Prog in unexpected public places.

the new Volkswagen Passat commercial 

Edited by martinprog77 - May 31 2013 at 04:20

King Crimson776 wrote: Some guy at the Ralphs mentioned my Spock's Beard shirt. My worldview was shattered: no one in a practical, regular place should know of them, except me.

 

Apparently the guy who works in the percussion section of my local Guitar Center store is a huge Devin Townsend fan. This is the only man I've met so far who asked about Devin Townsend before I did . Turns out his favorite albums are the same as mine: "Ocean Machine: Biomech," "Terria," and "Ziltoid the Omniscient." This guy even plays drums in a prog metal band of his own; they're called Parallax. Pretty good drummer if you ask me.

At Boston Bruins games, the organist often plays renditions of various Rush songs during play stoppage.  "Subdivisions" and "Tom Sawyer" are the ones I've noticed most frequently.

I'm still waiting to hear him try "YYZ".

Can't believe I didn't think of this until now:

I imagine it wasn't uncommon at the time, but parts of Jean-Michael Jarre's “Oxygene” were played at a planetarium show I attended in 1978.

I remember playing a video game and hearing Wow by Kate Bush.  I thought...Wow.

I used to be a radio DJ part-time in Monticello, Kentucky, and late at night when all the commercial spots were over and the station was winding toward a close, I would stop playing Backstreet Boys and Celine Dion (I had a playlist I had to go by) and spin my new Clutching At Straws album by Marillion. I got a kick out of imagining the reactions out there in the Kentucky night.  I used to announce that I was taking requests at times like that but I (honest t o God) only got three different requests ever....Bob Seger, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Seasons in the Sun by Terry Jacks. So I'm  sure White Russian was a big hit.

This wasn't exactly a public place, but I was reading a manga when I found this reference. Everyone should recognize a certain face in the bottom-left panel.

I wore my Frank Zappa shirt to our annual mushroom festival last Saturday.  They had a 10 ft tall pirate ship booth and a guy dressed in a Jack Sparrow pirate costume on top.  He had a headphone mic and was "talking pirate" desperately trying to get people to come to his booth so he could toss bead necklaces and trinkets.  All of the sudden he points at me, drops the pirate accent and half-sings, "I'm a Jewish American Princess...Zappa!"  Everybody turns to look at me, so I gave him that Dio devil horn sign thing backwards like FZ did on the 1981 Halloween Palladium video 

Funny, I  wore my zappa zip up hoodie the other day to top foods and the cashier mentioned it, had a nice convo bout uncle Frank. The only other time anyone else has noticed it is some bartender in Longbeach but he thought it was a Charlie Manson hoodie...

AreYouHuman wrote: Can't believe I didn't think of this until now: I imagine it wasn't uncommon at the time, but parts of Jean-Michael Jarre's “Oxygene” were played at a planetarium show I attended in 1978.

Oxygene was the background soundtrack during a call in quizz show on a German language raido station in South West Africa (now Namibia) during the 80s.