Are Prog Fans Musicians or Not?

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^ I'm sure if you searched the forum you'd find this has been done before- because we're all smug conceited b**t**ds (sorry ladies) as well.

Edited by cobb2 - August 15 2008 at 21:44

Poll Question: What percentage of Prog Fans are musicians?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
No. I don't play any instruments.	9	[33.33%]
Yes. I play electric guitar.	5	[18.52%]
Yes. I play acoustic guitar.	2	[7.41%]
Yes. I play bass.	2	[7.41%]
Yes. I play keyboards.	4	[14.81%]
Yes. I play drums.	2	[7.41%]
Yes. I play a wind instrument.	1	[3.70%]
Yes. I play a string instrument.	0	[0.00%]
Yes. I play another percussion instrument.	0	[0.00%]
Yes. I sing.	0	[0.00%]
Yes. I play several instruments.	2	[7.41%]
Yes. I play air guitar	0	[0.00%]
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cobb2 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: November 25 2007 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 415	Posted: August 15 2008 at 21:43
	^ I'm sure if you searched the forum you'd find this has been done before- because we're all smug conceited btds (sorry ladies) as well. Edited by cobb2 - August 15 2008 at 21:44

Q6 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: May 18 2008 Location: York, UK Status: Offline Points: 126	Posted: August 15 2008 at 02:55
	Now that's another poll, IQ =Music taste??? Einstein = Classical S. Hawkins = Prog .. .. .. .. President Bush = House/Garage
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cobb2 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: November 25 2007 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 415	Posted: August 14 2008 at 20:09
	I like to think that prog fans are just more intelligent...

tszirmay Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: August 17 2006 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 6673	Posted: August 14 2008 at 20:01
	I was fooling around with a synth back in the early 70s and singing (Stairway to Heaven and Roundabout were my first 2, damn falsettos! ) , all my mates in bands (Maneige, Men Without Hats, Rational Youth, among others) , so I decided that I would become a musicologist , collector and fan instead .
	I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth.

MovingPictures07 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: January 09 2008 Location: Beasty Heart Status: Offline Points: 32181	Posted: August 14 2008 at 19:50
	I play the drums, but I also compose for keyboards in my band. I simply like to think of myself as primarily an expert on rhythm. For some reason though, it says I can't vote in this poll.


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: 31307	Posted: August 14 2008 at 18:09
	Self-taught drummer. I play everything from Prog and Fusion, to Blues, Hard Rock etc. My favorite prog albums to drum to are: Genesis - Selling England by The Pound, Gentle Giant - In a Glass House and Present - Le Poison Qui Rend Fou.
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LinusW Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: September 27 2007 Location: Sweden Status: Offline Points: 10665	Posted: August 14 2008 at 15:53
	Bass guitar for me.

YesFan72 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: November 25 2007 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 3241	Posted: August 14 2008 at 15:50
	I play bassoon! I also play alto saxophone and clarinet, and some piano and guitar.


Q6 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: May 18 2008 Location: York, UK Status: Offline Points: 126	Posted: August 14 2008 at 15:26
	So far only 1 in 3 of the proggers replying say they don't play an instrument. So the majority do? I know I was suspecting this sort of result but I think more votes are needed. If you walked into any pub and asked who played an instrument I don't think 2/3rds would say yes. Is it that the non-players are keeping mum? 66% musicians??? MORE VOTES NEEDED!!!! Edited by Q6 - August 14 2008 at 15:29
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Roj Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: July 02 2008 Location: Manchester, UK Status: Offline Points: 3126	Posted: August 14 2008 at 07:40
	I'm not a musician, I wish I was, it just hasn't happened for me. I would love to be a top notch keys man, ala Rick and Keith, however. I do follow the drift of this thread. I take a keen interest in the instruments played and their individual contribution to a piece of music. I note that we proggies also tend to listen for the proficiency of the musicians and compare and contrast them and their abilities. However, by way of comparison, you don't find people comparing the prowess of the musicians of Culture Club and Wham.

