Newsgroup: it.arti.musica.rock.progressive
Titolo: You might be a proghole if...

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You Might Be a Proghole if...
1. the word "mellotron" causes a strange tingling in your private parts.
2. you refer to Yes' lead singer as "the holy prophet Jon Anderson."
3. you blame Phil Collins for "driving Peter Gabriel out of Genesis."
4. you love the albums "Invisible Touch," "90125," and "Love Beach", but are
ashamed to admit it.
5. you actually liked SH's "Not Everybody's Gold."
6. you know what a firth is.
7. you believe the talent of a drummer is commensurate with the size of his
drum set.
8. you consider lyrics to be wasted time between solos.
9. you go to a King Crimson concert and take notes.
10. you look down on any keyboardist who is "not willing" to haul around a
real Hammond B3.
11. you prefer Bruford to White, noting with knowing condescension that
"groove and feel are way overrated."
12. you actually like Steve Howe's electric guitar tone.
13. your menage a trois fantasy involves you, Emerson, and Wakeman.
14. you find nothing comical about Robert Fripp, and are willing to kick
anybody's ass that does.
15. the prefix labels of "Cantebury", "melodic", "symphonic", and "neo"
before the word "prog" all simply mean "sucky".
16. you've named all the fish in your aquarium the names of past and present
Yes members.
17. the words to "Close to the Edge" have profound meaning in your life.
18. you've done time or community service for striking someone who said, "I
love Yes. Owner of a Lonely Heart rocked!"
19. you regularly set aside "me time" to listen to Tales from Topographic
Oceans in its entirety.
20. you still love Kansas, despite their miscues with Carry on Wayward Son,
Point of Know Return and Dust in the Wind.
21. you've ever constructed and worn a Jethro Tull "Aqualung" stage
jumpsuit.
22. you've spent years in therapy in an effort to forget that John Wetton
has ever been involved with anything outside of King Crimson.
23. you're one-word code for "time to leave" at a Yes concert is
"Roundabout."*
24. all of your favorite bands are named after characters or places from
"The Lord of the Rings."
25. you believe a bassist isn't even worth a derisive chortle if he doesn't
own a Rickenbacker.
26. you actually know what a Warr guitar is.
27. you find yourself labeling most current Prog as "derivative", yet you
secretly pine for Yes to record "Close to the Edge II".
28. you believe that radio play signals a band's demise.
29. you think "Beatlemania" is for pathetic hangers-on, yet you've seen "The
Musical Box" six times.
30. you spend more time and energy on turning your woman onto prog than on
turning your woman on.
31. you've danced to "Tom Sawyer."
32. you're unwilling to admit that Zeppelin was a prog band.
33. upon finding that one of your friends has discovered a Styx album in
your collection, you find yourself quickly spouting "youthful indiscretion."
34. upon leaving an ELP concert, you find yourself repeatedly mumbling
"sellouts!" because the band only played the "1st Impression" of "Karn Evil
9."
35. you think Yes' "Union" album should have been title "Onion" instead--it
stank!*
36. you're male, college educated, you're a groupie, yet you're asexual.
37. you've ever called a radio station and cursed them out for playing the
short version of "Thick as a Brick."
38. you know who Annie Haslam is.
39. you know the lyrics to any Gentle Giant song.
40. you insist on your own Persian rug when you play onstage.
41. you know what Taurus Pedals are.
42. you hear a car crash and say "That's derivative of {insert band's name
here.}"
43. your music collection is broken down by the note's the artists have
played.
44. you will spend oodles of money and time to see a band but only get their
CD's by swapping.
45. you actually know that "House of the King" was done by Focus and not
Jethro Tull.
46. you know the difference between Jurgen Fritz and Keith Emerson.
47. you principally condemn house/dance music (because any sound generated
by a computer can never be music) but secretly compare the soundstyles on
[insert any hit] to [insert any keyboard player]'s playing on [insert any
record here].
48. in addition, you secretly wish they had contracted Steven Rothery to
"spice it up some more".
49. you consider ANY music style to be derivative of prog, since it is "the
only true form of music".
50. you have ever betted on the runtime of "A Change of Seasons" and/or
"Grendel".
51. you actually agree with Fish and/or Marillion on their reasons NOT to
play Grendel anymore
52. you have tried every prog album in you and your friends' collection as a
soundtrack to reading "The Return of the King" and finally decided that,
since they all suffice, Tolkien must have been a proghole as well.
53. your favorite band's "world tour" consists of 3 shows on the east
coast--a bookstore "unplugged" show, a pre-festival, Friday night warm-up
gig with six other acts, and a free show at your uncle's tuxedo rental shop.
54. you believe that prog's heyday will single-handedly be resurrected by
the Chapman stick.
55. you love King Crimson...but wish that Lake, Wetton, and Belew would just
keep their freakin' mouths shout.
56. you believe that playing keyboards without a cape is a crass and
disrespectful mockery of the craft and prog genre in general.
57. you can sit in a room with other 'progholes' and intelligently carry on
a conversation when it comes to the bands Renaissance and Illusion...but,
all the while wishing they would all leave so you could listen to The
Strawbs' Hero and Heroine' on vinyl.

 6. you know what a firth is.
Bella questa, molto sottile.
Ave

40. you insist on your own Persian rug when you play onstage.
la sai la storia del tappeto persiano?


una storia...fulminante!!!

la sai la storia del tappeto persiano?
Io no... ma mi pare di ricordare qualcosa del genere che riguardasse
gli ELP... sbaglio?
MarKco
"Watching as the sun goes down
i sit inside this plane
Notice how the city lights
are like the nerves inside the brain"
Peter Gabriel, 2002


Lake si beccò una bella scossa non so come, e da allora suona su un
rettangolo di gomma isolante coperta da un tappeto persiano (sempre lo
stesso tappeto)

).(  Awaken  ).( ha scritto:

io la storiella la so in maniera diversa.
La ISB rifiutava di suonare senza il loro tappeto " fortunato "
supercostoso.
Anche Lake e Sinfield andarono a comprare un tappeto, in teoria per
assorbire il suono, spendendo 6.000 sterline. Sinfield dice che sotto
sotto era tutta vanita` camuffata.
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