Witnessing to friends
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Topic: Witnessing to friends
Posted By: Meddler
Subject: Witnessing to friends
Date Posted: February 28 2006 at 09:09
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How many you try to witness your friends... about prog? And have you turned any of them? My latest work is trying to get my friend to listen to the Mars Volta. Starting him off with radio edits, short and mostly singing. Then maybe I'll have him hear some of the longer ones. I don't want to scare him off with them.  |
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Posted By: aprusso
Date Posted: February 28 2006 at 09:18
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Normally when I put on prog stuff for new girls, they think I'm crazy. then after six months they understand and they want to **** p |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: February 28 2006 at 11:22
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A friend of mine was very impressed with a Zappa film I played for him.. I'm working on him. It's along term project.. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: February 28 2006 at 11:32
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Turning on new people onto prog is rather hard so I rarely try it however a good deal of my friends and buddies are progheads. ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: arcer
Date Posted: February 28 2006 at 11:48
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Just got one of my mates (and his wife) into Porcupine Tree via a
compilation CD containing cuts from Deadwing, In Absentia, Recordings
and Lightbulb Sun. Not exactly a hard sell with PT though, and he's already into Genesis, Yes, Kansas, Rush etc. Next mission: get them into Henry Cow.... uhhhhhhh |
Posted By: Paulieg
Date Posted: February 28 2006 at 11:53
I have a house where I rent out two of my rooms and also live with the rentors. Well, curruntly I have a father and son totally into Porcupine Tree, Zero Hour, and Dream Theater. I got the father into Camel also. I'm much more into the Italian scene of late and they just don't understand it. I wont give up though. 
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Posted By: Paulieg
Date Posted: February 28 2006 at 11:58
I forgot to add, I got the father into van Der Graaf Generator and Magma believe it or not and both of them into Gentle Giant. Also the son now likes Opeth and Pain of Salvation after listening to my releases by them. I do believe the progressive seed has been planted. The father was a total Deadhead , and the son was into nu metal. My job has been accomplished.
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Posted By: Paradox
Date Posted: February 28 2006 at 14:33
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I'm extremely lucky in the sense that more or less every one of my friends (emphasis on the one) like prog. It helps that so many of them are musicians and enjoy a lot of genres. Unfortunately, i have yet to discover any musical talent with the exception of whistling. Sadly there's not a lot of call for whistling ------------- 
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Posted By: DualXP
Date Posted: February 28 2006 at 22:20
haha, i like your style ------------- If I had a puppy I would name it Tessa so it would cooperate well. |
aprusso wrote:Posted By: Nipsey88
Date Posted: February 28 2006 at 22:40
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Most of my friends generally laugh at my prog obsession, but I've turned most of them onto at least one band, including: Porcupine Tree Spock's Beard Caravan Riverside Genesis Zappa Ozric Tentacles Hidria Spacefolk Gong and the most surprising of them all...I've found that chicks dig Anekdoten...go figure.  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Nipsey88/?chartstyle=myspace02" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: FragileDT
Date Posted: February 28 2006 at 22:55
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I've tried. It's almost a lost cause. I have two friends that are really big dream
theater fans and they are impressed by the music (van der graaf, genesis, gentle giant, tull) that I'll play them, but they never listen. I think because it's much harder to understand and appreciate bands such as these that even open minded dream theater fans might not put the time into it. I just recently got one of my friends to buy "Foxtrot" because it was only 9.99 and he had a store credit. I told him if he was daring to go for Gentle Giant "Octopus" which oddly enough, was only 9.99 also. He stuck with foxtrot but has only listened to it once in 2 months. ------------- One likes to believe In the freedom of music But glittering prizes And endless Compromises Shatter the illusion Of integrity |