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Points: 1125 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 21 2008 at 18:52

Three Fates  how the hell are you? Not on here much these days but when I see your name it brings back memories of three  years ago when we posted frequently.Hope you are ok and still listening to great music,remember Anderson is King and not Greg.
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I'm trying silence for a while, so I can make more profound comparisons later on ...
"Here I am talking to some of the smartest people in the world and I didn't even notice,” Lieutenant Columbo, episode The Bye-Bye Sky-High I.Q. Murder Case.
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Points: 130 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 21 2008 at 07:42
Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:



I hate to be blunt (that is a lie), but you have 25 posts: do you really think your presence on this site warrants a DRAMATIC GOODBYE thread?




Look, if it's good enough in the Queen Vic so it's good enough for here!
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Well I've completed my dry run and nothing is going in my favour. This pretty much sums up how I feel right now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlkzrmQdUkI 
 
He's getting Celine Christmas music too. I didn't think of that. Gotta take the dogs for their morning run then get some sleep.
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Nothing that's supposedly "prog" that isn't late-60's or early-to-mid-70's ever satisfied me. Retro used to clog-up my music library, but no longer!

I'm still on the look-out for things from those eras that I haven't heard yet, but I'll stick with my Genesis for now. Approve
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I have abuddy with me who thinks I can't listen to Celine Dion for 24 hours cranked on the headphones ( with bathroom breaks). $100 bet. It's going to be a tough run. We start tomorrow evening. It's going to be filmed.
 
This is an edit. as I said we will film this. It will be like an angler fighting with a prize Marlin. One hour into the fight. 3 hours into the fight sort of thing. I've shook hands on this one but I'm not sure whether I'm up to the test. This will be a test of endurance.  It is going to be pure living hell. Like an SAS candidate doing the fan dance on the Brecon Beacons. I am honestly NOT looking forward to this. One of the dumbest bets I've ever made. I'll be allowed to drink when this is all going on but not that it will help me through the horror. The lousy $100 will be donated to the Canadian SPCA to help get rid of the  puppy mills that we have a problem with here in Quebec. A publicity stunt of sorts. It'll be on youtube. My buddies are allowed to taunt me and say thigs like, " had enough? ". I have to go into seclusion to prepare as Erik goes to HMV to get the discs when it opens this morning.


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Prog is like the fine cuisines that we sometimes only delve into and experience for stints at a time. Everything else is like the poor-man's fine dining such as Mc Donald's and Wendy's.
 
Sure it's great to eat the junk food sometimes because it;s a quick fix, you don'ty have to wait for it, and it;s cheap so the conveniance is the main appeal. But after awhile of eating Pizza Hut for the upteenth time, you're gonna start craving the truly good meals again. That's when you go back into it and wondery why you could have ever left . . . until the next time, of course.
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Originally posted by darksideof darksideof wrote:

Don't worry you will come back...
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You can't get away from Prog...LOL


For like a year once I basically stopped listening to prog and listened to 60's and 70's hard rock and 80's and 90's heavy metal. While I still love Zeppelin, Metallica, and Iron Maiden, prog found me again. You can't escape from prog (coming from experience).

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I have now abandoned the Neo(lithic) phase of my music appreciation. I am now moved on to more mature music Neo-nderthal. These musicians stood for something. Like standing on two legs.
That and they were Europeen, and we all know that some of the good prog music eventually came from there.
My currrent research is whether there was a coming together of this genre with the Sapien-Symphonic movement where a bunch of guys would howl & grunt  together for long time periods, thereby being the first un-recorded occasion of Avant-Garde music, and a precursor to the Symphonic prog we all know and admit is passe today.
"Here I am talking to some of the smartest people in the world and I didn't even notice,” Lieutenant Columbo, episode The Bye-Bye Sky-High I.Q. Murder Case.
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Points: 4900 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 19 2008 at 23:15
Originally posted by KingBarbarossa KingBarbarossa wrote:

Originally posted by p0mt3 p0mt3 wrote:

This guy's making a big announcement out of the fact that he is going through a different phase right now musically? Really? I thought he was going to say that the governments of all the countries were ordering all prog records outlawed, and shjooting prog-heads on site, or something. "Farewell to Prog Rock"? More like "I'm in a classical mood at the moment, so I'll be hanging out here less". TongueWink

 
I once had a friend like this. One week he would proclaim that Tool were the best musicians in the world, then the next week he was selling all of his tool shirts and he started listening to hardcore metal. Why do these types of people feel like they can only enjoy one style of music at a time? I've never understood it.
 
 
Maybe it's just me . . . ? I'll go now . . . *slunks away*



i think you did not quite read my original post and the the follow-up which is a little further down in the thread.  :-)

i guess for many people there are "phases" and i have mine too. but i did not write about a phase. it is about the journey of discovering one own's truth, delving deeper into your own being, finding more about who you are.
nor did i say i would have lost any level of appreciation for other styles. it really is not about a style...

 
I was just having fun with ya. Never meant for my comment to be serious. Wink
 
Having said that. I suppose I didn't read your follow-up reply after all, or else I probably would have been an even bigger smart-ass about it Tongue.
 
I'll try to be more observant next time, though. Sorry for jumping to conclusions.
 
