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Post by maddogfagin on Feb 25, 2013 18:14:07 GMT
Thanks Graham, pretty damn good shot of Ian actually.And I'm not going to act like that was not well written and funny because it was. Right up there with "the swivel eyed little turd" accusation, I think from a punk zine though more likely NME or Melody Maker. I mean if you're going to make it hateful, pull out all the stops, I have to give the man credit. And those of us old enough to remember the Passion Play bashing that truly the band has never completely "recovered" from in terms of public perception. One would have to remember the perception of them prior to that record which means you are one old mf. And by 1989, magazines like Kerrang had converted to Metallica or Cud fanzines in any case. Tull were seen as "old farts" and the grammys didn't help either ;D
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2013 18:19:15 GMT
GREAT! More Under Wraps reviews. I love Under Wraps & Walk Into Light More please;
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Post by maddogfagin on Feb 26, 2013 9:06:46 GMT
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 6, 2013 9:14:48 GMT
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 8, 2013 10:45:34 GMT
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 9, 2013 8:05:40 GMT
Some great artists and bands on this advert from the music press of the early 70s. Can't be sure of the exact date as it was lurking in my archive under AOB and like an idiot I didn't annotate it with the date. Never mind, at least it's now shared with with everybody.
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 10, 2013 13:21:21 GMT
A Song For Jeffrey, Aqualung, Thick As A Brick, Dangerous Veils, In Sight Of The Minaret, The Whistler (with vocals), Morris Minus, Farm On The Freeway, Bourée, Jump Start, Acres Wild, In The Grip Of Stronger Stuff, Nothing Is Easy, Locomotive Breath, Aquadiddley/Living in the Past/Dogs In The Midwinter (inst.)/Dambusters' March (inst.), Cheerio Set list from www.ministry-of-information.co.uk
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Post by steelmonkey on Apr 10, 2013 15:06:08 GMT
Tull billed below the Saw Doctors and Levellers? Gag me with a spoon.
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 10, 2013 15:15:14 GMT
Tull billed below the Saw Doctors and Levellers? Gag me with a spoon. Dessert or tea spoon ? It is mind blowingly strange I'll admit
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Post by tommie on Apr 10, 2013 19:14:37 GMT
Steel, remember this is 1997. How big was Tull then? Please, in OUR minds Tull is Tull but to the public in general, this is 2 decades past their peak..
I looked the following up (got too much time on my hands, I guess): In 1996-97 the Levellers' NEWEST album (current album) sold 2 MILLION copies. And The Saw, Docs were touring their CURRENT Gold album, at the time. Tull was, by then, a retro act. Get it, dude? Love ya
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Post by tommie on Apr 10, 2013 19:16:51 GMT
Love ya, too Doggie-Daddy (in a purely platonic way, of course)
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Post by steelmonkey on Apr 10, 2013 20:33:11 GMT
I'm only bitterbecause I was forced the see/hear The saw doctors.....they were gruesome, gruesome...and they didn't grow some more on me. I'll text moon unit and find out what size spoon she meant.
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Post by tommie on Apr 11, 2013 5:57:27 GMT
tea, natch
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 11, 2013 7:54:21 GMT
Love ya, too Doggie-Daddy (in a purely platonic way, of course) Glad you said that tommie. I certainly don't want people talking and thinking we were one and the same. The next item I post will be dedicated to you (if I remember) ;D
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Post by tommie on Apr 11, 2013 22:31:14 GMT
So nice of you. Dedicated or not, just keep em comin
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 12, 2013 9:01:03 GMT
From 1969 when Tull were the "next big thing" in the music press.
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Post by JTull 007 on Apr 12, 2013 13:45:24 GMT
Love this article from the Record Mirror. Interesting that "Living in the Past" was such a big hit over there and here. I think the mood of the times was very rebellious in general which created the 'Underground'. The less mainstream the better for many groups. It was an honor to be labeled that way. I still like the nude artwork on album covers. Is it allowed here? Not in America of 1999. No stone penis allowed.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2013 14:36:55 GMT
From 1969 when Tull were the "next big thing" in the music press. Ian Anderson referred to Jethro Tull as the most famous underground band in the world at a 1990's Massey Hall show in Toronto.
