Prog in unexpected public places.

Heh.  I was in an eatery with a jukebox once and picked 3 unlikely (and lengthy!) songs.  About halfway into "Song For America" by Kansas I think they yanked the plug out of the wall.

Watching this video at first I was like "woah, this is unexpected"

http://youtu.be/qTcXxVOM4B0

but then the rapping starts

Someone told me that where they live there is a pizza place called Zappas and it's got pictures of:

I once heard the full version of Tarkus playing in a Barnes & Nobles bookstore.

In the court of the Crimson King seems to be a popular one. At my school there was a video on poor countries and how children in poor countries are joyfull and in the end there was this song playing.

AutumnWanderer wrote: Someone told me that where they live there is a pizza place called Zappas and it's got pictures of:   All over the walls.

In Ottawa, Canada, there is bar and bistro called Atomic Rooster

POTA wrote: I was at a popular pizza place in Champaign, Illinois while visiting my girlfriend at school at U of I earlier this year. The place was absolutely packed because a basketball game or something had just ended. I walked over to the jukebox (a new, advanced kind with a touch screen and LCD of everything) while waiting for a table. Since it was (I assume) an MP3 jukebox, it had tons of artists and many albums by each artist. You could get a few songs for just a buck or something. Well, I discovered Pink Floyd was on there. Well, for about a dollar or two, since you only pay by song, not length, I played Echoes, Dogs, Sheep, Pigs (Three Different Ones), and Atom Heart Mother. By the time I was seated, it had started playing Echoes, and Atom Heart Mother was only partway through by the time we were done. People were dumping money into that jukebox but never even getting to hear their music because of how long my songs were.

cstack3 wrote: POTA wrote: I was at a popular pizza place in Champaign, Illinois while visiting my girlfriend at school at U of I earlier this year. The place was absolutely packed because a basketball game or something had just ended. I walked over to the jukebox (a new, advanced kind with a touch screen and LCD of everything) while waiting for a table. Since it was (I assume) an MP3 jukebox, it had tons of artists and many albums by each artist. You could get a few songs for just a buck or something. Well, I discovered Pink Floyd was on there. Well, for about a dollar or two, since you only pay by song, not length, I played Echoes, Dogs, Sheep, Pigs (Three Different Ones), and Atom Heart Mother. By the time I was seated, it had started playing Echoes, and Atom Heart Mother was only partway through by the time we were done. People were dumping money into that jukebox but never even getting to hear their music because of how long my songs were.  I have a Bachelor of Science degree from University of Illinois, 1977.....I presently teach there, part-time....please know that you undoubtedly infuriated many of the fans of the Fighting Illini football team, including hulking, Neanderthal-like fraternity brothers and their ilk.  Well done, sir!!

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Well not entirely prog, but I didn't expect to hear Bohemian Rhapsody performed live at the oktoberfest in Munich in the HB tent. The band played the whole song including the difficult second part with choir,  theatratical voices.and guitar solo. Normally the bands in the tents play traditional tyrolean music and german hits blended with well established international hits like West Virginia and Rockin' all over the world. But in the HB tent the band is special, they also played TNT, Smoke on the water etc

Not sure if this counts, but I was bored out of my mind standing in a supermarket queue, so I picked up one of those crappy gossip magazines, and a few pages in there was a picture of Jessica Simpson wearing a `Yes' shirt!! With the classic Roger Dean logo design too :)

After getting over that initinal shock, I thought `Hmmmm, wonder if she can even SPELL `Yes'?!

Makes we wonder, if some stylist dressed her, who is the stylist who considers Yes to be fashionable?! :)