Prog in unexpected public places.

progbethyname wrote: King Manuel wrote: I work for an international company in South Africa. Beginning of this week we had a team meeting as we had a number of new members join the company. In the introduction round we were asked to also say something about us, like hobbies. So I mentioned I like unusual Rock music (didn't even say Prog as most people anyway don't know what that is). Over lunch a young 20 something female (!!!) colleague - new to the team - approached me and asked what kind of Rock music I like, so I said Prog, and to my delight and surprise she said she is a Prog Head too. It turned out that she was really heavy into Prog, a lot of stuff which is almost to weird for me, like Sleepy time Gorilla Museum or Magma, but also a lot of stuff I like. And we had in common that we both think Porcupine Tree is the most overrated band currently around! Over dinner that night at a table with lost of other colleagues we talked Prog for hours, a discussion or colleagues at the table could not really relate to. I think this was the first time in years that I actually had a real life conversation with someone apart from my brother on that level about prog. Looking forward to our next team meeting (unfortunately she works in a different city in South Africa)! f**king great story. I hope you get a chance with lady-Prog. It's hard to find! Geography or not I think you gotta try and make it happen. Hope it goes your way.

Edited by King Manuel - August 22 2013 at 12:49

Luckily my wife tolerates it - as long as I wear headphones ;-)
Went I met my wife she actually had a ELP, a Yes and a Fish-Era Marillion CD in her collection! She is heavy into Snow Patrol, a band although not Prog, I don't mind listening to.

The.Crimson.King wrote: King Manuel wrote: Luckily my wife tolerates it - as long as I wear headphones ;-) Went I met my wife she actually had a ELP, a Yes and a Fish-Era Marillion CD in her collection! She is heavy into Snow Patrol, a band although not Prog, I don't mind listening to. I'm a lucky guy, my wife was a rock DJ in the SF Bay Area for 10 years and likes all the music I play...except Opeth, Sepultura, Celtic Frost, Catacombs, Burning Witch, and the first My Dying Bride album...think I see a pattern here

Ha a pattern indeed! 

My fiancée actually really likes Opeth, more so than most other groups I've introduced her to. The only prog group I've shown her that she doesn't like is VDGG, which is funny because they're my favorite. Irony 

King Manuel wrote: VDGG is also my favourite next to Phideaux, VDGG I can only listen to with headphones when my better half is around, Phideaux is more tolerated

I guess Peter Hammill can come off a little strong for some. I can understand having to Headphone it for sure.
I do that for a lot of my Tech/Extreme metal I like.

My better half doesn't mind VDGG or most of my prog collection - about the only thing that she can't tolerate that I enjoy  listening to is Frank Zappa.

I heard "Silver Machine - Hawkwind" on a Ford advert, and stuff like "Tom Sawyer" in the film "The Waterboy". I think "Carry On Wayward Son" was in a South Park episode as well.

One of the local radio stations from where I live will quite frequently play huge parts of DSOTM, most notably all of side 2!

I heard Genesis at a Supermarket unexpectedly

On a commercial Vintage Music TV which usually transmits things from the 80s like Duran Duran and stuff of that kind I've seen in the same day:

Just one of these wouldn't warrant much notice but since they came within a half hour of each other I felt they were worthwhile:

I was watching an old episode of Breaking Bad on Netflix and Jesse found his little brother's piccolo. He said "I didn't know you played the flute!" Brother said "It's not a flute, it's a piccolo." "Hey - play some Jethro Tull!"

Then I turned the channel and Bob's Burgers was on. I don't know the characters on the show, but two of them were hiding in the bushes. Someone spotted them and one said "I'm... Lacy.. Hydrangea (or something like that) and the other one said "I'm Kate Bush".