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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 2, 2009 8:16:49 GMT
I presume this is the Saga you refer to? sagaontour.moonfruit.com/In the UK it's also, amongst others, a holiday firm for the over 50's , an "oldies" radio station for over 50's , insurance for over 50's - oh hang on some of us are over 50. I'll get my coat ;D
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 6, 2009 18:01:41 GMT
If you can find a time machine, here's your chance to go back stage in 1977 ;D
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Post by steelmonkey on Mar 29, 2009 15:03:45 GMT
I hope your Tull stuff is nicely consolidated in an easy to rescue trunk or something so you can grab it first in case of flood, fire or any other danger. Your 'Tull Museum' is very impressive Mr. Dog.
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 29, 2009 16:09:54 GMT
I hope your Tull stuff is nicely consolidated in an easy to rescue trunk or something so you can grab it first in case of flood, fire or any other danger. Your 'Tull Museum' is very impressive Mr. Dog. Thanks steel. The items I've posted are off the net and saved to my hard disk and my own stuff is scattered around the house. One day I'll get to cataloging it.
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Post by rebecca on Mar 29, 2009 18:20:45 GMT
I always do enjoy taking a look at these things you come up with, Maddog. But yeah, I wanna see YOUR stuff!
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Post by jioffe on Mar 29, 2009 18:29:19 GMT
I always do enjoy taking a look at these things you come up with, Maddog. But yeah, I wanna see YOUR stuff! A man walks into a bar and asks the barmaid for a double entendre, so she gives him one. I know we've had that joke before but here it seemed somehow... appropriate. Cheers, Jioffe.
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Post by rebecca on Mar 29, 2009 19:14:48 GMT
The one time I wasn't thinking of it!
Which is certainly not meant as a slight to Mr. Maddog... You take it however you want, honey.
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 30, 2009 8:29:19 GMT
The one time I wasn't thinking of it! Which is certainly not meant as a slight to Mr. Maddog... You take it however you want, honey. No slight taken rebecca In addition to what’s been posted on this thread I would reckon we’d all like to see and hear what IA has in his archive. When we were organising one of the early UK Tull Conventions back in 1990 or ’91, we had the offer of one of Doane Perry’s bass drum skins, fully autographed, to auction for the NSPCC Charity. Needless to say I drove to Grange Farm at Radnage, near where IA lived at the time, where some, if not all, of the band’s equipment was stored and met with Kenny Wylie who gave me the drum skin which we did in fact auction at the Convention. However for the brief time I was there at the farm I did notice that there seemed to be very many boxes and trunks, which KW said was full of Tull stage gear, some for the tour at that time and some from previous tours but I didn’t get a chance to look and see at what was there. Remember this was 19 years ago so this Tull archive must have grown quite considerably assuming that it has all been kept stored somewhere. Finally, I have a business card which I was given many years ago that was from a “Jethro Tull Museum“, based in San Francisco and it would be interesting to know what is stored in it. Anyone any information?
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 30, 2009 8:33:20 GMT
I always do enjoy taking a look at these things you come up with, Maddog. But yeah, I wanna see YOUR stuff! A man walks into a bar and asks the barmaid for a double entendre, so she gives him one. I know we've had that joke before but here it seemed somehow... appropriate. Cheers, Jioffe. "Oooh! Matron" to paraphrase Kenneth Williams
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 30, 2009 16:53:14 GMT
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Post by steelmonkey on Mar 30, 2009 21:39:50 GMT
The names on the Tull Museum card are my own and my long time friend, Mark...the museum is nothing more than a parting shot from a girfriend, who on the way out the door, said 'and I'm sick and tired of making love in a Jethro Tull museum....my walls, naturally, covered with Tull stuff. It was about 1984 or 1985, so Mark and I printed the cards as a first step of starting our own little network of Tull fans to keep the flame burning in those pre-internet, pre-Crest comeback, pre-New Day days...it worked...we made friends all over the US and Europe and found ourselves surrounded by cassette tapes of live gigs and cool people visiting and inviting us to visit them...the card went thru two printings..the first one has the living in the past logo, the second has a flexed arm with my Tull Tatoo on it. Both have my long retired SF business PO Box as an address.
The museum was a state of mind...not a real place beyond my couple boxes of Tull stuff and postered walls. We had a thankful for Tull thanksgiving bash in 1987 highlighted by a visit from Scaramento of a serious Tull fanatic named Bob Kinzler...who died in a car wreck a few weeks later. One young kid from England must have stayed at my home for months...nice enough guy but we had to eventually push him out! The card earned us introductions to so many cool people: Gerrit in Holland, Micahel Veith, who we called 'pipe' cuz he always had one, in Germany and so many more...I can't remember...oh yeah, Martin Barre got hold of one and said during a radio interview, at the hard Rock cafe in SF, in about 1988, that he was hoping to visit the museum!.
