Well, since we're all sharing, I guess I'll share too.
It was around 2004 when I started getting into Prog Rock properly, with Rush being my major foray into it. From there, it branched into more 70's prog, but I was also recommended a band called Dream Theater (because someone compared WDADU to Rush a bit, so I was intrigued - the rest is history). After a year or so of Dream Theater and Rush, among many others, I discovered Transatlantic (after falling in love with Mike Portnoy's drumming, as a drummer myself, so I sought out his other bands), and from there my undying love for Neal Morse's prog rock was born.
Transatlantic is a Top 5 band for me, and no doubt because of Neal's writing. In mid-2005, I bought nearly all of Spock's Beard's albums up to that point (Octane had just been released and I bought the 2CD set at my local FYE), and had also gotten Testimony and One, both of which I was completely enamored with. Hearing news that Neal was working on another album had me REALLY excited, and so his first new album after I became a lifelong fan was ?, and BOY what a new album that was for me! I ordered that sucker a week before release on Amazon and when it came in, I spun that album for weeks and weeks, picking out all the themes and motifs, enjoying the drumming and that entrancing guitar solo by Steve Hackett.
From then on, I've tried pre-ordering every single Neal Morse solo/band prog album he releases, studio and live, and I have been a part of the Inner Circle Fan Club since November 2011 (to get his Proggy Christmas album, before the official final release). As a single musicians/song-writer/singer, Neal easily ranks in my top 5, and his music always touches me in ways that few musicians have, regardless of his subject matter. His melodies and soulful voice always know how to move me, and despite his music often recycling itself or sounding same-y at some times, it doesn't detract from my enjoyment. Rather, because it is similar, it just means I am as likely to fall in love with it as always, but when he ventures into new or different territories (as he has with the Neal Morse Band), it gets me more excited because it means, after nearly 25 years of writing, he is still willing to try new things and make them sound amazing!
-Marc.