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JethroTull

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  1. In case you haven't noticed, I'm not participating in this topic.
  2. I enjoy(ed) The Cars and always look forward to the Elliot Easton guitar solo. Take it with a grain of salt, but I read somewhere that their live shows can be a bit spotty. No Cars of any sort in my collection of music.
  3. The boss was discussed here a couple of weeks ago... http://forums.ledzeppelin.com//index.php?showtopic=3497 He is incredibly popular in Ireland. Don't expect a 4 hour show. I saw him (twice) in November and I believe the show was a bout 2 1/2 hours.
  4. I am aware of it, but never made the effort to hear it. It's a great early autobiographical Tull tune. I'll put it on my list of things to do. 1. Taxes. 2. Get copy of Bonamassa's "A New Day Yesterday".
  5. About 10 years ago, Ray did a bunch of solo shows down the village in NYC. I helped him sing The Bananna Boat song a.k.a Day-O. Couple years after that, I saw Dave solo at The Bottom Line in NYC. Dave needed no help performing. I refer to the song "Days" as the greatest song in the history of the world....(Waterloo Sunset is not too shabby either)... Thank you for the days, Those endless days, those sacred days you gave me. I'm thinking of the days, I won't forget a single day, believe me. I bless the light, I bless the light that lights on you believe me. And though you're gone, You're with me every single day, believe me. Days I'll remember all my life, Days when you can't see wrong from right. You took my life, But then I knew that very soon you'd leave me, But it's all right, Now I'm not frightened of this world, believe me. I wish today could be tomorrow, The night is dark, It just brings sorrow anyway. Thank you for the days, Those endless days, those sacred days you gave me. I'm thinking of the days, I won't forget a single day, believe me. Days I'll remember all my life, Days when you can't see wrong from right. You took my life, But then I knew that very soon you'd leave me, But it's all right, Now I'm not frightened of this world, believe me. Days. Thank you for the days, Those endless days, those sacred days you gave me. I'm thinking of the days, I won't forget a single day, believe me. I bless the light, I bless the light that shines on you believe me. And though you're gone, You're with me every single day, believe me. Days.
  6. Jahfin, I have to say one thing about you. You are the voice of reason. I was giving that person a hard time, because in another thread they were critical about my GIF file. I also enjoyed the Doobies back in Tom Johnston days. They played a show in Northern VA about 4 years ago and it sold out fairly fast. Another show was added in Baltimore.
  7. What's with all these topics that attempt to document our every second of the day? What are you listening to, what are you wearing?, what are you buying?, what are you doing?, what is your dating status? I have a couple of new one to propose, but I suspect the politically correct here will not like them? Is anybody interested?
  8. The dryer. 10 minutes ago I was listening to the dog bark. Oooops, now my wife is yelling at me.
  9. Simply put, ELP was the first concert I ever attended in August 1972. It was at Convention Hall in Asbury Park, NJ. I saw them at Madison Square Garden in 1974 with Stray Dog as the openers. By 1976 I lost interest and got rid of all their LP's. About ten years ago they toured with Jethro Tull as the opening act. I really enjoyed hearing Knife's Edge. Couple years ago I re-bought Tarkus. It's a fun listen, but that's about it for me.
  10. Think of Petty's top 2 or 3 most listenable hits. That's what he will play. The Stones playing "Beast of Burden" or anything else from Some Girls would have probably gone down like a lead zeppelin(Good Year blimp) at the Super Bowl. You really have to keep it pretty simple and rocking for the Super Bowl audience. I went to the Super Bowl XXXI in 1997. Packers beat the Patriots in New Orleans. Halftime show was Blues Brothers, ZZ Top and James Brown.
  11. Has anybody heard the bluegrass versions of VH songs released by Diamond Dave? If not, go to youtube.
  12. Yeah and the flute is turned up in the mix and you can sometimes barely hear the ELECTRIC guitar.
  13. Ian's voice is shot(I'll probably take some crap for saying that). He sings the older bluesier songs well, but other songs he just has a lot of problems. On the recent tour they converted "Sossiety, Your're a Woman" into an instrumental. His voice changed drastically in 1984 and has been unpredictable and sometimes embarrassing since. Fans still go watch and they have been touring constantly. I have a long list of complaints, but won't get into it here. I've taken a Tull break the last couple of years, but I might attend the 40th. It would be nice if a couple of former band mates were invited to come along(I doubt it). Even Martin Barre (guitarist since 1969) is sometimes left out of what is called a Jethro Tull show.
  14. Thanks for the great story. I'll give you my take on it. 1977 and 1978 were difficult years for bands like Tull. 1977 would have been The Songs From the Woods tour. A very earthy, acoustic LP and not popular stuff in 1977. The band was in top form during that tour, but I suspect fans were growing impatient with the flutes, acoustics guitars and the general image of the band. Maybe it was a mid-west thing, but the East Coast shows were well received. Uriah Heep was more of a rock and roll outfit and a little more of what people may have wanted to see on stage. I lost a little interest in Tull myself during those years. Oh, Tull used to set off strobe lights during Cross Eyed Mary. The band would be very animated during this and it gave the impression of slow motion, maybe that's what you saw. Or maybe it was the weed.
