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Post by steelmonkey on Oct 21, 2008 17:52:31 GMT
How did you choose your forum I.D.? Long time nickname, favorite song, spur of the moment, default cuz yer favorite was taken, beyond Tull reason? When Crest came out Steel Monkey was probably my least favorite song...i didn't appreciate the ZZ Top tribute...somehow it just didn't take. At the time, i owned a bicycle messenger service called 'E.C. Rider'...the name derived from the headquarters...a san francisco downtown area called Embarcadero Center...whose buildings were known as EC 1, EC2, EC 3 etc...the idea came fro CC Rider, which the grateful dead performed a lot the year i started the company (1982) but, of course, everyone thought the name came from easy Rider. It didn't take long to see that 'Steel Monkey' would be the coolest bike messsenger and bike messenger company name ever...so a few months later I changed the name of the company and as the years passed i was increasingly known as.....'Steel Monkey'. By the end of the Rock Island tour, I loved the song, too! Think of bike messengers instead of construction workers and the lyrics work just as well...how did you pick your handle?
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Post by tullistray on Oct 21, 2008 21:51:04 GMT
How did you choose your forum I.D.? Long time nickname, favorite song, spur of the moment, default cuz yer favorite was taken, beyond Tull reason? When Crest came out Steel Monkey was probably my least favorite song...i didn't appreciate the ZZ Top tribute...somehow it just didn't take. At the time, i owned a bicycle messenger service called 'E.C. Rider'...the name derived from the headquarters...a san francisco downtown area called Embarcadero Center...whose buildings were known as EC 1, EC2, EC 3 etc...the idea came fro CC Rider, which the grateful dead performed a lot the year i started the company (1982) but, of course, everyone thought the name came from easy Rider. It didn't take long to see that 'Steel Monkey' would be the coolest bike messsenger and bike messenger company name ever...so a few months later I changed the name of the company and as the years passed i was increasingly known as.....'Steel Monkey'. By the end of the Rock Island tour, I loved the song, too! Think of bike messengers instead of construction workers and the lyrics work just as well...how did you pick your handle? Mine was easily chosen as a self evaluation, as one might be a chemist, clearly I was a Tullist. Worked in the financial district of SF and saw a bunch of Dead shows in the mid eighties, I was over at Steiner and Fell. CC Rider was one they would nail pretty good in those years, nice spring day at Frost possibly. I understand they do not use that for shows at all anymore, thats crazy. SF bike messengers it would seem would need to be particularly insane given their 45 degree angle streets like Powell and others. I recall hearing of an alarming number of deaths in SF from bicyclists, but many ride like Neal Casady, literally insane. Bet not too many people in the Bay Area wondered about the genesis of that name, almost Dead overkill out there. Too bad I was not aware that there was a brother head out there who shared a Tull fanaticism, Tull is popular among Deadheads, but somewhere a little down the list like maybe Richard Thompson but after Jorma and the usual suspects. If I could afford to live in the Bay Area I would, love Chicago but the 200 mile radius of SF cannot be beat, and the city is way cool.
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Post by steelmonkey on Oct 21, 2008 22:07:22 GMT
It was coming home from Dead, new years 81-82 that my friend and first employee started singing...'I said E...E C Rider..look what you have done' so we changed the name from Independant messenger to EC Rider...it was natural, a few years later, to change again to 'Steel Monkey'...The ex-employee, by the way, is now a successful musician, goes by the nickname i gave him in 1976, 'M.U'...his initials! I found lots of negativity re: Tull from deadheads...i think the concrete setlist vs every dead show being unique, is what stuck out as a criticism of tull...why go more than once a tour, wondered my deadhead friends about Tull.....It's normal for deadheads to judge via dead colored glasses...it didn't bug me...Tull was my private joy and the fact that Tull didn't reach my friends only made me more sure they were just right for me! Don't start me on neal Cassady...i grew up in his neighborhood in denver, went to the high school he attended for one year and so over-identified with him that i was careful to avoid mexico my 43rd year! I'm in Richmond now...the East Bay town, not the neighborhood...and hope to get back to SF in a year or two...lived there from 75 to 2004 and, how does this sound: 'left my heart in san francisco'!
