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andu 
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Joined: September 27 2006
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Posted: September 28 2006 at 08:46 |
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hello everybody. "i live in romania and that keeps me very occupied" (that's common wisdom here :), still i'll try to roam around the site&forum and hopefully i'll manage as soon as possible to offer some insights into the Romanian contribution to prog genres). o zi buna va doresc!
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Jared
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Joined: May 06 2005
Location: Hereford, UK
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Posted: September 28 2006 at 08:56 |
welcome to the site andu...
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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andu
Forum Senior Member
Joined: September 27 2006
Location: Romania
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Posted: September 28 2006 at 09:04 |
thank you. hope to see ya in a third-party schengen country to exchange prog albums. 
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TheProgtologist
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Joined: May 23 2005
Location: Baltimore,Md US
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Posted: September 28 2006 at 09:06 |
Enjoy the archives and the forum.
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Australian
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Location: Australia
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Posted: September 29 2006 at 00:00 |
Hello Andu.
Welcome and enjoy!!
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andu
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Joined: September 27 2006
Location: Romania
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Posted: September 29 2006 at 08:47 |
thank'y'all. i'll use this thread to put down my first impressions after going through the site & forum these last days. as i said, i joined PA in order to contribute to the knowledge of Romanian music. i was full of enthusiasm but at this point i am quite... hmm. first, i now understand how newbie am i not only to the board, but also to prog (genres & subgenres). (second) my goal is to become able to write good&usefull reviews; BUT 1. romanian bands didn't invent much, they creatively used influences, so if i don't known what the source artists played, how can i compare my subject band to the latter? 2. if i can not compare my the object of my review, how can i describe it? i mean, if i have no "inside" knowledge of music, how can i write critical comments that are actually usefull? i can only restrain to describing not the actual music, but my perception of it - but i don't have the proper vocabulary to use. one next matter could be this one: there are some information sources for documenting, but what is my entitlement to use them as i don't known what they're talking about? for example, if an info i want to quote says that one of Sfinx's songs resembles the music of Klaus Schultze and Michael Nyman,how can i refer to that as i never heard of those guys before? and i can't just quote the original author at every point - "X says that..., and also that..., but according to Y original member, ....". also, original sources to rely on and to have peace of mind while quoting are very difficult to find - i'm talking about contemporary reviews in the press, or original issues (re-issueing is not yet common in Romania because of lack of funds & interest) with sleeve or booklet infos. one last issue (i recognize the answer may be already posted somewhere on the forum but i did'nt struggle that much to find it) is: in order to convinge the PA "authorities" of the relevance of some still unknown prog or progrelated acts, listening is required, how can that be done? i mean, in the official & legal way of the PA.
maybe out of your past experience as reviewers you already have answers to my issues. any would help.
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TheProgtologist
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Joined: May 23 2005
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Posted: September 29 2006 at 11:10 |
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If you would like to suggest bands that are not here that you think deserve to be,start a topic in the Suggest Bands/Artists section.If you could provide links to band websites that have audio samples that would help alot too.
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ClemofNazareth
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Joined: August 17 2005
Location: United States
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Posted: September 29 2006 at 19:23 |
 andu wrote:
2. if i can not compare my the object of my review, how can i describe it? ... there are some information sources for documenting, but what is my entitlement to use them as i don't known what they're talking about? for example, if an info i want to quote says that one of Sfinx's songs resembles the music of Klaus Schultze and Michael Nyman,how can i refer to that as i never heard of those guys before?
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If you want to hear samples of bands so you can make your own comparisons, locate the bands you are interested in within the Archives. Many of them have samples you can listen to.
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"Peace is the only battle worth waging."
Albert Camus
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andu
Forum Senior Member
Joined: September 27 2006
Location: Romania
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Posted: October 26 2006 at 13:32 |
how do you like my new avatar? 
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Uroboros
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Joined: February 25 2006
Location: Oxford
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Posted: October 27 2006 at 18:12 |
Courage is my favourite TV star and my occasional alter-ego.
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Tous les chemins
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andu
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Joined: September 27 2006
Location: Romania
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Points: 3089
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Posted: December 25 2006 at 09:48 |
as can be seen i have initiated the changing of the "Tables" series for my sig and i'll log here all the items. there goes the first one:  i hope you'll like them all.
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andu
Forum Senior Member
Joined: September 27 2006
Location: Romania
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Posted: January 04 2007 at 15:40 |
another new Table for my sig i hope you like them and don't mind the size there goes the previous, for the record: 
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andu
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Location: Romania
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Posted: January 21 2007 at 07:23 |
there goes another "Table"... 
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Ricochet
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Joined: February 27 2005
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Posted: January 21 2007 at 09:42 |
schiuzmi domnule, but aren't you far from a newcomer anymore? 
plus, you're posting by yourself since Christmas, last year.
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andu
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Location: Romania
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Posted: January 21 2007 at 09:50 |
Well I did turn this thread into a sort of blog because I wanted to keep the record of the signatures I use; the reason is that they're very special to me and (imo) they bring some beauty to the forum. If there's a problem with the blog idea, I'll stop. I may post by myself but certainly not for myself - check the number of views for this thread. 
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kazansky
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Joined: December 24 2006
Location: Indonesia
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Posted: January 21 2007 at 09:54 |
err, i can't see your current sig right now... 
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The devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us.
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andu
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Joined: September 27 2006
Location: Romania
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Posted: January 21 2007 at 10:00 |
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All the pictures I post are uploaded via www.imageshack.us , do you have acces to that site? For example, at work that site (amongst other) is banned on our computers by the system administrator and I can't see any image posted via that site and others. But from home I have complete access and I have no problems.
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kazansky
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Location: Indonesia
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Posted: January 21 2007 at 10:02 |
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i'm at home. the strange thing is that i can see your previous pictures. but some images from imageshack sometimes doesn't show at my computer too
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The devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us.
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andu
Forum Senior Member
Joined: September 27 2006
Location: Romania
Status: Offline
Points: 3089
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Posted: February 03 2007 at 10:45 |
Another Table new entry. And here's the old one for the record: 
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andu
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Joined: September 27 2006
Location: Romania
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Points: 3089
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Posted: February 26 2007 at 18:10 |
I've got a new Table sig, here comes the old one: 
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