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Poll Question: I heard on Progarchives are not women at all. I am woman. And you?
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I once met a woman who claimed to have taught herself English by studying lyrics by Genesis (Gabriel era, of course). But she was Italian so maybe it doesn’t count? LOL (Her English was excellent btw! Gabriel is obviously a good teacher.)

And I must mention my sister: When she was 13 she was fed up with being a child, so she started to smoke, drink coffee and listen to prog instead of ABBA. She has even written a book about it (I’ve never seen a novel with so many references to VdGG).
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Well since I do most of the housework, look after grandkids, cook meals but I do not dust or iron and can be a bit lousy with cleaning the bathroom (swamp as it known here). I took "I am a woman" Embarrassed Do I know any women who like prog. Not really but the same goes for the men. Most middle aged men I know are Blues or Country fans. Hence that is why we call the Blues here "middle aged white mans music" because it is them who listen primarily to it today.
 
As for the women they all seem to be either, Soul, Jazz, Hip Hop or Metal with their tastes here. Not much prog though
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Feeling sad about it because VanDerGraaf is my fav band from all prog rock bands, and there are probably not more than 2 or 3 women in the world who likes them.

Ungrateful girls! Shocked
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I’ve met two of them: Mette, who studied geology in Bergen (she was also an avid fan of Gentle Giant), and Adriana, a Spanish woman who dated a friend of mine. At a party in my house she came up to me and asked me to put on to……………night!, meaning The Undercover Man. LOL

But luckily your assumption is not true. We have the bald ones (Jean and Friede) here, and have a look at this:

http://www.classicrockmagazine.com/news/lady-starlight-adds-more-metal-to-lady-gaga-shows/

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I'm a dude, and I know a few gals who like prog- mostly though prog metal and shizzz. But yeah still something. 

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My mom likes DT's "A Dramatic Turn of Events," and likes Iona too.  One of my sisters likes Rush, Genesis, Dream Theater, and Yes, and even can appreciate The Mars Volta, and she's ten years old.  My other sister likes Dream Theater and kind of likes Rush.  The only women I know who like any prog at all are members of my family, and this is my fault.
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I'm going to get serious for a second. I think everyone on this website is a woman, myself included.
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Points: 28772 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 30 2012 at 19:16
I'm a man and know a very select few women who enjoy prog.  Surprisingly enough, one of them likes groups like Alamaailman Vasarat as opposed to, say, Porcupine Tree. Shocked
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Originally posted by lucas lucas wrote:

Originally posted by Glucose Glucose wrote:

^ Yerka in music, great! And I see Valaquenta, that's something from Tolkiens's Silmarillion. I must hear this!
Yes, the first part is a tribute to Tolkien.
On youtube, the Tableaux fantastiques tunes play with paintings from Yerka. An example with the cathedrals :



Very nice, minimallistic, mystical, norwegian. Like it.
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Originally posted by A Person A Person wrote:

I don't know anyone who likes prog, man or woman.
 
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I remember having in my teens a tape with DT's 'images and words' on one side and Death's 'individual thought patterns' on the other side. I was not yet seriously into prog at that time, but I remember having difficulties to listen to the Death album in its entirety, while I often listened with delight to the whole DT album. Also, before I copied the DT album to tape, I borrowed from the local library Van halen's 'Balance', and to be honest, I found DT to be stylistically in a similar genre to van Halen...It's only later that I learned they are tagged prog metal.
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Points: 17493 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 30 2012 at 17:01
Originally posted by lucas lucas wrote:

Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

I'm a man who doesn't know that many women and the few he knows don't like prog, but whose girlfriend favorite band is Dream Theater. 
 
according to the above, Dream Theater is not prog...
X don't like bands of Z
One of X likes the band Y
So Y is not a band of Z
Well I guess my logic was off when I posted that LOL

Or it is the final irrefutable evidence that DT is not prog. Tongue


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Originally posted by lucas lucas wrote:

Originally posted by colorofmoney91 colorofmoney91 wrote:

I am a woman.
 
do you suffer from gender dysphoria ?

Not yet, but maybe in the future I will. I'm happy being a girlish man right now.
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Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

I'm a man who doesn't know that many women and the few he knows don't like prog, but whose girlfriend favorite band is Dream Theater. 
 
according to the above, Dream Theater is not prog...
X don't like bands of Z
One of X likes the band Y
So Y is not a band of Z
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Points: 8138 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 30 2012 at 16:43
Originally posted by Glucose Glucose wrote:

^ Yerka in music, great! And I see Valaquenta, that's something from Tolkiens's Silmarillion. I must hear this!
Yes, the first part is a tribute to Tolkien.
On youtube, the Tableaux fantastiques tunes play with paintings from Yerka. An example with the cathedrals :
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I'm a man who doesn't know that many women and the few he knows don't like prog, but whose girlfriend favorite band is Dream Theater. 
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^ Yerka in music, great! And I see Valaquenta, that's something from Tolkiens's Silmarillion. I must hear this!

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Originally posted by colorofmoney91 colorofmoney91 wrote:

I am a woman.
 
do you suffer from gender dysphoria ?
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Points: 8138 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 30 2012 at 16:31
Originally posted by Glucose Glucose wrote:

Originally posted by lucas lucas wrote:

Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

Glucose, is your avatar anything in particular?  I really like it.
 
I am 100% sure it's by polish painter Jacek Yerka, who is inspired by Hieronymus Bosch, René Magritte and Max Ernst. The Bosch influence is especially striking in the following triptych :


You're right. That's Mr. Yerka, an author of fantastical surreal paintings (which I like to view when listening to prog) :)

 
some of his paintings were put into music by Norwegian composer Martin Romberg.
The pictures selected for his compositions are listed below in the 2nd part (tableaux fantastiques) of the beautiful record of piano music he recorded for the LAWO label :


Edited by lucas - June 30 2012 at 16:31
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Points: 22774 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 30 2012 at 16:18
Originally posted by akamaisondufromage akamaisondufromage wrote:

Originally posted by Glucose Glucose wrote:

Originally posted by Vompatti Vompatti wrote:

Originally posted by colorofmoney91 colorofmoney91 wrote:

I am a woman.
You wish.


If he feels like a woman, then why notBig smile
 
Why don't we agree that if he feels like a woman and wants to be a woman then he has the right to be a woman.

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