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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2015 17:40:56 GMT
The Asheville music scene is as eclectic as ever. There’s truly something for everyone, even those on a tight budget. Artist: Martin Barre Venue: The Grey Eagle Date: Thursday, Dec. 3, 8 p.m. Door: $20 advance / $22 day of show Ask most people who the leader of Jethro Tull was, and they say, “Why, Mr. Tull, of course!” No, that’s Ian Anderson you’re thinking of. But the mainstay of that group alongside the flutist/singer was ace guitarist Martin Barre. On all but the first of the band’s 20-plus albums, it’s Barre’s fretwork that you’ll hear. With the disbanding of Jethro Tull in 2013, Barre has focused more intently on his solo career. But a Martin Barre solo tour isn’t one of those “older guy with an acoustic” shows where you get quiet readings of the back catalog. No, Barre is a fiery guitarist in a blues-rock mode, and he’s touring with a full band. Expect tunes from his new album, Back in Steel, alongside select re-imagined classics from the Jethro Tull songbook. Look for my interview with Martin Barre, a special Thanksgiving Day feature on my Musoscribe blog. The Get Right Band opens.
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Post by nonrabbit on Nov 22, 2015 9:35:51 GMT
He's having a ball
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Post by JTull 007 on Nov 23, 2015 18:13:43 GMT
JETHRO TULL's Martin Barre Band @ The Arts Garage November 21st Special Thanks to Kenneth Talbot
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Post by JTull 007 on Nov 24, 2015 1:23:44 GMT
"Eleanor Rigby" LIVE at The Arts Garage video by Alexander Shapiro MB LINK
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Post by JTull 007 on Nov 25, 2015 3:12:43 GMT
Time to Ride The BLUE CANOE with Martin Barre Band MB Link Blue Canoe is a laid back, funky joint and Tupelo's home for original live music. The relaxed atmosphere takes our patrons miles away, while our staff makes them feel right at home. Blue Canoe serves clever, mostly hands on bar food and has the best beer selection around, offering 100+ beers, 35 of which are on tap daily. We were recently voted Top 10 Burgers in MS. Everyone who plays signs The CATHEAD Stage!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2015 14:06:13 GMT
Jethro Tull’s Martin Barre Moves Ahead With Blues-RockBy Nancy Dunham | November 24, 2015 | 2:58pm It’s not that Martin Barre wants to forget Jethro Tull—the group in which he was a member for 43 years—but he’s certainly moved on musically. Any doubters need only listen to his latest release, Back To Steel, the 12-track album comprised primarily of his own music with three covers. “It is really important that the band has an identity with our own music,” Barre says by phone as he heads toward a cruise ship in Miami to join Yes, Marillion and other artists on the Cruise to the Edge event to Key West. “This has been a whole turning point musically. We will always have the Tull connection—that goes back to my roots and our fan base—but I want to take the fans with me. Essentially our musical style isn’t really changing. This album is a more direct approach to my songwriting, and our intention is to make it more workable and accessible for an audience to enjoy.” Although the Grammy Award-winning Barre is most closely associated with Tull—he joined the band in 1969 for its second album, Stand Up, and was continually hailed by critics for his virtuosic playing—he also has a solid body of solo work and collaboration with musicians including Paul McCartney and Phil Collins. After Tull founder and frontman Ian Anderson shifted musical direction in 2011, Barre began to tour as Martin Barre’s New Day, in which his band primarily played Tull music he found fans hungered to hear. One of the enchanting parts of Back to Steel is that Barre reimagines the Tull classic “Skating Away” and the Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby” and reintroduces fans to Tull’s “Slow Marching Band.” As one might expect, though, the highlights of the album are the nine original blues-rock songs. Barre doesn’t overwhelm his listeners with guitar hero riffs and solos—though he is more than capable of such feats—but instead carefully arranges the songs to weave his guitar work among lush vocals of Dan Crisp and backing vocalists and the solid percussion of drummer George Lindsay and bassist Alan Thomson. “I started from scratch,” Barre says of writing and selecting the tracks for the album. “The only one I had an idea of what to build on was ‘Eleanor Rigby.’ I had worked on that one about 10 years ago and put it on a shelf. But I sat down and wrote the songs over about three to four weeks. That’s not always a good thing, but it worked out pretty well on this. Every day I enjoyed working on it so much.” Although Barre had no planned agenda for the record—this is no concept album—the songs meld into a cohesive whole. Credit Barre’s lifetime love for blues-rock for that fluidity. Barre plans to continue to tour behind this album for at least a year, in both Europe and the United States, refining the music as the tours continue. “[Jethro Tull music] will always be a part of my work,” Barre says. “But I hope it becomes about 40 percent instead of 60 percent. I will never turn my back on it, though. I’m not so stupid that I don’t know that people come to hear me play so they can hear Tull. But a lot of that music is in me, anyway. That’s not far from home. It will always be there.”
