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hasheten 
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 Topic: Bon-jour?
Posted: January 17 2008 at 21:43 |
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Greetings, fellow prog-heads. I'm new here (big surprise), so I thought I'd introduce myself. This is in all actuality my third post, but like losing your virginity on prom night, we'll j ust forget it ever happened. lol Anyway enough bs: I was first introduce to the wonderful and zaney world of prog by way of Jethro Tull: not their seminal hard rock album Aqualung, though already a fan of it, I always felt its and album everyone should own. It was ironically their cash cow The Very Best of Jethro Tull (2001) that made me realize the beautiful, varied, acidic and vulnerable majesty that is the Tull. Along with the most enerjetic live performance I've ever seen, I was hooked. Then I found PA...and the transformation was complete: I nearly jumped off the punk/alternative bandwagon for Prog...although you never get punk out of your system. I enjoy many varied genres of prog although my favorites are: Folk-Prog, Proto-Prog (a stayover), Post Rock and espially Zeuhl and RIO/Avant-Prog. Bands include, the aforementioned Tull, Pink Floyd, ELP, Art Bears, Bondage Fruit, KOENJIHYAKKEI, and Le Silo, although I listen to probably every style of music known to man. One last note, although I may disagree with some ppl on various forums, I see why two ppl who disagree on things can't still be friends, so there's never any hard feelings involved with any critical writing of mine. Good wishes - Hasheten-
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Jshutt64
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Posted: January 17 2008 at 21:56 |
First of all....
DON'T WRITE WITH THE STRIKE THROUGH IT DRIVES ME CRAZY!!! 
Haha...I'm liking your music taste, especially the likes of Floyd and ELP. I hope you enjoy it here on PA. Welcome! 
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hasheten
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Posted: January 17 2008 at 22:25 |
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lol, I'll keep that in mind. I'm always finding new ways to seperate myself from the pack ;) btw what's your take on the <laughable> state of the music indumbstry? I'm thinking of boycotting Clive Davis and Barry Mannilow, anyone for tennis?
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micky
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Posted: January 17 2008 at 22:54 |
 Jshutt64 wrote:
First of all....
DON'T WRITE WITH THE STRIKE THROUGH IT DRIVES ME CRAZY!!!
Haha...I'm liking your music taste, especially the likes of Floyd and ELP. I hope you enjoy it here on PA. Welcome! |
dit...frickin....to that is annoying as hell... even more than I am coming into a thread...
Edited by micky - January 17 2008 at 22:54
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hasheten
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Posted: January 17 2008 at 23:02 |
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i heard that once already, its getting old now
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micky
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Posted: January 18 2008 at 18:09 |
hasheten wrote:
i heard that once already, its getting old now |
oh really....
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Spacemac
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Posted: January 18 2008 at 18:51 |
Welcome
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hasheten
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Posted: January 18 2008 at 21:03 |
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hey spacemac whats ur fav music lately?/jshutt64 got any non-prog favs?/micky-yup
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micky
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Posted: January 21 2008 at 18:33 |
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you have some great groups in that list there Hash. Speak up.. and speak loudly. It's a great forum...for the people here... they make the place. The prog is the cherry on top.
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Spacemac
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Posted: January 21 2008 at 20:46 |
Hello hasheten 
Let's see... Anekdoten  |
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Real Paradox
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Posted: January 22 2008 at 09:32 |
Hello and welcome to our dear forum.
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It is what keeps us going...
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Chicapah
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Posted: January 22 2008 at 11:17 |
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Howdy from Texas and welcome to the club.
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hasheten
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Posted: January 24 2008 at 23:07 |
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hello everybody, thanx for the welcome micky, what groups does any out there listen to? also, what non-prog bands do you like? im wondering how many ppl hate/love courtney love? im thinking of sending some bondage fruit mp3s, also anoice and ooioo. also i think we need a really great song from ELP, like perhaps Lucky Man from their first s/t album. what one do u think we should have from that album?
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micky
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Posted: January 25 2008 at 00:11 |
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The Barbarian is THE song of many great songs for me on that first one.
Have a list a mile wide for non prog favs... listen to as much non prog as prog.
