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Post by nonrabbit on Jul 28, 2011 12:12:28 GMT
inspired by Ray's post about wishing for a televised recording of Ian's laugh at the beginning of WYTTHM ......
Where/ What and why of what you would liked to have witnessed or had been visually documented to listen and watch now..
Every and any lesser known jamming or improv session that Anderson had taken part in particularly in the early days.
A picture of Ian, Jeffrey and John walking through the streets of Blackpool back in the day.
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Post by hollowmoor on Jul 28, 2011 12:22:02 GMT
That appearance of the John Evan Band on Granada TV in 1967. I know it was televised but no longer exists.
Would have been great to see how they all looked and sounded on the telly.
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Post by nonrabbit on Jul 28, 2011 15:51:35 GMT
Hollowmoor or anyone else any idea about these pics that I found a couple of years ago what year etc i55.images obliterated by tinypic/2hcdt6t.jpg[/IMG] i51.images obliterated by tinypic/bjevk3.jpg[/IMG]
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Post by tullpress on Jul 28, 2011 17:49:03 GMT
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Post by nonrabbit on Jul 28, 2011 18:12:50 GMT
I thought he looked a bit younger than that here although thats Dee Palmer but did she ever appear onstage or in recordings with Tull prior to joining in 1976? maybe thats photos taken during recording and not meant for general viewing??
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Post by maddogfagin on Jul 28, 2011 18:21:46 GMT
That appearance of the John Evan Band on Granada TV in 1967. I know it was televised but no longer exists. Would have been great to see how they all looked and sounded on the telly. Trendy, or what!!!
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Post by hollowmoor on Jul 28, 2011 18:25:35 GMT
I seem to remember reading that the shots of the Mike Douglas show perfomance are actually the rehearsals for the show. Ian wasn't happy with the performance (or sound perhaps) and decided not to perform for the actual show. In the end it was just an interview with Ian.
I'm sure that's right although I've never seen footage of the show. Does it still exist?
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Post by nonrabbit on Jul 28, 2011 18:26:35 GMT
I think Glenn has found the secret of eternal youth
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Post by hollowmoor on Jul 28, 2011 18:28:05 GMT
I must have read that on the tullpress site ;-)
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Post by tullpress on Jul 28, 2011 18:37:21 GMT
That's what a good haircut and trimming down your beard will do "Ian Anderson materialized. He looked like an angular, Angle bone totem with a five-day growth of beard. With him was space age keyboardist David Palmer. It was time to rehearse. Ian and David were onstage. David at his synthesizer and Ian with a humble guitar upon his knee." A
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Post by nonrabbit on Jul 28, 2011 18:40:37 GMT
That's what a good haircut and trimming down your beard will do "Ian Anderson materialized. He looked like an angular, Angle bone totem with a five-day growth of beard. With him was space age keyboardist David Palmer. It was time to rehearse. Ian and David were onstage. David at his synthesizer and Ian with a humble guitar upon his knee." A Thanks I'll take your advice who's been talking
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Post by tullist on Jul 28, 2011 18:45:28 GMT
I surely remember that day in 76. Working on the CBOE some co worker mentioned that Ian Anderson was going to be on Mike Douglas that day. I think his show started at like 4 because I recall I had to do some angling to get home on time. Interviews of any kind, television, radio or print, with Ian Anderson were very rare, in fact, I cannot recall a time prior to that when Ian was on American television in interview terms. And this at a time when their popularity level was, at minimum, five times what it is now. Although, at least in the US, while they remained a very major concert draw, the stain of the Passion Play release, completely removed from whether one liked it or not, had reduced their credibility to nearly zero, something that in part extends to this very day. Please, no Passion Play backers or detractors, I, (and Ian!)will continue to consider it very much one of their lesser offerings, (and to my mind the two that followed it as well, War Child and Minstrel)but I know others consider some or all of those to be amongst their best, certainly PPlay and Minstrel. Nobody's right, nobody's wrong, unless we are listening with someone else's brain and heart. I was originally going to respond that there was absolutely no music played on that show by Ian, other than joining in with some older lady who had won some player piano competition or something, Ian was a good sport. But reading that article, apparently Palmer was with him, and the intent had been to play, but the necessary apparatus was not in place, so that got scrapped, apparently Chrysalis supplied some film footage, all of which means I missed the beginning by a few minutes, I am certain I would remember that. In any case, a very wonderful interview, he really did seem to blow a very polite Mike Douglas away, I remain fascinated that so many people find Ian boring. I do not recall Ian to have been on American television again for an interview until what I consider amongst the very best, his visit to David Letterman, as a brand new show, in 82. (He had Captain Beefheart on around the same time, so I knew this guy was not like Johnny Carson.)Letterman was the first guy to approach Ian, that I had seen with a relatively flippant, yet still informed approach, I give high marks to both parties, though most Tullies seem to hate Letterman's approach in that interview. I think I may have mentioned this before, but one of the guests that night was ex baseball manager, Leo "the Lip" Durocher, known in American for his famous tirades as a manager, and his hobnobbing with the likes of Sinatra et al. Also, I forget what his connection was to Babe Ruth, may have been the guy Ruth replaced in RF upon arriving with the Yankees from Boston. Have a vague recollection of Durocher stealing, maybe in jest, the Babe's wallet or something and receiving a horrific beating, something like that. Anyway by the time he was on Letterman to my perception he was senile, which actually made, likely, for an even more entertaining interview. Yeah, I have mentioned this before, because I recall when I met Ian in 83, regretting not asking him if he had met Leo Durocher in the green room. Anyway, at one point in the interview I give particularly high marks to Letterman, who, after mentioning that Leo was on next grabbed the following notion out of the air and tossed it at Ian, "Leo Durocher, didn't he used to play bass with Jethro Tull?" Ian laughed out loud, which tells me he did meet this man backstage as I doubt he would otherwise know who he was.
