Prog in unexpected public places.

Wow. I heard "time and a place" by ELP today at the local grocery store. At first I thought I was hearing the Nice. It wasn't very loud then I realized what it was. I'm not sure if it was the original version or not but definitely Greg Lake singing. Anyway a big surprise. They played something that sounded interesting after that but I couldn't make out what it was. Anyway, this is maybe the most unexpected prog song I have heard in a grocery store in a while. However, I think maybe the grocery store is starting to become an expected place for prog. 

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How about Black Sabbath and The Who? Or more particular the track (I think) Life With The Moons on the Who's Maximum R and B box set had Cornucopia playing as very prominent back ground music.

For a time when I lived in Nashville, I worked at a Whole Foods Market (I've worn many hats).  On Sundays, they would have bands play in an area with lots of seating at brunch time.  One Sunday, one of my favourite customers came through my line with his teen-aged son and he thought I'd like to listen to them.  To my surprise, part way through their set they played "I Talk To The Wind."  They did a great job of it.  His father later came by and I thanked him for educating his son well musically.  He said, "Oh yeah, they all love prog."  

Was channel surfing the other week and stopped by the ultraconservative Fox panel talk show The Five as it was breaking for a commercial, to the sounds of Kashmir with Plant's vocals thrown in for good measure. Same goes while attending last week's Eagles-Rams game as a snippet of said song could be heard just prior to kick-off.

Years ago my buddy and I were hanging out at a strip club in the San Fernando Valley. The DJ was playing the usual songs for the strippers to dance to, you know "You can leave your hat on." "Black Velvet." "Man, I feel like a woman." When out of nowhere I hear the recognizable voice of James LaBrie. Holy sh*t! This stripper was doing a pole dance to Dream Theater!  She danced to at least two Dream Theater songs. I could not believe it. I think other than the DJ (or maybe the stripper) I was the only one in the club who could identify the group she was dancing to. 

"Starless" is in the new Nicolas Cage movie, Mandy. Terrible movie but it started out great with Fripp's Mellotron!

Roundabout by yes and tom sawyer by rush the, The lamb lies down on Broadway genesis ,at various public places|(grocery stores,malls skating rinks) etc i heard theses songs playing