AVATAR, AND WHY ?
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Topic: AVATAR, AND WHY ?
Posted By: aapatsos
Subject: AVATAR, AND WHY ?
Date Posted: December 14 2005 at 20:44
Well I don't know if this thread has been here before
I was just wondering why have you selected your avatar?
is there sth special about it?
mine is because I love Ancient Greece
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Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: December 14 2005 at 20:47
Quadrophenia by the Who. It's my favorite album.
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Posted By: Arnold Layne
Date Posted: December 14 2005 at 20:48
i saw it and liked it, thats all there is to it
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Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: December 14 2005 at 20:58
My Favorite Album of all Time! 
CAUSE OF HOT AND SEXY GILDENLOW TOOO! 
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: December 14 2005 at 21:07
Why don't you come out of the closet already, Flossy?! 
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: December 14 2005 at 21:08
Anyway, mine varies, usually between prog albums I like. But now it's a nice sci-fi pic.

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Posted By: AtLossForWords
Date Posted: December 14 2005 at 21:10
Pseudo abstract art is my choice. I get the feeling Robert Fripp would really like my avatar.
My signature is the amazing John Myung, because I'm a total Dream Theater fanboy, and he is my all-time bass idol. I know two albums plus of his matierial.
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Posted By: aapatsos
Date Posted: December 14 2005 at 21:42
King of Loss wrote:
My Favorite Album of all Time! 
CAUSE OF HOT AND SEXY GILDENLOW TOOO! 
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BE is your favourite album of all times ? 
I think its a very good album, but my heart is dedicated to THE PERFECT (indeed) ELEMENT!
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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: December 14 2005 at 21:46
Mine are usually Tool related.But I am a Star Wars freak and my favorite character is Boba Fett,so I have been using a Fett avatar for awhile.
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Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: December 14 2005 at 21:49
Mine is because i love Rick Wakeman
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Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: December 14 2005 at 22:46
I'm into Magma recently, so my avatar is a spinning Magma logo
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Posted By: GoldenSpiral
Date Posted: December 14 2005 at 22:51
my avatar is Paz Lenchantin, bassist for A Perfect Circle.
not a prog band, but she is a SERIOUS babe! here's a closeup:

another hot one:

man, she's a FOX!    
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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 00:04
^^^^^
Yeah...I agree,Paz is pretty hot.
She looks pretty fine in the APC video for the song "Judith".
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Posted By: tardis
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 00:16
Mine is because I like Doctor Who.
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Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 00:40
I change mine from time to time- usually bands or albums that I like
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Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 00:41
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 03:35
< The immaculate 40 minutes that is Robin Trower's 'Bridge Of Sighs'
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Jon Lord 1941 - 2012
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Posted By: NutterAlert
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 03:50
Mr Hammill being silly with only half a beard in 1978 for cover of Future Now solo album
I quite like Mr Hammill 
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Posted By: Starette
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 05:09
Mine is a changed (aqua-ed up) version of the Tarkus album- because I love Tarkus but I knew there were other people on here with that as their avatar.
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Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 07:44
My avatar is Yes' Tales From Topographic Oceans (with a walrus in it Thanx, Miracle ) because it's one of my favorite covers of all time! Really beautiful
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 08:04
I like cartoons, and Asterix is one of my favourite cartoon heroes.
My last avatar before Asterix was a painting by Paul Whitehead, the guy who did early Genesis sleeves.
Earlier on I used album sleeves I like, from Anthony Phillips, Eddie Jobson and Traffic. I started out with a Mondriaan painting (my first avatar).
I just like to use images I like, and have to do with music or art that I like.
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Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 09:44
I'm a big Magma fan, but other posters use or have used variants of their famous logo. My avatar is the cover of Christian Vander's solo album Wurdah Itah, which is a Magma album in all but name. It's also the second movement of the Theusz Hamtaahk (Time of Hatred) trilogy - Wurdah Itah means Dead Earth (as in the planet).
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Posted By: Deliriumist
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 09:50
I've got mine 'cause it's so stupid ...not saying that I am.
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Posted By: JayDee
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 10:07
coz its nearing christmas 
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Posted By: Bob Greece
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 10:10
My favourite band is Ozric Tentacles and my avatar is from their album "Live at the Pongmaster's Ball" because it has a really psychedelic cover.
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Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 11:44
I'm a HUGE motorsport fan and my avatar is of the Aston Martin DBR9 that won the Tourist Trophy at Silverstone in May (driven by David Brabham and Darren Turner).
I was at the race and took the picture as the car came round the Abby hairpin bend.
Gorgeous car
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Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 12:09

