Hello all!
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Forum Description: Introduce yourself and tell us what prog music you listen to
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Topic: Hello all!
Posted By: Neil Palfreyman
Subject: Hello all!
Date Posted: April 14 2009 at 02:16
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Hello all! You’ll notice from my registration date that I’m hardly a noob to Progarchives – I have used the archive a lot for reference since I registered but have only just started actively posting so thought I had better introduce myself! I grew up in UK in the ‘70s listening to bands like Yes, Genesis, Hawkwind, Curved Air and Uriah Heep – in fact the first album I really got into was Demons and Wizards (I still play it!) During the ‘80s I never really did the punk thing, preferring bands like Rush, Magnum, Eloy, Hawkwind, Twelfth Night and Marillion, though a number of bands like The Clash, Stranglers, Blondie, Psychic TV, Ultravox made an impression too. Fast forward a couple of decades (I’ve been following “prog-influenced” mainstream bands like Radiohead and Muse, as well as keeping up to date with the old favourites in the meantime) to early 2007 and a very good friend of mine introduces me to Porcupine Tree. I’m blown away and start buying their CDs. Big time. Another (German) friend introduces me to a lot of new-ish prog bands like Arena, Dream Theatre, Spock’s Beard. Realising there’s a very active, vibrant music scene outside of mainstream for exactly the kind of music I love was a revelation to me. In the last two years I’ve bought more CDs and gone to more gigs than I did in the previous 20. I still love the old classics but have a load of new favourites now: Pendragon, Anathema, The Pineapple Thief, RPWL, Gazpacho, Porcupine Tree, Magenta, Frost*, Steve Thorne, Pure Reason Revolution, Arena. Despite the recession the entire prog scene feels really vibrant and alive to me – it’s an exciting time to be into good music again! So now I buy a lot of music (physical only, no downloads for me, though I do rip everything I buy) and go to a lot of gigs. One of my hobbies is photography so you’ll often find me down the front at gigs with a camera and I post the best pics from every gig at http://www.myspace.com/neilpalfreyman - http://www.myspace.com/neilpalfreyman I also keep my gig calenda on MySpace up to date so feel free to say hello if your ever at any of the same gigs! ------------- Question everything, believe nothing We talk music, we talk nothing |
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Posted By: Neil Palfreyman
Date Posted: April 14 2009 at 02:19
...oops; not sure what happened with the formatting there 
------------- Question everything, believe nothing We talk music, we talk nothing |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: April 14 2009 at 02:27
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welcome Neil, back around 2000 I too was thrilled to see not only a thriving modern prog scene but the reissue of many of the vintage albums that filled in the gaps in the 70s ..hope you enjoy it here |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: April 14 2009 at 02:29
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oh BTW, we have a Swindonian who may say hi ..he's not at all well |
Posted By: Neil Palfreyman
Date Posted: April 14 2009 at 02:31
That's a very good point - at least half of my buys these days are re-masters of old albums that I had on Vinyl. The best so far imho is the Genesis 1970-75 box set. Simply stunning what they've done with that. ------------- Question everything, believe nothing We talk music, we talk nothing |
Atavachron wrote:Posted By: Matthew T
Date Posted: April 17 2009 at 21:34
 Hello hope to see you around on the site Matt------------- Matt |
Posted By: Badabing666
Date Posted: April 21 2009 at 07:42
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Welcome Neil, Like you I have been delighted to rediscover prog and I may even have bumped into you at the Pendragon concert in Swindon last autumn. I was also delighted to get the Genesis 1970-75 box set and am now considering buying a SACD player to get the best out of it.
PA has been a fantastic resource for new and old bands alike. I am also picking up a steady stream of new band names from the likes of the Classic Rock Society bi-monthly magazine and, of course, the recently launched "Classic Rock Presents…Prog!".
Enjoy!
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