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    Posted: November 17 2020 at 08:10
Originally posted by A Crimson Mellotron A Crimson Mellotron wrote:

Originally posted by A Crimson Mellotron A Crimson Mellotron wrote:

Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Whenever someone gives me a chance to call them a moron and a half wit I'll do it. Tongue

This is what most have done. Big smile

I mean, even I voted for that option.

Usually I'm the one being called names so it's nice to be on the other end of it for a change. Anyway, it's all in good fun of course. Wink

As Forest Gump might say though snob is as snob does. What I don't like this people thinking that prog is the only serious kind of music or the only kind of music that matters. Or that only one or two kinds of prog are important. Also, I see a lot of snobbery against neo prog and prog metal but not many other subgenres.


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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, I never noticed. Yes, I know a handful of rather haughty progsters, but they were old farts of rock anyway :):)
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Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

It's a defense because so many people laugh at prog. ;)


most people don't even know what it is. LOL
Most people I know are musicians or conented to the music industry so they know what prog is. And many do laugh at it as dinosaur rock.

So all the sophistication involved in at least a GOOD prog rock composition just goes over the musicians' heads?  It is interesting that you can manufacture a consensus that even the musicians themselves would rather parrot.
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Originally posted by A Crimson Mellotron A Crimson Mellotron wrote:

Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Whenever someone gives me a chance to call them a moron and a half wit I'll do it. Tongue

This is what most have done. Big smile

I mean, even I voted for that option.
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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Whenever someone gives me a chance to call them a moron and a half wit I'll do it. Tongue

This is what most have done. Big smile
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Whenever someone gives me a chance to call them a moron and a half wit I'll do it. Tongue

Imo, prog fans aren't any snobbier than fans of any other kind of music though. Also, most prog fans tend to be big music fans in general and like all kinds of music. I don't think I've met many who like only prog. 
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Originally posted by Spacegod87 Spacegod87 wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

I've never imposed my tastes and point of views on music on anyone.
Not only will I impose, but I will force them to sit in a white room and listen to free form jazz for 12 hours.

Agreed but I think twelve hours is a bit excessive.  Maybe nine.
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

I've never imposed my tastes and point of views on music on anyone.
Not only will I impose, but I will force them to sit in a white room and listen to free form jazz for 12 hours.

Also, if someone doesn't like Gentle Giant, i'll beat them to within an inch of their life and burn their Grandmother's house down.

That's how I do.
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Personally I listen to many different types of music, prog included. There is adventurous music within many genres, but also a lot of music that is not. F.e. I don't think highly of all prog either.

But the thing is, some people are so burried in one type of music that they judge everything else based on that kind of music. F.e. I have heard jazzheads crap on rock music because they don't improvise as much. I also remember a Danish article about the revival of folk music, and the comment section was full of derogatory comments about "playing on combs and washboards" and so on. Obviously, those people didn't know that there is a lot of very sophisticated folk music out there. Or else, they didn't want to know because they felt the need to defend their own very narrow taste as superior. And if you don't have the agruments, what's more easy than to be derogatory and sardonic..


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Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

It's a defense because so many people laugh at prog. ;)


most people don't even know what it is. LOL
Most people I know are musicians or conented to the music industry so they know what prog is. And many do laugh at it as dinosaur rock.


good for you I guess... Ouch
we can't all live in a vacuum.

ah, crap!!!!!!!! LOL
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

It's a defense because so many people laugh at prog. ;)


most people don't even know what it is. LOL
Most people I know are musicians or conented to the music industry so they know what prog is. And many do laugh at it as dinosaur rock.


good for you I guess... Ouch
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Originally posted by Spacegod87 Spacegod87 wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

most people don't even know what it is. LOL

Once they talk to me they bloody will lol. 
I won't shut up about it. 
Hey, I wonder why people don't want to talk to me irl? LOL

I've never imposed my tastes and point of views on music on anyone. 
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Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

It's a defense because so many people laugh at prog. ;)


most people don't even know what it is. LOL
Most people I know are musicians or conented to the music industry so they know what prog is. And many do laugh at it as dinosaur rock.

good for you I guess... Ouch
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

most people don't even know what it is. LOL

Once they talk to me they bloody will lol. 
I won't shut up about it. 
Hey, I wonder why people don't want to talk to me irl? LOL
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

It's a defense because so many people laugh at prog. ;)


most people don't even know what it is. LOL
Most people I know are musicians or conented to the music industry so they know what prog is. And many do laugh at it as dinosaur rock.

Edited by SteveG - November 16 2020 at 07:16
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