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CloseToTheMoon 
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 Posted: January 16 2012 at 09:32 |
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I'm from the suburbs....so it was either 2112 or Dark Side when I was in high school. Sounds cliche, but I'm not lying when I say I was the only one in my class to even listen to older bands. One day after I finally got my hands on a Zeppelin shirt off ebay, a few teachers stopped me in the hall and got all smiles on their faces, but the other kids were like "Led Zeppelin...he's kinda okay. My dad likes that"
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It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen.
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Revan
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Posted: January 16 2012 at 16:15 |
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When i was eleven i got obsessed with music for the first time with The Beatles' Masters 1. My sister was quite happy about it so she gave me 5 albums she thought i'd like. One of them was Foxtrot. The rest is history.
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Mellotron Storm
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Posted: January 16 2012 at 21:09 |
 Revan wrote:
When i was eleven i got obsessed with music for the first time with The Beatles' Masters 1. My sister was quite happy about it so she gave me 5 albums she thought i'd like. One of them was Foxtrot. The rest is history.
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A cool story. We all could use sisters like that.
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"The wind is slowly tearing her apart"
"Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN
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Posted: January 17 2012 at 22:07 |
I have two first Prog albums:
1.- My first Prog album, when I didn't knew what Prog was: It was look at yourself by Uriah Heep, I thought it was a hard Rock band. Bought it on a record store at Lima.
2.- My first prog idol was Rick Wakeman, but his albums were almost impossible to buy in my country, so a friend went to Argentina and I asked him to buy Six Wives for me, he bought it and after a few months it was unlistenable because it was totally covered of scratches, being that I must listened it a couple hundred times in 40 days.
Iván
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Posted: January 18 2012 at 09:07 |
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Like most people of my generation (born in the early 70s) I listened to hard rock/heavy metal in the mid-80s. I became more and more interested in "classic rock". Listening to Barracuda-era Heart led me to Led Zeppelin and Led Zeppelin to Rush. For a while, I listened to bands that I already mentally identified as progressive rock (Rush, Styx, Yes, Kansas, Jethro Tull, Mike Oldfield) alongside other classic rock bands. I abandoned most contemporary bands, save for the likes of Queensryche, Voivod, Fates Warning and Savatage, who I sort of identified as some sort of progressive metal (though I hadn't heard that term used at that point).
But despite that, I didn't really self-identify as a progressive rock fan (as opposed to classic rock fan) until about '94. I had a huge Steely Dan phase in-between, but one day I checked out a couple of albums I knew were "prog" from the local library: Genesis's Selling England by the Pound and ELP's Brain Salad Surgery. Despite having the likes of Hemispheres and Fragile in my CD collection, these two albums felt like the real deal. Where other albums had been sort of skirting the thin line between classic and prog rock, these two albums (Karn Evil 9's radio edit aside) stripped away my viewpoint that prog-rock was a subgenre of some mythical classic rock (which I finally figured out was a radio format and not a genre).
I then got heavy into both Marillion's Misplaced Childhood (by way of the Six of One/Singles Collection CD) and Dream Theater's A Change of Seasons (I had heard "Pull Me Under" on the radio a few years before, but didn't quite click with me... ACOS, on the other hand, did). I started to think prog music didn't die in the 70s as I was lead to believe. I assumed that there must have been other revival bands besides these two. In the days before the web was ubiquitous, though, information on prog was limited to what you could acquire in books that weren't especially friendly to the concept.
Eventually, I connected to the growing web, and after hearing samples of Fates Warning's APSOG (to my ears, more prog than metal) I started searching, and found pretty much everything and everyone I listen to today.
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Posted: January 18 2012 at 21:39 |
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I remember sitting on the floor as a 6 year-old and playing with toys while my dad played "Thick as a Brick" and "A Passion Play" and falling totally in love with them.
Those were the days...
