Prog at your school/work

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.

 

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

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.

just me and my best mate

Nobody here at work.

The young in my team have atrocious tastes... (Ramnstein)

Member Cygnus X1 is one of my students and heroically leads a diehard group of prog fans who listen to Rush, Floyd, Yes, Camel, Tull, Genesis and others on the common room stereo. each day. They fight off the townies who want rap, dance and trance sh*te on it, and regale us with epics like Supper's Ready, Close to the Edge and Lady Fantasy.

They're off to see Tull in Hull next week.

So yes, prog is alive and well in my school.

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I dont know anyone at my workplace that likes prog..

My boss once told me he was Jan Ackerman fan, but the other day he commented on my Yes wallpaper, saying 'Mmm, concept rock, hey? ...oh dear' before leaving the room chuckling...

I go to a tiny high school, an most everyone listens to the same things. We have the typical Pink Floyd T-Shirt wearers (One of them criticized ME for wearing a Pink Floyd shirt....), as well as classic rock fans(Kansas and Queen are very popular here, if that's any different), as well as skater punk, etc. There are also a lot of people that like Euro-Pop. My friends mostly listen to punk, but one of them turned me on to Led Zeppelin, which in turn led me to Prog. I'd say the stoners in my class have the best taste in music. One even loves Jethro Tull, but I haven't approached him about it.

Nope, NO ONE.  People here are for some reason very boring. Punks and rappers, a couple classic rock fans Saw a Tool stirt once, but that's it.

Everyone seems to be a fan of video games and stupid modern TV, I don't care for either.

Thus, I like my forum friends by far more than my classmates.

i dont know anyone who listens to prog, i do have a buddy that listens to opeth and a couple that listen to pink floyd but thats about it. im going to give a friend some cds tomorrow though and hopefully get him to listen to prog