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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 23, 2013 17:37:06 GMT
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 29, 2013 10:51:55 GMT
Sounds October 1989 . . . and the following week's issue
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Post by nonrabbit on Apr 29, 2013 14:50:42 GMT
Hahah excellent - love the comments. ;D
Graham Maisey was correct in his predictions.
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Post by steelmonkey on Apr 29, 2013 18:35:27 GMT
They're dissing you hard over at the New fast Daffodildo or whtaever website, dog...be careful
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 30, 2013 8:17:07 GMT
They're dissing you hard over at the New fast Daffodildo or whtaever website, dog...be careful Well folks - have one on me
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Post by steelmonkey on Apr 30, 2013 15:55:20 GMT
The new fat daffodildos was the band mentioned in the Tull review above...that's where you're probably being dissed for doubting they'd put out a 20 year box.
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 30, 2013 16:03:05 GMT
The new fat daffodildos was the band mentioned in the Tull review above...that's where you're probably being dissed for doubting they'd put out a 20 year box. So that's me off their Christmas card list then
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Post by JTull 007 on Apr 30, 2013 19:15:18 GMT
Lots of cool info on Strathaird Salmon. I never knew how big that business was. I wonder if it still does well in today's economy?
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Post by tullist on Apr 30, 2013 21:09:45 GMT
Hard to be certain about Strathaird Salmon in specific but that product, re high end smoked salmon. I suspect has been hurt not a whit as its appeal I suspect is met largely by those who find themselves in the upper 7 percent of incomes, who, speaking most specifically of the United States, have NEVER lived fatter than in these past ten years, when so many have been brought to their knees. Having said that I love the stuff but....
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Post by nonrabbit on Apr 30, 2013 21:59:25 GMT
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Post by tullist on Apr 30, 2013 22:30:24 GMT
Who else but Patti. Those are some happening salmon up there. And those owls, so envious of their skills, I would love to go all owl on someone talking literally behind my back. I mean their heads have done the full 180 at full attention like...immediately, they ain't havin it. May 6 will now be marked on my calendar, a good sign that I could view the link in the USA I am hoping.
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Post by JTull 007 on Apr 30, 2013 23:51:19 GMT
Hard to be certain about Strathaird Salmon in specific but that product, re high end smoked salmon. I suspect has been hurt not a whit as its appeal I suspect is met largely by those who find themselves in the upper 7 percent of incomes, who, speaking most specifically of the United States, have NEVER lived fatter than in these past ten years, when so many have been brought to their knees. Having said that I love the stuff but.... LOL! From smoked salmon to the upper 7% crust of U.S. society. I like wild caught salmon filet which I can get for $5.98 per pound at my local I.G.A. grocery store. My wife enjoys salmon patties she makes from canned salmon which has a strong odor reminiscent of cat food. If I bought the Strathaird variety it would be for a special Tull party or Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson party. Okay, July is the 7th month. I need to spend a little extra to feel like the 7% and get some. Also, I want some Fray Bentos pies with a tall dark HobGoblin to wash it all down. ;D
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Post by tullist on May 1, 2013 0:05:24 GMT
Hard to be certain about Strathaird Salmon in specific but that product, re high end smoked salmon. I suspect has been hurt not a whit as its appeal I suspect is met largely by those who find themselves in the upper 7 percent of incomes, who, speaking most specifically of the United States, have NEVER lived fatter than in these past ten years, when so many have been brought to their knees. Having said that I love the stuff but.... LOL! From smoked salmon to the upper 7% crust of U.S. society. I like wild caught salmon filet which I can get for $5.98 per pound at my local I.G.A. grocery store. My wife enjoys salmon patties she makes from canned salmon which has a strong odor reminiscent of cat food. If I bought the Strathaird variety it would be for a special Tull party or Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson party. Okay, July is the 7th month. I need to spend a little extra to feel like the 7% and get some. Also, I want some Fray Bentos pies with a tall dark HobGoblin to wash it all down. ;D I do remember my girlfriend received a letter from Ian Anderson, on Strathaird stationary, saying MacKenzie importers in Baltimore carried it, (she must have asked, I vaguely recall we were looking for it in Harrod's where they do carry it) and that, "they pretend to smoke it themselves' but this was 1985. She had made a framed pen and ink drawing of his Skye home Kilmarie off one of my pics and she received it as a thank you letter. But yeah Jim, merely in response to your inquiry of whether Strathaird still does well in this economy, my answer, as with other items of luxury, is yes, those people have very definitely not been hurt. But I do know about the lower end salmon and its not so bad. Almost never buy it though. Ian had the good stuff.
