Define prog elite, please.
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Topic: Define prog elite, please.
Posted By: DEzerov
Subject: Define prog elite, please.
Date Posted: October 21 2005 at 09:43
I have a question. Can someone give me an authoratative definition of "prog elite?" And... maybe someone can tell me if I am fortunate enough to qualify for such a title. I shall list a few of my holdings, recant a few shows that I've seen, and define genres of non-prog music that I find most offensive......This should be a good starting point to determine how "prog-elite" I am. Holdings: A least 2/3 of the Frank Zappa Catalogue Virtually all Yes, Moodies, ELP, Genesis (all eras), Steve Hackett, Univers Zero, Spock's Beard, Henry Cow, The Flower Kings, classic PFM, classic Banco, Mike Oldfield, Pat Metheny, The Beatles (non-prog) Many from Gong, Porcupine Tree, Dream Theater, Caravan, National Health, Hatfield and the North, Weather Report, Can, Tangerine Dream, Passport, Ange, Ozric Tentacles,Pink Floyd, Hawkwind, Melting Euphoria..........close to 2000 titles in all, 90+ % prog. The Shows: To name a few - Yes (10X), Moodies (4X), ELPalmer/Powell (3x), Genesis, Rundgren's Utopia, Stacastle, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd (3X) Dislikes: Hip-Hop/Rap, Death Metal, Country, Brittney/Madonna/Christina, etc... Can someone please help me determine whether I belong here or not? Thanks. ps.Hopefully this is not a repeated thread and if so, I apologize in advance. ------------- The moon is made by some lame cooper and you can see the idiot has no idea about moons at all - Nikolay Gogol |
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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: October 21 2005 at 09:49
^ it doesn't matter which albums you have or what shows you've been to. Just be ignorant and make fun of the music that you don't know or don't like, and soon people will deem you worthy of the title "prog elite". ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Mike" rel="nofollow">Recently listened to: 
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Posted By: Bob Greece
Date Posted: October 21 2005 at 09:55
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You're definitely prog elite but with Ivan's quote taken out of the context of the rest of the thread, it's difficult to work out what it was all about. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/BobGreece/?chartstyle=basicrt10">  |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: October 21 2005 at 09:58
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Can I join the elite? Or are dogs not allowed? ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Pafnutij
Date Posted: October 21 2005 at 10:01
| Can n00bs join? |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: October 21 2005 at 10:09
^ No way! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: October 21 2005 at 10:10
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Only if you don't use the AWP too often. ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Mike" rel="nofollow">Recently listened to:
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Posted By: yargh
Date Posted: October 21 2005 at 10:15
| Honestly, nobody who listens primarily to rock music (prog or otherwise) has any business considering themselves part of a "musical elite." |
Posted By: horza
Date Posted: October 21 2005 at 10:31
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i'm proggy lite ------------- Originally posted by darkshade: Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot. |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: October 21 2005 at 10:34
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Even after all those deep fried Mars bars? ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: horza
Date Posted: October 21 2005 at 10:37
^thats racist and i'm reporting you to Easy Livin (who also from Scotland) - be prepared for ejection - oggy oggy oggy  ------------- Originally posted by darkshade: Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot. |
Posted By: horza
Date Posted: October 21 2005 at 10:38
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------------- Originally posted by darkshade: Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot. |
Posted By: Bob Greece
Date Posted: October 21 2005 at 10:38
I've just realised that only the Collaborators are prog elite.  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/BobGreece/?chartstyle=basicrt10"> |
Posted By: horza
Date Posted: October 21 2005 at 10:40
not all collaborators are elite ------------- Originally posted by darkshade: Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot. |
Posted By: DEzerov
Date Posted: October 21 2005 at 10:41
How can I be prog elite if i'm not a collaborator ?
------------- The moon is made by some lame cooper and you can see the idiot has no idea about moons at all - Nikolay Gogol |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: October 21 2005 at 10:41
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How can we be elite if we only have 4 stars? ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Mike" rel="nofollow">Recently listened to:
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Posted By: Pafnutij
Date Posted: October 21 2005 at 11:05
Forgive me, but what is AWP? (I definitely have no more chance of joining the prog elite |
)Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: October 21 2005 at 11:08
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^ AWP is a sniper gun from the computer game Counter Strike: Source. People who use them too often (or in inappropriate situations) are often called n00bs (especially by people who got pwned by them The question is: What is the "AWP" of a prog n00b? I guess it's a combination of Yes/Genesis/King Crimson. ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Mike" rel="nofollow">Recently listened to:
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Posted By: rockandrail
Date Posted: October 21 2005 at 11:10
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In mathematics, an elite is a small number of data. Since "small" depend on the size of the original sample, supposing that the sample could be mankind, the prog elite is composed of all people posting in Prog archives. ------------- Pierre R, the man who lost his signature |
Posted By: DEzerov
Date Posted: October 21 2005 at 11:14
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I wonder where all of those who had definative positions on the "In defense of latter day Genesis" theads are...hmmmmmmmmmmmmm I thought for sure that they would be able to shed some light on this quintessntial subject. Maybe it's like Zen... Beyond, beyond, totally beyond, perfectly beyond  ooops...thats Hindu...................oh well.............close enuff ------------- The moon is made by some lame cooper and you can see the idiot has no idea about moons at all - Nikolay Gogol |
Posted By: horza
Date Posted: October 21 2005 at 11:33
yeah WE are the prog elite ...... oh and Snow Dog as well ------------- Originally posted by darkshade: Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot. |
Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: October 21 2005 at 12:45
