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Dean 
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Joined: May 13 2007
Location: Europe
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 Posted: March 16 2012 at 17:19 |
Entropy isn't what it used to be. 
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stonebeard
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Joined: May 27 2005
Location: NE Indiana
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Points: 28057
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Posted: March 16 2012 at 17:10 |
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All things tend toward chaos.
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Slartibartfast
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Honorary Collaborator / In Memoriam
Joined: April 29 2006
Location: Atlantais
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Points: 29630
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Posted: March 16 2012 at 17:07 |
 rushfan4 wrote:
I think it is all the  from the 60's and 70's that is killing PA off. |
I'm gonna have to blame it on  and  and  so what the hell? let's have us some 
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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rushfan4
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Joined: May 22 2007
Location: Michigan, U.S.
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Posted: March 16 2012 at 16:59 |
I think it is all the from the 60's and 70's that is killing PA off.
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Slartibartfast
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Joined: April 29 2006
Location: Atlantais
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Posted: March 16 2012 at 16:56 |
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The excitement of hunting hasn't died due to having new weapons. Having said that I do miss the old ways.
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Catcher10
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Joined: December 23 2009
Location: Emerald City
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Points: 17847
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Posted: March 16 2012 at 16:34 |
I'm too busy listening to prog  ..........Honestly I am, I have recently added a lot of new audio equipment and that's all I do now....Sit and listen, especially to stuff I have discovered here.....Its brilliant!
Back to listening!
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Tuzvihar
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Joined: May 18 2005
Location: C. Schinesghe
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Posted: March 16 2012 at 15:10 |
Vibrationbaby wrote:
All the excitement that went with hunting down albums back in the mid 16th century is gone with the internet. You can find anything fast and tire of it fast. I think the average attention span has diminished. People have the attention spans of chimps with all this tweeting, blogging and tevting to people they don't even know. They would rather talk to electronic entities than real live people. It's the age of me, myself and I with facecrap mycrap and other crap. They can't focus on one thing anymore. I guess this affliction has affected this site as well just as it has other sites. This age of information is going to eat us alive sooner or later
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 Well said, Sir!!
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"Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent."
Charles Bukowski
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Guldbamsen
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Joined: January 22 2009
Location: Magic Theatre
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Points: 23104
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Posted: March 16 2012 at 14:58 |
There are some things you just can't kill. You can't kill oregano either. There'll always be a few in downtown Naples throwing it on their pizza.
Personally I come here for the reviews and the cool people. I certainly won't shed any tears for the lack of voters in the current poll tournaments, or the what's-its-name what is prog - or is Dolly Parton prog, Yes prog, Cantalope melon prog? There are a lot of people here who come for the music, not to ruffle feathers like I've seen a fair deal of - and maybe we're just seeing an increase in content rather than a decrease in posts...
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“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
- Douglas Adams
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lazland
Prog Reviewer
Joined: October 28 2008
Location: Wales
Status: Offline
Points: 13635
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Posted: March 16 2012 at 14:28 |
This is still a very busy forum, certainly compared to, say, Progressive Ears, or (ahem) certain jazz or metal forums.
I enjoy it as much as ever, and, perhaps, sometimes less is more in terms of quality posts and comments.
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Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org
Now also broadcasting on www.progzilla.com Every Saturday, 4.00 p.m. UK time!
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Vibrationbaby
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Joined: February 13 2004
Status: Offline
Points: 6898
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Posted: March 16 2012 at 14:10 |
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All the excitement that went with hunting down albums back in the mid 16th century is gone with the internet. You can find anything fast and tire of it fast. I think the average attention span has diminished. People have the attention spans of chimps with all this tweeting, blogging and tevting to people they don't even know. They would rather talk to electronic entities than real live people. It's the age of me, myself and I with facecrap mycrap and other crap. They can't focus on one thing anymore. I guess this affliction has affected this site as well just as it has other sites. This age of information is going to eat us alive sooner or later
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Negoba
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Joined: July 24 2008
Location: Big Muddy
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Points: 5208
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Posted: March 16 2012 at 13:43 |
I think this kind of board / forum probably maxed as a form of communication a few years ago. Lots of previously monstrously busy boards I frequented have also slowed way down.
