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Post by maddogfagin on Oct 3, 2018 6:33:29 GMT
patch.com/massachusetts/framingham/james-montgomery-jethro-tulls-guitarist-martin-barre-talkinJames Montgomery & Jethro Tull's Guitarist Martin Barre On Talkinon www.activatemedia.orgBy Ed Wrobleski, Patch Poster | Oct 1, 2018 11:04 pm ET This post was contributed by a community member. Ed Wrobleski Host/Producer of radio show Talking Hendrix will be interviewing New England's own legendary blues guitarist James Montgomery, who has played with such big named acts like Aerosmith, Thr Rolling Stones, and more current band Fitz and the Tantrums. Montgomery will be talking about his upcoming gig at 9 Wallace Street in Beverly, Mass on this coming friday night, the proceeds for the show goes towards Guitars 4 Vets (PTSD), which is A 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization that enhances the lives of ailing and injured military Veterans by providing them free guitars and music instruction. The second half of the radio broadcast will be with Jethro Tull's lead guitarist Martin Barre who will be rolling in to Scituate's River Club Music Hall on October 10, 2018 with his band the Martin Barre Band and he'll be promoting his new album "Roads Less Travelled" which has just been released and getting rave reviews, you'll get to hear Martin talk about the making of this album, plus the tour. So tune in friday night on www.activatemedia.org from 7-8 p.m. where you can hear these two legendary guitar players talk about their upcoming gigs and some fun stories as well. Don't forget to go and check out their shows at their perspective venues when they come around you'll hear James playing his legacy of music with his band and cuts from his current album "The James Montgomery Blues Band" which is a tribute to The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, and Martin will be playing tracks from the new album too plus hoefully some of your favorite Jethro Tull classics too.
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Post by maddogfagin on Oct 4, 2018 14:01:34 GMT
www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Martin-Barre-to-perform-at-The-Kate-Sunday-Oct-7-13276186.phpMartin Barre to perform at The Kate Sunday, Oct. 7By John Lapppen Updated 3:00 pm PDT, Tuesday, October 2, 2018 Photo: Contributed PhotoOLD SAYBROOK — Martin Barre and his band are performing in Old Saybrook at the Kate, Sunday, Oct. 7. The musician is on tour to promote his new album, “Roads Less Traveled.” One of the best rock guitarists ever to grace our planet, Barre’s dynamic, expressive, explosive guitar playing was paramount to Jethro Tull’s live and recorded sound, starting with his debut on the band’s classic second album, “Stand Up,” right up to the band’s eventual demise in 2011. He’s on a short list of one-of-a-kind, original, influential, rock ‘n’ roll guitarists that have fortunately graced our presence over the years. Barre’s latest album, “Roads Less Traveled,” will be released on Cleopatra Records Oct. 12. His band’s original music harkens back to the earthy blues-rock of Tull’s earliest days and his current live set list mixes in some early Tull classics along with original tunes in a heavy blues-rock vein and some choice covers. Learn more at www.martinbarre.comThe Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center is located at 300 Main St.. Reserve tickets at at www.katharinehepburntheaterorg, or by calling the box office at 860-510-0453.
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Post by Budding Stately Hero on Oct 6, 2018 20:17:48 GMT
Mr. Martin Lancelot Barre will be at the mighy Marimba. MARTIN ON MARIMBA!!! HOOORAYYYY!!!!!!
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Post by maddogfagin on Oct 7, 2018 6:51:30 GMT
www.njarts.net/pop-rock/former-jethro-tull-guitarist-martin-barre-mixes-the-old-with-the-new-on-tour/Former Jethro Tull guitarist Martin Barre mixes the old with the new on tourBy: DANNY COLEMAN | October 5, 2018 Martin Barre is back at it once again. This legendary guitarist of Jethro Tull fame is better than ever with a new album, radio airplay and a United States tour that stops at The Sellersville Theater in Sellersville, Pa., Oct. 5 at 8 p.m. “Music is always being fine-tuned,” he says. “We never sit back and think we’re happy with everything we do. We think it’s a necessity to always examine and try to improve.” He’s got a new album, Roads Less Travelled, coming out soon. “But I’m selling it at the gigs and it has been getting a fantastic reaction so far from the fans in the U.K. and, amazingly, I’m getting radio play, which is pretty unheard of,” he said, sounding somewhat shocked. “I am so amazed because I never would’ve been able to plan anything like that.” What makes it even more surprising for Barre is that it’s coming from his native country. “In the U.K., most of the radio stations play ’70s or ’80s music and much of it is really boring (laughs), and I just wonder who the demographic is there and who actually likes that music and makes it the popular choice. It’s very strange. But who am I?” His current tour includes 36 gigs in about six weeks. “I couldn’t imagine it so I’m not even going to look at that,” he said, with a chuckle. “We’re gathering a fanbase night after night and it’s hard work, but they’re great fans, and every one fan we make is a real fan. It’s not like