[atlantaprog] Re: 2 questions

1.  What was the first album that got you into progressive rock?

I was deep into Sabbath, Purple, Alice Cooper, and various other hard 
rock and metal things when I was around 13 or 14. Then I started a new 
school and the guy next to me in math class loaned me ELP's Trilogy and 
Yes' Close to the Edge. I was HOOKED!

2.  For those of you who play instruments, why did you choose that 
instrument rather than another?

Around that same time, I was trying to learn to be a guitar shredder. I 
knew a few keyboard licks, having poked around on the family piano from 
time to time. I had even figured out the Inna Gadda da Vida organ solo 
on my mom's department store chord organ. But I never fancied myself as 
being a keyboardist until I heard Wakeman's Six Wives. That's when it 
dawned on my how virtually unlimited keyboards could be. They could 
rock, they could sing, they could be frightening or beautiful or 
menacing or lush. It was an epiphany and I knew that was my calling! Of 
course it was YEARS after that moment before I could actually afford 
any decent keyboards - I made do with the afore-mentioned piano, and an 
out-of-tune combo organ I  bought from a guy who is ALSO in the ARIA 
list, coincidentally!

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