Famous prog fans?

sigod wrote: Thanks for confirming pierreolivie. What about those mellotrons eh?

On the link I posted, there only one M400 photographed but I've seen another photo where,in addition of the white M400, he had a brown rosewood M400 but can't retrace the photo on the net.I heard that he also own a Chamberlin M2.

Trouserpress wrote: Blacksword wrote: Douglas Adams Groovy! Never knew that. Where did you pick this info up? And: Blacksword wrote: Jim Davidson Good God.

I heard an interview with him on Radio 4 back in the late 80's (I think) he briefly mentioned that he liked most music from that era, but especially Pink Floyd and any other band that 'pushed the boundaries' I think he also mentioned that he liked Yes and Genesis.

There was also a Pink Floyd documentary on TV when they were touring with Division Bell, and Douglas Adams was one of those giving their views on Pink Floyd. He was quite a fan. In the Hitch Hikers Guide Arthur Dent comments how Marvin the paranoid android can 'hum like Pink Floyd'

Douglas Adams came up with the title "The Division Bell" I believe and was good friends with Nick Mason.

I thought it was a well known fact...

Oh yes, Julian Cope once came into the camera shop my brother used to work in years ago, he lives in Wiltshire I believe.  So my brother's met him I think.  I cannot remember any The Teardop Explodes songs though.

I presume Warren Haynes of Gov't Mule likes prog, as he has played with Chris Squire.  He also, I presume likes King Crimson, as he's also played 21st Century Schizoid Man with Tony Levin guesting.

I cannot think of anyone else for now, I still have to consult my VdGG tome.

Oh and yes, that is almost the Bill Bailey reference, I think it is slightly different, but it's good enough for me.

FragileDT wrote: [ Well I know Johnny Depp was a big guitar player. He played in bands his whole childhood and that's all he did he said. He said he didn't even have many friends because ALL he did was play guitar. He said he got into acting just because his friend "Nicolas Cage" told him he should try it out.

Not prog, but Johnny Depp is credited with playing slide guitar on Oasis's Fade In-Out from Be Here Now.

Prog_Traveller wrote: Howard Stern (I've heard this from other people as well and I remember him saying to a guy on the air that he knew who the band Samurai was and he also did his own version once of "In the Court of the Crimson King")

I found this, Howard had ELP on his show back in '93 (H=Howard, C=Carl, G=Greg).  Link is here: http://valseven.tripod.com/audiofiles/howard.html

H: Some of you guys were in King Crimson, right?

C: Greg

H: Greg...that's a cool...I love that freakin' song....dammit, where is that song....(starts singing In the Court...) Gary, where is my King Crimson album? Where is my record?

G: I think he sung it better than I could have, personally.

C: Did you rehearse that, or was that just acappela?

H: I dig that song....is that it? Well give it to me...is that King Crimson? Put it in there on The Court of the Crimson King (plays song with added vocals) oh, this is Greg....sit through this...I love this song...I used to listen to this all the time and like I thought I was learning something....Greg, does this mean anything? I always thought it meant something. You don't know either.

G: I dunno. (song continues)

H: I love that man, now that's brilliant!

Lindsay Lohan wrote: I seem to recall Jennifer Anniston liking Yes, Drew Barrymoore and Johnny depp liking The Mars Volta....anybody else know of any famous people outside the prog community that likes prog artists?

Well I know Johnny Depp was a big guitar player. He played in bands his
whole childhood and that's all he did he said. He said he didn't even have
many friends because ALL he did was play guitar. He said he got into acting
just because his friend "Nicolas Cage" told him he should try it out.

Geck0 wrote: Talking of Bill Bailey... He gets a mention in The Tangent's new album (A Place In The Queue), in the "disco" song: The Sun In My Eyes. But I cannot find the lyrics and I'm not typing them all out from the CD booklet!

I think it goes something like "Bill Bailey takes the piss on prog top 10".

Ozzy Osbourne likes Pink Floyd too so does Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkings.

Radiohead are big fans of Neu!

Chris Martin of Coldplay is a Kraftwerk fanatic.

TV personnel Gail Porter says her favourite albums are Pink Floyd's Dark Side of The Moon and Radiohead's OK Computer

Well. You have to be a norwegian to know this guy, but I haven't heard about half of your english or American celebs. Philosopher and author Thomas Hylland Eriksen was aked about what was on his Ipod. He answered Prog, Classical and hard rock. He's a really smart guy.

Another norwegian author (and performer), kitsch and camp (bad taste) expert Kjetil Rollness. Atleast a closet prog fan. I've a column about his prog rock listening pleasures growing up in the seventies.

Jonathan Coe. Author of 'The Rotter's Club', of course a big prog fan. The booktitle is taken from the Hatfield and the North album. The main caracter is a typical teenage prog fan. More into Henry Cow than Genesis. 

I've heard somewhere David Bowie was a fan of Comus.

Julian Cope: Kraut Rock (Even made a book on the topic) and VdGG fan. He made a interesting (And also a bit stupid, sl*gging off more of less everything they did before that record) review on 'Pawn Hearts'. Its somewhere on the internet.