You might be Prog if…

[Nuage420]

If some middle age dude in a leather jacket has his mind blown, but all the chicks went to a different club....

Last time I saw Dream Theater...

 

[Nuage420]

Wait, you need to say who you're talking about, Rush? Had a beef with who?



The best Frazetta paintings wound up as cover art on a Southern rock band's albums, though.

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And the Mascot of entire Corps of the Army

 

[BassFishingInAmerica]

A minimum of 3 songs in your set include tubular bells as a main instrument.

 

[BassFishingInAmerica]

You have albums with mushrooms anywhere on the cover.

 

[bass.slinger]

It takes you longer to record one song then any other band takes to record an entire album and do a support tour

That one song might be longer than said tour….

 

[TrevorR]

Yeah, but what about Osibisa?

Good point! Maybe they're "proggae" on the basis of the flying elephants alone!

 

[pglaser01]

-Your songs across multiple albums are long form story telling of an epic.

 

[bass.slinger]

…you know what a Moog Taurus is
…you know and are happy to discuss the differences between a Moog Taurus I/II/III
…you know what a Roland PK-5 is
…you own any of the above

 

[BassFishingInAmerica]

If any of your albums have a comic book version.

 

[bass.slinger]

…you have your favorite incarnation of King Crimson (it is the 80's quartet of course)
…you have listened to side B of Thick as a Brick

 

[The Owl]

You can actually make sense of Yes lyrics.

You might still live in your parents basement

 

[PillO]

Your first set is only 5 songs, but includes both of your hits.
Your second set is an entire album.
Your encore is only 1 song but lasts 30 minutes.

 

[The Owl]

You have albums with mushrooms anywhere on the cover.

 

[Michedelic]

Yeah, but what about Osibisa?

African/Anglo prog.

 

[Bob_Ross]

If your drummers kit barely fits in his bitchin conversion van.....

True story: In 1980 my writing partner and I were trying to put together a touring band to support the record we'd released (recorded by just the two of us) the previous year. We'd exhausted our (then limited) contacts who played drums, so we put a short classified ad in the local music rag: "Drummer wanted for post-punk progressive rock band."

Every single drummer who showed up to audition -- and this was at least 5 or 6 guys -- had an eight+ piece kit: double kick drums, four rack toms, one or two floor toms, a bazillion cymbals, several had the then-obligatory three mini rototoms... Most of them took longer to set up their enormous kits than it took us to determine that they weren't gonna pass the audition.

Two weeks later we posted the exact same ad in the same paper, only we removed the word "progressive" ...so now it just said "Drummer wanted for post-punk rock band."

Every single drummer who showed up to audition had a four piece kit: Kick, snare, rack tom, floor tom, done.

Uncanny.

 

[Michedelic]

Good point! Maybe they're "proggae" on the basis of the flying elephants alone!

They were nowhere near reggae, closer to Fela style Afrobeat.

 

[Bob_Ross]

You know zero cowboy chords. Truth is, you never even knew they existed.

:::raises hand::: Guilty as charged

Then again, I haven't met any cowboy musicians who understand all-interval tetrachords, so we could compare notes in the tour bus!

 

[40Hz]

if you're reading this thread

Why not? Proggers are bred for abuse. y'know…that whole "lone misunderstood hero" schtick that got you that sultry and adoring New Age GF…and her best friend…because she believes in open relationships.

Like the old bit of vaudeville wisdom teaches us: It may be total jive. But what the heck. If it works - go for it.

 

[PillO]

True story: In 1980 my writing partner and I were trying to put together a touring band to support the record we'd released (recorded by just the two of us) the previous year. We'd exhausted our (then limited) contacts who played drums, so we put a short classified ad in the local music rag: "Drummer wanted for post-punk progressive rock band."

Every single drummer who showed up to audition -- and this was at least 5 or 6 guys -- had an eight+ piece kit: double kick drums, four rack toms, one or two floor toms, a bazillion cymbals, several had the then-obligatory three mini rototoms... Most of them took longer to set up their enormous kits than it took us to determine that they weren't gonna pass the audition.

Two weeks later we posted the exact same ad in the same paper, only we removed the word "progressive" ...so now it just said "Drummer wanted for post-punk rock band."

Every single drummer who showed up to audition had a four piece kit: Kick, snare, rack tom, floor tom, done.

Uncanny.

You have several songs that require the use of a gong.

 

[40Hz]

:::raises hand::: Guilty as charged

Then again, I haven't met any cowboy musicians who understand all-interval tetrachords, so we could compare notes in the tour bus!

Dunno. Met a few cowboy types who also play a mean guitar. They might surprise you.