Article 53673 of alt.music.progressive: Newsgroups: alt.music.progressive Path: news.claremont.edu!nntp-server.caltech.edu!news.cerf.net!pagesat.net!news.erinet.com!netcom.com!jharkins From: jharkins@netcom.com (Jim Harkins) Subject: Re: Why do prog bands need to play LOUD? Message-ID: Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) References: <3k28mrINNpbt@ctron-news.ctron.com> Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 05:25:37 GMT Lines: 21 Sender: jharkins@netcom.netcom.com In article <3k28mrINNpbt@ctron-news.ctron.com>, wrote: >Just wondering what the reasons are behind the loudness thing, Simple. Us 30 something proggers lost our hearing at the Rush, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, etc concerts of the 70's. Now prog bands have to play loud or we all cup our ears and yell WHAT? This of course makes us drop our bottles of Geritol. Bending over to pick it up we tend to whack our neighbors with our canes. Said neighbor then slips on said Geritol and lands butt first on the floor. This hinders other neighbors from taking the concert seriously. And as we all know, pretentious prog bands get very upset if we don't take them seriously. jim -- "I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror like his passengers." Jim Harkins jharkins@netcom.com San Diego, CA.