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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2020 11:52:47 GMT
When I saw them perform on their SONGS FROM THE WOOD tour (1977) at Buffalo,N.Y. :
There was a young woman dressed in black whose job it was to hand IA his red bowler hat. At one point, from where I was sitting, I could see a young man coming from behind the stage and try to rush it. The woman tackled the guy and pinned him down. I can't remember what happened after that. I assume security ushered him away.
Someone told me, when he once saw TULL live:
The show started with Martin Barre jumping on stage and furiously playing his guitar, but there was no sound! They had to start over again.
How about you?
It could even be a song that you've never seen them play before, but were pleasantly surprised when they did.
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Post by stevep on Jan 2, 2020 18:27:47 GMT
The yell a large, very tough looking, bearded man sat in front of me let out when the small change fell out my jacket pocket and went down the back of his jeans. It happened at the then Hammersmith Odeon in London.
The colour my face went when I told him to keep the change to buy a beer... and he pointed out the total came to about 30 pence or around 50 cents..
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Post by steelmonkey on Jan 3, 2020 1:55:27 GMT
After years of avoiding Kenny Wylie, who chased us away time and time again, when we tried to sneak into sound checks or simply absorb Tull atmosphere by standing around near the bus or stenciled equipment bins, or greeted us with the single word, 'NO'....one afternoon, in Irvine, CA., we told the guards we were guests of Tull, and Wylie took one look at us and said. ' let them in, they are VIPs. It never happened again....our return from guests back to pests was forever. But for one day, in 1988 on 20 year tour... we were laminate pass toting VIPs.
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 3, 2020 7:30:21 GMT
18 September 1989 - during the concert at the Eden Court Theatre in Inverness, Ian drawing the charity raffle halfway through the show. Surreal.
And like Bernie, Kenny Wylie promoting Graham Smith and myself on the 1989 tour to official band followers with photo laminated passes on the proviso that dressing rooms were out of bounds.
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Post by stevep on Jan 3, 2020 19:35:06 GMT
Wonder if someone can help me out. I remember going to see a concert at Newcastle City Hall, probably in the 90's. Prior to the start of the concert there was an announcement that Martin Barre would not be playing as he had been taken to hospital. Ian Anderson said Martin had stomach pains probably due to being a vegetarian and living on cheese and tomato sandwiches.
I think Martin made an appearance later in the show on but I am not 100% sure on that. Anyone remember this??
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Post by bunkerfan on Jan 4, 2020 7:35:52 GMT
Wonder if someone can help me out. I remember going to see a concert at Newcastle City Hall, probably in the 90's. Prior to the start of the concert there was an announcement that Martin Barre would not be playing as he had been taken to hospital. Ian Anderson said Martin had stomach pains probably due to being a vegetarian and living on cheese and tomato sandwiches. I think Martin made an appearance later in the show on but I am not 100% sure on that. Anyone remember this?? I had a look on the 'Ministry of Information' site to try and jog my memory but I'm sorry Steve, nothing has made me remember that announcement Never mind, I've enjoyed looking back at those set lists 19/3/92 City Hall Newcastle, UK Minstrel In The Gallery/Cross-Eyed Mary, Living in the Past, Rocks On The Road, This Is Not Love, Serenade To A Cuckoo, Like A Tall Thin Girl, The Whistler (inst.), White Innocence, Kissing Willie, Said She Was A Dancer, Thick As A Brick, Paparazzi, Doctor To My Disease, A New Day Yesterday, Look Into The Sun, Farm On The Freeway, Jump Start, My God, Aqualung, Locomotive Breath/Seal Driver (inst.)/Dambusters March 12/10/93 City Hall Newcastle, UK My Sunday Feeling, For A Thousand Mothers, Living In The Past, Bourée, So Much Trouble, With You There To Help Me, Flute Solo (incl. In The Grip Of Stronger Stuff), The Whistler (inst.), Farm On The Freeway, Thick As A Brick, Sossity: You're A Woman/Reasons For Waiting, Songs From The Wood/Too Old To Rock'N'Roll/Heavy Horses, Later That Same Evening (inst.), Budapest, Andy Giddings' Parrot, Passion Jig (incl. Seal Driver), A New Day Yesterday, Aqualung, Locomotive Breath, Cross-Eyed Mary/Dharma For One 19/9/95 City Hall Newcastle, UK Intro, 'A' Medley (And Further On/Fylingdale Flyer/Protect And Survive), Roots To Branches, Rare And Precious Chain, Out Of The Noise, Valley, In The Grip Of Stronger Stuff, At Last Forever, Dangerous Veils, Beside Myself, Aqua-intro/Aqualung/Aquadiddley, - Interval - Nothing Is Easy, We Used To Know, Nothing To Say, In The Moneylender's Temple, My God, Misère, Fat Man, Budapest, Like A Tall Thin Girl, Wounded Old and Treacherous, Locomotive Breath, Jump Start/Dambusters March/Thick As A Brick (reprise 23/11/99 City Hall Newcastle, UK Steel Monkey, For A Thousand Mothers, Serenade To A Cuckoo (Cameras), Spiral, Witches Promise, Nothing Is Easy, Jeffrey Goes To Leicester Square, Fat Man, AWOL, A New Day Yesterday (w. flute solo, incl. Kelpie, & guitar solo), Barre Instrumental, Dot Com, Boris Dancing, Hunting Girl (Phones), Hunt By Numbers, Flying Dutchman (intro)/My God, Passion Jig, Locomotive Breath, Aquadiddley/Aqualung/Living In The Past/Dogs In The Midwinter (inst.)/Dambusters March/Cheerio
