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From: feathers@gate.net (Michael Feathers)
Newsgroups: alt.music.progressive
Subject: Re: WHAT IS IT PROGRESSING TOWARDS?
Date: 15 Oct 1994 12:02:21 GMT
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vaylor russell trucks (trucksva@dekalb.DC.PeachNet.EDU) wrote:
: My band had a poster once which listed the top 10 reasons were not a
: progressive band.

: 10 none of us look good in lipstick
: 9 cant afford sequencer or drum machine
: 8 depressing nature of songs could cause emotionally unstable sax player
:   to off audience
: 7 we know too many chords
: 6 we like playing to 2 people at a time
: 5 college kids in a college town playing college music? how original is that?
: 4 bridge to "blister in the sun" just too darn complicated
: 3 local progressive bands pay us good money not to
: 2 allergic to pechuli oil
: 1 cant figure out what it is supposed to be progressing towards

: ponder and good night

Looks like you are using the new fangled definition of progressive.
On this newsgroup being progressive means that you use a live drummer
who plays drums with names you can not pronounce (never a drum 
machine), you know a zillion chords and use them all in the same 
song, you've never heard of "blister in the sun", you play music
that is so complex that it is apt to give ordinary mortals headaches,
you play music so rhythmically broken that it could induce cardiac
arhythmia in older listeners, and (last but not least) you never use
a four string bass in your music.  The bass must have at least 
6 strings or else you use a Chapman stick instead.

Do you still want to play here?