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2015 18:10:29 GMT
Barre noneGuitarist Martin Barre of Jethro Tull fame brings that stellar, award-winning rock 'n' roll guitar to the stage at Duling Hall for a Sunday night show at 8 p.m. It’s $15 advance (dulinghall.com), $20 at the door. Martin Barre performs Sunday at Duling Hall. (Photo: Special to The Clarion-Ledger)
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 27, 2015 9:36:41 GMT
www.clarionledger.com/Jethro Tull guitarist Martin Barre marries into Miss.Steven Ward, The Clarion-Ledger 3 p.m. CST November 26, 2015 www.clarionledger.com/story/life/2015/11/26/jethro-tull-guitarist-martin-barre-marries-into-miss/76258524/English classic rock legends Jethro Tull only played Jackson one time in their more than four-decade career. The band's longtime guitarist, Martin Barre, made that Aug. 23, 1975, visit to the Mississippi Coliseum count. "I met a woman who was working in the gift shop at the airport. She couldn't understand a word I was saying," Barre told The Clarion-Ledger recently by phone. The woman who could barely understand the rocker was named Julie, and she hailed from the Rankin County city of Brandon. Julie Barre and Martin have now been married for 35 years. There must be something about English rock royalty and women from Brandon. The couple's 28-year-old son, who was born in London where his parents live today, also met a woman from Brandon. They married as well and live in the metro Jackson. Although Barre visits Mississippi once a year to visit with family, he is finally returning to the Jackson stage with his solo band to play Duling Hall on Sunday night. Barre is excited about his solo band and his new album, "Back to Steel." The music is a familiar excursion into English folk and hard rock with touches of lilting acoustic pop and electric progressive lead playing. The one uniting factor that weaves throughout the album's music is American blues. Barre fell in love with the genre when he was learning to play guitar in England in 1960. "I remember seeing blues players Buddy Guy, Albert King and B.B. King on the blues train when it went through England in 1968, I think it was," Barre said. Before discovering the blues, Barre soaked up American rock 'n' roll by Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard. The pop music coming out of England during those years was "boring," he recalled. Nowhere is the blues more evident in Barre's new music as in the deep and sometimes raw lead vocals of band singer Dan Crisp. Crisp was a singer Barre knew because he lived near the guitarist. "I was trying to figure out who would be good, and I didn't realize it at the time, but the singer was actually right under my nose," Barre said. Barre has been playing and recording solo music for years. His solo career, however, didn't start in earnest until Jethro Tull leader and founder Ian Anderson decided to abruptly break up the band in 2011. "We were in the middle of an American tour, and we were backstage when Ian just said one night, 'I'm fed up. I'm tired of fans yelling for us to play 'Aqualung.' I don't want to do this anymore.' And we just looked at him, and we said, 'Oh. Ok,'" Barre said. Barre and his band will definitely play Jethro Tull classics on Sunday. He said he is ready to reconnect with his fans in America. "Yeah, we are going to play some of those songs but I want to win them over with my music. I'm a different musician today," he said. That said, it is impossible to listen to FM radio without hearing Barre on the radio several times a day. He played on tracks from the band's most iconic album, "Aqualung" in 1971 and created the stirring guitar solos on the album's title track as well as the album's "Locomotive Breath." The album has sold more than 7 million copies. So why is the world obsessed with the band's fourth album? "I don't really know. It was a nightmare to make. There were some unhappy people in the studio. Maybe it was the image of the old man on the cover. That has really become a sort of logo," Barre said. IF YOU GO: Where: Duling Hall in Fondren When: Sunday. Doors open at 7 p.m.; show begins at 8 p.m. Tickets: $15 in advance, $20 at the door.
