AVATAR, AND WHY ?
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Topic: AVATAR, AND WHY ?
Posted By: aapatsos
Subject: AVATAR, AND WHY ?
Date Posted: December 14 2005 at 20:44
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Well I don't know if this thread has been here before I was just wondering why have you selected your avatar? is there sth special about it? mine is because I love Ancient Greece |
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Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: December 14 2005 at 20:47
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Quadrophenia by the Who. It's my favorite album. ------------- 
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Posted By: Arnold Layne
Date Posted: December 14 2005 at 20:48
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i saw it and liked it, thats all there is to it ------------- HELP! |
Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: December 14 2005 at 20:58
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My Favorite Album of all Time! CAUSE OF HOT AND SEXY GILDENLOW TOOO! |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: December 14 2005 at 21:07
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Why don't you come out of the closet already, Flossy?! ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: December 14 2005 at 21:08
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Anyway, mine varies, usually between prog albums I like. But now it's a nice sci-fi pic.
------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: AtLossForWords
Date Posted: December 14 2005 at 21:10
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Pseudo abstract art is my choice. I get the feeling Robert Fripp would really like my avatar. My signature is the amazing John Myung, because I'm a total Dream Theater fanboy, and he is my all-time bass idol. I know two albums plus of his matierial. -------------  
"Mastodon sucks giant monkey balls." |
Posted By: aapatsos
Date Posted: December 14 2005 at 21:42
BE is your favourite album of all times ? I think its a very good album, but my heart is dedicated to THE PERFECT (indeed) ELEMENT! |
King of Loss wrote:
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: December 14 2005 at 21:46
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Mine are usually Tool related.But I am a Star Wars freak and my favorite character is Boba Fett,so I have been using a Fett avatar for awhile. -------------  |
Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: December 14 2005 at 21:49
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Mine is because i love Rick Wakeman ------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: December 14 2005 at 22:46
I'm into Magma recently, so my avatar is a spinning Magma logo ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: GoldenSpiral
Date Posted: December 14 2005 at 22:51
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my avatar is Paz Lenchantin, bassist for A Perfect Circle. not a prog band, but she is a SERIOUS babe! here's a closeup:  another hot one:  man, she's a FOX! 
------------- http://www.myspace.com/altaic" rel="nofollow - http://www.myspace.com/altaic ALTAIC "Oceans Down You'll Lie" coming soon |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 00:04
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^^^^^ Yeah...I agree,Paz is pretty hot. She looks pretty fine in the APC video for the song "Judith". ------------- |
Posted By: tardis
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 00:16
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Mine is because I like Doctor Who. |
Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 00:40
| I change mine from time to time- usually bands or albums that I like |
Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 00:41
| ^Rush is my fav! |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 03:35
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< The immaculate 40 minutes that is Robin Trower's 'Bridge Of Sighs' ------------- 
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: NutterAlert
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 03:50
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Mr Hammill being silly with only half a beard in 1978 for cover of Future Now solo album I quite like Mr Hammill ------------- Proud to be an un-banned member since 2005 |
Posted By: Starette
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 05:09
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Mine is a changed (aqua-ed up) version of the Tarkus album- because I love Tarkus but I knew there were other people on here with that as their avatar. ------------- 50 tonne angel falls to the earth... |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 07:44
My avatar is Yes' Tales From Topographic Oceans (with a walrus in it Thanx, Miracle ) because it's one of my favorite covers of all time! Really beautiful ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 08:04
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I like cartoons, and Asterix is one of my favourite cartoon heroes. My last avatar before Asterix was a painting by Paul Whitehead, the guy who did early Genesis sleeves. Earlier on I used album sleeves I like, from Anthony Phillips, Eddie Jobson and Traffic. I started out with a Mondriaan painting (my first avatar). I just like to use images I like, and have to do with music or art that I like. |
Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 09:44
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I'm a big Magma fan, but other posters use or have used variants of their famous logo. My avatar is the cover of Christian Vander's solo album Wurdah Itah, which is a Magma album in all but name. It's also the second movement of the Theusz Hamtaahk (Time of Hatred) trilogy - Wurdah Itah means Dead Earth (as in the planet). ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: Deliriumist
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 09:50
I've got mine 'cause it's so stupid  ...not saying that I am. |
Posted By: JayDee
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 10:07
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coz its nearing christmas
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Posted By: Bob Greece
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 10:10
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My favourite band is Ozric Tentacles and my avatar is from their album "Live at the Pongmaster's Ball" because it has a really psychedelic cover. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/BobGreece/?chartstyle=basicrt10"> 
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Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 11:44
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I'm a HUGE motorsport fan and my avatar is of the Aston Martin DBR9 that won the Tourist Trophy at Silverstone in May (driven by David Brabham and Darren Turner). I was at the race and took the picture as the car came round the Abby hairpin bend. Gorgeous car ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
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Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 12:09
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To Watch The Storms...apart from being a superb album by the incredible Mr Steve Hackett,watching the storms seemed pretty apt for a moderator! |
Posted By: NutterAlert
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 12:16
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another moderator centric avatar
------------- Proud to be an un-banned member since 2005 |
Posted By: NutterAlert
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 12:25
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or maybe..
