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Forum Name: Welcome newbies!
Forum Description: Introduce yourself and tell us what prog music you listen to
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Topic: Hey people.

Posted By: Prog Music
Subject: Hey people.
Date Posted: September 14 2005 at 15:41

I just joined up after using this site for references for a few months. I browsed the forums a couple times and it seems like a nice community. I'm 17 years old. I'm a big prog fan and also LOVE Canterbury Scene.

Some of my favorites right now are:

VDGG
Gong
Daevid Allen
Focus
Magma
National Health
Can

Here are the rest of the artists that I listen to. http://www.last.fm/user/yesiam - http://www.last.fm/user/yesiam

I'm always looking music suggestions. I want to dive deeper into Neo-Prog, maybe some Fusion/Jazz-Rock, and any other stuff that I must hear.

Replies:

Posted By: Ed_The_Dead
Date Posted: September 14 2005 at 16:12

Ahh... Welcome

I'm no canterbury fan, but theres so few Of such wierdoes... You'll be quite usefull

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Posted By: Andrea Cortese
Date Posted: September 14 2005 at 16:20

Welcome!

VDGG are...!!!!!!!!!!!!

Enjoy your stay!

See you soon!

Posted By: Zac M
Date Posted: September 14 2005 at 17:07

Welcome, I am a big Canterbury fan myself. It's probably my favorite sub-genre!

Good to have another one aboard

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"Art is not imitation, nor is it something manufactured according to the wishes of instinct or good taste. It is a process of expression."

-Merleau-Ponty

Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: September 14 2005 at 18:15

Hello there! I'm a fellow Canterbury nut but I can say right now that I doubt neo-prog will be your thing. You'll find it far too closely linked to poppish style music, if you're used to the weird and jazzy.

Try Gentle Giant for size, though!

Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: September 14 2005 at 20:23

TP recommends GG......shocker

I'll recommend you one neo-prog band,probably the best of the bunch:

Welcome to the forum

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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: September 14 2005 at 20:24

BTW ProgMusic,your avatar is very cool.

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Posted By: Prog Music
Date Posted: September 14 2005 at 22:52

Trouserpress wrote:

Hello there! I'm a fellow Canterbury nut but I can say right now that I doubt neo-prog will be your thing. You'll find it far too closely linked to poppish style music, if you're used to the weird and jazzy.

Try Gentle Giant for size, though!

I have tried out some Neo-prog. Marillion. Spock's Beard, and The Flower Kings too. I have a couple albums. I like it. I'll take that IQ reccomendation. Thanks.

I'm very familiar with GG, it really deserves to be up there with the rest of my current favorites.

Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: September 14 2005 at 23:23

Awesome avatar

Welcome

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Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: September 14 2005 at 23:58

http://www.telusplanet.net/public/microbus/welcome/welcomebluesilversparkle.gif -

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http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm

Posted By: paulindigo
Date Posted: September 15 2005 at 06:37

If you very adventurous stuff un the fusion sub-genre (closer to
avantgarde, actually) try Area.
Welcome!

Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: September 15 2005 at 22:04

Prog Music wrote:

I have tried out some Neo-prog. Marillion. Spock's Beard, and The Flower Kings too. I have a couple albums. I like it. I'll take that IQ reccomendation. Thanks.

I'm very familiar with GG, it really deserves to be up there with the rest of my current favorites.

Excellent! Here's some more stuff for you to try then:

Area (as someone else has rightly suggested)
Dun (Only one album, but it's a belter!)
Anglagard (Symphonic prog that's both retro AND innovative... somehow)
Hatfield and the North (Seminal Canterbury band that you may well be already aware of)
Robert Wyatt (Important Canterbury figure and genius lefty songwriter. His solo work and band Matching Mole are both highly recommended, as is his work with early Soft Machine)
Frank Zappa (You gotta try him sometime. Hot Rats would be a safe option)
Samla Mammas Manna (Insane Swedish avant garde jazzrock group - my current favourite band)

Well, that's enough to be getting on with, I guess. Let me know what you think of them, if you don't already know/like them that is.

Posted By: approximate7
Date Posted: September 17 2005 at 15:34

Hello everyone

Im a Progger.....love the art form....dont know if all these qualify as progressive, but here goes...

Im into;

Zappa...........Yes...........National Health/Hatfield and the North............Weather Report..............Henry Cow/Art Bears............the incomparable Allen Holdsworth............Return to Forever...........a Italian band called Area............ELP...............Gentle Giant.............Stanley Clarke................Al DiMeola.....................Bill Bruford.............Can...............Flora Purim/Airto...........Jan Hammer............George Duke..........Michal Urbaniak/Urzula Dudziak.......Gong.............some Magma (cant understand what they are singing bout, tho)

Posted By: horza
Date Posted: September 17 2005 at 16:06

Yeah welcome and your Avatar is superb. So you like National Health ? You on prescription drugs then

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Posted By: Simkim
Date Posted: September 17 2005 at 23:18

Some of my favourite fussion albums:

Area - Arbeit Match Frei / Crac!
Perigeo - Genealogia
Arti e Mestieri - Tilt / Giro di Valzer per Domani
The Mahavishnu Orchestra - Inner Mountain Flame / Birds of Fire
Return to Forever - The Romantic Warrior
Iceberg - Coses nostres (a Spanish band from Catalonia)