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Knobby 
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 Topic: Any old dogs here from the days of rec.music.prog?
Posted: June 28 2013 at 09:39 |
I guess not.
Un-moderated usenet days.
The joys of dial-up.
Hey! I'm STILL on dial-up!
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Knobby
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Posted: June 28 2013 at 09:50 |
Dario Axelrud Romerovm
Gondola Bob
Progczar
Spacefreak
Yanks
Russ Elliot
Scott Andrews
sdavmor
Eric Abrahamsen
Demetrio
ThomasArena
Ron Mellot
Peter Pardo
Richard Barnes
Irish b*****d
Doug Maynard
Theron Kousek
Mike Reiss
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HolyMoly
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Posted: June 28 2013 at 09:55 |
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I didn't have an internet connection yet, but I had a friend who used to go there and tell me about it. That's where he learned that there were prog scenes in countries other than US, England, and Germany! Then companies like Wayside and Syn-Phonic started sprouting up and suddenly all these unheard CDs were available. Exciting times.
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Knobby
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Posted: June 28 2013 at 09:58 |
And flamewars galore.
The earliest pwog posts were the bestest.
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Posted: June 28 2013 at 10:04 |
You were free to whip out your trepanation tool and go to work.
Call out noobs as being sh*tpounders without fear of some Sword of Damocles hanging over your head.
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Knobby
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Posted: June 28 2013 at 10:05 |
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Now these sites are just spam buckets.
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Knobby
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Posted: June 28 2013 at 10:17 |
Good times.
And there even were 2 or 3 prog chicks posting!
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Posted: June 28 2013 at 10:18 |
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dial-up?
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Knobby
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Posted: June 28 2013 at 10:25 |
Good times.
And there even were 2 or 3 prog chicks posting!
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The.Crimson.King
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Posted: June 28 2013 at 10:38 |
I was there too...working at Sun Microsystems before Al Gore invented the internet 
Remember the original Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock? Toby's Elephant Talk email digest? The St Cleve Chronicle email digest?
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Posted: June 28 2013 at 11:29 |
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I used to frequent alt.music.yes in the mid 90s, but I don't think I posted very much.
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Snow Dog
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Posted: June 28 2013 at 12:11 |
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I don't know what...
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infocat
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Posted: June 29 2013 at 00:18 |
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I was there.
Boy did that place go to hell.
I was on FidoNet's 60S_70S_PROGROCK before that.
Good times!
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CPicard
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Posted: June 29 2013 at 19:15 |
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On the internet, no one knows you're an old dog.
No one.
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Posted: June 29 2013 at 19:30 |
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rec.music.progressive and alt.music.jethro-tull.
The only names I remember are Biffy The Elephant Shrew (aka biffyshrew) and Anil Prassad, both very congenial and knowledge-filled folks. Quite a few trolls and annoying know-it-alls.
I don't remember anyone named Knobby though.
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Knobby
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Posted: June 29 2013 at 20:20 |
Are those old posts saved anywhere on the net?
Dem needs archiving.
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The.Crimson.King
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Posted: June 29 2013 at 23:17 |
 stegor wrote:
rec.music.progressive and alt.music.jethro-tull.
The only names I remember are Biffy The Elephant Shrew (aka biffyshrew) and Anil Prassad, both very congenial and knowledge-filled folks. Quite a few trolls and annoying know-it-alls.
I don't remember anyone named Knobby though.
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Didn't Anil do a series of interviews with Fripp or Belew?
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infocat
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Posted: June 30 2013 at 00:34 |
Knobby wrote:
Are those old posts saved anywhere on the net?
Dem needs archiving. |
dejanews used to have good archvies before they were taken over by google groups. I just took a short look and there is still a rec.music.progressive there, but I can't locate any particularly old messages there. Granted I did not try very hard.
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Knobby
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Posted: July 01 2013 at 15:59 |
I just went to current rec.prog.
You cant access any of the old stuff.
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Back in those initial days - '94/'95? - often heavy-hitters were posting. Moroni used to post at rec.prog.
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The.Crimson.King
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Posted: July 01 2013 at 16:20 |
Knobby wrote:
I just went to current rec.prog.
You cant access any of the old stuff.
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Back in those initial days - '94/'95? - often heavy-hitters were posting. Moroni used to post at rec.prog. |
The heaviest hitter I remember posting from those days was in Toby Howard's "Elephant Talk" Crimso email digest. For a few weeks people had been ripping on Belew as being a bad fit for the band; they didn't like his vocals, lyrics, guitar playing etc... One day readers were treated to a long and scathing response from AB himself. I don't recall all his words but it was along the lines of, "If you can play guitar in 25/4 while singing band approved words you've written in 7/8 in front of 10,000+ screaming fans the last 25 out of 30 days while getting along with RF and BB 24/7, then you can have my job!"
What was even better was when the next Crimso album opened with "ProzaKc Blues" and AB sang:
"Well I woke up this morning in a cloud of despair. I ran my hand across my head pulled out a pile of worried hair. I went to my physician who was buried in his thoughts, he said, "Son, you been reading too much Elephant Talk!"
Edited by The.Crimson.King - July 01 2013 at 16:21
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