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Syzygy
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: December 16 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 7003 |
Topic: Avatars &Nicknames Posted: February 19 2005 at 08:45 |
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Note from Mr. Pedantic - Billy Shears was actually Ringo - he's introduced at the end of 'Sgt Pepper's...' and then sings the following track, 'With A Little Help From My Friends'. The name Billy Shears was, I believe, a humorous reference to Ringo's former job as a hairdresser. |
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'Like so many of you
I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
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billyshears'67
Prog Reviewer Joined: November 26 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 161 |
Posted: February 19 2005 at 01:36 | |
My avatar is - as of February 18th - the album cover of Frank Zappa's fusion masterpiece "Hot Rats"
The name billyshears67' was inspired by a beatles song. The song being Sgt. Pepper's and the Lonely Hearts Club Band. Billy Shears was, I guess, Paul for that song (strange, I know). Yeah, I'm a huge Beatles fan & a huge Frank Zappa fan. P.S. If you'd like to support a good cause, please do so http://www.care2.com/click2donate/ Peace Edited by billyshears'67 |
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Cinema
Forum Senior Member Joined: August 25 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 493 |
Posted: February 19 2005 at 01:17 | |
Cinema was a Squire/White/Rabin/Kaye project from the early 80s. Jon
Anderson then joined the foursome, and the name was changed to Yes, and the album that followed was 90125. The avatar is obvioius. I've been a HUGE Yes fan since I was about 12 years old. While I was listening to Close To The Edge, my friends were all listening to Bachman Turner Overdrive, Grand Funk Railroad, and David Bowie (Ziggy Stardust to be exact). Yes ... and most other progressive artists ...were nowhere on their radar, and they thought my musical tastes were outright weird. |
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Dan Bobrowski
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: February 02 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 5243 |
Posted: February 18 2005 at 23:08 | |
Danbo is Polish for "he who spanks chickens" before basting and roasting. It seems my father passed the name down from my great great great great grandfather Danbo Jablonski, chicken spanker of the Queen Jimmina Gartenski of Upper Eastern Outer Krakow and highness of Discoski Pavoratti. Danbo was caught spanking one of the Queens serving wenches and was beheaded with a butter knife in the courtyard, but continued spanking a chicken throughout the whole ordeal. Legend has it that he spanked that chicken for three full minutes after his head rolled. My current avatar is the Holy Hand of Jablonski and reigns over the family crest at the home in Hamtramick Michigan. I hope this sheds some light on my personal history. |
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John Gargo
Forum Senior Member Joined: January 26 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 450 |
Posted: February 18 2005 at 22:00 | |
Hahaha, keep the responses coming.
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James Lee
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: June 05 2004 Status: Offline Points: 3525 |
Posted: February 18 2005 at 18:27 | |
...what can you think of it? It's the cheap flash cartoon equivalent of the smelly kid in junior high who carved crude pictograms into his desk. Brian Eno and Richard D. James really deserve something better to represent them...but maybe you don't. |
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Joren
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Posted: February 18 2005 at 08:16 | |
Well, there's funny violence (Monty Python's black knight and organ transplant) and pointless violence this movie belongs in the second category for me |
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lucas
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: February 06 2004 Location: France Status: Offline Points: 8138 |
Posted: February 17 2005 at 16:54 | |
My avatar represents birds on an electric wire, a picture I drawed from a photograph I found on a book about birds. Here is a link to a wider version of this picture : http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v381/lubi/birds.jpg |
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"Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood)
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Beau Heem
Forum Senior Member Joined: January 12 2005 Location: Finland Status: Offline Points: 227 |
Posted: February 17 2005 at 16:43 | |
-Beau PS. if the quote from Goethe seems incoherent - it just might be... |
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--No enemy but time--
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Lunarscape
Forum Senior Member Joined: September 19 2004 Location: Brazil Status: Offline Points: 374 |
Posted: February 17 2005 at 16:24 | |
Lunar is from a song on our first album (Lunarscape), an 11 minutes "epic" about an astronaut stranded somewhere out in space with only one comunication link - The Intergalactic Radiostation. The avatar is the Yin-Yang, the principle of everything and nothing (This symbol is also tattooed on my left shoulderblade. I had it done at The Flaming Lotus - Long Island, 1998) ________ Lunar... |
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Music Is The Soul Bird That Flies In The Immense Heart Of The Listener . . .
