Tell us about your first experience...

[Javier]

Another 1960 here, raised in mexican folk and trios then my first intro into "US" music at around 10 years old with songs from elton jhon ( levon) and three dog nigth ( live album) then my older brother ( thanks to a subscription tp columbia house) received yes fragile on 8 track tape saw thw cover that caught my eye pop the thingh into the player and never went off for hours simply love at first listen in the same batch was also thick as a brick that also caugth my fancy ( not as hard as yes did of course), shess that was in 73, loving yes since then.
Around 1975 was exposed to rush's 2112 hated it that shiekring voice ( rush entered into my favs until 1983 with moving pictures).
1976 ELP pictures and exhibition and welcome back my friens liked it but just in places just until well into the 1990's liked all of them and also kansas leftoverture
1977 came my second love affair this time was genesis with selling england by the pound.
I like 3, was well away from rock listening mostly to new age and smooth jazz as well as some classical stuff until found this board so i started to renew my interest in prog so i started building my libary on all of the and some other, also got to know a lot of new bands and as most of you expending a little fortune buyind cd's
PDi remember also listenig to PFM at " the midnigth special" wich i liked a lot too but it wasn't until i came to this board that the named popped out and order most of the catalog.

[Dave_G]

Any of you prog nuts heard Wobbler?

Dave

[Hyfi]

Any of you prog nuts heard Wobbler?

Dave

Yes, Demetrio pointed them out a ways back maybe on another board. I listened to all the cuts they had on thier website and liked them. Do you have a whole disk?

[Troy]

I had Wobbler- Hinterland. Sounded just like Anglagard.

Didn't like it, sold it.

I mean, it sounded just right with all the 'tron and organ and all, but the songs just went nowhere. It's made a lot of progger type's best of the year lists tho, so you should make yer own judgement.

[Kaboom]

Gdamn, just about everyone here grew up with prog!
I'm now 19 and i discovered prog just over a year ago, thanx to this board. A year and a half ago i picked up a copy of DSOTM in London (i live in spain) because i had always heard of it as a cult album and because i digged the cover. When i arrived back home and listened to it i was fairly unimpressed by it, perhaps because i didnt quite LISTEN to it, but played it as background music.
then a couple of weeks later i SAT DOWN and LISTENED to the album and WHOA, that was some seriusly AWESOME music!!!
after than i found Wish You Were Here in a used record store in Madrid and i absolutely loved it (i still consider it one of the finest albums in my collection)
Then i found this board and you guys opened my eyes to Yes, Jethro Tull, Genesis... Later came ELP, Bowie, King Crimson, Porcupine Tree (popping stupid dream into the CD player in THIS very moment), Spock's Beard... at the beginning I was downloading so many albums that i barely had time to listen to it all (i first dload an album, if i like it, i buy it).
And yeah, my CD and record collection has grown quite spectacularly specially since i own quite a few albums on both wax and plastic.
I cannot thank you people enough to opening my eyes to such amazing music. In a world conquered by 4/4, thumpy, stupid, miserable music sung by anorexic chicks with big a$$es and played by computers or, worse still, vinyl slayers (them goddamn DJs...) There's nothing quite as refreshing as spinning Close to the Edge or Leftoverture, or In Absentia or Selling England by the pound and marvelling at the sheer genious of the music... oh well...

On another note, I finally managed to download the Hinterland album by Wobbler. I was MOST unimpressed. Yeah the sounds were there but it failed to capture my interest. As Troy said, the songs just seem to go nowhere... they dont really "progress"
Beware of the songs on the website. I also loved "leprachaun behind the door" and the other free MP3s, but the album is nowhere near as good as those cuts (in my opinion)
Cheers!

[Dusty Chalk]

I was born in the 60's, grew up in the 70's, and went to college in the early 80's.

[Troy]

I was born in the 60's, grew up in the 70's, and went to college in the early 80's.

There you go again, flaunting your education.

[ForeverAutumn]

I was born in the 60's, grew up in the 70's, and went to college in the early 80's.

You grew up?