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 12, 2013 15:45:37 GMT
Love this article from the Record Mirror. Interesting that "Living in the Past" was such a big hit over there and here. I think the mood of the times was very rebellious in general which created the 'Underground'. The less mainstream the better for many groups. It was an honor to be labeled that way. I still like the nude artwork on album covers. Is it allowed here? Not in America of 1999. No stone penis allowed. If it's on the cover/label/etc then that's fine. We're not going to go down the road of covering up IA's artwork ;D
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Post by tullist on Apr 12, 2013 18:59:50 GMT
Having lived through those years I know this claim to be accurate. But it was particularly born out, in the time period you mention, early 90's by seeing a listing, I think in Goldmine, of the then top selling artists, or most collectable artists, maybe they had both. At this time Tull was at like 18, I suspect much lower now, and the people on either side of them were Barbra Streisand and Frank Sinatra if memory serves. Very heady company. But I cannot overstress those early days of FM underground, very definitely not to be confused with album oriented rock. Basically if it was a station that played only rock and roll, definitely not underground. And to say Tull was the flavor of choice, indeed darlings of the underground, would be dead accurate. The likes of Pink Floyd were still in a period for which I suspect 90 per cent of their audience of the past 40 years know little about, those pre Dark Side Years. Tull enveloped so many of the things underground radio loved, drawing upon most of the musical sources they aired. Much as Zep, Who and you name it were also loved, they spoke less to the overall gestalt of these radio stations. Tull, at the beginning of the peak of their stardom, were, among other things, referred to as the ultimate word of mouth band, as they did so very little in the way of over the top advertizing, basically, you either knew they were in town or you did not. Also they were considered a freak band. There actually used to be that deliniation between freaks and hippies.
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 13, 2013 14:01:54 GMT
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 14, 2013 14:06:22 GMT
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Post by JTull 007 on Apr 14, 2013 15:01:04 GMT
Thanks again Graham for posting this piece of Tull History. I sometimes wonder if Terry Ellis may have been more upset than Ian. There may have been a strategic effort made to create more buzz within the British press. Although Americans heard less, we assumed it was not that serious. The idea of Ian quitting with gigs because of critics seems hard to believe with money yet to be made. Thank goodness. I went to the August 9th, '75 show and everything looked and sounded great.
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Post by steelmonkey on Apr 14, 2013 16:35:19 GMT
By the time I read about the 'retirement' in Circus Magazine...it was over...the same issue had Tull dates in the southwest USA including the El Paso gig, snuck in between something like 5 nights in LA, that remains my best concert ever....February 5, 1975.
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 16, 2013 14:10:13 GMT
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 21, 2013 15:31:05 GMT
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Post by JTull 007 on Apr 23, 2013 13:30:45 GMT
Great article from Melody Maker by Chris Welch. "The Tull Pageant Rocks On"I think he has been in many of the Circus Magazine articles from the past if I remember correctly. The use of his creative writing adds much to this article. Very cool descriptions of each member. Comparing John Evans to Peter Ustinov was very observant.
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Post by nonrabbit on Apr 23, 2013 13:38:33 GMT
He does!
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Post by markridley on Apr 23, 2013 16:21:47 GMT
Great article from Melody Maker by Chris Welch. "The Tull Pageant Rocks On"I think he has been in many of the Circus Magazine articles from the past if I remember correctly. Chris Welch was the editor of Melody Maker and a big supporter of Tull from early on. He was one of the first critics to rip on A Passion Play (many critics followed suit in his wake, some without even hearing it.) I could never take Circus and Cream seriously, it was like reading Teen magazine for R&R. The only thing missing was the Bay City Rollers. Ohhhh!! I think they were included!
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 23, 2013 17:20:53 GMT
Great article from Melody Maker by Chris Welch. "The Tull Pageant Rocks On"I think he has been in many of the Circus Magazine articles from the past if I remember correctly. Chris Welch was the editor of Melody Maker and a big supporter of Tull from early on. He was one of the first critics to rip on A Passion Play (many critics followed suit in his wake, some without even hearing it.) I could never take Circus and Cream seriously, it was like reading Teen magazine for R&R. The only thing missing was the Bay City Rollers. Ohhhh!! I think they were included! Mr Welch is/was a follower of journalistic fashion as far as many of his ramblings in the music press in the early 70s were concerned. He currently writes articles in Record Collector and I find them at odds with some of the stuff he wrote in Melody Maker etc. But I then suppose everyone has a right to change their attitudes over the course of time. A bit like Danny Baker contributing to a punk magazine in the late 70s but all along having a fondness for prog rock
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