Friends reaction’s to prog

Pink Floyd?

They have maintained a mass appeal. Could it be that most of their tunes revolve around simple rhythm structures and strong melody lines? I'd say that's true of PF's radio friendly music. Put on ANIMALS for some of those same folks and you probably will get a different reaction. 

Jim Garten, how did you get so lucky? I do have friends who like to get together and fart and listen to music, but aside from PF, the giants of the genre don't hit the CD player. I've tried and gotten a few slight nods about one passage or riff.

The scary part, IMO, is when friends (?) are actually put off by the music we listen to and they begin to avoid you as though you've got "issues." I've seen it happen, to me and others. I have a friend who got heavily onto punk (just the music, not the fashion) and he went through the same abandonment. Guys you knew for 10 or 12 years, would just avoid you.

I am happy and hopeful to hear the younger guys understanding and appreciating something with substance.  

It is strange that the grass always seems greener on the other side of the fence.

I always cite the USA as being far less style-conscious when it comes to music.We have major problems over here with the media, especially ther press, marginalising anything that is not "current".

Interesting to see that you have the same problems across the pond!

One of the reasons I fell in love with my wife when I first met her was because she knew who Marillion was, and owned Misplaced Childhood!  How was I to know that years later, her tastes would change to the point that we have Celine Dion CD's in our house.

My friends (and my wife) put up with my tastes, but thats about it. No one asks me to play IQ or Transatlantic, but they don't walk out either.

Personally, I prefer to be known as having wierd tastes.  I can hear pop music anywhere.  Its good to know I can go home to hear good music!

Due to my age (40), most of my friends have knowledge of what Prog’ music is, and being my closer friends Classic Rock fans, they accept (with some troubles) my personal taste.

In school it was a problem, I graduated in 1979 and most of my classmates were in love with Saturday Night Fever and Grease, my prom party was full of guys with white suits, black shirts and no tie (very original), and except two or three guys that surfed with me (Surfers usually are on classic rock and accept prog’) everybody saw us like a bunch of weirdoes who liked that strange music.

I felt more comfortable with the metal heads because Proggers and Metal Heads had mutual respect for both genres, mostly because we both hated Disco Music with all our guts and found some songs in both genres that we all liked (Metal guys liked Musical Box, In the Court of the Crimson King and we all loved Uriah Heep, Deep Purple and even Grand Funk Railroad.)

In the University it was different, there was a small but active group of progheads and most students were willing to accept and investigate different genres of music, there I knew the two guys who were going to be my dearest friends (almost a brothers), one of them loved Prog’, we went to the concerts and exchanged albums (Well, I lend him my albums, because I was the only one that took prog’ so seriously to expend all my money in LP’s), sadly in 1994 he died in a car crash after a 40 days comma the other one (Still a good friend doesn't care for music, he listens everything, though he learned to like Rick Wakeman and Rush after years).

My oldest friend (from the neighborhood)  Percy, is an old time Proghead, he even started before me, but when he married he lost a bit of interest in new bands, he still listens the classics but has no interest in anything later than UK. He now lives in a small town working as a doctor for a mine and earning big bucks.

My girlfriends were another problem, all except one hated prog’ and another one pretended to like my music because she liked me. One girlfriends father (A shrink) asked me one day to take him to work because his car refused to start, and I was listening in my powerful Pioneer KP-500 Battle for the Epping Forest, the guy said nothing, but that night the girl told me he recommended her to be careful, because I had to be mentally ill to listen that weird music.

Today  I’m part of a group named La Lata (With Cesar Inca) where all the members are friends and all love Prog’ music, strange but found new friends at my 40’s who share my love for Prog’.

Iván

Oliver,

Celine Dion sits uncomfortably next to Dream Theater, Miriah Carey nearby Camel, Amy Grant just down the shelf from Genesis.

The things we do to please our spouses!

danbo wrote: Reed Lover wrote: Some of us are 43 going on 16! You and me both!

You Two are sooooooooo immature!?!

Ok... sorry Danbo... I left you out!

So Danny... you may be old, but atleast you're immature!

lobster41 wrote: Oliver, Celine Dion sits uncomfortably next to Dream Theater, Miriah Carey nearby Camel, Amy Grant just down the shelf from Genesis. The things we do to please our spouses!

yes but that's hard...