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JS19
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Posted: January 19 2012 at 04:49 |
Mellotron Storm wrote:
Revan wrote:
When i was eleven i got obsessed with music for the first time with The Beatles' Masters 1. My sister was quite happy about it so she gave me 5 albums she thought i'd like. One of them was Foxtrot. The rest is history.
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A cool story. We all could use sisters like that. |
Cool story errr .... sis?
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Posted: January 19 2012 at 06:36 |
Mellotron Storm wrote:
Sean Trane wrote:
The first album I ever bought was prog (or proggy)...
I was 11-12ish and delivering newspapers in Toronto.... and I bought Crime Of The Century with my own money , almost on the day of its release... I learned a good deal of my Enfglish on these lyrics (and my English teacher's Beatles playing in class for lyrics)
To this day, CotC remains in my top 10, because the album really spoke to me back then, right from the School theme all the way to the lunacy-alienation, dreaming, despair (if everyone was listening) to the revolt them (the closing t/t)....
Rudy must be one of the most influential song in my life, even if I did snap out of the vicious spiral that the lyrics send you in
BTW, my next two albums wouyld be Selling England and Dark Side, whose texts both send me into a similar trance, even if I only moderately appreciated Genesis's music back then (had to wait until toTotT to plunge in their world)
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I can't believe Hughes that Crime Of The Century,Selling England By The Pound and Dark Side Of The Moon were your first three real proggy albums.I mean you might has well stopped right there  .Classic,classic stuff. Were you into RUSH before these bands or after ? Just curious because the first real proggy album i owned was A Farewell To Kings by RUSH.I didn't even know what Prog was then but i remember thinking that Xanadu was like listening to someone on a journey,like songs within a song.I didn't know what to call it,i just had never heard a song like that before. |
I had no idea what "prog" was when I was 12, and I only became aware of "art rock" two years later... I wasn't trying to go a special style either.... it just sound fantastic to me... before buying my first Lps, I was into Beatles & Stones... and I knew a bit of Tull >> since my dad owned Stand Up, but I was taping from the radio mainly... I only learned of the word "prog" in the early 90's, if you can believe it
But outside of ITCOTCK and TAAB, I wasn't that much into some of these other "big prog bands" that early in my life... (for KC and Yes, I had to wait until I was 17, for GG, I was 25 and for VdGG, I was 30)
Well I got into Rush around the 2112 & AFTK era... which means 76-77 once I was 14 or 15... Before that I wasn't really aware of any Canafian bands (except for Harmonium, which wasn't ROCK per se in my eyes back then)
By that time early teendom, I had my hard rock period with Purple, Zep, early Sab, Sad Wings Of Destiny and Rainbow Rising... By the time I was 19 in 81, despite the NWOHMB and some superb albums (Iron Maiden debut and Heaven & Hell), I was mostly out of HR/HM, and I hated most of the electro-pop/new-wave stuff that was coming out.... and soon gliding into jazz-rock via Bitches Brew and Caravanserai
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
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progprogprog
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Posted: January 19 2012 at 10:06 |
Sean Trane wrote:
(for KC and Yes, I had to wait until I was 17, for GG, I was 25 and for VdGG, I was 30)
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Interesting. See, thats the reason that mostly I wouldn't rate an album low.(specially well-respected bands)
Edited by progprogprog - January 19 2012 at 11:45
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Mellotron Storm
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Posted: January 19 2012 at 11:09 |
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I think i'm a couple of years older than you Hughes and i got into Rush also around 1977.My first LP i bought from them was A Farewell To Kings then i bought Hemispheres on cassette when it came out and somewhere in there bought 2112.I got Crime Of The Century in 1979 and Duke from Genesis in 1980.I had heard A Trick Of The Tail from Genesis previously and kick myself for not getting it myself back then.Unfortunately i didn't pursue anything previous to Duke until much later.I didn't own any Yes but knew many of their songs from the radio.Back then i didn't know about Prog but i think i knew the term Art Rock and of course had Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon but only that from them.Like you i got into Judas Priest,Iron Maiden,Black Sabbath,Zeppelin and so on.