somebody who sees us once and then we never see again. These people keep coming back to lots of shows … and they’re nice, which people make it all worthwhile.” Martin is very appreciative of his past and understands that his fanbase is, also. Weaving his former band’s material with his own like a fine tapestry, he’s struck the right chord for himself, his bandmates and the audiences. “It’s a nice legacy and we’re playing a lot of the old Tull tracks on this tour that we literally just learned, and some stuff from (the 1969 Jethro Tull album) Stand Up, and it sounds really strong and the audiences are just loving it. It’s timeless, really, because the guys have never played it before, so it’s like learning a new piece of music for them. And for me, I try to make it a little bit different so that it’s fresher and up to date, but it all works really, really well.” “The Guys,” as he calls them, are a finely tuned machine that gels seamlessly onstage, in part due to a new addition behind the drum kit. “Our new drummer Darby Todd is from the U.K.; he did the album and then from that joined the band. He did our European tour and he’s done festivals with us, so he’s very established within the band. We have Dan Crisp on vocals, Alan Thompson on bass — the same guys who’ve been around for the last three or four years. They’re a very tight band, and they’ve just gotten better and better. “The band has this element of discovery. It sounds a bit pretentious, but there’s freshness about the band and it’s always very obvious when we play live. You just can’t fake it. When the band is into the music, the performance improves and just gets better, and the audiences really can see that. I’ve heard of bands … not that I’ve seen them, but I’ve heard that at their concerts they’ve looked like they really didn’t want to be there, and I can’t even imagine that. It’s a concept beyond me that any band could be like that, because it’s such a commitment. When you’re on the road, it’s such hard work that you just have to have that reward at the end of the day.” The band has meshed, but how does he go about deciding what to do from both his current and former catalogs to keep things that way? According to Barre, it’s not always easy. “I’m doing a lot of my own material but throwing in some old classic Tull material and stuff of of my new album, so there’s always a balance there, and that’s what makes this band work really well. There’s not too much Tull and just enough of my material, and there’s lots of options and that keeps the band pretty fresh. There are times it can be a difficult balance, but I’m always working at it and bringing in new Tull tracks so that the sets are not the same old same old, so that nothing is predictable for the fans. And a lot of them relay that to me: They say it’s so nice to go see a band more than once a year and not get the same show. “That’s what I would expect when I go see a concert. I don’t want to see the same show I saw a year ago. I want to see something different. Sometimes it’s difficult because there are people who like a routine, and we have done a tour in the past where we only changed a couple of songs a night. What that does is make the shows go very smooth and you’re not always looking at your setlist to see what’s next. So from that point of view, routine is good, but we don’t let it rule us.” Social media, downloads and an industry in turmoil have all affected the way recording artists do business. But a savvy performer such as Barre has learned how to adapt. “The rules have changed and you’ve got to go with them,” he said. “I’m in it for the long run. “You know, it’s like the way that books all went to Kindle and now they’re coming back to good old-fashioned paperback books that you can shove in your bag and then lend it to your mate and then put it on your bookshelf and take it down and read it again in a couple of years. I think music will be like that. I think it will ebb and flow through all these fashions, but the good thing is that my music is more accessible and out to a bigger market. I have people following me on Facebook and Instagram and all these mediums. People are getting to hear the music that they normally wouldn’t, so that’s the upside of it.” For more about Martin Barre, visit martinbarre.com.
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Post by maddogfagin on Oct 24, 2018 5:58:32 GMT
www.newhampshire.com/article/20181018/NEWHAMPSHIRE0105/181019564Guitarist Martin Barre on Jethro Tull, ‘Aqualung’ and his solo band’s trip to NHBY ROXANNE RUBELL October 17. 2018 12:39PM Martin Barre is running a little late, but he has a good excuse. “Many apologies. We’ve been in the studio and quite honestly, I just lost track of time and completely forgot about our interview. I didn’t have my wife around to remind me,” he says, laughing. Barre, who was in the rock band Jethro Tull for 43 years, has been out on his own doing solo work since the band split up in 2011. These days, he’s doing more songwriting than ever before and is in his element. The Martin Barre Band will perform much of Barre’s solo work along with many Jethro Tull classics in a 7:30 p.m. show Saturday at the Flying Monkey Movie House and Performance Center in Plymouth. Barre and his band (Barre, Dan Crisp, Alan Thompson and Darby Todd) are on a whirlwind tour in the states to promote their latest release, “Roads Less Travelled.” To date, they