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Guldbamsen 
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Retired Admin Joined: January 22 2009 Location: Magic Theatre Status: Offline Points: 23104 |
 Posted: March 24 2014 at 14:30 |
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Fantastic news then! I guess if the Huffington post says so, then it surely must be true. I can't wait! Say Dean - any chance you'll take on your old job if we're about to be flooded with new prog rock fans who all have read the paper?
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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.”
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aapatsos
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: November 11 2005 Location: Manchester, UK Status: Offline Points: 9226 |
Posted: March 24 2014 at 13:57 |
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Dean
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Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575 |
Posted: March 24 2014 at 12:29 |
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Is Prog Rock the New Folk?Scroll down to the bottom (okay, read the article first if you must) - notice the first three links in the
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Guldbamsen
Special Collaborator
Retired Admin Joined: January 22 2009 Location: Magic Theatre Status: Offline Points: 23104 |
Posted: March 24 2014 at 10:48 |
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I get what you're on about Austin, and for a long while I felt much the same: Why doesn't this site attract more people? Especially considering just how much "experimental" music is being released nowadays - just take a look at RYM and the top releases. Sure we're not talking vanilla prog or mellotron heaven, but there should be lots to love on PA for a teenager who is fed up with the radio bs recycling and other such corporate institutions.
The thing is, PA has a pretty set rate visitor-wise. We have some 50000 members, of which there are a lot of double accounts, spammers, jokers, hustlers and rating abusers.....and then you got all those folks who don't visit anymore. BUT on a day to day basis, we're about the same amount of visitors that we've always been - at least while I've been frequenting. New faces pop in - old ones disappear and so it goes for better or worse. Maybe if prog rock was to be the new thang and get monster attention from tv and radio - and this huge comeback emerges from the ashes like a rising phoenix of extended solos and unfathomable time signatures, - maybe then we'll see some new faces. I just don't think prog is on the verge of making it big....again.....at least not anytime soon, and speaking from a collaborator's pov, then I could see this turning PA into a HUUUUUUUGE place, where we'd have to have teams for every part of the forum. Oh and can you imagine how many new threads we'd see, where people with their panties in a twist would scold us for not having Flaming Lips, Animal Collective and XTC up in this mother  Sounds like a wee thing, but then again we've never had to explain ourselves to thousands of different people. The way I see it, PA is what it is on account of it's relatively small size. Folks know each other and remember things from threads they posted in. If you pour some 1000s of new people in the boat, I'm afraid the intimacy of this place will disappear. I'm not saying I don't want new blood and new people to talk to - heck, I'm just about the most outgoing maniac around here - but I would hate to see PA transform into this big machine, where intimacy would be reserved for those few of us who frequent the dark side of the loon aka Collaborator Zone. Maybe I'm "painting the devil on the door" as we say in Denmark, but I love this place for it's people. Maybe we could start catering to a small few then? Bicyclists, gymnasts, Armenian truckers, Ugandan bisexuals and other such relatively small groups of people. There's always the titty factor though..........or perhaps the lack thereof
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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.”
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Chris S
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: June 09 2004 Location: Front Range Status: Offline Points: 7028 |
Posted: March 24 2014 at 04:27 |
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The site has achieved what it started out doing, get reviews and clicks. I still like to click on the 50 reviews tab and read and scroll. There seems to be quite a few people still reviewing. As for the forum well it has got quieter, but that is only from the sections as I see it that I visit. Would not trade this place for any other music site, long may the server 'live'
 . As for getting new members.......M@x needs a marketing person!Edited by Chris S - March 24 2014 at 04:29 |
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chopper
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: July 13 2005 Location: Essex, UK Status: Offline Points: 20030 |
Posted: March 24 2014 at 03:11 |
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 Nah, some people would just post rubbish all day for the sake of it.
