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Post by maddogfagin on Jul 13, 2021 5:56:23 GMT
www.yardbarker.com/entertainment/articles/the_best_prog_rock_bands_of_all_time/s1__35357537#slide_1The best prog-rock bands of all timePosted 12 minutes ago | By Jeff Mezydlo One can trace the roots of progressive rock back to the Beatles and the Beach Boys (Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Pet Sounds, specifically). Then there were bands who found a place in the genre and never left -- or least enjoyed notable success as part of the movement. Here are 20 of the best (listed in alphabetical order) bands who did just that. ____________________________________________ Jethro TullYouTubeIt's always important to note for classic-rock novices that Jethro Tull is the name of the band, not the lead singer. That would be the flute-toting Ian Anderson. The band has always been quite innovative, even when starting out with more of a blues and jazz vibe. Into the 1970s, Tull transitioned into more of a progressive, but heavier, sound. Especially on 1971's Aqualung. Of course, the defining moment in the band's history came one year later, with the conceptually ambitious and undeniably progressive Thick as a Brick.
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Post by maddogfagin on Jul 14, 2021 6:11:32 GMT
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Post by maddogfagin on Jul 22, 2021 15:02:47 GMT
www.dallasobserver.com/music/remembering-kansas-robby-steinhardt-americas-prog-rock-ambassador-in-5-songs-12061847Remembering Kansas’ Robby Steinhardt, America’s Prog Rock Ambassador, in 5 SongsVINCENT ARRIETA | JULY 22, 2021 | 4:00AM ----------- While Kansas would exhibit many of the same musical qualities as their English peers, one of their members set the band apart from the standard keyboard/guitar/flute arsenal of the brits: violinist and co-lead singer Robby Steinhardt. Steinhardt, who died this week at the age of 71, never wore chainmail, never wore a cape, and never once dressed as a fox. Aside from his formidable beard and hair, Steinhardt let the music do the talking. He was not the first prog violinist (Englishman David Cross’s absorption into King Crimson in 1973 predates the first Kansas record by a year, and Jean-Luc Ponty added some maddening string parts to Frank Zappa’s Hot Rats a few years prior, if that even counts as prog), but he was certainly the first violinist to wield the instrument in a manner that made it his band’s defining feature. Similar to how Ian Anderson’s jester-like flute-playing has forever cemented Jethro Tull as “the band with the flute,” Kansas will always be (lesser) known as “the band with the violin.”
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Post by maddogfagin on Jul 24, 2021 5:53:35 GMT
www.kwit.org/post/tasty-pig-musical-holiday-feastA Tasty Pig -- A Musical Holiday FeastBy ERIC BLUMBERG & JOHNNIE BOLIN • DEC 16, 2019While the snow may be blowing, this episode of the B-Sides with Bolin and Blumberg has the music to warm the cockles of your heart. We call it A Tasty Pig since it corporates the sounds of Taste and Blodwyn Pig and the guitarists who founded the bands. First, there is Mick Abrahams who started his career with Jethro Tull before breaking off to form Blodwyn Pig and then continue with a long solo career. We hear from Tull and Pig before launching into Mick Abrahams' stellar solo work. Then comes Taste, which established itself as a strong power trio in the 60's and 70's before its guitarist, Rory Gallagher, set out on his own exceptional solo career. Unfortunately, Gallagher passed at an early age from the ravages of alcohol. For all of you who dig a great axman, put your feet up by the fire and warm yourself with some delicious tunes. Only here, at the best place for rock, Siouxland Public Media.
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Post by maddogfagin on Jul 25, 2021 5:49:14 GMT
www.therecord.com/life/2021/07/24/in-the-garden-from-farm-implements-to-rock-bands.htmlIn the Garden: From farm implements to rock bandsBy Special to Waterloo Region Record Sat., July 24, 2021 I think I may have bought the plant because of the name, Jethro Tull, a name that’s been stuck in the trivia section of my head forever. It’s likely I learned of the real Jethro Tull in a history class when I was in school — long enough ago to call that period of my life historical. He was the 17th-century agriculturalist who perfected a horse-drawn seed drill in 1700 that modernized farming of the day. Or maybe it was the 60s rock band by that name which I probably listened to and added to the trivia pile. They’re still around, and ironically, they have a song called “Living in the Past.” For whatever reason it’s so named, the more current Jethro Tull is a cultivated variety of coreopsis that is now growing nicely in my garden.
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Post by maddogfagin on Jul 26, 2021 5:51:01 GMT
www.lep.co.uk/business/farewell-to-the-blackpool-man-who-helped-launch-1000-peoples-dreams-of-being-an-entrepreneur-3321246Farewell to the Blackpool man who helped launch 1,000 people's dreams of being an entrepreneurA Blackpool man who grew up on one of the roughest estates, went on to be a boss for Coca Cola in the UK, and then helped people launch 1,000 businesses, has finally put his feet up.. By Tim Gavell Monday, 26th July 2021, 4:55 am
Tributes have been paid across Blackpool to Geoff Reeves, described as a man full of infectious enthusiasm, humour and brilliant advice, who has stepped down from being the figurehead of Blackpool Council's Get Started scheme.
Geoff, who also ran a successful scuba diving company in Poulton for many years, said after recovering from three years of severe illness, it was now right to spend more time with his family and is looking forward to pursuing his hobbies, including paying his collection of electric guitars.
Geoff said he had always wanted to do more for his home town and working with the council enabled him to help others and show that whatever start you had in life, there were always opportunities to change your fortune.
He said: "I started out in what can only be described as abject poverty. In the 50s Grange Park was where they 'sent people'. After the war, it was rough, we had nothing. We dodged the rent man we had candles, no electricity. People used to knock on the door and ask to borrow half a cup of sugar. I knew there must be something better.