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"The wind is slowly tearing her apart"
"Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN
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Posted: January 19 2012 at 13:38 |
It's hard to say, but I loved the Beatles when I was 5 (1974), and I very much remember hearing Floyd, Yes, ELP, Jethro Tull, Kansas, and some others on the radio growing up (my parents always had the radio on in the car, and often at home.........though my Dad loved blues and hard rock and my mom was partial to musicals and classical music). When I was in my early teens, a friend had me listen to Think As Brick, which was one of his dad's LP's. He thought it was brilliant but I don't remember much of it because I was much more interested in the hilarious newspaper that came with the album. It wasn't until years later that I really listened to it and loved it, and by then I was a prog head. I guess the first prog album I bought was Dark Side Of The Moon, when I was 18. My dad had just bought a CD player (which were starting to become affordable at that time) and a friend gave me a gift certificate for my birthday to a local record store. I'm not really sure why I got that, other than I had heard Money on the radio. It would be a couple years before I got fully into that too though. Undoubtedly Floyd was my introduction to Prog, though I always felt my REAL introduction was through 2112, which was introduced by a friend in college when I was 20. Then someone played me Brain Salad Surgery, and I recorded it onto cassette. Then I bought Genesis Live on a whim (I was returning a Floyd bootleg to the record store because it was unlistenable........I decided I wanted something different, and didn't my friend tell me that Peter Gabriel used to sing with Genesis and dress up in weird costumes and they actually played good music and not pop crap?  ) My prog future began. In retrospect though, and having been a huge fan and knowing all their albums intimately, I'd agree with Dean that there is no question that Floyd is/was most certainly a Prog band.
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Posted: January 19 2012 at 17:40 |
At the seventies in my youngness, I began listening Led Zep., hard rock of Deep Purple , Rush, etc !
Until one day I saw on a TV program, named here in Rio " Sabado Som" , a video of " I know what I Like" ! At first time, I did'nt like it ! Because was a shock to me , at times listen Hard Rock and suddenly a light Prog. Rock style of Genesis..
By time, how much I listen more I like it!! Until I bought my First Prog. Rock L.P "Selling England By Pound"! And passioned by this wonderful style, like "diving in a profound Prog. Rock ocean"
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Sean Trane
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Posted: January 20 2012 at 03:35 |
Mellotron Storm wrote:
I think i'm a couple of years older than you Hughes and i got into Rush also around 1977.My first LP i bought from them was A Farewell To Kings then i bought Hemispheres on cassette when it came out and somewhere in there bought 2112.I got Crime Of The Century in 1979 and Duke from Genesis in 1980.I had heard A Trick Of The Tail from Genesis previously and kick myself for not getting it myself back then.Unfortunately i didn't pursue anything previous to Duke until much later.I didn't own any Yes but knew many of their songs from the radio.Back then i didn't know about Prog but i think i knew the term Art Rock and of course had Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon but only that from them.Like you i got into Judas Priest,Iron Maiden,Black Sabbath,Zeppelin and so on. |
Well I'm 48 now...
I think I kind of "lucked out" on striking golden prog so soon in my life... 
