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    Posted: July 01 2005 at 16:00

First of all, i apologize if this is a stupid topic, please be kind

Anyway, over this recent week i got to think about names, and found that there are alot of the same name in music in general. Sure you'll have your strange and unique names, but then you have you common, or for some reason pleatiful names. Examples:

Peter. In prog i can think of three big peters:

Gabrial
Hammill
Nickolls

And they are all lead singers. Another common name in prog is Ian:

Anderson
Underwood
And i'm sure there is more.

My point to all this is, what are other common names in prog and do names have any correlation to how the person is??

 

 

(Again, please be kind to this strange and probably stupid question )
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Points: 10261 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 01 2005 at 16:25
Originally posted by Man With Hat Man With Hat wrote:

First of all, i apologize if this is a stupid topic, please be kind

Anyway, over this recent week i got to think about names, and found that there are alot of the same name in music in general. Sure you'll have your strange and unique names, but then you have you common, or for some reason pleatiful names. Examples:

Peter. In prog i can think of three big peters:

Gabrial
Hammill
Nickolls

And they are all lead singers. Another common name in prog is Ian:

Anderson
Underwood
And i'm sure there is more.

My point to all this is, what are other common names in prog and do names have any correlation to how the person is??

(Again, please be kind to this strange and probably stupid question )

Another Peter, and also a singer: Peter Blegvad.

There seem to be a lot of guitar players named Steve H.: Steve Hackett, Steve Howe, Steve Hillage.

You may laugh at this, but I used to have the knack to be able to tell a person's first name at first sight. I looked at someone and thought: "Oh yes, a typical 'Robert' face" (for example) and said "Hello, Robert!" to him and usually got the astonished question: "Have we met before?" in reply. For some inexplicable reason I lost this knack though. It was quite uncanny.


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A local record store sectioned their music off alphabetically - but first names alphabetically(rather than surnames), so the J section was huge because of the numbers of JOHNs who have recorded. (In comparision my record catalogue has it biggest section in the Ms, then the Ss).
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Points: 5964 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 10 2005 at 18:38
Originally posted by Dick Heath Dick Heath wrote:

A local record store sectioned their music off alphabetically - but first names alphabetically(rather than surnames), so the J section was huge because of the numbers of JOHNs who have recorded. (In comparision my record catalogue has it biggest section in the Ms, then the Ss).


That is the most absurd way to organise a record shop, EVER.
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Points: 3047 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 11 2005 at 00:53

Originally posted by Trouserpress Trouserpress wrote:

Originally posted by Dick Heath Dick Heath wrote:

A local record store sectioned their music off alphabetically - but first names alphabetically(rather than surnames), so the J section was huge because of the numbers of JOHNs who have recorded. (In comparision my record catalogue has it biggest section in the Ms, then the Ss).


That is the most absurd way to organise a record shop, EVER.

no you could do it by album cover color shade going from white at one end of the store to black at the other 
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Originally posted by Trouserpress Trouserpress wrote:

Originally posted by Dick Heath Dick Heath wrote:

A local record store sectioned their music off alphabetically - but first names alphabetically(rather than surnames), so the J section was huge because of the numbers of JOHNs who have recorded. (In comparision my record catalogue has it biggest section in the Ms, then the Ss).


That is the most absurd way to organise a record shop, EVER.

Thats how they do it in Israel
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Points: 5964 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 11 2005 at 06:09
Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Originally posted by Trouserpress Trouserpress wrote:

Originally posted by Dick Heath Dick Heath wrote:

A local record store sectioned their music off alphabetically - but first names alphabetically(rather than surnames), so the J section was huge because of the numbers of JOHNs who have recorded. (In comparision my record catalogue has it biggest section in the Ms, then the Ss).


That is the most absurd way to organise a record shop, EVER.

Thats how they do it in Israel



This is from experience, I take it?
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Originally posted by NetsNJFan NetsNJFan wrote:

Originally posted by Trouserpress Trouserpress wrote:

Originally posted by Dick Heath Dick Heath wrote:

A local record store sectioned their music off alphabetically - but first names alphabetically(rather than surnames), so the J section was huge because of the numbers of JOHNs who have recorded. (In comparision my record catalogue has it biggest section in the Ms, then the Ss).


That is the most absurd way to organise a record shop, EVER.

no you could do it by album cover color shade going from white at one end of the store to black at the other 

If i ever own a record store, im doing that

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