Who turns you into prog???
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Topic: Who turns you into prog???
Posted By: imoeng
Subject: Who turns you into prog???
Date Posted: June 08 2006 at 20:38
Back in 2001, I was in year 8, I have to prepare some songs for year 9's farewell party... That is when my guitar teacher said I have to play Another Day, Dream Theater... Well, to be honest, its a piracy CASSETTE!! not even a cd... but thats not the main issue... Since then, I listen to prog rock...
What about you??  You friend? family? teacher? or maybe shopkeeper? or maybe yourself??------------- http://img360.imageshack.us/my.php?image=spmiw7.jpg"> 
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Posted By: The Wizard
Date Posted: June 08 2006 at 20:41
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I heard an edit of Thick as a Brick on the Radio and got the album. The rest is history. -------------  
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Posted By: Zoso
Date Posted: June 08 2006 at 20:45
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I got into Pink Floyd about 3 years ago, which led to Yes, and progressed (no pun intended) from there.
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Posted By: James Lee
Date Posted: June 08 2006 at 21:06
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My mother says that my sister made me cry in terror by playing Animals when I was very little. Maybe ever since then I've been chasing those same unspeakable feelings.
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Posted By: Viajero Astral
Date Posted: June 08 2006 at 21:15
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A friend show me some Dream Theater and another friend show me more of them and Yes, after listen Close To The Edge I become an adict. ------------- 
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Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: June 08 2006 at 21:20
My dad when he recommended me DSOTM
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: June 08 2006 at 21:32
My uncle when he let me listen to KC's Discipline.  ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Hierophant
Date Posted: June 08 2006 at 21:49
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I very long, steady progression starting with techno/dance music ------------- 
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Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: June 08 2006 at 21:49
My uncle when he bought me 2112 one christmas (and the Division Bell as well). ------------- 
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Posted By: chamberry
Date Posted: June 08 2006 at 22:00
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My friend when he let me borrow a mix of Dream Theater songs when we went up a little mountain to listen to music and to smoke some weed... I listened to Metropolis pt 1: the miracle and the sleeper when I was "under the influence" and it blew my mind away. So I went a got all of the DT albums to experience again those feelings without the drug and then I discovered Progarchives and prog along with it. So I can say that weed actually maked me like prog 
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Posted By: imoeng
Date Posted: June 08 2006 at 22:04
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^ wow, nice one... I know bubble gum could subtitute cigarette, but i didnt know prog could do the same thing with weed!! I really like your second last sentence... hhehehehe ------------- http://img360.imageshack.us/my.php?image=spmiw7.jpg">
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: June 08 2006 at 22:27
| Actually, I remember my Dad had some random compilation of songs for Atlantic records anniversary (maybe their 20th or something), and "Heart of the Sunrise" was on it. Needless to say, that set me on the Yes path. I actually bought 2112 in K-mart or somewhere random because the cover looked cool, and the Rush addiction soon set in. |
Posted By: video vertigo
Date Posted: June 08 2006 at 22:57
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heard a 4 song block of Rush songs on the radio, loved them all, bought their Spirit of the Radio compilation, bought all of their albums, began searching for anything remotely similar, found prog. ------------- "The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse." - Zappa |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: June 08 2006 at 23:00
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Local library --> Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd, King Crimson ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: Arsillus
Date Posted: June 08 2006 at 23:26
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My dad was watching the YesSymphonic DVD like 3 years ago and the "Wurm" portion of "Starship Trooper" was playing and I loved it.
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Posted By: Zac M
Date Posted: June 08 2006 at 23:30
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My personal decision to buy the Pink Floyd "Echoes" compilation, and look where I am now, pretty amazing in a relatively short amount of time (4 years or so). ------------- "Art is not imitation, nor is it something manufactured according to the wishes of instinct or good taste. It is a process of expression." -Merleau-Ponty |
Posted By: chamberry
Date Posted: June 08 2006 at 23:43
Yeah wierd really. I liked the feeling that I experienced while hearing DT and prog in general also carries it so that's part of why I like this genre. -------------
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imoeng wrote:Posted By: crimson thing
Date Posted: June 09 2006 at 07:21
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At school from say, 1971 onwards. I had one friend who pushed Floyd onto me. Then, a couple of years later, a persuasive KC fan. Finally, later 70s, another friend who, along with his father, was heavily into jazz & introduced me to Return to Forever. I'm sure it's pure luck, who your influences are, and being in a certain place at a certain time........ ------------- "Every man over forty is a scoundrel." GBS 
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: June 09 2006 at 07:36
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A freind leant me Exit Stage Left by Rush in 1983, insisting that I listen to something other than mega heavy metal.
Thanks 'friend' wherever you are. Things got much better for me after hearing that album! ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: dude
Date Posted: June 09 2006 at 12:02
| WHATS A PROG? AND HOW DOES ONE GET TURNED INTO ONE? IS IT CONTAGIOUS?....IS THERE A CURE?!!!..WHY DEOSNT ANYBODY TELL ME THESE THINGS DAMMIT!!!!!!?? |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: June 09 2006 at 12:08
Prog is a mental condition that makes you think in odd time signatures, and become very analytical of music. It's VERY un-contagious. Most people seem to be able to avoid the condition with little difficulty. ..and no, there is no cure. If you get it you're stuck with it for life, although you could expereince partial remmission, where your thoughts suddenly go into 4/4 again, and you end up in clubs dancing like a huge c*ck to House music. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: AtLossForWords
Date Posted: June 09 2006 at 12:14
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Flossy and I both started to get into prog around the same time. -------------  
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Posted By: dude
Date Posted: June 09 2006 at 12:15
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SOME WOULD SAY I DANCE LIKE A COCK ANYWAY,THAT IS WHY I CHOOSE NOT TOO.....FOR FEAR OF MAKING A BIGGER FOOL OF MYSELF THAN I ALREADY AM!!!  THANKS FOR THAT MR SWORD!!
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Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: June 09 2006 at 12:15
| I saw a documentary about pink floyd about a year ago, then i went to a tribute concert. But before that, i saw "Dark Side Of The Moon" in a commercial. Then i found this site, joined and my cd collection exploaded! |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: June 09 2006 at 12:22
You're welcome dude. I'm not a qualified doctor by the way, but I do have first hand experince of club culture. Probably best not to ask me for dancing lessons, but I do have a vast knowledge of how drugs interact with music. That was largely thanks to my prog 'problem' 
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