"My father was disappointed in me, he pointed out that I could not even saw a piece of wood properly. School was not really for me either. I did go to Blackpool Grammar, the same era as Roger Uttley (England and Fylde rugby player) and Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull.
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Post by maddogfagin on Aug 7, 2021 5:59:46 GMT
www.kerrang.com/features/lulu-is-better-than-it-gets-credit-for-and-18-more-of-your-controversial-rock-music-opinions/“Lulu is better than it gets credit for”: And 18 more of your controversial rock music opinionsWe present a selection of rock fans’ most controversial opinions, taking aim at rock giants, bourbon and more. Words: Kerrang! staff It’s fair to say that rock fans don’t always agree with each other. Go to any gig or bar and you’ll find countless discussions and arguments about which bands are better, which songs are better, which subgenres are better, which albums ruined certain bands’ careers and generally anything else you can possibly think of. Basically, we’re not short of an opinion or two. Joanna Royle: “Jethro Tull’s Crest Of A Knave deserved it’s 1989 Grammy win over Metallica’s …And Justice For All.”
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Post by maddogfagin on Aug 11, 2021 6:19:04 GMT
forward.com/culture/474021/the-secret-jewish-history-of-jethro-tull/The secret Jewish history of Jethro TullSeth Rogovoy August 10, 2021 Ian Anderson, the founder and frontman of British rock band Jethro Tull, was born 73 years ago today (Aug. 10, 1947). The talented songwriter and vocalist would grow up to play seemingly any and every instrument, including guitar, keyboards, bouzouki, balalaika, saxophone, harmonica and a variety of whistles. He has also been called “the best one-legged flute player in the world” for his penchant for standing on one leg (he does indeed have two) while playing his favored instrument, which gives the band its unique sound. While the group’s founding guitarist, Mick Abrahams, was not Jewish, Anderson has dealt widely with religion in and outside song and has demonstrated an appreciation for the Jewish roots of Christianity as well as the realities facing Jews in the 21st century. Anderson told Classic Rock magazine in April 2020, “I believe in Jesus of Nazareth as a slightly radical, bolshy Jewish prophet. I do not believe in Jesus the Christ. I believe in the wonderful story of the Bible, the ethics in the teachings, but I can’t offer myself as having faith.” Interviewed by Jonathan Eburne for ASAP/Journal, Anderson said, “I don’t call myself a Christian. I call myself a person who supports the very positive and huge benefits of religious belief, and indeed the structures in which we exercise that belief in the company of other people. So I’m a huge supporter of the church: the fabric of the Church, the buildings, the house of God. And, you know, if they would let me into a mosque or a Jewish temple to play music, I’d be there as well. It’s just that the Church of England is the place that usually has its doors open to people like me trying to help. And once in a while the Catholic Church, too, as I’ve said. But in certain other religions, it’s not possible to bring in music for the soul, let alone for the wallet. They manage or seem to want to manage without that input.” Perhaps if Anderson hired a fiddler and came up with a few Yiddish-sounding klezmer tunes he might get a gig at a shul. By the late 1970s, the native Scotsman began diversifying his business interests, including setting himself up as a salmon farmer. For all you know, some of the lox on your bagels may have begun life as an Ian Anderson-raised Scottish salmon. In 2010, Anderson defied pressure by Roger Waters to cancel a concert in Israel, putting in words a point we all wish was made more often: “To those who tell me I should ‘boycott’ Israel (or, for that matter, Turkey or Lebanon), I can only point out that on my travels around the world I am continually reminded of atrocities carried out historically by many nations who are now our friends, and it serves to strengthen my resolve that some degree of peace and better understanding may result from my and other artists’ professional and humble efforts in such places.” Anderson added that proceeds of the Israeli concert would be distributed to charities advancing coexistence among Arabs, Jews and Christians. The cover image of Jethro Tull’s biggest-selling album, 1971’s “Aqualung,” was painted by Brooklyn-born American-Jewish artist Burton Silverman, whose 1983 drawing of Philip Roth hangs in the National Portrait Gallery. The “destitute, howling figure draped in rags and huddled in a darkened street corner” on the cover of “Aqualung” became an essential piece of the band’s iconography. Silverman was paid a flat fee of $1,500 for his work; the album has sold about 12 million copies. Several attempts over the years to get Silverman some more financial recognition for his efforts have come to naught. The “Aqualung” album spawned several of the group’s greatest hits, including the title track and a song called “Locomotive Breath.” The album also included the song “My God,” in which Anderson lays out his feelings about organized religion. The original lyrics to the song included the couplet, “The Jewish, Christian, Muslim is waiting to be free / Each claiming just a part of Him and so, a part of me.”
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Post by maddogfagin on Aug 12, 2021 6:17:17 GMT
One for Nonrabbit methinks www.heraldscotland.com/news/19505340.remember-hits-sale-glorias-1971/11th August Remember When ... All the hits were on sale at Gloria’s in 1971Every last inch of Gloria's shop was put to productive use.THE pop charts in December of 1971 were full of deathless hits: Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West) by Benny Hill, Slade’s Coz I Luv You, and T. Rex’s Jeepster. All of these and more, much more – Isaac Hayes’ Theme from Shaft, Cher’s Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves, Olivia Newton-John’s Banks of the Ohio – were on sale at record shops including Gloria’s Record Bar, in Glasgow’s Battlefield Road. Howard Blint (pictured above), of the family that ran Gloria’s, and its sister shop in East Kilbride, was asked by the Evening Times which records were selling well that Christmas. “A bit of everything, really”, he responded. “There has been no definite trend. We have, however, found children’s records selling well”. Anyone who received a record token for Christmas would be able to visit Gloria’s between 9am and 6pm on the big day and exchange it for vinyl. The prices were low: LPs started at just 63p, cassettes at 99p, and eight-track cartridges at 150p. Among the rock LPs on sale were those by such artists as Emerson, Lake & Palmer, John Martyn, Traffic, Fairport Convention, Mott the Hoople, Wild Turkey, Tony Haggard, King Crimson and Jethro Tull. The hardware on offer included a home stereo cartridge unit called a Teleton, demonstrations of which were staged for the benefit of potential customers (half a century on, some of these models can be found on eBay, incidentally). There was a range of portable and standard cassette and cartridge equipment in Gloria’s, as well as record decks, carrying cases and record cabinets. And, as is evident from the picture, acoustic guitars. Howard himself was a talented musician. Every last inch of the shop was put to productive use. In 1969, the Blints had extended their original unit to include the shop next door, but it still wasn’t enough. “We could still do with still more space”, Howard said.
