The Church of the Progressive Evangelicals

Hello chaps.

I'm curious as to whether or not I'm alone in my sometimes "evangelical" stance towards Prog. I'm pretty damn sure I can't be. Try as I might every so often I can't help but burst into my housemate's room and command her to come and listen to one amazing album or another, fully aware that she'll get nothing out of it. Are any of your friends or relatives sick of you trying to convert them to your proggy ways? Have you given up trying?

HAS ANYONE EVER SUCCESSFULLY CONVERTED SOMEONE INTO A GENUINE PROG FAN?

After nearly two years, I think my girlfriend's definitely beginning to crack. She happily comes with me to most of my gigs and seems to come back from each one with a bigger grin on her face. She also asked me to burn her some stuff recently, namely:

• Some more Ozric Tentacles (I'd given her a copy of Erpland a while back).
  
• Pere Ubu (okay, not prog but a lot weirder than yer average noises).
• OOIOO
• This Heat
• Captain Beefheart (!!!)

Meanwhile, she's been going through her old albums and realising how little of it she wants to listen to nowadays. She also confessed to me recently that whilst in the past she'd go to any gig offered to her as "live music's fine, whatever the genre", when her friend recently took her to see The Feeling (bland-as-porridge 70's-tinged pop-rock for those who don't know) she was standing there with gritted teeth. She accuses me of turning her into a music snob. I say she's just beginning to see the light...


Edited by Trouserpress - November 18 2006 at 10:44

A friend of mine successfully converted me, but I haven't personally managed to convert any one.

No, because I haven't even tried and I don't want to (sorry if my story differs).

My true few friends are of an elegant and educated musical sense, plus they've got the knowledge of some prog music. So no converting needed over there. They don't know, of course, as much as me, but they have the touch and they know what exactly of Genesis counts and how well did Jethro Tull actually achieved, back in the 70s.

In the collective of "contemporary teenagers" I would be the one talking to deaf people. Not only that they settle upon the lowest forms of music manifest (the MTV type - mainly stupidly easy pop, manele, hip-hop of under-seizable quality-the boys, mostly), but they would be offended to be offered something of less...skepsis and more...substance. Plus, I on the other hand, would hate for someone to say ugly or offensive words against my likings.

It's just a brutal world out there, and I like to stay in the warmth of my own feelings.

I constantly get excited when I buy music and make my sister listen to it, but she mostly just smiles and nods, doesn't really get it.

i introduce Progressive music to most of my friends,
i didnt convert them, totally
but manage to make them love some of the great prog bands,. like
Gentle Giant,Eloy,Emerson Lake and Palmer,Ozric Tentacles,
Camel,(Girls like Camel)
Kayak, and lots more

now they have these albums,along with whatever other collection they have

i would NEVER want to get my girlfren/wife involved in my music taste hahaha.......some privacy is impt y'know!!!

i'm the perfect case of a tabula rasa  "SUCCESSFULLY CONVERTED INTO A GENUINE PROG FAN" by a true master. as for me, i may have a good chance with my younger brother - he's 18 and into dj electronic stuff (like Hernan Cattaneo, Deep Dish, etc.); he recently played by mistake my video copy of PF's Live at Pompeii and he says he was stunned. i might just give it a try.

Trouserpress wrote: Try as I might every so often I can't help but burst into my housemate's room and command her to come and listen to one amazing album or another, fully aware that she'll get nothing out of it.

Edited by inpraiseoffolly - November 20 2006 at 08:37

Ricochet wrote: No, because I haven't even tried and I don't want to (sorry if my story differs). My true few friends are of an elegant and educated musical sense, plus they've got the knowledge of some prog music. So no converting needed over there. They don't know, of course, as much as me, but they have the touch and they know what exactly of Genesis counts and how well did Jethro Tull actually achieved, back in the 70s. In the collective of "contemporary teenagers" I would be the one talking to deaf people. Not only that they settle upon the lowest forms of music manifest (the MTV type - mainly stupidly easy pop, manele, hip-hop of under-seizable quality-the boys, mostly), but they would be offended to be offered something of less...skepsis and more...substance. Plus, I on the other hand, would hate for someone to say ugly or offensive words against my likings. It's just a brutal world out there, and I like to stay in the warmth of my own feelings.

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