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Post by maddogfagin on May 1, 2013 8:10:37 GMT
Hard to be certain about Strathaird Salmon in specific but that product, re high end smoked salmon. I suspect has been hurt not a whit as its appeal I suspect is met largely by those who find themselves in the upper 7 percent of incomes, who, speaking most specifically of the United States, have NEVER lived fatter than in these past ten years, when so many have been brought to their knees. Having said that I love the stuff but.... IA's salmon fisheries were held in high regard at the time by the local inhabitants of Skye due to the fact that not only were the hatcheries kept clean and tidy, as oppossed to other companies operating in the same area, but also because of the benefits his entrepreneur ideals gave the local community. Not another rock star using their money to off set tax liabilities etc. Didn't Roger Daltry start a trout hatchery somewhere and the members of Genesis setting up a scheme for planting forests in various parts of the UK ?
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Post by maddogfagin on May 2, 2013 8:41:09 GMT
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Post by tullist on May 2, 2013 15:06:06 GMT
Graham, you are an abiding miracle, particularly to those of us who are old enough to remember going entire years without even seeing a picture of a current Tull, likewise for any mention of them, which, when it happened, was often so coarse as to make one wish they had not read it in the first place. Have to mark that as pretty much a wholly accurate review. Accurate to say on that, first of 2 nights, Ian's voice was at a nadir not seen at such length over the past 18 years. The next night though I was in the sixth row, and...not even sure if my impression of the show from the first night was even accurate. (Thoroughly beautiful old theater but not without its dead spots here and there, like, likely where a friend I had seen them with in the early and mid seventies, were, and though he moderately enjoyed the show has never seen them since) Anyway the next night was pure jaw on the ground Tull ritual. Doane gave us a serious and welcome beating and I can kind of see why he put that soundscreen up later in front of his drums, because during the show he literally gave you a beating throughout it, and it was of excellent quality coupled with all the various other skills he brings to his trade. Viva Doane. Also the tour where Ian made Doane pretend to play the violin only to have the chance to publicly berate him and send him back to his drumseat, lol.
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Post by maddogfagin on May 2, 2013 16:21:55 GMT
Graham, you are an abiding miracle, particularly to those of us who are old enough to remember going entire years without even seeing a picture of a current Tull, likewise for any mention of them, which, when it happened, was often so coarse as to make one wish they had not read it in the first place. Thanks Ray. I'll attempt to post some more soon and I must acknowledge my thanks to Gerrit in The Netherlands who sent me some items to replace those of mine which were damaged in a house flood. He also sent me some foreign language items which I'll also post sometime in the hope that the multi linguists we have on the Forum can translate them.
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Post by tullist on May 2, 2013 17:22:03 GMT
Graham, you are an abiding miracle, particularly to those of us who are old enough to remember going entire years without even seeing a picture of a current Tull, likewise for any mention of them, which, when it happened, was often so coarse as to make one wish they had not read it in the first place. Thanks Ray. I'll attempt to post some more soon and I must acknowledge my thanks to Gerrit in The Netherlands who sent me some items to replace those of mine which were damaged in a house flood. He also sent me some foreign language items which I'll also post sometime in the hope that the multi linguists we have on the Forum can translate them. The first mutual fanatic of whom I became aware, Gerrit De Gues or something like that. Have been surprised I have no memory of seeing him on Tullnet though I would not be surprised if he is at least registered. Unfortunately getting to the inner rim of ages where I cannot automatically presume people are still alive but...I like my chances re Gerritt. I say this because after my second trip to Skye where I got to meet Ian twice my younger brother, who arrived at mid point of my stay, and was with me on the second meeting outside Ian's home, and in most respects is the reason I was able to talk to him as long as I did, because my Brother was skilled at redirecting the conversation into man to man things, like operating a boat out in that Loch with services like our Coast Guard very far away in Fort William. Anyway Allan, my brother, wrote for the Memphis Commercial Appeal at the time, and penned a story of my meeting, one time referring to me as "likely the foremost authority on Jethro Tull on the planet", lol. Thankfully with the onset of A New Day and much later the net I have found that not to be true, do not want that mantle. Anyway, this Gerritt dude, in Holland I think, somehow, in 1983 was able to uncover this minor bit in the newspaper of a town who's population would probably struggle to make the top 15 in the United States. I mean people know Memphis for various reasons, the murder of MLK, and Elvis and blues music on Beale St being the main 3 I can think of. But Gerritt certainly provided me with a moment of wtf! How on earth did this man uncover this, years and years prior to the internet. Had another communication or 2 with him that I cannot recall thru snail mail, I think maybe a list of his tradable items, but in those days I had very little to trade and probably less inclination.
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Post by steelmonkey on May 2, 2013 17:53:11 GMT
I met Gerrit in 1987...in hamburg and agian a couple yeard later in, i think, london..very smart, officious, formal and impassioned Tull freak.....Called me Mr Kellman when he introduced me to Mr Rees and Mr Webb at hammersmith in 89. My Tull box includes a picture of him next to a street sign he made his town officials put up on a 50 foot alley by his home calling it Tull-Laan.
