Late night grocery shopping, heard what seemed to be a sort of jazz piano led version of "Roundabout". The oddest thing?  It sounded like Jon Anderson on vocals!  Anyone ever heard of this?

infocat wrote: Late night grocery shopping, heard what seemed to be a sort of jazz piano led version of "Roundabout". The oddest thing?  It sounded like Jon Anderson on vocals!  Anyone ever heard of this?

I haven't. Sounds like you are one of the lucky ones.

Here's one that just popped into my head. Back in the very early 1990's I remember there was a beer commercial on tv that used "windchimes part 1" from Mike Oldfield's "Islands" album.

Also, in a similar vein I talked to a guy at a Jon Anderson concert once who told me he got into Jon Anderson through his association with Vangelis and only discovered Vangelis because of some of his music that was used in a tv commercial(but I have no idea what commercial). How weird is that? Talk about a roundabout(no pun intended)way of discovering prog musicians. :)

Edited by Prog_Traveller - June 29 2014 at 03:01

I was just listening to some Mike Oldfield a few days ago, and it remided me of something, though it's not actually of something I heard on public space, but rather something I put on. On my father's store were I was helping him, I had been puting some music that I would consider soft enough, but I tried to keep thing on my taste. So I had been puting "Songs from Distant Earth" from time to time. In one ocassion, there came a customer, it would seem to me, kind of awed, asking what was it that we had on, so I guess I got Oldfield a new fan there. Now, this other part is just speculation, but a few weeks later I found that same album in stock in the most popular local music store, and since they hadn't had that album in stock for a good while, I just got the impression that perhaps that same guy had ended up ordering the album there (since, back then, when someoned ordered something they didn't have in stock, they usually got at least two pieces, one for whomever ordered it, and another for stock).

At the gym the other day, forgot my earplugs so had to listen to the dross they play over the speakers.

Very surprised to hear "Owner of a Lonely Heart" come on!

I was out shopping the other day in a 'Captain Lockheed' T-Shirt. The bloke on the till turned to me and asked 'So you want to be a fighter pilot?'

We then exchanged quotes like 'Is that mascara you are wearing?', 'Little white ones, check' and 'We will sew up the sky with our glemaing needles!' while he rang up my groceries.

Last week at a public library I saw someone wearing a Voivod T-shirt.

Here I go, well, several years ago, I went to a restaurant with my dad, it was pretty far from home, at 4pm, in the middle of the road we found this little restaurant and we went in, they were playing In the court of the crimson king album, by the time we sat down, I talk to the wind was playing, they got along until Moonchild finished, it was pretty weird to be sitting in an empty place with that kind of music filling the room.

Not prog exactly, but prog-related.

not a public place, but while I was on road trip going through Arizona, we found a radio station that was playing karn evil 9.