Just for fun: Who's your favourite prog character?
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Topic: Just for fun: Who's your favourite prog character?
Posted By: classic not old
Subject: Just for fun: Who's your favourite prog character?
Date Posted: October 01 2009 at 20:02
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Just a bit of fun here ... we can have fun can't we?
Lots of prog music features storylines and characters, do you have a favourite?
I think mine would be The Reverend, from "The Battle of Epping Forest" (Selling England, Genesis). The devil caught hold of his soul...
Runner-up is Mud Flanigan, the hero of "The Prince of Heaven's Eyes" album by Fruupp.
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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: October 01 2009 at 20:20
Hint: There is a "Just for Fun" section, the area of this site with the most posts.  My favorite character? Hmm...tell you later... ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: October 01 2009 at 20:25
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I guess I'm going to go with anyone of Colin Meloy's deep characters...yeah, that weird guy from The Decemberists. So many to choose from with him, yes....but if I must, I might tip my hat to that poor bloke in "Grace Cathedral Hill," or the pair of homosexual whores in "On the Bus Mall," or brave, defiant, William... ...or The Rake... All right? ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: October 01 2009 at 20:31
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The Whistler (NOT Ian Anderson). |
Posted By: Tarquin Underspoon
Date Posted: October 01 2009 at 20:39
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I'll vote for Pink.
But runner-up goes to Harold the Barrel ------------- "WAAAAAAOOOOOUGH! WAAAAAAAUUUUGGHHHH!! WAAAAAOOOO!!!" -The Great Gig in the Sky |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: October 01 2009 at 20:42
| Also, Rael. |
Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: October 01 2009 at 20:46
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Ive been waiting here for so long ------------- 
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Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: October 01 2009 at 20:47
| I don't know. Perhaps Tarkus? |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: October 01 2009 at 20:48
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Moved to Just For Fun. -------------  |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: October 01 2009 at 20:50
Because it is, after all, just for fun. ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
TheProgtologist wrote:Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: October 01 2009 at 21:12
Does it need a Just for fun tag in front if it is in fact, just for fun? |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: October 01 2009 at 21:23
Apparently disclaimers of this sort are needed nowadays. Kids, you know. ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: October 01 2009 at 21:40
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Very hard one - Either Kezia from Protest The Hero's album of the same name, or Marillion's Torch from Clutching At Straws. ------------- 
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Posted By: horsewithteeth11
Date Posted: October 01 2009 at 22:21
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It's obviously Ziltoid. Because he doesn't give a sh*t and lives above Earth in a big rocket ship, of course! ------------- 
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: October 02 2009 at 00:56
| Aqualung is my idol. |
Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: October 02 2009 at 01:58
| I think Robert Fripp is a pretty cool guy, eh is kind of an a****le and doesn't afraid of anything |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: October 02 2009 at 08:49
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the young man wanting to become a starfighter pilot on Robert Calvert's "Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters" -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: daslaf
Date Posted: October 02 2009 at 09:35
Indeed!  ------------- But now my branches suffer And my leaves don't bear the glow They did so long ago |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: October 02 2009 at 09:40
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Me. ------------- 
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Posted By: TODDLER
Date Posted: October 02 2009 at 09:48
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Posted By: Adams Bolero
Date Posted: October 02 2009 at 10:08
| Zero the Hero from the Planet Gong. |
Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: October 02 2009 at 10:10
I like the Pot Head Pixies better.  |
Posted By: questionsneverknown
Date Posted: October 02 2009 at 10:58
| I think it will have to be Greggery Peccary, the nocturnal, gregarious wild swine. |
Posted By: mrcozdude
Date Posted: October 02 2009 at 11:35
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The devil (titties n'beer)
------------- http://www.last.fm/user/cozfunkel/" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: classic not old
Date Posted: October 06 2009 at 14:49
Aw shucks... I didn't know there was a "Just for Fun" section.
I'm just a noob! Cut me a break!
Thanks for all replies.
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Posted By: The Block
Date Posted: October 06 2009 at 19:50
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No one mentioned Victoria from Scenes From a Memory. -------------  |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: October 06 2009 at 20:21
| Terry Bozzio (Punky's boyfriend) |
Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: October 07 2009 at 09:12
| Steven, the twisted guy from Alice Cooper's "Welcome to my Nightmare". I don't care it it's "prog or not". |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: October 07 2009 at 09:30
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Corporal Clegg ------------- 
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Posted By: Xanthous
Date Posted: October 30 2009 at 19:54
| Vegetable Man, WHERE ARE YOU? |
Posted By: AnchovyRun
Date Posted: October 30 2009 at 21:36
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Thats cuz no one likes Victoria. I prefer the witness from Beyond This Life to her any day. ------------- <>< The Anchovy Run ><> ------------------------------ Caravaning For Your Convenience |
Posted By: el dingo
Date Posted: November 01 2009 at 06:26
As long as it's not Harold Demure
 Mine: The Jean Genie - I mean, who else could do that kind of stuff?
Oh and Guru Guru's Dagobert Duck, of course. And Alex Harvey's Vambo ------------- It's not that I can't find worth in anything, it's just that I can't find worth in enough. |
Posted By: RoeDent
Date Posted: February 07 2010 at 07:52
| The older man who seemed to be alone. Nicholas felt he could trust him as this man told Nick about poor Vicky's murder. |
Posted By: The Block
Date Posted: February 07 2010 at 08:00
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Nanook ------------- |
Posted By: DisgruntledPorcupine
Date Posted: May 11 2010 at 21:21
Thats because everyone loves the hypnotherapist and his smexy voice! |
Posted By: Conor Fynes
Date Posted: May 11 2010 at 21:39
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Posted By: The Runaway
Date Posted: May 11 2010 at 23:51
A bit belated but I loved the pun ------------- http://www.formspring.me/Aragorn224" rel="nofollow - Trendsetter win! The search for nonexistent perfection. |
Posted By: Mr. Maestro
Date Posted: May 12 2010 at 09:51
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Several years ago... In a foreign town... Far away from home... I met the Count of Tuscany... That's Dream Theater, of course. ------------- "I am the one who crossed through space...or stayed where I was...or didn't exist in the first place...." |
Posted By: Conor Fynes
Date Posted: May 12 2010 at 14:04
| Lyrics RUINED that song |
Posted By: Lizzy
Date Posted: May 12 2010 at 14:30
The tall and slim dark haired lady who occasionally appears in Tull songs. 
------------- Property of Queen Productions... 
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: May 12 2010 at 14:32
| Has anyone mentioned the Shining Flying Purple Wolfhound? |
Posted By: The Sleepwalker
Date Posted: May 12 2010 at 15:52
| A gnome named Grimble Gromble. |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: May 12 2010 at 15:53
| The Scarecrow! |