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Post by maddogfagin on Aug 19, 2021 6:17:25 GMT
www.yardbarker.com/entertainment/articles/our_favorite_owen_wilson_roles/s1__35643983#slide_1Our favorite Owen Wilson rolesPosted 1 day ago | By Jeff Mezydlo Since breaking onto the scene in the mid-1990s, Owen Wilson has built himself up into one of the biggest film stars over the last 25 years. Versatile, whether taking his shot at a comedy or drama, Wilson usually delivers. He's even fared well in the world of television. Here are our rankings of Wilson's 20 best acting roles. 20. Oscar Choice (Armageddon)Cast in a supporting role amid an ensemble cast of this Michael Bay science-fiction, end-of-the-world thriller. However. Wilson's Oscar Choice described as "spacey," but a "brilliant geologist," provides many moments of comic relief to break the tension of the moment. He's gung ho for the chance to save the planet from that massive asteroid, but really hates when people think Jethro Tull is the name of a person in the famed progressive rock band and not the group itself.
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Post by maddogfagin on Aug 20, 2021 6:12:20 GMT
loudwire.com/bruce-dickinson-iron-maiden-senjutsu-interview/In advance of the release of Iron Maiden's 17th studio album, Senjutsu, we had the pleasure of speaking with frontman Bruce Dickinson over Zoom, diving into some of the album's biggest highlights, the epic animated music video for the lead single "The Writing on the Wall," how that marvelous 'Belshazzar's Feast' teaser campaign came to be, what period in time he would travel to first if he had a time machine and more. The chat took place in the early afternoon on our end in the U.S. and the evening for Bruce across the pond. In anticipation, a cup of Lady Grey tea was poured into an Iron Maiden mug, to which Dickinson responded by stepping away from his desk for a moment to grab a cup of... coffee — a bit of an inversion of American and British tropes. Dickinson, who just turned 63 on Aug. 7, looks as lively as ever, eager to discuss the album Maiden had quietly wrapped up back in 2019 and held onto until very recently when that first new track dropped. On Senjutsu, his only writing credits appear alongside Adrian Smith's name as the formidable songwriting duo penned three songs together. The singer explained the chemistry between the two and what makes their collaborative process so rewarding. Dickinson also revealed how he and Steve Harris take mutual influence from some of the same artists, but are at opposite ends regarding their favorite recordings by these artists, helping to complete the overall nature of the songwriting heard across the 80-plus minutes that make up Senjutsu. Definitely. Some Jethro Tull!We are digging through our ‘dressing up box’ of things we used to dress up in as kids, whether it’s the clothes of Jethro Tull or Deep Purple — you dig them out and bring them into the open after all these years. They’ve been there since the existence of the band — you have to listen to tracks going all the way back to “Prodigal Son” and things like that back when I wasn’t even in the band. You go, “Hold on a minute! That’s very Jethro Tull-y.” Me and Steve are huge Jethro Tull fans, but we probably have different [favorite] albums. I am definitely a fan of the early folk stuff. He’s a big fan of Thick as a Brick and really lengthy, proggy things… Like A Passion Play...A Passion Play, he loves that. I’m no so crazy about that. I prefer the shorter stuff. He’s a massive Genesis fan and not Genesis with Phil Collins so much — the early Genesis with Peter Gabriel. On the other hand, I’m more of a Peter Gabriel solo fan. When he left Genesis I think his stuff is more edgy. Peter Gabriel III — wow, what an incredible album! [The songs] “Intruder” and “No Self Control” — that’s a sinister record. I was a big fan of Van Der Graf Generator — an English prog band. They were contemporaries with Genesis, they were just not as big as Genesis. They’re more proggy/art rock type stuff, but I took huge inspiration from them and Peter Hammill lyric wise. Between the pair of us, there’s a fair amount of prog lurking in there. It’s come out [on] the last few albums.
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Post by maddogfagin on Aug 23, 2021 6:26:57 GMT
www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/steve_howe_says_he_refused_to_join_jethro_tull_after_very_bad_audition_speaks_on_why_he_quit_yes.htmlSteve Howe Says He Refused to Join Jethro Tull After 'Very Bad' Audition, Speaks on Why He Quit YesThe guitarist also looks back on appearing on a Queen song. Posted a day ago During an appearance on BBC Radio, Yes guitarist Steve Howe confirmed that he was approached about joining Jethro Tull around 1968 when the group parted ways with its original guitarist Mick Abrahams. When the interviwer said, "Is this an internet myth or is there any truth in this - did you once audition for Jethro Tull before you joined Yes?", Howe replied (transcribed by UG): "That's right. I had a bit of about run-in with various people who were looking for guitarists because of [Mick] Abrahams [parting ways with the band] - I got an invitation to come. "And I had a conversation with somebody, and then it went very bad that they said, 'We don't want your songs. We want a guitarist, but we don't want your songs.' "And I thought, 'Well, I'm just heading into that area where my songs, and my music rather, I want that to be part of my future.' Snd so that's why I declined at the time."
