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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 17, 2009 17:27:21 GMT
Found this on the Sun website, dated 11 August 2007 EX-JETHRO Tull member TONY WILLIAMS has blasted an AIR FRESHENER firm for “ruining” his £2,000 guitar. The bassist claims he left his pride and joy near an Ambi Pur plug-in in his Blackpool house but the fumes melted its paint and varnish.
He says the instrument, a mid-70s Fender Stratocaster, is damaged beyond repair.
Tony, 59, who was in the prog rock band in 1978, is now warning other musicians not to do the same thing.
He said: “I stood the guitar in the corner of the room near to an Ambi Pur plug-in unit.
“The next day, the paint and varnish had melted and dripped on to the unit.”
Tony, of Blackpool, Lancs, was a chart-topping bass player with Stealers Wheel and also played with Jethro Tull.
Their song Stuck In the Middle With You featured in QUENTIN TARANTINO's 1992 film Reservoir Dogs.
Sara Lee, the firm that makes Ambi Pur, said: “Our initial response is the product has not been used according to the guidelines.
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Post by steelmonkey on Apr 17, 2009 21:13:49 GMT
Was the air freshened? How un-fresh was it to require a product that cleaves the paint and varnish from a guitar? How does the guitar smell? How did it smell before?
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Post by tullistray on Apr 18, 2009 2:04:57 GMT
Tony Williams is one of three marginally termed "ex Tullies" who I consider a bit of an embarrassment to have ever been in the band. The guy who did half the 82 tour from the seventies band whats that thing I don't want to be reminded, and Don Airey, doubtless a stadium rock wizard, belongs in Ozzy or Richie Black whatever, the Deep Purple guy with that pitiful excuse for Celtic music he does now. Tony Williams seemed like an ace guy who was buddies with them from Blackpool, but was openly disinterested in Tull music, and looked a prat in those booties Ian put him in. God save the Pegg, a Tull savior.
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 18, 2009 8:37:14 GMT
Tony Williams is one of three marginally termed "ex Tullies" who I consider a bit of an embarrassment to have ever been in the band. The guy who did half the 82 tour from the seventies band whats that thing I don't want to be reminded, and Don Airey, doubtless a stadium rock wizard, belongs in Ozzy or Richie Black whatever, the Deep Purple guy with that pitiful excuse for Celtic music he does now. Tony Williams seemed like an ace guy who was buddies with them from Blackpool, but was openly disinterested in Tull music, and looked a prat in those booties Ian put him in. God save the Pegg, a Tull savior. Wonder if he kept the "booties"? Whether it was in a fit of desperation that he was drafted into the band or a deliberate choice I don't know but yes he did seem rather disinterested in the gig.
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 18, 2009 8:38:41 GMT
Was the air freshened? How un-fresh was it to require a product that cleaves the paint and varnish from a guitar? How does the guitar smell? How did it smell before? Or did it disintigrate into a pile of mush, wood and plastic.
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Post by kaibailey on Nov 9, 2009 12:19:49 GMT
Wow, that's sort of a ridiculous case. He should know that you have to be wary about where you place your instruments when you're not playing them. You shouldn't set them near humid places, much less air fresheners.
I hope this doesn't/didn't turn out in favor of him.
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 10, 2009 7:34:30 GMT
His bio on wikipedia has been updated but it still shows his links with the various band members from the Blackpool days. I never knew that, according to wikipedia, he had auditioned for the guitarist position after Mick Abrahams left.
Born in Durham, he later moved to Blackpool, Lancashire where other future band members of Jethro Tull also lived including, Ian Anderson, Barriemore Barlow, John Evan and Jeffrey Hammond.
In the 1960s he played guitar with The Executives, a Blackpool-based Mod band who recorded an album, The March of the Mods, and a handful of singles with frontman Roy Carr and future Jethro Tull bassist Glenn Cornick.
Williams originally auditioned to join Jethro Tull in 1968 along with Martin Barre. He also brought out a single, "Lazy River". From 1970 to 1971 he played bass guitar with the band Requiem.
In 1972 Williams joined Stealers Wheel, which had been formed earlier that year in Paisley, Renfrewshire by former school friends Gerry Rafferty and Joe Egan. Williams helped record their self-styled debut album Stealers Wheel, which was produced by the influential American songwriters and producers Leiber & Stoller. Williams left Stealers Wheel a year later. In 1978 he joined Jethro Tull, replacing John Glascock who was unwell, at the request of Ian Anderson. He joined them on their tour of North America before returning to being studio work and television production.
After being contacted by iTunes and K-tel records in California, and following negotiations which started in 2006, Williams re-formed Stealers Wheel in Blackpool in 2008 with two other original band members, Rod Coombes and Paul Pilnick together with locally based musician and songwriter Tony Mitchell. On 10 November 2008 they started filming a music video for a re-release of "Stuck in the Middle" on the Fylde coast. They also began writing songs for a new album to be released in 2009, although they have no plans to go on tour.
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