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moshkito wrote: Dean wrote: ...*sigh* Whatever. If you continue to misquote me out of context then I'll promise not to give a flying fart what you think. You're the one that didn't believe that rock music could be elevated from its pop music perch!

Steve F is a sweetheart, very dry, he can get very crotchety with anyone who doesn't think illegal downloading has hurt the industry. The releases on Cuneiform are universally of a high quality & poke at the edges of experimentation in rock and jazz. There's also several other industry insiders, particularly on the Avant side who post regularly. Some of the threads ares truly epic such as a 1800 post thread on Cardiacs.

P.E. definitely has a decent amount of Avant -Garde fans that crawl out of the woodwork from time to time. They are truly interesting people. Perhaps some of them are the same individuals right here on P.A.    Just try posting a recommendation thread to 20th century Avant-Garde composers or Chamber Rock...RIO. They are very helpful people with the exciting interest to converse. But it has to be a thread on a subject matter which attracts that interest and so therefore it is socially compartmentalized as oppose to decades ago when our  social environment in the U.S. felt much more open, creating a more common interest in people who knew nothing of Avant-Garde. It's the internet that ruined the possibilities of that ever coming back. That...and the change in life. 


A truly interesting individual with some dead pan humor is Steve F. from Wayside Music. He doesn't like to be showboated , but since earth lacks in the area of sincere people who promote/support Prog Rock/RIO , I feel compelled with ridiculous abundance of pride and gratitude to stress just how important he is to the arts. If it wasn't for Steve going the distance to help these outstanding bands...we may have never heard them over the years..you know?  Some people have said to me..."Well. that's Steve's life and you are over the top". But seriously....he has helped people to hear new music that IS progressive, (if that's what you like), and busted his behind for years to promote it and keep it alive. He is a member of P.E. and his comments are very intelligent, sarcastic, to the point...and hospitable/friendly. Cool person.


I miss Archie Patterson! I wish he would join one of these sites and post threads. He's a very great writer with a down to earth personality. His knowledge on Prog, Electronic...(Berlin period especially), Folk Prog is very vast. He has interviewed many great innovators and he has recommended outstanding music to me for decades. 

PESean wrote: Hey all!   Sean from PE here.  I was searching for some old stuff about PE on Google today and ran across this fresh stuff so I thought I would sign up for the first time and say “Hi”!  I want to thank any and all of you that take the time to frequent PE.  I have always felt it was a good prog two-fer with PA and I am glad many of you agree.  And for those of you that don’t, I can totally understand and I wish you the best regardless!  It amazes me that PE & PA continue to endure these days despite the likes of other social networks like FB, Twitter, etc.  It shows that people still need places to go deep with subjects rather than spit out short little bits like you do on those sorts of sites.  Glad we can still be a part of your lives some 15+ years on even in this social network dominated world.    -Sean/Founder

Welcome to Hotel Progifornia, Sean

You can check out anytime...

But you can never leave

micky wrote: ^ well.. I"m sure this forum has earned at least some of its nasty remarks.     This site is a roach motel for lovers of limp dick prog

Yup, or else dishonour would strike


Oh, btw: the word for that in PE is symph weenie...

my bad. I didn't check.

PE lacks a thread about PA

To be honest, these days I tend to favour PE, the bottom line being that there are more interesting threads over there. Somehow the discussions there lead me to discover more new music (i.e. new to me) that is to my taste than I ever did when spending more time here. It also seems much less anal in terms of not having loads of categorised sub-forums and also not being too uptight about whether a band under discussion is strictly 'prog' as opposed being a band who might generally appeal to fans of progressive music (e.g. off the top of my head, there was quite a bit of enthusiasm about Field Music in a thread recently).

Something that speaks volumes to me is that there has been a decent thread at PE on the current King Crimson tour in the UK and that is in a forum which is supposedly more North American orientated than this one.  I mean - King Crimson, for crying out loud - touring the UK for the first time since 1982 and playing a good amount of classic 70s material. Unless I am missing something obvious there is barely a mention here!

Sean Trane wrote: progrockdeepcuts wrote: PS- there's a PA thread on there, too. I was pondering for the last two or three days whether it was useful to give a link to that thread at all Not that it was a secret... it was in the main lounge

I saw it, and read all the posts. There were a couple of nasty remarks, but on the whole the tone was reasonably nice. On a personal level, I am too sensitive to feel comfortable there, even though I know quite a few of the people who post there. I'm happier here, and then I have other outlets, such as my blog.

progrockdeepcuts wrote: PS- there's a PA thread on there, too.

I was pondering for the last two or three days whether it was useful to give a link to that thread at all

Not that it was a secret... it was in the main lounge

  we are ALL needed... even some of those PE avant fans...