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Post by maddogfagin on Aug 25, 2021 6:32:42 GMT
bestclassicbands.com/ian-anderson-celebrates-real-jethro-tull-10-17-16/Ian Anderson Celebrates The Real Jethro Tullby Roy Trakin The poster for Ian Anderson’s “Jethro Tull: The Rock Opera” “No way to slow down,” chants Ian Anderson at the close of “Locomotive Breath,” the penultimate song in what was billed as Jethro Tull: The Rock Opera, not, notably, the band. That sentiment was apt for the now-balding, but still spry, flute-slinging, leg-lifting founder of the British rockers named after the 18th century agriculturalist who is also the putative subject of the 20-song, two-act set, combining selections from his catalog with four new songs, which address his ongoing concerns about global warming, GMOs and the future of small farming. While 130 miles away at Desert Trip, classic rock icons Paul McCartney and Neil Young were entertaining 75,000 fans for “Oldchella,” Anderson and his cohorts—at the ornate, historic Pantages in the heart of Hollywood—with the help of an on-screen narrative (and several “virtual” singers), were wowing a packed house on October 15, 2016, of 2,000 paying upwards of $200 a pop for orchestra seats. The cognoscenti has not been kind to Anderson nor Tull over the years—not only are they rarely heard as candidates for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction (not surprising, given the nominating committee’s pronounced anti-prog bias), the band’s still excoriated for being awarded the inaugural Grammy for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance in 1988, when Crest of a Knave was inexplicably tapped over the likes of Metallica, AC/DC, Iggy Pop and Jane’s Addiction. Still, Jethro Tull holds a special place in my own rock narrative—their December 1969 headlining show at the Fillmore East over Fat Mattress (fronted by Jimi Hendrix Experience bassist Noel Redding) and a then-unknown power trio from Flint, Michigan, by the name of Grand Funk Railroad, was my very first rock concert as a high school senior (not counting the Four Seasons swiveling onstage at the Westbury Music Fair). To this day, thousands of shows later, it remains one of the loudest I’ve ever heard. For a period of four years—from 1969’s breakthrough sophomore album Stand Up, through Benefit, Aqualung, Thick as a Brick, Living in the Past and culminating with 1973’s Passion Play—Jethro Tull emerged not only as one of the most popular rock bands in the world, but also tackled, in a trilogy of “concept” albums, some of Anderson’s pet themes, such as homelessness (Aqualung), England’s class society (Thick as a Brick) and organized religion (Passion Play) with both satirical bite and contrary conservatism. In addition, the band’s place in rock history includes an appearance at the fabled taping of the 1968 Rock and Roll Circus alongside the Stones, John Lennon, Eric Clapton and the Who, with Tony Iommi as their guitarist, no less (take that those who scoff at Tull’s metal bona fides). These days, like all aging rockers, in his own much-maligned words—“too old to rock ’n’ roll, too young to die”—Ian Anderson, born August 10, 1947, is trying to figure out how best to straddle the line between nostalgia and relevance. His own answer is a multi-media presentation that indulges his love of musical theatre with a way to re-contextualize (and rework lyrically in some cases) his back catalog, including the hits (“Aqualung,” “Songs from the Wood,” “Living in the Past,” “A New Day Yesterday,” “Locomotive Breath”), some more obscure numbers (Songs from the Wood’s “Jack-in-the-Green,” Heavy Horses’ “Weathercock,” Living in the Past’s “Cheap Day Return”) and several new tunes which help push the narrative along. Slyly employing the Jethro Tull brand without using any of its musicians, Anderson’s accompaniment includes guitarist Florian Opahle, whose wah-wah blues riffs (especially the indelible ones that fuel “Aqualung” and “Locomotive Breath”) affirm the new group’s hard rock/metal credentials along with drummer Scott Hammond, keyboardist John O’Hara and bassist David Goodier (the latter two both sporting roles in the movie to which the group plays along). Anderson has set his song cycle to a cleverly portrayed story of a ticking time bomb warning about climate change and its effect on the world’s food supply, updating the tale of Jethro Tull to the near future, where the title character wrestles with his legacy as a small farmer developing the bio-fueled technology required to create new produce sources. Syncing up to on-screen singing performances by Ryan O’Donnell and Icelandic violinist/vocalist Unnur Birna Bjornsdottir—along with serving as on-screen narrator—Anderson solves the problem of a wavering, if distinctive, singing voice, and gets to show the full range of his flute-playing pyrotechnics, even pulling out the famed, one-legged “Stand” at the conclusion of “Aqualung” and the set-closing Bach homage, “Bouree.” Purists may quibble with the approach—my overly critical companion referred to the fresh-faced O’Donnell’s earnest West End crooning as “listening to Harry Potter sing Jethro Tull”—but for the most part the interaction between live and filmed is seamless. At one point, aptly during “Living in the Past,” Anderson indulges in a breathless flute duet with his younger self on-screen, as does guitarist Opahle, without missing a beat, or riff. And while the message gets a bit muddled, it is clear that Anderson is telling his own story, as much as the fictional Tull, about going against his parents’ wishes and pursuing a life in the arts, and it is also clear that what the crowd has come to hear is his distinctive playing, those trills on flute the equivalent of a guitarist bending blues notes, made aptly clear in the duets between Ian and Opahle on “Back to the Family” and Anderson’s own harp solo in Stand Up’s rousing “A New Day Yesterday.” He latter makes clear what one of the songs played over the PA during intermission suggested: Ian Anderson does for the flute in a rock ’n’ roll context what Little Walter did for the harmonica. In the end, Jethro Tull: A Rock Opera makes several things clear. Starting out as a blues band before guitarist Mick Abrahams split to form Blodwyn Pig, Anderson and Tull still touch on those early British R&B roots, even as their groundbreaking move to the more earthy, English pastoral tones of Stand Up prefigured everything from Traffic’s John Barleycorn Must Die to the Decemberists, Mumford and Sons and countless others. Based on those influences alone—not to mention two of the most indelible guitar riffs in history in “Aqualung” and “Locomotive Breath”—Jethro Tull deserves to at least be in the discussion for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Even if neither the band, nor its namesake, still exist. For now, though, Ian Anderson keeps this train a-rolling full steam ahead. He’s not “Living in the Past,’ he’s headed for the future.
