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ulver982 
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 Topic: Prog at the bar...
Posted: September 18 2005 at 22:44 |
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So the other night I was at a local bar with a friend and my sis. What caught my eye was that they had an internet juke box. I thought to myself...maybe they'll have some prog on there. They actually did! I ended up playing Dream Theater's These Walls, and Yes' Close to the Edge. I'm surprised they had such a long song on there, and it was the same price as any other song. I tried to look around at people's reactions, but of course, they were all caught up in drinking, talking, playing pool. But hell, I was enjoying it!
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Eetu Pellonpaa
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Posted: September 19 2005 at 03:48 |
There's was 60's-70's music bar with some prog selections in Play del Ingles, Gran Canaria!  It was called "The Magic Elephant", and they played hit songs from prog related bands, but also non-prog... I'm not sure if it exists anymore.
Ingles is a guite opressing touristtrap... There was also a small heavy metal music bar (Dady rock?), which player SLAYER, etc., but they had some strange Spanish heavy 2-LP compillation, which had KING CRIMSON's "ICoTCK", which we listened when there wasn't other customers but me & friend.
Edit: Ah, about jukeboxes, I noted few years ago, that there's PINK FLOYD compillation with old BARRET tracks in "Roskapankki" (Helsinki, Finland). Visit there if you dare! 
Edited by Eetu Pellonpää
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Blacksword
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Posted: September 19 2005 at 04:39 |
There's an internet juke box in a pub near me.
I put on a selection including Rush, The Who and Marillion. It got to third song and the jukebox was switched off from behind the bar. It's not sort of pub you complain in; all track suits, lager, sovereign rings and football..
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Pablo_P
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Posted: September 19 2005 at 05:10 |
Well, I was in a nearest pub with my friends, there's a jukebox with a
few prog albums - I just wanted to play something from "Best of ELP" -
Karn Evil 9 or Hoedown...
BTW, we have also "Mefisto" pub where prog music is often played - when
we were there las time, we heard The Mars Volta and some other
psychedelic bands I don't ever know...
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chopper
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Posted: September 19 2005 at 07:56 |
 Blacksword wrote:
There's an internet juke box in a pub near me.
I put on a selection including Rush, The Who and Marillion. It got to third song and the jukebox was switched off from behind the bar. It's not sort of pub you complain in; all track suits, lager, sovereign rings and football..
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That sounds like most of my local pubs. Prog would be completely wasted on them.
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Blacksword
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Posted: September 19 2005 at 08:31 |
chopper wrote:
Blacksword wrote:
There's an internet juke box in a pub near me.
I put on a selection including Rush, The Who and Marillion. It got to third song and the jukebox was switched off from behind the bar. It's not sort of pub you complain in; all track suits, lager, sovereign rings and football..
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That sounds like most of my local pubs. Prog would be completely wasted on them.
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This particular pub is like a parody of a town centre pub on a Staurday night. A gormless looking DJ turns up about 7.00pm and plays a predictable mix of '80's classics' Boy Bands, girl band laddette anthems and rounds the evening off with a 'rock' anthem like 'Champagne Supernova' by Oasis - if you're lucky! If you're unlucky you the whole pub singing along to 'I would anything for love but I wont do that' by Meat Loaf, as they cry into their Doner kebabs..
Give me strength! 
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Paradox
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Posted: September 20 2005 at 16:18 |
Blacksword wrote:
There's an internet juke box in a pub near me.
I put on a selection including Rush, The Who and Marillion. It got to third song and the jukebox was switched off from behind the bar. It's not sort of pub you complain in; all track suits, lager, sovereign rings and football..
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Isn't that pretty much most of the population of the U.K.?
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Tiresias
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Posted: September 20 2005 at 18:12 |
I happened to be in a bar with the guys from Mushroomhead (american death metal) and they were singing to the jukebox. I put on "Have a Cigar"
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Blacksword
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Posted: September 21 2005 at 08:06 |
Paradox wrote:
Blacksword wrote:
There's an internet juke box in a pub near me.
I put on a selection including Rush, The Who and Marillion. It got to third song and the jukebox was switched off from behind the bar. It's not sort of pub you complain in; all track suits, lager, sovereign rings and football..
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Isn't that pretty much most of the population of the U.K.?
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Where did you get that picture of me!? 
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Jared
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Posted: September 21 2005 at 09:38 |
Blacksword wrote:
This particular pub is like a parody of a town centre pub on a Staurday night. A gormless looking DJ turns up about 7.00pm and plays a predictable mix of '80's classics' Boy Bands, girl band laddette anthems and rounds the evening off with a 'rock' anthem like 'Champagne Supernova' by Oasis - if you're lucky! If you're unlucky you the whole pub singing along to 'I would anything for love but I wont do that' by Meat Loaf, as they cry into their Doner kebabs..
Give me strength!
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that's not just a symptom of where you live Andy...it's the same all the way down the M4 corridor...
...which stretches to Pembrokeshire, from what I can see...
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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
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Blacksword
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Posted: September 21 2005 at 11:16 |
fandango wrote:
Blacksword wrote:
This particular pub is like a parody of a town centre pub on a Staurday night. A gormless looking DJ turns up about 7.00pm and plays a predictable mix of '80's classics' Boy Bands, girl band laddette anthems and rounds the evening off with a 'rock' anthem like 'Champagne Supernova' by Oasis - if you're lucky! If you're unlucky you the whole pub singing along to 'I would anything for love but I wont do that' by Meat Loaf, as they cry into their Doner kebabs..
Give me strength!
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that's not just a symptom of where you live Andy...it's the same all the way down the M4 corridor...
...which stretches to Pembrokeshire, from what I can see...
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It's sad. Was there people like this around when we were kids? In such numbers? I cant remember, or are we in a state of 'terminal decline' to quote Chris Morris in Brass Eye.
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Jared
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Posted: September 21 2005 at 12:09 |
^^I can't help noticing that the houses behind the 'gentleman' in the above picture are at least half boarded up... apparently there are 90,000 such residences in this country....and yet we have families in B&Bs?
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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
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Blacksword
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Posted: September 22 2005 at 05:23 |
fandango wrote:
^^I can't help noticing that the houses behind the 'gentleman' in the above picture are at least half boarded up... apparently there are 90,000 such residences in this country....and yet we have families in B&Bs? |
What a sh!t state of affairs!
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