I'm new and I like the best prog bands!

Bluenipper wrote: Yeah I have listened to some classics like Yes, King Crimson and Genesis but I don't really like it enough to purchase any albums. I prefer the more modern take on progressive music.

Bluenipper wrote: I do like Haken and the Flower Kings although I don't have any of their albums as of yet.

How about Frank Zappa? I think his music has something for everyone to enjoy.

Moogtron III wrote: Angelo wrote: Moogtron III wrote:   I'm more of a vintage, classical kind of guy and that's good too  Vintage, and reliced, given that you have been here for a couple of aeons... Reliced, what's that? Couldn't find it on Google Translate. But I have been here for a long time, yes, I have so much wisdom to share.  There is in fact more earth than sea

"Reliced" is "having had the lice put back in after a delousing".


Edited by BaldFriede - February 09 2013 at 15:55

Welcome n00b. We will slowly crush the music-loving part of your soul and leave you a bitter husk of a person. 

in my opinion the best prog bands were the bands of the late 60s and early 70s. I will explain why: in these days everything was possible and no artistic compromises necessary; record companies were hungry for new bands and would produce any album, no matter what the content was (and often rip off the artists with the contracts they made them sign).

these days any band that does something really original will be told that there is "no commercial potential" by some A&R man, so either the band has to find some alternative label or produce and distribute their album on their own. or just give in and compromise. the production of the records may be better this way, but the artistic originality will suffer. and artistic originality is much more important for me than perfection of production; I'd rather listen to a badly produced album full of highly original ideas than to a perfect run-of-the-mill production.

of course there is the odd exception every now and then. but mostly today's music has become quite uniform and therefore boring


Edited by BaldJean - February 10 2013 at 00:04

Angelo wrote: Moogtron III wrote: Angelo wrote: Moogtron III wrote:   I'm more of a vintage, classical kind of guy and that's good too  Vintage, and reliced, given that you have been here for a couple of aeons... Reliced, what's that? Couldn't find it on Google Translate. But I have been here for a long time, yes, I have so much wisdom to share.  There is in fact more earth than sea  Relicing is the process of damaging the paint and surface of perfectly good guitars and basses to make them look 'vintage'. Here's an example. If you couldn't find that, you're Google skills are in line with your PA-age

BaldFriede wrote: Moogtron III wrote: Angelo wrote: Moogtron III wrote:   I'm more of a vintage, classical kind of guy and that's good too  Vintage, and reliced, given that you have been here for a couple of aeons... Reliced, what's that? Couldn't find it on Google Translate. But I have been here for a long time, yes, I have so much wisdom to share.  There is in fact more earth than sea  "Reliced" is "having had the lice put back in after a delousing".

Moogtron III wrote: Angelo wrote: Moogtron III wrote: Angelo wrote: Moogtron III wrote:   I'm more of a vintage, classical kind of guy and that's good too  Vintage, and reliced, given that you have been here for a couple of aeons... Reliced, what's that? Couldn't find it on Google Translate. But I have been here for a long time, yes, I have so much wisdom to share.  There is in fact more earth than sea  Relicing is the process of damaging the paint and surface of perfectly good guitars and basses to make them look 'vintage'. Here's an example. If you couldn't find that, you're Google skills are in line with your PA-age   Oops, I was thinking it was a typo after Translate didn't give a translation, I didn't even try Google   Hmm, well... I still learned something at my... PA-age

perhaps the most amazing feature of the English language: you can turn anything into a verb. this is for example by far not the same in German, though lately following the global trend of anglicisation, which the German language has become a victim of too, some forced efforts are being made at it. the most amazing feature of the German language is the ability of making compound words. Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitänsmützenband (meaning "ribbon on the cap of a captain of the Danube steamship company").


Edited by BaldJean - February 10 2013 at 14:19

akamaisondufromage wrote: However, call me an old fuddydudddy but I don't think Relic makes a verb!?  It should be 'aged' no?  But like you say, if someone wants to and someone else likes it then that makes me   astuckinthemudpersonwhoisresistanttochange.   as we say here!

that sounds cheesy, if I may say so with a slight bow towards your nickname in here

as to "aged" instead of "reliced": "relicing" is one of the examples of that amazing feature of the English language which I mentioned


Edited by BaldJean - February 10 2013 at 14:22

BaldJean wrote: akamaisondufromage wrote: However, call me an old fuddydudddy but I don't think Relic makes a verb!?  It should be 'aged' no?  But like you say, if someone wants to and someone else likes it then that makes me   astuckinthemudpersonwhoisresistanttochange.   as we say here! that sounds cheesy, if I may say so with a slight bow towards your nickname in here as to "aged" instead of "reliced": "relicing" is one of the examples of that amazing feature of the English language which I mentioned

BaldJean wrote: akamaisondufromage wrote: However, call me an old fuddydudddy but I don't think Relic makes a verb!?  It should be 'aged' no?  But like you say, if someone wants to and someone else likes it then that makes me   astuckinthemudpersonwhoisresistanttochange.   as we say here! that sounds cheesy, if I may say so with a slight bow towards your nickname in here as to "aged" instead of "reliced": "relicing" is one of the examples of that amazing feature of the English language which I mentioned

  'Cheesy'? I thought you meant the 'aged' bit but obviously not?