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Post by maddogfagin on Aug 27, 2021 6:08:31 GMT
musebycl.io/liner-notes/cd-babys-jon-bahr-megan-thee-stallion-and-working-sister-company-downtownI'm not sure if my rock 'n' roll path of life has caused my memories to lean toward music, but an early childhood memory was from when I was about 5 playing on the swing set at Ian Anderson's (Jethro Tull) house with his kids in the farmlands outside London. How did I get there? Well, my dad wasn't a rock manager, he is an eye doctor. A few years prior, at Madison Square Garden during the encore of a Jethro Tull show, Ian Anderson got hit in the eye with a rose. After that, prior to the Providence show, my dad examined him as an emergency. The band canceled some shows and had my dad hidden on stage to examine him mid-show.
Ian gave his number to my dad. A year or so later, we were in England on vacation and actually called him. Ian Anderson invited our whole family over and I remember playing on a swing set on his farm. While working at ASCAP, I got to meet Ian again and it turned out his son I played with was the drummer in the band. Jon Bahr
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Post by rredmond on Aug 27, 2021 14:16:24 GMT
Neat story!
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Post by maddogfagin on Aug 27, 2021 15:59:31 GMT
musebycl.io/liner-notes/cd-babys-jon-bahr-megan-thee-stallion-and-working-sister-company-downtownI'm not sure if my rock 'n' roll path of life has caused my memories to lean toward music, but an early childhood memory was from when I was about 5 playing on the swing set at Ian Anderson's (Jethro Tull) house with his kids in the farmlands outside London. How did I get there? Well, my dad wasn't a rock manager, he is an eye doctor. A few years prior, at Madison Square Garden during the encore of a Jethro Tull show, Ian Anderson got hit in the eye with a rose. After that, prior to the Providence show, my dad examined him as an emergency. The band canceled some shows and had my dad hidden on stage to examine him mid-show.
Ian gave his number to my dad. A year or so later, we were in England on vacation and actually called him. Ian Anderson invited our whole family over and I remember playing on a swing set on his farm. While working at ASCAP, I got to meet Ian again and it turned out his son I played with was the drummer in the band. Jon Bahr October 12, 1979 – Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull is injured when a fan throws a rose onstage during a Jethro Tull concert at NYC’s Madison Square Garden. Against all odds, a thorn from the rose tears Anderson’s right eye, causing him to stop the show and cancel two others. classicsdujour.com/cdj-today-october-12-classic-rock/
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Post by maddogfagin on Aug 30, 2021 9:09:31 GMT
www.newjerseystage.com/articles/2021/08/29/fall-2021-new-jersey-film-festival-preview-40th-anniversary/Fall 2021 New Jersey Film Festival Preview - 40th Anniversary!Originally published: 08/29/2021 (NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ) -- The New Jersey Film Festival returns for its 40th anniversary with a great selection of films from September 10 through October 10. The Fall 2021 festival is a hybrid, meaning screenings are available live at their beautiful theater on the Rutgers University campus or virtually via Video on Demand (available for up to 24 hours on the screening date). Each ticket or Festival Pass purchased is good for both the live and virtual screenings. The live screenings will be held in Voorhees Hall #105/Rutgers University, 71 Hamilton Street in New Brunswick, New Jersey beginning at 7:00pm for each program on their show date. Ticket buyers will also have special access to Filmmaker Introductions and Q+A Sessions for many of the films. Tickets are $15 per program (many include multiple films per program). New Jersey Stage will be running feature articles on several of these films, but here's a look at the entire festival. Friday, October 1 - The Dirt Whisperer & Jethro Tull: Aqualung. Jethro Tull: Aqualung, directed by Sam Chegini, 7 minutes. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Jethro Tull's Aqualung, this is an updated look into the band's most celebrated song about the homeless and homelessness. This incredible illustrated video is a must see.
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Post by maddogfagin on Aug 31, 2021 6:22:51 GMT
scifiaddicts.com/p/vinyl/comments/peshj2/my_first_vinyl_i_think_i_found_a_new_hobby/scifiaddicts.comMy first vinyl! I think I found a new hobby... By - MarkoJoe 8 hours ago Comments MarkoJoe 8 hours ago I was looking for new hobby for a while now, and I think I finally found it! So when it comes to records, I think I had to start my collection with one of my favourite albums. For those who don't know, Jethro Tull was the first band to include flute in rock arangement, and I absolutely love it. It also gets folky from time to time. Stand up is their second album, from 1969, and it very effectively sends me back in the time when I wasn't even born! outonthetiles66 7 hours ago Nice start! java33134578 7 hours ago Great album. Clive Bunker is my bud. I got to hang out with them all weekend in 2019 in Sarasota FLA Durklandyard 5 hours ago It’s not a hobby. It’s a lifestyle/obsession. Welcome to the club! call-if-lost1 7 hours ago yo i love greta van fleet TheBellBrah 4 hours ago DUDE GOOD FIRST CHOICE!
