Hi, everyone. This week in RetroNuts Pocket, you're going to regret giving money to Kickstarter.

Hi, everyone. Welcome to the off-week episode, the first off-week episode of RetroNuts.

I'm Jerry Hirsch, the host of this tiny episode, and with me we have a cast of people who might

be familiar with you if you have been listening over the past week. To my right, Dr. Sparkle of

Cron Tendofame. Ray Barnall. And I'm Bob Mackie. And again, we're funded by Kickstarter,

which is you. And we're doing mini-podcasts on the weeks between the big episodes. And we're

just kind of going off the rails a little bit, or maybe not off the rails, off-script maybe,

a little bit with these smaller episodes and tackling things that maybe we wouldn't in one of the big

episodes. And what I'd like to do, at least for some of these that I'm hosting, which will be every

third one, is talk about some of the things that have influenced video games over the years.

Not necessarily the games themselves, but things that helped to inspire video games or helped to

inspire the people who create video games. And this week, we're going to talk about something

that I hold near and dear to my heart, because something inside of me is broken. And that is

progressive rock music. And even though he denies it, I think Dr. Sparkle is something of a fan

of Prague rock music. He uses a sample of can in his Cron Tendo episodes, his outro music. And can

us pretty much the quintessential progressive crowd rock band. Well, you know, a lot of

aficionados of crowd rock actually look down on Prague rock. Oh, everyone who is involved in Prague

rock looks down on Prague rock. No one will actually cop to being a progressive rock musician.

It's a bejorative term that everyone else tries to distance themselves from. I think people

now like disco more. Yeah, I think so. No, not a bad word. The punk scene in like 1975 and

they're on really turned that entire concept of like sort of involved structure music into

into something of a dirty word. And it's a shame because yeah, a lot of progressive rock was

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