have checked off 12 shows in the last three weeks. And Barre says their schedule is not slowing down anytime soon. “I told our agent we don’t want days off, and he took us at our word,” says Barre in a recent phone interview. “We’ve got these four days off and have spent them in the studio recording an album for next year. After this, I think we’re pretty much performing every day for a month. But that’s what we do. That’s our job!” Barre joined Jethro Tull following the group’s debut album “This Was” in 1968 after founding member and guitarist Mick Abrahams departed over disagreements about the band’s musical direction. The band’s next album, “Stand Up,” was not only critically acclaimed, it also attracted a whole new legion of Tull fans. “Benefit” followed in 1970, and then “Aqualung” — both the name of the album and smash rock hit — exploded across the airwaves in 1971. Barre’s guitar sound and his ability to create melodies were a major contribution to that album, and the band’s success. Although the band had changed members many times over the years, he and lead singer Ian Anderson were the only constants among the band lineup, though both have since gone onto solo careers. (Anderson is on an international tour with Ian Anderson Presents Jethro Tull — 50th Anniversary Tour.) Barre released “Away With Words” in 2013 and promoted it by going on tour as an acoustic quartet. “Order of Play” came out in 2014, followed by “Back to Steel” in 2015. Barre says he hasn’t looked back since Anderson pulled the plug on Jethro Tull in 2011. “I’m totally focused on what I want to do and have a vision of what I want to do with music. Nothing’s going to detract from that,” says Barre. “With Tull, of course, I didn’t always agree with Ian — musically, dynamically, with performances, gigs, the whole repertoire. Now I’m in control of what I do, and it’s much happier for me.” Although the guitar solo Barre laid down on “Aqualung” is ranked by Rolling Stone magazine in the top 25 of the best recorded guitar solos in rock music, when it comes to penning songs, Barre says he’s just coming of age. “I’m learning,” he says. “I haven’t been a songwriter very long, but I’ve been doing a lot of writing and wanting to play more of my own songs on tour. I really admire the great songwriters — Neil Young, Don Henley. Writing really great songs to me is way more important than being a whiz kid guitar player or instrumentalist of the year. “The nicest thing, for me, is when someone says they like one of the songs I’ve written ... that really makes me feel good,” he adds. “And that’s what I’m trying to do — bring together good music underneath this umbrella of songwriting.” Once the current tour winds down, Barre will return to his home in Plymouth, England, to focus completely on his next album, which will be comprised of 50 Tull tunes — some familiar, others more obscure but all of them sonically amended. The album will be released next year and Barre will then embark on a new tour. With 10 songs already recorded, Barre says he’s taking great care to put his own stamp on the material. “The songs will be special,” he says. “I’m not just going to go through the motions of recording them the way they were before. There will be a lot of care and attention in the presentation, and it will be very, very new.”
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Post by maddogfagin on Oct 31, 2018 15:35:02 GMT
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 3, 2018 7:18:37 GMT
Interesting and informative 4 page article about MB by David West with 2 photos by Elayne Barre. MB's quoted as saying "I don't play Aqualung onstage because it's a cheap way of getting the audience on your side. I want to win them over with music where they go " Wow, I wouldn't think he'd play that one."" Glad he does though www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imh5voqnEXwOther than that a well constructed piece. Also in the mag a review of the This Was reissue with the unreleased outtake "Ultimate Confusion" described as a "freeform improvisation" - nice.
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 4, 2018 7:29:12 GMT
Interesting and informative 4 page article about MB by David West with 2 photos by Elayne Barre. MB's quoted as saying "I don't play Aqualung onstage because it's a cheap way of getting the audience on your side. I want to win them over with music where they go " Wow, I wouldn't think he'd play that one."" Glad he does though www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imh5voqnEXwOther than that a well constructed piece. Also in the mag a review of the This Was reissue with the unreleased outtake "Ultimate Confusion" described as a "freeform improvisation" - nice. Very tardy of me I know but I forgot to mention that tucked away at the back of Prog 92 is a short, but comprehensive review by Chris Roberts, of the book ORIGINAL JETHRO TULL: THE GLORY YEARS, 1968-1980 by Gary Parker. The reviewer says ". . . it flows well through its preferred decade shining new light on, for example, Minstrel In The Gallery. A concise close-up, focusing on one period of Tull's past." I understand the book, in printed form, should be published at the end of December this year.
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Post by steelmonkey on Nov 9, 2018 16:59:49 GMT
I got the Glory book from Amazon...expensive for a paperback but good book and good cause.
