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Topic: friends
Posted By: atomicbomb
Subject: friends
Date Posted: June 12 2005 at 13:03
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so....i dont don't know if it because im too young(15) but my friends, i mean 99% of them ignore the meaning of prog...they do listen to blink 182 yeah i know it sad......i do try to respect their musical taste but it so hard... please make a coment if want to add something;.... |
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: June 12 2005 at 14:24
I know very few people who like Prog within my daily life.. which is why I sneak onto here!! ------------- 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: abyssyinfinity
Date Posted: June 12 2005 at 14:43
I'm very lucky, a lot of friend of mine love prog (women too...) 
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Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: June 12 2005 at 16:27
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A dork on amazon.com said that Avril Lavigne was more heavy than Iron Maiden and Dream Theater, and that the guitar players on the Avril Lavigne album was better than John Petrucci!
That being said, i know some people that enjoy prog and i have a friend that loves it!
------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: kirklott
Date Posted: June 12 2005 at 16:40
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Dude, you need to have "mix of the above." Of my male friends, some think I'm loony for liking prog, but some love it and dig it when I turn them on. My wife has a tough time with prog, from Jon Anderson's voice to the general "busyness" of prog, although she had an epiphany when we saw Yes perform Close to the Edge at Red Rocks last year. Prior girlfriends stayed far away from prog, except for my high school girlfriend, who liked Yes. In fact, Going for the One, specifically Awaken, was the soundtrack to a "major life event" that took place at the age of 17. ------------- "Progressive rock is the key to the continuance of human evolution." - Charles Darwin |
Posted By: NetsNJFan
Date Posted: June 12 2005 at 18:09
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all my friends listen to Rap/Hip Hop
may God have mercy on their souls. ------------- 
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: June 13 2005 at 04:59
| I've got four (Dutch) friends who are really into prog. Even though I live in Belgium now, we meet quite a lot, and let each other listen to our newest cd's, and we visit concerts together. Next planned concert with my friends: Van der Graaf in july, yes!!!!! |
Posted By: the dragon
Date Posted: June 13 2005 at 05:16
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My next concert is this evening: VdGG at Central Tennis Court - Rome 21.00 (GMT+2). Yuuuuu!!! ------------- Still alive... |
Posted By: spectral
Date Posted: June 13 2005 at 08:04
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my group of friends and I are all into the same music. pretty fortunate really, as we get to share music we've found. we also have prog evenings where we chat, drink, smoke with prog playing on the stereo. ------------- "...misty halos made visible by the spectral illumination of moonshine." |
Posted By: Valarius
Date Posted: June 13 2005 at 09:23
| "They like Blink 182 (Why are they my friends again?)." |
Posted By: Borealis
Date Posted: June 13 2005 at 20:32
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Well, I got friends in all the categories above, but most of them are in 'their pop affected minds cant understand it'. They run away when I put on Tago Mago... ------------- Vive le Québec libre!... |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: June 13 2005 at 21:54
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Many of my friends don't know it. Those who do semi-like it. There is one however that loves it. ------------- 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: Guests
Date Posted: June 13 2005 at 23:26
Most of them like it My woman likes it
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Posted By: Mr. Krinkle
Date Posted: June 14 2005 at 03:16
| Some of them love it, some like it, some do not get it but dont dislike it, and a few hate it. |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: June 14 2005 at 08:24
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The Dragon wrote: My next concert is this evening: VdGG at Central Tennis Court - Rome 21.00 (GMT+2). Yuuuuu!!! My response: And, was it good? Had a good time? A friend of mine saw them in London, and he was very impressed. You had your concert, mine is still coming. Yuuu! |
Posted By: Trotsky
Date Posted: June 14 2005 at 08:54
I don't think it's much to do with age, Atomic Bomb ... I'm 32 and most
of them haven't got a clue ... when I was 15 I was into early Queen,
Led Zep, Black Sabbath and Uriah Heep ... most of my friends and
classmates were into either Stock, Aitken Waterman, Paula Abdul,
Roxette and even worse, a bunch of hair rock imitators like Bon Jovi,
Guns'N'Roses, Motley Crue, Whitesnake, Poison, etc ... imagine what
it's like being surrounded by people who are convinced hair rock is way
better than Sabbath, Heep and Zeppelin ...  Heep of sh*t, they used to say ... come to think of it, I can't remember why they were my friends 
------------- "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: bogdan.
Date Posted: June 14 2005 at 18:10
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They do not have any taste, so do not waste your time by understanding their taste of music
------------- GATHER ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles to-day To-morrow will be dying. Carpe Diem! |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: June 16 2005 at 09:49
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As far as I'm aware they hate it. We dont discuss it that much. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: The Prognaut
Date Posted: June 16 2005 at 18:21
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Definitely, item number 1!
