csc
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Post by csc on Aug 13, 2008 21:18:10 GMT
Heavy Horses was never released as a single was it?
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Post by TM on Aug 14, 2008 2:33:14 GMT
Heavy Horses was never released as a single was it? I don't think so but check out Collectingtull.com to be sure.
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csc
Prentice Jack
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Post by csc on Aug 14, 2008 11:22:24 GMT
When was the video of the song "Heavy horses" shot?
It has to be my fave
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Post by maddogfagin on Aug 14, 2008 12:00:00 GMT
Don't think Heavy Horses was ever released as a single although I stand to be corrected. I reckon the video was shot on IA's Buckinghamshire estate he owned at the time - Pophleys, at the time of the album's release in 1978.
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Post by steelmonkey on Oct 4, 2008 23:29:23 GMT
Had Heavy Horses for breakfast this morning...full blast..Acres Wild and Rover are perfect....Journeyman and Heavy Horses are no slouches either....looked at the liner notes of the re-release, maybe the first time i noticed...and was impressed by ian's brief but direct looks back at his songs and understood the album the way he meant it....country life in the late 70's......I remember when it came out i thought of it as 'Songs from the Wood wih Balls'. Not a line about the other musicians but a great picture worth a thousand words of the band as it was at that time. Boy, was Heavy Horse un-hip or what, in 1978 with the geeky, cool kids already insisting that the talking heads and patti Smith and ramones and Clash and Sex Pistols....and and and...were here to save us from yes, ELP, genesis and tull. When did new wave get so old? Maybe I'll ask one of my bike messeneger colleagues...we called him 'fast Eddie' back then....now we call him Eddie.
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Post by admin on Oct 6, 2008 9:30:32 GMT
I think the new wave was a bit too youth for it's own good. It's ok being a snotty spitting punk in your teens but it doesn't really work if you're a grown up. In spite of being as unfashionable as ever bands like Tull have survived where others have fallen because of quality musicianship. The Ramones & John Lydon have admitted to liking Tull. As Tull dropped out of the charts in the 70's and have been the band it's good to hate ever since maybe we are the real punks. And speaking of Mr Anarchy himself...I haven't seen Ian Anderson advertising butter on ITV recently, have you Johhny Rotten!!? uk.youtube.com/watch?v=8hzQsvxtLTM
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Post by steelmonkey on Oct 18, 2008 4:04:25 GMT
Well. Ian has allowed two ads, thus far to my knowledge...a few lines of Locomotive Breath for Miller's beer and the well known brick Hyundai ad....his stern face is all over U.S. airports warning of DVT and a few seconds of Fly by Night was intro/outro music for Monday Night Football many years ago...anything else you brits or Euros have seen of Tull-commerce? I knoe Coronach was TV series music.
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Post by tullistray on Oct 18, 2008 5:29:56 GMT
I think the new wave was a bit too youth for it's own good. It's ok being a snotty spitting punk in your teens but it doesn't really work if you're a grown up. In spite of being as unfashionable as ever bands like Tull have survived where others have fallen because of quality musicianship. The Ramones & John Lydon have admitted to liking Tull. As Tull dropped out of the charts in the 70's and have been the band it's good to hate ever since maybe we are the real punks. And speaking of Mr Anarchy himself...I haven't seen Ian Anderson advertising butter on ITV recently, have you Johhny Rotten!!? uk.youtube.com/watch?v=8hzQsvxtLTMGotta admit that was a pretty good commercial. I actually thought he might be good at a talk show too....apparently not. Bet neither he nor the Ramones would have had the balls to admit to a Tull inclination in 78, but yeah, its been safe to come out for about 15 yrs now.
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Post by beastie on Oct 18, 2008 10:41:22 GMT
King Henrys Madrigal was used as the theme tune for some short tv series here in England back around 1980 or thereabouts.
