Symphonic Progressive Rock Appreciation?

what`s the question, LOL ... I cannot live without
SYMPHONIC PROGRESSIVE ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!.   

Catcher10 wrote: Symphonic Progressive Rock should have its own main forum on PA under Progressive Music Lounges

I would second that! BRING IT ON !!!

M27Barney wrote: I was interesting in collecting the set of say - human beings that appreciate "The Flower Kings"/"Glass Hammer" (contemporary (3rd/4th Gen?) Symph prog) then those peoples who similarly groove "IQ" or "Marillion" (2nd generation prog movement) and then those who are "Genesis" or "Yes"...Generation one...once you have those sets of persons what other sets do they belong to? what sets intersect them in the area known as a the Cartesian join? An interesting task in social mathematics me thinks..... I am definitely in the first six/three? sets of persons - I am also in the sets "Male" / "White" / "European" / "Right Handed" / "Has Read, Science Fiction / Fantasy Novels" / "Heterosexual" / "Atheist" / "Likes Melton Mowbray Pork Pie" / "Stilton Cheese" / "Skinheads on a raft" / "Appreciating The Female body as a living breathing work of art!!!"....etc..

Yeah, progheads are straight, white, often introspective males. Interested in sci-fi and futurism, but also traditional in some ways and romanticist/idealistic.

Symphonic prog is probably my favorite type of music. Maybe if baroque music had more worthwhile composers I could go with that.


Edited by King Crimson776 - June 04 2014 at 17:05

HackettFan wrote: Prog_Traveller wrote: You can't really stereotype people. There are some generalizations that can and do apply but they are often hard to pinpoint and they are just that, generalizations so they don't apply to everyone. For example there are probably lots of older(late forties to 65 or so year old) prog fans (if you can call them that)who either don't like or don't know about any post seventies groups except maybe Marillion. They just know about and only like what they grew up with. Oh but wait, you fall into that age bracket but that doesn't apply to you right? Well, that's exactly my point. It's a generalization and a stereotype and it's not fair and not always accurate. There's lots of younger fans who don't know the newer bands and only have heard of the older bands(maybe)but because of their age they haven't been exposed to prog(maybe their dad was a Deadhead and didn't know or like prog. See that? ANother stereotype and another generalization. I don't think there's any stereotyping involved in trying to uncover tendencies. That's what the whole discipline of sociology does, after all. There are probably some who grew up in Oklahoma who are Symph Prog fans. My point, which was delivered in a tongue and cheek fashion, was to point out the influence of region. Genesis' first attempt at touring the US only occurred in a very limited area, mainly the northeast. Besides the region, though, other things do seem to matter. Gender is a glaring example, although I've never understood why. I wouldn't be surprised if left-handedness was unusually high among Prog fans. (Have we had a poll? I'll have to look). I was a big time fan of mythology, science fiction, fantasy, and comic books. I bet those things have some influence on who is a Symphonic Prog fan.

Oh I see where you are coming from now. I have a BA in sociology so I find it interesting also. However, you are still dealing with stereotypes and generalizations here. You can cover them up by calling them tendencies which may be the case but they are still generalizations. Someone would have to do a case study to find out the hows and whys of it all. Not all sci fi or fantasy people like prog and not all prog people are into fantasy etc. If we make these assumptions we are stereotyping and generalizing. :) Yes they can be tendencies but they are not absolute.

You can't really stereotype people. There are some generalizations that can and do apply but they are often hard to pinpoint and they are just that, generalizations so they don't apply to everyone.

For example there are probably lots of older(late forties to 65 or so year old) prog fans (if you can call them that)who either don't like or don't know about any post seventies groups except maybe Marillion. They just know about and only like what they grew up with. Oh but wait, you fall into that age bracket but that doesn't apply to you right? Well, that's exactly my point. It's a generalization and a stereotype and it's not fair and not always accurate. There's lots of younger fans who don't know the newer bands and only have heard of the older bands(maybe)but because of their age they haven't been exposed to prog(maybe their dad was a Deadhead and didn't know or like prog. See that? ANother stereotype and another generalization.

presdoug wrote: All I know is that I couldn't live without Symphonic Prog.

RockHound wrote: HackettFan wrote: I don't think that Symphonic Prog fans are from Oklahoma. I live in Oklahoma and live for symphonic prog.  And I love TFTO. And I loaded up on three different kinds of asparagus at Whole Foods just the other day. The guitar solo from the start of CTTE was blaring as I pulled into the parking lot. A soccer mom looked at me funny.

HackettFan wrote: I don't think that Symphonic Prog fans are from Oklahoma.

GD yes!  Just about all of it!