You might be a Proghole if...

[zombywoof]

This list has me howling! Check it out ...

http://www.salemhill.com/ranrum/proghole.html

[martiprog]

F'*k! I'm a proghole

[bob_32_116]

Too many to bother with the entire list.

the problem with No. 6 is that those who fit this category probably include nearly every man, woman and child in Scotland. But not those in Salem, apparently. I am tempted to snigger.

[DGuitarist]

blah blah blah
A lot of prog clichés there.
Way too many to read.

How many pop songs used a Mellotron, and aren't prog?
"Closer To Home," for example.

[Zalmoxe]

the problem with No. 6 is that those who fit this category probably include nearly every man, woman and child in Scotland.

Right. No. 6 should be:

"You didn't know what a firth was, but you looked it up in the dictionary."

[DGuitarist]

66. your daughters're named Galadriel & Nico.

WTF?

(nice to see they can't spell very well, either)

[zombywoof]

I can't believe folks are actually getting upset over this. I found it pretty funny.

[Dave (in MA)]

/TL;DR

66. your daughters're named Galadriel & Nico.

WTF?

(nice to see they can't spell very well, either)

I don't have any daughters, but we have a cat named Phaedra.
(Proghole points lost because the wife named her after some country song.)

[DGuitarist]

Was it a country song Tangerine Dream wrote?

[bob_32_116]

I think a list of the best 10 or 15 would have been funnier. I see this kind of overkill a lot on sites: "How can you tell if...?" type lists.

This is more a snipe at the person who made the list than at our Mr Woof.

The daughters one reminds me of a Doonesbury cartoon in which a guy on a flight strikes up a conversation with the guy seated next to him, who turns out to be a former rock star. Of course he is settled down now with a wife and kids, he says. Asked whether any of the children have shown any tendency to follow in Father's footsteps, he says "Oh no, they may do, but we are letting them grow up to be what they want without any sort of pressure to be like their parents."

He then brings out a family photo, and the first guy comments how cute the boys are and asks what are their names.

"The older one's Rimshot, that one's Feedback, and that's Baby Riffs."

[chalkpie]

Funny.

We are ALL progholes.

[Dave (in MA)]

Was it a country song Tangerine Dream wrote?

Good point. There's some Johnny Cash-sounding bass guitar about 4:15 in.

[DGuitarist]

I think a list of the best 10 or 15 would have been funnier. I see this kind of overkill a lot on sites: "How can you tell if...?" type lists.

This is more a snipe at the person who made the list than at our Mr Woof.

The daughters one reminds me of a Doonesbury cartoon in which a guy on a flight strikes up a conversation with the guy seated next to him, who turns out to be a former rock star. Of course he is settled down now with a wife and kids, he says. Asked whether any of the children have shown any tendency to follow in Father's footsteps, he says "Oh no, they may do, but we are letting them grow up to be what they want without any sort of pressure to be like their parents."

He then brings out a family photo, and the first guy comments how cute the boys are and asks what are their names.

"The older one's Rimshot, that one's Feedback, and that's Baby Riffs."

I agree, the list goes on too long. Just like TFTO.

[Yanks2014]

I can't believe folks are actually getting upset over this. I found it pretty funny.

WHich clearly makes them a prog-hole... This is pretty old actually, but has held up well.

[progmatist]

For the record, Not Everybody's Gold has been my favorite SH album since I first heard it. The first album I heard was Mimi's Magic Moment, not long after it came out. I then worked backward through their catalog.

[trurl]

I think a list of the best 10 or 15 would have been funnier. I see this kind of overkill a lot on sites: "How can you tell if...?" type lists.

This is more a snipe at the person who made the list than at our Mr Woof.

Like there would be a consensus on which were the "best 10 or 15". Perhaps someone should set up a website where people can vote on them using a star system and then argue about it.

The original "You might be a redneck if..." list now spans what, 5 or 6 books?

[zombywoof]

The best part is that this list was obviously written by 'prog holes' with a sense of humor, otherwise many of these wouldn't be spot on!

[progmatist]

How long do you think it will be before someone starts using "proghole" as their user name on this site?

[bob_32_116]

Like there would be a consensus on which were the "best 10 or 15". Perhaps someone should set up a website where people can vote on them using a star system and then argue about it.

Obviously, I meant the best 10 or 15 as judged by the author.

I haven't scanned the list to find out whether you are a proghole if the initials SH cause you massive amounts of confusion, because you know dozens of prog musicians with those initials, including at least four Steves.

[yeselpkrimson]

How long do you think it will be before someone starts using "proghole" as their user name on this site?

progholio ... close enough?

[Supersonic Scientist]

#9 KC concert and take notes....who DOESN'T do that???

#15 Cantebury "sucky"....how DARE THEY...!

#29 Good one and for me...true.

#89 My favorite of the bunch !

[zombywoof]

Yeah, not all of these are good, but most of them are!

[Scott Bails]

Like there would be a consensus on which were the "best 10 or 15". Perhaps someone should set up a website where people can vote on them using a star system and then argue about it.

Is there anything more Prog™ than arguing about a list?

[Musitron]

blah blah blah
A lot of prog clichés there.
Way too many to read.

Yes I stopped after 20.

[Supersonic Scientist]

I think I can add one to the list:

No Prog band can be refered to as "A respected Prog band" if they do not have at least ONE song completely in 7/8.