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 3, 2008 17:24:05 GMT
Well. Ian has allowed two ads, thus far to my knowledge...a few lines of Locomotive Breath for Miller's beer and the well known brick Hyundai ad....his stern face is all over U.S. airports warning of DVT and a few seconds of Fly by Night was intro/outro music for Monday Night Football many years ago...anything else you brits or Euros have seen of Tull-commerce? I knoe Coronach was TV series music. Jethro Tull recordings appear in numerous films, including Breaking the Waves, Jumanji, Boogie Nights and Almost Famous. The song "Aqualung" is briefly joked about in the Will Ferrell comedy Anchorman. Ferrell's character, Ron Burgundy, plays a jazz flute solo and suddenly plays the main riff from "Aqualung" and then shouts, "Hey Aqualung!" In a season ten episode of Friends, "The One With Ross's Grant", Rachel and Monica find Jethro Tull listed in Phoebe's black book of men that she has slept with. Rachel asks, "Isn't Jethro Tull a band?", to which Phoebe replies "Yes. Yes, they are." Anderson has attributed the marked difference between their music and the music of their contemporaries to the group's avoidance of illegal recreational drugs. Anderson actually stated most of his early lyrics were Lowenbrau fuelled whilst his contemporaries used 'other inspiration' In the 1997 debut album of Blackmore's Night (Shadow of the Moon), Ian takes the flute solo on "Play Minstrel Play". In an episode of The Simpsons, Martin is given the award for best flautist. He plays the flute and begins to sing "Thick as a Brick" until he's hit on the head with a chair by Lisa. In an episode of King of the Hill entitled "The Incredible Hank", part of "Aqualung" is played while Hank lifts weights in his garage. In the song "Virus Alert" by "Weird Al" Yankovic, one of the effects of the titular virus is to "make your iPod only play Jethro Tull." In an episode of That '70s Show, the character Steven Hyde says that if he was rich he'd have Jethro Tull playing at his house. In the movie "Big Daddy," when Sonny Koufax is asked what he was doing instead of going to his aunt's funeral he replies, "Jethro Tull had a reunion concert, so I caught that." In the movie "Armageddon," Oscar Choi (Owen Wilson) states that he hates when people think that Jethro Tull is just the name of a member in the band. In Stephen King's The Dark Tower series, in the Gunslinger, Tull is the name of the last city before the desert. Stephen King says that he took the name from Jethro Tull in the Song of Susannah, when speaking to Roland Deschain and Eddie Dean. In an episode of Everybody Loves Raymond, a flashback to Raymond and Robert's teenage years refers to Robert starting a fight with someone who refused to agree that "Bungle in the Jungle" was the best song ever written. Jim DeRogatis of the Chicago Sun-Times called the album The Crane Wife by The Decemberists "the best Jethro Tull album since Heavy Horses."Stolen from the web by the way.
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Post by steelmonkey on Nov 4, 2008 5:22:25 GMT
The 70's show, probably the one mentioned above with a tull joke but maybe just a random show, had all it's intro and outro music as bits of Velvet Green for at least one episode ...I was sitting in a godforsaken bar in the godforsaken town of Nazareth, Pennsyvania, feeling entirely sorry for myself, heard Velvet Green...couldn't find it on the jukebox then realized it was on the TV...cheered me right up.
A comedian named Martin Mull....popular for milliseconds in the early 70s for playing a cheesy TV talk show host on a show called Fernwood tonite, opened his live shows with a song apologizing to fans who thought they had bought tickets for Tull and did a tuba solo of a few aqualung riffs.
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Post by silkenmist on Nov 5, 2008 12:43:11 GMT
Well. Ian has allowed two ads, thus far to my knowledge...a few lines of Locomotive Breath for Miller's beer and the well known brick Hyundai ad....his stern face is all over U.S. airports warning of DVT and a few seconds of Fly by Night was intro/outro music for Monday Night Football many years ago...anything else you brits or Euros have seen of Tull-commerce? I knoe Coronach was TV series music. Jethro Tull recordings appear in numerous films, including Breaking the Waves, Jumanji, Boogie Nights and Almost Famous. The song "Aqualung" is briefly joked about in the Will Ferrell comedy Anchorman. Ferrell's character, Ron Burgundy, plays a jazz flute solo and suddenly plays the main riff from "Aqualung" and then shouts, "Hey Aqualung!" In a season ten episode of Friends, "The One With Ross's Grant", Rachel and Monica find Jethro Tull listed in Phoebe's black book of men that she has slept with. Rachel asks, "Isn't Jethro Tull a band?", to which Phoebe replies "Yes. Yes, they are." Anderson has attributed the marked difference between their music and the music of their contemporaries to the group's avoidance of illegal recreational drugs. Anderson actually stated most of his early lyrics were Lowenbrau fuelled whilst his contemporaries used 'other inspiration' In the 1997 debut album of Blackmore's Night (Shadow of the Moon), Ian takes the flute solo on "Play Minstrel Play". In an episode of The Simpsons, Martin is given the award for best flautist. He plays the