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Post by stevep on Jan 4, 2020 21:50:04 GMT
Thanks for the set lists Bunkerfan. I am struggling to remember what happened but my guess is that MB arrived early in the concert. When you look at these set lists, you would imagine it would be difficult (but not impossible) to play the songs without him.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2020 17:24:41 GMT
Ian Anderson said Martin had stomach pains probably due to being a vegetarian and living on cheese and tomato sandwiches. I am going off-topic on my own original post, but:
I recall reading a story about how Ian once met and had dinner with Jon Anderson in the mid 1970's.
Jon is a vegetarian, so he had a plate full of salad, or something. Ian decided to irritate the lead singer of YES by ordering a large, juicy steak!
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 6, 2020 7:52:25 GMT
Phil Collins on drums for Tull at "The Prince's Trust Gala", 7th July 1982.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2020 13:30:56 GMT
My brother told me, when he saw the TAAB show in 1972, there were people who were dressed as animals, and they carried all the instruments onto the stage and arranged them where they should be.
When their costumes were removed, it was revealed that they were actually the members of TULL!
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Post by bunkerfan on Jan 6, 2020 14:59:54 GMT
My brother told me, when he saw the TAAB show in 1972, there were people who were dressed as animals, and they carried all the instruments onto the stage and arranged them were they should be. When their costumes were removed, it was revealed that they were actually the members of TULL!
It makes a change from the old brown coats
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2020 23:54:20 GMT
In 1992 I had gone to the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in Portland OR for the JT concert and, rather than wait at the busy front entrance on Broadway, I wandered down the sidewalk to look around and stretch my legs. Here was a 'Stage Door'. Well, no way the band would use it I guessed, but it was a better place to wait so I stood there biding my time with some others. I was facing the street when I heard the door behind me quietly close automatically. I turned around and there was Ian right by me with a mandolin in a leather cover across his back turning right and heading up the sidewalk! It was a one in a million chance so I ventured up and tried to talk to him very courteously, keeping back some but he wasn't interested, and at Broadway started to try and cross all the full lanes of oncoming cars which scared the hell out of me.
Well what else to do then and there but go back and finish waiting with the others briefly, and I saw Martin go in. It started occurring to me Ian would likely walk back down the other side of the street, probably with that man who ate hippies for breakfast, and pass in front of this big parked truck which would put his eyes when he came into view right about there at hood (bonnet) top level and BOOM there he was, looking right at me. Gasp! No way I would keep him trapped, so I did an about face and took off down the sidewalk so as to not cause any further pressure.
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 7, 2020 7:27:02 GMT
Ian Anderson: "I stood with the rest of the band at the top of the ramp leading down to the field of Shea Stadium. As with the Beatles' Shea show 10 years earlier, this was not to be an artistic success, to say the least. Commercial jets on final approach to the adjacent La Guardia airport drowned out the sound, when it wasn't being drowned out by the firecrackers, whistles, hoots and hollers of the crowd. In those final moments before walking out on to the field, I was suddenly drenched with warm, sticky liquid from high above, where some of the rowdy, 50,000-strong audience looked down on to the players' access ramp. Only as I began the inaudible first verse of Thick as a Brick on acoustic guitar, did I realise with resigned horror that the liquid I assumed to be beer, was not, in fact, beer at all. It was urine. The unmistakable pong wafting from my then-ample head of damp hair and freshly laundered stage-clothing would remain for the duration of the show. An unholy baptism from above."