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Post by broadsword on Oct 21, 2008 23:18:56 GMT
When there was a link from the Tull web-site to the Chat room on Chatango, I thought I'll have a look-see to find fellow Tullers. It made some kind of sense to have the name of a Tull track as your handle. All the obvious ones were taken - Aqualung and the like. So I tried heaps of song titles till Broadsword came up as available. I tried the same here and wey hey, it worked. Most Board members/chat room members call me Sword, very occasionally I get called BS.
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Post by maddogfagin on Oct 22, 2008 7:33:54 GMT
Took mine from one of my favourite Tull bootlegs and was quite surprised to find no one else had used it.
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Post by admin on Oct 22, 2008 8:32:58 GMT
Mine's just my name...how do I make that an interesting story!?
I started this forum as just an ordinary fan and I only did it because there was no real Tull fan community out there I knew of so I didn't want to be seen as some sort of mysterious webmaster type dude but just Col you could say hello to and have a pint at the bar with if you see me at a Tull show.
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Post by nonrabbit on Oct 22, 2008 10:57:05 GMT
How did you choose your forum I.D.? Long time nickname, favorite song, spur of the moment, default cuz yer favorite was taken, beyond Tull reason? When Crest came out Steel Monkey was probably my least favorite song...i didn't appreciate the ZZ Top tribute...somehow it just didn't take. At the time, i owned a bicycle messenger service called 'E.C. Rider'...the name derived from the headquarters...a san francisco downtown area called Embarcadero Center...whose buildings were known as EC 1, EC2, EC 3 etc...the idea came fro CC Rider, which the grateful dead performed a lot the year i started the company (1982) but, of course, everyone thought the name came from easy Rider. It didn't take long to see that 'Steel Monkey' would be the coolest bike messsenger and bike messenger company name ever...so a few months later I changed the name of the company and as the years passed i was increasingly known as.....'Steel Monkey'. By the end of the Rock Island tour, I loved the song, too! Think of bike messengers instead of construction workers and the lyrics work just as well...how did you pick your handle? Mine was easily chosen as a self evaluation, as one might be a chemist, clearly I was a Tullist. Worked in the financial district of SF and saw a bunch of Dead shows in the mid eighties, I was over at Steiner and Fell. CC Rider was one they would nail pretty good in those years, nice spring day at Frost possibly. I understand they do not use that for shows at all anymore, thats crazy. SF bike messengers it would seem would need to be particularly insane given their 45 degree angle streets like Powell and others. I recall hearing of an alarming number of deaths in SF from bicyclists, but many ride like Neal Casady, literally insane. Bet not too many people in the Bay Area wondered about the genesis of that name, almost Dead overkill out there. Too bad I was not aware that there was a brother head out there who shared a Tull fanaticism, Tull is popular among Deadheads, but somewhere a little down the list like maybe Richard Thompson but after Jorma and the usual suspects. If I could afford to live in the Bay Area I would, love Chicago but the 200 mile radius of SF cannot be beat, and the city is way cool. Hi Steel and Tullstray You have no idea how jealous you are making me lol I dreamed of SF and California in the late 60's and early 70's I was looking out my window in damp/dreary/ grey Glasgow whilst singing "Hot Summers Day" by It's a Beautiful Day!
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Post by bluehare on Oct 22, 2008 15:57:39 GMT
Wow! I love all these posts! Very interesting, every one of them.
Grew up in Modesto, which is about 90 minutes east and maybe a little south (?), BAD at directions I am...of San Francisco. To me, it will always be one of the jewels in our nation's crown as far as cities go. I never tire of visiting. Still go back as often as I can.
Now....my story.
Acres Wild was the first song where Ian's word paintings finally fell on me. I had been just singing and singing, when I started to notice how he describes things, and that I could actually visualize what he was describing.
I "bolded" the words to show his artist's eye for color. And the italicized words show his poet's eye for precise and evocative literal imagery.
I had to go research blue hares because of this song. I liked them so much, I took their name.
(Plus, my kids love seeing me as an old "blue hair" someday like the lady on Are You Being Served?)....
Acres Wild
I'll make love to you in all good places under black mountains in open spaces. By deep brown rivers that slither darkly through far marches where the blue hare races.
Come with me to the Winged Isle northern father's western child. Where the dance of ages is playing still through far marches of acres wild.
