is there a specific country or city
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Topic: is there a specific country or city
Posted By: Aaron
Subject: is there a specific country or city
Date Posted: May 04 2005 at 17:13
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is there any specific country or city or whatever where prog rock is actually sort of popular nowadays, metal is to germany and prog rock is to ?? is there a large prog festival like Wacken in Europe? a city that is always getting large crowds for prog concerts, or a place where many bands come to play? Aaron |
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: May 04 2005 at 17:15
No
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Posted By: Progger
Date Posted: May 04 2005 at 17:28
| Most of the newer neo-prog bands seem to have reasonable succes on the european continent, especially countries like France, Holland, Poland, Germany & Russia. These are the places where bands usually do full scale tours, whilst here in the UK they normally just do one or two shows [If we're lucky]. Evidence of this is that bands like Arena, Pendragon, Transatlantic, IQ, Flowerkings, Pallas, Neal Morse & Aryeon have all released live DVD's or CD's that were recorded in one of these countries! |
Posted By: Seyo
Date Posted: May 04 2005 at 18:19
Nowhere near the Balkans! 
Here is only a horrible style of music popular, called "turbo-folk" and some terrible variant of hip-hop. 
No concerts, no nothing, disaster!
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Posted By: Fibonacci's Se
Date Posted: May 04 2005 at 18:50
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my heart goes out to you^^ it really does IM from in the middle of nowhere Canada,...and in my district...say perhaps 2 hospitals, 5 towns, 6 high schools, - to get the relative size,..there seems to be an almost unatrural prog following, im willing to place 50% of the students in this area as prog fans and even more who listen to bands like mars volta...The relative youth (elemntary school) are also picking up the trend and prog is popular within that age bracket aswell...  ------------- cajole the promethean king while his pastiche panjandrum is caught within soleism, genuflect, avoid malversation |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: May 07 2005 at 20:01
| Japan |
Posted By: nimrodel
Date Posted: May 07 2005 at 20:03
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sweden ------------- We want... a shrubbery! |
Posted By: Myrrh
Date Posted: May 08 2005 at 04:00
are you serious? I have been there six times, and all I heard was some horrible J-Pop, sung by twenty 14-year-old girls |
Dick Heath wrote:Posted By: Dreamer
Date Posted: May 08 2005 at 05:27
| In holland the music is horrible. you only see hip hop and trance and this popish type of RnB. when you walk down the street all you see is people dressed in hip hop clothes. its terrible. |
Posted By: Rob The Good
Date Posted: May 08 2005 at 05:53
New Zealand music is absolute crap. No prog here at all....nope...none. Maybe a few Radiohead wannabes, but hey...that isn't Prog now is it?  ------------- And Jesus said unto John, "come forth and receive eternal life..." Unfortunately, John came fifth and was stuck with a toaster. |
Posted By: Kotro
Date Posted: May 08 2005 at 05:57
| Portugal has a small village (Gouveia) which holds an annual prog-rock festival. |
Posted By: Frasse
Date Posted: May 08 2005 at 06:06
it is? why haven't I noticed... The Swedish Heavy Metal festival "SwedenRock Festival" maybe has a few progressive acts each year. ( A.C.T and dream Theater this year, as far as I know.) |
Posted By: henri_ds
Date Posted: May 08 2005 at 06:27
You'll find everything you look for....if you help this guy find 1.21 gigawatts and go back 30 years in the past !!!!  Sad to say but the golden age of prog has passed. |
Posted By: Seyo
Date Posted: May 08 2005 at 06:58
henri_ds got it right! progressive rock and rock in general was very popular in former Yugoslavia during 1970s, there were sort of regular festivals across the country in those times, I guess - because I was too young then to remember. In the 1980s Yugoslavia had probably the best new wave/post punk scene, with varied styles of urban art and experimental but popular music, in all of the ex Eastern Bloc countries. Following the collapse of the country 1991-95, the whole rock scene practically died out including prog. What took power was and still is a horrible mixture of crappy pop, latino/greek sh*t, oriental/turkish/serbian bastard "turbo" folk informed by the worst variant of hip-hop "subculture".  
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Posted By: Borealis
Date Posted: May 08 2005 at 12:16
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I believe it's pretty popular in Québec. Montréal and Québec City are two good prog cities. |
Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: May 08 2005 at 12:21
Nope 
------------- Billy Connolly Dream Theater Terry Gilliam Hagen Quartet Jethro Tull Mike Keneally |