Friends reaction’s to prog

I don't so much have a problem with friends reaction to Prog music but with ANY musicl!. Especially girlfriends they are not interested in music at all . Even the ones that i used to hang around at school with and listen to Barclay James Harvest and Camel, nowdays they are just happy listening to the radio. But i do find I can have a pretty good conversation with their partners though about various bands.

I do have a couple of male friends that are pretty sympathetic to my recent prog addiction so all is well . (hopefully they are not sniggering behind my back).

danbo wrote: That's what my wife tells me... I'm practicing the immaturity for my future employment as nursing home ass pincher. Imagine this, if you will, Peter, Reed, Greg, Linda, Dick, Dude, Jimbo and I, all sharing the same floor at the Old Proggers Retirement Home.

Dick sleeps meanwhile...

Peter doesn't know which side he's on:

Whilst Grandma Linda's past has caught up with her:

And the other "Seniors" are having a "moment"

Looks like a case for Occifer Dan Bowlegs:

lobster41 wrote: Oliver, Celine Dion sits uncomfortably next to Dream Theater, Miriah Carey nearby Camel, Amy Grant just down the shelf from Genesis. The things we do to please our spouses!

yes but that's hard...

Ok... sorry Danbo... I left you out!

So Danny... you may be old, but atleast you're immature!

danbo wrote: Reed Lover wrote: Some of us are 43 going on 16! You and me both!

You Two are sooooooooo immature!?!

Oliver,

Celine Dion sits uncomfortably next to Dream Theater, Miriah Carey nearby Camel, Amy Grant just down the shelf from Genesis.

The things we do to please our spouses!

Due to my age (40), most of my friends have knowledge of what Prog’ music is, and being my closer friends Classic Rock fans, they accept (with some troubles) my personal taste.

In school it was a problem, I graduated in 1979 and most of my classmates were in love with Saturday Night Fever and Grease, my prom party was full of guys with white suits, black shirts and no tie (very original), and except two or three guys that surfed with me (Surfers usually are on classic rock and accept prog’) everybody saw us like a bunch of weirdoes who liked that strange music.

I felt more comfortable with the metal heads because Proggers and Metal Heads had mutual respect for both genres, mostly because we both hated Disco Music with all our guts and found some songs in both genres that we all liked (Metal guys liked Musical Box, In the Court of the Crimson King and we all loved Uriah Heep, Deep Purple and even Grand Funk Railroad.)

In the University it was different, there was a small but active group of progheads and most students were willing to accept and investigate different genres of music, there I knew the two guys who were going to be my dearest friends (almost a brothers), one of them loved Prog’, we went to the concerts and exchanged albums (Well, I lend him my albums, because I was the only one that took prog’ so seriously to expend all my money in LP’s), sadly in 1994 he died in a car crash after a 40 days comma the other one (Still a good friend doesn't care for music, he listens everything, though he learned to like Rick Wakeman and Rush after years).

My oldest friend (from the neighborhood)  Percy, is an old time Proghead, he even started before me, but when he married he lost a bit of interest in new bands, he still listens the classics but has no interest in anything later than UK. He now lives in a small town working as a doctor for a mine and earning big bucks.

My girlfriends were another problem, all except one hated prog’ and another one pretended to like my music because she liked me. One girlfriends father (A shrink) asked me one day to take him to work because his car refused to start, and I was listening in my powerful Pioneer KP-500 Battle for the Epping Forest, the guy said nothing, but that night the girl told me he recommended her to be careful, because I had to be mentally ill to listen that weird music.

Today  I’m part of a group named La Lata (With Cesar Inca) where all the members are friends and all love Prog’ music, strange but found new friends at my 40’s who share my love for Prog’.

Iván