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Post by nonrabbit on Jan 26, 2015 19:52:58 GMT
Any quick questions that occur when your minds on Tull.
When do you reckon Tull were a "SuperGroup"?
as in Led, CSNY, Cream etc
and was it the same time all over the planet?
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Post by jackinthegreen on Jan 26, 2015 21:18:21 GMT
Any quick questions that occur when your minds on Tull. When do you reckon Tull were a "SuperGroup"? as in Led, CSNY, Cream etc and was it the same time all over the planet? Good question nonrabbit.. I've always thought Tull were at their peak about Aqualung / Brick......so 1971-1972. I remember they were front page news on the music papers NME, Sounds, Melody Maker etc at around that time. And yes, it must have been the same the world over... ...no..... Ahhhhhh, those were the days... ..I was there you know....
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Post by steelmonkey on Jan 26, 2015 21:30:46 GMT
I think concert demand lagged a bit being peak production/performances and they were CONSIDERED a super group in 75 and 76 when the sold out multiple nights in huge venues and actual stadiums those two years....in 72 and 73 they were among many many bands that played a night per town in a largish place...but so good that then demand increased to multiple nights and stadium size gigs for the less compelling ( only by comparision) 75 and 76 tours.
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Post by nonrabbit on Jan 26, 2015 23:11:47 GMT
I agree 71/72 and possibly a bit of 73 here.
Always had an uneducated hunch that they were a super group for a bit longer in the States than they were here.
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Post by steelmonkey on Jan 26, 2015 23:50:46 GMT
They started getting compared to the big boys like Stones and Zep as early as 72...they got as much media attention and record sales as the big boys in 72-73 ( TAAB and APP both top of charts...LITP was as high as 9..HUGE for a double album of older stuff.) But the supergroup ticket sales came in 75 and 76....that's when they did things like sell out 18,000 seat venue in LA for 5 nights and play 40 thousand seat stadiums in NYC and Tampa and Chicago and Oakland and some other places. For every rock fan who saw TAAB and APP...there were 5 more who wished they had and bought tickets the next two tours.
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Post by jethrotull on Jan 27, 2015 3:16:16 GMT
In June of 1972 I saw the Stones on the 4th, Tull on the 11th and Led Zeppelin on the 19th all in the same venue. All three shows sold out the same day the tickets went on sale. But as huge as the Stones and Zep were, there was no question that Tull's performance was the most well received by the audience, they were just amazing. I think that was the band's peak in terms of stage performance - certainly my favorite concert - and they started a downhill slide from there, although their Passion Play, Warchild and Songs from the Wood tours were also fantastic.
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Post by nonrabbit on Jan 27, 2015 10:09:27 GMT
Was the late 70's Folksie period - SFTW (No 13 in the UK charts) and HH ( No 20 UK charts) more popular in the States than it was in UK.
Punk didn't hit the US till after the UK so did he mistime the rustic change in the UK?
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Post by steelmonkey on Jan 27, 2015 17:27:38 GMT
Excuse me, young lady...punk was invented in the United Sates by, in order: The MC5, The Stooges, The New York Dolls, The Ramones and Richard Hell and the Voidoids. Malcolm McClaren could not get the Dolls nor Richard Hell to go to London so he went back himself and found 4 Richard Hells to be the Sex Pistols.
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Post by nonrabbit on Jan 27, 2015 17:40:14 GMT
Excuse me, young lady...punk was invented in the United Sates by, in order: The MC5, The Stooges, The New York Dolls, The Ramones and Richard Hell and the Voidoids. Malcolm McClaren could not get the Dolls nor Richard Hell to go to London so he went back himself and found 4 Richard Hells to be the Sex Pistols. I know - I just realised when I logged on and read your post. So sorry Hell I never paid much attention to punk anyway
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Post by steelmonkey on Jan 27, 2015 18:13:24 GMT
yeah...then how do you explain those pictures of you with a rainbow mohawk and safety pins where it doesn't look very safe to pin ?
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Post by JTull 007 on Jan 27, 2015 21:49:08 GMT
I never considered TULL as a Supergroup until I heard this on FM radio back in the day.
I preferred seeing them as a unique and special form of music and entertainment.
Super Cool Group
Many bands were selling out in large arenas back in the days of $5.00 tickets and they were hip. I saw Zeppelin, ELP, Black Sabbath, Fleetwood Who?, The Eagles, Alice Cooper, and many more.
Were they Super Groups? Probably. Were they as cool as TULL? Nope. More popular? Probably. So regardless of popularity TULL is above what other groups have achieved... The Best Band on the Planet
That makes them as SUPER today as they were when I heard this on FM radio back in 1983. In My Humble opinion.
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Post by nonrabbit on Jan 28, 2015 10:42:22 GMT
yeah...then how do you explain those pictures of you with a rainbow mohawk and safety pins where it doesn't look very safe to pin ? Not me - you?
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Post by steelmonkey on Jan 28, 2015 16:44:59 GMT
I ignored punk till about 1995...my normal lag behind fashionable gap.
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