------------- break the circle reset my head wake the sleepwalker and i'll wake the dead |
Posted By: Yanns
Date Posted: June 16 2005 at 18:26
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For my friends, I can say a sentence like "Well, the kind of music I like is progressive rock." and they will only understand the words "the" and "rock." Well, all kidding aside, they aren't stupid. I do have intelligent friends. But they don't know about progressive rock. |
Posted By: Starette
Date Posted: June 16 2005 at 19:22
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Unfortunately I was the type of person to not know what it IS till a couple of weeks ago. Now...I'm hooked. When my mate told me "I believe the best year in the history of music was 1967." all I could do was mock him about wanting to dance with a bunch of short-haired Go-go girls. Now, however, I can see exactly where he's coming from..and all I can say is . I never thought 60s/70s music could be this good, nor did I think thered be anyone from our generation who would still appreciate it. It's so Great!! ------------- 50 tonne angel falls to the earth... |
Posted By: Arsillus
Date Posted: June 16 2005 at 19:23
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It's horrible I tell you! HORRIBLE!! Yes my friends, a 7 minute song CAN be interesting! |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: June 17 2005 at 20:07
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my friends think a 5 minute song is long so i told them the longest song i've heard is Six Degrees of Inner Turbulance at 43 minutes long they just stared... (it's either jazz or Metallica or the theme song from "Metal Gear Solid" for them) ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: Scrambled_Eggs
Date Posted: June 17 2005 at 21:33
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Most of my friends are intellectuals like myself, so they listen to a lot of 70s music. Yes and Floyd are really the only prog bands they like, but they are aware of the genre and respect it, though it's not their cup of tea. ------------- And I am not frightened of dying, any time will do, I don't mind. Why should I be frightened of dying? There's no reason for it, you've gotta go sometime. I never said I was frightened of dying. |
Posted By: Starette
Date Posted: June 18 2005 at 02:18
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Aaah intellectuals. If only they werent found *just* at the Universities in this country. (not that I'm ever away from the Univeristy- it's kinda become my home.) That's New Zealand for you I suppose. ------------- 50 tonne angel falls to the earth... |
Posted By: AcostaFulano
Date Posted: June 18 2005 at 10:12
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Each time I try to introduce a prog song to a friend it's the same story... He/She listens for one minute, and with a bored expression, he/she says: "can we put blink 182 or simpleplan"?? AAAAARGHHHHHHH makes me sick LOL |
Posted By: Starette
Date Posted: June 19 2005 at 20:48
ARRRGH!! SIMPLE PLAN!! MY EARS!!!!!!!!!!  ------------- 50 tonne angel falls to the earth... |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: June 19 2005 at 21:08
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Most of my friends have never heard of any of the bands that I listen to,and most of them don't really like what they hear.Poor dumb bastards. -------------  |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: June 19 2005 at 23:43
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Who are Blink 182? I never heard that name before.
-------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: Forgotten Son
Date Posted: June 20 2005 at 07:44
| I got a couple of friends into Marillion, that's about as far as it went. Though they love Pink Floyd. |
Posted By: felixxx
Date Posted: June 20 2005 at 13:38
| They can't understand this music and rock generaly! |
Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: June 21 2005 at 01:38
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they like blink 182 (why are they my friends again?) and greenday....and good charlotte......and the used.....and much more... ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
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..Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: June 23 2005 at 21:11
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If your friends listen to sh!t music, what got you into prog? For me it was my dad. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: rushlady2112
Date Posted: June 23 2005 at 23:20
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My one older brother and his friends were my main influences that got me into Prog. I always loved hard rock - Rush, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Zeppelin - as well as "mainstream" prog like Pink Floyd, ELP, Yes, Genesis (when I say "mainstream" I don't mean it as an insult - means more like radio-friendly and well-known). Then I started liking other bands like Spock's Beard, Marillion, Magellan, Ozric Tentacles, and Dream Theater. Most of my friends know of prog and respect it, they just don't have the mindset for it. ------------- The more that things change, the more they stay the same. If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. |
Posted By: Amon
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 04:18
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Most of them like prog aswell as metal or even better, the comination of those like in Psychotic Waltz, Voivod and such bands. ------------- Reinvent the wheel |
Posted By: Starette
Date Posted: June 25 2005 at 08:18
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Heh- I only have one friend who's into prog and that's my boyfriend who got me into it in the first place...it would be kool if my Dad was into it too..but Nooooooo. 20s-50s jazz for him- bing crosby and bille holiday all over the place. I was traumatised since birth. ------------- 50 tonne angel falls to the earth... |
Posted By: Dream Theater
Date Posted: June 26 2005 at 14:13
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