Pretty much sums me up as well......Enjoy some of the people I have met, but honestly a large majority of those people have been gone for the past 5yrs or more. 

And to the OP this is where most of the history lies, I think, with so many members that have left the site. I was probably a lurker for 2 yrs before I officially joined in 2009. 

It continues to be a great archival resource.......The forums were so much more alive back in the day.

           Most of all, over the years I have enjoyed talking about and sharing my enthusiasm for the music of Triumvirat, and I am grateful to those who have bothered to listen and make comments about it.

          

you won't find much about the first version of PA. That was before M@X  and Proglucly bought  from a dude in Florida. However, the new Québécois owners kept the dominant colours (Black, Purple & Orange) and some bands contents, but there was no forum or anything of the sort (at least, I think)

Soooo, depending on your outlook, PA is either almost 20.5 or 18.5 years old. 

Thank you so much for remembering us, Drew. I check the forums every day, but these days I tend to look mostly at the General Discussions. My interest in prog - especially new prog - has waned considerably in the past few years, and I feel I have very little to say. However, this site will always have a special place in my heart, and I hope it will not go the way of so many other forums. In spite of the attempts by some people to disrupt the atmosphere, PA is still a remarkably civilized place, and a nice community of people who are connected by their love of music and other good things in life.

On a negative note too many people have left and that's a concern to me. Don't understand it , I mean where else to go on the net for a discussion about prog? 

Then to be privileged to read insider experiences from so many learned, insightful, articulate (and often very humorous) peoplesons! What an honor!

richardh wrote: In the early days I seem to remember there were a lot of ELP threads that caused  general annoyance. After that it settled down to what seems an endless discussion about 'what is prog?'.

And in the thick of things, there was ThreeFates who bragged about how many liters of spunk from GL she swallowed.

richardh wrote: On a negative note too many people have left and that's a concern to me. Don't understand it , I mean where else to go on the net for a discussion about prog?

Well the place was always a wild-west free-for-all with plenty of great people but a bunch of severily twisted dudes - who often turned into arseholes (thinking of Velvet Clown)

But yeah, a lot of people I miss around (Easy Livin', Trotsky, Syzygy, Alucard), and plenty ,of others, whose knowledge and love of proressive rock made this place great.

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Happy 20th Anniversary! 

I joined in October 2004 if I remember correctly. A colleague told me about the site

Strangely enough, that's pretty much what my wife said when I told her I was meeting up with some people from a music forum that I'd never met before - "how do you know they're not axe murderers?".

As you say, they turned out to be interesting people, some of whom I'm still in touch with 16-17 years later, so it's about time we had another London prog curry night Chris.

 

yeah that was a good night although I remember having to deliberately having to ignore a separate conversation about the 'sacrilegious' nature of ELP's Pictures at An Exhibition. I'm glad I stayed out of that one and it remained a pleasant evening lol.

Guilty of being present at all of them 

Yup, that first Prog Curry in Paddington was way too short IMHO, for the last call in London pubs are just too early, IMnotsoHO.  Not saying they should've lasted until dawn, but a little later than midnight. 

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And you were no axe murderer, I'm pleased to say.

I'm sure we could find a pub that's open until the small hours now Hugues.

I'm jealous! Every time I try to plan a get-together with anyone from PA they either die, disappear, or COVID locks us down! (Or maybe it's just cuz I really am an axe murderer)

I miss :

Jody (TheProgtologist), James (Gecko), Lee (Man Erg), Ricochet, The Whistler, Avestin, TonyR, Bob (EasyLivin), Dalezilla, Chamberry, Finnforest, Dean, and now Iain (ExttheLemming).

Anyone who's been here for a long time should check their old PMs starting back with the first ones you received or wrote.   You may see people you forgot about.

For years I resisted listening to that original Renaissance album--precisely due to my allegiance to the lineup we all came to know and love. But I have recently given it a chance and, from the first, I really liked it. It is a wonderful album with wonderful music--sincerely and expertly constructed by some fine musicians. 

I don't quite understand how the next incarnation decided to hold onto the ex-Yardbirds' original moniker (with that radical change in lineup, I would have changed my band's name), but here we are. Though they are two different entities, there is some consistency in mood and style--and definitely a high standard of music--to both expressions.

Good call......I miss as well TheProgtologist, Tony R (winner of the freakiest avatar LOL), Dean (even though we had 'excitable' discussions, although always respectful), Finnforest, QueenByTor (my lady Rush friend), The T and I am many more.

Ahhh yes....Epignosis aka Skeletor!! I keep asking him when the new Epignosis release is coming. I too miss Ivan M.

All very colorful discussion we had....

Those were the days!