Syzygy Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: December 16 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 7003	Posted: August 14 2008 at 05:21
	I have played acoustic guitar since my teens, but since an accident in my late twenties I have had resticted use of my left hand. I still play, because it keeps my hand supple and functioning. I don't play much prog though - mostly fingerpicking versions of Beatles, Neil Young, Dylan and the and I like to strum my way through some old punk/new wave favourites as well. I also play reasonably good blues harmonica, although I really need to find some other people to play with to take it to the next level. Finally, I took up the ukulele a couple of years ago and that's probably the instrument I play most these days. There are all kinds of online resources and I particularly enjoy massacring the likes of Hendrix, Metallica and suchlike. I had a mandolin years ago and I may well take it up again in the near future. The closest I have come to playing prog was in my late teens and early twenties, when I played in a few post punk/avant rock bands, only one of which ever got as far as playing an actual gig, and I also used to mess around with reel to reel tape machines - all thankfully long since consigned to oblivion.
	'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom

alanerc Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: December 20 2007 Location: Mexico Status: Offline Points: 278	Posted: August 13 2008 at 16:49
	I don't play any instrument

TGM: Orb Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: October 21 2007 Location: n/a Status: Offline Points: 8052	Posted: August 13 2008 at 16:41
	Not really. I started learning piano/keys a few months back, but that's it. Wouldn't consider myself a musician by any stretch of the imagination.

listen Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: December 05 2007 Location: Portland OR Status: Offline Points: 352	Posted: August 13 2008 at 16:40
	I play set drums and a load of percussion. started 8 years ago. I would love to learn to play practically any instrument-especially acoustic/12 string guitar, piano, harp, and some kind of wind instrument-oboe, flute, bassoon? Isee my love of music as a strong common element in both my interest in wide varieties of musically interesting/engaging music and in musical instruments.

Guests Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Guest Group	Posted: August 13 2008 at 16:09
	i can play like basic stuff on the guitar, but i suck. and i think i am a good trumpet player.

Q6 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: May 18 2008 Location: York, UK Status: Offline Points: 126	Posted: August 13 2008 at 15:42
	Sounds like an excuse Negru. Lifes no rehearsal. Go buy yourself a 6 string.
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Negru Voda Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: April 20 2006 Status: Offline Points: 192	Posted: August 13 2008 at 15:38
	I can whistle. No, seriously, I would like to learn to play a musical instrument (I was thinking about bass or sax or acoustic guitar), but unfortunately I'm going to get a job in september and I don't think I'll have time for it.

Q6 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: May 18 2008 Location: York, UK Status: Offline Points: 126	Posted: August 13 2008 at 15:24
	If you've ever read "Zen and the art of Motorcycle maintenance" you can see there are two types of people. Those that ride motorcycles trusting that all the intricacies and mechanical bits will just work. The "romantics" treat the bike as a whole machine. The there are those "classical" individuals who need to know what a spark plug does, or how to tweak the carburetor to improve performance. I would therefore say most prog fans are adopt this classical approach to their music. Perhaps thats why there's no category as Romantic Prog - It's an oxymoron. Right I need a beer.
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MikeEnRegalia Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: April 22 2005 Location: Sweden Status: Offline Points: 21121	Posted: August 13 2008 at 15:15
	I play electric guitar ... several other instruments too actually, but the guitar is my favorite instrument.
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The T Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: October 16 2006 Location: FL, USA Status: Offline Points: 17493	Posted: August 13 2008 at 15:14
	^Exactly. The pizza example is quite good. What I mean is, the average person likes music (most people DO like music) but just as background, or for dancing to, or to create moods, whatever. It's not the music itself but what it can generate in their senses, feelings, etc. In most prog fans' cases, they also want to enjoy the music just as music, trying to understand at least basic things as which instrument this is, what is harmony as opposed to melody, how on instrument is doing this while the other does that, what is a concept, and so on... things that most non-musicians (or "musicians" according to my definition above) really don't care about. Which is another valid, but different to most prog fans, approach to music enjoyment.