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Hello from Seattle

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Forum Name: Welcome newbies!
Forum Description: Introduce yourself and tell us what prog music you listen to
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Topic: Hello from Seattle

Posted By: ProfPanglos
Subject: Hello from Seattle
Date Posted: July 25 2017 at 22:35

Long-time prog fan, since I was a kid, really. I'm 50 now, but back in the early 1970's - I had older siblings who were constantly spinning Tull, ELP, Mike Oldfield, Yes, etc. on the stereo, so I developed a taste for all that stuff pretty early on.

In the late '70's and early '80's I went through a huge electronic phase, getting into Vangelis, Tangerine Dream, Jarre, Kraftwerk, Klaus Schulze (and many others) - a love affair which lasts to this day.

I turned my high school sweetheart on to all of this stuff, and she really got into it. We split up for a while, but eventually got back together and married (now my wife of 25 years)... she got even deeper into prog while we spent those few years apart, so we spent our honeymoon unpacking boxes in our living room, turning each other on to different albums in our collections (she had owned a prog rock record store for a couple of years), smoking pot, and...

Anyway, I may not stay around the forum for very long, I get tired of computers and tech stuff pretty quick. Fun to chat about good music, though.

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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: July 25 2017 at 22:53

Welcome, Professor, sound like my kinda guy.

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Posted By: YESESIS
Date Posted: July 28 2017 at 23:35

"she got even deeper into prog while we spent those few years apart, so we spent our honeymoon unpacking boxes in our living room, turning each other on to different albums in our collections"

That honestly sounds like the most fun ever. Big welcome to you.

Posted By: ProfPanglos
Date Posted: July 29 2017 at 16:03

Yeah, it was fun! :) I remember she played Gong's Flying Teapot for me, with a big gleam in her eye.

Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: July 29 2017 at 16:08

Welcome, good to have you!