There is also a large group that listens to our national rock. Artists like Calamaro, Spinetta, Charly, Cerati, Los Piojos, etc. Within that group, there is a fairly large minority that also listens to Argentine rock from the seventies (Pescado Rabioso, Invisible, Los Gatos, La Máquina de Hacer Pájaros, Manal, Aquelarre, Sui Generis, Serú Girán, among others).

Here in Latin America, "El Flaco" Spinetta is very well known, and outside the continent, he is a cult artist, but not as well known (which still makes me very happy).

From your profile on the forum, I assume you are Polish. Despite there being a relatively large Polish diaspora in Argentina, Polish music is practically unknown here, and that is very sad. I can say that the little Polish music I have heard is amazing. SBB, Laboratorium, Cytrus, Niemen, Exodus, and Riverside (a band with quite a large following here) are fantastic artists who should have more recognition here and in the world.

Zero Hour by Piazzolla is a truly impressive album. The quintet at its best. Piazzolla's music in the second half of the eighties was superb in every sense.  

I recommend the music of Pescado Rabioso and Invisible (Spinetta's bands). Serú Girán and Sui Generis are worth at least a listen (both bands featured Charly García, another incredibly important figure in Latin American music). MIA is a spectacular progressive rock band that I highly recommend, especially their album Cornostípticum.

I was already into a lot of classical music, and specially some of the more adventurous ones of the modern days, that by the time I heard pop music (Brazil 1965) on a teeny weeny radio, I thought it was stupid, and silly ... but later amended the idea as more, and better works appeared. When I first saw that someone had done a version of Mussorgsky, I immediately went out and got the LP and I guess that brought me into what we consider "progressive" though at the time ... there was no such thing. 

To me, they were folks my age, doing something that they could not do on Sunday Nights on campus, when so many over rated classical music folks do their concerts and get paid more than a lot of rock bands ... it wasn't hard to notice that there were some greats in rock music that were not appreciated in classical music ... can you imagine Keith bringing Tarkus' score to a professor? Who do you think you are? And how can you consider that important when it has little theme continuity for us to follow? And what makes you think you can compose something like that and think it is a piano concert? AND, of course, Keith will be remembered and played far into the eons a lot more than that moron of a professor that had no ability or taste in music whatsoever!

I've never looked back, since! No one can "define" or "specify" that something or other is not good, or is not worthy of being there.

I am 36 now. I still listen to prog (Moon Safari are playing in my headphones now) but I am long past the point when whether or not something was prog was in itself a selling feature of the band. In fact I find I am finding it harder to connect with most new prog releases, and I think the change is in me more than the genre.

1969 Brussels , first taste: Tull's Stand Up (and Hair's OST) >> my dad's albums, though he was in jazz & classic (I mobed to Beatles & Stones afterwards)

Spring 1974 Montreal , first album bought Harmonium's debut (every kid in school bought it). 

Fall 74 Toronto , Crime of the Century >> my own money (newspaper delivery route), saw the arresting artwork in the record shop next to my school

in the next few months, ITCOTCK, DSOTM, ITLOG&P, SEBTP, LSOHHB, TAAB (yes, I liked all of these long album titles), all bought on advice of the coolest record store owner ever (Record on Wheels in Mississauga)

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I discovered what's now known as prog when I bought albums by Led Zeppelin and Supertramp in 1980, Deep Purple, Styx, Queen, and Rush in 1981, and Genesis and the Moody Blues in 1982.

 

I don't know, bud. When I read your posts and compare them to my own, I like my posts better. No offense. Maybe you'll get better at this as you get older. If you're having a creative block, you can cheat and use a random word generator from time to time to make your own gibberish. We all have our bad days.

^ As you say, it is a matter of taste: if someone likes the taste of dogsh*t he will say to the baker that he likes his bread...

I am two years old, I don't know how to read yet, but I prefer dadaist poetry over animated gifs.

(It is a matter of taste, not quality!)

