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Catcher10 ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() VIP Member Joined: December 23 2009 Location: Emerald City Status: Offline Points: 17964 |
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Phones had rotary dials and cords, took you 2 minutes to "dial" a number......back then
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M27Barney ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: November 09 2006 Location: Swinton M27 Status: Offline Points: 3136 |
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Well...I hope he paid up for said love-child...I would have called her bluff, I may not be Ron Jeremy but I am probably big enough for a supporting role in a special interest DVD...you know, model railway enthusiast tinkering in the background whilst my wife is serviced by Remington Steel or whoever.... |
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Psychedelic Paul ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: September 16 2019 Location: Nottingham, U.K Status: Offline Points: 43122 |
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Before I became a member here, I used this site mainly for collecting album covers and for reading band info for music I'd discovered on YouTube. It's been a real education. Not only did I discover new bands here, I discovered new prog genres too that I never knew existed before, such as Eclectic Prog, Crossover Prog & Proto-Prog.
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I prophesy disaster ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: December 31 2017 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 4912 |
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I had also been visiting this site for a long time before I actually joined. I don't recall exactly when I first started visiting but I guess it was about ten years ago. Prior to joining, most of my time on this site was spent looking at reviews. Sometimes I would look at the forum, usually as a result of a search, but this was quite rare. It was actually to add my 2 cents worth to a discussion about King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard that led me to become a member. |
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No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man.
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Psychedelic Paul ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: September 16 2019 Location: Nottingham, U.K Status: Offline Points: 43122 |
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Until I went online in 2010, I had no idea you could watch music videos on the Internet. I was in music heaven. It was like MTV times TEN!!
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AFlowerKingCrimson ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: October 02 2016 Location: Philly burbs Status: Online Points: 18830 |
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I first joined in 2005 but under a different user name. I've been on here with this name since 2016. So on and off I've been on here for quite a while. I even remember when they had song samples on here. I guess they took them down around the time I rejoined under my new username.
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presdoug ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: January 24 2010 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 8716 |
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Psychedelic Paul ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: September 16 2019 Location: Nottingham, U.K Status: Offline Points: 43122 |
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I went online for the first time and discovered ProgArchives in the same year as you did.
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presdoug ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: January 24 2010 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 8716 |
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I joined in 2010, and it was the first site I had belonged to on the net, and I was 38 at the time. The old adage "It's a jungle out there" sure applies to PA and my experience with it. I have got to know some super nice people and had clashes with members who certainly weren't , but that is to be expected almost anywhere... anyhow, it has been a blast, and I am sure glad I became part of it. I have never met in person anybody from PA, though have always thought it would be kind of cool to do so; I feel I owe a lot to cstack3 (Chuck Stack), as he introduced me to someone online (actually not a PA member) who was a close friend of my prog hero, the late Helmut Koellen of Triumvirat, and that was a great experience, let me tell you, and it led to other net friendships with Triumvirat people (though some of this is facebook related, so I am digressing a bit) Chuck Stack also encouraged me to be persistent in my queries/information seeking about Triumvirat and that has paid off in spades! Some PA members I would communicate with on a fairly regular basis, but over time things have dwindled, and I don't blame anyone for that, it happens. (Mellotron Storm and Ric Robson, still think of you and hope things are well!) I guess the thing I have enjoyed the most about this place is talking about and learning things about Triumvirat, and thanks to those of you who gave input and sharing about my favorite band. |
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micky ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: October 02 2005 Location: . Status: Offline Points: 46838 |
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it was a great time wasn't it.. in those days before Facebook and their ilk really took the wind out of internet forum's sails. Especially with prog/progressive music and the revival it was experiencing at the time with the internet and forums like this having a great deal to do with. They were heady times.. likeminded fans of music from all over the globe... it was pretty wild. Like teenagers discovering sex.. we did it anywhere we wanted and without thought or regard to the consequences. PA's really was just like the old west before technology tamed it and the long arm of the law and civilized society took over.. and anything went.. and the only limit was one's quickness on the draw and how accurate your shot was.
