Who is the most pretentious prog musician ever?
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Topic: Who is the most pretentious prog musician ever?
Posted By: desistindo
Subject: Who is the most pretentious prog musician ever?
Date Posted: July 10 2010 at 19:04
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Yes, i know almost every prog musician is pretencious, but who is the most? We can make a poll later. My vote goes to Robert Fripp. Quoting Bruford: "(...) that poor pretencious virtuoso. god bless him..." |
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Posted By: CinemaZebra
Date Posted: July 10 2010 at 21:42
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Steve HOGarth. ------------- 
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Posted By: himtroy
Date Posted: July 10 2010 at 22:05
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Robert Fripp is far from the most pretentious. He never even came off as very pretentious to me actually, he sits back on stage and doesn't draw attention to himself at all. People always say he's being pretentious or arrogant when he discusses his music, but when you're describing the intricacies of your own music how don't you sound pretentious? ------------- Which of you to gain me, tell, will risk uncertain pains of hell? I will not forgive you if you will not take the chance. |
Posted By: DisgruntledPorcupine
Date Posted: July 10 2010 at 22:58
Peter Gabriel. 
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Posted By: Tarquin Underspoon
Date Posted: July 11 2010 at 01:58
But gosh, aren't we lucky for it?
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DT-PT wrote:Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: July 11 2010 at 09:18
| Mike Oldfield. |
Posted By: Alitare
Date Posted: July 11 2010 at 09:35
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I know I'm going to be trivial, predictable, and all 'round generic with this one, but: Rick Wakeman... |
Posted By: desistindo
Date Posted: July 11 2010 at 09:45
Most of the cliches are true, Alitare. Maybe u right about Rick 
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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: July 11 2010 at 09:49
| Myself. |
Posted By: desistindo
Date Posted: July 11 2010 at 10:49
Haha, u win, harmonium 
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Posted By: CinemaZebra
Date Posted: July 11 2010 at 11:19
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Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: July 11 2010 at 11:36
I am more pretentious than you. You don't have even the tenth of my ego. |
Posted By: Falx
Date Posted: July 11 2010 at 20:49
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Keith Emerson
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Posted By: DisgruntledPorcupine
Date Posted: July 11 2010 at 22:33
We sure are.  |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: July 11 2010 at 22:37
That's not really true, he's extremely shy and modest
You beat me to it  |
Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: July 11 2010 at 22:56
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F*ck I was gunna myself! Beaten to the punch. Robert Fripp has already been said so...I'm go with Tool. Yes, a band and not a single musician....but they are they pretty damn pretentious. And awesome  |
Posted By: The Runaway
Date Posted: July 13 2010 at 05:10
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That guy.
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Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: July 13 2010 at 12:18
Well, it was a joke. A bad one, right, yet a joke anyway. And his sister is far more pretentious. |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: July 13 2010 at 12:26
Yes, but I'm a thousand times the lesser musician, so on average I'm the more pretentious musician. |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: July 13 2010 at 13:07
The use of "pretentious" and "prog" together in the same sentence should be banned. 
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Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: July 13 2010 at 13:09
Should pretentious be reserved when referring to the artist formally known as Prince who now is referred to as the artist know as Prince? |
Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: July 14 2010 at 09:10
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Keith Emerson takes the cake! Rick wakeman is also as pretentious. ------------- 
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Posted By: AerosolKid74
Date Posted: August 12 2010 at 05:28
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I agree with you that Robert Fripp is definitely up there but a close second to Keith Emerson ------------- Prog Rock: Founded on a fundamental misunderstanding of the word virtuoso. |
Posted By: Gandalff
Date Posted: August 12 2010 at 09:07
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Roger Waters!!!!
then:
Robert Fripp
Keith Emerson
Christian Vander
Toby Driver
Steve Wilson
Joe Satriani
Ritchie Blackmore
Serj Tankian....
So, a little bit of pretentiousness is needed in a career of every musician, I mean.
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Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: August 12 2010 at 13:10
| Satriani and Toby Driver, pretentious??? Well, I guess I have some interviews to read... But I never heard such words about Satriani (after all, the guys from Deep Purple seemed to enjoy playing with him rather than with Ritchie "I-won't-play-Smoke-On-The-Water-on-the-whole-world-tour" Blackmore) |
Posted By: Andy Webb
Date Posted: August 14 2010 at 12:08
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John Myung! jk but seriously... ------------- http://ow.ly/8ymqg" rel="nofollow">  
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Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: August 14 2010 at 21:59
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Squidward Tenticles.
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Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: August 14 2010 at 22:21
Everyone thought he was terrible, but really he was just prog!  Never knew as a kid! |
Posted By: LateralMe
Date Posted: November 03 2010 at 15:37
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Bill Bruford.
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Posted By: Synchestra
Date Posted: November 04 2010 at 03:10
I've read Toby Driver's explanations of the songs off his solo album. I can't decide if its pretencious or genius. Maybe its both. Maybe the word doesn't mean what I think it means 
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Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: November 04 2010 at 09:07
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The Patron Saint of Pretentious - Jon Anderson (great singer but his lyrics make even my own reviews seem coherent and economical by comparison) ------------- 
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Posted By: Lozlan
Date Posted: November 04 2010 at 11:00
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Roger Waters. Anyone who advances an entire album theme based upon his proclivity for spitting on his fans during live shows is just a pompous, disrespectful asshat.
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Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: November 05 2010 at 16:48
Ouch. Don't sugar coat it now. Tell us how you really feel about him. |
Posted By: Angelo
Date Posted: November 05 2010 at 17:38
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Sorry guys... you're heads are way too deep in prog. When it comes to the most pretentious musican, there's only one possible answer: Yngwie Malmsteen...
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Posted By: Evolutionary Sleeper
Date Posted: November 05 2010 at 17:40
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Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: November 05 2010 at 19:37
Exhibit A -------------
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Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: November 05 2010 at 20:18
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Zappa -------------
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Posted By: S~V~S
Date Posted: November 05 2010 at 21:48
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Roger Waters
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Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: November 05 2010 at 23:53
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Yeah, got to back up the Roger Waters nominations.
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Posted By: Lozlan
Date Posted: November 06 2010 at 00:10
Sadly, that might violate the delicate balance of decorum.  I love Waters' music (most of the time), but the man has an ego more firmly inflated than any large rubber pig. ------------- Certified Obscure Prog Fart. http://scottjcouturier.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow - The Loose Palace of Exile - My first novel, The Mask of Tamrel, now available on Amazon and Kindle |
Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: November 06 2010 at 06:25
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Yeah Waters gotta be one of the worst
whats that album? -------------
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Posted By: Keiros42
Date Posted: March 08 2011 at 11:23
| Has everyone here forgotten magma? |
Posted By: topographicbroadways
Date Posted: March 08 2011 at 13:06
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The most pretentious musician is obviously Roger Daltrey, going in front of an audience and telling them you are performing an opera for them as a rock n roll band is the very definition of pretentious Bumped Thread Threaded/ -------------  
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