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CPicard ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: October 03 2008 Location: Là, sui monti. Status: Offline Points: 10841 |
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Frankly, I couldn't say: my father always listened to Pink Floyd (and also Jean-Luc Ponty and Pat Metheny), while my mother enjoyed Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin (plus a ton of funk/soul like James Brown or Aretha Franklin).
So, I guess I've been exposed to Progressive music at a very young age. |
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TheGazzardian ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: August 11 2009 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 8844 |
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First I bought was Echoes - Pink Floyd. Although I never really thought of Pink Floyd as prog or that much different than other Classic Rock artists back then; first I bought where I knew something was different about the music upon listening was Relayer by Yes, so I think that counts more.
Although it was Fragile that got me really into the stuff.
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Epignosis ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: December 30 2007 Location: Raeford, NC Status: Offline Points: 32581 |
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As I recall, this:
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J-Man ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: August 07 2008 Location: Philadelphia,PA Status: Offline Points: 7826 |
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Genesis - And then There Were Three followed by Genesis - Selling England by the Pound. I was probably in the 8-9 year old range.
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Formentera Lady ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: August 20 2010 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 1840 |
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Genesis - Three Sides Live, about 1981.
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Stooge ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: April 09 2009 Location: Toronto, Canada Status: Offline Points: 1003 |
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Without diving into prog-related or proto-prog, my first prog album may have been The Wall. I probably got this when I was around 18 or so, so I was pretty late in getting into prog music. I think I also got my first fusion album, Weather Report's "Heavy Weather" around the same time.
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italian fan ![]() Forum Newbie ![]() ![]() Joined: July 10 2010 Location: italy Status: Offline Points: 17 |
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my first prog album I bought was "Live in USA" by Premiata Forneria Marconi and this happened in 1975;it's still one of my favourite between more one thousand I heard and 35 years I listened.....
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chrijom ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: October 23 2010 Location: UK Status: Offline Points: 683 |
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Genesis - Selling England by the Pound, sometime in the early '80s.
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Vompatti ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() VIP Member Joined: October 22 2005 Location: elsewhere Status: Offline Points: 67468 |
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The Wall. The first one I liked was probably Fragile.
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lazland ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: October 28 2008 Location: Wales Status: Offline Points: 13883 |
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When I was a kid in Essex, my cool next door neighbours used to babysit for me, take off my sister's Osmonds singles, and put on Black Sabbath & Deep Purple
![]() As for myself, my cousin introduced me to Yes GFTO in 1976. I bought it, and a lifelong love affair with prog started. I was just 11 years old. |
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Blacksword ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: June 22 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 16130 |
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'The Wall' Pink Floyd, in 1982. I was 13.
Although I did have 'War of the Worlds' in 1980 aged 11, if that counts. |
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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pajet ![]() Forum Newbie ![]() ![]() Joined: December 19 2010 Status: Offline Points: 1 |
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Collage - Moonshine My absolutely favourtie till now. |
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Snow Dog ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: March 23 2005 Location: Caerdydd Status: Offline Points: 32995 |
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......or Dark Side Of The Moon same year.
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akaBona ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: September 15 2010 Location: Finland Status: Offline Points: 2082 |
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after school in my friends home radio was open and I heard something totally new for me: South Side Of The Sky.
So, my first one was Yes: Fragile, followed by Yes: Close To The Edge and King Crimson: Lark Tongues In Aspic ... |
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Negoba ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: July 24 2008 Location: Big Muddy Status: Offline Points: 5210 |
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I dabbled, had Yes' greatest hits, 80's Genesis, Some Rush and Floyd, Iron Maiden, worshipped Queensryche and Peter Gabriel (though I found tracks like Family and the Fishing Net and Moribund very strange and difficult.)
I had read that Gabriel had been in Genesis before and thought that sound would probably be pretty cool.
So finally I found Selling England by the Pound at a record store and got it. Dancing with the Moonlit Knight absolutely blew me away from the first notes all the way through until the end. And It still does - probably about 1992 when my ear first heard it.
And that's when I knew I was different than most other music fans. I joined a band of Dream Theater fanatics soon after the rest is history.
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You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.
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frankbostick ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: March 20 2008 Location: italy Status: Offline Points: 272 |
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1970 King Crimson In The Wake Of Poseidon ...and my life changed.
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krishl ![]() Forum Groupie ![]() ![]() Joined: May 05 2009 Location: Land of Enchant Status: Offline Points: 84 |
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Aqualung and Machine Head in 71 or 72. Didn't know they were prog though.
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Angelo ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator / Retired Admin Joined: May 07 2006 Location: Italy Status: Offline Points: 13244 |
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Rush' 2112, around 1988, when I was 15. I never recovered.
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Tychovski ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: July 19 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 249 |
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Tons of crossover growing up - first official would have been Close To The Edge when I was about 13.
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Everyone knows rock attained perfection in 1974, it's a scientific fact.
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Run Home Slow ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: August 20 2007 Location: Montreal Status: Offline Points: 265 |
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The First i bought was at 17, in '79 and it was Genesis, Seconds Out...
listened on my mom and dad cheap system... then i bought Yes, Close to the edge... and i was on a go with prog... i can easily remember the third one too... Yes, Tormato was just out at the time. Edited by Run Home Slow - December 19 2010 at 09:07 |
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