Why dont many girls like prog?

Prog Snob wrote: For the record, my daughter is 7 and always asks to listen to Dream Theater and Epica, plus she loves classical music. I'd say I'm creating my own little prog snobbess.

Women are always in control, they just let us think we are.

For the record, my daughter is 7 and always asks to listen to Dream Theater and Epica, plus she loves classical music. I'd say I'm creating my own little prog snobbess.

timothy leary wrote: Erwaco wrote: Perhaps their attention span can't relate to a seven minute song?  I wonder if you have daughters.

Probably not, He would have to meet their mother first


Edited by ExittheLemming - May 07 2017 at 09:04

I played Tarkus to a girl once. I never saw her again.

It may also concern, as before mentioned, that men already are the main frontrunners of the genre. As well as this, there are many love songs being from men towards women. But then again, it could be people in general. Many people have short attention spans these days.

I know a girl who likes Pink Floyd and loves Rush, and this is not the mainstream aspect for her favorite Rush songs are The Camera Eye and By-Tor. I also once showed a girl Gentle Giant and she absolutely loved it. (But, as a rare occasion, it might have been me who she actually absolutely loved)

kugel wrote: This has been the story of my life! So I grew up in Minneapolis, and moved here to Seattle only 2 years ago, when I was 40. I am very glad to report that at the Rush R40 show in 2015, and again just 2 nights ago at the Kansas show, I saw many more fellow female fans than I'm used to. I think a lot of it is sociological: The more gender-traditional your location, the less likely women are to do things unexpected of us. It is sad, to me at least, but I have seen many other examples of this throughout my life. I was the only woman I knew who went out for a bite to eat or a drink by myself, when I still lived in Mpls.; and that is also not the case here. Straight men are less freaked out by my behavior here. I could go on and on... I have to add, I saw Yes alone in 1991 in downtown Minneapolis though, and trust me -- the situation now could be way, way worse.  xD

Hi Kugel, welcome to the forum! Glad to see another fellow-woman here!

I agree that a lot of it is sociological.
Others pointed out that there are female progressive rock artists in Japan.
I am a German currently living in Japan.
When I go to progressive rock concerts in Germany it is like 70 % male in the audience and 30 % female. Here in Japan I went to see King Crimson, ARW, KBB, ptf and Shingetsu and my impression is, the audience is more equally distributed, like 50/50! I even had to wait in front of the toilets (unbelievable)!
There seems to be something in the Western culture that says, that listening to or playing prog rock is somehow 'non-women-like'...

I'm finding out there's more female prog musicians and fans out there than I thought, and most of them seem to be in Japan. Sure there's the classic all-girl acts like Ars Nova and Angel'n Heavy Syrup, but man a lot of all-girl math rock bands or math bands that include women musicians seem to be sprouting up bigtime. Tricot is one of the more well known ones out there:

There's a scientific study on estrogen levels in musicians that use Rickenbacker basses and mellotrons. The answer was curiously 42.

mlkpad14 wrote: Dellinger wrote: NateHevens wrote: [QUOTE=Thatfabulousalien]Coincidentally I saw a thread on a classical forum asking "what aren't there any 'great' female composers?"  This is a problem outside of just prog, the only genres where woman seem to get their just deserts is pop, country and folk. Something is really not right about that.  I think there's a woman playing in Steve Hackett's touring band... guitar I think. But still, I don't think it's a very prominent role, since you know who will play the more prominent guitar role. Now, about women getting a bigger role on certain genres... I wonder how many of them actually write their songs... or even do more than just sing. When I saw Hackett live, there was no woman on guitar... Does she play a big role in his concerts?

Well, she (Amanda Lehmann) is credited as part of her band on the Rails Live album, and as a special guest on the Genesis Revisited albums, as well as the last "The Total Experience" one. I guess I would need to get some DVD's of those concerts and see how much she does.