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Hey!
I thought we were past this "attack John" phase of the thread! Sheesh!
All right, I'm going to have to fight back now (funny, you seem to be using my tactics).
What I meant by #2, to spell it out for you, is that many people would listen to prog bands if they knew they existed. I discovered it through sheer luck. To demonstrate what I mean, I once asked a guy (a Dream Theater fan) if he knew what prog was. He said "keyboard stuff" and proceeded to tell me that DT was not prog because they weren't keyboard oriented enough. Most people just don't know. If they did....
As for #3, when you start discussing the content and stop attacking me I won't have to defend myself. At least my last comment had a coupla' paragraphs of good content stuff. Yours didn't have any! And why do you assume that I will have a field day with somewhat mainstream music? It depends on what you mean by "somewhat mainstream."
Was that a Thread started by Tommy (EP) or about the Tommy (EP)? I couldn't find either, I guess I'm not looking in the right places. Anyway, I stick to what I said.
To put some discussion of content on this post (Rick, do you want to call a truce? All this arguing is starting to work against me.), I'll go back to that popularity discussion. When I asked that one girl's dad (the former progger one) about it, he said, "that's what we listened to back then." Obviously prog wasn't the mainstream thing, so I'll take that to mean it wasn't uncommon. Ugh... I can't make this go anywhere.... I agree with whoever said that post-rock was the prog rock of the 90s. I keep seeing GY!BE popping up in this discussion. I heard some of their stuff on the college radio station and bought Yanqui U.X.O. and Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven. It's cool stuff, I didn't realize they were so popular.
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