Do you remember the first time you heard a progressive rock song & who it was by?
My first real taste of prog was a album given to me called 'To Our Childrens Childrens Children' by the Moody Blues when I was about 15 yrs old. I knew it was unlike any music I've heard before. A couple years later when I got my first job ( around the mid 70's) I remember going to work early on a Saturday morning around 5am and hearing a song on the radio (fm was pretty new in those days). I heard SUPPERS READY by a band I never heard before! So I went out and bought FOXTROT which would be my very first prog album I ever bought. Almost 30 years later I can honestly say I still love progressive music as much today as I did then.
You heard Supper's Ready on FM radio? Damn! I can't even imagine how that could be, switching stations and all of a sudden there's Supper's Ready. That would be like hearing The Great Nothing by Spock's Beard on a local station!
Hey Shawn....WMMS in Cleveland (way back then) would play just about anything you'd request. I remember calling the station and requesting 'Can-utility and the coastliners' and they WOULD play it. Kinda like the Dividing Line....just 30 years ago!!! (boy has radio changed......not for the better)!
What was your first exposure to Progressive Music???.......remember?
Hmmm narrowing it down is difficult... but I'd say it would have to be in the early 90s.. yes, you heard me right! I am 27 now and only got introduced to prog when I was about 15. I suppose if you can call "Domino" prog then it would have been in 87.. but even then I didn't know what I was listening to at the time, I felt connected with the music. The Invisible Touch album was a great introduction to progressive rock for me as it contained mostly pop with a smattering of prog. In 1991 came Abacab, Duke, and Three Sides Live. I'd say that was my first real exposure to the music. Ahhh the memories.
Kinda went gradually but at 14 or so found myself listening to Rush a lot more and phasing out e.g. the Zep & Deep Purple. I didn't even know it was progressive at the time, just thought it was hard rock but more interesting than most. Oh, the album was 2112 incidentally. Would have been around 1980. Didn't discover King Crimson until well into the 20th century.
Shawn, I very much believe you've never heard 2112, as such lack of musical exposure would go a long way to explain your fascination with that crap band the Genisissies.
Well, if Rush counts then back when A Farewell to Kings first came out, it was one of the "free" albums I got the first time (of prolly 14 in total) I enrolled in one of the music services. So that puts it at 1977, which means I am really getting old.
Do The Kings count as prog? If so that would be band #2, prolly around 1980.
I think I was lucky to grow up with my father the prog-head. The first time I heard progressive music was probably my first week home from the hospital as an infant, and it was more than likely Gentle Giant(we have the cover of "Three Friends" framed in the living room). Most ppl complain how lame their parents' taste in music is but my dad is pretty picky. He introduced our family to Toy Matinee, and it's been a staple cd ever since.
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This is a tough question. It may as well be, "What was the first Prog?" because whatever it was, I was there. The first thing that comes to mind is probably the best choice...The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper, June 1967. But their previous effort, Revolver included "Tomorrow Never Knows" which qualifies just as much. There are probably many others from around that time but since Sgt. Pepper was also thought of as a concept album, I'll stick with that one. I was 16 when it came out. So, Kravitz, don't talk about getting old yet my son!! Rene
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Yeah, this is tricky. I grew up listening to my older brother/uncle's music which was mostly The Beatles and classic Elton John. So, songs like Funeral For a Friend, and the Abbey Road and Sgt. Pepper albums probably built some foundations. The first band I ever got really into though was the Who. Quadrophenia, while not classicly "prog", pushed me further in the direction of enjoying non-traditional pop music structures.
Once in high school, my girlfriend gave me Abacab for my birthday. Yeah, it ain't really all that proggy (I still love it btw) but it pushed me to discover their earlier material. I found my brother/uncle actually had Trick of the Tail and Selling England. I didn't mind Selling England (love it now of course), but was captivated on the first notes of Trick. Pretty much the same thing happened with Yes. I picked up 90125 in high school, liked it a lot and delved into their back catalogue only to be completely mesmerized by the sounds emitting from my speakers. After that, I was hopelessly in love with prog. So, I guess "the" moment would be hearing Dance on a Volcano for the first time. Ah, memories...
I used to hang out in a hard rock/heavy metal club, starting around 1987 or so. There was cool stuff playing, from Bon Jovi to Helloween, Guns N´ Roses and all these hair bands. And it must have been there where I first heard bands like Fates Warning and Queensryche. Then in or 1992 or 1993, a friend gave me "Images And Words". There it was, my new favorite band. Had no clue that there was music labelled "prog", though. This, I found out after I got a PC and internet, which was in 1999 (at the age of 31 ).
Okay, of course I knew some songs from certain bands like Yes, Genesis or Marillion - but my "prog career" started with DT, I would say.
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First "known" prog experience, (meaning, I may have heard other things considered prog in earlier years, i.e. "Dark Side of The Moon") would have to be one of the best live albums of all time in my book, "SECONDS OUT" by Genesis. My uncle played the heck out of it and I went out and bought it, first LP that I can recall buying, other than Cheap Trick Live At Budokan.
The Beatles as Rene mentioned but there were others also....Traffic, Jeff Beck ("Becks Bolero" I consider 'early prog') some of Joe Walsh's stuff with the James Gang ("The Bomber") Moody Blues (Days of Future Passed).....
I grew up listening yes, led zep, crimson! asia, genesis etc! maybe my 1st prog experience was the 1st day my dad put something in the recorder, and i was a new born then i grew a little bit and my fav band was yes! i still love them, but now, i also luv crimson, dream theater, and many other goood musicians! im just 17, but i think im a prog fan!
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Damn! I can't even imagine how that could be, switching stations and all of a sudden there's Supper's Ready. That would be like hearing The Great Nothing by Spock's Beard on a local station!
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I grew up listening yes, led zep, crimson! asia, genesis etc! maybe my 1st prog experience was the 1st day my dad put something in the recorder, and i was a new born 
