Your Local Prog Scene

frippism wrote: Damn this is hilarious and pretty damn awesome. Auto-tune is truly an untapped resource when it comes to prog. I mean in popular music in my opinion it's used in all the wrong ways, but prog is all about renovating, at least the way I see it. I need to try it...

Sargasso wrote: I don't think you could get 50 musicians in this city to say that Nirvana isn't the best there ever was. If Seattle has a prog scene, it is, quite literally, underground.

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cstack3 wrote: I totally didn't even notice your avatar, I didn't notice we're allied bassists (even if the pic was right there and the bass was dead center of the pic, the gears in my mind just started turning!). I've a friend, that is a massive sort of beatbox/ electronica talent. When I still lived in the States, I would get crazy on all of his effects. He had so many that I don't even remember all of which I used. But we'd record this freaky sort of hip-hop/ noise rock/ classical thing. I'd use this loop pedals, bass pedal, wah-wah, like this weird electronic pad (no not the ipad..........) thing that moving your finger around would do all these effects. I probably had most fun playing with him than with anybody else come to think about it, we were both very open-minded and interested in each others musical genres and wanted to just go crazy. If I listen to it now I might hide myself in a cave, but hell these effects were the most fun I probably ever had recording, much more than with any normal band, and even any prog band. Wow!  I've done exactly that same stuff, going back many years!  Couldn't afford a Mellotron, so we took a cheesy kid's organ, miked it & ran the signal through phase-shifter etc.!  Sounded HUGE!   Bass player, eh?  Look at my fretless....hand-made by Hugh Manson in England, luthier to Steve Howe, John Paul Jones & others!   Jones plays the evil twin (his is fretted, called "Eric the Red," you see him play it with Them Crooked Vultures). Man, I wish we weren't separated by so much water!!  We'd have a jam session to end all jams!  I also play guitar, and often do lead-guitar parts on bass guitar!   Take care & seek out Noy, here he is in Tel Aviv!  You guys have some righteous babes over there!!

Edited by TODDLER - March 24 2011 at 07:23

[QUOTE=Garion81]^ You do realizer it is a PROG festival you are attending?   While some people probably do enjoy classical music that attend Nearfest  too they are there to experience and yes talk about Prog.  It sounds like you wanted to discuss newspapers at a Comicon. [/QUO

Edited by TODDLER - March 24 2011 at 07:27

Seattle/Tacoma.....prog...nah. Unless the band is wearing courdoroy pants and fleece sweatshirt and drove up in a Subaru Outback with Nirvana stickers all over it....they don't get hired.

My city is full of screamo/deathcore bands.

Garion81 wrote: ^ You do realizer it is a PROG festival you are attending?   While some people probably do enjoy classical music that attend Nearfest  too they are there to experience and yes talk about Prog.  It sounds like you wanted to discuss newspapers at a Comicon.

Garion81 wrote: Toddler were you trying to post something to me?   I have been to Nearfest once and Calprog many times I find most people are willing to talk about anything music especially the musicians that play there.  Sorry that your experience was other than that but considering the incredible line ups at Nearfest and your proximity to it I would give it another chance.

Well of course I would give it another chance. And of course it is not the same everywhere. Society is measured or classified into groups. I have met many proggers who found it laughable that my interest was in certain styles of pop music and rock music in general. It felt like a majority of people were expressing that view. With rock and pop fans/musicians there seems to be a majority that laugh at prog. I probably feel as if there is a majority of people expressing negativity in all groups that follow whatever kind of music . I get that feeling and make that judgement from touring for 30 years. I am still willing to admit I might be wrong as the social environment could have developed this way on the east coast and not the west. I am always observing crowds, audience responses, opinions of fans, etc and trying to come up with a percentage of minority and majority. It's because I toured a lot and constantly connected with the reaction of audiences and found many aspects baffling. Sorry about the rant.

Edited by TODDLER - March 25 2011 at 10:00