How do you enjoy your Prog?

When I really get to it...alone, (preferably)in the dark, without a hint of need to go anywhere, laying down, with coffee and I never forget to bring my sense of selfimportance with me when I really start progging out. That´s the way I like to take in my prog. :)

I listen to more music in my car than anywhere else, and there I'm the master nobody can stop me from singing at the top of my lungs. When I'm all sung out or when the solo's on I switch to whistling.

When it doesn't interfere with my safety on the road (and a little bit when it does) I am a very frequently an air musician; instruments depend on what's prominant. I would say I'm most often an air keyboardist and dummer with the occational guitar and sax thrown in for good measure. 

It depends on the album you're listening to. I mean, when listening to Harmonium's Si On Avait Besoin D'une 5ième Saison, i close my eyes and focus in the beautiful and calmed experience it is; but when listening to King Crimson's Red or The Great Deceiver, I can't help air drumming all the way!

^and air Hammond stabbing while listening to Rondo   

ProgressiveAttic wrote: Petrovsk Mizinski wrote: Air keyboards is the most embarrassing thing anyone can do Nothing like my air mellotron!!!

The way I like it: take the lyric sheet (or whatever it's called in english ), sit on my bed, turn the lights bit down, smell a bit of the nice flavor of a new, just-bought cd, and but the disc (preferably a concept album) to play.  Yep! 

And about these air-instruments.. Air Mandolin is cool to play (Mike Oldfield, eh?).. But still, nothing beats playing Air-Hammond in Ryo style 

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

I enjoy mine with a nice Indica

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

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.