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Poll Question: Please state your age
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
14 [6.48%]
43 [19.91%]
14 [6.48%]
8 [3.70%]
21 [9.72%]
31 [14.35%]
24 [11.11%]
32 [14.81%]
22 [10.19%]
7 [3.24%]
0 [0.00%]
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Originally posted by Mirror Image Mirror Image wrote:

I'm 32 and I had my first experience with progressive rock when I was 4. Rush were the first prog band I ever heard. I believe it was the "A Show Of Hands" concert, but we also used to have 'dance nights' at the house and Rush would be featured on the turntable quite frequently.
Not quite sure what you mean, can you remember what your were listening at 4? A Show Of Hands is from 1989, that's 25 years ago so if you are 32 now things do not add up, you were at least 7 when you heard it for the first time.
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Lot of youths on the site... no wonder there's so much godforsaken metal


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Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

Hmmm...so far we have 87 people responding with 44 being under 40 and 43 members over 40.
A pretty even breakdown which surprises me a little. I assumed there would be many more over 40 since so many of us older guys grew up listening to the old time classic  prog bands .
 As an example my son in law doesn't really listen to prog even though I have tried my best and he's 31. My other son in law 32 doesn't listen to prog either and my daughter's ex  husband who is 34 listens to some prog and heavy metal but not really to old or new prog bands per se.
The only people I know in person who listen to all kinds of prog are all about 50  and older.
 


Half the people over 50 I know don't even own computers let alone have internet access, so that surely plays a part


Oh my, where do you live? LOL
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Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

Hmmm...so far we have 87 people responding with 44 being under 40 and 43 members over 40.
A pretty even breakdown which surprises me a little. I assumed there would be many more over 40 since so many of us older guys grew up listening to the old time classic  prog bands .
 As an example my son in law doesn't really listen to prog even though I have tried my best and he's 31. My other son in law 32 doesn't listen to prog either and my daughter's ex  husband who is 34 listens to some prog and heavy metal but not really to old or new prog bands per se.
The only people I know in person who listen to all kinds of prog are all about 50  and older.
 


Half the people over 50 I know don't even own computers let alone have internet access, so that surely plays a part
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Points: 20623 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 20 2014 at 22:12
Hmmm...so far we have 87 people responding with 44 being under 40 and 43 members over 40.
A pretty even breakdown which surprises me a little. I assumed there would be many more over 40 since so many of us older guys grew up listening to the old time classic  prog bands .
 As an example my son in law doesn't really listen to prog even though I have tried my best and he's 31. My other son in law 32 doesn't listen to prog either and my daughter's ex  husband who is 34 listens to some prog and heavy metal but not really to old or new prog bands per se.
The only people I know in person who listen to all kinds of prog are all about 50  and older.
 
 
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Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:


Originally posted by Queen By-Tor Queen By-Tor wrote:


I joined the site at 18 years old and I am 26 now :)


So in a way, you've grown up with PA.


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I'm 32 and I had my first experience with progressive rock when I was 4. Rush were the first prog band I ever heard. I believe it was the "A Show Of Hands" concert, but we also used to have 'dance nights' at the house and Rush would be featured on the turntable quite frequently.
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Points: 65266 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 20 2014 at 20:49
Originally posted by Queen By-Tor Queen By-Tor wrote:

I joined the site at 18 years old and I am 26 now :)

So in a way, you've grown up with PA.
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Points: 26138 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 20 2014 at 20:25
Originally posted by Prog_Traveller Prog_Traveller wrote:

I myself am 44 and finally voted. I got into this genre in the mid eighties(mainly through YES, Genesis and King Crimson at least initially).
that's pretty much true for me too (i'm 45)
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Points: 1474 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 20 2014 at 19:32
Well ok so 9 years ago it seemed to me that members on here leaned toward the young side but now it seems to me that prog fans(and not necessarily members on here)are still mostly old enough to remember first hand the seventies bands. I changed my mind slightly but was coming from a different angle. I don't see why that's so amusing or what the big deal is.

Edited by Prog_Traveller - July 20 2014 at 20:30
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 20 2014 at 19:19
I don't recall ever criticising you for starting two near identical threads - the time span between them is more than sufficient reason to re-ask the question.

Edited by Dean - July 20 2014 at 19:35
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Points: 1474 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 20 2014 at 18:54
For the record, the first was a thread only the second was a poll and yes people are allowed to change their mind believe it or not.

Edited by Prog_Traveller - July 20 2014 at 19:15
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Points: 1474 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 20 2014 at 18:52
No I just don't get why you have to be so belligerent about it. Some of your comments are completely unnecessary not to mention unacceptable.

Edited by Prog_Traveller - July 20 2014 at 19:14
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 20 2014 at 18:46
Originally posted by infocat infocat wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

I recalled there have been several threads on this topic - I did a simple search and your previous thread came up first. Nothing sinister, just knowing how and when to use the search function. Most polls produce a similar split much like this one, but if you want to see the correlation between age and location look at this poll by Peter, however the sample size is too small to have any meaning.

What you are polling is not the whole demographics of Prog Fans, but a sample demographic of Prog Fans who have time to waste on an internet forum that can be bothered to click a button.
Looks like that poll must have been done before the discovery of Australia.
It's certainly an old poll so the three people who voted "other" probably hadn't discovered Australia either.
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 20 2014 at 18:43
Originally posted by Prog_Traveller Prog_Traveller wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:



I recalled there have been several threads on this topic - I did a simple search and your previous thread came up first. Nothing sinister, just knowing how and when to use the search function. Most polls produce a similar split much like this one, but if you want to see the correlation between age and location look at this poll by Peter, however the sample size is too small to have any meaning.
What you are polling is not the whole demographics of Prog Fans, but a sample demographic of Prog Fans who have time to waste on an internet forum that can be bothered to click a button.




My previous thread was "what decade did you first get into prog" which is not quite the same thing. Yeah, some of us have time to waste and we do that by posting things that we find interesting. Others are more interested in analyzing their fellow prog fans motives for starting threads and trying to shame them(for whatever reason).
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1. Your previous thread was indeed "what decade did you first get into prog", which was last year so could not be the nine year-old thread I quoted (and linked btw).

2. Your previous previous thread was "How old are Prog Archive members?" which is exactly quite the same thing.

3. For the last time - I couldn't give a flying fart what your motives are - I found your previous previous thread because I was looking for older threads on the same subject to see if the membership demographic had changed over the years (it seems we've all been here too long and just gotten 10 years older). As I said it's nothing sinister and I haven't the desire nor wit to "keeps tabs on you" - you're really not that interesting and fast becoming even less interesting.

4. On finding that you had asked the same question 9 years ago but starting from an opposing presumption I thought was amusing - so I laughed - how sour do you have to be to not find that amusing? If that shames you then that's not my effing fault.

peace out.
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Points: 4671 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 20 2014 at 18:08
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

I recalled there have been several threads on this topic - I did a simple search and your previous thread came up first. Nothing sinister, just knowing how and when to use the search function. Most polls produce a similar split much like this one, but if you want to see the correlation between age and location look at this poll by Peter, however the sample size is too small to have any meaning.

What you are polling is not the whole demographics of Prog Fans, but a sample demographic of Prog Fans who have time to waste on an internet forum that can be bothered to click a button.
Looks like that poll must have been done before the discovery of Australia.
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