My story with progressive rock music: After a few years of listening classic rock and mostly top 40 songs (shame on me), a friend introduced me to YES, which at a first listen found interesting but nothing special, didn't noticed the prog' virus had already infected me, and after listening a Peruvian band (FRAGIL) playing GENESIS covers, my musical conception changed for ever and my social life became harder because while all my friends listened "Saturday Night Fever" and "Grease" soundtracks, I was trying to explain them the greatness of "Tarkus", "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" and "Dark Side of the Moon". But there's nothing to regret. Prog' is my life.
Personal collection: About 900 Cd's, 1,800 Lp's and a couple hundreed cassettes My weakness was always GENESIS up to "Wind Wuthering" but also love YES (without Rabin), TRIUMVIRAT, STEVE HACKETT, ELP, PINK FLOYD, JETHRO TULL, KANSAS, PAVLOV'S DOG, FOCUS, MAGENTA, LE ORME, PFM, BANCO DEL MUTUO SOCCORSO, URIAH HEEP, GLASS HAMMER, HAPPY THE MAN, Rick WAKEMAN. GENESIS - "Nursery Cryme" "Foxtrot"; YES - " Yes Album"; ELP - "Trilogy"; KANSAS - "Leftoverture"; MAGENTA - "Revolutions"; URIAH HEEP - "Look at Yourself"; JETHRO TULL - "Thick as a Brick"; KING CRIMSON - "In the Court of the Crimson King", etc. I only hope that at least 20% of the world learn about progressive music, because knowing about prog' is loving prog', the genre must survive and that's our job.
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