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Post by halligator on Jul 24, 2023 18:49:19 GMT
I saw Flock Of Seagulls open for Jethro Tull approximately 30 years ago. Anyone else see that?
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Post by jackinthegreen on Jul 24, 2023 21:19:51 GMT
I saw Flock Of Seagulls open for Jethro Tull approximately 30 years ago. Anyone else see that? I never saw A Flock of Seagulls live, but I had one of their albums back then, they were a great band
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Post by rredmond on Jul 25, 2023 13:57:20 GMT
Wasn't really the weirdest, but probably a rough name to have as an opening act It Bites opened for them at the Nassau Colliseum, in NY, a bajillion years ago. I was there, as was thousands of other New Yorkers, unfortunately "It Bites" is too easy a name for us to abuse. They were good, but by the end of the opening act folks were yelling "You bite, you bite!"
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Post by Catqualung on Aug 3, 2023 18:52:15 GMT
I remember the concert in Rome in 1988 (... or was it in Florence in 1992?) with opening act an italian group called Sharks. They were not bad, after all, but we were hungry for Jethro Tull, it was getting a bit late, and the Sharks started singing a song with a refrain like: "Cosa ci faccio qui? Devo andar via di qui!" ("What am I doing here? I have to go away from here!") so you can imagine the people's reaction to that refrain
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Post by marshall on Aug 4, 2023 7:16:59 GMT
I remember the concert in Rome in 1988 (... or was it in Florence in 1992?) with opening act an italian group called Sharks. They were not bad, after all, but we were hungry for Jethro Tull, it was getting a bit late, and the Sharks started singing a song with a refrain like: "Cosa ci faccio qui? Devo andar via di qui!" ("What am I doing here? I have to go away from here!") so you can imagine the people's reaction to that refrain It Bites were one of the few bands of artists to be successful from this part of the World (Cumbria UK.) The brother of the guitarist,Francis Dunnery , was asked by Ozzy Osbourne if he would join his band when he first went solo. His mother wouldn't let him go. 'Bugger off Ozzy.' She allegedly told him. Perhaps the fact that Ozzy had gone for a drink with her husband and they didn't return for three days influenced her ?
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Post by steelmonkey on Aug 9, 2023 23:21:54 GMT
Great story. The true history of rock and roll. I love learning who knew each other as schoolkids: Richard Thompson and Hugh Cornwell, David Bowie and Peter Frampton.
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Post by jethrotull on Aug 17, 2023 1:40:35 GMT
I have probably posted this before but The Sensational Alex Harvey band opened for Tull here in Seattle in July, 1975. In my opinion (which was apparently shared by the vast majority of the audience) they were awful: loud, abrasive, obnoxious, like a Punk band on steroids. After each song the boos grew louder until eventually Mr Harvey stopped the band and reprimanded the audience saying: "Your country is only 200 years old, what do you know about culture or music?" The audience disapproval grew even louder until Mr Harvey announced "this will be our last song" which garnered incredibly loud approval and cheers and Harvey responded "but it's a verrry long one" we all howled with laughter. I have to say, as humiliated as the band must have been, they maintained a good sense of humor and I appreciated that. What followed was an incredible performance by my favorite band.
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Post by adospencer1 on Aug 17, 2023 6:49:39 GMT
Well of course back then as is often the case anywhere any opening act had a thankless task. We were there to see Tull maybe for the first time and the opening act were just delaying the event! I have to say though I thought Fanny in 74 were pretty poor. They were the darlings of the press at the time, a pre punk all female rock band willing to get "down n dirty" with the guys etc. and had lots of publicity, but apart from being a novelty at the time I thought them little more than a loud brash pub band. (Apologies if this is unfair , I was 17 at the time and just desperate for my Tull fix which was my first time ever) On the other side, best support was Fairport (who I already liked anyway). Their brand of Folk rock was/is not dissimilar to some of Tulls output and dovetailed nicely into the main event Overall I preferred the later years with no support to delay things. Just the darkened stage, occasional flickering red light, vague outline of Doanes huge kit and anticipation!
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Post by adospencer1 on Aug 17, 2023 7:09:07 GMT
I have probably posted this before but The Sensational Alex Harvey band opened for Tull here in Seattle in July, 1975. In my opinion (which was apparently shared by the vast majority of the audience) they were awful: loud, abrasive, obnoxious, like a Punk band on steroids. After each song the boos grew louder until eventually Mr Harvey stopped the band and reprimanded the audience saying: "Your country is only 200 years old, what do you know about culture or music?" The audience disapproval grew even louder until Mr Harvey announced "this will be our last song" which garnered incredibly loud approval and cheers and Harvey responded "but it's a verrry long one" we all howled with laughter. I have to say, as humiliated as the band must have been, they maintained a good sense of humor and I appreciated that. What followed was an incredible performance by my favorite band. SAHB were a strange act . I liked a handful of their songs a lot, and still do. Songs like "Anthem", "Tomahawk Kid", "Boston Tea Party" "Faith Healer" and their epic version of "Delilah" I would recommend even now. (They did an interesting cover of Tulls "Love Story" too ) But I never enjoyed a full album, some songs were just too strange. Much of their output was just plain weird , and live they went for the theatrical approach , but with the generally strange song list and the eccentric Alex himself as front man they seemed to me like a band of drunken pirates! They all had their own onstage costume and persona, but seemed to let the good times go to far and seemed to me to be rather shambolic ! Perhaps SAHB were out of their depth in an arena because in the UK I seem to remember them playing the clubs, but maybe that's unfair. I can well imagine how an American audience might react to SAHB but they were fighting an audience that only wanted Tull and SAHB were never going to win .
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Post by JTull 007 on Aug 17, 2023 10:27:17 GMT
Back on August 9th 1975... I enjoyed it but it was a surprise There were many at the show I saw who were familiar with this band on tv.
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Post by steelmonkey on Aug 17, 2023 22:29:33 GMT
The rubbing elbows tour(s) resulted in a lot of turkeys onstage, mostly radio personality types with low IQ and high annoyance as well as a few local, not talented and not charming wannabes that Ian tolerated and the audiences suffered.
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