So How Did You Discover Aural Moon?

[PFD]

Just curious. How did you stumble upon Aurul Moon?

I can't remember specifically. I think I was on some ITunes or Real Player radio and just scrolling through the genres. I think Auralmoon was there under Classic Rock, or something. This was probably a couple years ago. Apart from the short flirtation with playing "classical music", it's been really great.

[GORT]

That's exactly how I found the MOON, on itunes, Nov.05
One of the best finds ever!

[mossy]

Hello Gort and PDF,

I was friends with the owners of another station and was listening there. When they passed the reins and left the station, the new direction wasn't really up my alley. I was perusing their links section one day, and thought I'd click on the Moon to see what it was all about. This was in Nov. 2003. It might even have been the day Avian brought live chat on board. That first time, I remember clicking on white wondering what that was all about, and meeting keithie and steady stan. I think tee was in there as well. I came away from chatting and listening that day delighted to have found good music and some lovely loonie moonies, and knew that I was parking my rump (and ears) on the moon from now on. :heart:

mossy

[mossy]

sorry...PFD! Done too much scanning today. :o

[Hawksun]

I discovered it back in High School two years ago. I was in computer class doing the usual stuff we did every day (watch Red vs. Blue, flood the server with obscene messages recorded with our headphones' buillt-in mics, Google Images treasure hunt, etc...). But then, we also had to actually work on some stuff. So when we did we liked to have some music, so we usually hunted for internet radios using shoutcast. Then one day I stumbled upon Aural moon and started to listen to it quite a few times(helped by the fact that it was one of the only radios not to die in like 3 days). Then a few months later I found the actual site, joined the community quietly and began to know a bit about the people who met there. It's only as of late that I regurlarly come here though.

That's my story in a nutshell. :)

[RogorMortis]

As far as i remember (getting old here) I stumbled on Aural Moon in 2001 via radio365 list of stations. I registered under another name and was a listener for a couple of years but i forgot my password.
Only 2 years ago I began to be more active under my present identity and have never looked back, except I've spent a fortune in buying more music that I never knew existed.

Dear God let me win the lotto :angel:

[kevishev]

I started listening back in 2001 by way of my winamp and shoutcast.com. I couldn't believe there was a station that played stuff I actually wanted to hear. The stream was more music back then. Less voice interuptions. No shows. Maybe Gnosis was on back then but I'n not sure. I remember Star Date being about the only thing other than music and the female voice announcement every now and then that you'd hear during the day. It was like heaven for me. Other streams have come and gone but the AM has carried on.

Kev

[roger]

iTunes for me, too!

[KeithieW]

A mate told me about the Moon. I haven't looked back since.

Met mossy (again ;) ) and SO many more soul mates you wouldn't believe.

Stay for ever!!!!!!! I will.

[Yesspaz]

Started listening to AM back in 1999, when there were about 15 to 30 of us. I vaguely remember the OLD site! Heh, I remember being worried about switching to a new forums format back in 2001!

Found AM through a Yahoo! search for progressive rock radio.

[Rick and Roll]

I don't know how or why I decided to surf, but I found Delicious Agony. Great stuff, but heavy on Flower Kings. Then I listened to an interview the owner was doing with Roine Stolt, and she was "caught" in a lie about how she was supposedly at a show in Europe. Roine said something and she said "Oh yeah that show was great", but when pressed on details she fessed up. I thought, "Great just what prog needs a pretentious station" lol...

Actually found the forums (surprise!) of AM first. There was a discussion of "What's your favorite prog song"? I signed up, and replied "Green Eyed Lady". Jim thought I was being cheeky, of the opinion that the song was a bit commercial. After starting off on the wrong foot with my response, Avian, Keith, and maybe Mossy and most likely Spaz (and some Moonies not around anymore) chimed in. I think I had 30 posts in the first week...it was a fun row.

[Roger -Dot- Lee]

I was listening to spinner.com (back before they started being "All Zappa All The Time"). Eventually they went down that path and we parted ways. It was quite a while where I was completely prog-less. Then I opened iTunes and saw ..."The Net's Progressive Rock Garden."

Urr?

The second song I heard was "The Web" by Marillion, and it was followed in short order by this wild epic that changed time and key signatures more often than my ex wife changed her mind. I was hooked from the word go and haven't looked back since. I like it here.

[progdirjim]

I found it through the old PRRN, and started listening in '99. Back in, oh, October of 2000 or so, Avian posted on the web site looking for a Program Director and I volunteered. Since then it takes up a lot of my time, but it's generally time well spent. I can remember when we'd get excited to have 20 concurrent listeners...

