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A hearty welcome, Lunar!

Good to have you on board!

  So, classic prog gives you a "woody," does it? Maybe you shouldn't sit on the speakers, with all those bass vibrations, like that....

Hi all, I'm a newbie to the board and I'd like to introduce myself. Lunar (short for Lunarscape !) I'm from Rio de Janeiro Brazil, and an MD.

I grew up at the American School here in Rio and graduated high school in 74. My very first contact with Prog Rock was through Yes, ELP, Genesis, PFM and Focus. Allthough we had to endure the "american kids" playing Allman Brothers Grand Fun Railroad and Led Zep at the most around school.

Prog tunes had more to do with me then, and now, so I keept to my favorites Yes, ELP and Focus. Due to my european upbringing and having quite an inteligent crowd of similar frends, we made a huge effort to keep up with the European Prog scene from the early seventies. Our fathers were allways traveling to Europe and had dozens of records listed to bring home to us starving kids. This lead to a quite impressive mainstream collection and we shared these albums with eachother so nothing was left behind. I remember the joy in opening the first Rick Wakeman solo - Henry VIII's Six Wifes, after having listened to Tales From Topographic Ocean at least 1000 times. (LOL). But the true thrill was always to find a new band with similar Prog Lines, so Camel, Triumvirat, Trace, Curved Air, Hawkwind, Banco, Le Orme, Marspolis, Refugee, Lokomotiv and please bear with me; cant recall all fo them. King Crimson, Nektar, Eloy, M.Oldfield, Tangerine Dream, Iron Duke ( a danish Prog Rock trio ) and Druid and Lindisfarne from Ireland. At that time we called them all PROG ROCK. L.Zep, Uriah Heep, B.Sabbath and Deep Purple were in the HEAVY METAL category and the rest was offcourse POP. Matters are more simple when you are young ! Then we foound out that some of the Prog Bands had a slight jazzy-freestyle influence and others were dominated by classic music, so Camel, Focus and Mahavishnu Orchestra was sorted out from the pack and Genesis, Yes, ELP and PFM was stashed with the classic Prog Rock. (Pink Floyd was hard to classify, since some of the stuff was pop, most of it was blues and some was 'experimental" and could with good will be classified as genuine Prog Rock. We wouldnt dream of the pschycoldelic label and symphonic rock was unheard of (these classifications was made up by some idiots much later, probably guilt ridden critics being paid off to kill Prog Rock in the reviews).

What really matters is that the sound of Mellotrons-Hammond-Chorus-Rickenbacher Bass-Fender Guitar and a Fast Drummer still gives me "tingles in the groin"

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Lunar