To Watch The Storms...apart from being a superb album by the incredible Mr Steve Hackett,watching the storms seemed pretty apt for a moderator!
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Posted By: NutterAlert
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 12:16
another moderator centric avatar

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Posted By: NutterAlert
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 12:25
or maybe..

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Posted By: BitchBrew
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 12:36
I was told to get an xmas avatar. and I did!
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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 13:11
something related to space...
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Posted By: aapatsos
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 13:50
Bob Greece wrote:
My favourite band is Ozric Tentacles and my avatar is from their album "Live at the Pongmaster's Ball" because it has a really psychedelic cover. |
most of their covers are great, psychedelic and weird 
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Posted By: horza
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 13:55
I love Sci-Fi and fantasy and my avatars reflect that usually
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Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot.
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Posted By: aapatsos
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 13:59
horza wrote:
I love Sci-Fi and fantasy and my avatars reflect that usually  |
LOOKS LIKE GIGGER ART, DOESN'T IT ? 
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Posted By: Zac M
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 14:01
I just changed mine from a marvelous picture of the great Karl Jenkins
to Klaus Schulze's album X, by far one of the best eletronic albums I
have heard to date.
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Posted By: horza
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 14:08
thats right
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Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot.
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Posted By: Trotsky
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 14:14
Mine was a spinning hammer and sickle for awhile ... but it's been a picture of a grave injustice that occured at a football match between Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United for quite some time now
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 14:20
My avatar is an orange M&M dressed as Emperor Palpatine from Star
Wars. My sons bought loads of these while we were on holiday in Florida.
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Posted By: Wilcey
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 14:31
I change my avatar from time to time, sometimes it reflects an album that I am listening to heavily, right now it is a picure of some of my tattoo on my back, that I took over my shoulder through a mirror!
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Posted By: horza
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 14:36
horza wrote:
thats right  |
or rather - it did!!
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Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot.
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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 14:41
Tony R wrote:

To Watch The Storms...apart from being a superb album by the incredible Mr Steve Hackett,watching the storms seemed pretty apt for a moderator!
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That is very apt,Tony 
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Posted By: Empathy
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 15:15
Why, shameless self promotion, of course!
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: December 15 2005 at 18:33
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: December 18 2005 at 02:42
What can be better than a lightbulb???
And it will never change 
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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: December 18 2005 at 02:44
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: December 18 2005 at 02:47
 
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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: December 18 2005 at 02:53
I think the guest group should have a common avatar...like

or

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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: December 18 2005 at 02:56
 
The last one 
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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: December 18 2005 at 03:00
right on!
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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: December 18 2005 at 03:04
new options
  
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: December 18 2005 at 03:10
The fuse one looks good to me 
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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: December 18 2005 at 05:00
yeah,that's a good way to represent our angry and pissed off members who got carried away...
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: December 18 2005 at 10:13
Personally, I'm rather fond of my Avatar...
....Eloy Rock The Celestial Heavens!!!
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Posted By: The Wizard
Date Posted: December 18 2005 at 10:24
Piper at the Gates of Dawn is my favorite album of all time.
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Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: December 18 2005 at 11:16
My avatar is from the Bear In The Big Blue House...
Why? I have no idea...
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Posted By: ClemofNazareth
Date Posted: December 18 2005 at 11:32
Arnold Layne wrote:
i saw it and liked it, thats all there is to it |
ditto for me
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Posted By: proger
Date Posted: December 18 2005 at 11:51
its my dog
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: December 18 2005 at 12:15
^^^ he looks as if he's the man eating type...
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Posted By: Moatilliatta
Date Posted: December 18 2005 at 12:28
I chose the album cover art for Frances the Mute, because I love it.
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