Prog in unexpected public places.

You don't get much more unexpected (or less expected) than this:

stegor wrote: You don't get much more unexpected (or less expected) than this:

Sherman Hemsley was a big prog fan and Nektar seemed to be a particular favorite of his, a fact reported in a TV Guide article on him. And there was an episode of SNL from 1976, hosted by Norman Lear, that featured a filmed piece in which he visits the sets of all his sitcoms. On the Jeffersons set, he’s talking to Sherman, who’s wearing a Nektar t-shirt with the classic man/insect design.

Some odd things I’ve heard here and there:

I caught “Spring Ain’t Here” (from Letter From Home) by Pat Metheny Group on supermarket Muzak.

Local TV news made a lot of use of prog in the 70s and 80s. A station in Norfolk, VA used the closing bars of “Living Sin” by ELP in 1977.
My brother reported hearing “Communication Skyways” by Seventh Wave on a DC area station around 1978-79, and a Charleston, SC station used a bit of “S-Scape” by Synergy.

Around that same time, a Charleston department store used “Chateau” from the same Synergy album around the holidays; somebody apparently thought it sounded “Christmassy.”

On a northern Michigan station, an ad for a local business used “Kemp’s Jig” by Gryphon.

More Metheny: a radio ad for an Charleston-area Italian restaurant used “New Chautauqua.”

I’ll probably think of a few more before long.

stegor wrote: There was a Saturday afternoon sports show in the '70's that used House of the King by Focus for the theme music. I don't remember the name of it or what network it was on, but I'm sure if I don't get around to finding it someone else will. I seem to recall it was the one that used the line "... the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat..." as the skier smashes into the billboard. I was positive it was Jethro Tull at the time and I kept buying Tull albums and it wasn't on any of them. FInally I bought Focus 3, and surprise surprise.

I think that that was Wide World Of Sports. 

I work in a grocery store - the music which comes through is 99.9% dross - plenty of Rhianna, Pink, PhilCo etc.....

Tom Ozric wrote: I work in a grocery store - the music which comes through is 99.9% dross - plenty of Rhianna, Pink, PhilCo etc..... I have heard, on several occasions, these tunes :  Hawkwind - Silver Machine                                                                                           Atomic Rooster - both Tomorrow Night & Devil's Answer we also get plenty of Chicago, sometimes Asia (Heat Of The Moment), Yes (Owner Of a Lonely Heart) Deep Purple (Black Night, Smoke On the Water).  We also get a good spanning of Bowie tracks too.  The Rooster and Hawkwind are quite unexpected and odd to hear in the local supermarket.........

Wooooooooooooooo ooooooooohh. Man. I'd shop a that grocery store even of it had the worst produce. Lol. Great story Tom. ;) Next thing you know you are hearing 21st Century Schzoid man while pickIng apples. ;)

More of a coincidence than anything else, but the first time I went to my bass lessons, they had the radio on and Comfortably Numb was playing.

I went to a local patisserie last night, and Wish You were Here (the album) was played in it's entirety while I was there. That was really exciting.

Tom Ozric wrote: progbethyname wrote: Tom Ozric wrote: I work in a grocery store - the music which comes through is 99.9% dross - plenty of Rhianna, Pink, PhilCo etc..... I have heard, on several occasions, these tunes :  Hawkwind - Silver Machine                                                                                           Atomic Rooster - both Tomorrow Night & Devil's Answer we also get plenty of Chicago, sometimes Asia (Heat Of The Moment), Yes (Owner Of a Lonely Heart) Deep Purple (Black Night, Smoke On the Water).  We also get a good spanning of Bowie tracks too.  The Rooster and Hawkwind are quite unexpected and odd to hear in the local supermarket......... Wooooooooooooooo ooooooooohh. Man. I'd shop a that grocery store even of it had the worst produce. Lol. Great story Tom. ;) Next thing you know you are hearing 21st Century Schzoid man while pickIng apples. ;) I doubt that, but I hear Zep's 'Kashmir' occasionally.  Honestly, it just shocks me when I hear Silver Machine come through the speakers.......seeing these oblivious old folks walking around selecting Sunday's lunch-menu - (and I'm there thinking  "hey people, do you have any idea what's playing ?? " ) They do all the Collins' Genesis suspects - i.e. - the 80's ballads, and Follow You Follow Me.  Some Gabriel - Solsbury Hill, Steam, most of  'So' etc.  Not all is dross....

I tell ya, there is something very lovely in the water where you live. I get crappy elevator music just about every time I go to feed the habit.

Seen Pink Floyd mentioned in Engligh language textbook at university.