FA, I love you even more now than I did. Not only do you like music, hi fi and concerts, now I learn you like Metal. You are the girl of my dreams.

Like many who already posted, I was always into Prog, I just didn't recognize the label. As a very young child bands like Grand Funk, Rolling Stones, Sabbath and, wow, my first Zepplin..... started turning me to rock over pop. I guess my first Prog would have been the ELP album with Lucky Man. From there I got Kansas Masque and Leftoverture. I liked Jethro Tull and Santana. By the time I was out of high school I had already a vast music collection, most of it hard rock but a fair amount of Prog. I had Aphrodite's Child back then, lot of Rush, some Yes, Uriah Heep. Anyone else heard of Pablough's Dog or Starcastle? But like 3LB I was rockin to April Wine before I found KC and like FA digging the Iron Maiden and Priest. A teenager in the Midwest, I had several Nugent albums

There were Prog/Fusion highlights though, like when I first heard Al Dimeola's Elegant Gypsy album or the first time I played the first Engwie Malmsteen album, Masque made a big impression as well, AAAAANNNNNNDDDDD the first time I hit Rav Recs and started checking out bands like PPT, Ozric Tentacles, Sigour Ros, Tangent etc. There was a post.... maybe more than a year ago where the light bulb came on and I learned what Prog meant and many here gave lists of Prog bands. I checked many of them and followed links to "people who bought ____ also bought" and in this last year or so expanded my Prog by a great deal. Opeth, Proto-Kaw, Sylvan, Cross, AtmosFear, Gordian Knot, Camel

There was a wide gap between graduation and this past insurgence of Prog but in that span I built my Pink Floyd collection and rounded off some of the other major Prog groups but it was great to discover Prog was going strong and to get my hands on good new music. It came just in time to rescue me from doing something desperate over the stagnation of commercial radio.

I really only like certain ELP and never did really care for early Genesis, Marillion, IQ or Arena, I think it's got something to do with that certain still of keyboards.