I wrote more about how CoTC was my first album in the Rock6070 French forum a few months back
here goes - sorry, in french only (so far)
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Bien que j'écoutais de la musique avec une certaine passion en étant gosse (pre-adolescence), mon premier souvenir vraiment musique trippante, c'est à six/sept ans avec Stand Up de Jethro Tull, que mon père avait acheté principalement pour Bourée. J'ai passé des heures à l'écouter en alternant avec la bande son de Haïr (pas la version Frainche avec Julien)... beeen ouais j'ai jamais trop compris ce que celà foutait dans la collec du père  .... vu qu'il n'y avait rien d'autres en rock... Les disques de jazz du père et de chanson française (Brel, Piaf) de ma mère, me plaisaient bien, mais pas de manière transcendentale... Mais je ne dirais pas que Stand Up est l'album qui m'a fait chavirer totalement..  ... mais c'est clair que j'en redemandais un peu plus tard j'ai écouté le radio, les Beatles et les Stones... j'aimais bien, mais toujours pas transporté  En arrivant au Canada en 73, pour me faire de l'argent de poche, j'ai commencé à livrer des journeaux, et je livrais une maison où je crevais régulièrement mon pneu (prétexte pour rester un peu et écouter la muze des hippies qui y habitaient... Grateful Dead, Floyd et pas mal de trucs psychés... Ces gars-là me fascinaient... et leurs nanas à moitié à poils  (il y en avaient plusieurs car elles se rasaient pas trop  ) et baisant dans la pelouse  n'arrangeaient rien non plus. Tjs pas la transcendance, mais déjà une solide érection  pour un rock assez "free et wild"  ... Puis un jour, à la sortie de l'école (rentrée de 74), en passant devant un magazin de disque.... une pochette cosmique avec une grille de prison et deux mains qui l'agrippent.... Fascination et fixette ... l'abum venait tout juste de sortir et deux jours plus tard je me l'offrais avec mon propre fric... de retour à la maison, je me rue sur la chaine de mon père (une Sony 3-en1) et dépose cet incroyable Crime Of The Century... sur la platine... et c'est parti Là, je chavire  et je sombre.... je crois que ma plongée a durée deux heures en apnée... J'avais jamais rien entendu de tel (enfin si... Echoes du Floyd chez mes hippies, mais celà m'avait surtout effrayé  >> les mouettes et le sonar).... mais ici, la baffe, la claque, le coup de pied au cul, l'érection et l'orgasme auditif en une seule fois!!! QUEL PIED!!!!!!!! De plus, en un rien de temps, j'ai traduis et appris les textes.... qui me concernait, moi, l'écolier un peu rebelle et solitaire (encore trop nouveau arrivé, pour avoir des potes Ontariens) .... Ce disque me parlait de moi  .... C'était moi, quoi!! Je m'appelais Rudy!! Rudy, c'était mon meilleur pote, le Rudy!!!  Puuuuutain!!... yen avait d'autres comme ça??? Been oui!!! Dark Side Of The Moon , Selling England By The Pound (çui-là, il m'a fallu un peu de temps), Thick as A Brick , In The Court Of The Crimson King , In The Land Of The Grey And Pink .... WWWWaouwwwwww!!! que du bon!!!     Au début, mes parents laissaient faire, vu que j'apprenais l'Anglais à la vitesse vv' (vévéprime), sans trop se soucier des messages ultra-anti-connerie-humaine diffusés par ces tranches de plastique noir.... Mes jeunes frères me suivaient que de très loin, mais n'ont jamais plané comme moi... si moi, j'étais precoce, mes frères furent bien plus tardifs, un peu rebuté par la guéguerre qui s'installait entre mon père (qui symbolisait les villains dans TAAB, CoTC ou 2112 de Rush) et moi, occupé à me battre pour mes libertés fondamentales je vous racionte pas la scène quand j'ai ramené Bat Out Of Hell à la prison... en fait, je crois que je ne suis jamais vraiment remonté à la surface... Je suis toujours en apnée, enterré vingt pieds sous terre, en train de faire mes 2 000 000 lieues dans les océans musicaux... mais le problème c'est que j'ai commencé par le sommet , et que j'ai eu difficile à m'adapter dans les 80's avec la daube electro-pop-new-wavienne à la con de l'époque  Il a fallu que je plonge dansle jazz-rocvk, puis le jazz, mais çà, c'est une autre histoire 
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ExittheLemming
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Posted: January 20 2012 at 04:54 |
^ so why post this in the first place? 
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Posted: January 20 2012 at 07:30 |
ExittheLemming wrote:
^ so why post this in the first place? |
Some people can read French in this forum, and it's rather enjoyable and hilariously-told story ... So I was told 
I know I certainly enjoyed living it 
Edited by Sean Trane - January 20 2012 at 07:32
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Posted: January 20 2012 at 07:35 |
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Première leçon dans la langue des peuples qui parlent français, n'est pas: firstly stick out your lower lip then simultaneously raise your shoulders and eyebrows while extending the palms of your hands to the heavens.