I'm 23 (24 this month) and as far back as I can really remember I listened to Tubular Bells every night on my Dad's 2nd gen iPod whilst going to sleep. My parents have one of those early years books where I scrawled my 3 favorite songs as "Tubular Bells", "Mr Blue Sky" and "Nightmare before christmas." I don't know which track 'Nightmare before christmas' might refer to, but in looking up the OST I found out that it was composed by Danny Elfman, and despite not having listened to Oingo Boingo I do enjoy the fact all three are represented on this site in some way.

I didn't 'discover' prog until mid-2021, at which time I had been listening to Kylie Minogue everyday for maybe 2 years. I worked in a place where they would typically play rock radio stations, and I began to enjoy rock more. I had been listening to Roundabout by Yes around the same time as I had been introduced to it via some friends who liked the show JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (where it is used as the end theme of the first series). I was listening to Roundabout and the Youtube auto-play then played Owner of a lonely heart, which I recognised from the radio, and I thought it was odd how different the two tracks were and as I do I looked up Yes on Wikipedia. There I read one of the genre tags for 'Progressive rock' and the single neuron lit up in my brain from the one time I had heard the term before when my dad used it to describe Mike Oldfield. I looked up Tubular Bells and of course, it's tagged as "Progressive rock," so I start looking up other artists I listened to and I had been listening to Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel which lead me to search "Peter Gabriel Progressive rock," the first result being the PA page for Peter Gabriel, and as this is the ultimate prog rock resource I found my way into the wider realm of prog through this site, which I am ever thankful for.

Are you intentionally trying to be a dickhead because you're doing it quite well. 

54!!!

first encounter with Prog was in 1982-83. An uncle of mine which still loves prog brought 

tapes contained:

Yes: Drama

Pink Floyd: Animals

Kansas; 2 for a show

a mix tape with songs from Jethro Tull and Rush on the same tape.

I was 12-13 Years old did not speak a word of English. I was born in the Dominican Republic. 

I never was the same ever!!!!

I agree! love the album and the fantastic song!.

Do you know Spinetta Jade?, Almendra and Pescado Rabioso?.

I was 15 in Brazil when music picked me up, though I had already been listening and liking a lot of the classical music dad had, and specially one Turandot version with Renata Tebaldi, Birgit Nilsson, Mario del Monaco and Leinsdorf directing ... gawd that was some far out work. Also enjoyed a lot of Stravinsky, Debussy and many others.

I'm now 73, and yeah ... the weird thing is that a lot of the old "progressive" doesn't turn me on anymore ... I think my view on a lot of that work is not as swindled/impressed as we were when we were teenagers. I really only like one YES album (TFTO), I like ELP, I love AD2, Can, Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream ... I have never tired of those Germans, and still love Mani and Guru Guru. My appreciation for a lot of the Fillmore/Haight-Ashbury thing has increased as some more stuff is "found" and many of them are just far out flights to everywhere ... the kind that many of us do not exactly spend time on ... just heard a couple of long things by Quicksilver Messenger Service, and they were outstanding ... 

The sad things for me, is when folks that have a massive history ... start trashing stuff from their old days ... I really lost a lot of respect for Dave and Roger, when they said most of their early stuff was crap ... and Dave, of course, things his 3 notes on a song, are more important ... and Roger, of course, just forgot to have fun and keep his mouth shut. I miss Rick. I enjoy what Nick is doing a LOT! A statement that some of that old stuff was not crap. Was great!

Mostly these days ... just new stuff ... I'm not even buying a whole lot anymore ... though it's hard to not get Gert Emmens. And some of that Middle East music Space Pirate Radio is playing is getting really far out ... a shame that the English hate it when others do it better!

Hi,

For Guy Guden and I, a lot of trips to Moby Disk (Van Nuys at the time) ... and Tower at the Strip and then the Warehouse in Westwood, because of their selection for jazz, soundtracks and other odd ball things.