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Post by maddogfagin on May 3, 2013 8:11:41 GMT
I met Gerrit in 1987...in hamburg and agian a couple yeard later in, i think, london..very smart, officious, formal and impassioned Tull freak.....Called me Mr Kellman when he introduced me to Mr Rees and Mr Webb at hammersmith in 89. My Tull box includes a picture of him next to a street sign he made his town officials put up on a 50 foot alley by his home calling it Tull-Laan. The first mutual fanatic of whom I became aware, Gerrit De Gues or something like that. Have been surprised I have no memory of seeing him on Tullnet though I would not be surprised if he is at least registered. Unfortunately getting to the inner rim of ages where I cannot automatically presume people are still alive but...I like my chances re Gerritt. I say this because after my second trip to Skye where I got to meet Ian twice my younger brother, who arrived at mid point of my stay, and was with me on the second meeting outside Ian's home, and in most respects is the reason I was able to talk to him as long as I did, because my Brother was skilled at redirecting the conversation into man to man things, like operating a boat out in that Loch with services like our Coast Guard very far away in Fort William. Anyway Allan, my brother, wrote for the Memphis Commercial Appeal at the time, and penned a story of my meeting, one time referring to me as "likely the foremost authority on Jethro Tull on the planet", lol. Thankfully with the onset of A New Day and much later the net I have found that not to be true, do not want that mantle. Anyway, this Gerritt dude, in Holland I think, somehow, in 1983 was able to uncover this minor bit in the newspaper of a town who's population would probably struggle to make the top 15 in the United States. I mean people know Memphis for various reasons, the murder of MLK, and Elvis and blues music on Beale St being the main 3 I can think of. But Gerritt certainly provided me with a moment of wtf! How on earth did this man uncover this, years and years prior to the internet. Had another communication or 2 with him that I cannot recall thru snail mail, I think maybe a list of his tradable items, but in those days I had very little to trade and probably less inclination. Gerrit and I used to correspond quite a few times in the pre internet years about Tull - I can't remember how we were introduced to each other all those years ago - and in successive years we exchanged letters and bits and pieces about the band. We met in person when I went to The Netherlands on holidday with the family at the back end of the 80s and I took a leisurely train journey to Eindhoven and spent a few hours at his home talking about the band and exchanging gifts etc. Subsequently we met a few times when he came to England either to see a concert (Hammersmith Odeon, Shephards Bush) or when he was at a couple of the UK Conventions. He's still active as far as I know with collecting Tull items but in this internet era exchanging paper memorabilia and band information of the band is "old hat" with the stuff so readily available via the web. I do have a couple of photos of the Tull "signs" he has next to his home and I'll dig them out and post them here on the Forum in due course. His other claim to fame is that some years ago he persuaded a local Dutch radio station to feature himself and some rather obscure Tull musical items on a programme dedicated to the band. He sent me a copy of the newspaper article which talks about the programme and that's another item I'll have to find in the archive. It's in Dutch but I'm sure someone here will be able to translate it.
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Post by maddogfagin on May 4, 2013 8:16:04 GMT
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Post by steelmonkey on May 4, 2013 15:45:17 GMT
Me and Ian have that in common...I read his lyrics and become emotional, too.
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Post by maddogfagin on May 11, 2013 12:20:51 GMT
Fish Farming Made Easy, part 43
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Post by maddogfagin on May 13, 2013 12:56:22 GMT
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Post by JTull 007 on May 13, 2013 14:20:12 GMT
Amazing articles about Ian Anderson in the Salmon farming business. I was impressed with his concern for the environment which many forms of farming ignore. Just as with chemicals that are over used by corporate entities, anti-biotics are another risky practice. Most of us take our food for granted as long as it looks and tastes good. Ian at least was trying to make things work without a negative impact to the area. Tough job.
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Post by tullist on May 13, 2013 14:29:44 GMT
Left the music business a decade ago! Hilarious! And extraordinarily incompetent! Have long been aware of the extent to which Ian tried to be environmentally conscious, (remembering this was a fledgling enterprise when he started) right down to who he sold that estate to, (John Muir Society, one of the most noble Scotsman, or humans, that have ever walked this planet) make me unashamed to say I love this man. Did not know he played stocks going way back, had I know that I could have bored him with talk of options, similar to futures to the uninitiated, in addition to inquiries about the whereabouts of Jeffrey and where the films were from the Passion Play show. (This was 1983)
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Post by maddogfagin on May 17, 2013 8:05:00 GMT
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Post by bunkerfan on May 17, 2013 10:43:37 GMT
There are a few pictures on the net of Ian playing left handed.
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Post by JTull 007 on May 17, 2013 11:27:23 GMT
Although it may be possible that some images were reversed by accident, these look authentic. The one showing his left leg up while standing on his right would seem to confirm it.
I believe Ian probably could play the flute easier than the guitar as a lefty. All the Ian silhouettes are right handed.
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Post by maddogfagin on May 17, 2013 12:37:12 GMT
The sub-editor was probably down the pub Even The Times got in the act.
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