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The.Crimson.King 
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Probably told this story in an older thread, but here goes...
Grew up on the Beatles and top 40 AM radio in the 60's. As the 60's became the 70's, prog creeped into top 40 radio. The 1st were Lucky Man, Living in the Past and later Roundabout (single version of course). I was 10 years old when Lucky Man completely blew me away, from the dark melancholy of the lyrics to the insane Moog solo, it was love at 1st hearing. Spring '74, I saw a TV commercial that music show "In Concert" would be covering the California Jam over the next 4 weeks and the commercial showed Keith in the flying piano. Turned out I missed the ELP episode, but saw the Black Sabbath episode and spent the next year getting into Sabbath. A week after surviving my freshman year in high school, summer vacation '75 found me in a local record store just flipping through albums and I saw Brain Salad Surgery. I remembered loving Lucky Man and the flying piano so I was already sold on ELP, but it was Giger's artwork that put it over the top and made it impossible to walk away from. A month later I bought "Welcome Back My Friends..." so it was ELP summer for me. At the same time I became friends with this guy at the local hobby shop. He was into prog (especially Yes) and was always talking about Yes, Genesis, Tull & ELP. I bought Close to the Edge in September, Relayer in November and I was off and running. Luckily my friend began inviting me along to various prog shows in '76 so I saw Gentle Giant & Yes in July, Tull in August, then Genesis the next March and ELP in July. My only regret is I didn't get into Crimson until '77, a few years after a certain guy named Fripp proclaimed, "the old world is in fact dead and King Crimson along with it"
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lazland
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Posted: October 03 2018 at 15:13 |
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A great narrative  As for that certain guy, the missus, son, and I are off to see him in 4 weeks time. The old world is still with us 
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The.Crimson.King
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Posted: October 04 2018 at 11:13 |
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Fantastic, hope you all have an amazing time
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progbethyname
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Posted: October 04 2018 at 19:09 |
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A great post. Also a great album . I love invisable touch. It is one of thee best albums to come out in 1986. I have an attachment to it. Love the musicality to it and the original sound recording is sublime. Not much better!
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Gimmie my headphones now!!! 🎧🤣
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Boojieboy
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Posted: October 05 2018 at 15:11 |
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Get ready to pick up your stones....
I got into prog. through Kansas, and I don't give a d@mn what anyone else thinks.
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Posted: October 05 2018 at 15:35 |
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Pink Floyd; Animals
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Pelata
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Posted: October 23 2018 at 15:20 |
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Now, we are two. 
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AFlowerKingCrimson
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Posted: October 23 2018 at 15:34 |
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Pelata
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Posted: October 23 2018 at 16:08 |
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Awesome!!! :) |
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Posted: October 23 2018 at 18:23 |
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Kerry Livgren is a prog god.
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Leftpassenger
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I started a small grunge band about 15 years ago and our drummer was into Dream Theater. He introduced me into the prog scene with tracks like Metropolis pt. 1 and Overture 1928. I gotta say at first I didn't understand it, I was still obsessed with the more straight forward music like Nirvana, Bush, etc. But then a few years later it suddenly clicked and I was hooked!
Fast forward a few years later (2013 to be more precise) and I joined Endtime Odyssey to make prog music myself :D Through joining my band I got introduced to a lot of different bands, some lesser known ones and some that just exploded in recent years (looking at you, Haken and Leprous!).
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I dad got me in this beautiful world. He is a real music lover, all genres, from classical to some rap (except metal, I will fix it for him
 ). FOOTBALL drive let me LISTE (not hear) my first prog song, during this footbal program the showed the almanac and it was the day of the birthday of The dark side of the moon release, so when the bassline from Money started to play I was abduct. In my house there is always music playing, so I starded ask my dad:"Who is this band". My firsts loves were Genesis and Italian group "Le Orme".Few months later I heard 21st century schizoid man...you can image...It was, and it is, never enough, there started my long path of the discovery... Thank you for your time!! KEEP ON PROG!!!
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Matti
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Posted: October 24 2018 at 05:49 |
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For me (born 1970), prog has been there almost right from the start, so here's how I started consuming music. I have a big brother (5 years older than me) and a big sister (3½ years older than me), who both listened to music and had LP's. Neither of them actually were strongly oriented to prog, but both had several albums of a proggy nature, especially in the scale of the early 80's popular music in general. The first album I got notably interested in, when I was too young to play vinyls by myself, was E.L.O.'s A New World Record. I was 10 years maybe. Around 1983 I began more actively to play the LP's of my bro and sis. Key albums included Dire Straits: Love Over Gold, Saga: Silent Knight, Rush: Signals, Asia: Asia, Yes: 90125, and Jon Anderson: Animation. The biggest impact on me was made by Jon's multi-part title track 'Animation'. It introduced me a whole new way of building a piece of popular music (I was pretty well aware of classical music too). I was deeply fascinated by the song. I'd like to mention also 'Telegraph Road' by Dire Straits. Back then I knew nothing about the genre called progressive rock, but, without knowing, I had opened the door with no turning back. I recorded music into cassettes before finally in the spring of '86 I bought my first own album. It was Marillion's Fugazi (1984). It could have been also Misplaced Childhood, but I persuaded my friend to buy that one. I had seen Marillion on TV, performing on some festival among other bands. I became a die-hard fan for a couple of years, but at the same time I was also gradually finding my way into the classic prog of the 70's (though I also got interested in Twelfth Night at one point). Soon I had new favourites such as Genesis, Yes, Pink Floyd, Camel, Renaissance, early King Crimson and Mike Oldfield. Prog has never been the only music I enjoy, but it's clearly defining me as a music lover more than any other genre. And it probably always will.
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Posted: October 24 2018 at 09:13 |
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I think my introduction to prog was my sister coming home with "Nursery Cryme" and BJH's "Once Again". This was quite a long time ago so my memory is a bit shaky but I think I read the lyrics and wondered what the hell all these songs about man-eating plants and men eating their toes were all about, so I listened and the rest, as they say, is history. The second album I ever bought was "Genesis Live" which was a budget price at the time (£1.99 if I remember rightly).
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Pelata
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Posted: October 24 2018 at 10:07 |
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I was born in 1971. I was the oldest sibling, and my mother hates rock music, so everything I discovered, I did so on my own. Some of my very earliest musical memories involve MTV and seeing videos by Phil Collins, Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Asia, Rush and others (this was in addition to the Journey, Van Halen, Def Leppard etc I was loving as well) and really loving it. At the time, I had no idea Gabriel used to be in Genesis. I had no idea Genesis had any songs prior to "That's All". I had ZERO idea of the pedigree inherent within Asia. I just knew I really liked the stuff. It just felt different, more depth and significance somehow, than a lot of other music.
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Posted: October 25 2018 at 09:28 |
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I thank God I was born in 1962 into a home with an older brother. He went away to University and came back for Christmas with a cassette tape : Fragile on Side A and Tarkus on Side B.
When he came home for Spring Break he had Thick As A Brick and Dark Side Of The Moon vinyls with him. Game on!!! Been hooked ever since. (I'm working on my autobiography: "How Prog Ruined My Life.")
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Posted: October 25 2018 at 09:33 |
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And then there were three
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Posted: October 25 2018 at 10:21 |
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^No, I'm not changing to the album cover to ATTWT. ;)
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