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Post by bunkerfan on Nov 19, 2018 16:00:26 GMT
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Post by maddogfagin on Dec 4, 2018 7:05:20 GMT
www.guitarworld.com/artists/how-martin-barres-exotic-approach-made-joe-satriani-stand-up-and-take-noticeHow Martin Barre's Exotic Approach Made Joe Satriani 'Stand Up' and Take NoticeBy Joe Satriani 15 hours ago Artist "Being a kid from New York I found his entire approach kind of exotic." Joe Satriani on the influence of Jethro Tull's Martin Barre on his playing. I witnessed Martin Barre playing guitar with Jethro Tull at the Westbury Music Fair on Long Island in July 1970. I think it was my second concert experience, and the venue was a “theater in the round” setup. They were in town on their Benefit tour. Martin’s sound and playing was just like it was on the Tull albums — exciting, earthy, stellar and unique. I was mystified by his perfect blend of electric blues, rock and some kind of British, renaissance-like folk style I couldn’t quite put my finger on. Being a kid from New York I found his entire approach kind of exotic. He was brilliant. Jethro Tull were an unusual band to say the least, even in the context of the times, which were pretty crazy. Ian Anderson’s writing style was so musically adventurous but always solid. It was progressive stuff but with just the right amount of warmth and feel. Martin kept it real, gritty and grounded for me. Stand Up is still my favorite from that era. Andy Johns produced and engineered that record and it has his unique sonic signature on it. Andy told me some great stories about the making of that record, which has only served to strengthen my connection to it. It’s funny how, as a fan, you can get stuck on one or two albums by your favorite band. Aqualung and Thick as a Brick were more popular with my friends and the rest of the world over time, but my memories of growing up and coming of age are tied to Stand Up and Benefit — and eight-track tapes! As the summer of 1970 ended and school started, we lost Jimi Hendrix. That day, September 18, I decided to become a guitarist. As a young musician starting out, looking for inspiration, I was fortunate to have Martin’s guitar playing to inspire me, illuminating all the different ways to play guitar and create musical magic. Thank you, Martin Barre!
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 2, 2019 6:55:37 GMT
www.ultimate-guitar.comJethro Tull's Martin Barre Says He Doesn't Understand Why People Need More Than One Good Guitar"I had one guitar for a long time, and when I wanted a better guitar I sold the one I had," the guitarist says. Posted 17 hours ago Classic Jethro Tull guitarist Martin Barre - who was a member of the fold between 1968 and 2012, and is by far the band's longest-serving member after leader Ian Anderson - talked all things guitar during a recent conversation with Guitar World. link
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 4, 2019 7:45:56 GMT
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 5, 2019 7:38:36 GMT
Martin Barre - Jethro Tull guitarist talks about the 70s inc.Hendrix - Radio Broadcast 04/10/2015
Raised On Radio Published on 3 Jan 2019
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Post by theothertull on Jan 5, 2019 19:38:50 GMT
www.ultimate-guitar.comJethro Tull's Martin Barre Says He Doesn't Understand Why People Need More Than One Good Guitar"I had one guitar for a long time, and when I wanted a better guitar I sold the one I had," the guitarist says. Posted 17 hours ago Classic Jethro Tull guitarist Martin Barre - who was a member of the fold between 1968 and 2012, and is by far the band's longest-serving member after leader Ian Anderson - talked all things guitar during a recent conversation with Guitar World. link Now this explains the need for this page on Martin's site: martinbarre.com/martin-gear/"Any way the wind blows!"
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 9, 2019 7:50:33 GMT
www.musicradar.comOne for the road - Martin Barre: “Spinal Tap moment? We used to dress up in animal suits and have four-hour shows”By David Mead (Guitarist) a day ago The ex-Tull man on live mishaps, infestations and the benefits of running (Image: © Elayne Barre)Jethro Tull legend Martin Barre recalls how running keeps him sane and fears a life without cheese… LINK www.loudersound.com/Martin Barre recalls Spinal Tap moment with Jethro TullBy Scott Munro 17 hours ago Prog The former Jethro Tull guitarist looks back at the most ridiculous moment from life on the road - and reveals his all-time favourite live album Former Jethro Tull member Martin Barre has recalled his most Spinal Tap moment. LINK
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 9, 2019 8:04:04 GMT
www.ultimate-guitar.comJethro Tull's Martin Barre Says He Doesn't Understand Why People Need More Than One Good Guitar"I had one guitar for a long time, and when I wanted a better guitar I sold the one I had," the guitarist says. Posted 17 hours ago Classic Jethro Tull guitarist Martin Barre - who was a member of the fold between 1968 and 2012, and is by far the band's longest-serving member after leader Ian Anderson - talked all things guitar during a recent conversation with Guitar World. link Now this explains the need for this page on Martin's site: martinbarre.com/martin-gear/"Any way the wind blows!"
