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Aaron 
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 Topic: is there a specific country or city
Posted: May 04 2005 at 17:13 |
is there any specific country or city or whatever where prog rock is actually sort of popular nowadays,
metal is to germany and prog rock is to ??
is there a large prog festival like Wacken in Europe?
a city that is always getting large crowds for prog concerts, or a place where many bands come to play?
Aaron
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Posted: May 04 2005 at 17:15 |
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Progger
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Posted: May 04 2005 at 17:28 |
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Most of the newer neo-prog bands seem to have reasonable succes on the european continent, especially countries like France, Holland, Poland, Germany & Russia. These are the places where bands usually do full scale tours, whilst here in the UK they normally just do one or two shows [If we're lucky]. Evidence of this is that bands like Arena, Pendragon, Transatlantic, IQ, Flowerkings, Pallas, Neal Morse & Aryeon have all released live DVD's or CD's that were recorded in one of these countries!
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Seyo
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Posted: May 04 2005 at 18:19 |
Nowhere near the Balkans! 
Here is only a horrible style of music popular, called "turbo-folk" and some terrible variant of hip-hop. 
No concerts, no nothing, disaster!
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Fibonacci's Se
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Posted: May 04 2005 at 18:50 |
my heart goes out to you^^ it really does
IM from in the middle of nowhere Canada,...and in my district...say
perhaps 2 hospitals, 5 towns, 6 high schools, - to get the relative
size,..there seems to be an almost unatrural prog following, im willing
to place 50% of the students in this area as prog fans and even more
who listen to bands like mars volta...The relative youth (elemntary
school) are also picking up the trend and prog is popular within that
age bracket aswell... 
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cajole the promethean king while his pastiche panjandrum is caught within soleism, genuflect, avoid malversation
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Dick Heath
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Posted: May 07 2005 at 20:01 |
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Japan
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nimrodel
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Posted: May 07 2005 at 20:03 |
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We want... a shrubbery!
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Myrrh
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Posted: May 08 2005 at 04:00 |
 Dick Heath wrote:
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are you serious? I have been there six times, and all I heard was some horrible J-Pop, sung by twenty 14-year-old girls
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Dreamer
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Posted: May 08 2005 at 05:27 |
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In holland the music is horrible. you only see hip hop and trance and this popish type of RnB. when you walk down the street all you see is people dressed in hip hop clothes. its terrible.
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Rob The Good
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Posted: May 08 2005 at 05:53 |
New Zealand music is absolute crap. No prog here at all....nope...none. Maybe a few Radiohead wannabes, but hey...that isn't Prog now is it? 
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And Jesus said unto John, "come forth and receive eternal life..."
Unfortunately, John came fifth and was stuck with a toaster.
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Kotro
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Posted: May 08 2005 at 05:57 |
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Portugal has a small village (Gouveia) which holds an annual prog-rock festival.
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Frasse
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Posted: May 08 2005 at 06:06 |
nimrodel wrote:
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it is? why haven't I noticed...
The Swedish Heavy Metal festival "SwedenRock Festival" maybe has a few progressive acts each year. ( A.C.T and dream Theater this year, as far as I know.)
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henri_ds
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Posted: May 08 2005 at 06:27 |
Aaron wrote:
is there any specific country or city or whatever where prog rock is actually sort of popular nowadays,
metal is to germany and prog rock is to ??
is there a large prog festival like Wacken in Europe?
a city that is always getting large crowds for prog concerts, or a place where many bands come to play?
Aaron |
You'll find everything you look for....if you help this guy find 1.21 gigawatts and go back 30 years in the past !!!!
Sad to say but the golden age of prog has passed.
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Seyo
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Posted: May 08 2005 at 06:58 |
henri_ds got it right! progressive rock and rock in general was very popular in former Yugoslavia during 1970s, there were sort of regular festivals across the country in those times, I guess - because I was too young then to remember. In the 1980s Yugoslavia had probably the best new wave/post punk scene, with varied styles of urban art and experimental but popular music, in all of the ex Eastern Bloc countries. Following the collapse of the country 1991-95, the whole rock scene practically died out including prog. What took power was and still is a horrible mixture of crappy pop, latino/greek sh*t, oriental/turkish/serbian bastard "turbo" folk informed by the worst variant of hip-hop "subculture".  
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Borealis
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Posted: May 08 2005 at 12:16 |
I believe it's pretty popular in Québec. Montréal and Québec City are two good prog cities.
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Velvetclown
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Posted: May 08 2005 at 12:21 |
Nope 
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is there a specific country or city