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I play some soft prog at my business, specially the ones that go well with relaxing/soft atmosphere music. Some Rick Wakeman, Steve Hakett's classical stuff, etc. People love it and sometimes ask about it.
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Originally posted by presdoug presdoug wrote:

Originally posted by wilmon91 wilmon91 wrote:

It never happens....and by "public places" I'm counting in people listening to music with headphones (where you can hear some of the music), and music from cars running by, or music from an open window that you pass by. It's all predictable.
 
I heard "Tuesday Afternoon" by Moody Blues in a supermarket. 10 years ago. Not a big deal maybe. But the fact that I remember says a lot.
 
I heard "Get em out by friday" in a tv program about a car exhibition, 12-13 years ago or so. The music played from a Koenigsegg car stereo. But thats  tv-program, not a public place..
just off topic, that is a beautiful cat in your avatar image-looks a lot like my sister's one that i am currently taking care of-we call him Zorro! 
 
Cool. My dad got her in -97 when she was 3-4 years old. She must have had some traumatic time growing up because she was a bit afraid and sensitive. But she died 2 years ago from some kidney problem. She was called Kattis Smile (Katt = Cat).


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I think I've written this somewhere before, but the bell in our grammar schoolis DT's Wait For Sleep. Pretty awsum isn't it?
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Shorlty before disembarking from an aeroplane I half asleep realised that the tune quietly playing on the cabin's PA system was an instrumental version of Peter Hammill's "Just good friends". I love this sad song, but it wasn't exactely the most uplifting experience to start a few days holidays.
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Originally posted by cstack3 cstack3 wrote:

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Back in 73' I was working at a venue which was very Frank Sinatra. Very wealthy customers were sitting and eating their lunch. Larks Tongues In Aspic started playing and I thought I was going to have a strokeLOL  Then the entrie album played and I was looking for a reaction from the customers, but they didn't seem to notice. Then the DJ announced from the radio station that it was the new King Crimson album. It was really strange. How could these well dressed snooty people eat gourmet food during "Talking Drum' you might wonder? I think the memory is pretty laughable.

This post is pretty mind-boggling!!  I'd think that David Cross's violin screaming would have ripped a few heads off in that crowd!!   
LOL        That is true. The screaming violin of David Cross. I figure this probably happened because someone in the office was into prog and tuned into an underground Philadelphia station when the owner was out. No one complained about the music and that's what tossed me through a loop hole.
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I heard Roundabout on the radio yesterday. Although it's not all that surprising, I was pleased that the whole 9 minutes was played and not some ridiculous edit.
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I once heard a Zorn/Frith improv playing at an old folks' home.

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Originally posted by TODDLER TODDLER wrote:

Back in 73' I was working at a venue which was very Frank Sinatra. Very wealthy customers were sitting and eating their lunch. Larks Tongues In Aspic started playing and I thought I was going to have a strokeLOL  Then the entrie album played and I was looking for a reaction from the customers, but they didn't seem to notice. Then the DJ announced from the radio station that it was the new King Crimson album. It was really strange. How could these well dressed snooty people eat gourmet food during "Talking Drum' you might wonder? I think the memory is pretty laughable.

This post is pretty mind-boggling!!  I'd think that David Cross's violin screaming would have ripped a few heads off in that crowd!!   
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Back in 73' I was working at a venue which was very Frank Sinatra. Very wealthy customers were sitting and eating their lunch. Larks Tongues In Aspic started playing and I thought I was going to have a strokeLOL  Then the entrie album played and I was looking for a reaction from the customers, but they didn't seem to notice. Then the DJ announced from the radio station that it was the new King Crimson album. It was really strange. How could these well dressed snooty people eat gourmet food during "Talking Drum' you might wonder? I think the memory is pretty laughable.
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Originally posted by wilmon91 wilmon91 wrote:

It never happens....and by "public places" I'm counting in people listening to music with headphones (where you can hear some of the music), and music from cars running by, or music from an open window that you pass by. It's all predictable.
 