[Avian]

I was driving in Quincy, MA one night not too far from home when I was trying to figure out a name for the radio station. I told Karen "I know I want it to have moon in it... something Moon. Taco? No. Earthworm? Nope. Then it came to me - Aural Moon. A giant beam came out of the sky and sucked up the car into a spaceship, and that's the last thing I remember. It was June of 1999.

I told my long time friend whos 80s radio station originally inspired me to do this. He responded, "Oral Moon? Hilarious!" I was serious of course.

[Methem]

VAXman posted the address of the station on comp.os.vms, a usenet group, a couple of years ago. I saw the URL and visited the site some time after. I listened anonymously for a few months and then registered.


-Methem

[Wojtek]

My adventure with AM starts in 2004 but I visited the page also one year before. But - strange thing - during two or three visits in 2003 Moon seemed silent. WR "attendance" - 0, not many shouts..I wondered if there were secret options opening doors to community or something like that. So accidentally at the beginning I had false impression about AM. After a few months in March 2004 I visited again. Avian, Keithie and someone third was in the BR and this is how all started. I remember KW had a headache :D. Next day there was again KW in chat room and I met Mossy. That was around noon and I was very surprised to read that Mossy listened to AM at night. Hah!! Good old days :). In 2004 European morning crew was extremely active. No sooner after me Jam joined, KW was around every morning so we had a huge amount of faff.

[KeithieW]

No sooner after me Jam joined, KW was around every morning so we had a huge amount of faff.
Great days indeed Woj. Then work comes along and Faff time diminishes. :(

Still great to Faff when time allows though.

[Roger -Dot- Lee]

After a few months in March 2004 I visited again. Avian, Keithie and someone third was in the BR and this is how all started. I remember KW had a headache :D. Next day there was again KW in chat room and I met Mossy. That was around noon and I was very surprised to read that Mossy listened to AM at night. Hah!! Good old days :). In 2004 European morning crew was extremely active. No sooner after me Jam joined, KW was around every morning so we had a huge amount of faff.

I remember those days. I was wasting my existence at HP at the time. I was part of the European Morning Crowd as well (even if it was 3am local time). We had some wonderful conversations. I remember asking about whether or not the end of Communism actually benefitted the regular folk in Poland like we in the US were hoping it would.

Those were the days....

[mossy]

Yes those early morning faffs in 2003/2004 were the only way to start the day. Unfortunately, since I'm on pacific time, I had to get up at 4 am to do it. I managed to do this for about six months, then I got old. I also got married, which, by default, put an end to getting up at 4 am and hopping on the puter. Steady Stan, tee, jamforte, keith, woj, mortis, sometimes rick, vax, the Spaniards siluencar and david, sometimes lotus? Stan got the theme cooking and we had a good time. Dot, I think I was gone from the routine already when you started doing the morning shift. Good memories indeed.:grinz:

[mossy]

I forgot Artemis....it was a hoot having stan on there and then his wife logging in from work.

[Andyyyy]

I found out about AM by a thread on the Gentle Giant forum, and I tuned in and Gagliarchives was on, and you could even chat with him! AND he was playing music with interesting time sigs and changes...just like the stuff I play at home!! I had to tell Tom how great this was and I was hooked...only limitation is that I don't always have the PC hooked up to speakers or to headphones, but from there, I listened to the regular programming as well. Though this happened a few years ago, I hadn't thought of joining the forum part till maybe last year. I'm hooked here as well! AM has a magic which other prog stations don't, and I have tried other stations...


I remember those days. I was wasting my existence at HP at the time. I was part of the European Morning Crowd as well (even if it was 3am local time). We had some wonderful conversations. I remember asking about whether or not the end of Communism actually benefitted the regular folk in Poland like we in the US were hoping it would.

I wonder what his answer was. Years ago, I was a member of Solidarnosc California. We raised money to help Solidarnosc in Poland. Now that the Commies are mostly out of power, it's interesting to hear that some actually miss the socialism of the old days. Though I should add, it's the security they think they had in those days.

[Ginjeet]

Got here somehow thru gepr.net.

[HyperSthene]

It was on the Itunes radio stations list on my universty's PC.

[Wojtek]

I remember asking about whether or not the end of Communism actually benefitted the regular folk in Poland like we in the US were hoping it would.

Those were the days....

Yes. These were cool discussions. I remember you were also very interested in linguistic matters.

I wonder what his answer was. Years ago, I was a member of Solidarnosc California. We raised money to help Solidarnosc in Poland. Now that the Commies are mostly out of power, it's interesting to hear that some actually miss the socialism of the old days. Though I should add, it's the security they think they had in those days.