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2020 14:33:37 GMT
Ian Anderson: " I was suddenly drenched with warm, sticky liquid from high above, where some of the rowdy, 50,000-strong audience looked down on to the players' access ramp. Only as I began the inaudible first verse of Thick as a Brick on acoustic guitar, did I realise with resigned horror that the liquid I assumed to be beer, was not, in fact, beer at all. It was urine. " While performing AQUALUNG during the SHEA STADIUM concert, apparently Mr. Anderson had something even WORSE than snots that was running down his nose .
Also, the person who poured the urine on him must be his "Number 1" fan .
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Post by Budding Stately Hero on Jun 18, 2021 20:43:51 GMT
Seeing the band being sprung out of wrapping paper in 1984 was probably the strangest opening of a concert I ever saw.
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Post by maddogfagin on Jun 19, 2021 6:13:49 GMT
Seeing the band being sprung out of wrapping paper in 1984 was probably the strangest opening of a concert I ever saw. Ian drawing a raffle at the second half of the 1989 gig at the Eden Court Theatre in Inverness.
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Post by adospencer on Jun 19, 2021 9:05:24 GMT
I was lucky that for many years (from 74), a Tull show was a thing of magic and wonder, a special event that lives on in my memory forever. The most unexpected thing for me , was as time passed , the band (and audience) aged before my eyes, reflecting uncomfortably my own mortality. My loyalty kept me going back for more even when from the 90s onward we were getting never ending tours with no new album and the same old set list, and Ians voice becoming ever weaker. I felt that when Martin "left" that bond was broken , and I remember on the "Erraticus" tour sitting through a slow laboured embarrassing version of "Breath" and thinking "No more, its been a thrilling ride but its time to get off" Its funny. through all those magical years I dreaded Tull quitting and losing my favourite band. I never expected to reach a point where I would be the one to leave . (as far as live shows go that is, Ill still buy the albums). Its hardly fair to blame Ian Anderson for becoming an old man, but somehow I cant quite forgive him!
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Post by JTull 007 on Jun 19, 2021 11:17:22 GMT
I was lucky that for many years (from 74), a Tull show was a thing of magic and wonder, a special event that lives on in my memory forever. The most unexpected thing for me , was as time passed , the band (and audience) aged before my eyes, reflecting uncomfortably my own mortality. My loyalty kept me going back for more even when from the 90s onward we were getting never ending tours with no new album and the same old set list, and Ians voice becoming ever weaker. I felt that when Martin "left" that bond was broken , and I remember on the "Erraticus" tour sitting through a slow laboured embarrassing version of "Breath" and thinking "No more, its been a thrilling ride but its time to get off" Its funny. through all those magical years I dreaded Tull quitting and losing my favourite band. I never expected to reach a point where I would be the one to leave . (as far as live shows go that is, Ill still buy the albums). Its hardly fair to blame Ian Anderson for becoming an old man, but somehow I cant quite forgive him! If you are not getting older you are DECEASED... I accept change more than ever because TULL is all about CHANGE This became apparent since the first album. Although Ian and others have played many years, the BEST is yet to come. If I had listened to critics in 1976 I might have become TOO OLD for TULL at age 19. However...I would have eventually missed out on the greatest performances EVER !!!
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Post by Budding Stately Hero on Jun 19, 2021 12:38:50 GMT
Seeing the band being sprung out of wrapping paper in 1984 was probably the strangest opening of a concert I ever saw. Ian drawing a raffle at the second half of the 1989 gig at the Eden Court Theatre in Inverness. What was the prize for the winner of the raffle? Was it a brand new cage for someone's cortivorous beastie?