Lets see... HUGE Allman Brothers Band fan... the same with Jefferson Airplane... the same with Steely Dan.... the same with Willie Nelson.... the same with Steve Winwood
amoung other favs.... Streisand... Duran Duran... Talking Heads.... Pat Benatar.. .Throwing Muses... 7 Year Bitch... Billie Holliday... Dave Brubeck
just boring you now I guess..
as far as Courtney Love.... interesting.. neither love nor hate... just intersting...
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hasheten
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Posted: February 02 2008 at 19:26 |
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thanx for the welcome again everyone/micky-id say nothing bores me, im either excited or fascinated but rarely bored. anyway ive heard some willie nelson, i especially like his version of Georgia on My Mind, i just recently got some Talking Heads on cd but havent listened yet but i will. those are pretty interesting non-prog choices id say. as u can tell on of my fav non-prog artists is courtney love, i especially love her work with Hole, Live Through This is her best album, the shear rage and vulnerability of her voice in "Violet" really encompases the story of a rape victim who also takes advantage of others, from the point of being raped/raping at the same time. im downloading John Cage right now, u should hear something of his, not much to enjoy but fun to listen to./Real Paradox and Chicapah whats ur prog and non-prog choices?/anybody hear anything from Henry Rollins solo/band? i remember being a kid and seeing him on saturday night live and thinking "ive got to get something of his".
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Evans
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Posted: February 03 2008 at 16:08 |
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You're strange. I like it.
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'Let's give it another fifteen seconds..'
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hasheten
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Posted: February 05 2008 at 23:59 |
hey evans, heh thats cool u think im strange whats your interest in prog/non-prog? i love just about every genre of music. i started out playing classical and jazz saxophone in my school band when i was younger, i then joined a jazz band of lawyers of all ppl as third sax player, specializing in improv, that was about the only music i listened to, i strayed away from jazz, had my classical collection stolen and delved into rock music. im just now getting back into jazz/classical. i also came of age during the industrial/electronic boom and think David Bowie's Earthling album is heaven. also in a related post no one seems to understand my "anyone for tennis" allusion from my original post. whomsoever figures out the meaning of it will win: absolutely nothing! haha! ^^
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Evans
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Posted: February 07 2008 at 06:30 |
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I guess it's from monty python's "salad days" skit, but what it does in your post i have absolutely no idea.
As for my interest in prog, it began a few years ago when i heard the Wall and was blown away, so i found this site and began listening to a lot of bands, weirder and weirder every day until i found my level of obscure-ness, which is slightly below Mike Patton, but slightly above Can, whom i love. Nowadays, i'm more into the Arctic Monkeys, Libertines and Belle and Sebastian, and classic heavy Led Zeppelin-type rock, but i listen to some prog too.
Never played an instrument, unfortunately. I would like to some day, but i need to take lessons and play with some friends, i suppose, i can't just sit at home playing guitar for hours a day, not knowing what the hell i'm doing.
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hasheten
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Posted: February 07 2008 at 18:46 |
youd be wrong if you went with monty...nope its actually a reference i ripped off of the cream song of the same name. i use it in the reference like "a few of you know what i mean, right?". i like your prog tastes, as for non-prog ive been meaning to listen to the libertines, as for the arctic monkeys, i was put off by all the media hype surrounding them so ill probably wait a while to hear them, but i always come around to a great band eventually. you should get an instrument, itll change your life. ive never played in a rock band, although im working on an avant-garde album made up of overdubs and multitracks with some of my rocker friends guesting once in a while. who knows when ill record it or if ill submit it to an indie label, probably not on the latter. also you should check out Anoice if you havent already, i really respect them to the nth degree. also takahiro kido and yuki murata's solo music is good too.
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Evans
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Posted: February 07 2008 at 18:59 |
I have tried several times to play different instruments, it all kinda trails off after a while. I guess i need to surround myself with some people who play as well, and take some lessons at the same time, but at the moment it's really hard to do such a thing, i only have 800 people to choose from in the town where i live! :) Libertines are great, but you need to be able to handle slightly sloppy playing, poppy songwriting and drug-abusing frontmen. Easily my favourite band at the moment, even if they're not really around anymore as a band. Anoice sounds kinda avant, i tried to listen to OOIOO a while ago, i have their "Kila Kila Kila" album in my shelf, but i almost never bring it out. However, there are tons of people here who just LOVE avant-garde music from japan, so you won't be disappointed. 
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