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Post by admin on Jul 16, 2008 16:18:20 GMT
Would any of you Tull fountains of wisdom be kind enough to enlighten me as to the wheres, whens and how of this bit of footage coming into existence? Different...but groovy! uk.youtube.com/watch?v=khFi-Iyke9k
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greg
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Post by greg on Jul 16, 2008 16:54:37 GMT
Hi Col,
I think it's an outtake from the German TV thing from the period of the Walk Into Light Album. Ian and Martin and (I think) Peter Vitesse did a set, and then Ian came back for the encour t 'jam' with Fela Kuti's band. I seem to remember Ian having some fairly harsh words to say in an interview somewhere about this bit of the show, saying that there are musicians whose craft he respected and others who were eseentially 'faking it', and suggesting that Fela Kuti was in the latter group. So he just hung about a bit in the wings and gave a bit of tootling as and when, rather than joining in enthusiastically.
Hope that's of some help in offering a ball-park identification. Others will no doubt fill in the details and correct any errors. Thanks for the chance to see it again!
Cheers, Greg
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greg
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Post by greg on Jul 16, 2008 16:59:48 GMT
15..11..83 Rock Nacht Classic Munich - German Tv 3 Songs live, Plus Ian Jam Session with Fela Kuti
There you go! Greg
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Post by admin on Jul 16, 2008 18:01:57 GMT
Brilliant, thanks for that Greg. No idea who Fela Kuti is but it's a shame IA wasn't too enthusiastic about the whole thing. I kinda liked it.
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Post by tullistray on Jul 16, 2008 19:16:55 GMT
Yeah Fela Kuti was about as legendary as they get in world music circles, I have a couple live things, one from a Glastonbury I think, that a Deadhead buddy has sent through the years. Believe he has passed in the last two years, Fela Kuti, that is, I forget. I liked what I heard but not to the extent that I would be hunting down much else. I tend to like most of my African influences filtered through the lens of jazz music, specifically the Art Ensemble of Chicago, and other aggregations from the 43 year old Chicago/international improvisational music collective known as the AACM, Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicianship, of which the Art Ensemble, along with maybe Muhal Richard Abrams, Henry Threadgill and Anthony Braxton are amongst their more visible practitioners. A very sweet man Olatunge was a master of percussion who would occasionally cross paths with the Grateful Dead and specifically their ethno musicologist drummer Mickey Hart. Being doubtlessly the cradle of civilization, Africa, I am sure there is more than several lifetimes of credible, indeed transitory life changing music offered from this astounding continent, but I grew up under the Beatle flag which around 70 began to take on a very Tullish hue.
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tommie
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Post by tommie on Jul 16, 2008 20:00:45 GMT
Hi. I had seen this over the years on Youtube, along eith Tull doing Ian's "Fly By Night" and "Made In England". Fela Tuti and his musicians are very highly thought of in world music. In fact, at about this time (1983) JACK BRUCE, wo is on piano here, got very involved w/ Kip Hanrahan and his Afro/Cuban musicians and has made albums w/ them including his most recent ones
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tommie
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Post by tommie on Jul 16, 2008 20:13:17 GMT
In addition, since these musicians were basically improvising, Ian got frustrated and just stopped and went to the back, as u can see. He even started doing his "flute as penis" thing. Huh?! For all his musical greatness, IA is control-freak type of of guy, as we all know (NOT a criticism, just how it is). Anyone who has seen multiple Tull shows on the same tours over the years knows this. So, he finds it frustrating to just be part of something that he didn't plan and well rehearse beforehand, imo. Jack Bruce, on the other hand, had a hugh background in improrving/ jamming (remember a group called "Cream"? and their live perfs?). Not to mention his early and later jazz rock/fusion forays. Be it on bass OR keyboards.
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Post by maddogfagin on Sept 9, 2008 18:19:51 GMT
I reckon I'm going ga-ga in my dottage but I don't recognise this. I'd be grateful for anyone's assistance.
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Post by snafje on Sept 9, 2008 19:15:38 GMT
Farm On The Freeway - not that difficult is it?
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Post by maddogfagin on Sept 9, 2008 19:32:55 GMT
Was wondering what tv programme it was from.
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Post by admin on Sept 10, 2008 9:39:37 GMT
Was wondering what tv programme it was from. Good find, not seen that before. It looks like cheapo daytime TV to me.
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Post by maddogfagin on Sept 10, 2008 16:16:33 GMT
Probably "Look North" or something similar.
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Post by electrocutas on Sept 13, 2008 6:31:56 GMT
broadcast on 15. 09. 89 and it is a program called BOX OFFICE
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Post by maddogfagin on Sept 13, 2008 8:02:45 GMT
Thanks mate, it's one I hadn't seen before. Was it a local TV programme or was it broadcast nationally?
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Post by electrocutas on Sept 14, 2008 9:17:01 GMT
As far as senile dementia allows me to recall ... I think National I am pretty sure it was Sky Tv which started in 1989 Or more lightly BSB But I cannot recall which channel
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Post by maddogfagin on Sept 14, 2008 10:20:32 GMT
So it was seen by very few people then if it was on BSB. Didn't they peddle the square satellite dishes which adorned domestic buildings and as now BSB is no more probably sell for a few bob* on ebay? (the dishes that is and not the buildings!).
* English euphamism for a shilling (pre decimal) which now is worth 5 pence. I blame Edward Heath.
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Post by maddogfagin on Oct 15, 2008 17:49:38 GMT
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Post by steelmonkey on Oct 15, 2008 18:16:54 GMT
I was gonna guess a Polish or Czeck town square ad for an impending gig but then saw the Spanish or Portugese writing....cool pic....good idea for a new product..a comfortable place for Tull fans to sleep while awaiting the new album?
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 10, 2008 18:12:03 GMT
Incredibly this wax work is to be found in the Tokyo Tower Wax Museum.
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Post by steelmonkey on Nov 12, 2008 5:38:34 GMT
Is that Ian, bewigged, getting paid by the hour, between gigs? He's always talking about making the most of his remaining productive travelling years as an excuse for no studio albums....maybe he's standing around Tokyo while he can...
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Post by orion12 on Jan 7, 2021 18:46:15 GMT
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