I took a poll over on progarchives asking members to say which decade they first got into prog. Here are the results:
60's 5
70's 45
80's 23
90's 9
2000's 33
2010's 9
Personally I don't feel there was much of a prog scene in the sixties but wanted to make it available anyway since some seem to feel pretty strongly that that's when they first discovered this genre.
I was surprised in that poll how many 'young uns' there are. My vote was in the 80's but just, I think it was 1980.
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Yep. If you take the number of those who got into prog after the seventies vs the number who got into it in the seventies or earlier there's definitely more who got into prog after the seventies. However, this is not necessarily completely accurate. There are probably lots of prog fans who aren't on the internet who got into prog in the seventies or earlier. Maybe they aren't super hardcore fans and just like the mainstream prog bands or whatever. Most younger fans got into prog because of the internet. Still I say it's at least equal.
I liked Wondrous Stories, Fanfare for the Common Man and Follow You, Follow Me when they came out around '77/'78 but I couldn't honestly say I was prog-conscious then (I was only 9/10!)
I guess I got into Prog (although YMMV!) with Genesis' Shapes album and then around '84 a schoolfriend loaned me Duke and ATTW3 and that was that, as they say!
What if the Hokey Cokey really IS what it's all about?
The 60s for me, and there was a lot more prog (or proto) than you might think.
Off the top of my head:
Touch
Da Capo & Forever Changes - Love
King Crimson
Yes
Pink Floyd
HP Lovecraft
Fever Tree
Nazz
SRC
1st 3 DP albums
OK, I'll stop now, but there's a whole lot more....
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1980 for me, just like Ian.
Definitely the 60s for me
Early 70s.
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late 70's...though I didn't know I was listening to "prog." Pink Floyd, Yes, King Crimson, Jethro Tull, Genesis...
... as soon as it started....
which means the 60s, of course.
70s
2000s
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Originally Posted by VickiLynn
Me too. That makes the answer tricky for me. When I was first "aware" I was listening to prog rock and seeking it out was the early 90s, but I was a fan of PF, Yes, Genesis, Kansas, Styx, Queen, etc. since the early 80s.
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I was aware of the term progressive rock in the eighties because of bands like Yes, Genesis, KC, ELP etc. I was already a big classic rock fan and big into LZ when I first got into Yes(@84) so things just sort of snowballed from there. Then I was reading rock encylopedias and other books where the term progressive rock was mentioned in reference to Yes, KC etc and it all started to click. That was around 1985/86 or so. So definitely 80's for me.
Yes there was -- but I didn't start discovering it until 1971-2 when I was 17. Up until then -- oddly enough -- I was mostly into jazz & classical. And Sonny & Cher because I wanted Cher to have my babies.
Same here... I got into Supertramp, Floyd, Moodies and other stuff by 74,, Yes, Genesis, Crimson, Procol and Caravan came in the following two years, but I (we all) called art rock >> I supposed my answer is the 70's
the term "prog" came in the early 90's for me... most likely through the progmetal thing
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However, I'm not surprised at the PA "age pyramid" at all
I knew a few ddes my age that only became progheads in the 80's... they'd missed out on it in the 70's (not everybody was as precocious as I was (or musically-minded for that tter) >> like sportheads or brownnosers or people whose parents manage to avoid having their kids bathing in counter-culture
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
well for me it was around 72 or 73 and Yes was the culprit.
Very early 70's, although I don't remember it being called "prog" at the time, and I was reading everything from RS to Creem to Melody Maker. If it had a name, it didn't matter to me. I just liked what I heard.
Don't stop before you include The Nice!The 60s for me, and there was a lot more prog (or proto) than you might think.
Off the top of my head:
Touch
Da Capo & Forever Changes - Love
King Crimson
Yes
Pink Floyd
HP Lovecraft
Fever Tree
Nazz
SRC
1st 3 DP albums
OK, I'll stop now, but there's a whole lot more....
And if proto prog counts, then it was the '60s for me.
I was listening to proto prog in the 60s
early 70s. KC, Floyd, ELP, Genesis & Bo Hansson all blew my socks off.
I was there when for all intents and purposes it began and definitely when it ended, in the 1970s.
60s
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