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Post by maddogfagin on Feb 15, 2019 7:48:07 GMT
www.marinij.com/2019/02/14/legendary-guitarist-martin-barre-discovers-theres-life-after-jethro-tull/Legendary guitarist Martin Barre discovers there’s life after Jethro Tull English musician Martin Barre brings his band to Mill Valley’s Sweetwater Music Hall on Feb. 27. Courtesy of Martin Barre BandBy PAUL LIBERATORE PUBLISHED: February 14, 2019 at 12:00 pm | UPDATED: February 14, 2019 at 3:04 pm Faithful readers of this column know that I’m always looking to let everyone know whenever an important figure in rock history comes to town. This time it’s an English musician named Martin Barre, longtime lead guitarist of the British progressive rock band Jethro Tull. On Feb. 27 and 28, he brings his own Martin Barre band to Sweetwater in Mill Valley. I suspect that many of you may be old enough to remember Jethro Tull. For everyone else, here’s a little background: As one of the most commercially successful progressive rock bands of all time, Jethro Tull has sold some 60 million records worldwide with 11 gold and five platinum albums. The band first came on the U.K. and U.S. scene with its second album, the blues-tinged “Stand Up” in 1969. "A chasm opened up beneath me and I had to think quickly and very deliberatively what I was going to do with the rest of my life. It was traumatic,” says Martin Barre, 2nd from the right, when Jethro Tull disbanded.That was the first album that Barre played on, having joined the band two years after its founding by its wild-eyed, flute-playing front man, Ian Anderson. It was the record that brought Jethro Tull to America for the first time. Barre, who turned 73 this month, fondly remembers sharing bills with Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, Led Zeppelin, the Paul Butterfield Band and most of the major rock acts touring the U.S. during that extraordinary period of musical creativity. Playing with the DeadHe still has a poster from a festival Jethro Tull played that year with the Grateful Dead in the capacious Rose Bowl in Pasadena. “I remember the Grateful Dead played for four hours,” he says with a laugh, speaking by phone from his home on the southwest coast of England near Plymouth. “They played for a helluva long time.” Like many baby boomers, I became aware of Jethro Tull through the 1971 album “Aqualung,” a huge hit, followed by “Thick as a Brick,” another smash, a year later. I was in the audience on Sept. 1, 2000, when Jethro Tull played a 20-song show at the Marin Veterans’ Memorial Auditorium. I remember chatting with Anderson briefly in the green room afterward. Anderson had always been the star of the band, its eccentric front man, but it was Barre who came up with many of the riffs and chord progressions that made Jethro Tull tunes so distinctive, including the memorable lick that forms a kind of eerie leitmotif in “Aqualung.” And the solo he played on that song has become part of rock guitar lore, voted by readers of Guitar Player magazine as one of the greatest of all time. Guitar World magazine listed it as one of the 100 greatest ever. Barre’s unusual self-taught style has influenced generations of guitarists, from Mark Knoffler and Joe Bonamassa to Steve Vai, Joe Satriani and Eric Johnson. An albatrossInstead of embracing “Aqualung” as his calling card, Barre finds it more of an albatross around his neck. To him, it feels stifling creatively. He chafes at the notion that he’s expected to play it at every concert to please Jethro Tull fans. “I didn’t play it for 10 years,” he says. “I don’t like the cheap shot of walking on stage and playing the ‘Aqualung’ riff. I’d rather play something people don’t expect.” “At my age, I still have energy, I’m healthy at the moment and I’m still hungry to play music,” Martin Barre says. Courtesy of Martin Barre BandSince about 60 percent of his band’s set consists of Jethro Tull tunes, Barr will occasionally mix it into the show, “when the mood takes me.” But he wouldn’t commit to playing it at Sweetwater despite my best efforts to guilt trip him into it. “People might be disappointed,” he says in his gentlemanly British accent. “I don’t like to take the easy way.” Jethro Tull worked practically non-stop for some five decades before Anderson pulled the plug in 2013, telling Barre it was all over after a concert in Munich. “At the time it was a huge thing to happen to me because I had nothing to do with it,” Barre recalls. “I didn’t want to finish, but Ian (Anderson) told me he was tired of being in a band called Jethro Tull and didn’t want to do it anymore.” The end was devastating for Barre. For better or worse, he’d been Anderson’s right-hand man for nearly 45 years. One reviewer lamented that for all that time he had been “criminally overlooked.” ‘Traumatic’ ending
“A chasm opened up beneath me and I had to think quickly and very deliberatively what I was going to do with the rest of my life,” he says. “It was traumatic.” Recovering from the initial shock, Barre put together a quartet under his own name in 2014 and released the solo album “Away with Words.” He’s recorded three more Martin Barre band albums since then, most recently last year’s “Roads Less Travelled.” Barre may not have seen it coming, but the break from Anderson has been complete. When Anderson launched a 50th anniversary Jethro Tull world tour in 2017, Barre was not asked to be part of it. Likewise, when Barre hits the road with an eight-piece band for a tour of the U.S. later this year, celebrating his 50-year anniversary as a member of Jethro Tull, it will be without Anderson “He has a solo band and I have a solo band,” Barre says. “We live in different worlds, physically, emotionally, mentally. We’re going in opposite directions.” What struck me about my conversation with Barre is his undimmed passion for music. Despite his age, he seems preternaturally upbeat, devoid of world-weariness or cynicism. He still loves touring and revels in playing for audiences on his own terms, secure in his well-earned reputation as one of rock’s greatest guitarists. “I have a fantastic following of fans, and they’re my fans,” he says. “At my age, I still have energy, I’m healthy at the moment and I’m still hungry to play music.” IF YOU GO What: Martin Barre Band When: 8 p.m. Feb. 27 and 28 Where: Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave., Mill Valley Admission: $35 to $40 Information: sweetwatermusichall.com
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Post by rredmond on Feb 15, 2019 19:53:25 GMT
Ya beat me to it Graham! I was just coming here to post that. Man I dig me some Martin Lancelot Barre! Good stuff, great article. Be well, --Ron--
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Post by steelmonkey on Feb 15, 2019 22:13:01 GMT
I'll be at Sweetwaters. Great, small venue...used to be a record store where Elvis Costello shopped and played surprise gigs when he passed through.
