Prog in unexpected public places.

I remember a long time ago hearing part of a Mike Oldfield song in a beer commercial. This was around 1990/91(no it wasn't something from Tubular Bells). It was part of the opening track on his Islands album(instrumental). No I don't remember which beer commercial.

Edited by AFlowerKingCrimson - October 05 2017 at 20:10

I heard "Yoo doo right" by Can on an independent college station the other night while driving my car. I'm not sure if they played the whole thing or not since I left my car to do a little bit of shopping. I think I heard it before on that station and they didn't play the whole thing then and this time when I got back into my car several minutes later something else was on. Still, it was cool to hear it while I was driving.

Edited by AFlowerKingCrimson - October 23 2017 at 04:37

Rednight wrote: Have heard different renditions of Heroes on two commercials during the World Series, but that song's really not prog so why mention it?

There's one I forgot about but it might be stretching the definition of prog just slightly(although still an artist on this site). Sometime over the summer I was in a book store(in the US) and I saw a guy wearing a Jean Michel Jarre shirt. I talked to the guy for about half an hour and it turns out he's maybe a moderate prog fan(moderate because he didn't seem to know much about the current scene). We talked about how JMJ holds records for largest concert attendances worldwide while still being relatively unknown in the US. Anyway, it's not every day you see a guy wearing a shirt like that. I might not mention it if it was a Pink Floyd  shirt or Rush shirt(maybe a Yes shirt since you don't see many of those these days) but this goes beyond that. 

This video portrays an old Tirol ritual involving beings that drive away the ghosts of winter....does anyone else hear "Lark's Tongues In Aspic - Part 2"?? 

Actually,  the rhythm is similar so I see what you mean.

Edited by AFlowerKingCrimson - December 07 2017 at 10:55

Last weekend, during the day when the tourists were all walking around, some guy was playing Close to the Edge outside on the sidewalk at the Pike Place Market in Seattle. 

I was at a grocery store last weekend and heard a proggy organ riff followed by a Minimoog solo on the in store speakers. The refrain reminded me of Simon & Garfunkel's Cecilia. I recognized it as a song that I had heard before in the same place so I jotted down a note about the lyrics to look up the song later.

It turned out to be Styx's Fooling Yourself. The only other song by Styx I was familiar with is Come Sail Away from the same album, The Grand Illusion, which I had heard on local a classic rock radio station before.

Rednight wrote: At my son's middle school graduation several years back, a classmate of his performed a section of Yes' The Revealing Science of God for the crowd on acoustic guitar which pretty much left it dumbfounded, apparently not knowing what the hell they were hearing. It just about brought a tear to my eye.

Had to change this as while I listened to Tales From Topographic Oceans this morning, I discovered what the kid really played on that distant afternoon was the acoustic break to The Ancient (Giants Under the Sun).