In dog years?

2/3 isn't bad. 

 

I'll be 63 in about a week.......excuse me while I take my pills before bedtime.

 

I see no "rolly eye" ... I see a couple of "erms" ... in the space of nine years you have changed your tune from thinking we're all mainly a youthful bunch to thinking we're all a bit on the old side ... I find the idea that we've aged so much in 9 years to be very amusing, so I rofl'd. 

The last prog festival I went to was indeed filled with people who look exactly like me, and the last prog gig I attended was also filled to capacity with people who look exactly like me. Neither of these observations are surprising as headline at the festival was Asia and the capacity gig was for The Enid - both attract an older demographic for numerous reasons. I suspect the gigs and festivals you attend are also those that attract a more elderly clientèle because the attendees are mainly of the older generation. The only modern Prog gigs I tend to go to are Prog Metal, there the audience is considerably younger and I'm one of the few exceptions at those giggles who needs a bit of a sit down mid-way through the set to rest from all that head-bunging. Gig attendance demographics do not necessarily reflect the true picture of the demographic that buys the CDs or downloads the music - there are prog fans who never attend live concerts and there are those whose interest fades during the bit of a band's set when they stop playing their greatest hits to air a new song so chose that moment to take a pee-break or another trip to the bar. We've already seen from other threads and polls that many of the PA members of the younger set are well versed in the older prog scene, and while not as prevalent, there are some of us geriatrics who are up to speed on the modern Prog and Prog Metal scenes; few of us like to be pigeon-holed and this is probably why we dig Prog.

Generalisations are tricky things, you have to consider all the factors involved and ensure that you are comparing apples with apples.  

I never would have guessed you were 59 

What you are polling is not the whole demographics of Prog Fans, but a sample demographic of Prog Fans who have time to waste on an internet forum that can be bothered to click a button.

*sigh*

2. Your previous previous thread was " http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=11315" rel="nofollow - How old are Prog Archive members? " which is exactly quite the same thing.

3. For the last time - I couldn't give a flying fart what your motives are - I found your previous previous thread because I was looking for older threads on the same subject to see if the membership demographic had changed over the years (it seems we've all been here too long and just gotten 10 years older). As I said it's nothing sinister and I haven't the desire nor wit to "keeps tabs on you" - you're really not that interesting and fast becoming even less interesting.

4. On finding that you had asked the same question 9 years ago but starting from an opposing presumption I thought was amusing - so I laughed - how sour do you have to be to not find that amusing? If that shames you then that's not my effing fault.

It's certainly an old poll so the three people who voted "other" probably hadn't discovered Australia either.

 As an example my son in law doesn't really listen to prog even though I have tried my best and he's 31. My other son in law 32 doesn't listen to prog either and my daughter's ex  husband who is 34 listens to some prog and heavy metal but not really to old or new prog bands per se.

The only people I know in person who listen to all kinds of prog are all about 50  and older.

 

 

Not quite sure what you mean, can you remember what your were listening at 4? A Show Of Hands is from 1989, that's 25 years ago so if you are 32 now things do not add up, you were at least 7 when you heard it for the first time.

it might've NOT been '89 when he first heard (or seen) it

I think you win.