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Sorry for the lenght of this post, but I have been quoted by DEzerov with bad intentions, because this is not my responsabilty. If you want to quote me DEzerov, do it, but completely in context not as if I was a stupid snob, I always stand on what I say and will always do, but you're trying to justify your anger because we had a civilized disagreement abiut Genesis, so there it goes: 1.- The term Prog Elite was mentioned for the first time in this post on October 20 2005 at 03:50 by RUSSELK Russelk Wrote:
Ok, so some members who dislike late Genesis were called "Prog elite" by Russell as if we were some kind of virus or plague that infests this site. I consider this post offensive, From Merrian Webster Dictionary:
so I replied instead of answering with any offense (As I believe many people will do), I answered in a civilized way on October 20 2005 at 20:49 this is one day after Russelk's post: I wrote:
If you look at my reply I say "SO CALLED PROG ELITE", this is a reply to an offensive post by Russelk, I never said anything offensive or replied with an insult, I just was sarcastic because I place two words before Prog Elite (A term that Russelk used one day before to attack me directly because he mentions my name directly as if I was a germ or a plague) and this words were SO CALLED. But DEzerov not only doesn't mentions Russelk's post but he mutilates mine to make people believe I am a stupid snob that consider myself part of an elite: DEzerov wrote:
So please, if you are going to quote me DEzerov, do it, I always stand for what I say, but never do it out of context mutilating posts to make me look a stupid and make fun out of me. I like intelligent discussions, I can debate with you whenever you want, but again don't take things out of context, this proves how weak your arguments are. If you have some traumas or you feel that you deserve to be a collaborator as you say later: DEzerov wrote:
Then call the administrators and ask for this, but don't blame me for what I never said. Iván ------------- 
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?Posted By: bluetailfly
Date Posted: October 21 2005 at 12:55
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It's no great achievemnet. Someone who can be classified as "Prog elite", I suppose, is someone who is deeply into prog, has been listening to it for many years, collects the music of various prog genres, reads about prog, knows how to discuss the genre intelligently with others of like mind. If you don't fit this definition, no big deal. But a lot of members of this website do (no surprise). I came, I saw, I progged. ------------- "The red polygon's only desire / is to get to the blue triangle." |
Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: October 21 2005 at 14:00
You're right Bluetailfly, we're all an elite because we represent only a small percentage of the music listening population, not more than 5% in the best of the cases, but we all know that's not what DEzerov tried to say. Dezerov was talking about elitism, as I suposedly said seems that we feel the best or the most intelligent listeners. Nothing can be so far from reality, all my family (except ,my mother) and 90% of my closest friends hate Prog' or can't understand it, and I believe most of them are very intelligent people. Dezerov's post caused agressive reactions in normally calmed members as MikeEnRegalia who said: MikeEnRegalia wrote:
And I don't blame Mike, because anybody who auto proclaims himself as an elite could be considered a snob (depending of the way in which you understand elite). Thanks God some members noticed what Dezerov did like: Bob Greece wrote:
So it's obvious what happened. In almost two years I am here I had strong but civilized discussions with many members including some of my best virtual friends as Peter or Easy Livin, and everybody is wittness that I never offended anybody. I can be stubborn (Well I am), I can consider Prog' as the best Rock genre (And I do), but never considered less intelligent any person that doesn't have the same musica taste that I have, because I would be offending my father, my sister and my girlfriend, all of them dislike Prog'. Asa fact if you read my posts I encourage people to have different tastes, I always said that a forum is a place for discussion and how in hell can you have an intelligent discussion with people who think exactly as you? If anybody wants to be with people who like exactly what you like, there are a lot of fan clubs, but a Forum is a place to discuss (of course with respect). That's all folks. Iván
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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: October 21 2005 at 14:12
I'm pretty sure that Dezerov's post was meant ironically, just as mine. Let's not over-dramatize this situation. Edit: I can understand why you're upset though ... being quoted out of context. Still, it is not that big a deal IMO. Edit2: Just in case that you were wondering: My statement marked in red was not directed at anyone in particular ... surely not you, I hadn't even noticed whom Dezerov was quoting. ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Mike" rel="nofollow">Recently listened to:
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: October 21 2005 at 14:25
Nor I.......I thought the wholething was intended to be rather humourus. It doesn't seem an offensive quote to me, but then again, it wsn't me being quoted! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: DEzerov
Date Posted: October 21 2005 at 14:38
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Guilty party here................ It was meant to be viewed as tongue in cheek. If folks are offended, I'm sorry.  If you enjoyed it, I'll buy you a beer sometime.......... Sometimes the whole Genesis debate becomes so cyclical and monotonous, that it needs a little....er twist......... I really wish to God that Steve and Peter had never left the band and that John had never met Yoko and Neal Morse hadn't switched over to CCM and that Cass Elliott had shared her ham sandwich with Karen Carpenter. Once again sorry to the appropriate party(ies) and thanks to those have supported me though these trying times. ------------- The moon is made by some lame cooper and you can see the idiot has no idea about moons at all - Nikolay Gogol |
Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: October 21 2005 at 15:00
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You owe me a beer DEzerov, but please not USA beer, it too soft. Iván Edit: Mike, I said I don't blame you, DEzerov, I don't believe you were offensive (never said it), but I was quoted out of context, I just recieved your PM and I get your point. But the post that started this was offensive, because saying that we infest this site is like calling us a plague. Things like this are part of a forum, but still I WANT MY BEER. Iván -------------
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Posted By: DEzerov
Date Posted: October 21 2005 at 15:05
One Cusqueña coming up, Amigo! ------------- The moon is made by some lame cooper and you can see the idiot has no idea about moons at all - Nikolay Gogol |
Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: October 21 2005 at 15:08
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Holy sh!t, you know about good and strong beer. I regret all I said, anybody who likes Cuzqueña can't be bad Iván -------------
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