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Guldbamsen
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Indeed. Peyote, Henry Cow and bungeejumping - preferably simultaneously. That's only recently though... We all started out infinitely more naive, the odd whiff of glue whilst overhearing a Katy Perry song slowed down a 1000 times or merely falling on a syringe at an experimental music festival. All amounts to this fiendish lust for mellotrons and strangely concocted rhythms. |
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“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
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Tom Ozric
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^ David - cool, you got the joke !! (though them things sure helped.....)
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SteveG
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While people, hopefully, mature and move away from drugs (except for the legalized pot craze) I often laugh at the amount of prog listeners that alter their own histories and say they never once listened to Dark Side Of the Moon high. |
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Mortte
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Guess I am very odd guy in this forum with this age, but I have never tried any drugs...not that I have had any "I want to be straight"-ideology, more that in my home village only drugs were tobacco, alcohol & snuff, only one of them that I was interested was alcohol. Later I just haven´t been interested.
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SteveG
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^ I should have said "except for those Vikings".
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Mascodagama
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...and don't tell me you never nibbled some ergot from granny's mouldy loaf and tripped balls to Third Ear Band. Edited by Mascodagama - May 27 2018 at 11:46 |
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Squonk19
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You are not alone, Mortte. I've never taken drugs....although a pint of Real Ale (preferably IPA), a glass of an Aussie Shiraz or a single malt Islay Whisky are my little vices which make listening to some fine prog a very civilised affair of an evening! 🍺🍷 |
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Statutory-Mike
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My dad introduced me to Dream Theater & Porcupine Tree when I was around 12 years old. From that I discovered Opeth & i've been deep inside that rabbit hole ever since
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verslibre
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No drugs, either (unless you count caffeine). Wait, Moog is a drug, right?
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The Dark Elf
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You won't hear me saying that. There was nothing quite like watching the 1960s Rankin-Bass stop-motion "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" on mescaline. Bumbles do indeed bounce. Oh wait, you were talking about Floyd. Never mind.
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I want to be a dentist.
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The Dark Elf
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I'm independent!
Yeah? Me too! I'm...whatever you said...in-de-pen-dent.
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AFlowerKingCrimson
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No drugs for me either. I guess I always assumed most prog fans were rather straight laced and while many are it has occurred to me also that many aren't. I view it as a conformity kind of thing at least to some degree. I would possibly do certain things in certain situations but I'm not the kind of person to go out of my way or look for it. I don't really have any stories to tell because of it except for one time I got drunk and listened to Anekdoten. I might have to try that again at some point. LOL.
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The Dark Elf
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That's okay, clearly you didn't grow up in the 60s or 70s. Prog and rock in general was nonconformist and rebellious; hence we made that a great excuse for getting high. Actually, I am still shocked I made it out of my teens.
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AFlowerKingCrimson
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No, I didn't. I was a teen in the eighties. I was a loner anyway. Still pretty much still am though so that wouldn't have made a difference regardless even if I was "old enough."
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My older sister of 4 years was listening to 'Pictures at an Exhibition' by ELP and I was smitten. One day I became a friend to someone who loved Pink Floyd. The roll never stopped after that.
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HolyMoly
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I’d been skating on the mainstream edges of prog most of my life (Moody Blues, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, etc), but I think it was once I learned to appreciate Yes, ELP, Genesis (Hackett albums and prior; I was already a fan of their pop albums) and King Crimson, that kind of opened the doors a bit. Learned about less well-known bands by reading Rolling Stone Record Guide (which generally rated stuff like Gentle Giant fairly low but I took no heed to their warnings) and reading liner notes of CDs I’d bought. I discovered the entire Canterbury scene via some liner notes from a Camel CD.
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When you hear it enough times, you start to develop Stockholm Syndrome.
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Cristi
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roflmao best answer here :)
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