Motif of the Octopus in prog

The drummer from Don Caballero is (appropriately) referred to as The Octopus.

Then there's The Octopus Project.  I would call them part-time indie-prog.  Some of their music is exceptionally beautiful. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PMxDi6N9KU&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnjADNWuPvc&feature=related

PabstRibbon wrote: Gentle Giant's album is called Octopus because there's 8 tracks on the album Octo-Opus.

This just blew my mind!

What about the octopus in Dream Theater's Octavarium booklet and concert film?

Progosopher wrote: aginor wrote: ^thanks for the explenation  verry kinde im a buff for greek mythology (and mythology in general) and ive seen a verry good film about Odysseus, from 87. good film, bad graphics  great epic length The older one starring Kirk Douglas, called Ulysses, is more accurate to Homer's original, although you might not like the graphics in that one either.

the Skylla in the version I saw was so bad that I thought "I could have made a better one in clay, paint, and lenin, cotton and wool"
I like the Kraken in Dead mans Chest, that mouth is seriously big

TGM: Orb wrote: darkshade wrote: i was talking about the song. i should have mentioned that... it kinda works for the whole album, but it doesnt help when the fourth song isnt that good. i do, however, love the album! i know plenty here agree with me Still, that concept 'mind-blowing'? Hm. different strokes, different folks etc. etc.

i guess so

I like Octavarium too! It's more like a sentimental thing, because with that album I discovered DT.

Back on topic, there's a chilean prog band called Octopus.

Seen that. Read it. Remains a load of fives and eights. Problem with that theory is that when you take any of the numbers which happen to not be fives and eights, it seems a lot less impressive. Dream Theater formed in 1985, Sixtus V (1585-1590) (Sixtus the FIFTH in FIFTEEN EIGHTY FIVE). Clement VIII (1592-1605) (that's Clement the EIGHTH).... oh look, the dates and numbers don't correspond for everyone... which implies when they do, it's largely coincidence.

Note that three fingers are visible in one picture....

Surely that should be eight fingers... (I know 3+5 is eight, but the eight is never constructed from the 5 elsewhere...).

I mean, I don't particularly object to it, but to consider a load of coincidence and some minor engineering to fit that a mind-blowing concept is credulous to crazy.

darkshade wrote: javier0889 wrote: An octopus appears in Dream Theater's Score DVD, during the Octavarium animation. Again, an octopus used for the eight track of the eight album of the band. Also, 8x3=24 minutes. omg Octavarium has probably the most mind blowing concept the band ever conceived! the use of 8 is everywhere! more than GG's Octopus there's also an octopus in the booklet of the album, Score also uses the pattern of 5 and 8 used on Octavarium, particularly for the set lists.

Mind-blowing concept?

It's just a load of fives and eights.

*Removes Cigar from mouth, exhales smoke*

Ze Anzer, you see, is obvious

Ze Octopuz is ze most virile of animals,

a bulbous sack wiz eight appendages, ze envy of any man

*spits to remove cigar taste and stamps out cigar*
*faint background noise of a forgotten Alan Parsons Project album, fading...*

^ I mainly added this to see who would raise to the bait