I'll make love to you in narrow side streets with shuttered windows, crumbling chimneys.
Come with me to the weary town discos silent under tiles that slide from roof-tops, scatter softly on concrete marches of acres wild. By red bricks pointed with cement fingers Flaking damply from sagging shoulders.
Come with me to the Winged Isle northern father's western child. Where the dance of ages is playing still through far marches of acres wild.
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Post by nonrabbit on Oct 22, 2008 16:10:04 GMT
Wow! I love all these posts! Very interesting, every one of them. Grew up in Modesto, which is about 90 minutes east and maybe a little south (?), BAD at directions I am...of San Francisco. To me, it will always be one of the jewels in our nation's crown as far as cities go. I never tire of visiting. Still go back as often as I can. Now....my story. Acres Wild was the first song where Ian's word paintings finally fell on me. I had been just singing and singing, when I started to notice how he describes things, and that I could actually visualize what he was describing. I "bolded" the words to show his artist's eye for color. And the italicized words show his poet's eye for precise and evocative literal imagery. I had to go research blue hares because of this song. I liked them so much, I took their name. (Plus, my kids love seeing me as an old "blue hair" someday like the lady on Are You Being Served?).... Acres WildI'll make love to you in all good places under black mountainsin open spaces. By deep brown riversthat slither darkly through far marches where the blue hare races. Come with me to the Winged Isle northern father's western child. Where the dance of ages is playing still through far marches of acres wild. I'll make love to you in narrow side streets with shuttered windows, crumbling chimneys.Come with me to the weary town discos silent under tiles that slide from roof-tops, scatter softly on concrete marches of acres wild.By red bricks pointed with cement fingers Flaking damply from sagging shoulders.Come with me to the Winged Isle northern father's western child. Where the dance of ages is playing still through far marches of acres wild.Hi Bluehare LOL love your description of the lady on Are you Being Served - Mrs Slocombe !!! I was always fascinated when old ladies dyed their hair purple or blue but do you know what - I'm going for both when the time comes Ps Mrs Slocombe sang a Tull song - Pussywillow ;D Acres Wild what a song and what lyrics !! I always use that song as an example and there are plenty others, when some people enquire about whether Tull is a predominately man's band - Yeah right ;D ;D
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Post by maddogfagin on Oct 22, 2008 16:38:34 GMT
Knew a Tull fan a long time ago who lived in Kent by the name of Martin Allen. He called his house Acres Wild which I always thought was rather amusing.
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Post by steelmonkey on Oct 22, 2008 16:56:17 GMT
I remember that one of the publicity sheets, sent to FM stations, about 1972, by Chrysalis, included a quote from a review, describing Ian as a 'Mad Dog Fagin'
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Post by maddogfagin on Oct 22, 2008 17:23:19 GMT
This is the British actor Eric Porter as Fagin in, I think, 1985. Remind you of anyone?
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Post by bluehare on Oct 22, 2008 17:26:31 GMT
Mrs. Slocombe! Yes! I forgot. She was funny. Now I have to find those shows again.....I didn't see the one where she sang a Tull song. That would be priceless! Ha! nonrabbit - as the two "bunnies" of the forum (can't believe I just said that... ) - you and I will have to show off our colored 'dos when the day comes. I like Mad Dog's name - always had a soft spot for Fagin, even if he was a scary guy!
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Post by maddogfagin on Oct 22, 2008 17:32:13 GMT
Mrs. Slocombe! Yes! I forgot. She was funny. Now I have to find those shows again.....I didn't see the one where she sang a Tull song. That would be priceless! Ha! nonrabbit - as the two "bunnies" of the forum (can't believe I just said that... ) - you and I will have to show off our colored 'dos when the day comes. I like Mad Dog's name - always had a soft spot for Fagin, even if he was a scary guy! Don't worry, I'm quite tame these days. Now in my youth . . . .
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Post by bluehare on Oct 22, 2008 17:39:53 GMT
Sounds like something the "real" Fagin would have said....