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seventhsojourn
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: December 11 2009 Location: . Status: Offline Points: 4006 |
Posted: March 24 2014 at 02:50 |
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tamijo
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Joined: January 06 2009 Location: Denmark Status: Offline Points: 4287 |
Posted: March 24 2014 at 02:45 |
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"signed photos of Dean" puuu-ha, that part saved my azz, thought you were serious for a second or two
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Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours
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chopper
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: July 13 2005 Location: Essex, UK Status: Offline Points: 20030 |
Posted: March 24 2014 at 02:20 |
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We should get loyalty points for each post, then when you've built enough points you can exchange them for PA goodies - pens, baseball caps, signed photos of Dean etc.
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irrelevant
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: March 07 2010 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 13382 |
Posted: March 24 2014 at 02:06 |
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It's because some innocent new forum lurkers often happen to open a thread where Svetonio has got in there and posted so many youtube embeds that they're stuck on a page that they can't get out of for eternity.
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ExittheLemming
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Joined: October 19 2007 Location: Penal Colony Status: Offline Points: 11415 |
Posted: March 24 2014 at 02:02 |
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You know the 'Reader's Wives' section in a porn mag? |
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cstack3
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VIP Member Joined: July 20 2009 Location: Tucson, AZ USA Status: Offline Points: 7275 |
Posted: March 24 2014 at 01:58 |
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What's a "Just for Fun" section?
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Aussie-Byrd-Brother
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: October 12 2011 Location: Melb, Australia Status: Offline Points: 7951 |
Posted: March 24 2014 at 01:52 |
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I don't think I've even looked at the `Just For Fun' section in almost a year!!
Too busy in just the music discussion areas!
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Atavachron
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: September 30 2006 Location: Pearland Status: Offline Points: 65268 |
Posted: March 24 2014 at 01:50 |
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^ Not as long as we keep listening to it.
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ExittheLemming
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Joined: October 19 2007 Location: Penal Colony Status: Offline Points: 11415 |
Posted: March 24 2014 at 01:25 |
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Yes, there is that perspective of course but I can see >540,000 posts in General Discussions alone while Prog Music Lounge plus Prog Bands, Artists and Genre Appreciation combined don't even add to that figure. Having said that, Just For Fun has nearly a million posts  Have we simply run out of things to say about the music we profess to love?Edited by ExittheLemming - March 24 2014 at 01:26 |
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Man With Hat
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Jazz-Rock/Fusion/Canterbury Team Joined: March 12 2005 Location: Neurotica Status: Offline Points: 166178 |
Posted: March 24 2014 at 01:16 |
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I've never considered this a problem if I'm honest.
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Dig me...But don't...Bury me
I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
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Dayvenkirq
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Joined: May 25 2011 Location: Los Angeles, CA Status: Offline Points: 10970 |
Posted: March 24 2014 at 00:52 |
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infocat
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VIP Member Joined: June 10 2011 Location: Colorado, USA Status: Offline Points: 4671 |
Posted: March 24 2014 at 00:38 |
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cstack3
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VIP Member Joined: July 20 2009 Location: Tucson, AZ USA Status: Offline Points: 7275 |
Posted: March 24 2014 at 00:36 |
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I keep coming back to hear PresDoug talk about Triumvirat!
 Seriously, it is a rather small circle, but I quite enjoy the comradery. Also, the knowledge of music in general, and prog music in particular, is absolutely top-shelf in this crowd....I come back so often because I learn a great deal. Now, to get more members...I don't know, recruit more babes?
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Atavachron
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator Joined: September 30 2006 Location: Pearland Status: Offline Points: 65268 |
Posted: March 24 2014 at 00:33 |
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^ ^ I've noticed a slight movement toward general discussion, which both
does and does not bother me. Whether it puts new posters off is
very hard to say. One might posit that too little general conv
would attract too few average people/music fans. Apparently the
top ten active forums focus on art, gaming, social, martial arts,
entertainment and paintball. Which either means those forums
happen to have a lot of chatty members or those topics are very
popular. I tend to suspect the latter. And as we all
know, prog can never compete with paintball.
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