# Prog rock instrumental ID

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 25, 2011, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prog-rock-instrumental-id/586838 "2011-06-25T19:22:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2011, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prog-rock-instrumental-id/586838/1 "2011-06-25T19:22:48Z")

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This morning we were listening to the radio in the car and heard an instrumental piece that we couldn’t identify. It was on a radio station in L.A. that plays old school AOR, so it was almost certainly a seldom-played cut from an album of a well-known band like Pink Floyd or Rush or Led Zeppelin. It had a very strong prog rock vibe – for example, there was an intro section with snippets of classical music.

As the piece really got going there was a very distinctive staccato bit with the same distinctive phrase repeated:

Dadada dadada da dut da da!  
Dadada dadada da dut da da!

Any ideas?

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**Author:** ![CaveMike](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cavemike/32/16379_2.png) [@CaveMike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaveMike)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2011, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prog-rock-instrumental-id/586838/2 "2011-06-25T20:20:51Z")

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Fire on High by ELO?  
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxbFmfDcuVg](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxbFmfDcuVg) check out the 2:55 mark.

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**Author:** ![zombywoof](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/9e8a1a/32.png) [@zombywoof](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zombywoof)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2011, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prog-rock-instrumental-id/586838/3 "2011-06-25T21:00:45Z")

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A lot of radio stations post a running list of songs played on their websites, you might check there.

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**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2011, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prog-rock-instrumental-id/586838/4 "2011-06-25T23:16:17Z")

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> [@CaveMike](#):
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> Fire on High by ELO?  
> [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxbFmfDcuVg](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxbFmfDcuVg) check out the 2:55 mark.

That’s it! Thank you.