[atlantaprog] Re: Introduction: new member

Good evening,

So far I haven't figured out yet how to respond to
each individual message in this group, so I will
respond to everybody in one message.

First of all, thank you for a warm welcome.

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* From: Allen Welty-Green <agmedia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
* To: atlantaprog@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
* Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 20:57:50 -0500

Welcome Art,


It's great to see college students into this kind of
music! Though there are some young list members, most
of us tend to be a bit older and we despair at some of
the music that younger people are into. I would be
curious to know how you got exposed to prog-rock, and
what contemporary non-"prog" acts you're into...

AWG

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That is a rather long story how I got involved into
progressive rock, so I'll mention just a few key
events. I was introduced to PINK FLOYD by an older
friend of mine (who was also a big admirer of GENESIS)
in the just-collapsed-USSR, when I was only 14. But I
discovered PINK FLOYD unbeknown to myself a year or so
earlier, when I saw the live concert of PINK FLOYD on
TV. I did not know which group was playing and I was
watching a man with an electroguitar standing at the
microphone, doing almost nothing. There was some
background music theme playing and I was thinking to
myself: "Why is he not playing or singing anything?".
I was almost ready to switch to another channel when
the man with the guotar played four notes, the most
famous four notes of "Shine On You Crazy Diamond". I
remember they were like an electric shock to me. That
was the turning point in my life. Since then I was
trying to find out who that guitarist was until
somebody gave me to listen to the just-released "The
Division Bell", and then, a week after "The Dark Side
Of The Moon". Well, everything else is needless to
tell. Except that I was completely unaware of the
existence of prog music beyond PINK FLOYD and GENESIS
until just a year ago or so when I disvovered
www.progarchives.com, and along with it RUSH,
ÄNGLAGÅRD, OZRIC TENTACLES etc. 

Just as I mentioned above, I thought that prog
consisted only of PINK FLOYD and GENESIS, so I was
trying to find art-rock and prog-rock elements in the
classical rock. As I was also greatly exposed to the
latter, I must say that I know every little sound of
QUEEN, DIRE STRAITS, THE BEATLES, early (70s) ELTON
JOHN, IRON MAIDEN. So these are my classical rock
preferences. Of course I also listened to DEEP PURPLE
and LED ZEPPELIN, but I do not know them as well as,
say, QUEEN.

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Hi Art!

Welcome to A.R.I.A. !!!
Hope to meet you at RogueFest.


Pink Floyd fan, eh?
Have a listen to R.P.W.L. (Germany) and House Of Not
(Canada).

Ozrics?
Try Hidria Spacefolk (Finland) and Tratosphare
(Switzerland).

Cheers!

Kenny Solomon

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Thank you, I just checked out RPWL at progarchives and
listened to their track "RPWL - Stock - 01 -
Opel.mp3", which indeed sounds like an early PINK
FLOYD. Certainly, I'll also try to listen to HIDRIA
SPACEFOLK. I am really grateful for these suggestions.
Every day I discover some new interesting music! 

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Hey Art!!
 
The Owl bids you welcome! 
 
Great to see there are younger folks digging prog,
gotta love it!!! You have 
good taste!
 
What instrument do you play?
 
Again, welcome to our world and hope you enjoy your
stay!
 
Your Friendly Neighborhood Strigiforme (scientific
talk for Owl)

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I have graduated from a musical school, playing the
accordion (the so-called concert accordion, with
piano-like keyboard), but I was also taking piano
classes. Of course, by now most of my skills have gone
and I have almost no technique left, but I believe
that I could return them if I really wanted.

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Hi Art! Welcome to ARIA! :)

A few of us are not formal musicians or like me, not
musicians at all:) No 
problem!

Hope to see you at RogueFest and other shows soon!:)

PEACE
Beth

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I'll try my best to be there. Indeed, I thought
nothing prog-related was happening in Atlanta (yes, I
was wrong), so this will be a major event for me!

I often heard that prog-loving people are usually
"older" ones, but I know some "young" people too who
listen to prog and classics. For a number of years I
was calling "prog" either art-rock or an intellectual
rock (before I discovered that it was "officially"
called "progressive"). In my opinion, it only takes to
be an intellectual to arrive to prog. Certainly, there
are many young intellectuals too ... but why are there
more "older" people than "younger" who listen to prog?
Well, because at any moment in time there are more
intellectuals who are, say, past their twenties than
those who are in their twenties. And maybe because not
all of the younger people had the chance to live
during the 70s? ;-)

And there is one thing that I learnt as I grew older:
no matter how old you are you still remain the same
inside. 

Art

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