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Topic ClosedDo you have experience in a prog band?
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Poll Question: If so how many years have you been playing your instrument?
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I was in a metal band a while back (a combination of Metallica, Zeppelin, and Iron Maiden sound, with song structures like Yes). It was kind of prog, and we only made one album with a bunch of stray songs. I'm just writing music and recording it solo. It's not professional at all. Keyboard drums, and a cheap piano sound. But at least in a new band, I can show them my demos.

I was in a (kind of) prog band, but can't say I am now.

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I played in a prog-leaning heavy rock band for about 3 years. Probably the high point of that band was playing "Villa Strangiato." I gave up trying to reproduce Lifeson's solos note-for-note but I followed his themes. But that was a lesson in learning to feel odd time signatures, especially for our drummer at the time who didn't read a lick of music. Another fun one was Faith No More's "Zombie Eaters" which went over not suprisingly very poorly.
 
Best non-prog song to play ever is "War Pigs." I loved playing that song. 
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oh man sounds like a blast! I can imagine their faces!
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Been playing piano for 9 years now, and I've played with too many bands, some of them progressive. One of my most vivid memories is of when I played Sheep - Pink Floyd with a progressive influenced band, and the third time we played it live I got so bored of the song that I went off on a mad solo of my own at the beginning Great fun for me, but you can imagine the other bandmates' feelings at that moment
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Ugh... Its like the twillight zone of pollsConfused
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Which one? A guitar for 18 yrs, bass for 11 years, keyboards for 9 years. I'm a virtuoso of mediocrity, and quite proud of it.Emoticons
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Originally posted by cacho cacho wrote:

Originally posted by missiongonewrong missiongonewrong wrote:

yeah i really have no idea why the poll isnt working    AngryBroken Heart


It's because your thread has been moved to Music & Musicians Exchange, and in there, there's no availability of creating polls.


Well that was a D**k move.
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Originally posted by missiongonewrong missiongonewrong wrote:

yeah i really have no idea why the poll isnt working    AngryBroken Heart


It's because your thread has been moved to Music & Musicians Exchange, and in there, there's no availability of creating polls.
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Like Ivan, I play in a cover band, which covers easy Prog(Prog-Related too) tunes: Pink Floyd classics, Deep Purple, Pescado Rabioso, Led Zeppelin, Spinetta..

But these are my first 3 months, so I can't vote.
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yeah i really have no idea why the poll isnt working    AngryBroken Heart
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I don't have experience in anything.
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8+ years experience on instrument when I was with a prog-related band.

8 years experience on other instrument but for classical and some jazz, no prog rock.
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dude, same here, that's because it requires you to have experience in the prog band. Read the poll question: "If so how many years have you been playing your instrument?"

But, how does it know that I don't have experience in a prog band? And how about a prog vocalist who doesn't play instruments?
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How come I can't vote in this poll?
Others have had the same thing on other polls in the past, but as far as I've noticed, this is the first time it's happened to me.
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I playing in one now Myrid Reflektion.

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I had to leave the drums to study in the university full time.
 
Used to play in a semi pro band, we did mainly covers of semi Prog bands like STYX.
 
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Just wondering for personal reasons...Star
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