You Know You're A Prog Addict When...

If someone mentions a band you have never heard of, you find it physically impossible not to google them.

When you speak Kobian in your sleep.

When you wish your girlfriend grew a beard and wore a cape.

When the voice in your head sounds like Bob Harris.

You lose interest in an album if you understand all the vocabulary used in the tracklist.

Don't know if this has been posted yet, but you know you're a Prog addict (or just deranged) when you break into church to play "Close to the Edge" on the organ.

When you want to learn to play at least 3-4 different instruments in hopes of being more like the members of Gentle Giant.

Spying a colleague/friend getting on your train/bus, you turn away and pretend not to see them so you can get back to The Willing Well.

Dean wrote: When after a rainstorm you see a rainbow and look for the heartbeat in the green stripe   When you hear a concert orchestra play the Firebird Suite and feel let down when they don't segue into Siberian Khatru.   When a friend or work colleague tries to impress you by mentioning the name of an obscure guitarist and you list three other bands he also played in.   When you hear The Land Of Make Believe on the radio and proceed to tell everyone in ear-shot that Peter Sinfield wrote that, then look puzzled as to why no one knows what you are on about.   When you spray paint your motorcycle crash helmet in the style of Roger Dean. ()   When you sing along to songs in a language you don't understand.   When you start thinking that From Genesis .... To Revelations sounds a bit proggy, kind of... nearly.   When you start thinking the A Trick Of The Tail sounds a bit poppy, kind of... nearly.   When you hear a song on the radio and think... "that needs more melotron".   When you giggle if a forty-something couple introduces their daughter to you as Kaliegh (and you think ... "more like Grendel if you ask me")   When you can forgive Pain Of Salvation for Scarsick.   When you have duplicate copies of vinyls because you wore out the originals.   When you buy an album because you like the cover art.   When you buy another copy of an album because it has a different cover to the one you already own.   When a guitarist walks on stage and your heart sinks because he's only got one guitar with him.   When you see a theremin on stage and think "Aye-aye, we're in for a good night"   When you remove an easy chair from your living room to make room for another 4 CD racks.   When the wife says "it's either those damn records or me" ... and you hesitate.   When you visit a garishly purple website looking for a Spanish prog band whose CD you heard playing in a tapas bar and never leave,   When you type "Gong" into Wikipedia and feel disappointed that the "This article is about the musical instrument." page loads.   When you audibly cheer when the BBC uses Tangerine Dream or Sigur Ros as incidental music in a TV programme.   When you can remember seeing Gryphon on the kids TV programme Magpie in the 1970s (and Oldfield on Blue Peter and Tiswas).   When you draw around the rims of your CDs in green marker (see below)   When you assume that all audiophiles listen to Prog (see above)   When you organise your CD collection by sub-genre, then alphabetically by artist, then chronologically by album.   When you can't understand why Apple put "shuffle" on their iPlods.   When you only buy "Greatest Hits..." CDs when they have tracks you've never heard of.   When you complain because a band cannot replicate a studio album live, then complain when they do.   When dressing up to go out to an important function, you put a clean band shirt on.   When you bought a needlework stitch unpicker specifically for removing the shrink-wrap from CDs.   When you call one of your possesions "Meurglys".

...When you draw the Yes logo so many times in your notebook your classmate just shouts: "Yes What!?"

and when you make a simple playlist and its 40+ hours long...

RIREINC wrote: ...When you draw the Yes logo so many times in your notebook your classmate just shouts: "Yes What!?" and when you make a simple playlist and its 40+ hours long...

...and there are only three songs on it.

you know you´re a prog addict when...



-- you open the eyes in the morning and you put your headphones on... and after listen a few songs you put your headphones off and you realize 1 - 2 hours have passed since you woke up.


---you go to sleep early because you have something to do tomorrow... but once you are in bed you put your headphones on... and after listen a few songs you put your headphones off and you realize 1 - 2 hours have passed since you went to sleep.



*WHEN YOU READ THIS THREAD AND YOU REALIZE YOU HAVE 2 OR MORE SYMPTOMS DESCRIBED BY THE ADDICTS*

Edited by Albert0 - October 12 2009 at 02:05