Hello from (almost) prog virgin
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Topic: Hello from (almost) prog virgin
Posted By: nothingface
Subject: Hello from (almost) prog virgin
Date Posted: December 20 2007 at 11:38
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Greetings from an isolated rural area of Ireland!
Having a look around this site one question comes to mind: "What have I got myself into?"
 Some seriously nerdy stuff going on in here - but in a good way! I suppose my route to prog began via a combination of interest in art rock (Bowie, Roxy Music, Talking heads etc) and the fringes of metal/thrash metal. For any music fan, the ubiquity of some bands makes their influence unavoidable anyway - e.g. Floyd, Zeppelin - which may inevitably lead to prog too. Also, Killing Joke (who I have always been into) could arguably be described as prog punk maybe?!
Voivod though (circa Dimension Hatross & Nothingface) were the band that really started my interest and prompted me to investigate King Crimson & a few others. Not so much into (what I would see as) the more indulgent muso stuff generally and prefer keyboards to kept to a minimum.
My intention is to find more stuff that sounds like Red era King Crimson - and to continue to inject my own compositions with a healthy dash of prog.
Great site!!!
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Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: December 20 2007 at 12:17
You have no idea.  Seriously though, it's refreshing to see someone looking at things from a slightly different angle. Welcome!  As for stuff that sounds like Red-era Crimson... You could try early Anekdoten (Vemod, perhaps?) - given that you can tolerate the keyboards. ------------- 
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nothingface wrote:Posted By: Spacemac
Date Posted: December 21 2007 at 15:11
Welcome 
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Posted By: jetson
Date Posted: December 22 2007 at 18:05
welcome ! I'm new too progarchives is cool, I've been visiting it for ages but never signed in, until now  ------------- 
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Posted By: nothingface
Date Posted: December 24 2007 at 08:48
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Thanks guys!
No doubt I'll be boring/irritating you all in due course with naive prog questions - so bear with me!
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