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    Posted: December 09 2018 at 03:19
Pretty much anything that was not soft pop or 50/60's based terrified my wife.
Hard rock ,metal, and especially anything Progressive used to send her round the bend.
 
It surprised me as she was much older then myself and her youth was the 70's where as mine was the early 80's.She often mentioned her Bowie haircut she had in the 70's but could not stand his music.
 
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Like I promised I have prepared an interesting german quote for you:

"Dass es in Progtexten nicht um Liebe und Sex ging, ist doch keine Errungenschaft - es ist pure Notwendigkeit! Kuckt sie Euch an, Ende der Sechz'ger: Junge, pickelige Männer mit höherer Schulbildung, emotional gehemmt, keine Erfahrung mit dem wirklichen Leben, mit Liebe und Sex schon gar nicht; dafür hatten sie alle "Herr der Ringe" gelesen, bissl Lovecraft, griechische Mythologie, hatten zuhaus den einen oder anderen indischen Text und besaßen vielleicht ein Deck Tarotkarten – Bingo! Konzeptalbum! Oh, Frauen kommen vor, klar, aber dann allenfalls als ätherische spirituelle Präsenzen, nicht als echte Mädchen aus Fleisch und Blut. Schon gar nicht aus Fleisch.

Der Prog ist nicht schwul oder misogyn per se, er hat vermutlich einfach nur Angst vor Frauen. Oder sie glänzen durch Abwesenheit, weil sie auch im wirklichen Leben der pickeligen Jungs von der höheren Schule durch Abwesenheit glänzten. Nur Männer - so gesehen ist Prog vermutlich das männlichste aller Rock-Genres."

http://www.babyblaue-seiten.de/album_709.html

(Babyblaue-Seiten, Rezensent Nik Brückner)

„It is surely no achievement, that there is no prog song about love or sex – it is pure necessity! I mean look at them in the late sixties: Young man with pimples, emotionally repressed, no contact with reality, love and sex at all. Otherwise well-read in Lord of the Rings, Lovecraft and greek mythology. Maybe they had one or two indian scripts and some tarot cards. Logical Consequence… Concept Album! Yes woman can be part of that, but if they appear, they only appear as ethereal, spiritual presences and not as girls of flesh and blood. How could one even dare to consider them flesh!?

Prog isn´t gay or misogynist, it possibly only fears women. Or they shine through abstinence, because in the real life of the, of course highly educated, pimple boys they shone through it too. Only Men – In that aspect prog is presumably the most manly genre of rock.“ - Nik Brückner


I tried my best. Please remember I am not a native.

I like it´s consequent and "without regard to losses" like mindset. And self irony. I guess its just the truth haha.




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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

I did marry up several social classes..  HeartRaff never has tossed a cigarette in pool of someone's elses blood, drove a muscle car into a tree at 80mph, broken bar stools over peoples heads,  or awakened in a trash dumpster after a night painting the town red.  

True but I've always been concerned about finding a horse's head under my blanket.
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A few amusing moments with my partner.  And she has accompanied me to many proggish concerts, including Yes, Dream Theater, Steven Wilson.  She enjoyed these, except for Dream Theater (could have been the 'plumber's crack in her face for teh entire show, but one can be sure LOL )She also had Yes, JT, ELP and Kate Bush in her collection before I met her, so she's not the anti-prog.

However, she found Raider II unpleasant and not to be listened to again.
She likes Queen, but Dead on Time she found 'anxiety provoking.'  Ditto for Tesseract.  She decribed Haken as 'w**kery' and doesn't like any growly stuff like Opeth and Cynic, probably the only two growly bands in my collection!  Hates Tool with a passion.  Found DT's The Astonishing 'awfully boring' and she was 100% right about that.

I find her reactions amusing, but for peace sake, I try to spare her the excesses.


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More heavy prog, please!
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ehhh...  

for us....anything with steel pedal guitar.. or songs about

mama, trains, trucks, prison.. or getting drunk... hahah.  

I did marry up several social classes..  HeartRaff never has tossed a cigarette in pool of someone's elses blood, drove a muscle car into a tree at 80mph, broken bar stools over peoples heads,  or awakened in a trash dumpster after a night painting the town red.  

Prog really doesn't capture real life man the way old school country does... it's all ivory tower sh*t.. but at least it sounds good for the most part.
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Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

My girlfriend won't let me play Maudlin of the Well in the car, and has threatened to eat the CD so I can never play it again. 


That would be interesting. I'm guessing CDs are hard to digest.


Maudlin of the Well, certainly..


That's a whole new level of hatred...she'd rather eat plastic than hear a band.
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Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

My girlfriend won't let me play Maudlin of the Well in the car, and has threatened to eat the CD so I can never play it again. 


That would be interesting. I'm guessing CDs are hard to digest.


Maudlin of the Well, certainly..
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Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

My girlfriend won't let me play Maudlin of the Well in the car, and has threatened to eat the CD so I can never play it again. 