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Post by maddogfagin on Sept 9, 2021 6:26:56 GMT
www.labrujulaverde.com/2021/08/jethro-tull-el-precursor-de-la-revolucion-agraria-que-dio-nombre-a-una-banda-de-rockMany rock-loving readers will remember the titles Aqualung and Thick as a brick . They are the most successful albums of the British band Jethro Tull, whose peculiar name has a curious origin: it is taken from the historical character of the same name, an English lawyer dedicated to agronomy who in 1700 invented a new animal draft planter. With it and other contributions, he considerably improved farming techniques and is considered one of those responsible for the agricultural revolution of the 18th century, as well as a precursor of the First Industrial Revolution. His father, who was named after him, and his mother, Dorothy Buckeridge, fathered him in Basildon, the Berkshire county town where he was born, although he grew up in the neighboring town of Bradfield. His date of baptism is March 30, 1672, an important year in the history of the country because it was in which its king, Carlos II, signed the Royal Declaration of Indulgence, suspending the laws that penalized Catholics and other religious dissidents. The British group Jethro Tull during a performance in Hamburg in 1973 / Image: Heinrich Klaffs on Wikimedia Commons The two towns of his childhood are in the south of England, a few kilometers from Oxford, which was the place chosen for his education: at seventeen years of age he enrolled in St. John's College, one of the private schools of the prestigious university, which stood out above all for its studies of religion and law. The latter were those chosen by Tull, who however did not conclude because shortly after, at the end of 1693, he joined The Honorable Society of Gray's Inn , one of the four Inn's of Court (professional associations of lawyers and judges) of London . Until 1699 Tull worked at the Staple Inn, a Tudor-style building that still stands, but he was not in that position long because that society had gone into decline during the Civil War and the Restoration did not improve his situation much. Therefore, he said goodbye to the legal profession and after marrying Susanna Smith, with whom he had a son and two daughters, he returned to the country, to his father's farm. The family settled in Howberry, in the parish of Crowmarsh (Oxfordshire), although Tull still could not settle because since his stay in London he suffered from a lung disease and decided to seek a cure on the continent. Staple Inn today / Image: Edwardx on Wikimedia Commons For that reason he traveled to Montpellier and from there began the route known as the Grand Tour, a term coined by the traveling priest Richard Lassels in his work Voyage d'Italie to refer to a typical itinerary of the time that visited France and Italy -after Spain and Greece were added - and they performed young people from all countries with the aim of knowing the art and culture of those places (Goethe, Chateaubriand, Byron ...), remaining as an authentic fashion until the first quarter of the 19th century. Perhaps Tull was not particularly interested in these issues nor did he find a solution to the medical problem, but instead he analyzed in detail everything related to agriculture that seemed to him susceptible of adopting in England to improve the yield of the field, with special interest in the cultivation of vineyards. He spent five years coming and going, applying everything he was learning, and between 1701 and 1702 he gave a twist to the agronomist issue by making his own contribution: a mechanical planter. As he himself would explain, it all started as a result of a conflict with his employees, reluctant to all the innovations he was trying to establish because they feared that his services with the plow would become obsolete. The sowing machines had hardly changed since the Venetian Camillo Torello patented the first in 1566, although in general they were expensive and fragile devices, so the vast majority of the peasants continued to use the classic method of spreading the seeds by throwing them manually. and then rake the ground to bury them. Tull's horse-drawn machine made things easier by doing the same work that would require several men in less time and distributing the seeds regularly, which improved the use of the soil and allowed a more homogeneous growth of the crops. However, the planter was not very successful at first and did not even transcend beyond the boundaries of the family farm, an inheritance from his father (who, in turn, received it from an uncle) baptized with the name of Prosperous Farm perhaps with excessive optimism and to which its owner returned definitively in 1709. Another Tull design included in the book / Image: Public Domain at Wikimedia Commons They spent the years, but Jethro Tull did not give up and in 1731 wrote a book titled The new horse-hoeing husbandry ( The new farm by horse - drawn ), with which unveiled his invention. That did not improve his battered economy, but it made him enter history and dare to continue on the entrepreneurial path, since from there he devised a second machine in 1733 that perfected the previous one (he plowed and sowed simultaneously two different types of seeds in three rows at the same time, in addition to having a rear serrated harrow to bury them). Also, insisting on the matter, he designed another planter with a system that allowed the seeds to fall two by two, so that one would be more deeply buried than the other and could get rid of a plague that used to ravage crops: the Delia radicum or turnip fly, which lays its eggs in the ground so that the larvae grow feeding on the plantings (not only turnips but also cabbages, cabbages, radishes and other cruciferous species). In 1736 he published a second book ( A supplement to the essay on horse-hoing husbandry ) answering - or refuting - the doubts and objections that his machine had raised, among them those of Duhamel de Monceau, Patullo or Thaer, but especially those of Stephen Switzer. This was a garden designer who in 1734, in his work The practical husbandman and planter , accused him of plagiarizing other people's inventions and making fun of some of the techniques described by Virgil in the Georgics , at that time considered almost a dogma of faith: the stubble burning and shallow plowing of the land. Tull argued that the limited scientific knowledge of the time of Virgil (who lived in the first century BC) weighed down his work and he was right, apart from the fact that he was an advocate of deep plowing and rejected the use of compost if it was not necessary. The debate between Switzer and him is considered a precedent for agricultural science, just as the Enlightenment was entering its peak, which also had other theorists in that field. And it is that Jethro Tull did not limit his activity to industrial design but also took advantage of what was observed in Europe on agriculture to theorize and experiment. Jethro Tull's grave in St Bartholomew's