I still have a box of Tull Museum cards and used to tote them to concerts...no longer needed cuz the Tull network is online and the biz cards to meet Tullies are an anachronism.
Mark and I were best friend for over 20 years...we met in line to buy Stormwatch tix in 1979. He was at my home in late 2005 and a roomie left a door open...leading to the death of Mark's dog on a nearby hiway...mark never forgave me and we haven't spoken since...we must have seen close to 50 Tull gigs together...i probably would have never found a Tull club online if Mark and i were still talking Tull daily.
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 31, 2009 7:37:48 GMT
The names on the Tull Museum card are my own and my long time friend, Mark...the museum is nothing more than a parting shot from a girfriend, who on the way out the door, said 'and I'm sick and tired of making love in a Jethro Tull museum....my walls, naturally, covered with Tull stuff. It was about 1984 or 1985, so Mark and I printed the cards as a first step of starting our own little network of Tull fans to keep the flame burning in those pre-internet, pre-Crest comeback, pre-New Day days...it worked...we made friends all over the US and Europe and found ourselves surrounded by cassette tapes of live gigs and cool people visiting and inviting us to visit them...the card went thru two printings..the first one has the living in the past logo, the second has a flexed arm with my Tull Tatoo on it. Both have my long retired SF business PO Box as an address. The museum was a state of mind...not a real place beyond my couple boxes of Tull stuff and postered walls. We had a thankful for Tull thanksgiving bash in 1987 highlighted by a visit from Scaramento of a serious Tull fanatic named Bob Kinzler...who died in a car wreck a few weeks later. One young kid from England must have stayed at my home for months...nice enough guy but we had to eventually push him out! The card earned us introductions to so many cool people: Gerrit in Holland, Micahel Veith, who we called 'pipe' cuz he always had one, in Germany and so many more...I can't remember...oh yeah, Martin Barre got hold of one and said during a radio interview, at the hard Rock cafe in SF, in about 1988, that he was hoping to visit the museum!. I still have a box of Tull Museum cards and used to tote them to concerts...no longer needed cuz the Tull network is online and the biz cards to meet Tullies are an anachronism. Mark and I were best friend for over 20 years...we met in line to buy Stormwatch tix in 1979. He was at my home in late 2005 and a roomie left a door open...leading to the death of Mark's dog on a nearby hiway...mark never forgave me and we haven't spoken since...we must have seen close to 50 Tull gigs together...i probably would have never found a Tull club online if Mark and i were still talking Tull daily. It's a small world steel. I know both Gerrit and Michael Veith well from the UK conventions and also from meeting them at concerts. The last time I saw Michael he wasn't smoking his pipe as he wasn't well (cold/flu etc) and that was at the Basingstoke Anvil theatre in 2006. Gerrit and I corresponded for many years and exchanged newspaper cuttings concerning Tull and I visited him in The Netherland in 1988 and saw his Tull collection which is quite impressive. As you say this was all pre-internet but I now have his email address and we keep in touch now and again. I think, although I'm not 100% certain, that I got the Tull museum card at one of the conventions so if you were in the UK we may have met. The card I have is of your tattoo'd arm and has pride of place amongst 11 or 12 others, all of which are Tull related. Some are of Tull collectors who seem to have vanished off the face of the Earth and one who has seemingly emigrated to parts foreign.
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 31, 2009 17:21:12 GMT
An early poster from '69
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Post by steelmonkey on Apr 1, 2009 0:56:48 GMT
When I showed Ian my Tull tatoo, he suggested that true fans present themselves to Kenny Wylie for a penile tatoo...I, of course, told him I had a tatoo already on my willie, saying 'Ian' at rest and 'Ian Anderson' aroused....he told Gerd to have me killed.
Never made it to a Tull convention...but I know Gerrit and Michael had both passed Tull cards to Webb and Rees...who I met in London in 1989...the remarkable success of the New Day guys in networking Tull fans and forcing the band to face up to their loyal ( and patient!) fan base still deserves kudos...Ian, especially, really did a 180 in respect for and contact with fans...it was great to see!
