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		Home » Forums » General » Welcome » Greetings! Login or register to post comments 14 replies [Last post] Sun, 26/10/2008 - 15:25 86 Member Offline Joined: 26/10/2008 Greetings! Have just been casually idling around the internet and was wondering if Leeds Uni still had a Rock Soc, or "Prog Rock Soc" as it was in my day! Nice to see that it's still going!! I was a regular to "Prog Rocks" (fortnightly discos) back in the late '80's and was indeed a member of the committee in 1990-91. The spandex and leather jacket has long-since gone off to the charity shop but I still have a lot of the old records which were the main collection of the Society. Are there any other aged hangers-on still cluttering up the place? Wouldn't mind an excursion over to Leeds (from York) one night with some other Leeds Alumni. We've all had kids, careers and alopecia to differing degrees and fancy getting back to our roots at least if only temporarily before our mid-life crises kick-in and our knees can't take it any more!!!! With best wishes, Robin Rawson PS Rock on! PPS Christ! Sounds so cheesy saying that now!!!! Top Login or register to post comments Sun, 26/10/2008 - 17:30 #1 Twistedgenius Offline Joined: 27/09/2006 Prog rock soc? Great name ^_^ anyway, hi, nice to see the spirit of rock is still alive in you xD __________________ no i am not a wizard Top Login or register to post comments Sun, 26/10/2008 - 17:45 #2 darkish_angel87 Offline Joined: 17/10/2005 There was a society dedicated solely to prog? Frickin' sweet! Hi __________________ "This racist lady won't let us play catch!" Top Login or register to post comments Sun, 26/10/2008 - 22:13 #3 Northerner Offline Joined: 14/03/2005 86 Member wrote: The spandex and leather jacket has long-since gone off to the charity shop and are probably now in our posession, post charity-shop. Top Login or register to post comments Sun, 26/10/2008 - 23:05 #4 86 Member Offline Joined: 26/10/2008 Forgot to mention.... Twenty years ago, Prog Rock was one of the biggest societies in LUU - bigger than Socialist Worker (do those gobby buggers still station themselves outside every lunchtime?) but second only to Ballroom Dancing! Good place to meet members of the opposite sex - or break toes! There wasn't much "Prog" about it all back then! The glam/GnR crowd had just moved in but the Pres was a little chubby fella who had a passing resemblance for Keith Chegwin! In 1990 we merged with Leeds Met (formerly "The Poly") Rock Soc and had some really huge nights - filled the main refec hall to bursting! Later, all! Top Login or register to post comments Mon, 27/10/2008 - 12:11 #5 hell-bunny Offline Joined: 20/02/2006 86 Member wrote: Prog Rock was one of the biggest societies in LUU - bigger than Socialist Worker (do those gobby buggers still station themselves outside every lunchtime?) I don't think they do that, but they're certainly still opinionated and pushy. They put up posters everywhere about how the credit crunch proves that capitalism doesn't work! One of their most recent acts was to try to ban the military recruiting employees on campus, because they're anti-war; "recruiters of death" is what they called them. I just hope they're not so completely deluded that they have a problem with anyone wearing a poppy! Not that it'll stop me wearing one anyway! Anyway, hi, I'm Rhiannon __________________ "We're so close to finding my nemesis. I believe we are looking for a menstruating child who's waterproof to a depth of fifty metres. Where can he be hiding in such a fiendish disguise?" Top Login or register to post comments Mon, 27/10/2008 - 13:14 #6 Miffy Offline Joined: 19/03/2005 Hello I'm an older member of Rock Society, but not quite 80s old (2004-07 for me)! __________________ Leeds Rock Society's 'Most Overseas Member' 2005-06 Leeds Rock Society General Committee 2006-07 Leeds Rock Society Grand Mistress Of The Ball 2007 Leeds Rock Society Little London Bravery Award 2006-07 Top Login or register to post comments Mon, 27/10/2008 - 17:25 #7 grandparrot Offline Joined: 29/09/2005 Hi! I'm Adam. I'm an older member (though not that old) who's graduated and now works in Pudsey. __________________ Top Login or register to post comments Mon, 27/10/2008 - 17:35 #8 BY TOR Offline Joined: 15/10/2006 I'm one of the rocksoc 3rd year babies, although now i'm one of the older people. Thats worrying. Anyways i'm gonna run for President next year and my angle will be "Vote for me and i'll rename Rocksoc to ProgRockSoc". I am bound to win by landslide. Everyone likes Prog. (I thought i'd better mention that i do actually like Prog, i'm probably the biggest Rush fan in the society.) Top Login or register to post comments Mon, 27/10/2008 - 17:43 #9 ring_leader_uk Offline Joined: 26/09/2005 They do, they're always outside the union... I don't know whether to join them or hang them. I agree with their ideas, just despise their methods... Joelxxx __________________ My nipples are no longer orgasming, they are far too tired for that. Top Login or register to post comments Mon, 27/10/2008 - 18:16 #10 86 Member Offline Joined: 26/10/2008 BY TOR wrote: i'm probably the biggest Rush fan in the society. You never met a chap called Mike Embley! He was always thought of as the elder member of Prog Rock. I never let on that I was actually older than him!!!! Top Login or register to post comments Mon, 27/10/2008 - 18:37 #11 KatKat Offline Joined: 28/09/2006 I read this: BY TOR wrote: Everyone likes Prog. Leading straight on to this: ring_leader_uk wrote: They do, they're always outside the union... I don't know whether to join them or hang them. I agree with their ideas, just despise their methods... And I must say I agree. Nah prog's ok. But it's weird to think of the rock soc being so old and once so huge! I don't know if there would be enough students into rock to fill the whole refectory these days. Still, welcome (back). __________________ I am not so serious this passion is a plagiarism I might join your century but only on a rare occasion I was taken out before the labor pains set in and now behold the world's worst accident I am the girl anachronism Top Login or register to post comments Mon, 27/10/2008 - 22:06 #12 darkish_angel87 Offline Joined: 17/10/2005 KatKat wrote: It's weird to think of the rock soc being so old and once so huge! Especially when you consider the dire straits it was in just a few years ago! __________________ "This racist lady won't let us play catch!" Top Login or register to post comments Mon, 27/10/2008 - 22:28 #13 Hunter Offline Joined: 26/09/2005 darkish_angel87 wrote: Especially when you consider the dire straits it was in just a few years ago! Interesting use of words for responding to "so old and once so huge" __________________ They say only the good die young. If that works both ways, I'm immortal. The First Rule of Tautology Club is the first rule of Tautology Club. Top Login or register to post comments Tue, 28/10/2008 - 14:34 #14 Northerner Offline Joined: 14/03/2005 ring_leader_uk wrote: They do, they're always outside the union... I don't know whether to join them or hang them. I agree with their ideas, just despise their methods... Joelxxx I couldn't agree more. Top Login or register to post comments Login or register to post comments

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