Please allow me to introduce myself...
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Topic: Please allow me to introduce myself...
Posted By: Ayrton_2112
Subject: Please allow me to introduce myself...
Date Posted: January 28 2015 at 17:40
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Finally, after years of reading-only participation, I decided to take a few minutes to register :P Hello everybody!  I'm Andrea (no jokes, in Italy it's exclusevely a male name!) from Crescenzago (a district of Milan which I'm planning to turn into an independent city someday, just for fun), I'm 26, I'm a hopefullly-soon-to-be psychologist and, of course, I'm a great fan of progressive music, in almost all of its shades and flavours. Obviously, being Italian, I grew very fond of the local progressive scene, starting from main acts like PFM and Banco e going on with the various obscure, underestimated, forgotten one-shot bands ("Does anybody else listen to them, apart from you and their relatives?" -> quote from my dad. What the heck, dad); but I also love symphonic, Canterburian, jazzy, folk and metal stuff. If I had to write down a Prog pantheon top 10 list, aware that tomorrow the list would be probably different, I'd say: Rush, King Crimson, Genesis, Pink Floyd, PFM, Yes, Jethro Tull, ELP, Biglietto Per l'Inferno, Museo Rosenbach. That's all, I guess. See you around! Stay hammond, stay foolish :D |
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Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: January 28 2015 at 17:55
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Welcome and enjoy! ------------- https://gabebuller.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - New album! http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385 |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: January 28 2015 at 18:11
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Glad you're here! I enjoy a lot of those Italian one-shots, as you put it. Some really nice avant-garde stuff came out of that area, especially near the end of the 1970s. I was introduced to the music of Franco Battiato (thanks to my friends on here) and went from there. Hope you have a good time. It's a big place, but you'll find your way around I'm sure. ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: Argonaught
Date Posted: January 28 2015 at 18:22
. I have been known for lecturing some local "Italian" restaurant owners that there ain't no such thing in Italy as Florence, Venice and Rome .. how about Firenze, Venezia and Roma instead  On a more serious note, welcome to PA. Hope you will enjoy yourself as much as most of the folks here have.
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Ayrton_2112 wrote:Posted By: Meltdowner
Date Posted: January 29 2015 at 04:00
^ What's Italy? I only know Italia  Welcome to PA!
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Posted By: Ayrton_2112
Date Posted: January 29 2015 at 04:15
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Thank you guys! |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: January 29 2015 at 04:24
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hah. Good tastes you have man... you'll fit in WELL here haha welcome to the site Andrea! ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: January 29 2015 at 05:13
Welcome aboard  Huge fan of the (old school) Italian scene here as well. Not too fond of the new wave of RPI bands, but I have come across some interesting ones. Labyrinto di Specchio fx is a wonderful new band and I hope they get themselves together at one point and release a second album. The first one was brilliant. Oh and a quick shout out to Battiato from me as well!!! The man is a genius. ------------- “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.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: January 29 2015 at 05:15
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Btw are you by any chance fan of Ayrton Senna? Just looked at your handle again ------------- “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.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Argonaught
Date Posted: January 30 2015 at 04:15
Suomi vs. Finland, but Helsinki is the same Deutschland vs. Germany, but Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt and even Schweinfurt are the same Magyarország vs. Hungary, but Budapest Schweiz, Suisse, Svizzera vs. Switzerland, but they didn't change Locarno and Lugano to "Lockarn" and "Loogan" That said, I have just remembered that they put a cute little "n" into Lisboa ------------- Thank you, Fripp, for our daily Prog (Red 39:54) |