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 1, 2009 7:49:05 GMT
Never made it to a Tull convention...but I know Gerrit and Michael had both passed Tull cards to Webb and Rees...who I met in London in 1989...the remarkable success of the New Day guys in networking Tull fans and forcing the band to face up to their loyal ( and patient!) fan base still deserves kudos...Ian, especially, really did a 180 in respect for and contact with fans...it was great to see! I agree with what you say 100%. I know both DR and MW of old but since my move to Cornwall don't see much of them. My own opinion of IA's 180 is that until the UK Conventions he didn't realise the strength of the fan base and certainly, at least in my case when he contacted me regarding the 1990 Convention, was quite unsure of the response from the fans. His 20 minute spot with Mick, Clive and Maart was a revelation to us and I think to him as well and I honestly believe that the acoustic tour he did a little bit later was as a direct response to the reception he got at Milton Keynes. He certainly seems to have "opened up" and is now more at home with the fan base as a whole as witness the Q & A's he has done on the official site and through this forum for example.
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 5, 2009 16:17:22 GMT
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Post by tullistray on Apr 6, 2009 0:33:58 GMT
Wow, Ian Anderson's Jethro Tull, that is the only time I have ever seen that. Not that I would want to see it again, but I don't think it can come much more rare than that, can it? ty Maddog
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 7, 2009 7:30:53 GMT
German Benefit with the poster etc
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 7, 2009 7:41:55 GMT
1969 TAAB tour ? Martin Barre promo CD single
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 7, 2009 8:20:56 GMT
Wow, Ian Anderson's Jethro Tull, that is the only time I have ever seen that. Not that I would want to see it again, but I don't think it can come much more rare than that, can it? ty Maddog Bit of a "one off" as far a promotion goes as you say. Tull have always been well received in Germany and have a thriving fan base there.
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 7, 2009 8:29:14 GMT
Poster from Chile
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Post by nonrabbit on Apr 7, 2009 9:46:49 GMT
Great thread Maddog ! Speaking of conventions/museums what happened to the Tull pub idea? and... What do you reckon if I opened the Tull themed Bed and Breakfast thus combining the holiday in Ireland with all things Tull (tastefully ) Would I have a market?................................... ;D ;D Here's my ticket down memory lane i39.images obliterated by tinypic/11ukegw.jpg[/IMG]
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 8, 2009 17:43:42 GMT
£2 to see Tull perform, 31 years ago
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Post by coolraven on Apr 8, 2009 20:03:18 GMT
What do you reckon if I opened the Tull themed Bed and Breakfast thus combining the holiday in Ireland with all things Tull Would I have a market?...................................
I'd be knockin' at your door the following day. Yeah.
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Post by tullistray on Apr 9, 2009 5:13:18 GMT
Great thread Maddog ! Speaking of conventions/museums what happened to the Tull pub idea? and... What do you reckon if I opened the Tull themed Bed and Breakfast thus combining the holiday in Ireland with all things Tull (tastefully ) Would I have a market?................................... ;D ;D Here's my ticket down memory lane i39.images obliterated by tinypic/11ukegw.jpg [/IMG][/quote]You really are so much fun. Having a Tull angle would not hurt so long as the other ends were held up, and rural Ireland should be a very fitting setting. One of life's great memories is traipsing about the Highlands listening to Tull and Steeleye on the Walkman, very potent. I know of one GDead one I believe in the Carbibbean someplace, in their case there are probably some others.
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Post by steelmonkey on Apr 10, 2009 3:48:46 GMT
Never verified but an Argentinian guy I was friends with in Hamburg swore there was a bar, on a beach not far from Buenos Aires, that only played Tull on their stereo...for many YEARS. Are you Brits still P.O.ed at the Argentinians about that sheep farm island or is that all chill these days?
I think I too have heard about a 'Club Dead' in the Caribbean making fun of 'Club Med'.
Let me know when the Tull B & B exists...I'll send my humble offers for decorations and my money to book a room......The rock and roll nursing home idea continuously arises...what better way to spend the golden years than rocking in a rocking chair in a rock themed care home...but then reality rears it's ugly head and the fact that we'll all be deaf by that time splashes cold water on any plans for a Tull themed retirement home....'The Dog Eared Years Board and Care?'
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Post by nonrabbit on Apr 10, 2009 8:19:48 GMT
Let me know when the Tull B & B exists...I'll send my humble offers for decorations and my money to book a room...... Could you (and others) also send money to build it as well as booking a room? ;D And Steel as long as you don't expect Ireland to look like this.. i44.images obliterated by tinypic/k5fn5.jpg[/IMG] and I won't be disappointed when I visit you and it's not like this.. i40.images obliterated by tinypic/i4iqzm.jpg[/IMG]
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 10, 2009 18:16:33 GMT
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Post by quizzkid on Apr 10, 2009 19:48:25 GMT
Great stuff - Tull on the front page.
I still have my copy of the free Alice Cooper flexidisc as well!
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 12, 2009 9:21:15 GMT
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