Prog in unexpected public places.

Dean wrote: ^ Pink Floyd's Eclipse is going to appear in part four.

Wow, I'm for sure tuning in for that. Roger Waters isn't performing is he?

Fox On The Rocks wrote: Well, apparently Mike Oldfield played Tubular Bells at the opening ceremony of the Olympic games. I mean, that's in front of millions, maybe even billions of home viewers and thousands within the stadium. Those people in the stadium were definitely in for a treat.

Dayvenkirq wrote: Fox On The Rocks wrote: Well, apparently Mike Oldfield played Tubular Bells at the opening ceremony of the Olympic games. I mean, that's in front of millions, maybe even billions of home viewers and thousands within the stadium. Those people in the stadium were definitely in for a treat.  What did he play?

Well, I came short of his performance by a couple of minutes. It was Tubular Bell apparently. No surprise at that though - his signature, celebrated piece. I'm not that much of an Olympics guy, but I watched the last couple of hours of that ceremony and there were definitely some goosebumps moments. I mean, it was so well run and you could just feel the energy within the stadium - it was spectacular.

Back at my old school, we had this old and very awesome Economy teacher(former assistant of a noble price winner and extremely smart). During his lessons, we occasionally drifted from the subject to talk about his past adventures. It turned out that he was a huge fan of oldschool prog in his days. The expression on his face when I told him that Tarkus was an awesome album was marvellous.'Such a young boy knowing records from my days!'. Then,he started to tell about his experiences at a Soft Machine concert while high on dope( All in front of our classroom!).

Ok, not really prog but tonight I heard "My own time" by Asia(from their second album Alpha)in the grocery store tonight. Pretty cool though. I mention it because I have never ever heard anything other than "don't cry" from that album on the radio or otherwise.

Prog reference in the most unlikely of places --

At the end of the Reno 911! episode Spanish Mike Returns, there is a scene with Patton Oswalt at a renaissance faire. In the scene, he is confronted by Dangle and Junior (two of the deputies that make up the main cast) after he called into 911 to report a "verisimilitude rape". As they're trying to work out what he said, Junior says "Ver-mill-ion? Isn't that that band that was like Rush?"

In most of Reno 911, the scenes are improvised over loose outlines, so I suspect that the guy who plays Dep. Junior (Robert Ben Garant) must be at least a casual fan of Marillion. Rush has been mentioned a few times throughout the series (along with Steely Dan).

It's maybe not unusual, but I heard remixed and sped up Logical Song by Supertramp on a house music party yesterday (I was forced to go there :( ).

Unfortunatly, never. But "Sylvia"! Great choice! Love me a bit of Focus!

I was watching Criminal Minds today and some guy was listening to a record (apparently Rush record, but I couldn't recognise it) and he said something like this:"God, this is the best Rush record, how did you know I love them?"

Many years ago on a police show called the Sweeney they played the end of King Crimsons Fracture over a chase scene. I was so excited!