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Meddler 
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Joined: September 29 2005
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 Topic: Witnessing to friends
Posted: February 28 2006 at 09:09 |
How many you try to witness your friends... about prog? And have you turned any of them?
My latest work is trying to get my friend to listen to the Mars Volta.
Starting him off with radio edits, short and mostly singing. Then maybe
I'll have him hear some of the longer ones. I don't want to scare him
off with them. 
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aprusso
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Posted: February 28 2006 at 09:18 |
Normally when I put on prog stuff for new girls, they think I'm crazy. then after six months they understand and they want to ****
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Blacksword
Prog Reviewer
Joined: June 22 2004
Location: England
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Posted: February 28 2006 at 11:22 |
A friend of mine was very impressed with a Zappa film I played for him..
I'm working on him. It's along term project..
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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Sean Trane
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Prog Folk
Joined: April 29 2004
Location: Heart of Europe
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Posted: February 28 2006 at 11:32 |
Turning on new people onto prog is rather hard so I rarely try it
however a good deal of my friends and buddies are progheads.
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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arcer
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Joined: September 01 2004
Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: February 28 2006 at 11:48 |
Just got one of my mates (and his wife) into Porcupine Tree via a
compilation CD containing cuts from Deadwing, In Absentia, Recordings
and Lightbulb Sun.
Not exactly a hard sell with PT though, and he's already into Genesis, Yes, Kansas, Rush etc.
Next mission: get them into Henry Cow.... uhhhhhhh
Edited by arcer
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Paulieg
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Joined: June 18 2005
Location: United States
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Posted: February 28 2006 at 11:53 |
I have a house where I rent out two of my rooms and also live with the rentors. Well, curruntly I have a father and son totally into Porcupine Tree, Zero Hour, and Dream Theater. I got the father into Camel also. I'm much more into the Italian scene of late and they just don't understand it. I wont give up though. 
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Paulieg
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Posted: February 28 2006 at 11:58 |
I forgot to add, I got the father into van Der Graaf Generator and Magma believe it or not and both of them into Gentle Giant. Also the son now likes Opeth and Pain of Salvation after listening to my releases by them. I do believe the progressive seed has been planted. The father was a total Deadhead  , and the son was into nu metal . My job has been accomplished.
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Paradox
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Joined: October 07 2004
Location: England
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Posted: February 28 2006 at 14:33 |
I'm extremely lucky in the sense that more or less every one of my friends (emphasis on the one ) like prog. It helps that so many of them are musicians and enjoy a lot of genres. Unfortunately, i have yet to discover any musical talent with the exception of whistling. Sadly there's not a lot of call for whistling
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DualXP
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Posted: February 28 2006 at 22:20 |
 aprusso wrote:
Normally when I put on prog stuff for new girls, they think I'm crazy. then after six months they understand and they want to ****
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haha, i like your style
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If I had a puppy I would name it Tessa so it would cooperate well.
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Nipsey88
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Joined: May 27 2005
Location: Kadath
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Posted: February 28 2006 at 22:40 |
Most of my friends generally laugh at my prog obsession, but I've turned most of them onto at least one band, including:
Porcupine Tree
Spock's Beard
Caravan
Riverside
Genesis
Zappa
Ozric Tentacles
Hidria Spacefolk
Gong
and the most surprising of them all...I've found that chicks dig Anekdoten...go figure.
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FragileDT
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Joined: June 20 2005
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Posted: February 28 2006 at 22:55 |
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I've tried. It's almost a lost cause. I have two friends that are really big dream
theater fans and they are impressed by the music (van der graaf, genesis,
gentle giant, tull) that I'll play them, but they never listen. I think because it's
much harder to understand and appreciate bands such as these that even
open minded dream theater fans might not put the time into it.
I just recently got one of my friends to buy "Foxtrot" because it was only
9.99 and he had a store credit. I told him if he was daring to go for Gentle
Giant "Octopus" which oddly enough, was only 9.99 also. He stuck with
foxtrot but has only listened to it once in 2 months.
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One likes to believe
In the freedom of music
But glittering prizes
And endless Compromises
Shatter the illusion
Of integrity
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