What are your Progressive Rock Roots?

[PeterG]

Dug deep and found this thread... so here is my 2 cents...

There are three things that stick out in my memory about my musical tastes...

1. (1972) I remember hanging out with my buddy Kevin, in his backyard. Probably blowing up GI Joes or attaching bottle rockets to a a variety of objects... listening to the radio. "Brandy, you're a fine girl... , Cat Stevens, Carpenters..." you know the drivel.. but we just loved Frankenstein by Edgar Winter... what a freaky song by a freaky artist... so unusual...

2. (1972) I remember hanging out with my buddy Kevin, and we went to the record store... We were each buying our 'first' album. He talked me into buying the first Black Sabbath album. I talked him into buying "Close to the Edge" We get back to his house and after a couple listens of both we mutually decide to trade... he wanted Black Sabbath and I was blown away by "Close to the Edge"

3. (1973) I remember hanging out with my buddy Kevin, he was 10 , I was 12. He had a sister that was 10 years older and she had an apartment. We used to ride our bikes over there and she would give us lemonade and cookies. She had a great album collection... lots of classic rock and 60's stuff... but we were focused on her new album by Mike Oldfield... listened to it every week "Tubular Bells" She got it after seeing "The Exorcist" Her husband (some call him Tim) was continually freaked out by the lyrics in part two. He'd get up and leave saying "Oh Jesus, it's the Devil"

I didn't realize for years that i was a progger .. I was listening to KISS in '76 when I stole some 8 track tapes from my sisters boyfriend... I remember getting ELPs first album and some Moodies... Got into King Crimson and my friends thought I was weird... bought the UK albums when they came out... couldn't get my buddies 'into' it... the same fore Wakeman albums... they couldn't care less... LOSERS!