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Poll Question: Please state your age
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
14 [6.48%]
43 [19.91%]
14 [6.48%]
8 [3.70%]
21 [9.72%]
31 [14.35%]
24 [11.11%]
32 [14.81%]
22 [10.19%]
7 [3.24%]
0 [0.00%]
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Points: 12794 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 26 2014 at 23:53
Originally posted by Kati Kati wrote:

I am turning 68 some time later I hope
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I am turning 68 some time later I hope
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I discover prog in the internet, my parents like real bad music and my friends don't like prog, so, looking for bands that sounds like Pink Floyd, I started to search... and here I am :D
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Points: 8581 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 25 2014 at 13:37
Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:



Of course the young know less than we do. Of course age bestows superiority...


It should be no secret that age and treachery will always defeat youth and skill.

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No way am I arrogant

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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2014 at 11:23
Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:



Originally posted by ProgMetaller2112 ProgMetaller2112 wrote:


Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:


Originally posted by ProgMetaller2112 ProgMetaller2112 wrote:

Oh, oh, we older guys are superior to you younger guys. BullCensored
Both Jim Garten and I were using self depreciating humour which exploits the infirmities of our elderly status for everyone's amusement i.e. we were making a joke at our own expenseIf you don't understand that then it's not a quantum leap to us believing you'd have to be told the stand up comedian is the guy 'facing the other way'Confused

It's not very funny though. It seems arrogant to me
No-one is claiming it's funny but yes, I wholeheartedly agree that old farts taking the piss out of themselves is the apex of arrogance.and would therefore apologise unreservedly on behalf of everyone over the age of say, 'sparkle in the eye' for having bruised your unripe sensibilities.




Actually, I am an arrogant old git

Of course the young know less than we do. Of course age bestows superiority...

...actually I suspect it may have been my crack against St James LaBrie which caused offense...




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40!!!!!
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Points: 1474 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 13 2014 at 17:02
The only prog related thing my dad had in his collection at least that stood out for personally was "The Yes album"(He also had Santana and Mahavishnu Orchestra's "birds of fire" but those don't scream prog as much as YES does. LOL). But TYA was indeed a factor in me getting into prog. When YES hit with their 90125 thing it served as a reference point and I eventually discovered their back catalog. THat and these brothers who were at my camp in 1984 who were big YES fans as well as a cousin who was big into Genesis in particular.
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I'm 45, and I think you may be right about the popularity of some of the "big" prog groups - for me, anyway, being a Genesis "Abacab" fan from hearing it on the radio eventually led to me checking out their earlier stuff.  Rush was at a peak in the early 80s as well, so their visibility was high to top 40 fans and prog fans alike.

Another possible factor, and one that holds true for me, is that my parents were in their 20s in the 1960s, and thus were of appropriate age to get into the prog thing on the ground floor.   It was my dad, in fact, who first recommended King Crimson to me, and I found out about both Floyd and Yes from his collection.
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Points: 1474 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 13 2014 at 10:05
One more time!

I'm wondering why there are so many prog fans around my age (40-45). I'm 44 specifically. This is the largest age group(aside from the 18-25 which is technically cheating since it has two additional years added). Most people tend to get into music in their teen years and prog is suppose to have thought of as being dead in the eighties(when this age group would have been in their teens). My only explanation for that is that Yes, Genesis, Rush and Pink Floyd were all pretty big in that decade. I think the huge success of Genesis in particular is what pushes this age range above all others(even though Genesis were very poppy at that point).


As for the low numbers of those in their thirties(especially the 31-34 group) how I explain that is that they would have been in their teens in the 90's and relatively few people were discovering prog in that decade. There was lots of rediscovering going on but in my opinion not so much discovering for the first time.

Edited by Prog_Traveller - August 13 2014 at 10:09
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Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

Anyone care to speculate why 31-34 are so low?   It could be because they are adverse to online polls...
 
I was thinking this one was easy!!!
 
If the wife found out that you are spending money on CD's and music she doesn't like ... ohhh my word ... we need the money for the kids this and that and .... and next thing you know .... Ouch and then life goes on and you come out of it Angry and a bit later with no money at all Dead praying to find a new job Cry so you can get at least one of those albums that you miss so much that she threw away!

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Points: 20604 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2014 at 16:34
Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

Anyone care to speculate why 31-34 are so low?   It could be because they are adverse to online polls...


 
I was thinking this one was easy!!!

 

If the wife found out that you are spending money on CD's and music she doesn't like ... ohhh my word ... we need the money for the kids this and that and .... and next thing you know .... Ouch and then life goes on and you come out of it Angry and a bit later with no money at all Dead praying to find a new job Cry so you can get at least one of those albums that you miss so much that she threw away!
It takes an old married man to know one.

Edited by SteveG - August 07 2014 at 16:35
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Speaking as someone who hasn't had kids and now we can't, I think you are on to something there, Moshkito...
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Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

Anyone care to speculate why 31-34 are so low?   It could be because they are adverse to online polls...
 
I was thinking this one was easy!!!
 
If the wife found out that you are spending money on CD's and music she doesn't like ... ohhh my word ... we need the money for the kids this and that and .... and next thing you know .... Ouch and then life goes on and you come out of it Angry and a bit later with no money at all Dead praying to find a new job Cry so you can get at least one of those albums that you miss so much that she threw away!
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