flute and begins to sing "Thick as a Brick" until he's hit on the head with a chair by Lisa. In an episode of King of the Hill entitled "The Incredible Hank", part of "Aqualung" is played while Hank lifts weights in his garage. In the song "Virus Alert" by "Weird Al" Yankovic, one of the effects of the titular virus is to "make your iPod only play Jethro Tull." In an episode of That '70s Show, the character Steven Hyde says that if he was rich he'd have Jethro Tull playing at his house. In the movie "Big Daddy," when Sonny Koufax is asked what he was doing instead of going to his aunt's funeral he replies, "Jethro Tull had a reunion concert, so I caught that." In the movie "Armageddon," Oscar Choi (Owen Wilson) states that he hates when people think that Jethro Tull is just the name of a member in the band. In Stephen King's The Dark Tower series, in the Gunslinger, Tull is the name of the last city before the desert. Stephen King says that he took the name from Jethro Tull in the Song of Susannah, when speaking to Roland Deschain and Eddie Dean. In an episode of Everybody Loves Raymond, a flashback to Raymond and Robert's teenage years refers to Robert starting a fight with someone who refused to agree that "Bungle in the Jungle" was the best song ever written. Jim DeRogatis of the Chicago Sun-Times called the album The Crane Wife by The Decemberists "the best Jethro Tull album since Heavy Horses."Stolen from the web by the way. Good Morning Maddog. I can recall a few of these, like the comment from Big Daddy, and the one from Everybody Loves Raymond (about Bungle being the best song Tull has written), where of where did you find such a fast amount of tidbits all relating to Tull on TV/Movies/Commercials, etc. etc. in one place. (You never cease to amaze me) Silken...
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 5, 2008 18:15:00 GMT
Hi silkenmist. Tull snippits from the web are usually, for me at least, trial and error. Apart from the following excellent sites I usually type in Jethro Tull or Ian Anderson or any of the other band members names both past and present, into the google search engine and plough through the pages that come up until I find something of interest. The sites I've found that are a constant source of info are: www.electrocutas.co.uk/www.takklesoft.com/tulllist.htmwww.ministry-of-information.co.uk/setlist/index.htmwww.laufi.de/tull/e/main.htmwww.martinbarre.com/home_pic.htmwww.collecting-tull.com/Hartov/index.htmwww.collecting-tull.com/www.cupofwonder.com/index2.htmlplus many others, too numerous to mention although if you look on the links thread on this forum you'll find more. The various ebay sites around the world can also come up trumps with illustrations of records, pics and other memorabelia which can be downloaded to a computer and kept or posted on this forum if they are unusual or significant. I expect most Tull fans would agree that we're all only too happy to share our "finds" with other likewise folk. There's no "inner sanctum" of a few people who know everything and who are not willing to pass on info unlike the fan forums of some other bands. Have a good time surfing the net! ps. Still can't find Heavy Horses as a single - I'll keep looking
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Post by silkenmist on Nov 6, 2008 17:41:03 GMT
Hi silkenmist. Tull snippits from the web are usually, for me at least, trial and error. Apart from the following excellent sites I usually type in Jethro Tull or Ian Anderson or any of the other band members names both past and present, into the google search engine and plough through the pages that come up until I find something of interest. The sites I've found that are a constant source of info are: www.electrocutas.co.uk/www.takklesoft.com/tulllist.htmwww.ministry-of-information.co.uk/setlist/index.htmwww.laufi.de/tull/e/main.htmwww.martinbarre.com/home_pic.htmwww.collecting-tull.com/Hartov/index.htmwww.collecting-tull.com/www.cupofwonder.com/index2.htmlplus many others, too numerous to mention although if you look on the links thread on this forum you'll find more. The various ebay sites around the world can also come up trumps with illustrations of records, pics and other memorabelia which can be downloaded to a computer and kept or posted on this forum if they are unusual or significant. I expect most Tull fans would agree that we're all only too happy to share our "finds" with other likewise folk. There's no "inner sanctum" of a few people who know everything and who are not willing to pass on info unlike the fan forums of some other bands. Have a good time surfing the net! ps. Still can't find Heavy Horses as a single - I'll keep looking Good Afternoon Maddog: Thank you kind sir for all those delightful links to all things Tull, but like I said, you never cease to amaze me with your knowledge, memory and insight. You have cited more than a dozen events, some of which I never have never been privy to see, of an array of events where Tull was either mentioned, showed, concept used or what have you. Well done!!!! You are the truest of fans that I have come across in my lifetime. It is a pleasure to be a part of this Forum and to have someone of your caliber aboard. Thank you. Regards, Silken... P.S. I too have never seen Heavy Horses as a single. But I have no doubt, if it ever was a single, you will find it...