  15. I think the revolving door of band members ultimately hurt the band. It was more apparent as ever in 1980 that Ian Anderson WAS the band. Just some of the notables who passed through, bassist Dave Pegg and other members of Fairport Convention, Eddie Jobson from Roxy Music/Zappa, Mark Craney (R.I.P.) on drums, Gerry Conway(Cat Stevens) on drums, Mick Abrahams (Blodwyn Pig) was the original guitarist. After the initial break through in 1968, Ian eventually brought all his childhood friends/band mates into the group, Barrie Barlow, John Evan and Jeffrey Hammond. Jeffrey had three songs named after him before joining the band, "A Song for Jeffrey", "Jeffrey Goes to Leicester Square" and "For Michael Collins, Jeffrey and Me". The last song was about the astronaut Michael Collins. While he orbited the Moon, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin performed the first manned landing on the lunar surface. The song compares the feelings of misfitting from vocalist Ian Anderson (and friend Jeffrey Hammond) with the astronaut's own, as he is left behind by the ones who had the privilege to walk on the surface of the moon. Some interesting web-sites...... The website of Glen Cornick the original bass player who went on to play in Wild Turkey and Paris. You will spend days looking at the great photos....Tull and Non-Tull...... http://www.cornick.org/ Unfornutately the band has been on a 15 year greatest hits tour. You can view the entire 40 years of touring at ...... http://www.ministry-of-information.co.uk/ For lyrics and song analysis..... http://www.cupofwonder.com/index2.html
  16. By request, I've started a Jethro Tull discussion. I heard the Aqualung LP during the summer of 1971 and that was it, I was hooked. No shrieking "I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, oooh baby, oooh baby" during a Tull song, it was much more verbal. Sometimes too verbal. Oh and Rolling Stone magazine also hated Tull. Ian wrote this song at the Preston train station in London whilst waiting to visit his dad in the hospital. Cheap Day Return On Preston platform do your soft shoe shuffle dance. Brush away the cigarette ash that's falling down your pants. And you sadly wonder does the nurse treat your old man the way she should. She made you tea, asked for your autograph what a laugh
  17. I'm sorry I couldn't regale you with stories of shooting herion with Sid Vicious or sharing Deborah Harry with Joey Ramone, but it just didn't happen (for me). BTW, do you like The Hellecopters? I just saw on Wikipedia they are disbanding after their next release and tour. I was into them for a while and saw them open for The Dictators at CBGB's a few years ago.
  18. Tony made one appearance with Jethro Tull during his brief time (one week in December 1968) in the band. This was at the Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus. I think the vocals are the only live aspect to the music. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIbI6Yl8J_U
  19. During the holidays I was having a chat with a couple of guys about Nick's recent efforts. They told me his last 2-3 efforts have been real laid back. I read a quote of his recently about how he doesn't want to do anything remotely similar to his past. I remember several years ago seeing a Lowe video on VH1. He was solo, playing bass and singing a song. Can't remember the song title. Haven't been able to find it on youtube.
  20. I never read the book, but I probably paged through it in a book store. 1975-1979 were just great years for me musically. Truth be told, I didn't quite fit in. I graduated college in 1977 with a degree in accounting. My day life and evening life clashed and my career suffered. I was probably the most (or one of the most) conservative looking guys in the audience. I didn't care. I remember going to CBGB's with my equally conservative looking girlfriend and sitting at a table waiting for the Dictators to take the stage. Lead singer Handsome Dick Manitoba was next to my table and said to us, "that is where I sit with my girlfriend when I come here". When in NYC go to Manitoba's bar on Avenue B. During the "Weekend" you can rub elbows with a punk legend. There were a handful of new wave bands I enjoyed, but deep down I was really pissed. One by one, the punk bands imploded with a couple of exceptions. I really didn't go to many shows during the 80's. Speaking of books, Handsome Dick recently wrote a book of punk lists. You may want to check it out.
  21. Make sure you buy the remastered version with the bonus tracks, Small Cigar and Strip Cartoon. Strip Cartoon in particular is a great song. Also, the proper release contained Salamander, an acoustic gem. I bought APP on the day it was released in 1973 and have always loved it.
  22. I just discovered Katherine Heigl. She was interviewed in the Washington Post and kept trying to explain how/why she became a cigarette smoker. Do a google image search and you will find some very interesting photos of her.
  23. I'm proud to say I saw The Damned at CBGB's for what was called the first time an English punk band played the US. The Dead Boys opened. Also saw The Stranglers and The Dictators numerous times. Too bad The Sex Pistols never made it to NYC, I would have been there. I never saw Rockpile/Nick Lowe/Dave Edmunds and regret it.
  24. TOTRNRTYTD released during 1976 in the middle of the punk thing can best be described as quirky. The title did not help the bands popularity. Three songs in particular "Bad Eyes and Loveless", "From a Dead Beat to an Old Greaser" and "Checkered Flag" are the quirkiest and are probably a big reason why those negative reviews exist. This was the first Tull release where I questioned a couple of the songs. The good news is that it has aged well. Even those three songs I mentioned soound interesting and very Tullish 30 plus years later. John Glascock (former Carmen bassist, R.I.P.) joined the band for a few releases beginning with TOTRNRTYTD. He was a welcome addition. Maddy Prior (Steeleye Span vocalist) joined in on a couple of tracks including the title song.
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