[Yesspaz]

I've always had this sort of phenomenon happen:

Most people just listen to the radio and have no idea other stuff is out there. For instance, if I want to get someone into prog, I don't tell them what I'm putting in is prog. I just put in some music. Ususally, I get a "What in the world is that" type of response. I tell them, "This is a band called Don Caballero." Then there's the, "How did you find out about this band?" type of question, which leads to then telling me they never have time to look for music.

Secondly, for all those tons of people who have never heard prog, and therefore don't know by experience how good it can be, may be biased against it. By reading anything from Blender to Rolling Stone to watching MTV, what little exposure most people have to prog is negative. Prog's not "cool." Prog's not "hip." Prog is looked down upon. If you take a random teenager and introduce them to King Crimson by saying, "this is a prog-band," you can forget it. If you tell him "this is a freaking cool band from the 70s" and play him RED without telling him it's prog, he's hooked, and then when he finds out it's prog, he'll be shocked. Prog has a stigma. Avoid the stigma.


Hey, Stigma would be a good name for a band.