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Lindsay Lohan View Drop Down

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Joined: May 25 2005
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Posted: March 01 2006 at 08:12

Nope i know nobody that is into prog

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Gary the Ghoul View Drop Down

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Posted: March 01 2006 at 09:19

just me and my best mate

Ounamahl

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Joined: November 13 2005
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Posted: March 01 2006 at 09:27

Not in my school (none that I know). But I've tried to get few friends into prog. Played Close To The Edge and some Rush to them. Actually I heard Kate Bush in the radio today morning :D but I don't know who it was, who put it.
- No success anyway, yet.

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Vibrationbaby View Drop Down

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Posted: March 01 2006 at 10:23

When I was in hogh school and university every one would say that oh yeah Ian listens to all that wierd s***. I`m not talking the mainstream stuff like Yes Genesis Pink Floyd or Jethro Tull because they were pretty popular. I had a friend who was a DJ at my Cegep ( college in the Province of Quebec, Canada ) and he let me do a show. So I brought in a stack of my progressive rock albums stuff like Grobschnitt, Midnight Sun, Flo de Cologne, Flash, Nue!, Octopus, Gentle Giant, Guru Guru etc. and everyone who was listening thought I was a nut. As for work, I work for myself and listen to music while I work at home. My dogs are usually by my side so I guess you could say my dogs listen to progressive rock. My wife has a doctorate degree in music and likes alot of the stuff I listen to and she even wrote a Gentle Giant review for this site.

Drew

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Posted: March 01 2006 at 11:17

My fellow employee listens to Dream Theater, Rush, OSI, Porcupine Tree and some others. Its nice

- he's about my age, and aslo into sports and beer like myself.

sleeper

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Joined: October 09 2005
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Posted: March 01 2006 at 13:21

Drew wrote:

My fellow employee listens to Dream Theater, Rush, OSI, Porcupine Tree and some others. Its nice

- he's about my age, and aslo into sports and beer like myself.

Maybe you have a clone

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lunaticviolist View Drop Down

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Joined: January 17 2005
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Posted: March 01 2006 at 13:52

I only know one guy at my school who likes prog. Other people I know like at least one prog band but don't like prog. One guy listens to Dream Theater, the other listens to Floyd. I've been doing my best to expand their horizons, but I'm doing it slowly.

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Suki

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Joined: September 21 2005
Location: Israel
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Posted: March 01 2006 at 14:35

In my school, instead of posers wearing Pink Floyd shirts you'll find metalheads wearing Slipknot\System of a Down etc. shirts.

I ain't too familiar with people who like prog and are regular listeners, but I know some people who like Genesis, Pink Floyd and queen. I still haven't met anyone (besides one guy) who actually hears more than that (excluding the Progressive Metal genre, as many seem to like Dream Theater here). Oh, and there is also this one guy I'm guiding to prog.

All in all, I am not too worried. I have lots of people around my school I can talk with, even if they aren't prog-experts and have the same love towards prog as I have. I can still talk to my friends who are more into Jazz and still enjoy the musical conversation and here and there I always find people who know little bits about prog that will keep the conversation interesting.