My wife was a music major in college, and grew up in a household that love all kinds of music from opera to symphonic, blues, jazz (Miles Davis and Dave Brubeck in particular), Beatles and Stones, Dylan, etc. Before I met her, she was heavily into the Brecker Brothers, Steely Dan, Queen as well as some 80s stuff like Squeeze; but spent most of her time with the classical saxophone quartet and symphonic music she was learning in school.
When I exposed her to Yes, ELP, Tull, KC and the like, she enjoyed it immediately. We actually discovered a lot of Prog together, like Gentle Giant and the Island-ear Jade Warrior, that she caught onto more quickly than I did. She also really likes Thinking Plague. Most of our listening is Prog Rock, and there's little of what I like that she doesn't (she's not so into Gryphon, for whatever reason). And like me, she tends to frown on the more "poppy" end of the Prog spectrum. "Where's the 'Prog'?" she asks me when I sample this kind of stuff, or we are exposed to it at festivals. I just shrug.
I'd say I got pretty lucky, it's not every wife who tells her Prog-loving husband to throw on some early Deux Ex Machina over dinner!
Bill
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