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Post by JTull 007 on Mar 10, 2019 23:38:59 GMT
Prog-Watch 541-In Conversation with Martin Barre of Jethro Tull LINK
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 14, 2019 7:19:35 GMT
Ex Jethro Tull's Martin Barre & Eric Blair (Eddie Jobson & John Wetton) part 1 2019 423 views
blairingoutshow Published on Mar 12, 2019
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 19, 2019 7:47:48 GMT
Ex Jethro Tull Martin Barre & Eric Blair talk hierarchy in Jethro Tull 2019 95 views
blairingoutshow Published on Mar 18, 2019
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Post by JTull 007 on Mar 20, 2019 11:18:56 GMT
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Post by JTull 007 on Mar 23, 2019 1:34:18 GMT
“Martin Barre Live at the Factory Underground” is a live recorded album of 13 songs by Martin Barre, long time guitarist of Jethro Tull. The album and collectible merchandise items LINK commemorate fifty years of Jethro Tull in America
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 25, 2019 7:15:05 GMT
Ex Jethro Tull Martin Barre & Eric Blair part 3 Paul McCartney, Phil Collins & Jeff Beck 316 views blairingoutshow Published on Mar 23, 2019
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 5, 2019 6:23:05 GMT
www.newjerseystage.com/articles/2019/04/04/rock-on-this-weeks-sound-bites4419/ROCK ON! This Week's Sound Bites...4/4/19By Danny Coleman originally published: 04/04/2019 "It was a development; I know what you're asking but there's no answer," says legendary guitarist Martin Barre as he discussed 50 years of Jethro Tull, his time spent with group and their success. "I never had a eureka moment, the band never had something happen that changed our lives overnight. We just worked really, really hard every week of every month of every year for a long, long time and it developed a career. We had good albums, we had albums that weren't so strong but it was always the touring that was really good, we were always known to be a live act, a live band and it just grew. It was a really slow development like being on the back burner of a cooker, the flavor is rich and intense but it's well seasoned. It wasn't a flash in the pan and I quite like that, so there were no gigs where I could say wow that really changed my life and I enjoyed everything. I loved the tiny clubs, the huge festivals; live music can be really varied and it brings the same sort of joy in whatever format it is but I just like the history because it was never crazy. We never had a year where we were flying around in private jets and staying in five star penthouse hotel suites; we never did it. We were comfortable, we were successful but it was always the music came first and the work came first. We worked hard and I think that brings a different reward." "A different reward" is proof positive in the success of Barre alone as well as the current "Barre-less" version of his old group; also out on the road celebrating five decades of some of the most memorable rock music ever created and still led by front man Ian Anderson. The hard work seems to come as pleasure to him and the always gracious Barre often reflects on the band which helped him rise to prominence and the current tribute to such a large portion of his career; even years after a well-publicized split. "In retrospect it wasn't an un-amicable split; is that a word? he said with a laugh. "It was just badly handled and sort of left a scar. Everybody is different and how I handle my band, how you handle your job, how some CEO handles his company; everybody's different. Even though you know the person well; it was a PR exercise if you'd like that was just badly managed when it could've been a lot easier and a lot softer. I have no problem with the history of me and Ian or any of the guys who have been in Tull; I endorse the product and have been for the last seven years. I'm keeping Tull's music alive and as a self- promotion I tell people they have a choice but if you want to see the most "Tull" band that you can in 2019 it's going to be my band because we've got three members of Tull. We do a really strong cross section of music, all in the original keys, very strong, very dynamic and it's a really strong showing. We've picked out the best pieces of music and we're going to play them really, really well. That's what I do, what other people do I don't know and I guess it doesn't really matter because we're all out there playing music and making a living and trying to make the best music we can and give the audiences the best show that we can give them; there's room for everybody. I have no issue with anyone, I have to be very careful with the wording and that suits me. I do say it's, "Jethro Tull's Martin Barre" and it's not Martin Barre's Jethro Tull and the difference is, in the latter version I'm saying I'm Jethro Tull and I'm not and never will be. I just tell people that really there isn't a Jethro Tull because certainly in my mind and maybe in Ian's mind the only true version of Jethro Tull would have the two of us in it. If that will ever happen I don't know but I've got a great band who play the music really, really well and I would never turn my back on what I've built up over the last seven years. I've got a great bunch of guy and my job is to feed them (laughs) musically and financially and I enjoy doing it and I don't want anything to change for me at all." The "Martin Barre Celebrates 50 Years of Jethro Tull Tour" kicks off in the U.S on April 12 in Hudson, NY and has scheduled