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Post by Budding Stately Hero on Jun 19, 2021 12:53:58 GMT
I was lucky that for many years (from 74), a Tull show was a thing of magic and wonder, a special event that lives on in my memory forever. The most unexpected thing for me , was as time passed , the band (and audience) aged before my eyes, reflecting uncomfortably my own mortality. My loyalty kept me going back for more even when from the 90s onward we were getting never ending tours with no new album and the same old set list, and Ians voice becoming ever weaker. I felt that when Martin "left" that bond was broken , and I remember on the "Erraticus" tour sitting through a slow laboured embarrassing version of "Breath" and thinking "No more, its been a thrilling ride but its time to get off" Its funny. through all those magical years I dreaded Tull quitting and losing my favourite band. I never expected to reach a point where I would be the one to leave . (as far as live shows go that is, Ill still buy the albums). Its hardly fair to blame Ian Anderson for becoming an old man, but somehow I cant quite forgive him! What glorious and most poignant thoughts. I must say, I tend to also feel a sense of that. From the time we were kids (I was 12, in 1977) getting into rock and roll and discovering Ian's songs over the FM radio, we'd go from album to tour to album to tour. It followed us and we followed it through our lives. We stamp certain times in our lives with whatever album had just come out. And, it all just disappeared, vanished. I feel this way for a few other bands, too. We saw our musical heroes die of heart disease, cancer, etc. and some of them are approaching 80 soon. I love this film called The Man From Earth. He lives 10,000 years and finally tells his friends that he is from the upper paleolithic age. During the film, they begin to resent him for what he is and become angry with him. So, I suppose we have the luxury of being able to see someone like Ian grow older gracefully and eventually pass on, the way life is intended to be, even though we are very sad to see all of it go up in smoke. Yeah, we all miss those guys. What I want to know is who he will be in the next life. He could be your grandchild (think of that for a minute). Thank God (My God), he did not crash and injure himself or die in the 70's "up on the A1 pass Scotch Corner). These thoughts will be on my mind a lot today. You definitely struck a nerve.
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Post by Budding Stately Hero on Jun 19, 2021 12:57:06 GMT
I would certainly have loved to see Ian answering the cell phone up on stage, during the middle of Hunting Girl at the show in Las Vegas, October 9, 1999.
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Post by maddogfagin on Jun 19, 2021 15:33:22 GMT
Ian drawing a raffle at the second half of the 1989 gig at the Eden Court Theatre in Inverness. What was the prize for the winner of the raffle? Was it a brand new cage for someone's cortivorous beastie? Can't remember what the prize was, probably some merchandise, but the raffle was in aide of the NSPCC (The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children) and yes I did keep my tickets for my scrap book.
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Post by adospencer on Jun 19, 2021 15:51:45 GMT
I was lucky that for many years (from 74), a Tull show was a thing of magic and wonder, a special event that lives on in my memory forever. The most unexpected thing for me , was as time passed , the band (and audience) aged before my eyes, reflecting uncomfortably my own mortality. My loyalty kept me going back for more even when from the 90s onward we were getting never ending tours with no new album and the same old set list, and Ians voice becoming ever weaker. I felt that when Martin "left" that bond was broken , and I remember on the "Erraticus" tour sitting through a slow laboured embarrassing version of "Breath" and thinking "No more, its been a thrilling ride but its time to get off" Its funny. through all those magical years I dreaded Tull quitting and losing my favourite band. I never expected to reach a point where I would be the one to leave . (as far as live shows go that is, Ill still buy the albums). Its hardly fair to blame Ian Anderson for becoming an old man, but somehow I cant quite forgive him! If you are not getting older you are DECEASED... I accept change more than ever because TULL is all about CHANGE This became apparent since the first album. Although Ian and others have played many years, the BEST is yet to come. If I had listened to critics in 1976 I might have become TOO OLD for TULL at age 19. However...I would have eventually missed out on the greatest performances EVER !!!
Best Yet to come? ? I doubt that very much, and you entirely missed my point. I admire your enthusiasm , but that picture says it all!