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Post by nonrabbit on Oct 22, 2008 17:40:48 GMT
Mrs. Slocombe! Yes! I forgot. She was funny. Now I have to find those shows again.....I didn't see the one where she sang a Tull song. That would be priceless! Ha! nonrabbit - as the two "bunnies" of the forum (can't believe I just said that... ) - you and I will have to show off our colored 'dos when the day comes. I like Mad Dog's name - always had a soft spot for Fagin, even if he was a scary guy! Don't worry, I'm quite tame these days. Now in my youth . . . . That sounds like a new thread to me Maddog ! "What I Did in My Youth "
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Post by nonrabbit on Oct 22, 2008 17:46:21 GMT
Mrs. Slocombe! Yes! I forgot. She was funny. Now I have to find those shows again.....I didn't see the one where she sang a Tull song. That would be priceless! Ha! nonrabbit - as the two "bunnies" of the forum (can't believe I just said that... ) - you and I will have to show off our colored 'dos when the day comes. I like Mad Dog's name - always had a soft spot for Fagin, even if he was a scary guy! Wasn't quite a Tull song Bluehare- it was a risque catchphrase she had in the style of Benny Hill although more camp LOL Yes we are the 2 bunnies here and what's worse (or not depending how you look at it ;D) - I'm the Madame ;D
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Post by maddogfagin on Oct 22, 2008 17:46:22 GMT
I'm told that once you hit 60 with a vengence and you've got the grey hair and beard, as I have, that you have to be responsible and at least act like an adult However in my dottage I now think "oh what the hell" and do what I want to do, within reason, and act my true age which I reckon is anywhere between 18 and 25 even if it annoys the grandkids ;D No I won't be getting a blue rinse, I'll leave that to you and madame nonrabbit
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Post by bluehare on Oct 22, 2008 18:05:11 GMT
Oh, the stories that could be told here.... -------------------------------------------------- I could imagine what Mrs. Slocombe would have come up with...she was the shocking one. Well...her and Mr. Humphries....ha! Hey...not necessarily a bad thing...nobody messes with the Madames! But.....think how much that would really annoy the grandkids....
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Post by steelmonkey on Oct 22, 2008 19:12:24 GMT
looking like a record cover in nineteen seventyone!
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Post by TullSkull on Oct 30, 2008 22:13:11 GMT
^^^ And here am I... Warm feet and a limo waiting....... Goes way way back, all my friends were into the Dead, Good bro and I were into Tull a lot, this is late 70's I'm talkin' ~ Anyway I always gave the DeadHead a hard time, I'd say " I aint no stinkin' DeadHead... I'm a TullSkull" ;D It stuck! < Lookin like that record cover from 1971
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Post by steelmonkey on Oct 31, 2008 1:11:57 GMT
My friend in college and i protested the prevalant deadhead majority by saying 'Hail Tull' ( no nazi/racist vibe...we're both jews for jethro) when we saw each other around the campus...luckily...HE got nailed with the nickname: 'hailtull'...years later people ask me if i'm still in touch with old 'hailtull'
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Post by nonrabbit on Mar 30, 2011 15:28:40 GMT
reviving some threads Well there's not many Tull females names to choose from after Sossity and you have to be careful on the internet with Pussywillow and Hunting Girl I like the folklore of rabbits as well and the word nonrabbit gives plenty of scope to play about with eg. it can be cute i51.images obliterated by tinypic/29okj1v.jpg[/IMG] funny like the one my teenager found once ;D i51.images obliterated by tinypic/ou1c3q.jpg[/IMG] or weird i54.images obliterated by tinypic/ekgkro.jpg[/IMG] variety and all that
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 30, 2011 18:07:17 GMT
For those times when people really get up my nose But for all other moments of leisure
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Post by steelmonkey on Mar 30, 2011 21:41:52 GMT
Though Steel monkey as a nickname started rather nicely...a tribute from my then wife who felt the steelworker metaphors in the song were equally apt for bike messenger: all weather, tough work and play, high rise jockeys, directable machismo, doers not wankers etc etc...and my legs were rather strong in those days...it turned sad when my heroin habit could have been characterized as a steel monkey on my back....the heroin is long gone and the legs are less strong but I'll always be STEEL MON_KEY AAAAAAHHHH
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Post by bunkerfan on Mar 30, 2011 22:04:11 GMT
I bet you thought my handle was named after a former Jethro Tull drummer. Well,......... Maybe not ;D
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