Basic Question

[gr8sho92]

Originally Posted by kazuhiro

Did you listen to PROG ROCK from the beginning?

That's a very interesting question. My music consciousness started in 1974, so I missed about 5-7 years depending on where you start from, but at that time what we now call prog was mostly common once you went beyond pop music. The two prevalent genre I remember for my age was hard rock and the more sophisticated progressive rock music. Interestingly, Deep Purple's Made in Japan was extremely popular. PFM's Isola di Niente was my first real listen from my best friend at the time and then proceeded to buy Live in USA which I still have in my possession. From that album, the entire first side was incredible to me. The second side was significantly more complex and took me a long time to understand and appreciate.

As with most people, the backlash against prog moved music to a simpler and more accessible form of rock music. I still very much enjoy Dire Straits for instance.

However throughout all that time I still listened to my PFM and Genesis, and eventually stumbled onto AM like many here, and so prog once again is my primary genre for listening pleasure.

For Damo, until I heard and saw PFM's Live in Japan 2002, I never realized the extent to which Japan likes italian symphonic. That was a really neat recording. I have no idea if Franz's pronunciation of your language was any good, but it sounded cool!

Carl