My answer was probably same as I would respond today. No doubt it was good to get rid of communists and socialism. But the spectre of the past is still present today.. I mean..of course there is completely different, better reality now but within decade and a half we didn't manage to repair what had been done during 50 years. Health care still is in fatal condition, roads are poor, some aspects of mentality are echoes from the bad times.

[ViolinCyndee]

I heard about Aural Moon on the Gagliarchives. But, before the site was redesigned, I had trouble with some of the features on it, so didn't spend any time here.

Recently, I have submitted my CD to be played on Aural Moon, so then came back to the site again. Seems to be working better now and also maybe because I have DSL instead of dial-up. :)

Cyndee

[artboy]

live 365 many moons ago

[jtmckinley]

I bought a Turtle Beach AudioTron unit back in 2004 I think and it connects to a Turtle Radio web site to get its internet stations list. They have a bunch of pre-defined stations in several categories (you can make your own lists as well) and Aural Moon was in the Rock list with a link to the web site. I read the description and thought it sounded cool and checked out the stream and was blown away that I found a high quality internet station that plays all the music I like and have been listening ever since.

[kirk]

I found it w/ an AURALTELESCOPE!

Seriously, I think I found it while surfing off of Yesfans...clicked on the PR webring,
to The PRRN stations... I joined about the same time as KW and the Rickster.

My 1st great memory was winning the CDs during the anniversary party,
the 2nd was being honored w/ having my music in rotation (thanks PDJ & Dot!).

Thanks to you guys, it opened the door to the other PRRN stations,
plays on the Gagliarchives (thanks Tom!) a full CD play on Rick's show,
then on Progpos (thanks Rick!)

Davin, Jim, Dot, Vax...Here's to a long future for AM!
BTW- I like the new look. I'm using the Olias style, great stuff!

P e a c e

Kirk

[Avian]

live 365 many moons ago

Wow - that is old school!!!

[artboy]

Wow - that is old school!!!

I had a station there when it was free.. .then they made broadcasters pay... `-( `-( `-( `-( `-( I helped start their website with MY MUSIC!!!! and that was the thanks the original braodcasters got....I signed off.

[Maestro]

I first discovered the net's progressive rock garden sometime earlier this year. I was astounded by not only the range of music offered, but the sheer friendliness of members here. I've been gone a few months but I hope none of that has been lost! Nice to see you all again - assuming any of you remember me, haha!

[VAXman]

VAXman posted the address of the station on comp.os.vms, a usenet group, a couple of years ago. I saw the URL and visited the site some time after. I listened anonymously for a few months and then registered.


-Methem
Wow! Somebody actually reads c.o.v! ;) Glad you're here.

As for me, I found AM in the iTunes tuning list but don't recall when. Listened for a long time and finally registered on the site. Now I wish I hadn't. Auralmoon is a distraction from work but who wants to work anyway? Not me!

[rick_wakeman]

:cool: Google - i was looking for a prog rock radio and it turns out to be the one i chose among all noticed via google. If there are so many prog rock streams, let's choose the best one!

[Methem]

Wow! Somebody actually reads c.o.v! ;)
Glad you're here.

Don't be. :p I'm just a novice interested in learning a little bit more about VMS once in a while. C.o.v I've been "reading" since 2002, on and off.

But yes, it's an OS that deserves more attention...


-Methem

[Roger -Dot- Lee]

Yes. These were cool discussions. I remember you were also very interested in linguistic matters.


That hasn't changed one bit. I'm a bit more wise to the ways of Slavic linguistics (though some of them still leave me a bit confused -- a matter we can discuss when we both have leisure).

And then there was the popping of Dance on a Volcano for the local Football squad before a game...


My answer was probably same as I would respond today. No doubt it was good to get rid of communists and socialism. But the spectre of the past is still present today.. I mean..of course there is completely different, better reality now but within decade and a half we didn't manage to repair what had been done during 50 years. Health care still is in fatal condition, roads are poor, some aspects of mentality are echoes from the bad times.

Something that I've noticed in observing the emergence of many countries from under the thumb of Lenin's Great Social Experiment is that some are doing better than others. It's a complete and total reversal of mindset from Communism to a Capitalist state of affairs. This isn't going to happen overnight. Countries are having to redesign their entire government/populace interaction. And, people being what they are, the spectre of the NKVD/KGB/Stasi/Whatever being greatly diminished if not outright eliminated, people are going to start looking out much more for themselves without giving any thought to what it might do to anyone else (or, in many cases, knowing and not caring). We in the west have been very fortunate to have most of these kinks worked out years ago. Many places in Eastern Europe and Asia are not so fortunate.

