The GrandVizier arrives to the party

Good day to everybody! I'm new on this party & I'd like to introduce myself.
I'm Polish fan of Pink Floyd & my first contact contact with PF's music was "ABITW2" - when I was 9 or 10, this song played everywhere: on radio, in discotheques... But I had my first serious contact w/ their music when I was 14 or 15 - a teenager brought up on "Star Wars", "Poltergeist"-like horrors and heavy metal, but I also liked that neo-progressive stuff like Marillion or Polish band named Exodus (not to be confused with American thrashers). And then my friend from school lent me "Wish You Were Here" on cassete. Something different, such oneiric music...
But what made a real Pink Floyd fan was "The Dar Side of the Moon". I was 17 when I heard it on borrowed vinyl... and that was it! I was caught. I have taped this vinyl before I returned it, listened to this again and again and again, tried to understand the lyrics... And then "AMLOR" was released, there was that surrealistic "Learning to Fly" video on TV and ma fate was sealed - I became PF's fan for ever. I listened to them from cassettes, discovering "Animals", then "Meddle", then "The Wall"... And when I could afford CD player at last (I was 23), my first CD to buy was 20-th aniversary release of "Dark Side".
Besides Pink Floyd I enjoy music of The Doors, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Genesis (w/ Gabriel), Deep Purple (w/ Blackmore), Yes, Van Der Graaf, King Crimson, ELP, Jethro Tull, Marillion, Tangerine Dream and many others. But Pink Floyd remains to me the only group with all albums standing on my shelf.

Welcome to the site, GrandVizier! I saw your post on the Pompeii thread - I love that movie too.

Hello GrandVizier, and welcome to APFFN!

You have great musical taste, and I mean that not only because of Floyd... I also started to enjoy progressive rock with PF and then went on to listen to Marillion, Yes and others. Actually, it's been years since I last heard Marillion, probably because I only had it on CD and not on MP3...

Anyway, welcome again and if you need any help with the site, please give myself or the moderators a shout!