SR V: To boldly go where no room has gone before

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Oh, and I got info on TN licensure...it seems pretty straightforward, so I think I'm going to apply here very soon.

I might become a mountain man, and give up listening to prog and return to my roots of Alabama and The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.

Epignosis wrote: Oh, and I got info on TN licensure...it seems pretty straightforward, so I think I'm going to apply here very soon. I might become a mountain man, and give up listening to prog and return to my roots of Alabama and The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.

Please warn me if the next Epignosis project goes Country and Western.  I might need to avoid it if that were the case.

Raff wrote: Don't worry, Scott, I am very open-minded, and I won't stop liking Rush, Deep Purple, or anything of that sort. I just like to expand my boundaries, and try new things. What I have really come to dislike, though, are those symphonic bands who seem to endlessly rehash stuff done miles and miles better in the past. I have to listen to a lot of that drivel on behalf of Progressor, and it is nothing short of painful sometimes.

Quit picking on me!

Raff wrote: What I have really come to dislike, though, are those symphonic bands who seem to endlessly rehash stuff done miles and miles better in the past. I have to listen to a lot of that drivel on behalf of Progressor, and it is nothing short of painful sometimes.

rushfan4 wrote: Raff wrote: What I have really come to dislike, though, are those symphonic bands who seem to endlessly rehash stuff done miles and miles better in the past. I have to listen to a lot of that drivel on behalf of Progressor, and it is nothing short of painful sometimes.     That really does sound like something that an Avant snob might say.   I guess I haven't reached that point yet.  I still like most of the Symphonic that I have heard, although I do find that my tastes are mostly in the crossover and heavy prog areas.  I don't really know the difference between symphonic and Neo, but I tend to like the new Neo bands more than the new symphonic bands that I have heard.

I'm no snob, Avant or otherwise.... If you listened to some of the stuff that I have to review, you'd agree with me 100%. And no, I don't dislike 'retro-prog' on principle... I bought the Black Bonzo album, Sound of the Apocalypse, and enjoyed it quite a lot, in spite of their being unabashedly retro. I also like what I have heard by The Tangent, Spock's Beard and Transatlantic. And rest assured that bands who copy modern acts (like TMV or Porcupine Tree) get a hard time from me as well!

Try Deluge Grander, Raff.  You'll enjoy that.

Gah, Fedex is going to wipe the floor with this guy.

Padraic wrote: It's not snobbery to just not like a particular style.  Otherwise Scott would be a symph snob.

Do you have the Soft Head live album, Pat?  I wondered how it compared to Al Dente musically?  Al Dente unfortunately suffers from a poor recording but the musicianship on it is outstanding.

And Seven for Lee/Seven for Me/One for Lee track always makes me a very happy man.

James wrote: Sorry, almost all neo prog I've heard is horrid. Although Wobbler are generic, I'd still take them over any neo band.

Spoken like a true Avant snob.

The TV sport channel has switched on patriotism, and highlights the match between Sorana Cirstea and Indian Sania Mirza (on court 12). Every point won by Cirstea is basically the best tennis ball played by anyone for the commentator, and his tennis vocabulary is ridiculously thin. So unprofessional, it makes me sick.