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Post by nonrabbit on Dec 5, 2010 19:49:03 GMT
in the news Chris Wright one half of Chrysalis records gives an interview about the current music scene and the likes of X Factor - Simon Cowell www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1335781/X-Factor-karaoke-acts-destroy-REAL-music-says-Blondies-Chrysalis-Music-boss.html"In the early years we built the company on the back of two bands: Ten Years After, a rockblues outfit, and Jethro Tull, an unusual group in that the frontman, Ian Anderson, played the flute standing on one leg. They were both great acts but we often had to do some fairly creative accounting to keep things ticking over.
In 1968, I took Ten Years After to America. We raised the money for our air fares by making a deal with a music publisher. But when the travel company provided our flight tickets before they actually billed us, Terry used that cash to put Jethro Tull in a studio to record an album. So then we had the travel company on our backs. Fortunately, I collapsed in America with appendicitis and needed surgery. The health insurance company paid out before the hospital billed me. So we used that money to pay the travel agent. Then the hospital was on our case. And so on. However, a Jethro Tull performance at the Windsor Jazz Festival went down a storm everyone wanted to sign them and we were able to make serious money."He also reckons that the likes Bob Dylan now as a young performer wouldn't get anywhere. How true of other bands?
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Post by Aqualung55 on Dec 14, 2010 13:21:32 GMT
Sorry to be a pedant, but the interview is with Chris Wright
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Post by nonrabbit on Dec 14, 2010 13:33:23 GMT
Sorry to be a pedant, but the interview is with Chris Wright ;D ;D ;D so it is! This had me fooled as well when I read the title
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Post by Aqualung55 on Dec 15, 2010 9:15:44 GMT
.....is former Tull support act, Huntingdon's best son, TERRY REID!!
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