------------- Proud to be an un-banned member since 2005 |
Posted By: BitchBrew
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 12:36
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I was told to get an xmas avatar. and I did!
------------- The Mars Volta, Mike Patton, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, Liquid Tension Experiment |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 13:11
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something related to space...
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Posted By: aapatsos
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 13:50
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most of their covers are great, psychedelic and weird |
Posted By: horza
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 13:55
I love Sci-Fi and fantasy and my avatars reflect that usually  ------------- Originally posted by darkshade: Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot. |
Posted By: aapatsos
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 13:59
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LOOKS LIKE GIGGER ART, DOESN'T IT ? |
Posted By: Zac M
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 14:01
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I just changed mine from a marvelous picture of the great Karl Jenkins
to Klaus Schulze's album X, by far one of the best eletronic albums I
have heard to date.
------------- "Art is not imitation, nor is it something manufactured according to the wishes of instinct or good taste. It is a process of expression." -Merleau-Ponty |
Posted By: horza
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 14:08
thats right ------------- Originally posted by darkshade: Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot. |
Posted By: Trotsky
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 14:14
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Mine was a spinning hammer and sickle for awhile ... but it's been a picture of a grave injustice that occured at a football match between Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United for quite some time now
------------- "Death to Utopia! Death to faith! Death to love! Death to hope?" thunders the 20th century. "Surrender, you pathetic dreamer.” "No" replies the unhumbled optimist "You are only the present." |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 14:20
| My avatar is an orange M&M dressed as Emperor Palpatine from Star Wars. My sons bought loads of these while we were on holiday in Florida. |
Posted By: Wilcey
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 14:31
| I change my avatar from time to time, sometimes it reflects an album that I am listening to heavily, right now it is a picure of some of my tattoo on my back, that I took over my shoulder through a mirror! |
Posted By: horza
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 14:36
or rather - it did!! ------------- Originally posted by darkshade: Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot. |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 14:41
That is very apt,Tony ------------- |
Posted By: Empathy
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 15:15
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Why, shameless self promotion, of course!
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 18:33
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: December 18 2005 at 02:42
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What can be better than a lightbulb??? And it will never change ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: December 18 2005 at 02:44
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: December 18 2005 at 02:47
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------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: December 18 2005 at 02:53
I think the guest group should have a common avatar...like or  -------------
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: December 18 2005 at 02:56
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The last one ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: December 18 2005 at 03:00
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right on!
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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: December 18 2005 at 03:04
new options -------------
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: December 18 2005 at 03:10
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The fuse one looks good to me ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: December 18 2005 at 05:00
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yeah,that's a good way to represent our angry and pissed off members who got carried away...
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: December 18 2005 at 10:13
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Personally, I'm rather fond of my Avatar... ....Eloy Rock The Celestial Heavens!!! ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: The Wizard
Date Posted: December 18 2005 at 10:24
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Piper at the Gates of Dawn is my favorite album of all time. -------------  
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Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: December 18 2005 at 11:16
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My avatar is from the Bear In The Big Blue House... Why? I have no idea...  ------------- 
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Posted By: ClemofNazareth
Date Posted: December 18 2005 at 11:32
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ditto for me ------------- "Peace is the only battle worth waging." Albert Camus |
Posted By: proger
Date Posted: December 18 2005 at 11:51
its my dog 
------------- ...live for tomorrow... |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: December 18 2005 at 12:15
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^^^ he looks as if he's the man eating type... ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Moatilliatta
Date Posted: December 18 2005 at 12:28
| I chose the album cover art for Frances the Mute, because I love it. |