Allusions to prog
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Topic: Allusions to prog
Posted By: Guests
Subject: Allusions to prog
Date Posted: May 08 2005 at 16:59
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Discuss references to progressive rock that you have seen on TV, in movies, in books, etc. My only one in this area right now is an SNL skit. It has Will Ferrell, John Goodman, and some other actor. The three men are sitting at a bar after work soaking it up pretty good. They are all pretty drunk, when they start talking about a coworker 'hero' of sorts: a Bill Brasky. Anyhoo, Will Ferrell randomly spouts off "the front cover of every YES album was a portrait of Bill Brasky's family" Very odd, but very much a reference to progressive rock. |
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Posted By: Laurent
Date Posted: May 09 2005 at 16:46
I once saw a prog rock reference in Gilmore Girls, believe it or not. Not that I watch that show all to often. ------------- 
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Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: May 09 2005 at 18:45
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My sister watches that crap all the time.l The allusion is that some person said that she was Neil Peart or something. That show is utterly awful! ------------- 
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Laurent wrote:Posted By: Ben2112
Date Posted: May 09 2005 at 18:57
| There was an unfortunately ill-fated show on a couple of years back called "Freaks And Geeks". It was set around 1980 and was full of references to some of the prog/art rock acts that were big at the time. For instance, one of the main characters was a drummer who idolized Neil Peart and only needed one more piece on his kit to equal Neil's 29-piece (or whatever the actual numbers were). Another scene has him struggling to play along with a recording of "Spirt Of Radio". Also, a great scene where the same character sings an awful but heartfelt version of "Lady" by Styx to his girlfriend. This was an excellent show and I was upset when it was cancelled, but that's par for the course with U.S. TV lately. |
Posted By: Laurent
Date Posted: May 09 2005 at 19:13
And of course how can I forget Alex Lifeson's guest appearance on Trailer Park Boys -------------
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: May 09 2005 at 19:18
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I forgot that show!! There are a couple other references I can think of now that you mention it! 1) Some guy says to a girl in the show "Wanna go see 'Yes' at Cobo [arena] ? 2) Another guy says to the same girl "You should skip the dance...come over...we are gonna play some DSOTM" |
Posted By: James Lee
Date Posted: May 09 2005 at 22:16
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force- one episode refers to Geddy Lee and Rush at various points, and shows him arriving in a bass guitar-shaped airplane with the good ol' owl painted on the nose.
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Posted By: Ben2112
Date Posted: May 09 2005 at 23:04
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Also, the great scene in "School Of Rock" where Jack Black assigns homework by handing out CD's.
For instance, he gives the drummer 2112, the keyboardist Fragile (he tells him to listen to the solo on Roundabout), and one of the female singers Dark Side Of The Moon (tells her to listen to "Great Gig In The Sky"). |
Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: May 09 2005 at 23:49
There is also an episode of Sea Lab 2021 that has Rush references. -------------
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Posted By: Paco Fox
Date Posted: May 10 2005 at 03:07
| 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. |
Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: May 10 2005 at 10:16
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In the horrid comdey "Anchorman" Will Farrell does a "jazz-flute" solo and ends it with a Jethro Tull quote. It's really a BAD film... don't see it. Horrible in every sense. |
Posted By: Logos
Date Posted: May 10 2005 at 12:03
Hmm.. is Rick Wakeman the almost unknown guy that happened to play some synths and piano on Sabbra Cadabra? 
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: May 10 2005 at 17:22
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When Rick Wakeman appeared on Desert Island Disks (a British Radio 4 institution, hosted by Valerie Singleton, another national institution), we had a smattering of prog played in with the usual classical stuff.... even Tull would be ground breaking for Radio 4! During the interview, as he relayed (no pun intended) to the nation how he got so bored during the solos on the 'Tales from the Topographic Oceans' tour, that each night, he would get a roadie to pop out for a curry for him to nibble at. By the end of the tour, first Jon Anderson, then everyone else ended up dipping their naan breads into his balti round his keyboard stack and dropping poppodom bits into the electrics for 10 minutes, leaving Chris Squire to hold the fort out in the front!! ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: alan_pfeifer
Date Posted: May 10 2005 at 18:32
| their are constant Rush references on Futurama. |
Posted By: James Lee
Date Posted: May 10 2005 at 21:50
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^ the one I remember is the episode where wooden Bender leads a group of obsolete robots on a revolutionary crusade against technology "worthy of being chronicled in an anthem by Rush". That made me laugh, anyway. 