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maani
Special Collaborator Founding Moderator Joined: January 30 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 2632 |
Posted: February 17 2005 at 15:54 | |
Beau: Take your name, add my real first one (Ian), and we have a rhapsody! Peace. |
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Beau Heem
Forum Senior Member Joined: January 12 2005 Location: Finland Status: Offline Points: 227 |
Posted: February 17 2005 at 15:50 | |
I might have shared the small and uninteresting history behind my
nickname in some other thread already, but suppose that it's
appropriate to post it yet again.
Naturally, Beau Heem equals boheme. I made the name up, because the owner of a rock club where me and me pals were about to make some rock/prog improvisations wanted to know our band's name in order to make some advertisement. As it happened, we did not have a name (and still use a different one every time we're to perform), and I had to come up with something. Being as witty as always , I told him that we were to perform under the name of 'boheme of nature, scientific an orchestra". Surprisingly, he asked me to write it down (to put it in the local newspaper or something...), so i thought I have to come up with something reasonable (and something the other members of the group could accept/understand). We ended up performing under the name "Beau Heem and the Destructive Science Orchestra". The name, of course, was too long to be used in newspaper ads... ...none were made... I was the main vocalist/showman of the group, so the name Beau Heem clung to me. Suits me just fine. I tend to use it wherever a nick is needed. Avatar, on the other hand...hmmm... I think it says it all by itself, does it not??? -Beau |
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maani
Special Collaborator Founding Moderator Joined: January 30 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 2632 |
Posted: February 17 2005 at 15:48 | |
I finally have an avatar! (Thanks to my guardian angel...and, no, Aaron, I'm not gay ) It is the cover of Klaatu's "Hope," one of my favorite prog albums, and one of the most underrated albums is music history. (The album needs to be taken on its own terms: a shamelessly Beatlesque band, with hints of PF, MB et al.) It is also one of the most spectacular album covers ever. And - you heard it here first (and it will not be repeated! ) - my nickname, Maani, is the first name of Maani Rantel, a pseudonym I have used for years, which is an anagram of my real name. Peace. Edited by maani |
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John Gargo
Forum Senior Member Joined: January 26 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 450 |
Posted: February 17 2005 at 11:39 | |
I will expect some of those responses...
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Joren
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: February 07 2004 Location: Netherlands Status: Offline Points: 6667 |
Posted: February 17 2005 at 11:31 | |
Not very funny |
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Joren
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: February 07 2004 Location: Netherlands Status: Offline Points: 6667 |
Posted: February 17 2005 at 11:28 | |
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Cluster One
Prog Reviewer Joined: February 03 2005 Status: Offline Points: 780 |
Posted: February 17 2005 at 11:20 | |
Avatar is from the back of the CD liner from Atom Heart Mother; I guess you could call it Cows (3 Different Ones).
And the nick (Cluster One) is the first song off of Floyd's successful 1994 rebirth The Division Bell. The song comes replete with the sounds of moving tectonic plates miles under the earth's crust. Now that's what I call Progressive! Edited by Cluster One |
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Marmalade...I like marmalade.
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John Gargo
Forum Senior Member Joined: January 26 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 450 |
Posted: February 17 2005 at 11:14 | |
My avatar is from this flash cartoon... http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/190638 Click on "WATCH THIS MOVIE" to check it out. Let me know what you think of it after it finishes.... |
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Dragon Phoenix
Forum Senior Member Joined: August 31 2004 Status: Offline Points: 1475 |
Posted: February 17 2005 at 09:33 | |
I've been using Dragon Phoenix as my internet handle for over 5 years now on various boards. It is an ancient Chinese symbol, representing the male and female sides of life (like yin-yang). I got it from the name of a restaurant in Singapore (we lived in that country 1999-2002) - I liked the sound. The avatar is one of the best dragon phoenix pictures I could find on the web.
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Captain Fudge
Forum Senior Member Joined: December 21 2004 Location: Romania Status: Offline Points: 238 |
Posted: February 17 2005 at 09:11 | |
Oh yeah, I only have 63 kilos for 1.74 meters , so I'm not bloated up at all, I'm an average schoolboy from Romania, with a taste for prog!
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Teenage sucks hard -- Emo sucks even harder Epic. Simply epic. |
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