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    Posted: April 21 2006 at 07:44
I defy anyone to dance to Long Distance Runaround.
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Or even better than On Reflection if you think forward: Long Distance Runaround... Wink
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I'd say only stick on the prog when you want people to go home LOL
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I'D SAY GENESIS "YOUR OWN SPECIAL WAY" (MY PARENTS GOT MARRIED WITH THAT ONE Embarrassed) OR LED ZEPPELIN "STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN"



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Roundabout, a great dance tune. Cool
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I have been to many of weddings and I must warn you that you're playing with fire. I would say don't play any(especially if the bride and groom don't like it) , but if you must.. keep em short and VERY few.( 1 or 2, at most)
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Originally posted by coffeeintheface coffeeintheface wrote:

prog is not wedding music if you ask me

As much as prog is a part of my being, I have to agree. I've DJ'd too many times and have been to too many weddings. 

Arron, if you must play prog, get the bride's aproval for each song first. Remember, it's their day, not yours and not a day to try to convert some friends and family to prog music, as great as that would be to pull off.

Have a lot (I mean LOTS) of standard dancing tunes on standby because if what you're playing isn't bringing people on the dancefloor, you'll have to change gears fast. Dancing tunes doesn't have to mean the latest prefab diva's latest, I'm talking "Mony Mony", "La Bamba", "Dancing Queen" and "YMCA"... heck, throw in a polka for fun... but not all the way through unless the dancefloor stays full and do it only once near the end of the night. I know these will hurt to play these three chord songs (I'm cringing just thinking it) but the name of the game is to get as many people to have fun and dance to something they know. 

Prog can be beautiful, moving music that delivers the soul to another space and time but the sad fact is you got to play a familliar dance tune so that Aunt Ida will be inspired to grab cousin John's hand and boogie. Hate to sound like I'm raining on your parade, I'm just thinking about the bride, groom and a gathering of friends and family waiting for "one we know" while staring at an empty dance floor. (which I've seen too many times)

 



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Originally posted by dkearns dkearns wrote:

Originally posted by progadicto progadicto wrote:

My girlfriend and I will need a ProgDJ to our wedding I'M NOT JOKING... We love prog and we really want to play our favourite songs during our wedding...

Well, my suggestions: Maybe some songs of Porcupine Tree like Blackest Eyes


Hmm, doesn't seem like very good lyrical subject matter for a wedding mate. :)

I agree.. thats more for a funeral I think.  But in some people's cases, I guess its almost the same thing... Take Tony R.'s wedding eons ago... I'm sure that song would of been just right..



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they'll want something they can get drunk and dance to like "the birdie song". alternatively the beatles always go down very well, or "brown sugar"...!!!LOL
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Something really happy, like Firth of Fifth or something from The Yes Album
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Originally posted by progadicto progadicto wrote:

My girlfriend and I will need a ProgDJ to our wedding I'M NOT JOKING... We love prog and we really want to play our favourite songs during our wedding...

Well, my suggestions: Maybe some songs of Porcupine Tree like Blackest Eyes


Hmm, doesn't seem like very good lyrical subject matter for a wedding mate. :)
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Don't know about the dancing part of a wedding reception, but during cocktail time, before dinner, And You And I  by Yes worked very nicely; even got a nod of approval form my wifes grandmother.

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To look a bit forward, why not Gentle Giant's On Reflection...
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For the wedding isle Pink Floyd's third part in A Saucerful of secrets (the choir voices).

 
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I always thought that "A Habit Worth Forming" from Echolyn's As The World  would make a nice slow song.
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Yes - "Onward"

ELP - "Closer to Believing"

Strawbs - "Grace Darling"

 
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My wife and I used "The Meeting" off the Ander Bruford Wakeman Howe album as the walkin music prior to the bride coming down the aisle. It was perfect.
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Originally posted by avestin avestin wrote:

I had a band of teenager musicians play at my wedding - they played Pink Flloyd, Beatles, Hendrix, Doors, Led Zeppelin, Cream and other similar stuff.  It was great.

 

 

 

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edit: what i meant to say was thank you

and to the rest of you, i do believe it is possible, i'll make up a list of songs soon, i think it can work

Aaron



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As great as prog music is, most of it is totally unsuitable for a wedding. Assuming that most people are fairly well p*ssed up by the evening, would they really want to listen to "Us and them" and "And You and I", or anything by Godspeed You Black Emperor? Well, not at any of the weddings I've been to.

There's only one band for a wedding, and that's the might Quo.

 
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