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Post by JTull 007 on Nov 27, 2015 12:23:20 GMT
Well, according to the recent Set List "Aqualung" will not be played... That's ok with me... Play "El Niño" Great article
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Post by nonrabbit on Nov 27, 2015 18:17:27 GMT
"We were in the middle of an American tour, and we were backstage when Ian just said one night, 'I'm fed up. I'm tired of fans yelling for us to play 'Aqualung.' I don't want to do this anymore.' And we just looked at him, and we said, 'Oh. Ok,'" Barre said. As simple as that then. So it was America's fault?
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Post by JTull 007 on Nov 28, 2015 1:24:02 GMT
Rockin' Shreveport, Louisiana with Bears, Beer, and Barre ! MB LINK 1 MB LINK 2 Bucket List opens up starting at 8. Martin Barre at 10.
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Post by futureshock on Nov 28, 2015 8:06:18 GMT
I've seen Tull in a variety of cities and it's the medium sized halls that perhaps have the better audience mindset. The huge Olympic sized sports arenas have a "beer party" atmosphere with drugs in the hallway and beer and broken glass flowing everywhere, people out of control, a real marginal control situation for big concerts and who hasn't heard the drunks calling for Aqualung in that case? I can understand not being interested in trying to entertain that kind of situation.
On the other hand, I've seen Flamenco guitarists give a great performance in a concert hall mostly focused on a classical music clientele, and the audience, trapped in their seats and overly formalized into politeness, seemed grossly unresponsive to very passionate Spanish music. What was happening on stage was control, passion, celebration, sexuality, connection, conversation, flirting. The audience was like a team of aspiring journalists hoping to catch a phrase..........dull as dull.
Where's the balance? Maybe concert halls should be rated by fans with a "This Venue Is Best for This Song: "Smoke On The Water", and then you'd know to never see concerts there, ha ha ha.
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Post by nonrabbit on Nov 28, 2015 9:13:00 GMT
I've seen Tull in a variety of cities and it's the medium sized halls that perhaps have the better audience mindset. The huge Olympic sized sports arenas have a "beer party" atmosphere with drugs in the hallway and beer and broken glass flowing everywhere, people out of control, a real marginal control situation for big concerts and who hasn't heard the drunks calling for Aqualung in that case? I can understand not being interested in trying to entertain that kind of situation. On the other hand, I've seen Flamenco guitarists give a great performance in a concert hall mostly focused on a classical music clientele, and the audience, trapped in their seats and overly formalized into politeness, seemed grossly unresponsive to very passionate Spanish music. What was happening on stage was control, passion, celebration, sexuality, connection, conversation, flirting. The audience was like a team of aspiring journalists hoping to catch a phrase..........dull as dull. Where's the balance? Maybe concert halls should be rated by fans with a "This Venue Is Best for This Song: "Smoke On The Water", and then you'd know to never see concerts there, ha ha ha. There's also the point that Bernie has made on numerous occasions about having the attention span of a gnat. I won't say it's down to amount of brain cells or what type of music people have been brought up with or what social/pleasure group people join in their teens as I'm sure there's plenty of knuckle heads with a love of Pavane, I think it's down to the span of how much change some people are willing to accept. "I don't care what theme/ idea/ cause Ian has now I want a loud, rhythmic beat and lyrics that remind me of when I was young!" "Aqualung"
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Post by JTull 007 on Nov 29, 2015 1:19:24 GMT
Martin Barre Band Rocks Jackson, Mississippi tonight! MB LINK 1 ‘Now Entering Ardenland’ @ Duling Hall MB LINK 2 Of course, it doesn't hurt to have a great venue to return to. A significant factor in Barnett's recent success is Duling Hall. Owners Mike Peters and Andrew Mattiace lease the former elementary school to Barnett, and it has quickly become one of the city's best choices for live music. "To us, (Duling Hall) is pretty holy ground right now," Barnett said. "It's been one of the staples for our business. ... I mean, it's in the hippest part of town. It's just a chemical reaction of Fondren, the building and the magical sound."
