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Post by steelmonkey on Dec 4, 2015 16:51:19 GMT
Funny...I was listening to this song today....love the way it evokes the style of 'No Lullaby' and 'Dark Ages' at about 2:15....guitar part that speeds up and breaks into full cruise Tull.
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Post by nonrabbit on Dec 4, 2015 18:53:10 GMT
Funny...I was listening to this song today....love the way it evokes the style of 'No Lullaby' and 'Dark Ages' at about 2:15....guitar part that speeds up and breaks into full cruise Tull. Yes my learned Tull obsessive friend, however what about the word - 'dumbfounded?'
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Post by steelmonkey on Dec 4, 2015 21:44:31 GMT
I think dumbfounded IS the right word to describe the character stumbling around sleazy part of London having frittered away youthful spark via drug abuse.
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Post by steelmonkey on Dec 4, 2015 21:45:27 GMT
I see post drug use blank look that would distress the parents. Dumbfounded. The contrast from recent bright eyed and bushy tailed. 'all bread and jam' childhood that was gobbled by the streets.
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Post by steelmonkey on Dec 4, 2015 22:31:38 GMT
We all have our 'fingernail on the blackboard' lyrics...mine is the last line of the following verse. I HATE it...so forced, trite, un-natural and just plain awful :
Troubled skin, pour oil upon it She's fit to burn in her new scotch bonnet Spice up anybodys stew Frogs and goats and chickens too
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Post by onewhiteduck on Dec 5, 2015 21:12:21 GMT
your 79 year old father makes a speech at a wedding and says that its been a great year, the highlight of which was going with his sons to watch Jethro Tull (Rock Opera) for the first time!!
I'm buying him a Tull T Shirt for Christmas
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Post by steelmonkey on Dec 5, 2015 22:20:41 GMT
Can your dad be my dad? Then we'd be brothers.
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Post by nonrabbit on Dec 6, 2015 9:41:06 GMT
your 79 year old father makes a speech at a wedding and says that its been a great year, the highlight of which was going with his sons to watch Jethro Tull (Rock Opera) for the first time!! I'm buying him a Tull T Shirt for Christmas Merry Xmas Tull Daddy !!
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Post by nonrabbit on Dec 6, 2015 9:54:25 GMT
I think dumbfounded IS the right word to describe the character stumbling around sleazy part of London having frittered away youthful spark via drug abuse. I disagree my learned friends. According to the Oxford dictionary; Dumbfounded - "Greatly astonish or amaze...Origin - Mid 17th century: blend of dumb and confound." Bewildered - "Confused, undecided and puzzled...Origin - Late 17th century: from be- ‘thoroughly’ + obsolete wilder ‘ lead or go astray’, of unknown origin" I'm rather fond of Gerald and feel sorry for him in his younger days, I think therefore the use of the word 'Bewildered' ( and I have made my point in bold ) would be a more accurate description given that the poor boy was abused in his younger years and carried that fall out throughout his life. The song may very well be describing his parents attitude towards him or indeed Ian's ? I'm sure Ian will be looking forward to a more in depth discussion with me pertaining to these very points.
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Post by onewhiteduck on Dec 6, 2015 10:38:48 GMT
Rabbit. Pleaeeeeese..........you have to get over this'dumbfounded' issue you have. Its been grating you for the last couple of years. I'll pop around and bring my friend Francis with me. We'll sort it for you OneWhiteMule Love your Fish story - recall it from previous chats - Your such a lovey
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Post by nonrabbit on Dec 6, 2015 10:54:40 GMT
Rabbit. Pleaeeeeese..........you have to get over this'dumbfounded' issue you have. Its been grating you for the last couple of years. I'll pop around and bring my friend Francis with me. We'll sort it for you OneWhiteMule Love your Fish story - recall it from previous chats - Your such a lovey grating, annoying and lovey all in one post!
