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    Posted: February 13 2008 at 09:31
Sweden is lovely as long as you don't have to go outside. Any time i look out my window in my room i see one of those post-cards views, no matter what time of year or day it is (even if it IS a bit more elusive after nightfall). It's a great scenery for some prog-rock.

Get the post- or avant-team no notive mokyow or cru (usually by creating a thread in the "suggest bands"-area), and the'll maybe make an appearance eventually.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 12 2008 at 23:02
yes california's great, but sweden's beautiful too.  haha, the oc was stupid, but mischa barton is pretty so it all evens out i guess Tongue i think maybe the next big wave in music might come from post rock, or avant-prog, if the general public becomes disdained with crunk music, hopefully they will.  we should consider mokyow or cru in the post-rock section, they're fragments of Anoice, but much less avant-flavored.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 12 2008 at 18:15
Not really into it. I listened to prog when i should have listened to Emo, so to speak. Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Marillion were my Chemical Romance.

No Steve Hacket for me, i got fed up with the symphonic side of prog a while ago (may be time for a second coming soon, though), so now i listen to mainly Post rock, Classic rock, Metal and Pop which is no prog whatsoever.
Californa seems like heaven to me. when i look out  the window i see snow and darkness and cold. In the winter it's usually pitch black by four PM, and we have snow (and lots of it) from october to march. Stupid a show as OC may be, Californa looks pretty tempting from where i'm standing.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 12 2008 at 17:14

how ironic, im having a lazy year off too.  of course ive had a few lazy years off as im 22, but ill be heading off to college late this year.  haha, the abyss is located in nothern california to be exact.  just out of curiosity, seeing as youre 18 what did you think of that whole emo thing?  i could never get into it but i was out of H.S. when it started.  also, have you heard Steve Hackett's Voyage of the Acolyte album, im downloading it now.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2008 at 08:06
I have just finished high school, so i'm having one of those lazy years off, you know. (even if you might argue my last years of school was also a very lazy year.....) I live with my parents and don't have a job. Yay me. I'll probably get going this fall or early next year, though. Somewhere bigger.
Where is "the abyss" actually located, anyway?

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 09 2008 at 17:49
yes, OOIOO is extremely hard to listen to, especially Kila Kila Kila, my least favorite, b ut Taiga is much easier on the ears.  i remember seeing Babyshambles on Later with Jools Holland (an ondemand clip), and thinking the exact same thing but Pete Doherty is pretty talented.  really only 800 people?  that would make it hard.  have u ever thought of moving?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 07 2008 at 18:59
I have tried several times to play different instruments, it all kinda trails off after a while. I guess i need to surround myself with some people who play as well, and take some lessons at the same time, but at the moment it's really hard to do such a thing, i only have 800 people to choose from in the town where i live! :)

Libertines are great, but you need to be able to handle slightly sloppy playing, poppy songwriting and drug-abusing frontmen. Easily my favourite band at the moment, even if they're not really around anymore as a band.

Anoice sounds kinda avant, i tried to listen to OOIOO a while ago, i have their "Kila Kila Kila" album in my shelf, but i almost never bring it out. However, there are tons of people here who just LOVE avant-garde music from japan, so you won't be disappointed. Wink

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 07 2008 at 18:46
youd be wrong if you went with monty...nope its actually a reference i ripped off of the cream song of the same name.  i use it in the reference like "a few of you know what i mean, right?".  i like your prog tastes, as for non-prog ive been meaning to listen to the libertines, as for the arctic monkeys, i was put off by all the media hype surrounding them so ill probably wait a while to hear them, but i always come around to a great band eventually.  you should get an instrument, itll change your life.  ive never played in a rock band, although im working on an avant-garde album made up of overdubs and multitracks with some of my rocker friends guesting once in a while.  who knows when ill record it or if ill submit it to an indie label, probably not on the latter.  also you should check out Anoice if you havent already, i really respect them to the nth degree.  also takahiro kido and yuki murata's solo music is good too.  Wink
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 07 2008 at 06:30
I guess it's from monty python's "salad days" skit, but what it does in your post i have absolutely no idea.
As for my interest in prog, it began a few years ago when i heard the Wall and was blown away, so i found this site and began listening to a lot of bands, weirder and weirder every day until i found my level of obscure-ness, which is slightly below Mike Patton, but slightly above Can, whom i love. Nowadays, i'm more into the Arctic Monkeys, Libertines and Belle and Sebastian, and classic heavy Led Zeppelin-type rock, but i listen to some prog too.