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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micky ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: October 02 2005 Location: . Status: Offline Points: 46838 |
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hahah.. yeah she was one of the great characters of the early days of this site. That brings back some memories... even though we were both avid ELP fanatics.. I inherited her title as Prez of the PA's ELP fanclub when she left.. we did conflict. Strong personalities often do and this site was filled with them.. thus the conflicts we had early on. She pulled that.. insult on me.. I figured I'd win this one and offered to send her a picture hoping to shock myself to a win.. and she said.. bring it on.. let's see it.. needless to say.. I met my match. I turned redder than a beet as my dick fails in the shock and awe department.. so I ran from her like a child and kept my distance ![]() Unlike my better half (who was too busy smooshing with the musos) i was out having a smoke at Nearfest some years after she left and I introduced myself and ... she didn't remember me.. that is what I got for being shy ![]() oh and let's set the record straight. .she wasn't a Greg Lake stalker..that makes her sound like a creep... she was PA's royalty man...she had been .. umm.. rather intimately involved with him. She had a child with him.
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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twosteves ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: May 01 2007 Location: NYC/Rhinebeck Status: Offline Points: 4095 |
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I've been around a while and have to say its a great site with great people and never tire of checking it out.
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moshkito ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: January 04 2007 Location: Grok City Status: Offline Points: 18027 |
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Gosh ... another Ian Anderson song for Jethro Tull. Will it be "The Play has Passion!" Very enjoyable, btw ... but it was missing a few choicy words and letters. |
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Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
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Psychedelic Paul ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: September 16 2019 Location: Nottingham, U.K Status: Offline Points: 43122 |
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I went online for the first time in 2010 - the perfect year! That was just a few short months before YouTube allowed full album videos to be posted for the first time. Before then, the maximum length of a video allowed on YouTube was just 15 minutes. Now you can listen to David Icke drone on for eight hours about lizards in human form taking over the Earth. Yikes! I think he's been watching too many episodes of "V" and taken it all far too seriously.
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Raff ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: July 29 2005 Location: None Status: Offline Points: 24429 |
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Though I've never spoken to her, I have seen Linda on various occasions at festivals and gigs. She lives in New York state with her husband, and is very good friends with people I know personally. She's still very much involved in the prog scene, and has become an excellent photographer.
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Frenetic Zetetic ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: December 09 2017 Location: Now Status: Offline Points: 9233 |
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Man, 2001-2002 internet was a magical thing! I remember bands having live question feeds, email feeds, etc. all before social media and that became a thing. It was a very unique point in time for music and technology. You still had to wait for a physical release, but now you had more content to interact with! I don't think I became aware of PA's existence until approximately late 2008, when I started really diving deep into prog bands like Yes, King Crimson, ELP, Pink Floyd, etc. Weird to think how that was only 7 years apart from those early internet days...but 2008 itself will be 12 years ago! Tempus Fugit, none the less...
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"I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
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BaldJean ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: May 28 2005 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 10387 |
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Friede and I joined in 2005 (I on May 28th, Friede on Jun 2nd). I can vividly remember some threads from the early days, especially the one about the meeting of members of this site at the Hague. Friede, my sister Bea, our daughters Alice and Dorothy (4 years old at the time) and I were to attend too but had a nasty car accident due to some stupid driver which resulted in Friede (who was driving) having her left foot crushed under the pedals somehow and me having a humerus fracture on my right arm (I sat beside her and had been grabbing the handrail, and my arm got twisted from the impact squeezing the radialis nerve; it took me 4 weeks until I had full control of my hand again). we both needed surgery. I have a metal plate in my arm now and Friede has 2 nails in her foot. Bea and the kids were unharmed (at least from the accident; Bea was on crutches due to a torn ligament from a heptathlon competition). I vividly remember all the "Get well" messages we received. I think this is definitely part of the history of the archives, so for those who are curious: here the links to the Hague meeting thread and the "Get well" thread. The Hague meeting: the "Get well" thread: Edited by BaldJean - November 17 2019 at 03:39 |
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![]() A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
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Psychedelic Paul ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: September 16 2019 Location: Nottingham, U.K Status: Offline Points: 43122 |
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richardh ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: February 18 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 29316 |
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That was Three Fates (Linda). A New Yorker , I met her a few times (Once when Greg Lake played live near London in 2004) and she was always charming and had plenty of great anecdotes . She was not frightened to put the 'Dicks' in their proper place on this forum but always did it with plenty of humour. Sadly I've completely lost touch with her and no doubt the deaths of Greg and Keith would have hit her hard.
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M27Barney ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: November 09 2006 Location: Swinton M27 Status: Offline Points: 3136 |
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I can remember a lady member who was a Greg Lake stalker. The insults she threw were mainly about the sizes of other posters dicks...😎
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