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Posted: November 11 2012 at 00:16
smartpatrol wrote:
I have my parents to owe for my taste in music. They played Rush and Yes constantly as I grew up and my dad also told me about Genesis. Once i got in the internet I found out about more bands like them and just explored all over the musical spectrum. We also have fairly similar taste in stuff like movies n stuff.
I had to discover all of these bands myself with the help of some guys I have lost touch with over the years!
I think the closet to prog my parents ever came was pre-1965 Beatles!
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Posted: November 11 2012 at 00:12
I have my parents to owe for my taste in music. They played Rush and Yes constantly as I grew up and my dad also told me about Genesis. Once i got in the internet I found out about more bands like them and just explored all over the musical spectrum. We also have fairly similar taste in stuff like movies n stuff.
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Posted: November 11 2012 at 00:08
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frippism wrote:
HolyMoly wrote:
More driving today, at least I have an ipod playlist the whole family can enjoy.
literally impossible with my family. While me and my brother share fairly similar music tastes, and my dad enjoys the lighter things we like, my mom and little sister usually can't stand 99% of our stuff D:
No one in my family has tastes similar to mine in pretty much anything :(
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Pretty much the same for me.
None of my family (siblings or kids) or any of my friends get into the music I like. And this leads to me being 'the creepy old guy all by himself' at concerts where by and by the crowd is the young and vivacious. The Aussie version of Progfest at the Civic Hotel in Perth last night was one such occasion. As was going to The Bakery to see Damo Suzuki with Pond. As will be the Tame Impala concert next month and the Nightwish concert early next year.
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Posted: November 10 2012 at 22:03
Andy Webb wrote:
Fox On The Rocks wrote:
Andy Webb wrote:
Fox On The Rocks wrote:
aginor wrote:
i was just thinking of the three greats of Canadia prog heavy music and their relation to sci-fi themes
Ah, gotcha. Rush, and who are the two others? An interesting concept for sure. It can, and has been butchered though. I must say.
I was thinking that too. I know of a few other Canadian HP bands, but I'd hardly call them "greats."
What's another one? I honestly can't think of one off the top of my head. Is there a certain similarity in terms of sound that each band mutually have that you dislike?
Warpig was the band I was thinking of. One of those obscure early 70s groups that pretty much no one knows about. Crunchy, bluesy stuff. Awesome stuff if you're into early Uriah Heep and Atomic Rooster and such.
I'm Canadian, and listened to Warpig when growing up in Ontario. Another great Canadian heavy prog band is Starchild, which at one point had Welsh band Lone Star's drummer as part of the group.
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Posted: November 10 2012 at 21:53
I majored in Philosophy, and after graduation I gradually found myself in the healthcare business. Went back to post-graduate work at Georgia State University a few years later (Masters in Business and Masters in Healthcare Administration). But the philosophy major work really helped hone my writing skills.
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Posted: November 10 2012 at 21:52
smartpatrol wrote:
That song is so bizzare. But also really good Same for Cygnus X-1. The main character gets sent into space, flies into a black hole, wakes up without a body to witness a war between Dionysus, Apollo, and their respective followers, and after ending the war with his silent anger, is made a god.
I remember seeing Rush do Cygnus X-1 live in the spring of 1977, the last part of the song was accompanied by a gigantic animated story behind the band, with a spaceship that explodes-really cool!
Wow, I wish I had the same opportunity/ experience. What did you do at the school?
We all took 2 classes, both of which had an exam or project due at the end. It was intended as a primer for college, crammed into one month. It was called "July Experience". I enjoyed it so much I applied "early decision" (meaning you apply early only to their school, and agree to go if they accept you, and still have time to apply elsewhere if you don't) the following year and got in. Had a great 4 years there from '87-'91. And speaking of music representing periods of your life, the weird thing is the music landscape changed overnight almost as soon as I graduated in '91, when Nirvana hit #1 on the pop charts. My senior year, people were listening to Bobby Brown. When I came back to visit a few months later, it was all about Pearl Jam.
Man, that must have been a wonderful period of your life. Seeing all the changes within the music scene as you said, and not to say seeing changes within yourself as you matured into adulthood. So what did you take at College then. And I assume it's still the same field your working in now?
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smartpatrol wrote:
I must say. 
What did you do at the school?
So what did you take at College then. And I assume it's still the same field your working in now?