How do you enjoy your Prog?

dude every time i listen to karn evil 9 i twitch my neck along with the key board like steven hawkings and play air keyboard.....i'm quite odd

kjprogger wrote: On the patio, enjoing a San Diego sunset and a cold Newcastle. Cigar is optional. Listening on the Bose wave player for iPods. Loud but not annoying the neighbors loud.

I live in San Diego Ca. too, so maybe one day we can enjoy the sunset and some good prog too.

nahnite wrote: I was at the local plasma donation center a few days back, jammin' to "2112" and "Hemispheres".  Also had Genesis' "Trespass" with me.  A worker came along and asked me what I was listening to that was making me play air synthesizer.  I gave him the headphones and started to listen to "Hemispheres" in all its glory.  He said that was the first time he'd ever heard Rush .  I shook my head.  "You have much to learn".  Now he's a fan.

unfortunately the only free time I usualy get is when i am driving. That is when I  truly LEARN all of my music. There is defintiely air drumming - well, dashboard/steering wheel  drumming since there is always a pair of sticks in the van - and also singing once words are learned.

On the patio, enjoing a San Diego sunset and a cold Newcastle. Cigar is optional. Listening on the Bose wave player for iPods. Loud but not annoying the neighbors loud.

I only listen to music at home, and generally am always doing something else when I do (cooking, cleaning, tidying up, writing reviews...). I don't really play any air instruments, but like to sing along whenever vocals are involved, or sometimes even dance. 

WatcherOfTheSkies88 wrote: When you listen to progressive rock, how do you and your body react to the music? Do you like to bob/bang your head, play air guitar/drums/bass/keyboards, sing, dance, etc? I can't imagine listening to any of my favorite rock music without at least banging my head. I also love doing air guitar/drums/bass/keyboards... and even air flute and violin! And of course, I love to sing. If somebody put a hidden camera in my car, it'd be pretty entertaining to watch!

Same here. I cannot hear music without reacting to it. In the car I mainly bang my head. At home, I dance, play air instruments, attempt to sing (as my wife would say), and many times cry when the music gets rich and emotive.

Mostly I sit in quiet.

Sometimes I lie in bed, for example when I'm really upset (I mean emotionally stimulated), and then the music sounds more powerful, too. So I should do it more often.

I think facial expressions is what people don't think much, so I almost forgot to mention it. Maybe i scrunch my face or something (I don't know what would be a suitable word).

Then I might be swaying/swinging like an autist (actually I have asperger's, lol, so...), and normally I'm in this kind of fetal position: http://www.dudelodge.com/CONTENT/BOXCOVER1S/MaleNudePhotography-ClassicFetal2008.jpg - also when I'm not listening to music.

Many times I'm also mumbling and whistling (in my own way). Mostly I do additional harmonies and I can follow many instrument's melodies at the same time, mixed/messed up :P.

Sometimes I sing, but I think it has something to do with movement and there's many ways to sing, from mumbling to knowing the actual words. Anyway, I also dance, but that's where the movement basically comes in. I mean, of course dancing is moving, but when I'm moving from place to another, or when I'm standing, I might start to dance. Also both singing and dancing are usually linked with happiness, because they require so much energy from me. For example it's hard to speak, but humbling and mumbling to myself is much easier. Sometimes I make very much crazy noises. If the volume is up, my volume becomes louder, too.

And of course I'm drumming, because I'm a drummer. Actually many times I start drumming immediately after the song ends, and when the music plays, I can stop the drumming. So that's one effect; making music when there isn't music. But when I'm drumming and music is playing, it's often "additional" drumming. Sometimes it's because the music isn't rhythmic enough. But the additional drumming can be anything. Sometimes I play drums similarly to the original drumming, but why would I play the same, when I can make the music more complex? And that comes unconsciously. Sometimes I do it consciously but then it's often imitating, and I can even do it to show people that I can play drums, lol.

And I can easily play percussion on classical music etc.

So I ruin the music. And I can ruin it otherwise too, like skipping songs and doing other things at the same time. But anyway I think it's even right to rape the music to get pleasure. It doesn't die, so you can rape it in some session, and then maybe listen to the same album the next week focusing in it in a different way. The more ways there is, the better. That's what I think usually. Sometimes some conditions can really ruin the music for good, but then there must be clearly some bad things happening. However, I can listen to any kind of music in any mood, and for example if I've listened to some music while being suicidal, I can listen to it later without pain. Or maybe there's pain but I can't say if there's a difference between some emotions, like between nostalgia, sorrow and happiness.

Music is basically an emotion army for me and I don't mind dying because of them.

So I enjoy my music in a some kind of bustle. Of course there's other ways and i use them sometimes, like laid-back peacefulness, but mostly it's the raping that this sleeping beauty needs. However, if the bustle isn't in the music or in me, but around us, then I can't enjoy it so much.














Edited by progressive - March 06 2010 at 17:24

I enjoy mine with a nice Indica

WatcherOfTheSkies88 wrote: When you listen to progressive rock, how do you and your body react to the music? Do you like to bob/bang your head, play air guitar/drums/bass/keyboards, sing, dance, etc? I can't imagine listening to any of my favorite rock music without at least banging my head. I also love doing air guitar/drums/bass/keyboards... and even air flute and violin! And of course, I love to sing. If somebody put a hidden camera in my car, it'd be pretty entertaining to watch!

Well until you actually watched yourself, then you might be embarrased.  Sometimes I do the air instrument thing, sometimes I play along to the best of my ability or inspiration on an actual musical instrument.  Sometimes I just sit still and listen.


Edited by Slartibartfast - March 05 2010 at 12:37