Additionally, most of the former communist nations' citizens were under communist influence for their entire life. They had no clue as to what life was without it, due to the information constraints in place under the Soviets. Thus, they have the taste for freedom, but no inklings of the responsibilities that go along with those freedoms. One that I've noticed that seems to have taken many, especially from the former CIS states (I've seen this in people from Ukraine, Georgia, and Azerbaijan personally) is that the right to succeed in what you want to do also comes with the unspoken right to fail. During communism, failure wasn't an option, so by definition, one succeeded regardless of the success of the project (see Chornobyl for a perfect example of this at an infrastructure level -- that's a report that'll age you very quickly -- almost as quickly as the event did at the citizens of Pripyat'). With the fall of Communism, people got to see failure for what it really was. Unfortunately, a lot of them weren't able to adjust.

The Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) are, of course, exceptions. But then, they've always been exceptions that have annoyed the Russians to no end.

Whee. I haven't had a brain dump like that in a long time.

Roger -Dot- Lee, Political Science and Prog -- a nice way of spending a balmy summer weekend.

[AngelSings4u2]

We discovered Aural Moon through the Gagliarchives...and we love it!

[podakayne]

after discovering you could get music thru the computer i found live365 as well as saw your listing on the progradio.net station listings, listened mostly from home...never went to the site till i got tired of trying to get the music at work and visited hoping for a bit of info...i registered then and finally got music thru windows media player.

then one day in 2003 when you got the new look (gosh i forget what the site looked like before the blue/black design) i was at a seminar and wanted some music during the lunch break...i logged on, saw the new look and the now famous black box registering listeners talking...been great ever since.

everyone was so very nice and down to earth, really wonderful people here.

i love it!

[thewitz]

Looking through Itunes radio stations. I have a feeking I will really like these forums.

[yorksrvc]

I don't remember.......all I know is it's the first Prog site I landed in and never looked any further. The MOON has changed my life drastically. Bought more CD's in the last yearthan I did in the prior 20 some years. Got back into playing music.............and All is Good!! Love the Moon!!

[Goodsall]

Tom Gagliardi posted a message on http://www.brandxmusic.org /forum that he was featuring our music on his show:xfinger:
Most mornings I have Aural Moon cranked VERY LOUD!

[pelothar]

surfing through a progressive rock enciclopedia, i got curious and tried the links section, there was like like 5 other prog rock radios, but the moon was by far the best i found, so here i am :) enjoying the best music in the world

[KeithieW]

surfing through a progressive rock enciclopedia, i got curious and tried the links section, there was like like 5 other prog rock radios, but the moon was by far the best i found, so here i am :) enjoying the best music in the world
Was that the Gibralter Encyclopaedia pelo. That is pretty damned good.

[theMusicMan]

I am an avid Ambient music fan and listen to this genre all the time. I decided to have a look at the other stations on iTunes, and as I am also from the Prog Rock generation (Yes, Genesis, Floyd etc) I spotted this station on there and decided to have a listen and take a look.

That was 5 hours ago and I have had it on constantly since then - and will be listening to it much more often. I have already had a track I suggested played - Syzygy... brill stuff.

[Rick and Roll]

Music Man....are you married to Shirley Jones? :haha:

[theMusicMan]

Ha ha... you mean Shirley Bassey...:):) I wish... :)

Have you visited my beautiful (small) country?

[jnighting]

As with Poda, I found AM through Progradio.net. Listened for a long time before registering for some odd reason. Got hooked on the Shoubox and chatting with the AM Family and the rest as they say, is history. Listen every day and shout as time...and work allows.
Agreed VAX, a distraction from work.....but also makes work more bearable.

[Lemur]

Great story! I discovered Aural Moon because of a NOTES conversation I had on an open VAX cluster called Deathrow run on vistech.net. I was using a free shell account they provided to learn a bit about VMS. That was when Dream Theater released Train of Thought and I made a post about it, and someone recommended AM. I forget who it was.

[claycorn]

prog radio network in 1999 at the local library its been a great time so far:rofl:

[Bmithra]

:haha: I discovered Aural Moon while I was trolling the shoutcast networks on my winamp. Listened for a couple of years before I decided to check out the website.

Found the site one night after work(midnight). I was listening, then heard something like 'visit Aurulmoon.com to meet' other like minded people who enjoy the same kind of music.

