Quote Originally Posted by Mr MidFi
I was 13, and the music teacher at our junior high was turning people on to prog left and right. This was 1976, and prog was way cool at that time...so it didn't take much to get me hooked.

First came ELP's Pictures at an Exhibition, Brain Salad Surgery and Trilogy albums. I wore those 3 slick, especially the BSS.

Then came Genesis with their Trick of the Tail and Wind & Wuthering albums. I was absolutely hooked. When Seconds Out was released, I bought it right out of the carton before it hit the racks.

M.U. - The Best of Jethro Tull was next, and then Yes' Fragile and PF's DSOTM. Rick Wakeman's Six Wives of Henry VIII was also an early fave, as was the Recycled album from Nektar. Does anyone remember Nektar?

Oh yeah, and Kansas' Leftoverture and Point of Know Return were in there somewhere. It's all a bit of a bur now, I'm afraid.

About that time, I was also getting into harder-edged "head music," like Zeppelin's untitled fourth album and Presence, as well as early Aerosmith. But I kept coming back to Prog when it was time to really "get into" something good.

Of course I heard of Tull and ELP and Genesis, but never knew anything of 'prog' back then. Classic Tull and ELP were still pretty much staples of FM throughout the '70s and '80s. But I think I was in the Navy the first time I heard the song Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, and I never heard anything older than that until a few years ago.