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tuxon 
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 Topic: guitars
Posted: October 22 2005 at 22:59 |
I was given the oporunity to play some songs at the local bar, so I played some Van der Graaf Generator, but after two minutes they shut me down saying the guitars drove the croud nuts.
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Damen
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Posted: October 22 2005 at 23:00 |
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stonebeard
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Posted: October 22 2005 at 23:04 |
That's the problem. You played VDGG. 
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Bilek
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Posted: October 27 2005 at 05:30 |
strange... the lack of guitar (at least well played guitar!) in VdGG actually drives me nuts sometimes
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Listen to Turkish psych/prog; you won't regret:
Baris Manco,Erkin Koray,Cem Karaca,Mogollar,3 Hürel,Selda,Edip Akbayram,Fikret Kizilok,Ersen (and Dadaslar) (but stick with the '70's, and 'early 80's!)
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Blacksword
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Posted: October 27 2005 at 05:43 |
The lack of guitar heroics is part of what makes VDGG so unique.
I love guitars as much as the next man, and used to consider their presence integral to ANY kind of rock music. VDGG proved otherwise..
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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rockandrail
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Posted: October 27 2005 at 05:48 |
Was the problem playing VDGG? (unknown to and probably unbearable for 99.99 % of mankind) or playing guitar (amplified?), which is also unbearable for 99.98% of mankind.
Everybody knows that rock is insane noise while 60,000 @ç!%ùù! shouting in a football stadium are a cultural event.
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Pierre R, the man who lost his signature
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Blacksword
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Posted: October 27 2005 at 08:07 |
While visiting me, a friend once asked irritably:
'Do we really have to listen to heavy metal?'
I was playing Sleepwalkers by VDGG at the time..
 
Some people.... 
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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Vompatti
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Posted: October 27 2005 at 09:42 |
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Wouldn't it be great if there were bars where they played only prog?
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sleeper
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Posted: October 27 2005 at 10:38 |
 Vompatti wrote:
Wouldn't it be great if there were bars where they played only prog? |
Id buy a pint from there
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Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005
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TheBarbarian
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Posted: October 27 2005 at 10:57 |
I recently went into a bar called the tower inn in exeter, which has an mp3 based jukebox, so u can basically put virtually anything on. I was feeling a little bit cheeky, so I put on a live version of interstellar overdrive. It was worth the quid 50 because it came on just as they had turned the sound up. A lot of confused faces from people expecting all the latest dance and r'n'b!!!
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greenback
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Posted: October 27 2005 at 23:15 |
tuxon wrote:
I was given the oporunity to play some songs at the local bar, so I played some Van der Graaf Generator, but after two minutes they shut me down saying the guitars drove the croud nuts.
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i was in the crowd!
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FragileDT
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Posted: October 28 2005 at 00:02 |
TheBarbarian wrote:
I recently went into a bar called the tower inn in
exeter, which has an mp3 based jukebox, so u can basically put virtually
anything on. I was feeling a little bit cheeky, so I put on a live version of
interstellar overdrive. It was worth the quid 50 because it came on just as
they had turned the sound up. A lot of confused faces from people
expecting all the latest dance and r'n'b!!! |
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In the freedom of music
But glittering prizes
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