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What?
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Posted: January 20 2012 at 10:26 |
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The first prog album I heard was I.T.W.O.P. by King Crimson. I heard this at my cousin's house along with a couple of "hippie wanna be" friends. I was 15 years old and immediately struck by the music. I had been listening to 20th century classical through my family since age 12 and became aware of the connection between 20th century classical and progressive rock in 71' (which was a cool thing to discover) and for a kid, I was just blown away and not in touch with reality. All I wanted to do was hear King Crimson.
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Posted: January 20 2012 at 10:39 |
My first memorable album listenings were bordering prog. My very first "favourite" album when I was probably nine or ten years old (I only remember I asked my sis to play it again) was ELO's New World Record. I returned succesfully to that album last year.
The first album I used to play all by myself (12-13 yrs) was the ASIA debut. Especially 'Without You' made a strong impression. Other vinyls (of sis and bro's) I started to play included Love Over Gold by DIRE STRAITS, Signals by RUSH, 90125 by YES and Animation by JON ANDERSON. The epic title track of the latter was a huge favourite of mine for some time. ...In a way, I was fond of Prog before I knew anything about any rock genres.
My own vinyl collecting started with MARILLION whom I saw on TV on New Year's Eve 85/86. I persuaded my friend to buy Misplaced Childhood and I bought Fugazi. Then I realized I had seen Script months before being borrowed by my sister (who surely never liked it, I'm afraid) from her friend. I turned to the guy and asked if he'd sell it to me, which he did. During the year 1986 I bought lots of vinyls, artists including Kate Bush, Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Talk Talk, Supertramp, Yes, etc etc. Those were the days...
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Posted: January 20 2012 at 13:27 |
I can remember being in Primary School and when I came home my brother had lent Animals of a friend. I remember seeing the cover and probably only heard the "Stone... own.... home..." vocoder part. Didn't impress me, but I was a child, what would I know? I remember he also bought "Another Brick In The Wall (Part Two)" single, but not the album. It was also in Primary School that my class had to do a project on time. And to represent the Big Bang and it's aftermath? Teacher played the beginning of "Time" right up to last drum fill, whilst a poor child had to scream out his lungs explaining the periods of Earth formation to a hall full of children who didn't know what the hell what was going on and also to some parents who clearly must have thought "Well all right!" I was really into The War Of The Worlds album, but if you said I was listening to prog, I would have blinked and said "I like Adam Ant and Doctor Who." Later on in secondary school I was already versed in The Beatles and my brother began his still continuing Zappa phase. What bought me close to someone who is still my friend today, was a love of the Beatles. In the school textbooks, there were pictures of Atom Heart Mother and Animals. So it was only a matter of time before I bought "Dark Side Of The Moon" on a tape, from a corner store that isn't there any more. And that was mainly because I'd seen the last half of Roger Waters's Wall show and a remark by Neil in the Young Ones book about Dark Side Of The Moon.
But seriously to save this being a Pink Floyd love in. Technically, it was Jeff Wayne's Musical Version Of War Of The Worlds.
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Though my high school years were filled with Iron Maiden, Rush, and 80's Yes, it was the experience of picking up "Close to the Edge" the summer of my graduation ('89) that gave me the experience I call "progressive rock."
I was completely overwhelmed by the music. It was doing things I didn't understand, and while I thought there was something beautiful there, it challenged me, and I kept putting the album away, and then taking it out and listening to it again out of curiosity.
From there, similar experiences followed with King Crimson, Genesis, Van der Graaf Generator, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Electric Miles Davis, Gentle Giant... I always recognize Progressive Rock as that music that is beyond me at the time.
Of course now, I'm older, and my ears don't get surprised very easily anymore.
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