Prog Bars?
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Topic: Prog Bars?
Posted By: Larsapik
Subject: Prog Bars?
Date Posted: May 12 2006 at 04:46
| 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. |
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Posted By: mystic fred
Date Posted: May 12 2006 at 04:54
there are no bars or pubs in london that have prog rock as a theme that i know of, there are many pubs which may have a prog rock group there from time to time, and there is always the hard rock cafe (if you ask nicely they might play a prog record), there are small music venues like the mean fiddler which has a bar, and they had wishbone ash play there recently!  -------------  Prog Archives Tour Van 
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: May 12 2006 at 05:15
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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 ....  ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: May 12 2006 at 07:09
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I've never heard of one (the nearest one was a rock club I used to go to in Ayia Napa), but Blacksword's one sounds nice, let me know when you open up Andy!
btw - Pendragon are at the Mean Fiddler next month.
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Posted By: mystic fred
Date Posted: May 12 2006 at 10:00
sounds like a brilliant idea, did you see my fun thread "if music be the food of love...", some ideas there for your menu!!  ------------- Prog Archives Tour Van
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Blacksword wrote:Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: May 12 2006 at 13:43
Yep, saw the thread! Some great ideas there. You've just landed yourself a job in the kitchen. Bear in my mind all my staff will have to wear prog costumes. The Slipperman is taken I'm afraid.. Now, the next challenge is prog cocktails, or Rocktails if you will...  ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Empathy
Date Posted: May 12 2006 at 14:26
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We'd be more than happy to christen that basement, Blacksword. Do you allow smoke machines, lasers, and flaming gongs? ------------- Pure Brilliance: 
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: May 12 2006 at 14:57
Absolutley, lasers are a must, and if you have any giant inflatable pigs lying around the house, bring them along. Obviously most people do. No prog bar should be without one! I envisage a good old fashioned prog singalong around an old Mellotron, which will of course sit upon a £2000 Persian carpet! ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: DrGoon
Date Posted: May 12 2006 at 15:31
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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. |
Posted By: Empathy
Date Posted: May 12 2006 at 15:36
Looks like you just hired a Bartender!  Why not make it even more obscure and pretentious by simply calling it "The Lying Lamb" (at least the franchise on Broadway). ------------- Pure Brilliance:
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Posted By: Evolver
Date Posted: May 12 2006 at 15:57
Who ordered the Larks' Tongues In Apsic?  ------------- Trust me. I know what I'm doing. |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: May 12 2006 at 16:08
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DrGoon you're hired!
At this rate I'll have nothing to do except prop up the bar. Oh well...
Looks like I'll have to re-locate to New York... Yep, I reckon I can live with that too! Cheers guys! ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: martinprog77
Date Posted: May 13 2006 at 05:10
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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 ------------- Nothing can last there are no second chances. Never give a day away. Always live for today. |
Posted By: Mr. Krinkle
Date Posted: May 13 2006 at 20:21
| here in lima there was a bar called Rethro tull. it was very nice had in display all this vinyls of many prog bands, and you got to ask to the staff to play them. although prog rock wasnt the main theme (it was more like 60's 70's rock) it was very good, and you got the chance listen to many prog bands. they shut it down cause there wasnt a lot of public. dont think Lima would be the appropiate place for a classic rock and prog bar. |