Allusions to prog

Vegetableman wrote: Paco Fox wrote: I read somewhere that Gentle Giant was mentioned in the Osbournes once. I should expect that of Yes (Ozzy knows Rick Wakmeman), but not Gentle Giant. Ozzy Osbourne provided this anecdote pertaining to GG: <font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);" size="2"> "We have no option but to listen to Tool morning, noon and f**kin' night, it's Tool this, Tool that! You know, it's really funny. The other night my son said to me, "I went to see Tool last night, Dad, and saw this great band who opened for them, a band called King Crimson." I said, "Oh yeah, I've heard of them." I was like, if you like King Crimson, you probably want to listen to Yes, then you might want to listen to a band called Gentle Giant. He says, "Really?" And he comes back to me the next day and he says, "I got a chance to listen to the Gentle Giant album. It's f**king great music. How did you know about them?" Oh, I've only been around for f**king 35 years. "

I remember reading that a while back. If I'm not mistaken, GG opened for Sabbath at least once and were chased off the stage by the Sab fans; not a good booking .

Geddy Lee did a cameo appearance on 'Monday Night Report' a Canadian farcical current events / sketch comedy along the lines of Jon Stewart in the USA.

In a weekly feature about Cdn celebrities teaching us about Cdn past-times, Geddy taught people "How to Toboggan". Was very funny stuff, and I seem to remember there was some sort of booze involved. Geddy Lee, drunk, barrelling down a snow-covered hill, talk about Freewill!

Those of you who don't know what a toboggan is:

heres some more prog references i found:

- Futurama - the episode where bender becomes a cook and has a magic vial to make crap food taste good (its actually LSD dissolved in water).

bender randomly visits a real life version of the dark side of the moon prism, layed exactly as it is on the cover (scientifically incorrect or something).


- Family Guy "Road to Europe", in this episode peter and louis follow Kiss on tour and Stewie travels across europe to find London with Brian.

There is a scene at the very begining where Peter is watching Kiss Forum on TV and they have a fan phone in:

Kiss Forum Presenter: hello you're on kiss forum, what is it you want to say?
Caller: yeah, kiss suck
Kiss Forum Presenter: Wait a minute... this is Denis De Young from Styx isn't it. Get a life you jealous bastard!

or something to that effect.

In one of the austin powers movies the bad guy (forgot his name) wants to call his rocket  "alan parson project"
his son responds that it was a prog band in the 70s

in the American Psycho movie, the protagonist mentioned in DETAILS that he loves genesis! the first time i heard that, i almost had a heart attack!

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artie lange on the howard stern show LOVES rush and sings tom sawyer all the time...

greenback wrote: in the American Psycho movie, the protagonist mentioned in DETAILS that he loves genesis! the first time i heard that, i almost had a heart attack!

But he also mentioned that he hated their earlier stuff and said that they
didn't become a great band until after Duke.