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Slartibartfast 
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Honorary Collaborator / In Memoriam Joined: April 29 2006 Location: Atlantais Status: Offline Points: 29630 |
 Posted: October 27 2007 at 12:36 |
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What I want to know is how do I get out?
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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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Dean
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Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575 |
Posted: October 27 2007 at 12:40 |
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You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
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What?
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paloz
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Joined: February 17 2007 Location: Italy Status: Offline Points: 329 |
Posted: October 27 2007 at 13:51 |
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It all began a lot of years ago, when my father was listening to "Wish you were here". I was loving it, so i took it from my father's wardrobe, and i began to wander with my mind............ Ooooooooooh, what a pleasure was it! I thought i had finally found a real music, without stupid sounds or rhythms, intelligent. Then there was Dark side and all PF's discography. Then I stopped, and i continued with some old rock'n'roll, but not prog. Nearly 4 years ago I finally began to "study" all the prog there was to know absolutely. And now i'm here, telling you my silly story, and confirming my absolute love and dedition to progressive rock.
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MrHiccup
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Joined: December 02 2005 Location: Argentina Status: Offline Points: 167 |
Posted: October 27 2007 at 15:08 |
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Videogames.
Final Fantasy VIII started it all, back in 2000. That was the kind of music I wanted to listen to...
My ears owe their life to this man: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobuo_Uematsu
Just look at his influences. The rest is history.
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Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends...
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Shakespeare
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Joined: July 18 2006 Status: Offline Points: 7744 |
Posted: October 27 2007 at 15:10 |
I noticed that too. Damn it, I love RPG music. |
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Evans
Forum Senior Member
Joined: July 15 2006 Location: Sweden Status: Offline Points: 3004 |
Posted: October 27 2007 at 15:40 |
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Oh my god. Nobuo Uematsu is god. No, really, it's true. Final Fantasy VI has the best music, though. Or VII... ah. I love them all.
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'Let's give it another fifteen seconds..' |
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cynthiasmallet
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Joined: October 01 2007 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 545 |
Posted: October 27 2007 at 15:48 |
The mans a musical genius! By far the greatest composer of gaming music- "Man With A Machine Gun" from FF8- awesome! Wow, I never considered it, but that's probably how I got into it as well. |
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Would you like to watch TV, or get between the sheets, or contemplate the silent freeway, would you like something to eat?
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misterkeyboard
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Joined: October 21 2007 Status: Offline Points: 35 |
Posted: October 27 2007 at 16:22 |
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I had a good friend that brought me into this. It started with Dream Theater and then moved backwards in time to bands like Genesis, ELP, Yes.
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www.lifeonhold.se
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Telinstryata
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Joined: March 16 2007 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 77 |
Posted: October 27 2007 at 22:29 |
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When I took up drumming a few years back I started buying Modern Drummer magazine in order to get some tips, and I read an article about this drummer who used 3 bass drums in his "Siamese Monster" drum kit. In the article they mentioned that he played for a progressive metal band called Dream Theater. I've been a metal fan since the mid 80's but I didn't know what "progressive" meant in relation to music (I feel the term's too limiting, but that's a whole other sermon) I wanted to hear this drummer (since I was drum crazy at the time) so I went out and picked up one of their albums. The album I picked up was Train of Thought, since it was their most recent at the time. I was blown away. It wasn't long until I had all their albums and I still wanted more...so I went online to see if I could find some bands that were similar to Dream Theater. My searching lead me here, since then I've found many bands that I have added to my list of favourites. Like Riverside, Opeth, Porcupine Tree, Meshuggah, King Crimson, Jethro Tull, Tool etc and I'm adding more all the time. I thank this site for introducing me to these bands and many more.
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Peter
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: January 31 2004 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 9669 |
Posted: October 27 2007 at 22:40 |
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Head first...