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Posted By: Oceanzep
Date Posted: May 10 2005 at 21:55
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Yeah, someone says something about a robot revolution and says something about rush or niel peart, can't quite place it, would love too, though, anyone can? Think it went like this: THIS ROBOT REVOLUTIOUN IS WORTH OF A RUSH SONG! (OR NIEL PEART LYRIC) Crap, by the time I finished writing someone had beaten me! It was so awsome to hear that. Shuouldn't That 70's Show be full of Prog references? Appart From Hide's Zep T-Shirts (not even prog) and Styx, they don't mention it as muchs as they should ------------- iF I HAD SOMETHING INTERESTING TO SAY I WOULD SAY IT... I HATE THE BEATLES |
Posted By: James Lee
Date Posted: May 11 2005 at 16:32
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One funny one that I remember was in The Young Ones...during the party episode, something surreal happens and the 'cool young professor' indicates his cigarette and says with a smile: "Is this tobacco or...Pink Floyd?" ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/sollipsist/?chartstyle=kaonashi">
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Posted By: kingofbizzare
Date Posted: May 11 2005 at 21:39
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I've been seeing some prog on commercials recently. There was one for Law and Order; Trial By Jury that used Karn Evil 9. On Malcom in the Middle there's an episode where they get new neighbors and Hal is looking at the guy's vinyl collection and seems very excited that it contains King Crimson. |
Posted By: Dreamer
Date Posted: May 12 2005 at 14:14
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Did Wakeman play on that track? I never knew really. now that I looked in the book for the CD i noticed, I never thought. anyways.... on simpsons there are some refrences, and there is a south park episode with radiohead telling this guy hes way uncool. |
Posted By: frenchie
Date Posted: May 12 2005 at 19:07
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- young homer has a dark side of the moon poster in his childhood room whenever there is a flashback to him and barney drinking in his room as a child. on one episode where homer sells a hippy juice drink, ned flanders hallucinates and sees the hammers from the wall walking towards him, as they turn to face him the hammer turns into a rolling stones lick logo and a voice in the style of MJ says "pucker up neddy" and tries to lick him. ------------- The Worthless Recluse 
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Posted By: Vegetableman
Date Posted: May 12 2005 at 19:58
Ozzy Osbourne provided this anecdote pertaining to GG: "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. " ------------- "Mister Fripp, your music is quite different than everything else out there. In one word, how would you describe it?" "Progressive.... yeah, that's it..." |
Posted By: Ben2112
Date Posted: May 12 2005 at 20:08
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  .
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Posted By: Paco Fox
Date Posted: May 13 2005 at 04:35
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Two more Jethro Tull references: - In 'Armageddon', one of the guys, when interviewed for a place in the team, says that what really annoys him is when they think Jethro Tull is the name of the frontman, while its the name of the band - In 'Beautiful Girls', one of the guys puts 'Locomotive Breath' in a party, and the Rosio O'Donnell character yells 'No! Not Jethro Tull!!!!'. My girlfriend almost dies laughing in empathy... |
Posted By: Cluster One
Date Posted: May 13 2005 at 11:28
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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:  ------------- Marmalade...I like marmalade. |
Posted By: MustShaveBeard
Date Posted: May 18 2005 at 17:14
Actually there was an episode where there was something with a harp and Hyde said something like "I'd rather listen to Jethro Tull," but semi-funnier Also they went to a Pink Floyd concert once. ------------- Your life or your lupins!!! |
Posted By: frenchie
Date Posted: May 23 2005 at 11:06
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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. ------------- The Worthless Recluse
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Posted By: MustShaveBeard
Date Posted: May 24 2005 at 14:53
I was just looking at my French textbook and it mentioned Jethro Tull! ------------- Your life or your lupins!!! |
Posted By: BebieM
Date Posted: May 24 2005 at 22:57
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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 |
Posted By: Garion81
Date Posted: May 25 2005 at 17:41
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The 70's show once opened with Karn Evil 9 1st impression pt 2.
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Posted By: greenback
Date Posted: May 30 2005 at 22:26
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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! ------------- [HEADPINS - LINE OF FIRE: THE RECORD HAVING THE MOST POWERFUL GUITAR SOUND IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MUSIC!> |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: May 30 2005 at 22:33
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There is a cartoon show of Italian origin named "Signore Rossi" that sometimes runs on TV which has a lot of allusions to Gong in the drawings, like pubs or shops that have signs like "Pot Head Pixie" or "Flying Teapot" or "Radio Gnome". -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: colin007
Date Posted: June 02 2005 at 14:33
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artie lange on the howard stern show LOVES rush and sings tom sawyer all the time... ------------- This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality. Embrace this moment. Remember. We are eternal. All this pain is an illusion. |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: June 02 2005 at 14:54
On "Top Gear" this week, the driver, "The Stig", had 21st Century Schizoid man playing in the car. Last week it was Focus (not Ford Focus, but the band )------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Azrael2112
Date Posted: June 02 2005 at 15:33
But he also mentioned that he hated their earlier stuff and said that they didn't become a great band until after Duke.  ------------- http://www.flywithjet.com"> 
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Posted By: greenback
Date Posted: June 04 2005 at 13:13
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yeah, and given that a woman made the movie, i wonder if this passage also comes from her! ------------- [HEADPINS - LINE OF FIRE: THE RECORD HAVING THE MOST POWERFUL GUITAR SOUND IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MUSIC!> |
