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    Posted: April 10 2004 at 18:14

According to the progarchives files, which one of the following countries is the most prog in terms of number of prog artists/bands and which one comes second : Italy, England, USA.

Clue : the number of prog artists/bands for these countries are : 164, 163, 158 (obviously not in the same order of appearance as the countries cited above).

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 11 2004 at 21:53

 Got a lot of time on your hands, eh?

I'll guess USA, England, Italy with 164, 163, and 158, respectively.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 11 2004 at 23:14
...I'm tempted to say a planet called earth, but that would not be specific enough.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 12 2004 at 05:02
Originally posted by Peter Rideout Peter Rideout wrote:

 Got a lot of time on your hands, eh?

I'll guess USA, England, Italy with 164, 163, and 158, respectively.

One of the countries is at its right place, the two others no. Try again, Pete  !

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 12 2004 at 20:12

Just a guess, of course, but how about -

Italy, England, and the USA?

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 12 2004 at 22:58
Originally posted by Stormcrow Stormcrow wrote:

Just a guess, of course, but how about -

Italy, England, and the USA?

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 13 2004 at 01:13

STEP ASIDE BOYS AND LET A MAN TAKE CHARGE!!!!...HERES MY GUESS

1 MONGOLIA

2 SIERRA LEONE

3 UZBEKISTAN



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 13 2004 at 01:16

1.  Botswana

2.  Lesotho

3.  Papua New Guinea

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 13 2004 at 12:44

Ok, I see that you don't want to play the game, so here is the answer

1. USA

2. Italy

3. England

Yes, there are more prog bands in Italy than in England.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 13 2004 at 13:09
I thought England was the biggest prog country!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 13 2004 at 14:25

Originally posted by Joren Joren wrote:

I thought England was the biggest prog country!

Yes, in term of diversity (sympho, folk, hard (KC), canterbury, jazz-fusion, space, electronic (Synergy)...) it is the biggest prog country. Unfortunately, old italian prog bands tend to sound all the same (that doesn't mean they are not worth listening to).

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 13 2004 at 20:52
Originally posted by lucas lucas wrote:

Ok, I see that you don't want to play the game, so here is the answer

1. USA

That surprises me.

Where I live, prog bands just don't exist.  The nearest live prog rock is a 7 - 12 hour drive away.

Back when I was in high school, we had Prog and Prog cover bands playing our high school dances.  There isn't even an FM prog radio station any more.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 14 2004 at 14:04

"There isn't even an FM prog radio station any more."

Was there ever one? Even 'Roundabout' is a rarity now. Ok, they do play 'Comfortably Numb' until you are just that.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 14 2004 at 16:51
Some of Pink Floyd stuff really crosses over. Why is that? Melody? Gilmour's voice? Subject matter?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 14 2004 at 22:02
Originally posted by Gonghobbit Gonghobbit wrote:

"There isn't even an FM prog radio station any more."

Was there ever one? Even 'Roundabout' is a rarity now. Ok, they do play 'Comfortably Numb' until you are just that.

Yes there was an FM station in my area that played jazz all day and prog all night.  They cut their power and went NPR many years ago though.

And when I was in college I traded engineer and DJ jobs ever other night on a four hour campus radio show called "From The Sarcophagus", where the other guy and I played nothing but prog and hard rock, until we pulled the plug at 1 AM.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 04 2004 at 12:52

UZBEKISTAN

 

Gunesh comes from the country next door, Turkmanistan, and their drummer nearly ended playing for Peter Gabriel in the late 80's .

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 30 2004 at 05:03

Originally posted by Joren Joren wrote:

I thought England was the biggest prog country!

I haven't counted, but would be willing to bet that England has released more prog albums (studio) than any other country. There are a lot of U.S. and Italian bands with only 1-5 releases, whereas England has some real album releasing machines (Floyd, Genesis, Yes, KC, Camel, GG, BJHarvest, Renaisance, PHamill, (and don't worry - I haven't forgot ELP threefates), to name a few.)

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 30 2004 at 14:45
Does "England" exclude the rest of the UK, or are bands like Pallas (who are not English) included in the count?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 30 2004 at 18:47

Originally posted by Easy Livin Easy Livin wrote:

Does "England" exclude the rest of the UK, or are bands like Pallas (who are not English) included in the count?

At the time I began this thread, I probably included Pallas in the "England" field.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 30 2004 at 21:39

Originally posted by danbo danbo wrote:

Some of Pink Floyd stuff really crosses over. Why is that? Melody? Gilmour's voice? Subject matter?

Gilmour's guitar... Water's dreary lyrics... which seem to relate to every repressed teenager out there... especially any of them smoking pot..

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 (and don't worry - I haven't forgot ELP threefates), to name a few.)

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