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lazland

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Posted: October 09 2010 at 13:06

sohraab wrote:

@Lazland: thx for your suggestion!!! LOL

You are more than welcome.

Peace to all in Malaysia Hug

Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org

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Shevrzl

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Posted: October 09 2010 at 13:12

Finally, another guy from Malaysia. Welcome my man! Hopefully we can get more proggers from this side of the world here.

sohraab

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Posted: October 09 2010 at 13:15

i`m originally from Iran doing my PhD in Sabah. but i consider malaysia as my second country and i love it!
thx...

Rivertree

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Posted: October 09 2010 at 13:18

sohraab wrote:

@ rivertree: of course tis shold not be any band`s fan site! did i talk like that?! but i just mentioned one case about PF as i consider them as a pioneer one... it`s appreciated if my topic will be reviewed by site admins, not as a hard critic but as a friendly suggestion! :)

if you want to edit the topic header ... try to use 'post options/edit post' for the initial one
and of course you're welcome here sohraab ... don't be irritated .. we're heavily disputing here all the way through Big smile

sohraab

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Posted: October 09 2010 at 13:44

thx my German friend for warm reply! and thx for help to edit! Big smile

Rivertree

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Posted: October 09 2010 at 14:03

sohraab wrote:

thx my German friend for warm reply! and thx for help to edit! Big smile

and I thought you were defusing the topic headline after publishing this secret Wink

sohraab

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Posted: October 09 2010 at 14:32

@Rivertree:
really sorry that i came late... trapped in another musical argument, forgot to edit the headline... anyway thx! Embarrassed

harmonium.ro View Drop Down

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Posted: October 09 2010 at 16:21

PA is not a site dedicated to including all the available information on bands, like an encyclopedia, but a site which enables fans to comment music albums in the form of reviews. Biographies are secondary in the case of famous bands (and can become essential only if the band is obscure). The beginners are made aware of the importance of certain bands by the high places that albums of those bands occupy in the charts.

If you want extened information, go on Wikipedia, they're an encyclopedia.

richardh

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Posted: October 10 2010 at 03:30

I think the bio's are open to question. I wrote the bio's for Keith Emerson ,Greg Lake and Carl Palmer as solo artists but I wouldn't particularly want to go back and read them again as I didn't spend perhaps as much time and thought on them as I probably should. However I did spend a lot of time on their respective discographies with getting things like the dates and details of album releases correct which to me was more important than the introduction.

As others have said this site is really for people to leave opinions more than it is meant to be encyclopedic.

sojourn

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Posted: October 10 2010 at 04:02

egotistical w**kers

P.S. when you are talking about prog, Pink Floyd definately require special treatment, considering the fact that they helped create the genre?

Paravion

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Posted: October 10 2010 at 05:06

A conception of prog as a genre that is 'created' by 'help' form individuals doesn't make sense to me. I'd suggest a more tentative use of the word 'fact' and consider the wise words of David Burne

Facts are simple and facts are straight
Facts are lazy and facts are late
Facts all come with points of view
Facts don't do what I want them to
Facts just twist the truth around
Facts are living turned inside out
Facts are getting the best of them
Facts are nothing on the face of things
Facts don't stain the furniture
Facts go out and slam the door
Facts are written all over your face
Facts continue to change their shape

(Talking Heads - Remain in Light - Crosseyed and Painless - 1980)

Edited by Paravion - October 10 2010 at 05:57

O666

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Posted: October 10 2010 at 06:49

sohraab wrote:

i`m originally from Iran doing my PhD in Sabah. but i consider malaysia as my second country and i love it!
thx...

Hi. Welcom sohraab. I'm very happy to see another IRANIAN prog lover in this site.Unfortunately its not a good start in PA. I undrestand you and I know what you say but some of PA's forum guys like to attack to new members. I must write in English in forum but if you want to connect with Persian, you can use "Member Control Panel" and "Privet Message". PA is the best prog site I have ever seen (IMO). You can enjoy in PA (like me) and I hope to see you in forum again.

sohraab

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Posted: October 10 2010 at 06:58

thx my friend. i think ur right and seems that misbehave is gradually going to be a used-to thing for people...
and it is almost about 3 years that i`m enjoying PA, have read most of the discographies and reviews... but recently i thought that maybe i can have my own share in music development so decided to come to forum.
anyway i`ll contact u my country mate! ;)

sojourn

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Posted: October 10 2010 at 07:15

wow, i love the pdeudo-intellects on the interenet.

You may find that it is a fact that Pink Floyd "helped" create the genre, you may also find that the use of the word "helped" implies that there may have been many more "helpers" which should make sense to you, as prog comes from a large span of varying influences. However i was merely pointing out the fact that as Pink Floyd were such original and early inovators of psychadelic music which later was a large part of the evolution of prog, they do deserve special treatment. This is so that people can truly understand the importance of this band to the genre. And concidering that this is the PROG ARCHIVE it may be important to people interested in or learning about prog to know an accurate version of the story of the band Pink Floyd. Not only that, but i believe this forum is about the article on Pink Floyd, not being good enough, which therefor means that it is not that they deserve special treatment, but the same treatment as all the other innovating bands, such as crimson that were mentioned earlier.

If you want to be an arsehole and diss on a whole fan base to make you feel superior, you may want to start arguing the correct argument instead of regergitating a completely unoriginal phillosophy to try and change my use of words.

The worst thing one can do when arguing is tangent, because now you are void.

Have Fun with you superiority complex.