bands.
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