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Post by adospencer on Jun 19, 2021 16:00:35 GMT
I was lucky that for many years (from 74), a Tull show was a thing of magic and wonder, a special event that lives on in my memory forever. The most unexpected thing for me , was as time passed , the band (and audience) aged before my eyes, reflecting uncomfortably my own mortality. My loyalty kept me going back for more even when from the 90s onward we were getting never ending tours with no new album and the same old set list, and Ians voice becoming ever weaker. I felt that when Martin "left" that bond was broken , and I remember on the "Erraticus" tour sitting through a slow laboured embarrassing version of "Breath" and thinking "No more, its been a thrilling ride but its time to get off" Its funny. through all those magical years I dreaded Tull quitting and losing my favourite band. I never expected to reach a point where I would be the one to leave . (as far as live shows go that is, Ill still buy the albums). Its hardly fair to blame Ian Anderson for becoming an old man, but somehow I cant quite forgive him! What glorious and most poignant thoughts. I must say, I tend to also feel a sense of that. From the time we were kids (I was 12, in 1977) getting into rock and roll and discovering Ian's songs over the FM radio, we'd go from album to tour to album to tour. It followed us and we followed it through our lives. We stamp certain times in our lives with whatever album had just come out. And, it all just disappeared, vanished. I feel this way for a few other bands, too. We saw our musical heroes die of heart disease, cancer, etc. and some of them are approaching 80 soon. I love this film called The Man From Earth. He lives 10,000 years and finally tells his friends that he is from the upper paleolithic age. During the film, they begin to resent him for what he is and become angry with him. So, I suppose we have the luxury of being able to see someone like Ian grow older gracefully and eventually pass on, the way life is intended to be, even though we are very sad to see all of it go up in smoke. Yeah, we all miss those guys. What I want to know is who he will be in the next life. He could be your grandchild (think of that for a minute). Thank God (My God), he did not crash and injure himself or die in the 70's "up on the A1 pass Scotch Corner). These thoughts will be on my mind a lot today. You definitely struck a nerve. Thank you for that reply. Like you I measured stages of my life by Tull albums and tours. Nothing lasts forever of course. I always felt fiercely protective of the band , but wierdly that legacy seems to need protecting from Ian himself!
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Post by Budding Stately Hero on Jun 19, 2021 17:10:12 GMT
What glorious and most poignant thoughts. I must say, I tend to also feel a sense of that. From the time we were kids (I was 12, in 1977) getting into rock and roll and discovering Ian's songs over the FM radio, we'd go from album to tour to album to tour. It followed us and we followed it through our lives. We stamp certain times in our lives with whatever album had just come out. And, it all just disappeared, vanished. I feel this way for a few other bands, too. We saw our musical heroes die of heart disease, cancer, etc. and some of them are approaching 80 soon. I love this film called The Man From Earth. He lives 10,000 years and finally tells his friends that he is from the upper paleolithic age. During the film, they begin to resent him for what he is and become angry with him. So, I suppose we have the luxury of being able to see someone like Ian grow older gracefully and eventually pass on, the way life is intended to be, even though we are very sad to see all of it go up in smoke. Yeah, we all miss those guys. What I want to know is who he will be in the next life. He could be your grandchild (think of that for a minute). Thank God (My God), he did not crash and injure himself or die in the 70's "up on the A1 pass Scotch Corner). These thoughts will be on my mind a lot today. You definitely struck a nerve. Thank you for that reply. Like you I measured stages of my life by Tull albums and tours. Nothing lasts forever of course. I always felt fiercely protective of the band , but wierdly that legacy seems to need protecting from Ian himself! Right. When we got into a conversation, back in the day, and the names of bands were mentioned and someone trashed Tull's music, you felt the need to step in and school them on the difference between real talent, hard to play music and music that's for the masses. The one sad thing about Ian having complete control over the image and written history of the band is that there were at least fifteen past members who could add much more to the story and legacy, and we rarely get to hear from them or OF THEM, from him. I used to get so down when band members would go by the wayside. That's why it took me a long while to truly accept them during "A" and "Broadsword". They were like friends, who moved away and didn't write. And, for awhile, I got tired of this sort of revolving door of musicians coming and going. I thought, for awhile, that Ian had some deep seeded problem with attachment or something (maybe, he does). Their legacy will survive okay. You just need to follow Ian's advice. It's worked for me. That advice? It's as simple as...."And as you cross the wilderness, spinning in your emptiness: You feel you have to.....pray."
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Post by steelmonkey on Jun 19, 2021 19:41:03 GMT
I was at the LA show when Ian slapped a joint out of some front row fan's hands, tantrumed a bit about weed and his lung issues and, sadly, the next two shows were cancelled ( November 1984).
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Post by Budding Stately Hero on Jul 9, 2021 16:51:07 GMT
I was at the LA show when Ian slapped a joint out of some front row fan's hands, tantrumed a bit about weed and his lung issues and, sadly, the next two shows were cancelled ( November 1984). Sadly, the shows were cancelled. Very true. Though, it really feels great to admire the music and aspect of an artist's character; one Ian Anderson, who stands up for what he believes in. In this case, standing up for the opposition to drugs is a character trait rarely seen in popular music, and something he could have easily ignored. I, for one, greatly admire the man for standing his ground. Slapping a joint out of someone's hands: Bravissimo!
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