You might be Prog if…

[mapadofu]

Let’s build a Jeff Foxworthy style list

You might be Prog if…

- you’ve put out a concept album

- any of your songs are longer than 7 minutes

What else?

 

[Winslow]

...playing in 4/4 is "just too easy" for your band.

...you write more songs about wizards than women.

...silk robes seem like fashion-forward stage attire.


ETA: Paging @Spidey2112, et al.

 

[two fingers]

...playing in 4/4 is "just too easy" for your band.

...you write more songs about wizards than women.

...silk robes seem like fashion-forward stage attire.


ETA: Paging @Spidey2112, et al.

- or dragons, knights, castles, potions, epic journeys, or being "disenfranchised". (The last one also works from grunge )

 

[Winslow]

...your songs include sound effects (such as burbling streams, crashing waves, spaceships, or ticking clocks)

...your drummer can turn his head all the way from left to right, and still not see all of his kit.

...multiple people in the band have to trigger sequences with their feet.

 

[mapadofu]

… the synth player has more keyboards than fingers to play them with

 

[Winslow]

...the drummer writes all your lyrics, and they're actually good!

...the front row of your shows is 98% dudes.

...most of your audience is staring intently at your fingers, trying to figure out your playing technique.

 

[Jeremy Crockett]

People play your CDs to end a party.

 

[ThudThudThud]

- Everybody in the band has at least six instruments around them
- Your singer plays a flute and/or paints his/her face
- Razors aren't in the budget, but capos are
- One or more members of the band other than the drummer is sitting
- Some of your audience is wearing flared jeans

 

[Mickp]

There's a ding on your acoustic guitar from when it fell out of your Gracie stand and hit the Moog Taurus pedals (true).

 

[Mickp]

You have 36 strings to tune for a gig.

 

[Winslow]

...your studio engineer suggests playing back the guitar solo over a pond for more ambience.

...you have an epic, eternal beef with a hair metal band.

...some of your best-known hits are covers of classical works.*

*(Not a Rush joke this time.)

 

[gscroggin]

You passed notes around in high school with irregular meters and complex arrangements (and yes, I'm guilty of doing this)

 

[Killing Floor]

If you're married to Toyah.

 

[Spidey2112]

...playing in 4/4 is "just too easy" for your band.

...you write more songs about wizards than women.

...silk robes seem like fashion-forward stage attire.


ETA: Paging @Spidey2112, et al.

Bwawaahaha! You rang, in 7/8 time, then sang of the denizens of middle Earth using Mellotrons as furniture, while drinking honeydew from the chalice of Humpenfeffer.

 

[Spidey2112]

People play your CDs to end a party.

Bwawaahaha!

 

[Spidey2112]

You might be prog, if...

... you're a pioneer tasked with learning an obviously obscure song (prog!) using nothing but your ears and chopsticks...

... and that lamp, over there.

 

[db59]

Good at math

 

[db59]

Seeing someone fall down stairs gave you your next rhythm pattern

 

[2112]

... if ANYONE wears a cape or gown on-stage.

 

[Vitamin D]

... your album cover includes creatures, planets, or landscapes not yet discovered by humankind.