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Careful, SV - a lady on this forum saying she cannot find a man into prog......

You'll get offers & proposals from as far afield as Australia, Canada, U.S.A., and The Netherlands - sounds great, but these will all be from socially inept buffoons... trust me, I know them all well!

Please do not use this forum as a dating service, you will only lead yourself to bitter disappointment , despondency , and ultimately, a broken Caledonian heart .

My wife always likes going to prog gigs for the simple reason she knows that the audience will be 99% men of a certain age - the advantage to her of this is that there is never any queue for the Ladies' loos.

When we first met, I don't think Vicky had even heard of the expression 'progressive rock', but through due diligence, tenacity, sheer bloody mindedness & a relentlessly firm grip on the Hi-Fi remote control, I eventually won her round - most of it was easy (she proved to be a very apt & willing pupil), but the most challenging artists were definitely Zappa & Yes; I won her over to Zappa relatively quicky (about 5/6 years), but Yes took a lot longer (nearer 10 years). Ironically, with Yes, the breakthrough came with 'Topographic Oceans', usually seen as their most difficult album.

She is still in the minority - of all our friends in long term relationships / marriages etc, I think it is only Vicky on the female side who has got into prog (indeed, our friend Chris's wife has been known to react to Hatfield & The North by bursting into the room exclaiming "what's this sh ???").

What is it with progressive rock & the male gender, eh??

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Jim Garten wrote: My wife always likes going to prog gigs for the simple reason she knows that the audience will be 99% men of a certain age - the advantage to her of this is that there is never any queue for the Ladies' loos. When we first met, I don't think Vicky had even heard of the expression 'progressive rock', but through due diligence, tenacity, sheer bloody mindedness & a relentlessly firm grip on the Hi-Fi remote control, I eventually won her round - most of it was easy (she proved to be a very apt & willing pupil), but the most challenging artists were definitely Zappa & Yes; I won her over to Zappa relatively quicky (about 5/6 years), but Yes took a lot longer (nearer 10 years). Ironically, with Yes, the breakthrough came with 'Topographic Oceans', usually seen as their most difficult album. She is still in the minority - of all our friends in long term relationships / marriages etc, I think it is only Vicky on the female side who has got into prog (indeed, our friend Chris's wife has been known to react to Hatfield & The North by bursting into the room exclaiming "what's this sh ???"). What is it with progressive rock & the male gender, eh??

My wife will be accompanying me to CalProg. This should be interesting, she's not a progger. She does like the tunes we can play and harmonize to: "Distance to the Sun" (Spock's Beard), "Lucky Man" (ELP) and "In Your Eyes" (Peter Gabriel - borderline prog).

I know IZZ will knock her socks off, but I'm not really familiar with Enchant or Eric Norlander. I hope Neal Morse does some Spock stuff she's heard. I played the MP3 "Louie" from Keneally for her. She just gave that blank stare and a smile. Hmm? http://www.calprogday.com/ 

Jim, Thank you for the info about the short loo lines. My wife will be quite happy about that.

S.Violet, welcome to the board. I hope you won't be offended by the Aussie, Brit and Canuck, they tend to get a bit offensive in their posting. Remember the American can be counted on the serve and protect.

 

 

I prefer sushi to hamburger, thank you.

NRA? No, I'm not. The only gun I own is my  and it only shoots blanks. Did Rideout start this crap?

Gotta love Frank though.

>> S.Violet, welcome to the board. I hope you won't be offended by the Aussie, Brit and Canuck, they tend to get a bit offensive in their posting. Remember the American can be counted on the serve and protect. <<

Yeah? Serve and protect his own unilateral political and economic interests by driving around in huge obscene gas guzzeling Detroit chrome monsters and f%#k the enviroment and the rest of the world, cus hey, if Bush agrees to do anything about it he'll be crushed by the corporate giants who hold the mighty dollar and his balls firmly in their mits.

raggy wrote: >> S.Violet, welcome to the board. I hope you won't be offended by the Aussie, Brit and Canuck, they tend to get a bit offensive in their posting. Remember the American can be counted on the serve and protect. << Yeah? Serve and protect his own unilateral political and economic interests by driving around in huge obscene gas guzzeling Detroit chrome monsters and f%#k the enviroment and the rest of the world, cus hey, if Bush agrees to do anything about it he'll be crushed by the corporate giants who hold the mighty dollar and his balls firmly in their mits.

Indeed.

Max - probably best if you remove posts back to my post regarding the NRA....... This was meant as a tease for Danbo, and to lead on to one of my favorite Zappa quotes, not as a lead in to generalised American bashing.

Ironic though, this should happen on a thread regarding testosterone

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danbo wrote: Damn, ya'll. One must understand that my posts, for the most part, have my tongue firmly planted in my cheek. Please do not confuse or assume that I am speaking on any condition of AUTHORITY. Merely having a spot o' fun with this World Wide forum. I take return posts with the assumptions that they too are having a bit o' fun. Hey I recycle!!!! Peace, bro's

Right on, Brother Danbo!

 I also want to stress to newcomers that many of us have been teasing each other re nationality, baldness, dancing, etc, for some time here. We understand each other, have communicated with Private Messages, and have discovered just who does, and who does not, share our off-key sense of humour. We generally try to make this a fun and pleasant place to "visit."

Thus, when I call my dear cyber-pal Jim "Limey Slime," I am (mostly) joking,  and inviting a similar response from him (which I usually get).

 But: this is a forum dedicated to progressive rock, not politics. If you want to bash America, and the policies of the Bush government, I'm sure that there are plenty of other forums out there on the Web that are dedicated to such topics.

Thanks,

Peter Rideout

PS: Danbo, do you really recycle your bathroom tissue, as Jim has told me you do?

 

 

Peter Rideout wrote: Right on, Brother Danbo! Peter Rideout PS: Danbo, do you really recycle your bathroom tissue, as Jim has told me you do?

 

 Yes sir I do Master Rideout. 

 Rather than a flush down the ole Canadian turnpike, I bag it up and send it right to Jim's doorstep. Jim said he prefers the peanuts and corn variety. A bit of scratch with the wipe, I'd say.

Cheerio Jim, wot wot?     

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