Tulips & Ayreon

A very goodday to all of you from the land with export-products like tulips, wooden shoes & Ayreon!

Well, this is about introducing me, so I'll just begin.
Age: 22
Bands I really, really like: Dream Theater, Opeth, Pain of Salvation, Pink Floyd, Ayreon.
You see that I'm not really that much into prog as every man needs to be! The main reason for that is that 1. I'm a student and can't buy all the albums I want and 2. I listen to various other artists/music styles, like: jazz, blues(rock) metal and so on.

The reason for registering here is that I never even knew about this site (whoops!), and this is exactly what I need to start to listen more prog! See you all around!

Welcome & Enjoy

Welcome, fellow Dutchman, I hope you like the interview I did with Ayreon, I published it a month ago on this site. If you need advise, let me know, I love to give recommendations because when I started to know more about progrock I was pleased myself with some help.

Welkom, another Dutchie !!

Empathy wrote: Welcome! I desperately need to visit your country.

Don't tell me you want to because of all the softdrugs we got here....
('cause we've got loads of other stuff: harddrugs, special suburbs with a prostitute for everyone etc. etc.)

Man Made God wrote: Empathy wrote: Welcome! I desperately need to visit your country. Don't tell me you want to because of all the softdrugs we got here.... ('cause we've got loads of other stuff: harddrugs, special suburbs with a prostitute for everyone etc. etc.)

It's more than that. Everything I've heard about The Netherlands strikes me as very enlightened. Your cultural (even government subsidized) appreciation of the arts , your accomodation and willingness to do commerce, the overarching preference of reason over religous fundamentalism...

I could go on and on. I'm sure it's got its problems like any other country, but I'd love to experience it for myself.

Empathy wrote: Man Made God wrote: Empathy wrote: Welcome! I desperately need to visit your country. Don't tell me you want to because of all the softdrugs we got here.... ('cause we've got loads of other stuff: harddrugs, special suburbs with a prostitute for everyone etc. etc.) It's more than that. Everything I've heard about The Netherlands strikes me as very enlightened. Your cultural (even government subsidized) appreciation of the arts , your accomodation and willingness to do commerce, the overarching preference of reason over religous fundamentalism... I could go on and on. I'm sure it's got its problems like any other country, but I'd love to experience it for myself.

Well, I can only imagine how you think of our country. We ofcourse think of it as absolutely normal, and we just start bitching when the government buys a culturally interesting painting of about 35 million euro's.

Maybe we can do some sort of exchange project . I've been to the States two times, and can't wait to go there again!

Man Made God wrote: Well, I can only imagine how you think of our country. We ofcourse think of it as absolutely normal, and we just start bitching when the government buys a culturally interesting painting of about 35 million euro's. Maybe we can do some sort of exchange project . I've been to the States two times, and can't wait to go there again!

Yeah, I'm sure I'm romanticizing somewhat about how things are over there. Looking at things through "tulip-colored glasses", if you will.

It's always good sport to bitch about your government, that's what government is for, isn't it?

Wow.

Yeah, that is somewhat reminiscent of some kind of eye exam...

Welcome Fellow Dutchie!!!

I'm a great Ayreon fan, too. And of Opeth. And of Pink Floyd. Etc!

Enjoy yourself over here!