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Points: 14258 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 24 2012 at 06:18
Today during Art I had to put on some music for students and inevitably they requested LMAO, One Direction and Adele. I snuck on some prog and they wanted it off immediately. Tomorrow I will put on some Magma and see how long it takes them to vacate the classroom LOL
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^ I've done that once with a friend - as students. He plugged in his iPod and played Dream Theater's last album, and everyone was telling us to turn this "screamo death metal" off. Lol.
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Points: 7971 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 24 2012 at 06:23
Originally posted by zeqexes zeqexes wrote:

^ I've done that once with a friend - as students. He plugged in his iPod and played Dream Theater's last album, and everyone was telling us to turn this "screamo death metal" off. Lol.

wtf? LOL
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Yes, I went through a very active evangelism phase a long time ago. It was quite frustrating. I did a complete about face and just enjoyed the music I liked privately on my own terms. You can have some pretty nice friendships though when you run into people with similar tastes.
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Points: 7888 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 25 2012 at 10:08
Happy to say that I got my firend Hooked to NIGHTWISH. played the latest album for him, which is Immaginarium and loved it. Glad to have planted a seed. ☺
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Points: 14940 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 25 2012 at 10:12
Interesting question, I think: what's your Bible when you evangelize?

I have often used CAMEL's first four albums.
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Not an evangelist phase, but tried to interest a couple of friends in light Prog.

Of course I fell misarably in the attempt...The only Proghead friends I have are the ones that already liked Prog when i met them.

Here is a recent photo of the group
            
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YES! (i just revived an account that hasnt been used by two years or more just to answer)
Oh god how pretentious i was that time
now i learned we all live in a post-modern world and there is no defined concept of art and etc etc etc
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Points: 10970 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 01 2012 at 23:40
Originally posted by Ivan_Melgar_M Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:



And they say that a camera adds ten pounds. As far as I can see, the camera AND the TV somehow managed to kick ten pounds off of Jimmy Page. LOL
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Originally posted by octopus-4 octopus-4 wrote:

Interesting question, I think: what's your Bible when you evangelize?

I have often used CAMEL's first four albums.


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Originally posted by Ivan_Melgar_M Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:

Not an evangelist phase, but tried to interest a couple of friends in light Prog.
Of course I fell misarably in the attempt...The only Proghead friends I have are the ones that already liked Prog when i met them.
Here is a recent photo of the group


Nice prog den. Looks like a good lair. I'm visiting Peru in December. Can you recommend any good prog hangouts in either LIMA,Cusco or Iquitos?
Gimmie my headphones now!!! 🎧🤣
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Points: 10970 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 04 2012 at 20:56
Originally posted by octopus-4 octopus-4 wrote:

Interesting question, I think: what's your Bible when you evangelize?

I have often used CAMEL's first four albums.

Oh, boy. I don't evangelize on a regular basis, but ... stuff like Banco or Renaissance ... something with classical elements. Depends on the person I'm trying to convert. 
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Originally posted by progbethyname progbethyname wrote:

Originally posted by Ivan_Melgar_M Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:

Not an evangelist phase, but tried to interest a couple of friends in light Prog.
Of course I fell misarably in the attempt...The only Proghead friends I have are the ones that already liked Prog when i met them.
Here is a recent photo of the group


Nice prog den. Looks like a good lair. I'm visiting Peru in December. Can you recommend any good prog hangouts in either LIMA,Cusco or Iquitos?

Send me a PM before you come.
            
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Points: 19455 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 05 2012 at 12:12
It's been a while since I've "evangelized" with any special fervor, but I did just turn a newbie on to Ozric Tentacles, and that's a win-win in my book.
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Sometimes I try to do covert evangelization at work. I get in first and then let's see how long it takes the colleagues to turn on the radio. So far I succeeded with Ozric Tentacles, Anekdoten and Caravan.

Some colleagues actually turned me onto Mike Oldfield and Jean Michel Jarre (and another back on Simple Minds)
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You know, thinking about the concept of Evangelisim I think it's really important that my next girlfriend has some kind of appreciation and some live for prog in general. Gotta first date happening next week and I'm thinking that I should play some OSI/chroma key to kinda grease the wheels. Both OSI and CHROMA KEY offer a pretty simplistic approach to electronic groove rock with Progressive Metal genres. Let's see what happens....
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Points: 10970 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 09 2012 at 12:58
Originally posted by progbethyname progbethyname wrote:

Gotta first date happening next week

... on one hand.

Originally posted by progbethyname progbethyname wrote:

I'm thinking that I should play some OSI/chroma key to kinda grease the wheels. Both OSI and CHROMA KEY offer a pretty simplistic approach to electronic groove rock with Progressive Metal genres.

... on the other hand.

= I don't think it's gonna happen. Chances are it's not. I think it would take me 30 years to find the perfect mate for me.


Edited by Dayvenkirq - October 09 2012 at 13:39
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I am 18, and i found myself to prog with 15, when i listened to Ayreon's River of Time: "OMG, This music has a guitar AND a violin?". 
So my friend began to show me the new bands, like Porcupine Tree, Pain of Salvation, Opeth, etc. And after i got into Camel, i couldnt stop anymore.

And before that i cried listening to Iron Maiden's The Legacy.

I think everyone had an epiphany like this when listened to prog. Without it, i cant see people listening just because someone showed to them.
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Points: 18718 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 09 2012 at 15:56
Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

Originally posted by Vibrationbaby Vibrationbaby wrote:

I still like Elvis. Elvis was cool.

Elvis is the poster child for over rated.
 
Elvis was the poster child to help sell the movies!
 
It was the in thing in those days for the movie studios. If you check out the Tom Dowd DVD, you will get the shock of your life and ... probably lose half of your interest in Elvis and Hollywood, and go check out even more music!
 
I will accept that for the time and place, some of his music became quite progressive in expression ... but he was merely copying over 1000 black singers whose records and recordings were wiped out by Elvis' fame! The great white flame!


Edited by moshkito - October 09 2012 at 15:59
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Points: 18718 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 09 2012 at 16:56
Hi,
 
Some more thinking on this subject.
 
IF you mean "evangelize" in terms of internalizing things ... and taking it into a "higher" level, I was doing this in the 70's and Klaus Schulze, Popol Vuh, Kitaro, Deuter, Eberhard Schoenner and many others were already doing stuff that had very spiritual/religious feelings behind it, or at least the inspiration for the music was such. This was one of my main reasons for getting these things ... along with the fact that they were my formative years in terms of writing and inspiration for artistic work.
 
For me, this was my own revolution in getting away from some rock music, whose lyrics and work, was ... depressing and not inspiring, and at times, down right trivial, and not worth the discussion.
 
IF you state this in terms of the music itself and how much we helped others learn about it? ... Guy had issues in Santa Barbara with it, from some folks saying idiotic things like "it's not rock'n'roll" to which Guy replied ... "who cares, it's GREAT music!" ... and the song? ... "Are You Receiving Me?". yeah ... I've pushed a few buttons ... but in the end, it's not really worth the battle to "convert" someone ... this music is not about "converts" ... it's about who you ARE ... and if you have to be converted, this music will never reach you! ... the good book is there to do that for you!


Edited by moshkito - October 09 2012 at 17:03
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