cemetery (Berkshire) / Image: MalcolmGould on Wikimedia Commons Thus, as we saw, he was in favor of the land itself feeding the plants, without manure, of not applying fallow except in case of extreme necessity and of plowing often and deeply to make the land more permeable and destroy weeds. In reality he was excessively dogmatic and many of the things he said were wrong, while others were only valid in his personal experience, not being extrapolated. But his general theories would end up being accepted by the academic world and adopted by the large landowners, which made a not inconsiderable contribution to the agrarian revolution. This was not enough to get him out of the practical poverty in which he lived all his life and in which he ended up dying in 1741. Of course, he went down to posterity as an advance, to the point that Prosperous Farm (or what was left of it , since half was sold post-mortem to pay debts) was the object of pilgrimage for not a few enlightened agronomists, such as Arthur Young or William Cobbett. He could never imagine that world fame would come to him two centuries later and for a discipline that he had not practiced: music. Design of a plow devised by Tull / Image: Another Tull design included in the book / Image: public domain in Wikimedia Commons Public Domain at Wikimedia Commons Jethro Tull's planter as it appears in his book Jethro Tull's grave in St Bartholomew's cemetery The new horse-hoeing husbandry (Berkshire) / Image: MalcolmGould on Wikimedia Commons / Image: public domain on Wikimedia Commons Sources Jethro Tull, The horse hoeing husbandry | Norman Hidden, Jethro Tull I, II and III | Lluís Argemí, La revolución agrícola en España | David Nash, Jethro Tull (1614-1741) | Wikipedia
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Post by maddogfagin on Sept 17, 2021 12:17:20 GMT
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsandculture/arid-40699706.htmlTom Dunne's Music & Me: Triggered by tales of very very bad gigs Jethro Tull spat the dummy at Shea Stadium, but we've all been there in terms of those awful live shows we'd much rather forget Ian Anderson in action with Jethro Tull. Picture: Fred Tanneau, Getty ImagesFRI, 17 SEP, 2021 - 12:00 I reacted very badly to a ‘worst ever gig’ article in a newspaper recently. Ian Anderson, of Jethro Tull, began his with a mention of being onstage at Shea Stadium. “Onstage! At Shea Stadium!” I exploded, “That CANNOT, by definition, be a bad gig!” I had thrown the paper out the window before I’d finished the sentence. History will record that up to about 2006 that was a perfectly acceptable response. So too was burning the paper or ripping it to pieces. Acceptable and very satisfying. Sadly, since that date and the beginning of the smartphone era, it’s not the laugh it was. The eldest was very amused. “I found your phone in the garden, Da, it’s in bits.” She is becoming a wonderful child. She checked my upgrade status with my provider (not promising) before I could say “daddy needs a rest” and read me the rest of the article from her iPad. “Someone threw a pot of piss over him,” she told me. “Aha,” I exclaimed, “Maybe it was a bad gig after all.” I relaxed a little and after we’d googled second-hand phones she read on. It had been the Shea Stadium bit that triggered me. Anyone who has played to one man and his dog cannot conceive of a gig at a Stadium made famous by The Beatles as a ‘bad gig’. But if someone threw that over him, and indeed also a used sanitary product, well, okay, fair enough.
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Post by rredmond on Sept 17, 2021 13:18:29 GMT
Jinkies, I saw them at Shea once, I think the Kissing Willie tour. Hope it wasn't then!!
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Post by maddogfagin on Sept 18, 2021 5:53:55 GMT
Jinkies, I saw them at Shea once, I think the Kissing Willie tour. Hope it wasn't then!! JETHRO TULL’S IAN ANDERSON DISCUSSES SHEA STADIUM CONCERT MISHAP - "I WAS SOAKED IN URINE AS I WALKED OUT TO PLAY FOR THE AUDIENCE…”November 2, 2015, 5 years ago Greg Prato BraveWords: What do you recall about when Tull headlined Shea Stadium in 1976? Ian Anderson: "Well, two memories. One, not being able to really hear anything we were playing because of the noise of the crowd and the fact that it was the early days of P.A. systems and the audience was so far away. But the most abiding memory was waiting to walk out there onto the stadium field, to get on the stage, and waiting on a ramp that took you up and let you out onto the field. High up above us was the audience, kind of leaning over, looking down onto this space below, where we were noticeably waiting to go on. And then I suddenly realized that I was very wet. I thought somebody had poured a beer over me from high above. And I realized that yes, it was indeed beer…but not entirely fresh - it has passed through somebody's bladder on the way. So, I was soaked in urine as I walked out to play for the audience at Shea Stadium, and stank of somebody else's pee for the next hour and a half. The things we do for our art…" link The worst gig we ever played: musicians on their on-stage lowsIan Anderson, Jethro Tull Shea Stadium, New York, 1976 I stood with the rest of the band at the top of the ramp leading down to the field of Shea Stadium. As with the Beatles' Shea show 10 years earlier, this was not to be an artistic success, to say the least. Commercial jets on final approach to the adjacent La Guardia airport drowned out the sound, when it wasn't being drowned out by the firecrackers, whistles, hoots and hollers of the crowd. In those final moments before walking out on to the field, I was suddenly drenched with warm, sticky liquid from high above, where some of the rowdy, 50,000-strong audience looked down on to the players' access ramp. Only as I began the inaudible first verse of Thick as a Brick on acoustic guitar, did I realise with resigned horror that the liquid I assumed to be beer, was not, in fact, beer at all. It was urine. The unmistakable pong wafting from my then-ample head of damp hair and freshly laundered stage-clothing would remain for the duration of the show. An unholy baptism from above. I could have picked the gig at Denver's Red Rocks Amphitheatre in 1971, when riots and police tear gas threatened to stop the show. Or being hit hard in the larynx by a baseball at Philadelphia Spectrum arena. Or anointment by the freshly plucked but seriously used tampon hurled with uncanny accuracy at another enormodome. Or the 10in steel spike impaled in the stage next to me at soundcheck when "fans" climbed into a roof gantry over the stage at soundcheck. Or the live rounds of automatic pistol ammunition thrown on to the stage during a show. But no – the bucket of piss, delivered with loving precision, wins out every time. You have to laugh. And count the money. link
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Post by rredmond on Sept 18, 2021 11:55:12 GMT
Okay. Definitely not my show - I wasn’t at a Tull show at 6yo But still - oh my on that story!