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Post by JTull 007 on Dec 1, 2015 1:16:33 GMT
Nov. 29 Duling Hall with Martin Barre LIVE Jackson, Mississippi FB LINK Special Thanks to AL Moran for sharing these with the Jethro Tull Forum !
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Post by JTull 007 on Dec 2, 2015 4:26:26 GMT
Hot'lanta just got a lot hotter...TONIGHT! DECEMBER 2 • 7:30PM THE MUSIC ROOM Windstorm Productions and SOB Present: MARTIN BARRE BAND MB LINK
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2015 14:29:04 GMT
Well, according to the recent Set List "Aqualung" will not be played... That's ok with me... Play "El Niño" Great article Love "El Niño". Play it live please! cheers!
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Post by JTull 007 on Dec 3, 2015 1:20:17 GMT
Here is where I'll be Thursday night. FRONT ROW for TULL's MARTIN BARRE
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Post by maddogfagin on Dec 3, 2015 8:24:57 GMT
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Post by nonrabbit on Dec 3, 2015 8:44:10 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2015 13:49:54 GMT
Thick As A Brick, Martin Barre Band at Smith's Old Bar in Atlanta Urban Explorers of Atlanta - Published on Dec 2, 2015
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Post by JTull 007 on Dec 3, 2015 15:51:51 GMT
Thick As A Brick, Martin Barre Band at Smith's Old Bar in Atlanta Urban Explorers of Atlanta - Published on Dec 2, 2015 Fresh TULL from Hot'lanta... WOW!!! A close friend called me from Smith's Olde Bar during intermission. He loved it and they played 2 sets and an encore. OMG! No opening act.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2015 20:36:34 GMT
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Post by JTull 007 on Dec 4, 2015 16:30:43 GMT
Martin Barre Band Rocks The Grey EagleIt was a special night which I am still recuperating from... Time for a Sound Check Even Teacher (Metta) was there after driving 6 hours to hear her favorite song ... "TEACHER"More to come...
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Post by JTull 007 on Dec 4, 2015 20:49:54 GMT
Jethro Tull's Martin Barre & Band on the Landing Pad Stage TONIGHT MB LINK
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Post by JTull 007 on Dec 5, 2015 13:28:52 GMT
MB LINK Jethro Tull's Martin Barre live on-air interview Check out LIVE Stream button and interview begins at 34:20 mark Closer to the Edge For nearly half a century, Martin Barre has delivered some of the greatest guitar performances in history. With Jethro Tull for 43 years, he is now touring to support his new solo album 'Back to Steel'. Martin will join JD on Thursday, December 3rd from 2-4 pm EST for a live in studio interview ahead of his concert at Asheville's Grey Eagle. Hear Martin's best work with Jethro Tull, including the Steven Wilson mix of 'Aqualung' and cuts from his brand new album PLUS stories from a storied career in Rock 'n' Roll. Only on Western North Carolina's premier Prog radio and Internet show at: www.ashevillefm.org/closer-to-the-edge Also broadcast in Scotland on www.voyage35.com/shows.html
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Post by maddogfagin on Dec 5, 2015 16:52:33 GMT
Thanks Jim - safely downloaded to the hard drive
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Post by JTull 007 on Dec 6, 2015 1:31:02 GMT
So much fun @ The Grey Eagle with Martin Barre! I feel very fortunate to have sat so close to the stage and see this performance! Living in a TULL Dream 42 Images LINK
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Post by nonrabbit on Dec 6, 2015 9:24:27 GMT
So much fun @ The Grey Eagle with Martin Barre! I can well imagine and we were all with you!!
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