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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
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Slartibartfast
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Honorary Collaborator / In Memoriam Joined: April 29 2006 Location: Atlantais Status: Offline Points: 29630 |
Posted: October 28 2007 at 08:55 |
You know, I think the correct answer is you gotta get in to get out.  |
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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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Slartibartfast
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Honorary Collaborator / In Memoriam Joined: April 29 2006 Location: Atlantais Status: Offline Points: 29630 |
Posted: October 28 2007 at 08:59 |
For the truly curious I cover that in my progressive biography. And I guess I could copy it here, but don't want to get busted for self plagiarism. I do have an interesting 8-track story though. When growing up, my older brother had already started to get into it. I remember one family trip coming back to Atlanta from Carrolton, Kentucky, my brother wanted to put in a Jethro Tull tape. I was thinking cool Jethro from the Beverly Hillbillys. I don't think we got very far through the tape before it was yanked out. My dad went on to take a liking to a little prog (I just remembered, John Denver about the same time, has John Denver ever even been mentioned on this site before? ) before the divorce and becoming a total country and western fan with the new wife. My mom went on to become a huge Santana/Kansas/Dixie Dregs fan. Must have been the spell of Tull.Edited by Slartibartfast - October 28 2007 at 11:34 |
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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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Floydoid
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Joined: April 02 2007 Location: Planet Prog Status: Offline Points: 2336 |
Posted: October 28 2007 at 12:04 |
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When I first heard Meddle circa 1972.
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"Christ, where would rock & roll be without feedback?" - D. Gimour
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Frippertron
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Joined: October 09 2005 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 387 |
Posted: October 28 2007 at 15:24 |
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When I first heard Prog Rock it was "Hemispheres" by Rush, I had no idea what it was all about.. I was a young teenager and heard the album at a friends house, straight after that first listen I said to him "Errr.. play that again.. is side 1 just one song? or 5 songs interlinked? and whats going on?" then of course La Villa Strangiato.. "Wow.. a 9 minute instrumental with different styles.. how the?"
Of course for a while I had no idea what this type of music was called, I listened to Yes, and bought a tape of King Crimson (Larks Tongues In Aspic) whilst shopping in Liverpool.. I put the tape on my personal stereo and listened to it on the bus.. Now.. That really made me go wow! Larks Tongues Part 1.. It was mellow.. I thought, then a crunching riff.. and violins etc, where was the kitchen sink??
I was by now realising that I was into something good here and wanted to know more.. I was constantly running to my mates house with the latest tape/vinyl.. "WOW! Now this one is mad.. Its classical music with heavy bass and keyboards, and fantastic drummer" (of course.. it was ELP).
This story is ongoing.. been well over 25 years and still finding gems. :-)
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The Cheerful Insanity of Prog Rock
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xhouse
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Joined: July 08 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 87 |
Posted: October 28 2007 at 15:42 |
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One word (sorta): Yesssongs.
From then on, a sometimes wonderful (like discovering Supper Ready) sometimes horrible (The year 1979-I thought the world had ended) journey. |
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Between Thought and Expression Lies True Perception
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keiser willhelm
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Joined: September 14 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 1697 |
Posted: October 28 2007 at 17:10 |
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a friend of mine and i are kinda HUGE into music. when we hang out we pretty much do one of two things. listen to or play music (attempt to play
 ) for hours on end. did i mention that we are huge metal heads? one day he turns up the volume pops in this disc and blasts a song that turns out to be As I Am. loved it. so i being a large internet music pirate (thank god for torrent files  ) downloaded as much dream theater as i could because i couldnt remember the name of the song i heard. what the hell, its free right? i became slightly obsessed and soon after i found this site, with dream theater being the only band on the site i had listened to (since then a few more bands have been added that i did listen to back then). I branched out through prog metal, the the now post/experimental metal, to post rock, then on and on and on.
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Lucent
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Joined: September 18 2007 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 259 |
Posted: October 28 2007 at 21:27 |
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Close To The Edge. Need I say more?
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prog4evr
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Joined: September 22 2005 Location: Wuhan, China Status: Offline Points: 1455 |
Posted: October 28 2007 at 22:25 |
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Because I am a drummer, a friend in high school (30 years ago) told me to listen to Alan White playing on Yes, Relayer. I did and I was blown away, especially by Sound Chaser. From Yes, I found ELP, Kansas, Genesis, UK and Camel (as a teenager in the 1970s). In the 80s, Marillion came along and they were my favorite, with Fish at the helm. Lately, TMV, FK, SB, Transatlantic and Like Wendy are some of my favorites...
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Slartibartfast
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Honorary Collaborator / In Memoriam Joined: April 29 2006 Location: Atlantais Status: Offline Points: 29630 |
Posted: October 29 2007 at 18:57 |
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Christian
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Joined: August 25 2005 Location: Czech Republic Status: Offline Points: 61 |
Posted: October 30 2007 at 09:34 |
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Real prog all happened in 1973 for me. First DSOTM (I think) quickly followed by SEBTP, TOTTO and then I was hooked. Never looked back since.
But I realize (with the input from this forum) that I actually made some "cheating" before that since I was heavily into Uriah Heep, Deep Purple etc. before 1973, and I always liked the longer songs
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