tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4073855367187904573.post8385572803559012676..comments2012-08-08T05:32:57.890-07:00Comments on Alisonsays: Proud to be ProgAlisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10221576114291058432noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4073855367187904573.post-64673564430143535122011-03-09T05:15:22.318-08:002011-03-09T05:15:22.318-08:00From a prog chick to another... Great post, Alison...From a prog chick to another... Great post, Alison! I also found your post on ProgEars, which I visit occasionally. Prog has had such an important role in my life that I met my husband through our mutual love of the music. Now I spend a lot of time reviewing (mostly) prog albums, old and new, on my blog, and I'm proud to be one of the very few women reviewers on the Internet (and probably elsewhere). I'll be adding your blog to my Friends list ASAP!<br /><br />Raffaella (aka Progmistress)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4073855367187904573.post-67353281304224455022011-03-01T06:36:31.513-08:002011-03-01T06:36:31.513-08:00Hi Alison
Just read your post as quoted by Amy ov...Hi Alison<br /><br />Just read your post as quoted by Amy over at Progressive Ears.<br /><br />It was like a breath of fresh air - sounds like we may be of approx the same vintage (I was born in ’59), and the references to the Osmonds, David Cassidy and the Bay City Rollers give it the authentic feel of a fellow traveller through the glorious early 70’s.<br /><br />It resonated with my own life experiences in some very particular ways; that sense of completeness when I first heard Fragile as if everything else up to then had been trial runs; the sense that the structure of Yes music plus Jon Anderson’s spiritual view somehow combine to give us readymade templates for getting through difficult times and make sense of the constant changes and never ending stream of “stuff” that make up life. <br /><br />Writing wise, I used to construct epic six pages poems in Anderson style, and it was such a liberating experience to play with language that way.<br /><br />Spiritually – I was brought up a Christian, but if Christianity vanished in a puff of smoke overnight I would still have a wholly intact spiritual world to enter through Jon’s lyrics.<br /><br />I had better luck in my companions than you in that a few classmates introduced me to prog, and we had endless analytical chats about the music; but when the holocaust of punk arrived in 1976, the year I left school, I felt suddenly isolated and persecuted for my love of Yes, ELP et al.<br /><br />But still the flame is burning and I don’t think anything will ever really top Close to the Edge.<br /><br />You know what, it occurs to me that gender difference has made no difference whatsoever to our lives with prog!<br /><br />Dave<br /><br />P.S. There is a particularly nice thread running on Progressive Ears at the moment titled “The Appeal of Yes” in which people are describing the impact their first hearing of Yes had on them.Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11704238865554665186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4073855367187904573.post-57487378265764994512011-02-27T10:03:20.992-08:002011-02-27T10:03:20.992-08:00I seem to have been walking with you on your journ...I seem to have been walking with you on your journey - my first Yes concert was on the Relayer tour for example. I also had a few years when prog seemed to take a back seat - but it never left me, even though I was mocked and ridiculed at times for loving ELP. But I was always proud to stand up and say "Hello, my name is Jane, and I'm a Progger".Janea57https://www.blogger.com/profile/01924538365124788840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4073855367187904573.post-21731671254285625772011-02-17T06:16:03.087-08:002011-02-17T06:16:03.087-08:00As always Alison, you talk a lot of good sense. L...As always Alison, you talk a lot of good sense. Like many I once felt forced to apologise for my (excellent) taste in music; but now I understand that there is nothing to apologise for ... we are the proguli!Hemispherical Walterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16033809140797823950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4073855367187904573.post-81843221226175021142011-02-17T02:36:40.037-08:002011-02-17T02:36:40.037-08:00Really nice to read :-)Really nice to read :-)Marcel Hasterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12898067511535887410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4073855367187904573.post-17345630284892898282011-02-16T13:12:24.079-08:002011-02-16T13:12:24.079-08:00Great post Alison!!!Great post Alison!!!Chris Pictonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18418973358352783667noreply@blogger.com