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Poll Question: how do your friends feel about prog?
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10 [16.13%]
1 [1.61%]
4 [6.45%]
14 [22.58%]
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1 [1.61%]
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Points: 502 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 16 2005 at 19:22
Unfortunately I was the type of person to not know what it IS till a couple of weeks ago. Now...I'm hooked. When my mate told me "I believe the best year in the history of music was 1967." all I could do was mock him about wanting to dance with a bunch of short-haired Go-go girls. Now, however, I can see exactly where he's coming from..and all I can say is . I never thought 60s/70s music could be this good, nor did I think thered be anyone from our generation who would still appreciate it. It's so Great!!
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It's horrible I tell you! HORRIBLE!!

Yes my friends, a 7 minute song CAN be interesting!

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my friends think a 5 minute song is long

so i told them the longest song i've heard is Six Degrees of Inner Turbulance at 43 minutes long

they just stared...

(it's either jazz or Metallica or the theme song from "Metal Gear Solid" for them)
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Most of my friends are intellectuals like myself, so they listen to a lot of 70s music.  Yes and Floyd are really the only prog bands they like, but they are aware of the genre and respect it, though it's not their cup of tea. 
And I am not frightened of dying, any time will do, I
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Aaah intellectuals. If only they werent found *just* at the Universities in this country. (not that I'm ever away from the Univeristy- it's kinda become my home.) That's New Zealand for you I suppose.
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Each time I try to introduce a prog song to a friend it's the same story... He/She listens for one minute, and with a bored expression, he/she says: "can we put blink 182 or simpleplan"??

AAAAARGHHHHHHH makes me sick LOL
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ARRRGH!! SIMPLE PLAN!! MY EARS!!!!!!!!!!
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Most of my friends have never heard of any of the bands that I listen to,and most of them don't really like what they hear.Poor dumb bastards.


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Who are Blink 182? I never heard that name before.


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I got a couple of friends into Marillion, that's about as far as it went. Though they love Pink Floyd.
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They can't understand this music and rock generaly!
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they like blink 182 (why are they my friends again?)

and greenday....and good charlotte......and the used.....and much more.......................................... sh*t i dont even want to mention
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If your friends listen to sh!t music, what got you into prog?

For me it was my dad.
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My one older brother and his friends were my main influences that got me into Prog.  I always loved hard rock - Rush, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Zeppelin - as well as "mainstream" prog like Pink Floyd, ELP, Yes, Genesis (when I say "mainstream" I don't mean it as an insult - means more like radio-friendly and well-known).  Then I started liking other bands like Spock's Beard, Marillion, Magellan, Ozric Tentacles, and Dream Theater.

Most of my friends know of prog and respect it, they just don't have the mindset for it.
The more that things change, the more they stay the same.

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Most of them like prog aswell as metal or even better, the comination of those like in Psychotic Waltz, Voivod and such bands.
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Heh- I only have one friend who's into prog and that's my boyfriend who got me into it in the first place...it would be kool if my Dad was into it too..but Nooooooo. 20s-50s jazz for him- bing crosby and bille holiday all over the place.  I was traumatised since birth.
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Points: 2188 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 26 2005 at 14:13
Originally posted by Bj-1 Bj-1 wrote:

...and that the guitar players on the Avril Lavigne album was better than John Petrucci!

 

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