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Post by tullist on Jul 28, 2011 19:02:39 GMT
Just a small addendum re the reference to Beefheart on Letterman which I think also was from 82, maybe 3, is this evidence. Posted mostly as a tip of the hat to Letterman, easily the most original of the major USA talk shows, though the competition is not particularly stiff until you reach that Maher guy over on cable, that is a sharp tack. I won't even start too far on the careers Letterman's show jump started, but Jerry Seinfeild and Jay Leno certainly come to mind. And so many great obscure comics, Leno certainly not one of them, in the running with Bob Hope for the least funny comedian I have ever seen. Anyway, I recall this interview which I was jazzed to see to have been a minor disapointment, probably hoping that Beefheart would be a bit more strange. But anyway, less than a minute into the interview Letterman is asking him what percentage of his life he wears a hat in. I give high marks for this, decidedly unorthodox. youtu.be/nQs8dka52H4
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Post by nonrabbit on Jul 28, 2011 19:29:20 GMT
From that R I put the green room on that show on the list ;D
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Post by nonrabbit on Jul 28, 2011 19:40:31 GMT
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Post by tullist on Jul 28, 2011 22:02:56 GMT
It sure is P, from 82, had I been aware of that interview I probably would have taken the day off, or been allowed to leave early by a boss at that time was also a friend, and a Tull sympathizer, at least where I was concerned, if not precisely a fan. Mike Douglas may not have been right up on Tull events, but I recall him to be a very nice man, I will bet Ian really liked him.
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Post by steelmonkey on Jul 28, 2011 22:44:57 GMT
Mike Douglas had already been broken in nicely, having given over a full week to john and Yoko sometime in the mid-seventies, so probably not suffering from wither nerves nor over-awe upon hosting Ina, even if he did have a clue re; the greatness of the person on his show that day. He does look young in the pix....but they are easily identifiable as 76 look....much better without the 'Spike the space clown' outfit of that tour.
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Post by tullist on Jul 29, 2011 1:42:02 GMT
B, yeah by the point of the first interview with Ian I would suspect that Mike Douglas, who had likely interviewed a few presidents, and every leading entertainer of his day, was anything but intimidated by Ian, likely more a case of needing to do his homework to find out who this guy was. But clearly during the course of the interview, say, immediately, I recall Mike Douglas to be very impressed with his level of intelligence. John and Yoko were 72, they even had the creepy Jerry Rubin on, one of their larger mistakes in my estimation. Abbie Hoffman, fine, but not Jerry Rubin. He was the kill your parents guy who then became some kind of player on Wall St.
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Post by maddogfagin on Jul 29, 2011 17:33:36 GMT
Extract from an article by George Pitcher, The Archbishop of Canterbury’s outgoing PR adviser, in the New Statesman, published 25 July 2011 www.newstatesman.com/religion/2011/07/archbishop-telegraph-palaceTo Highgrove for a little light relief from squashed canapés, tagging along with Shona and Ian Anderson, the enduring composer and conductor of the folk-rock legend Jethro Tull, and his fellow musicians and their partners. The band played Canterbury Cathedral last Christmas and, despite ten inches of snow in an hour and a half just before the gig, they packed the place and made a pretty penny for its restoration appeal. So HRH, as patron, wants to say thank you. We tour the gardens, full of nooks and crownies, reaching parts that other tourists can't reach because we have one of the prince's confidant-insiders hosting us.
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Post by maddogfagin on Jul 29, 2011 17:39:13 GMT
. . . . . . at a lot more of the 1968 gigs, apart from the couple I went to, with Uncle Mick on guitar. With the benefit of a 21st century mini disc recorder and digital camera I hasten to add.
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Post by nonrabbit on Sept 15, 2011 9:04:20 GMT
The Magic Village Cromford Court off Market Street Manchester i55.images obliterated by tinypic/2a6kxdx.jpg[/IMG] See the poster above to the right pic from manchesterbeat also outside the place when as someone quotes ; "seem to recall Ian Anderson busking outside in Cromford Court" Great stories of the bands who played there ( a few Tull crackers) and the numerous appearances of Tull on this website; www.manchesterbeat.com/venues/manchester_cbd/magicvillage/magicvillage.php
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 26, 2012 16:59:46 GMT
Don't blink or you'll miss it. Marquee Club, 14 December 1967. Jethro Tull as Bag O'Blues supporting The Remo Four [The Ministry confirms this date as: 14/12/67 Marquee Club London, UK The Marquee debut of the Tull line-up, playing as 'Bag O'Blues', supporting The Remo Four. ] From wikipedia: The Remo Four were a 1950s-1960s rock band from Liverpool, England. They were contemporaries of The Beatles, and later had the same manager, Brian Epstein. Its members were Colin Manley (born Colin William Manley, 16 April 1942, in Old Swan, Liverpool, Lancashire died 9 April 1999) (lead guitar/vocals), Philip Rogers (rhythm guitar/bass guitar/vocals), Don Andrew (born Donald Andrew, in 1942, in Liverpool) (bass guitar/vocals), and Roy Dyke (drums) (born 13 February 1945, in Liverpool). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Remo_Four
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Post by nonrabbit on Jan 26, 2012 20:10:27 GMT
A time machine would be good
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