Progressive Ears forum

Dr. Wu:  for one the depth of knowledge is deep at  prog Ears.
Since it tends to be older posters (compared to PA, that is) , they have lived through it and as they say, the roots.....

All music forums have become diluted over the years -I firmly believe the most informative posts were at the beginning years of the web. THAT is when the real heads came onto what was then a clear slate. With a totally open field as it was back then, posters were more serious and less-thinking that they might be saying some info that was previously repeated to death. Nowadays everything HAS been repeated to death (over the web) so the serious people  and real collectors tend to shy away.
This is a theory, but in my experience of true  "heads" flocking away from the fora, this has been proven.

Sure, the initial web had examples of  disfunctional music fora - for prog, maybe  those two usenet .alt forums- but  there definitely were better posters back then. Even the best fora have degenerated. Look what has happened ,say, to Soulstrut or Waxidermy.
Seems people move on; when the main spokes give in, the wheel distorts.


Anyways Prog Ears is still going strong enough.

For instance, you want to keep right on the emerging Italian prog sceen, you won't have it better than following The H's posts. This guy really lives that world.

I started on PE, but the site became less friendly

Never posted on prog Ears though I have checked it out. I spend most of my free time here.

Sean, I do not suppose you want to get into it, but still I try:

what did that past antagonism mainly center upon?




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By the way, what has recently  happened to all these    Camel  "Snow Goose" VS "Beatles "Rain"-type     posts here?
In my opinion they were TRUELY inane forum-killers and 'm glad to see them go.
Or have they been moved to a special cubby (that would be a good idea).





I am not certain , but I seem to recal that a month or so back at Prog Ears forum, the moderators decided to put a temporary bann on  posts along this line (or was it "best of" posts, which are equally space-wasting).
That was a very wise and much-needed decision.

lazland wrote: A lot of us post on both sites. I like it, but PA is my first love.

I'd say a few of us post there... and maybe less the other way

Though I started here, for years I prefered it there (I only continued here for the database building), but I like both

There used to be a fair bit of antagonism between the sites (well mostly one way), but this is a thing of the past

Any love?

Any here  that post  there regularly  as well?


Any accolades?  Any bitches?  Any differences?


It is said the posters there are generally older than at PA.


Edited by Stann - September 05 2015 at 17:49