Prog in unexpected public places.

I went into Boston Pizza (pretty big chain in Canada) tonight to hear Lost by Van Der Graaf Generator... followed up by Lady Fantasy, Red Barchetta, Nine-Feet Underground, Starship Trooper and Ashes Are Burning. I guess they were just listening to a Stingray channel; must have been the prog hour because they were playing that "Give me the beat boys" song as I left.

There was a seller at the local flea market wearing a Yessongs tee (no, he wasn't selling vinyl) so I walked up to him and he passed the "NAME THREE SONGS BY THAT BAND ON YOUR SHIRT" test. 

miamiscot wrote: There was a seller at the local flea market wearing a Yessongs tee (no, he wasn't selling vinyl) so I walked up to him and he passed the "NAME THREE SONGS BY THAT BAND ON YOUR SHIRT" test.  Not so much for the girl in the Misfits tee or her boyfriend (with the Joy Division shirt) in the adjacent booth. That's me. Keeping people honest since 1962.

A large portion of Spock's Beard's 'June' was in the Danish TV documentary series 'Anne og Anders i Europa (Cyprus)'

Not the music, per se, but another definition of it, that I didn't know.  It came via the book I'm reading, "Horse," by Geraldine Brooks, about a great racehorse, Lexington, his skeleton, and a painting of him.  One of the principals, an art historian, mentions that his signature for some articles is "Prog," which is a term for a vagabond (or the food one obtains from foraging or begging, which I've since found).  New word!  I'm sure I'll see it around a lot now.  

Logan wrote: Prog Archives.com Your Ultimate Vagabond Resource

   

A few weeks back, on BBC radio 4, on a radio 'Soap opera' called 'the Archers' (a tale of real country folk.. my arse) which my wife listens to had Toyah Wilcox (playing herself) and the story mentioned Robert Fripp and 'Toyah and Robert's Sunday lunch videos'... UK readers will get how weird this is..

The Hans Zimmer Wonder Woman Theme song sounds to me like a variation of Rush’s Natural Science.

British Actress Maxine Peake a Prog Rock fan, who knew.

Last night during the Red Hot Chilipeppers segement on 60 minutes the lead singer Anthony Kiedis mentioned "crazy progressive rock" as one of their influences.  I'm not sure who he had in mind though. Maybe King Crimson or the Mars Volta?