stops in NYC at the famed Iridium, two stops in New Jersey and one in Pennsylvania and Barre promises each one will be different. "The first show is the twelfth of April; we will have literally four days of rehearsal and then we go to New York. It's completely different from the Martin Barre Band shows as there will be none of my music involved in it at all. It's more like a theatrical production in that it adheres to a very strict format of the music right through Tull's career. There's video backdrops, voice overs and an eight piece band that includes Clive Bunker and Dee Palmer, I've got two girl singers; it's a big production, very different and completely different from normal. We've got two drummers, keyboards, my band and the girl singers and the girls will do some of the acoustic songs from Tull; I've recorded a double CD which is only available at the gigs and one of the CDs is them singing some re-recorded acoustic songs from Tull and it brings something extra and something different to the table and they've got amazing voices." When asked why he chose to go this route with his current tour instead of doing perhaps one dedicated set of Tull to pay homage to his past; he responded with a hearty laugh, "I don't remember;" he then elaborated on the thought process behind this tour. "It's a progression because we're getting into the theaters and I want to get a step up from the bigger clubs and some of the gigs that I've been doing. I just want to up my game and I think this will be a nice way of doing it. It's a bigger show, a bigger audience and then we'll come back next year and sort of re-think what we'll do. I'll probably do this Tull show on the west coast and then do a version of it ongoing but it's just another project. We've played a lot in The States, I believe the last tour was number seven and we've been to the east coast a lot but without the same show at all, with very different music from the solo albums, "Roads Less Travelled" and "Back to Steel" so we've changed the music. I just felt that to come back to the east side of America again that we needed something really off the wall, something that people would make a really special effort to come and see." Now that the decision was made to go the extra mile to draw fan's attention to the tour; with a catalog as vast as Tull's how does one choose the material to perform? "I'm just picking the hits. I could play a three or four hour set but most promoters don't want more than two and one half hours. So it's difficult; we're doing a segment from "Thick As A Brick" a segment from"Passion Play" most of "Heavy Horses" half of, "Songs From The Wood" but nothing suffers because of it. It's concise and I hope slick, very musical and I hope people will enjoy it. I don't want to be tied down by constraints like that, I just want a show that works really well and I think I've got it; as I said earlier I don't want to come back with the same format and I won't. I always change the music as much as I possibly can; it's almost side project of what we do and I hope it grows and it might sit side by side with the Martin Barre Band tours." Most bands these days have issues getting to a tenth anniversary let alone a fiftieth, Barre's celebration of his past will no doubt be a top notch presentation of his and Tull's storied career; so what does he do in year number 51 and beyond? "I've got it in mind to come back and do just an acoustic tour; occasionally we do an acoustic show and they work really, really well. They're a lot of work because it's a whole set of music; one night we're electric with a set we know and then the next night we're acoustic with a completely new set and it really is hard work to do both but it's rewarding and the people love it. I'd like to do a dedicated tour of acoustic shows; maybe next year because I think all of those things work musically and they're fun and really worth doing. I don't like the idea that it's a normal show played on acoustic guitar because that's a different beast, it's not "Unplugged," it's different music, completely different and that's where we're maybe different from other bands because certainly I'm not interested in playing the same set with no drums or a cajon and everybody strumming on guitar. I'm not taking anything away from bands that do that because I'm sure that they do it really well, it's just not my cup of tea. Again, this would be a new project and essentially if I had three nights in one theater I could do all three shows and they'd be completely different." April 15 and 25 the tour stops at New York's famed Iridium along with April 16 at the Levoy Theater in Millville, NJ, then off to some dates in New England before returning to Sellersville Theater on April 21 along with an appearance at The Newton Theater on April 27. Fret not as Martin returns to Parkers Press Park in Woodbridge, NJ on June 19, the New Hope Winery in New Hope, PA on June 20 and a final area appearance at William Morrow Beach in Somers Point, NJ with the Martin Barre Band doing their usual selection of his solo material and just enough Jethro Tull in the mix to keep it flowing along nicely. To purchase tickets or discover more about Martin Barre's multiple projects, please visit www.martinbarre.com.
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Post by stevep on Apr 14, 2019 16:24:06 GMT
Article about Martin Barre in the UK Sunday Telegraph today - in the financial section of all places. Sorry I have had to add this as an attachment and also the first page is about financial statistics.