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Post by JTull 007 on Sept 18, 2021 13:36:12 GMT
Okay. Definitely not my show - I wasn’t at a Tull show at 6yo But still - oh my on that story! I always thought it was a tradition at some stadiums in New York to do this... "Urine in my heart, Urine in my soul You'll be my breath should I grow old You are my lover, you're my best friend Urine in my soul...
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Post by rredmond on Sept 18, 2021 14:32:21 GMT
In New York? Sure, but mainly at sporting events!
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Post by maddogfagin on Oct 8, 2021 5:57:10 GMT
www.nation.lk/online/josh-widdicombe-finds-out-he-is-related-to-henry-viii-in-new-series-of-who-do-you-think-you-are-127897.htmlJosh Widdicombe finds out he is related to HENRY VIII in new series of Who Do You Think You Are? 3 days ago Josh Widdicombe has been left stunned after finding out he is related to Henry VIII in the new series of Who Do You Think You Are? The comedian, 38, discovered he is an ancestor of the Tudor royal, famed for his six wives, in an upcoming episode of the BBC genealogy show, which begins airing on October 12. --------------------------- The king was also a musician and composer, owning 78 flutes, 78 recorders, five bagpipes, and has since had his songs covered by Jethro Tull.
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Post by maddogfagin on Oct 9, 2021 5:52:23 GMT
www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/this-is-how-much-it-cost-to-book-pink-floyd-in-1969/This is how much it cost to book Pink Floyd in 1969 October 8, 2021 Alan Cross A ready identifying himself as dav./ found this intriguing piece of paper from Commercial Entertainments, which I assume was a booking agency working out of London. They had a long list of clients including The Small Faces, Joe Cocker, and Jethro Tull. For promoters looking to book acts, they had this handy price list. The most expensive band to book was The Small Faces who had an asking price of £450. Accounting for inflation, that’s the equivalent of CAD$13,000 a today. That would have been a pretty good payday back then. Joe Cockers fee of £350 equates to about CAD$6,000. Jethro Tull and The Moody Blues could have been had for the same amount. Scrolling down a little further, the name Pink Floyd comes up. Their cost was just £250. That’s CAD$7,200 today. Enjoy the full list.
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Post by rredmond on Oct 11, 2021 15:31:31 GMT
That's a pretty neat bit of history right there! Fleetwood Mac the biggest draw at 500.
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Post by maddogfagin on Oct 31, 2021 7:16:55 GMT
popculture.com/music/news/rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-carmine-appice-slams-the-go-gos-induction/The Go-Go's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2021 Slammed by Legendary Rock DrummerBy DANIEL S. LEVINE - October 30, 2021 10:03 pm EDT Vanilla Fudge drummer Carmine Appice isn't too happy about The Go-Go's finally joining the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In a new interview with Forbes, Apice called the most successful all-female group in rock history a "wimpy" act that's not Rock and Roll. The Go-Go's will be inducted into the Rock Hall on Saturday, alongside Todd Rundgren, Foo Fighters, Jay-Z, Carole King, and Tina Turner. Appice, who also played with Jeff Beck and Ozzy Osbourne during his long career, admitted that it "doesn't matter" that Vanilla Fudge isn't included in the Rock Hall, but still called it a shame. "You've got Rod Stewart in RRHOF twice, Jeff Beck in twice. We influenced them, and we're not in. It's really a shame," Appice told Forbes. "'You Keep Me Hanging On' was in Quentin Tarantino's last movie. It quadrupled our royalties. Also, we're in Mad Men, the final episode of The Sopranos - many movies and TV shows." The Modern Drummer Hall of Fame member went on to say that he does not think they should call it the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but instead the "Musical Hall of Fame." The Rock Hall has inducted rappers and country singers, as well as "wimpy" acts who are "not rock and roll," as Appice said. When asked if he could name a group that is "wimpy," he brought up The Go-Go's. "Show me the list, and I'll tell you. You know what I'm saying. I thought it was supposed to be by influence," Appice said. "I think The Go-Go's are going in. I mean, c'mon, what's their influence? Jethro Tull's not in, Vanilla Fudge, Mountain - so many bands that influenced rock and roll aren't in. Kiss is in. They are a combination of Alice Cooper and Cactus. Eddie Van Halen was influenced by Cactus. Cactus should be in there, too. We influenced a lot of people. Is Suzi Quatro in RRHOF? She influenced Joan Jett."
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 1, 2021 6:53:04 GMT
www.southsidesox.com/2021/10/30/22754304/gamethread-astros-at-atlanta-world-series-game-4Gamethread: Astros at Atlanta (World Series Game 4)The Braves played Houston to sleep in Game 3. By Year of the Hamster Oct 30, 2021, 6:36pm CDT Even after the younger Ian went deep with a no-hitter last night, some of us prefer other Ian Andersons. David Redfern/RedfernsHey, some of us prefer our Ian Andersons with a flute, but it was hard to argue with the one on the mound for Atlanta last night. With both clubs severely depleted of arms, Anderson gave his club a huge shove, with no-hit ball. When the “controversy” surrounding your team is whether you should have left a starter in who’s throwing a no-hitter, not a heartbreaking loss or weird lineup decision, things are looking good. And things are looking good for Atlanta, despite welcoming a former “world leader” to the ballgame tonight, where he will undoubtedly be serenaded with boos, profane cheering, and probably some chop sprinkled in. Can’t wait for even more things to detract from baseball itself while the sport plays on its brightest stage. Zack Greinke, who has pitched just a handful of innings in the past month, will get the start of Houston, who will be hoping for a miracle, three-inning effort. Atlanta will run out some form of opener/bullpen game. Who’s pitching? Well, if the vaunted bats of the Astros don’t wake up (hmm ... a dead offensive game outside of Houston, huh?) the hosts could run out Cecil Upshaw, Danny Frisella, Maximino Leon and Pablo Torrealba and take a commanding, 3-1 lead in the Series.
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