I checked out the site, met KeithieW and Jamforte in the chat. Had myself a great ol' time quacken an tweeten an hooten all night long. Been stuck ever since. Its all your fault you two. You did this to me:haha: Your fault I tell ya....:jawdrop: I had very little to do with it. All I did was listen:surrender . . .

Happily I enjoyed my Incarceration on the moon. Eventually the moon saved what little mind I had, 'cause of those guys & roger.lee.

Because of them, my sanity loss(or gain, not sure which) was kept to a minimum. Betting it was loss kept to a minimum tho...


Bmithra

People should not be afraid of their Governments,
Governments should be afraid of their People.

Alan Moore

quackery is afoot...

[zatoth]

someone on another forum linked to it

[Graymatter]

I was on Magic Pie's website to listen to samples of thier work and they had a link to ProgArchives.com which had a tab entitled Prog Radio. When I clicked on that Aural Moon was first on the list and since I was getting tired of Delicious Agony I gave it a try. DA had gotten really repeatitive and had eliminated some of the regular shows I tuned in for, plus they play the Flower Kings in one form or another about every half hour. So far AM has been great.

[Rick and Roll]

I was on Magic Pie's website to listen to samples of thier work and they had a link to ProgArchives.com which had a tab entitled Prog Radio. When I clicked on that Aural Moon was first on the list and since I was getting tired of Delicious Agony I gave it a try. DA had gotten really repeatitive and had eliminated some of the regular shows I tuned in for, plus they play the Flower Kings in one form or another about every half hour. So far AM has been great.

Are they still doing that? That was my main complaint 3-4 yrs ago. I love TFK but man....and still after an interview they did with Roine where she lied about being at a show in Europe.

As a host of a show, I'm anything but repetitive. And with Gagliarchives, Interzone, and Fusion Reactor, we have a great show lineup.

Thanks graymatter, hope to see you around!

[mossy]

When the previous owners left DA (I think 2003), the new owners were all ppl who had been doing shows (if memory serves me correctly). One of the shows was very FK oriented. The person who did that show (sorry don't remember his name), was the main inheritor of DA, and the programming went in a different direction. I stopped listening at that point, and thankfully found the Moon shortly thereafter.

I don't have a problem with FK, DT or any other band, but I do want diversity and we've certainly got it here. That said, I'm sure DA is right up many people's alleys. Welcome, graymatter.

[VAXman]

Are they still doing that? That was my main complaint 3-4 yrs ago. I love TFK but man....and still after an interview they did with Roine where she lied about being at a show in Europe.

As a host of a show, I'm anything but repetitive. And with Gagliarchives, Interzone, and Fusion Reactor, we have a great show lineup.

Thanks graymatter, hope to see you around!
Not repetitive, just "Well, er,... appallingly dull, unimaginative, timid, lacking in initiative, spineless, easily dominated, no sense of humour, tedious company and irrepressibly drab and awful." :D

Sorry but I couldn't resist the Monty Python jab at you being an accountant!

[lenron]

iTunes for me. A few years back.

[Elric68]

If I remember well, I was just looking for a progrock website on Google and I landed here ... I couldn't imagine there would be such a progressive rock community on the web ... So I registered and never left :D

That's been about 2 years now and I've found a second family here ...

[lamour]

I found AM when the first iTunes with radio support came out. I listened a bit back then and then stopped for quite a while. Pretty much just listen while I'm at work now. Didn't touch the forums at all until the new website came up. It seems better integrated in the new site design than before.

Still surprised at how little overlap there is between my collection and the Moon. For instance, last time I checked it, I had slightly more CDs by Peter Hammill than any other artist in my collection (somewhere on the order of 20+), where the Moon has only one. Likewise, there is a lot of good music here that I've never heard before. Makes it harder to make good requests, but I'd certainly rather listen to "new" music than the same stuff I listen to at home.

Perhaps I should bequeath my collection to AM. Lord knows my wife won't want it. ;-)

[Richard701]

Got myself a new PC with iTunes preloaded .... looked at the preset radio stations, listened to all the Classic Rock one's and Aural Moon was the best one! Previously I used to listen to Arrow (the dutch version) online, and still listen to that when driving, easily the best prog / classic rock station available on non-digital radio .....

[Sintetista]

I got turned on to it by a close friend and fan in 2004. Lately I had forgotten my password so I rejoined with an easier to remember one.

it is still my favourite radio station.:vaxman:

[ProgressiveMan]

I was lloking on itunes for a progressive station then when i listen for a bit i decided to join

[coyote]

think i was on Anie Haslem website..and their was link to prog stations..auralmoon was best

[Taril]

From the Prog radio links page on progarchives.com.