That would be interesting. I'm guessing CDs are hard to digest.
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Wifey and I were driving around a week or so ago, and Scorpions' 'Lonesome Crow' came on in my car...she suffered through the first few songs, until Klaus began just singing "OOOOOHHHH" in parts over and over, to which she stated "That is terrible"...haha!
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Except for a few song my wife pretty much dislikes all Prog Rock, especially King Crimson, Zappa, and Captain Beefheart.
 
I took my wife to a King Crimson concert, and I tried to warn her ahead of time, that King Crimson is not for the weak of heart, musically or lyrically. Except for the song, Islands, she hated every minute of the concert. Months later, my wife asked me what we should do on the weekend. As a joke, I said we could go see a King Crimson concert. She gave me a less than humorous response.
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Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

My girlfriend won't let me play Maudlin of the Well in the car, and has threatened to eat the CD so I can never play it again.

She's no proghead, although strangely she did very much enjoy the King Crimson gig last week.


That´s a pity. But I like her.
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Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

Originally posted by GrafHaarschnitt GrafHaarschnitt wrote:

Read your Website Pedro Very nice Stuff. liked that short Story bout her. Wonder how much of it was Fiction. Would be interesting if this also happens to women who are into prog. Gonna bring a German quote up in a few Days.


Thanks a whole bunch ... brought a tear to my eye.

All of it is true, except "Adolphus" to a degree since it came from my dreams mostly. The others were true events and feelings.

I kinda live on the edge of my imagination, so to speak. I only write poetry and fiction from dreams and visions, and the past 10 years, is even weirder ... I have written and complete about 3 novels in MY HEAD, and can not even figure out how to sit and write one word about/from them! Go figure!

The films/music reviews is a bit different. Having a terrible time finding foreign film nowadays ... the advent of the internet is nice, but the distribution of the titles to stores disappeared and Amazon and other places only offer top price for them ... which has hurt my ability to keep up with many directors and other new things in film.

The best one of these "stories" is the poem "You are No longer a vision, or a poem" ... for me!


Believe me. My dreams are even weirder. Growing up in the digital age wasn´t easy : D. I would be interested in what you actually mean by written in your head (pm me), that part is a little confusing but sounds fun. I have to re-read that one (You are No longer a vision, or a poem") I am not sure if I read it. Already two or three months passed since I did read some of it. I am actually pretty happy bout the internet because I would have never found out about prog music as a thing. I mean I would probably have heard some pink floyd and genesis (because of my father) but I don´t think I would have extended from that. No way ever finding out about Magma or Cardiacs two of my absolute favourites. I don´t the much about the art of the film.
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Everything, especially anything I've written.

Next question ? ;-)

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^ I'm a proghead, but I totally understand her reaction.
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My girlfriend won't let me play Maudlin of the Well in the car, and has threatened to eat the CD so I can never play it again.

She's no proghead, although strangely she did very much enjoy the King Crimson gig last week.
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Originally posted by GrafHaarschnitt GrafHaarschnitt wrote:

Read your Website Pedro Very nice Stuff. liked that short Story bout her. Wonder how much of it was Fiction. Would be interesting if this also happens to women who are into prog. Gonna bring a German quote up in a few Days.


Thanks a whole bunch ... brought a tear to my eye.

All of it is true, except "Adolphus" to a degree since it came from my dreams mostly. The others were true events and feelings.

I kinda live on the edge of my imagination, so to speak. I only write poetry and fiction from dreams and visions, and the past 10 years, is even weirder ... I have written and complete about 3 novels in MY HEAD, and can not even figure out how to sit and write one word about/from them! Go figure!

The films/music reviews is a bit different. Having a terrible time finding foreign film nowadays ... the advent of the internet is nice, but the distribution of the titles to stores disappeared and Amazon and other places only offer top price for them ... which has hurt my ability to keep up with many directors and other new things in film.

The best one of these "stories" is the poem "You are No longer a vision, or a poem" ... for me!
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Read your Website Pedro Very nice Stuff. liked that short Story bout her. Wonder how much of it was Fiction. Would be interesting if this also happens to women who are into prog. Gonna bring a German quote up in a few Days.
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Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

Originally posted by M27Barney M27Barney wrote:

I accompanied my wife to a Lionel Ritchie concert....it was awful...
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It's just not a nice way to have a relationship. It's for her and her own enjoyment, and she can see that you didn't like it ... and you then want her to _____________________________________ .... strange, very strange, and Dr Barrett will write a song later!

Actually, at least two wonderful lovers went with and saw Tangerine Dream in LA and Pink Floyd's The Wall, also in LA. Both women, loved music very differently. Shelly was a heavy tripper, and TD fit the bill and she could just close her eyes and moan along and love with it all day. Ingrid was into RLJones and THeads and BRaitt, and some other things, but she was a dancer, and had a solid music "footing". She never said anything weird of bad about any of the music I played or had in my collection and she even listened to a good portion of it. It's possible that she was being polite, but that was not how she was or reacted. I was not a great fan of everything she played, but I never put down their music-ability, which was excellent. I still have the first 5 RLJ albums ... after she went pop, her touch was gone for me.


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My wife hates Neo-Prog - IQ, Pendragon, Marillion. She hates them all.

But she likes Comedy Of Errors.

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