Facebook is part of it, the economy is part of it, and the natural equilibrium of limited audience. There was a huge void for many of us that PA filled. But the number of folks who haven't found PA but would totally love it will be exhausted. And once you've tried out all the cool music here you'd never heard of before, what then?
And it doesn't feel like it's dying to me.
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You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.
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The Quiet One
Prog Reviewer
Joined: January 16 2008
Location: Argentina
Status: Offline
Points: 15745
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Posted: March 16 2012 at 13:07 |
The Truth wrote:
Seems like I've run out of things to say regarding progressive rock. It really helped me expand my musical tastes but I don't think I'm purely a progger anymore. |
This.
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CPicard
Forum Senior Member
Joined: October 03 2008
Location: Là, sui monti.
Status: Offline
Points: 10841
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Posted: March 16 2012 at 12:39 |
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PA is dying? Well, some people should visit other forums where the number post is maybe 10 per day at the maximum.
Just sayin'.
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Slartibartfast
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Honorary Collaborator / In Memoriam
Joined: April 29 2006
Location: Atlantais
Status: Offline
Points: 29630
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Posted: March 16 2012 at 06:17 |
I'm going to have to blame it on the libertarians.  I don't think a drop off in postings or visitations is a sign of dieing. More like entropy.
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Snow Dog
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Joined: March 23 2005
Location: Caerdydd
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Posted: March 16 2012 at 04:42 |
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Another reason may be that in it's earlier time as it was gaining in popularity and fresh members were joining there was a feeling of finding a place to at last talk about a music largely reviled. Now PA has perhaps found it's natural plateau. Posts have eased off but are constant. Plus as has been said older members get tried of talking music but hang around in JFF because they like the company and friends they have made here.
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Dean
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Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout
Joined: May 13 2007
Location: Europe
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Points: 37575
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Posted: March 16 2012 at 04:33 |
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JFF is just an indication that people can only say so much about one subject (music) before they start repeating themselves... the only advantage of PA over single-artist forums is that once we've exhausted all we know of one band we can move onto another until all there is left to argue about is "what is Prog" for the gazillionth time, and the fact we have members who like fun.
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Henry Plainview
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Joined: May 26 2008
Location: Declined
Status: Offline
Points: 16715
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Posted: March 16 2012 at 02:41 |
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JFF has outpaced the rest of the forum for a long time, but if such a decline is real (I haven't noticed but I haven't been paying attention) I would attribute it to, as Dean said, the lull before the summer, and the fact that the we have been abandoned by the webmaster for 2 years now.
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if you own a sodastream i hate you
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DisgruntledPorcupine
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Joined: January 16 2010
Location: Thunder Bay CAN
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Points: 4395
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Posted: March 16 2012 at 00:43 |
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I haven't really noticed to be honest.
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Atavachron
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Joined: September 30 2006
Location: Pearland
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Posted: March 15 2012 at 20:27 |
Dean wrote:
And I'm not convinced that the prog is finding ground in the mainstream anymore now than it was ten years ago, |
nor am I; I do think it may be more popular, or of mild interest, to young and old, but the 'mainstream interest' seems about the same as it was a decade ago, which is to say deliciously tenuous.
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Dean
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Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout
Joined: May 13 2007
Location: Europe
Status: Offline
Points: 37575
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Posted: March 15 2012 at 20:18 |
The site's a bit flat at the moment - it comes in waves - sometimes it's busy, sometimes it's not, but there is always activity somewhere. What have we at the moment? - 25 members online while Europe is asleep, early evening on the East Coast - teatime on the West - it's okay, could be better, could be worse... I imagine a lot of college students have projects, asignments and assesments due soon - those finals are getting closer by the day.
And I'm not convinced that the prog is finding ground in the mainstream anymore now than it was ten years ago, whatever attention bands like 30 Seconds To Mars and Biffy Clyro are achieving is not being recognised here as Prog.
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