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    Posted: October 01 2009 at 20:02
Just a bit of fun here ... we can have fun can't we?
 
Lots of prog music features storylines and characters, do you have a favourite?
 
I think mine would be The Reverend, from "The Battle of Epping Forest" (Selling England, Genesis).  The devil caught hold of his soul...
 
Runner-up is Mud Flanigan, the hero of "The Prince of Heaven's Eyes" album by Fruupp.Smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 01 2009 at 20:20
Hint: There is a "Just for Fun" section, the area of this site with the most posts.  Wink

My favorite character?  Hmm...tell you later...


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 01 2009 at 20:25
I guess I'm going to go with anyone of Colin Meloy's deep characters...yeah, that weird guy from The Decemberists. 

So many to choose from with him, yes....but if I must, I might tip my hat to that poor bloke in "Grace Cathedral Hill," or the pair of homosexual whores in "On the Bus Mall," or brave, defiant, William...

...or The Rake...

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 01 2009 at 20:31
The Whistler (NOT Ian Anderson).

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 01 2009 at 20:39
I'll vote for Pink.
 
But runner-up goes to Harold the Barrel


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"WAAAAAAOOOOOUGH!    WAAAAAAAUUUUGGHHHH!!   WAAAAAOOOO!!!"

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 01 2009 at 20:42
Also, Rael. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 01 2009 at 20:46

Ive been waiting here for so long
And all this time has passed me by
It doesnt seem to matter now
You stand there with your fixed expression
Casting doubt on all I have to say.
Why dont you touch me, touch me,
Why dont you touch me, touch me,
Touch me now, now, now, now, now...



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 01 2009 at 20:47
I don't know. Perhaps Tarkus?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 01 2009 at 20:48
Moved to Just For Fun.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 01 2009 at 20:50
Originally posted by TheProgtologist TheProgtologist wrote:

Moved to Just For Fun.


Because it is, after all, just for fun.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 01 2009 at 21:12
Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

Originally posted by TheProgtologist TheProgtologist wrote:

Moved to Just For Fun.


Because it is, after all, just for fun.

Does it need a Just for fun tag in front if it is in fact, just for fun?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 01 2009 at 21:23
Originally posted by A Person A Person wrote:

Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

Originally posted by TheProgtologist TheProgtologist wrote:

Moved to Just For Fun.


Because it is, after all, just for fun.

Does it need a Just for fun tag in front if it is in fact, just for fun?


Apparently disclaimers of this sort are needed nowadays.

Kids, you know.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 01 2009 at 21:40
Very hard one - Either Kezia from Protest The Hero's album of the same name, or Marillion's Torch from Clutching At Straws.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 01 2009 at 22:21
It's obviously Ziltoid. Because he doesn't give a sh*t and lives above Earth in a big rocket ship, of course!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 02 2009 at 00:56
Aqualung is my idol.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 02 2009 at 01:58
I think Robert Fripp is a pretty cool guy, eh is kind of an a****le and doesn't afraid of anything 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 02 2009 at 08:49
the young man wanting to become a starfighter pilot on Robert Calvert's "Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters"


A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 02 2009 at 09:35
Originally posted by birdwithteeth11 birdwithteeth11 wrote:

It's obviously Ziltoid. Because he doesn't give a sh*t and lives above Earth in a big rocket ship, of course!


Indeed!


LOL
But now my branches suffer
And my leaves don't bear the glow
They did so long ago
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 02 2009 at 09:40
Me.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 02 2009 at 09:48
Originally posted by BaldJean BaldJean wrote:

the young man wanting to become a starfighter pilot on Robert Calvert's "Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters"
You beat me to it.  Lockheed has great artistic dark humour which reminded me of the early Monty Python. I would pick Jack Of Shadows but for me to say it is a real character is quite an insecure guess as many of Robert Calvert's writings are way over my head.
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