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Post by bunkerfan on Apr 14, 2019 18:07:28 GMT
Article about Martin Barre in the UK Sunday Telegraph today - in the financial section of all places. Sorry I have had to add this as an attachment and also the first page is about financial statistics. Thanks Steve. Here's the article :- Martin Barre, 72, rose to stardom as guitarist for rock band Jethro Tull for 43 years (1969-2012). In that time the band sold 60 million albums (11 gold and five platinum) and Barre won a Grammy in 1989 for playing on the album Crest of a Knave. Since the Nineties he has also released seven solo studio albums. He lives in Devon with his wife, Julie. How did your childhood affect your attitude to money? My parents struggled. My dad owned an engineering factory in Birmingham during the war and in the mini-depression afterwards he had to sell it and work for the people who bought it. So it was a tough upbringing and everything I wanted – like a transistor radio or acoustic guitar – I had to pay for myself. I was brought up having a good sense of value and understanding of what money meant. I had a paper round, worked in a fish and chip shop making the chips, did a butcher’s round on one of those old-fashioned bicycles and delivered lemonade round the housing estates. What was your first job? I failed a year at university and was asked to do it again. I thought it was so boring I’d have a go at being a professional musician – have a bit of fun. So I never really had a full-time job, although I worked for building companies in the holidays, first as an apprentice surveyor for West Bromwich Council where they spent the whole time teaching me how to drive their van. I shared a room in London with a band and had to sleep on the floor. I had everything on hire purchase and never had any money. We went on the dole for two weeks and got £7 a week and after that you had to take a job or they’d chuck you out. It was fun and carefree. Are you a saver or a spender? A spender. I love living life and doing nice things with our children on holidays. I love doing up houses. Do you use cash or cards? Everything and anything at my disposal. Do you have Isas? Yes. Most of my investments I cashed in for something more tangible like a guitar, watch or an antique. I’ve persuaded my wife to cash in her Isa and buy a painting. If the painting keeps its value that’s a bonus. Have you invested in property? I’ve followed my heart rather than my wallet. We moved to Devon 40 years ago and people thought we were mad. We lived in a huge manor house on 60 acres with outbuildings and studios and nearly every penny I made with Jethro Tull went into it. I bought it in the late Seventies for £200,000 and sold it for £2.5m 10 years ago. Have you saved for retirement? No, I’m going to work until I drop, and I’m sure I’ll be OK. I’ve still got my guitars and things I’ve collected. If it came to the crunch I know we could find a way of making life manageable. What have been your best and worst financial decisions? Worst was when Jethro Tull moved to Switzerland to avoid the punitive taxes of the early Seventies. We had to sell everything and it was miserable. People didn’t like us and after six months we all moved back, having lost crazy amounts of money. Best was in the old touring days, when college kids used to go around pawn shops buying vintage guitars to sell them to bands at gigs. One I bought in 1971 for $250 was a 1959 Sunburst Les Paul which I sold 10 years ago for £250,000. Now my three children have nice houses. What’s the worst thing you’ve bought? Barrie Barlow, the drummer in Jethro Tull, used to get deals from his mates in Martin on stage with Jethro Tull bandmate Ian Anderson at the Wembley Empire Pool in London in 1973 CREDIT: DAVID WARNER ELLIS/REDFERNS Blackpool and said he could get us ride-on mowers. They were cheap and we spent days assembling them. Barrie’s mower pulled him into the River Thames; mine threw me off and chased me round the garden. But I got my revenge when the very posh people who bought the house said: “We’ll only buy your house if you let us have your lawnmower.” Have you done TV adverts? No, because I’m quite ugly. But I’ve got a huge catalogue of instrumental music that would make wonderful background music for them. I heard one of my pieces in a lift. It was re-recorded badly but I was so proud. Have you gambled? Once. When we were tax exiles we spent time in Monte Carlo and one night we went to the Hôtel de Paris where it took me five seconds to lose £20. I never gambled again. What’s the most you’ve splashed out? I bought my own 70th birthday present for £20,000, a 1961 Gibson ES-335 Dot Neck guitar, and found out I’d owned it 30 years ago. I bought an S1 Fastback 1955 Bentley in the early Seventies for £5,000 and the band took the mickey because it wasn’t a new one. When I moved to Devon it wouldn’t go through the lane so I sold it for £6,000. They’re now worth £1.5m. Did you all talk about money? No. In those days it wasn’t cool to make a lot of money so we all pretended it wasn’t happening. Then your accountant who you met every year would say: “You’ve got this much in the bank. You’d better buy a house.” You’d go: “How embarrassing. OK.” What’s the funniest thing that happened to you about money? We once flew Air India first class from Los Angeles to London. They announced they were overbooked in first and could offer two volunteers a free seat in economy and a refund for the first-class seat. So me and Barrie, our arms shot up. We were very glib, thinking about this wonderful refund we were going to get. Three months later we got a voucher with a letter saying we had been awarded some 5,000 rupees (about £55), valid for travel within India. It was our lesson in being greedy. Martin Barre’s latest album, Roads Less Travelled, is out now
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Post by steelmonkey on Apr 21, 2019 4:36:23 GMT
In the lengthy interview posted on 2-14-19, Martin says he doesn't like playing Aqualung, only mixes it into his set occaisonally when the mood strikes him and tells the interviewer he cannot promise to play it at upcoming shows described in article. Martin is lying.
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