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Well, my answer to the basic question is similar to KingRat's. I grew also up in the 60's and 70's with Beatles, Stones, Pink Floyd, Moody Blues etc. From childhood I loved all kind of music, discovering classic, jazz and prog when I was 13 or 14..

As you may know, in that time to be a little different from mainstream was "in", and an easy way was to be that through the music. So my friends and I begun to explore the non main stream music, getting really caught by prog. It was not so difficult for us, as we lived in a city (Barcelona, Spain) where prog was played in bars and pubs.

Getting to hear the big ones live in 74 to 77 in Barcelona (like Jethro Tull, Tangerine Dream, PFM, Manfred Mans, Procul Harum, Mahavishnu etc etc..) I think was the basis to rediscover prog in 2003 with the help of the Moon. After I moved from Barcelona to Germany in 1977, I really forgot about the music (what a shame!). But I recovered from this and enjoying prog maybe more than before..