Prog Youtube!?

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: verslibre wrote: I can take only so much commentary. I'd rather be listening! Yeah, me too, especially when it comes from this one guy over on PE.

^ I've watched it a couple of times.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/el5tT1HJzO4

Edited by richardh - February 12 2025 at 23:29

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: miamiscot wrote: I find it hilarious that people complain about this or that YouTube channel. If you're not seeing anything on YouTube that floats your boat then the logical thing to do is to start your own channel. I challenge everyone reading this to do so!!! It's fun and we need all the Prog voices we can get on the platform!!! And anyone interested can contact me if they need any help, encouragement or advice. I WANT MORE PROG COMMENTATORS ON YOUTUBE!!!!!! I've been thinking about starting one for some time now Scot. I don't want it monetized though and so one of my concerns is that I'll make money that I'll have to report. I just want to do it as a hobby at least for a while. I have a lot to share though. Also, I don't know how I would record it. I would have to just use my iphone's video setting which seems weird to me. Anyway, maybe I'll send you a pm and we can discuss it further.

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moshkito wrote: miamiscot wrote: I find it hilarious that people complain about this or that YouTube channel. ... I WANT MORE PROG COMMENTATORS ON YOUTUBE!!!!!! Hi, If you study the history of the arts, and in this case music, not many periods that were listed in the history books, lasted 50 years ... in general, by that time it was over and there was a silence, and a decade or two later, something else was there ... more or less. The internet, is NOT going to bring back "progressive" or "prog" ... more than likely the Internet will be the first to kill them as fast as possible, when something new shows up and everyone of those folks disappears and then show up with a new name and show about the new thing ... and all of a sudden, you knew right away ... that these folks did not care about the music ... they cared about their favorites and tomorrow it's a different something or other. In all honesty, I don't want any more "prog commentators" on the toob or elsewhere ... I want folks that are honest about the music they play and hopefully they have good taste and show us a lot of things that we have not given a fair listen to ... something that shows up on PA once in a while, with a band that lasted for 10 minutes in 1972 ... and here is the album and all of a sudden everyone comments on it as if it were better than mac and cheese! In my book, we have to get off the commercial ideas ... PERIOD ... if we want to hear new music ... but I'm not sure that we want new music, since we are so cozy with all the commercial elements that so many bands wanted to get away from in the late 1960's and early 1970's ... but because we refuse to take a look at history and some folks still think that Neil Young is some hate, and screwed up musician because of one song ... about someone that was killed cold blood in a public university ... and it rippled across the country and shook a lot of folks ... heck, in Madison, I was working at the Rathskeller and the ROTC and the National Guard, were frisking everyone going in for their lunch or whatever ... and if had seen what they were doing in frisking the women, you would have been embarrassed and angry, specially if you knew the person ... but one lady server in The Commons (faculty dining area), was so upset with being felt up that she couldn't work, and the local newspaper ignored it all despite them having hundreds of pictures ... and two days later, cameras were confiscated to prevent more pictures. All in the name of ...??? Yeah ... right! It's very visible here, that folks are not exactly interested in something new, unless it shows up listed in a couple of places ... and in my book, we still don't get it, and I don't think we ever will ... we will continue to follow the crowd into the same ship of fools ... and this even worried a famous judge that coined the phrase!

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miamiscot wrote: ... I think people as they get older can get lazy with their musical explorations so my channel is dedicated to shaking off the cobwebs and turning people on to music they may not have otherwise listened to. I'm not sure why that's a bad thing...

^ That’s the spirit! You can’t please everyone. Do it for yourself! Plant your own flag. You’ll never know what will happen unless you give it a whirl.

HeyItsJustJP wrote: ... Definitely recommend doing it! Especially if you're starting it out of your own self-passion and as a hobby. You'll find yourself having fun with it, experimenting with new things and trying stuff out you may not have thought of before. And who knows, eventually you may have an audience and your community begins :)

For me, I would not only want to focus on Prog per se (I actually dislike that term), but cover a range of progressive, experimental and art music including lots if Indie and alternative music. Folk, electronica, rock, jazz, art music... I'd want to cover bigger names and small names. My brother started a music festival, but he also had a music label as a sideline (his job was as a mediator, but also was a musician and had lots of musician friends. He introduced me to Sarah McLaughlin. Sadly, we don't get along at all and so I'd have to do this stuff on my own even though he would have been a good collaborator, at least if he was not a control freak).

I already have started on researching some acts where I hope to do little specials on them covering the history, something about related acts or movements, as well as talking about my favourite music by them. I want my first one to be on Portishead and related. Of course they need no help from me. I might call it "A deep dive into the Portispotty".

Whatever I cover I want it to about music that brings me joy and I hope that joy comes through, but also irreverence. And hopefully someone likes my humour (if one can call something not funny humour). My favourite podacasts have had humour as an element. I want it to be researched but also feel unscripted. I am very good at delivering eulogies, and was a teacher and before that a cocktail bartender, and I think that experience might help. I'll just pretend that the camera is a bunch of people attending a funeral service, weird as it sounds. Maybe I will call the videocast/ podcast "Welcome To My Funeral: Music To Die For". Okay, think I have my shtick now. On second thought, I hate that idea. Gonna leave it to others to do such things, I think many at the forum would be great at it (Psych Paul would be an obvious one I think to do Vlogs and the like).

Edited by Logan - February 15 2025 at 13:50