What are your Progressive Rock Roots?

[Howard Roark]

I guess my Prog roots started out with the first Boston album, not really prog, but it was different than anything else going on. I saw my first offical concert (that means mom didnt have to take me, she did take me to see ELP!) With Boston ,Rush and Starcastle. Wow! what a line-up.I went out and bought all the current albums by those groups at the time. A Farewell to Kings and Fountains of Light.

I always enjoyed the Italian band PFM, but never had the chance to see them live. I became a huge Rush and Max Webster head and then gravitated into bands like King Crimson, UK,Uriah Heep, Kansas early Judas Priest and Iron Maiden etc...

I wish kids could somehow be exposed to some of this great music instead of the same old boring stuff that I hear being passed off as the next big thing.

HR

[artboy]

When I was VERY young.. all I liked was the Monkees (The Birds the Bees and the Monkees still gets a listen to now and then!)... the first album I ever bought was Tommy ....the first band I listened to seriously as a child (early 70's) was Chicago (which had some heavy prog sounds.) The first prog band I REALLY liked was Yes (Yessongs was my first Yes Album...Long Distance Runaround on Yessongs is still my favorite recording of Yes)....next was KC and VDGG...after that Brian Eno stole my soul...I never really liked the Beatles...is that weird?...well I like Blackbird.. the white album...other than I can live without their music....never did much for me.

[Rick and Roll]

Originally Posted by artboy

When I was VERY young.. all I liked was the Monkees (Daydream Believer RULES!)... the first album I ever bought was Tommy ....the first band I listened to seriously as a child (early 70's) was Chicago (which had some heavy prog sounds.) The first prog band I REALLY liked was Yes (Yessongs was my first Yes Album)....next was KC and VDGG...after that Brian Eno stole my soul...I never really liked the Beatles...is that weird?...well I like Blackbird.. the white album...other than that I can live without their music.

Chicago yes....

How about Rush, Artboy? C'mon you know you want it!

[artboy]

Originally Posted by Rick and Roll

Chicago yes....

How about Rush, Artboy? C'mon you know you want it!

FUNNY RICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.....LOL....Actually... I have 2112 and Fly by Night.. the newer albums are too stylized for my liking

[Elric68]

When I was a very young boy (8 years), I used to listen to my dad's Genesis records, especially the songs "Firth of Fifth", "Ripples", "Many too Many", "Squonk".

A few years later, he made me discover Hawkwind ("Live Chronicles"), Pendragon ("Not Of This World") and Marillion ("Script For A Jester's Tear"), then made me listen to Jazz-Rock (King Crimson, "USA", Return To Forever). These are my roots.

[Sven]

Born in 62, I grow up with "Pop" or Beat music from the local radio stations SFB, RIAS, AFN and BFBS and the classic music I heard at many weekends I spend with my grandpa, a very enthusiastic Hi-Fi-fan.

From him I get my first tape-recorder, a Telefunken Magnetophon 98. So I started to record many SF-radio plays. There I had my first contact with prog music, as background music for these radio plays.

Absolutly fascinating for me were f.e. Pink Floyd's "Remember a Day" or Hawkwind's "Silver Machine".

In the early seventies, RIAS 2 started a weekly show, every Monday from 10:00 to 10:30 pm - "Musik - Tendenz Progressiv".
A short introduction by one of the two DJs and then one complete side of a LP.
I would simply say: That changes my life.
They play any styles of prog music, from Klaus Schulze to ELP, Popol Vuh to Brain Ticket, CAN to Beggars Opera etc.

Until 74, when I enter the highschool, I spend my money for tapes and SF-/Fantasy-paperbacks (what I still collect), then I get more pocket money and I started to collect LPs.
My first one was Kraftwerk "Radioaktivitaet", many other follows, most of them Prog.