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Originally posted by p0mt3 p0mt3 wrote:

This guy's making a big announcement out of the fact that he is going through a different phase right now musically? Really? I thought he was going to say that the governments of all the countries were ordering all prog records outlawed, and shjooting prog-heads on site, or something. "Farewell to Prog Rock"? More like "I'm in a classical mood at the moment, so I'll be hanging out here less". TongueWink

 
I once had a friend like this. One week he would proclaim that Tool were the best musicians in the world, then the next week he was selling all of his tool shirts and he started listening to hardcore metal. Why do these types of people feel like they can only enjoy one style of music at a time? I've never understood it.
 
 
Maybe it's just me . . . ? I'll go now . . . *slunks away*



i think you did not quite read my original post and the the follow-up which is a little further down in the thread.  :-)

i guess for many people there are "phases" and i have mine too. but i did not write about a phase. it is about the journey of discovering one own's truth, delving deeper into your own being, finding more about who you are.
nor did i say i would have lost any level of appreciation for other styles. it really is not about a style...
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This guy's making a big announcement out of the fact that he is going through a different phase right now musically? Really? I thought he was going to say that the governments of all the countries were ordering all prog records outlawed, and shjooting prog-heads on site, or something. "Farewell to Prog Rock"? More like "I'm in a classical mood at the moment, so I'll be hanging out here less". TongueWink

 
I once had a friend like this. One week he would proclaim that Tool were the best musicians in the world, then the next week he was selling all of his tool shirts and he started listening to hardcore metal. Why do these types of people feel like they can only enjoy one style of music at a time? I've never understood it.
 
 
Maybe it's just me . . . ? I'll go now . . . *slunks away*
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Points: 7826 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 19 2008 at 17:41
Prog is like Chuck Norris. It will always find you, and then roundhouse kick you in the balls!!LOLLOLLOLLOL

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Points: 10841 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 19 2008 at 16:37
Originally posted by debrewguy debrewguy wrote:

Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

^WHOSE ego Db?


Those who feel the need to announce that they have left and why they went, including why they came back and had to tell us, after they noticed no one noticed.


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Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

^WHOSE ego Db?


Those who feel the need to announce that they have left and why they went, including why they came back and had to tell us, after they noticed no one noticed.
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Points: 3596 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 19 2008 at 15:32
Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

Originally posted by debrewguy debrewguy wrote:

I've decided to leave my prog rock & rock music collections aside for ever. I will now listen exclusively to the music from which all music has sprouted from - yes Neo-lithic (not neo prog) music. After stumbling upon some articles re : the earliest noted compostions on rock wood and head, I have found that nothing that came after that satisfies that primal need all primates have.
So attached to this now & never ever  non-existant music that if  I could, I would start a pre-historic archives, but due to the nature of pre-history, there is nothing to archive.
So once I have nothing included on the site, I would, for all intents and purposes, have everything ever released or written about this primieval music.
So it is with glee in my eye, and beer in my stein that I bid you all a dollar for your thoughts, and hope that someday we can find out the name of the ape who wrote that first note, and how long it took them to find all but that one lost chord.
Ah, so much to do, and so little to do it with ....


you could make some recordings of how it may have sounded and release it as Neolithic Gold; " includes the hits 'Earthworm For Your Thoughts', 'Rock You, Rock Me', and 'Leaves & Stuff' "




Well , I've been doing a lot of googling to see if I can't find any sheet music for " Aaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrghhhh!",
"Xengbutergin", and perhaps the first hit single "ow my head".
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Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

Originally posted by Alucard Alucard wrote:

the other day I read an article about this guy who had the biggest collection of PEZ dispensers in the world ...remember these funny sweet dispensers with a Micky mouse head and he is organizing  PEZ conventioins all over the world and he is spending all his sparetime going to sales etc to enlargen his collection...I was quite amused and thinking about a cross convention of PROG and PEZ fanatics which could obviously result in a new PEZ series with Prog greats like the Ruth Underwood PEZ or the Christian Vander dispenser etc... I am disgressing, the thing is as long as you feel passionate  for something.....


Shocked Shudders at the thought of a small plastic replica Steve Howe head flipping back to offer a small tart candy...
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try to imagine instead a Phil Collins dispenser singig every time  you flip his head back "Killing Me Softly With More Fool Me"...wouldn't that be terrific....Big smile
 
 
 
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Points: 6898 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 19 2008 at 04:30
I say let's pass around a hat for the guy's Celine Dion fund. She won't certainly . She only made 90 million dollars this year. Maybe we should pass around a hat for her?

Edited by Vibrationbaby - December 19 2008 at 04:31
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Originally posted by Alucard Alucard wrote:

the other day I read an article about this guy who had the biggest collection of PEZ dispensers in the world ...remember these funny sweet dispensers with a Micky mouse head and he is organizing  PEZ conventioins all over the world and he is spending all his sparetime going to sales etc to enlargen his collection...I was quite amused and thinking about a cross convention of PROG and PEZ fanatics which could obviously result in a new PEZ series with Prog greats like the Ruth Underwood PEZ or the Christian Vander dispenser etc... I am disgressing, the thing is as long as you feel passionate  for something.....


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Points: 153 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 19 2008 at 03:05
I too had my classical phase and had a period of classical discoveries and built an impressive collection, but always went back to prog..I even dabbled in world music most specifically african which i find to be very energetic, melodic, richly varied and powerful, but again found my way back to prog easily,..(how can I not listening to the intro of poseidon creation, or discovering many great new bands and music??)..see the thing with most progsters is, unlike fans of different genres, we tend to appreciate and enjoy other  music..I still occasionally listen to classical, african , some jazz and other genres but deep down i will always be a progster..  
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