Prog Bars?

Are there any bars in various cities that actually plays progressive music as their thing? I hear some people planned to make a bar in Stockholm called GOD (gates of dilerium) that was gonna be a lounge thing with the difference that they would play Yes, Elp and Genesis and IQ rather than springsteen and 80 s hits. I would love to hear about bars like this in Stockholm, London Amsterdam and so forth.

Not at all in my area.

My dream is to open a bar called 'The Lamb on Broadway' It would actually be a real ale pub with a superb food menu too. That would be it's selling point. It would just happen to play piped prog all the time and have a basement bar where bands play every weekend. Advertsing would be targeted, on line at the prog community unitl eventually it would be total prog, featuring Roger Dean designed seats and tables, and with huge murals of proggy landscapes on the walls. I may even install smoke machines, and make the loos look like caves of ice....

Ok, this dream is getting out of control ....

Blacksword wrote: Not at all in my area. My dream is to open a bar called 'The Lamb on Broadway' It would actually be a real ale pub with a superb food menu too. That would be it's selling point. It would just happen to play piped prog all the time and have a basement bar where bands play every weekend. Advertsing would be targeted, on line at the prog community unitl eventually it would be total prog, featuring Roger Dean designed seats and tables, and with huge murals of proggy landscapes on the walls. I may even install smoke machines, and make the loos look like caves of ice.... Ok, this dream is getting out of control ....

We'd be more than happy to christen that basement, Blacksword.

Do you allow smoke machines, lasers, and flaming gongs?

I would suggest "The Lamb Lies Down" as the name of the bar. Make the rest of the title implied by opening it on Broadway. It doesn't have to be the most famous one, there are plenty of cities out there with well known Broadways.

For your cocktail bar, I offer Firth of Fifth:

1/5 gill blended vatted malt whisky (ideally Poit Dhubh)
1/5 gill Hendrick's gin
1/5 gill Caledonian 80/- or similar Scottish malty ale
1/5 gill Irn-Bru 32
1/5 gill blue raspberry lemonade

Serve in an 8oz square whisky tumbler. It'll look like it came out of a Scottish coastal estuary.

mystic fred wrote: Blacksword wrote: Not at all in my area. My dream is to open a bar called 'The Lamb on Broadway' It would actually be a real ale pub with a superb food menu too. That would be it's selling point. It would just happen to play piped prog all the time and have a basement bar where bands play every weekend. Advertsing would be targeted, on line at the prog community unitl eventually it would be total prog, featuring Roger Dean designed seats and tables, and with huge murals of proggy landscapes on the walls. I may even install smoke machines, and make the loos look like caves of ice.... Ok, this dream is getting out of control ....   sounds like a brilliant idea, did you see my fun thread "if music be the food of love...", some ideas there for your menu!!

i dont know any here in LA.I work in a mexican restaurant and he we play mariachi music all the time.but somethimes i put some of my staff[like the flower kings or camel]some people like it  but when i play king crimson or vdgg people get freak out