I heard "Tuesday Afternoon" by Moody Blues in a supermarket. 10 years ago. Not a big deal maybe. But the fact that I remember says a lot.
 
I heard "Get em out by friday" in a tv program about a car exhibition, 12-13 years ago or so. The music played from a Koenigsegg car stereo. But thats  tv-program, not a public place..
just off topic, that is a beautiful cat in your avatar image-looks a lot like my sister's one that i am currently taking care of-we call him Zorro! 
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Just last week, I was sweating my butt off working out on the eliptical machine at the YMCA and - much to my pleasant surprise - the title cut to LLDOB was being broadcast - from a local classic rock station no less!  These are the precious moments in life that one lives for...
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I was in a very large sporting goods store a while back & "Hocus Pocus" was blazing on the PA!  That was nice, I always loved that song!  

So, what else could I do but listen to it 10 or 20 times when I got home? 

It's amazing how commonplace prog was in the early-mid '70's, when many bands had AM singles.  Flash, Yes, ELP, Focus, and others come to mind.  Later on in the '80's, we had singles by GTR, Saga, Genesis (urf, sans Gabriel) etc.  
I'm sorry that Bob Fripp never figured out the singles-hit-formula, I think he worked at it pretty hard.  
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Yes!

A cab driver once was playing Pat Metheny. And a couple of months later, the same cab driver played The Doors, we talked a bit, he was surprised I remembered him I think.

Having listened to Cantaloop (the US3 tune sampling Hancock) at a beach with loud speakers caught me by surprise. Ok, it wasn't actual jazz playing in a summer context, but still it was pretty cool.

Can't remember any other, but I'm sure there were some more, prog-oriented moments.
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Watchers of the Skies playing at a McDonald's. It's also the starting chords of some Macintosh computers.

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Originally posted by paganinio paganinio wrote:

Unexpectedly, a public place in Rhode Islands is also called "Providence"!
 

So I guess it's not just a Godspeed You! Black Emperor track.


I've walked on East Hastings while listening the GYBE that street inspired, fit all too well. Not a fun place to visit is the least you could say...
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Originally posted by JD JD wrote:

Let's not forget the classic example of NBC (I think, possibly ABC) sports using ELP's version of Fanfare for it's golf broadcasts back in the early 80's. I guess it really pissed off the band because they didn't get any royalty fee for the use as it was considered an arrangement and not their song.

Thank you! This just reminded me of another one-The old CBS Sports Spectacular show used to use ELO's Fire On High as it's theme song. 
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Great thread!  

In 1979, I was in Constanta, Romania (Ceaucescu's era) on a tourist bus, and I heard the driver's radio play "Awaken" by Yes!   Very surreal.  

Most recently, I was walking into a restaurant and heard a bit of Jon Anderson's acoustic Yes work on the PA system.  That was very cool, as I was planning on his "Voice of Yes" concert!   Don't know who was programming that music, but thanks!  
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just remembered something else
         one Sunday morning in 1977, our family stopped at a gas station in Willowdale, just north of Toronto, Canada
           Playing inside the station was what must have been a bootleg live Rush recording from maybe a year ago
            i knew it was a bootleg, because it featured a song on the recent All The World's A Stage album, which i had at that time and was familiar with, but there was something distinctly different about it, maybe the speed of the track, or a bit of extra instrumental music with it that was not on the official live one
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Yep, it happened many years ago but it was so bizarrely unexpected I'll never forget it: I was in some store with muzak playing, and what should come on but a canned orchestral version of "Oh Caroline" by Robert Wyatt.

That stopped me in my tracks, I tell you.....
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Originally posted by paganinio paganinio wrote:

Unexpectedly, a public place in Rhode Islands is also called "Providence"!
 
So I guess it's not just a Godspeed You! Black Emperor track.


No, it's also a King Crimson track.
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