Your first venture into the Prog Archives

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   Well, I copied four albums of VDGG from a friend and was looking for some info about them. And I came across this site and really liked it. After some time I discovered the forum and started to frequently read it but was too shy to join it. Finally I signed to the forum but still couldn't make myself to post. One day I decided I have to break this shyness. I made about 50 posts that day! 

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Tuzvihar Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: May 18 2005 Location: C. Schinesghe Status: Offline Points: 13536	Posted: August 06 2007 at 18:03
	Well, I copied four albums of VDGG from a friend and was looking for some info about them. And I came across this site and really liked it. After some time I discovered the forum and started to frequently read it but was too shy to join it. Finally I signed to the forum but still couldn't make myself to post. One day I decided I have to break this shyness. I made about 50 posts that day!
	"Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent." Charles Bukowski

Bj-1 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: June 04 2005 Location: No(r)Way Status: Offline Points: 31304	Posted: August 06 2007 at 18:00
	Found this site after searching for some KC reviews etc. That was in early/mid 04, and used this site as a new prog resource for about one year. I also wrote a few reviews back then, fairly low quality ones though. When I felt that my english was good enough, I joined the forums as well and started making friends and discovering even more new music. That was over two years ago, and I still think this site is the best prog site around
	RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on!

erik neuteboom Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: July 27 2005 Location: Netherlands Status: Offline Points: 7659	Posted: August 06 2007 at 17:59
	I googled Porn Archives during a midnight session but because of one of my infamous typing errors I stumbled upon Prog Archives ... OK but now seriously: early 2004 I had just stopped working for a Dutch progrock magazine after at about five years and was searching for a new challenge. I googled 'progrock' and so I discovered Prog Archives. I got in touch with Proglucky and M@X, I proposed to write some biographies and reviews and the rest is history, it's almost 3,5 years ago, time is running fast!

The Miracle Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: May 29 2005 Location: hell Status: Offline Points: 28427	Posted: August 06 2007 at 17:54
	I hardly remember now, it was over 2 years ago... I've seen this site a couple times very ling ago(03-04?) but never really went nowhere further than the band/album page I came across... then later in 05 when I had a bigger interest in prog(before it was mostly classic rock and heavy metal a la Maiden, Manowar, Metallica) and the first "real" visit was when the PA page for 6DOIT came up in a search. So I started frequenting the site to check out reviews and stuff, then noticed the forums(back then actively trolled by Reed and Karny) it seemed like a great place so I joined a couple months after the first visit. My first post was the opening of a thread about how much Green Day sucks(later turned into an ulk-fest). That's about all I remember... the rest is history.
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TheProgtologist Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator / Retired Admin Joined: May 23 2005 Location: Baltimore,Md US Status: Offline Points: 27802	Posted: August 06 2007 at 17:46
	I visited the archives for about a year and strictly used PA as a resource.Then I sustained some really nasty chemical burns on my legs from hydroflouric acid at work and was laid up for quite awhile and after reading everything in the house I got bored and my daughter said..."You should check out the forum of that prog site you like so much". I followed her advice,registered as TheProgtologist and got instantly hooked.


micky Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: October 02 2005 Location: . Status: Offline Points: 46833	Posted: August 06 2007 at 17:40
	met Ivan on another site and he recommended it to me.. I registered under a name... posted once then left.... came back some months later under another name.. posted a few times.... left again. Registered a third time as 'Micky'... locked horns with Ivan in a thread... and got hooked and stuck around.
	The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip

limeyrob Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member VIP Member Joined: January 15 2005 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 1402	Posted: August 06 2007 at 17:38
	It must have been early/mid 2004 after I had a discussion with a friend about the Mellotron. I had just got access to the internet and searched on Mellotron. After a few hits on sites I came across the Ultimate Mellotron site. The site had a number of links to other sites including PA. The rest is history as they say. The timing was spot on though. It was about then that I had a bit more finance to follow my musical taste and had just about finished replacing my old vinyls with CDs. I got a few leads and influences from the Mellotron site - Spock's Beard, Anglagard, Arena for instance. Then mid 2004 I started taking PA seriously before joining in early 2005. I think there was less than 9,000 albums from about 1,500 bands at the time - could have been lower. Anyway several hundred albums and a hell of a lot of listening pleasure later; here I am. Just for the record the mellotron site (and also referenced on previous threads) is http://www.planetmellotron.com/reviews.htm I have to say that I like the guy's style of writing and my appreciation for his site is very high and I will always be grateful for his work. I was dead impressed that he had Seventh Wave listed, despite low Mellotron input.

andu Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: September 27 2006 Location: Romania Status: Offline Points: 3089	Posted: August 06 2007 at 17:35
	More than a couple of years ago I was googleing the names of various rock DVDs because I was going to buy 5 DVDs from a site and I could not make up my mind. Some of the bands were Pink Floyd, ELP, Jethro Tull and YES, so this nice looking purple site with reviews kept showing up. There were a lot of useful facts mentioned, like sound quality and how inspired were the performances, but at the beginning I was struck by the difference, often opposition, between one reviewer's opinion and the next's. However, by the time I finalized my documentation and ordered the DVDs, I was already able to get a clear overall picture of what the reviewed item was supposed to contain. And after some time, I noticed the site had a forum.

glass house Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: June 16 2005 Location: Netherlands Status: Offline Points: 4986	Posted: August 06 2007 at 17:14
	A friend at work wanted some information on Grobschnitt. So I searched for him, found nothing much. And then he suggested to go to a site with prog music. He could not remember the name, said it was something with "archives". Found this place and I'm still here.

Dean Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575	Posted: August 06 2007 at 17:07
	Being an naturally curious person, I am wondering how people first found the Prog Archives. This is my story. Some years ago I was in a tapas bar the converted Railway Station in Winsor (just by the castle where the Queen of England lives). Normally the La Tosca chain of tapas bars play fairly standard flamenco and Spanish pop music (very loudly) while you eat your frittatas and paella - but this one was playing some really cool Spanish progressive rock. We stayed there quite some time, drinking wine and listening to the fine music, but eventually decided that there were other things we should be doing, so had to go. As I was paying I asked who the band was. "Triana!" all the staff said in unison, while glaring at me as if I was foolish in not knowing. I left quickly, repeating the name over and over in my head so I would not forget it. When I got home, I searched Amazon and all the other usual places for this band and found nothing, then I googled it and found the Progressive Archives. I've been lurking here ever since. Edited by darqdean - August 06 2007 at 17:09
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