It wasn't a bad drive, since in those days Ventura Highway (a theme song for some time!!!) it took exactly 81 minutes from Goleta to 5th and Hill in LA, where we could get Melody Maker on a little store that had all kinds of magazines and newspapers from everywhere. Eventually, when Guy finally was on the air regularly and on his show (anniversaries on Jan 27th each year since 1974), all of those labels were played ... and that first Billingsgate album I remember seeing? Neu ... the first album! Archie Patterson I did not meet until way later 1995 at the first Magma show here in Portland ... and I wanted to do an interview for PA ... but somehow it never clicked ... I think he liked being alone, or distanced from the folks ... that became known as "prog" or "progressive" ... and my only issue was not being able to buy more stuff from him, I simply could not afford it! Guy has played a lot of his stuff, and Gandalf has always been in the non-existent "play list" for Guy's shows, that usually change every week, depending on what he gets ... with the nod always going to the brand new releases, and the two most important ones were Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze, both of which got FULL attention on Guy's show ... I don't any of us here have ever heard Mirage in its entirety, and then later done in the Guy Guden special style ... a total treat.

BTW, I did do a review of his book EUROCK, the compilation of all his magazines over the years ... an exhausting read, but a far out document ... and folks still have no idea of how intelligent Richard Pinhas is, and how Heldon did what they did musically! Those philosophical bits are hard to read and understand, but they are intense.

Still, one of my favorite moments with Guy (several years roommates) ... was one evening he went on the air and he had a just arrived copy of TLLDOB and he played it in its entirety right from the start at midnight, and then played it gain later, at 2 or 3 because of the many requests ... I kinda doubt that anyone on PA has ever had an experience like that ... on a commercial radio FM station that was already number 1 in the area.

I miss those days, some, as the finding new music and bands was neat ... and a far out experience. Today, my finding new things, is just on my headset ... and going through last months top list ... and in the end, it is not as exciting as having a friend to enjoy it with!

Hi,

There is a lot more ... and really hard to catalog, though the 330 hours of Space Pirate Radio that survived in the 120m cassettes until around 2000, when I was starting to lose some shows.  In the following years I mp3'd all that was in good condition ... although sadly some shows that I remember simply did not make it ... and a special one that I loved dearly and miss terribly was one with Daevid Allen's album (Wise Man in Your Heart) .... where Guy basically did a "Ummaguma" (my term!!!) type cover with voice/record/voice/record several times ... and by the time you heard the recording of his first go through on its 3rd or 4th turn, the whole thing was just out of this world ... but there were a lot of comedy bits that he did (with full studio at the station ... !!!) ... where he played voice on voice to create stories and various fun things ... Guy now has a complete copy of those shows on mp3. I never gave away or sold any of his shows, one of his fears, and I leave it to him to distribute those shows as he sees fit now. I've also arealy piled up over 400 hours of the Twitch version since 2019 and finally dropped a few of them recently ... sometimes I like to listen just to find out what is new ... and really, it's too much, and I can't afford it!

To call/consider Guy's show "progressive" feels like an oddity ... it is by far, the least formatted show around, although these days, I think his beginning and ending is starting to fade in my mind ... and the way he mixes and matches things, makes most of the folks doing the equivalent of "radio" out of step with the real concept of what radio was and has gone ... to the dregs as I like to smile with ... all small songs, and horrible mixes ... but in the end, I am not sure that any of those folks KNOWS and REMEMBERS so much music, like Guy does, and it covers soundtracks, to various other singers and material, thus hearing some stuff from the 60's is not out of line ... it's weird, but it fits ... and then you hear something else, and then something else with eastern electronics, and then a Stackridge (Korgis actually) about the Beatles, and then Lazarus ... and then ... in other words, there is no "format" in Guy's shows and this is what I miss the most in the listing each month and the comments .... and the main reason why I have just about stopped listening to any of the "progressive" shows out there on the Net, because they are way too married to the commercial sounding material ... and let me tell you ... we haven't even heard Guy's singalongs ... hilarious! Oh wait, prog'rs don't like/think comedy is ... nothing more than silly. Heck, The Bonzo Dog Band was more progressive than many bands, and they could do any kind of music! (Neil Innes came from there!) ... 

It's a life, I tell you ... very enjoyable and never the same ... just the way we don't like our music, when so many fans get upset that the next album is not as good and doesn't sound the same!

So yeah, it's been a life based on "progressive" and never giving in to the commercial thing. A fight to the death on that, even if I lose ... at least I didn't quit!