Tell us about your first experience...

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Tell us about your first experience...with Prog.

I guess I'm getting old because I had no idea what you were talking about until I Googled it. Oh, progressive rock - why didn't you say so?

I clearly remember first hearing "Roundabout" from Fragile when I was 15 in '72. While I still enjoyed the more basic Hendrix and Zeppelin stuff, this was complex and intense. Love at first hearing. After that, immediately bought the earlier Yes Album. Soon after, a friend exposed me to ELP's Tarkus. More way cool stuff. As with Yes, I backed up and bought their first two albums and every one afterwards. I will never forget seeing them live around the time of Brain Salad Surgery. Palmer was simply amazing on percussion. I drove my folks nuts wearing out my first copy of that album. Pictures at an Exhibition started a gradual introduction to the classical stuff that I like today. Similarly, I like Genesis, Gentle Giant, Kansas, and although not prog I got into Jean Michel Jarre's Oxygene that was unique sounding when it came out in '76 or so.

Lots of fond memories.

rw

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But then again, I didn't know what 'prog' was until I found this board.

By the time I really started paying attention to Rush, was when Permanent Waves came out. By that time, Rush was becoming a mainstream radio staple, then later, the song Tom Sawyer came out and I was just blown away. I was hooked all the way through until Hold Your Fire, then my interests in them waned. The '80s incarnation of this band is its least progressive, though. It would be much later that I ventured into their older catalog, though a friend of mine was always playing 2112 whenever I came over to this house.

Of course, my older brother was into Floyd (he had half-speed remastered versions of DSOTM and WYWH on vinyl) and of course Zepplin. I remember my brother listening to 2 and 4, and Physical Graffiti, but they didn't grab me right away. In my early 20s, I started becoming a real Zep-Head and bought everything. It started when I was 20 and had just transfered to Whidbey Is in the Pacific Northwest, and my brother would send me music that he'd transfered from CD to tape (TDK SA-X 90s to be exact). I had long since lost my tape copy of Rush Moving Pictures, so he sent me that on one side of a tape, w/ DSOTM on the other. I think that tape lasted 4 or 5 years before it actually snapped in two at one point. (a killer combo if you think about it)

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I guess I'm getting old because I had no idea what you were talking about until I Googled it. Oh, progressive rock - why didn't you say so?

You must done all yer postin elsewhere, cuz its been 'Prog' here for years

Just goes to show ya how often we need moderatin round here