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Blacksword
Prog Reviewer Joined: June 22 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 16130 |
Posted: August 17 2014 at 06:49 | ||
Yeah, I remember them all. Snow Dog still posts does he not? I met Trouserpress at the first Prog Archives curry night in London. Very nice chap. Along with Sean Trane, Chopper, Sigod, Chris Syzergy, Richard H and Jim Garten (?) Memory is hazy... |
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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Nogbad_The_Bad
Forum & Site Admin Group RIO/Avant/Zeuhl & Eclectic Team Joined: March 16 2007 Location: Boston Status: Offline Points: 20296 |
Posted: August 17 2014 at 08:28 | ||
Raff is a lovely lady, I've met her in person at Cuneifest, NF and last years ProgDay. Her interaction with the internet goes through ebbs and flows and I think she's pretty much taking a break for now. She hasn't posted to her blog in a couple of months http://progmistress.com/ |
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Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
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moshkito
Forum Senior Member Joined: January 04 2007 Location: Grok City Status: Offline Points: 16428 |
Posted: August 17 2014 at 10:00 | ||
In the end, this is about OUR choices. We simply accept and take what is "given us". We don't have the fight tomake the change, and support, and that means that the more we want to change things, the less theywill change!!!!
All in all, it's better than nothing, although I still think that silence is better, and learning your own inner path is way more important than anyone telling you what to go listen to, so we can become a better "social" person that society wants us to become to ensure you buy their car, 2.1 children, green sox, you know ... the usual cheap crap made in heaven knows where that you won't find out until there is a fire and 500 folks died from it, and they were only making $3 dollars per day!
At least PA is voluntary, I have been told! But in Sociology 101 they tell you that "interest groups" run 85% of all institutions out there to favor their own views!
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Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
www.pedrosena.com |
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presdoug
Forum Senior Member Joined: January 24 2010 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 8153 |
Posted: August 17 2014 at 10:35 | ||
This is a very interesting thread. I just joined in Feb. 2010 so don't know directly what the beginning was like. I have never met anybody from PA, but it sure would be fun to! I don't have the income bracket to do a lot of long distance travelling but if any of you folks come to Ottawa, maybe we can link up sometime?
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Moogtron III
Prog Reviewer Joined: April 26 2005 Location: Belgium Status: Offline Points: 10616 |
Posted: August 17 2014 at 14:27 | ||
I missed one planned PA meeting (was there more than one?), which was a pity in retrospect. Oh well... no use crying over spilled milk. Snow Dog hasn't posted in a long time, but hopefully he turns up once again.
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richardh
Prog Reviewer Joined: February 18 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 26339 |
Posted: August 18 2014 at 00:51 | ||
I had let him have my address so he could send me a CD ( he never did). That was before all this all blew up. I know its unlikely he would visit me but didn't want to take a chance.
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Padraic
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: February 16 2006 Location: Pennsylvania Status: Offline Points: 31165 |
Posted: August 19 2014 at 09:13 | ||
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Padraic
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: February 16 2006 Location: Pennsylvania Status: Offline Points: 31165 |
Posted: August 19 2014 at 09:15 | ||
Anyone remember Teaflax? :)
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Wallace The Lad
Forum Newbie Joined: August 21 2014 Location: Upper Magna Leu Status: Offline Points: 28 |
Posted: August 21 2014 at 07:48 | ||
Wallace here!
Thankyou for the fond rememberances. I dont remember much of the old days here. (I suppose I was here around 2005 on???) Back then I was mainly posting to a Yahoo prog group. I would like to look up those elder-days posts, but those two linkiepoos given seem to only get one the Wayback Machine and not much else. I recall Bald Freida (oar summart loikes) and she was quite knowledgeable. Also there was a very sharp poster, Barbitzoter, or mebbe I'm confusing with Progressive Ears. Unlike former stalwarts who seem, in the main, to have deserted the ship, I would continue on Progarchives, given the opportunity. THAT is just the problem. (I expect this post to be wiped-out by the end of the day.) |
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someone_else
Forum Senior Member VIP Member Joined: May 02 2008 Location: Going Bananas Status: Offline Points: 24025 |
Posted: August 21 2014 at 08:03 | ||
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Wallace The Lad
Forum Newbie Joined: August 21 2014 Location: Upper Magna Leu Status: Offline Points: 28 |
Posted: August 21 2014 at 08:46 | ||
That was a good thread. Too bad it did not go anywhere.
My contention remains the same: "war" is the theme most-used in pwog. (Followed closely by "death".) |
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Metalmarsh89
Forum Senior Member Joined: January 15 2013 Location: Oregon, USA Status: Offline Points: 2673 |
Posted: August 21 2014 at 09:55 | ||
Dream Theater was cool in the beginning, right?
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Want to play mafia? Visit here.
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Padraic
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: February 16 2006 Location: Pennsylvania Status: Offline Points: 31165 |
Posted: August 21 2014 at 09:59 | ||
Right. |
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jude111
Forum Senior Member Joined: October 20 2009 Location: Not Here Status: Offline Points: 1754 |
Posted: August 22 2014 at 01:07 | ||
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tszirmay
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: August 17 2006 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 6673 |
Posted: August 22 2014 at 01:25 | ||
Woke up one morning and there was this gleaming black monolith ...........
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I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth.
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Prog_Traveller
Forum Senior Member Joined: May 29 2005 Location: Bucks county PA Status: Offline Points: 1474 |
Posted: August 22 2014 at 01:43 | ||
In the very beginning it was just another prog website like prog toes, prog lands and prog freaks. However, progarchives survived and went way beyond them in part because they allowed anyone to write reviews. There was a site back in the late nineties called prog net that I wrote reviews on that also let anyone write reviews but that one soon went under. Somehow P.A. just exploded and the rest is history. I'd even go as far as to say that P. A. played a role in making prog as popular as it is today.
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Toaster Mantis
Forum Senior Member Joined: April 12 2008 Location: Denmark Status: Offline Points: 5898 |
Posted: August 22 2014 at 04:32 | ||
One music forum that really has changed over the last many years is Metal-Archives, where I posted from 2006-2008. Back then it was populated mostly by crazies and junkies and Nazi Occultists but now it consists just of boring normal people.
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"The past is not some static being, it is not a previous present, nor a present that has passed away; the past has its own dynamic being which is constantly renewed and renewing." - Claire Colebrook
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PrognosticMind
Forum Senior Member Joined: August 02 2014 Location: New Hampshire Status: Offline Points: 1195 |
Posted: August 22 2014 at 06:40 | ||
I really need to check that out, because SMN forums are like a wasteland of narcissistic, elitist personalities.
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Prog Sothoth
Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: May 03 2011 Location: MA Status: Offline Points: 1940 |
Posted: August 22 2014 at 12:49 | ||
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Dean
Special Collaborator Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575 |
Posted: August 22 2014 at 12:55 | ||
Ah... the Wally returns.
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What?
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