Never played an instrument, unfortunately. I would like to some day, but i need to take lessons and play with some friends, i suppose, i can't just sit at home playing guitar for hours a day, not knowing what the hell i'm doing.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 05 2008 at 23:59
hey evans, heh thats cool u think im strange Tongue whats your interest in prog/non-prog? i love just about every genre of music.  i started out playing classical and jazz saxophone in my school band when i was younger, i then joined a jazz band of lawyers of all ppl as third sax player, specializing in improv, that was about the only music i listened to, i strayed away from jazz, had my classical collection stolen and delved into rock music.  im just now getting back into jazz/classical.  i also came of age during the industrial/electronic boom and think David Bowie's Earthling album is heaven.  also in a related post no one seems to understand my "anyone for tennis" allusion from my original post.  whomsoever figures out the meaning of it will win: absolutely nothing!  haha! ^^
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 03 2008 at 16:08
You're strange. I like it.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 02 2008 at 19:26
thanx for the welcome again everyone/micky-id say nothing bores me, im either excited or fascinated but rarely bored.  anyway ive heard some willie nelson, i especially like his version of Georgia on My Mind, i just recently got some Talking Heads on cd but havent listened yet but i will. those are pretty interesting non-prog choices id say.  as u can tell on of my fav non-prog artists is courtney love, i especially love her work with Hole, Live Through This is her best album, the shear rage and vulnerability of her voice in "Violet" really encompases the story of  a rape victim who also takes advantage of others, from the point of being raped/raping at the same time.  im downloading John Cage right now, u should hear something of his, not much to enjoy but fun to listen to./Real Paradox and Chicapah whats ur prog and non-prog choices?/anybody hear anything from Henry Rollins solo/band? i remember being a kid and seeing him on saturday night live and thinking "ive got to get something of his".
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 25 2008 at 00:11
The Barbarian is THE song of many great songs for me on that first one.

Have a list a mile wide for non prog favs... listen to as much non prog as prog. 

Lets see...  HUGE Allman Brothers Band fan... the same with Jefferson Airplane... the same with Steely Dan.... the same with Willie Nelson.... the same with Steve Winwood

amoung other favs....  Streisand... Duran Duran...  Talking Heads.... Pat Benatar.. .Throwing Muses... 7 Year Bitch...  Billie Holliday... Dave Brubeck

just boring you now I guess..

as far as Courtney Love....  interesting.. neither love nor hate... just intersting...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 24 2008 at 23:07
hello everybody, thanx for the welcome micky, what groups does any out there listen to?  also, what non-prog bands do you like?  im wondering how many ppl hate/love courtney love?  im thinking of sending some bondage fruit mp3s, also anoice and ooioo.  also i think we need a really great song from ELP, like perhaps Lucky Man from their first s/t album.  what one do u think we should have from that album?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 22 2008 at 11:17
Howdy from Texas and welcome to the club.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 22 2008 at 09:32
Hello and welcome to our dear forum.Tongue
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 21 2008 at 20:46
Hello hasheten Smile
 
Let's see... Anekdoten Wink
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 21 2008 at 18:33
you have some great groups in that list there Hash.   Speak up.. and speak loudly.  It's a great forum...for the people here...  they make the place. The prog is the cherry on top.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2008 at 21:03
hey spacemac whats ur fav music lately?/jshutt64 got any non-prog favs?/micky-yup
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