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jioffe
Journeyman
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Post by jioffe on Nov 10, 2008 22:06:08 GMT
Jim DeRogatis of the Chicago Sun-Times called the album The Crane Wife by The Decemberists "the best Jethro Tull album since Heavy Horses." Aren't you just a little bit curious to know why? If you are, this is the 12 minute track most responsible, although I'd say it owed more to prog in general than Tull specifically: www.deezer.com/track/951205Btw, The Decemberists are a great band in their own right, not as Tull clones. Cheers, Jioffe.
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 11, 2008 8:38:23 GMT
Jim DeRogatis of the Chicago Sun-Times called the album The Crane Wife by The Decemberists "the best Jethro Tull album since Heavy Horses." Aren't you just a little bit curious to know why? If you are, this is the 12 minute track most responsible, although I'd say it owed more to prog in general than Tull specifically: www.deezer.com/track/951205Btw, The Decemberists are a great band in their own right, not as Tull clones. Cheers, Jioffe. Agree with you Joiffe. I got the album a couple of weeks ago and after a couple of plays have to say they're a good band and it's a excellent record IMO. I have to admit I missed it first time around (issued a couple of years ago or so wasn't it?) but I'm glad I've now got it. All the best maddog
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Post by sharkdaniel on Nov 19, 2008 14:47:22 GMT
Heavy Horses has been my Tull album this week. didn´t hear it since a long while. It´s perfect, as some of you said, just perfect... The Mouse Police! incredible song, One Brown Mouse (Barries drumming on "do you wonder if a really care for you" is outstanding, better captured on Bursting Out), wow every song is amazing, what an album.
(On an episode of that 70´s shows, Hyde also weared a black Tull T-shirt.)
Shark Dan
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Post by steelmonkey on Nov 19, 2008 16:54:26 GMT
Heavy Horses has two of my favorite Tull songs ( excepting Album long epics, of course) of all time: Rover and Acres Wild...it really is almost perfect but it doesn't have a single, stand-out, show stopping (or starting) track like Dark Ages, Seal Driver, Black Sunday or Budapest. The title cut is almost in that league, but not quite...maybe the overall balance is part of why it's so great!
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Post by fatman on Nov 20, 2008 5:19:33 GMT
Heavy Horses has been my Tull album this week. didn´t hear it since a long while. It´s perfect, as some of you said, just perfect... The Mouse Police! incredible song, One Brown Mouse (Barries drumming on "do you wonder if a really care for you" is outstanding, better captured on Bursting Out), wow every song is amazing, what an album. (On an episode of that 70´s shows, Hyde also weared a black Tull T-shirt.) Shark Dan Heavy Horses is one of Tull's greatest masterpieces. I once read a review where it was described as the finest folk-rock album ever recorded. Hard to argue with that. Jeff
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Post by fatman on Nov 20, 2008 5:23:59 GMT
Heavy Horses has two of my favorite Tull songs ( excepting Album long epics, of course) of all time: Rover and Acres Wild...it really is almost perfect but it doesn't have a single, stand-out, show stopping (or starting) track like Dark Ages, Seal Driver, Black Sunday or Budapest. The title cut is almost in that league, but not quite...maybe the overall balance is part of why it's so great! I love the two songs you mention, however I feel that the title track is one of Ian's finest masterpieces and a true Tull classic. If you think about it, the song has everything that makes Tull so great -- beautiful lyrics and imagery, soft acoustic passages alternating with heavy rock and flute, and great singing by Ian. In some ways, if I could only choose a single Tull song to have with me on a desert island, this would probably be it, or possibly, my second choice after Aqualung. Jeff
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Post by steelmonkey on Nov 20, 2008 18:50:44 GMT
'Heavy Horses', as the best folk-rock album ever, is something i can completely endorse...prior to the release of HH, I would have given the title to Steeleye Span's 'Now We Are Six', produced and generally influenced by a certain Ian Anderson.
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 21, 2008 8:45:26 GMT
'Heavy Horses', as the best folk-rock album ever, is something i can completely endorse...prior to the release of HH, I would have given the title to Steeleye Span's 'Now We Are Six', produced and generally influenced by a certain Ian Anderson. Agree with you 100% on that one. I used it many many years ago when doing a talk on folk music to illustrate folk rock.
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Post by broadsword on Mar 29, 2009 17:43:34 GMT
Couldn't think where to put this, so as there's references to Tull in the media earlier on in this thread, here goes, came in from a hard session gardening just a few minutes ago, beer in hand, flopped on the sofa, turned the tv on to see After You've Gone - mildly amusing at best. For part of the show, the main character had a Jethro Tull T-shirt on, (the Aqualung cover). Good choice whoever decided on that.
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