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Hans 
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 Topic: Brainwashing your friends
Posted: March 16 2006 at 10:10 |
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I've been a big fan of the progressive movement for a couple of years now, and i owe it all to a friend of mine
who forced me to listen to bands like camel and genesis.
Since then, i've made it my mission to convert as many people as i can to prog. ¿have any of you had any experience on this matter? ¿were you brainwashed or have succesfully brainwashed someone else?
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Dalezilla
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Posted: March 16 2006 at 10:16 |
I don't brainwash people, but I play them prog. And surprisingly most people like at least some bands or at least songs. A few of my friends are total progheads after I converted them 
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JayDee
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Posted: March 16 2006 at 10:19 |
Me no brainwashed...
got.... to.... listen.... prog... always...
Seriously... being brain washed is not the term i would use.
Introduce the music, if they dig it, great, if they dont, let them be!
We are a chosen few!
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surfdaddy
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Posted: March 16 2006 at 10:55 |
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I've found that not everyone hears prog the way I do.... I don't
know, it just seems to make sense to me. I wasn't really forced
to listen to it, but I knew when I heard it, that I really liked it.
But, I also love the blues (SRV, Blues Explosion !!!), reggae, I
guess the list could go on.
When Im with my friends, I generally just slide my prog into the
disk changer and wait for it to play.... Thats the way I get
people to listen to Porcupine Tree or Oceansize. I work with a
bunch of kids.... 19 - 25 and they are all about Metallica or System of
A Down or... OMG...Slipknot("slipknot rocks dude")...., I turn them on
to Opeth, or Dream Theater, or Devin Townsend. My own daughter (age 14)
loves..... ::shudders::..... Green Day, but really likes Porcupine Tree
too (Even Less is her favorite song).
BTW... I wasn't trying to put down Metallica, SOAD, Slipknot, or
Green Day!! Just making a reference to the mass marketing of these
bands, so save the flames.
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::Just Sittin here chillin::
Robby
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Publius
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Posted: March 16 2006 at 11:02 |
I have a friend who is into power metal...he likes the epic feel of their music...so I played some Glass Hammer and Neal Morse...it got a fairly warm response :) I should play him some Ayreon too...hmmmm....
I also leant him King Crimson - Starless and Bible Black and he enjoyed it. 
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I'm so prog, I clap in 9/8
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el böthy
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Posted: March 16 2006 at 11:11 |
I really owe prog to the one magazine that has talk so much crap about prog...Rolling Stone magazine... I saw an articul about Bob Fripp, decided to ceck it out and...here I am!
And I have, or am trying to convert a friend of mine all the time...now yes is his second favorite band, digs Rush and likes Jethro Tull quite a lot.
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"You want me to play what, Robert?"
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Peace Frog
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Posted: March 16 2006 at 16:07 |
I don't have to brainwash people because everyone I make listen to my cds we just trade and borrow each others so we like everything. Once we exchanged Norah Jones and Opeth.
But you shouldn't go around trying to brainwash people... leave that to the government and department of education!
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Tony Fisher
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Posted: March 16 2006 at 16:16 |
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Don't brainwash - convert! Let them hear it and many will like it.
I exchange CDs with my students. It's great to hear Floyd, Rush, Camel, Crimson, Tull, Genesis, Mostly Autumn and many others being played in school by them, and several went to see Tull live in Hull last week. They have lent me Kansas and Dream Theater to broaden my outlook.
They generally seem to think prog is so much more involving and complex than rap, dance and pop.
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Damen
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Posted: March 16 2006 at 16:18 |
Most people tell me to shut up and turn that crap off.
Then again, most people have the attention span of a goldfish and a brain to match.
I'm cynical and bitter. 
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"It's amazing that we've been able to put up with each other for 35 years. Most marriages don't last that long these days."
-Chris Squire
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chamberry
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Posted: March 16 2006 at 16:52 |
I am the prog converter!
4 of my friends where converted into prog thanks to my mp3 player and copied cds.
3 where by Dream Theater
2 of the 3 likes the 70's prog that I gave them.
1 was from Porcupine Tree and post-rock.
Those will not be the only one that I'll convert. There's always tomorrow 
I'm on a mission 
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memowakeman
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Posted: March 16 2006 at 17:19 |
 chamberry wrote:
I am the prog converter!
4 of my friends where converted into prog thanks to my mp3 player and copied cds.
3 where by Dream Theater
2 of the 3 likes the 70's prog that I gave them.
1 was from Porcupine Tree and post-rock.
Those will not be the only one that I'll convert. There's always tomorrow
I'm on a mission
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good!!
i dont really have firends who likes prog, only listen to Pink Floyd, Yes, some Ayreon, but im still working, my girlfriend now is listening to Focus, Il Balleto di Bronzo and many more 
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Viajero Astral
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Posted: March 16 2006 at 23:31 |
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Its a hard work, but thats our mission to make the posible to distribute the prog rock for generations.
I only show it to two persons prog rock, for now I only made a very good work with one of they, he lknow some Prog bands like DT, Pink Floyd, Yes, TMV, Tool, the other just know some Dream Theater.
Edited by Viajero Astral
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cobb
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Posted: March 16 2006 at 23:39 |
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Should be easy to brainwash your friends. Tie them to a chair and play Zappa for 10 hours straight- they will do and say anything you want after that...
It's a well documented torture technique
Edited by cobb
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Blacksword
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Posted: March 17 2006 at 13:54 |
I have friends who like some prog, but most of them regard it as either boring or silly..
Apart from my best friend who grew on prog and metal with me, I'd say overall the best responses to prog I've had, have been from women. One female friend always asks to hear Genesis, Tull or Rennaisance when she comes over. She's a pianist and singer who likes a lot of classical music, so I guess she's receptive to some of conponants of prog rock.
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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memowakeman
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Posted: March 17 2006 at 13:58 |
cobb wrote:
Should be easy to brainwash your friends. Tie them to a chair and play Zappa for 10 hours straight- they will do and say anything you want after that...
It's a well documented torture technique |
that sounds good  
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Peace Frog
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Posted: March 17 2006 at 15:05 |
Damen wrote:
Most people tell me to shut up and turn that crap off.
Then again, most people have the attention span of a goldfish and a brain to match.
I'm cynical and bitter.
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Man, it's like you're readng my freaking mind.
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