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Post by nonrabbit on Dec 20, 2015 10:33:26 GMT
You know your ....when you listen to a song you haven't heard for a while and you remember how you felt and loved it when you first heard it but also the bit of it that sent shivers down your spine - still does. Share that spine shivering moment with me friends The change at 1.36
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Post by onewhiteduck on Dec 20, 2015 10:54:53 GMT
That's spooky. That does it for me to. I love that change at 1:36, its just IA at his very best - makes me feel good and is one of my very favourite Tull songs. Not to good a this today,had a very spicy pizza last night(no fish supper)
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Post by nonrabbit on Dec 20, 2015 11:08:18 GMT
That's spooky. That does it for me to. I love that change at 1:36, its just IA at his very best - makes me feel good and is one of my very favourite Tull songs. Not to good a this today,had a very spicy pizza last night(no fish supper) Have to add as well that the two songs played together on that video works so effectively too especially at the end of Wond'ring Aloud and the beginning of ..Again. Beautiful. Unlike the combination of spicy pizza and booze.
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Post by JTull 007 on Jan 16, 2016 3:45:38 GMT
TRUE STORY The Plunge Part 1 Roger Williams (Mystery to me) fell 70 feet, and survived...Nearly thirty five years ago while constructing the Pekin Bridge over the Illinois River, Roger Williams fell 70 feet from his work ladder head first into the pilings and the water. Williams did not break any bones, but the aftermath left him in pain and off work for five years.
By SCOTT HILYARD (shilyard@pjstar.com) Peoria Journal Star Posted Nov 12, 2011 @ 11:43 PM On Nov. 17, 1981, ironworker Roger Williams dropped from the Pekin bridge into the Illinois river. And he survived.............................Photos by Fred Zwicky - Peoria Journal Star Photographer Two strangers stood in a short line behind the locked doors of the Social Security office and waited for morning business hours to commence. It was Feb. 11, 2011, and it was cold outside.
Small talk that began with the weather led to the discovery the two men shared a connection to a third person who was not present - an ironworker seriously injured in a recent industrial accident.
"And you know that guy's brother was the ironworker who fell off the Pekin bridge (30 years ago)," one of the men said.
"No," replied the other man, Roger Williams, 58, of East Peoria. "I'm the ironworker who fell off the Pekin bridge, SIR!"
Actually, it's the John T. McNaughton Bridge, but people generally think of it as the "Pekin bridge" because it carries Illinois Route 9 across the river from rural Peoria County into downtown Pekin. John T. McNaughton Bridge LINK
Williams was a 28-year-old ironworker, a member of Local 112 and part of a local crew hired by American Bridge Co., a division of U.S. Steel, to build the bridge. It would replace the existing highway bridge that was just downstream and that had a lift span to allow barge traffic to pass beneath it. The new bridge would have space between its concrete piers to let barges pass through without disrupting vehicle traffic above.
There are pockets of people in central Illinois who remember today something about an ironworker falling off the Pekin bridge during its construction. Stories are told; half-truths, quarter-truths, lies and embellishments are passed along through a filter of time that tends to separate fiction from the facts.
Williams' memory is that little of his story trickled out in the days that followed his fall. He doesn't believe his name appeared in any news story or that the accident made the local television news.
Nov. 17, 2016 will be the 35th anniversary of the day that Williams fell from the top of a concrete pier 70 feet into the Illinois River. The fall didn't kill him, obviously, although it changed his life forever.
'I was a dead man' "This ladder's a widow maker," Williams said to fellow connector Don Schimmelpfennig, on Friday, Nov. 13, 1981, when the two were working on the south end of the concrete pier closest to the Pekin side of the river. Roger Williams says : that simple brackets like these would have prevented his fall if his ladder had been secured in a better way. The large iron hooks that secured the ladder to the top of the pier didn't seem right to Williams. He and Schimmelpfennig went about their business that day prepping the top of the pier, 70 feet in the air, to set a 140-ton box girder in its place the next week.
The following Tuesday, Williams and Schimmelpfennig took the short boat trip from the eastern shore of the river to the barge that was anchored at the foot of the pier on which they were working. A crane was on the barge. Williams volunteered to climb the ladder to the top of the pier, make sure it was secure and then signal for Schimmelpfennig to follow.
"As I started to climb the ladder to get to the top of the pier, it shifted to the left a good foot," Williams said. "I could hear the hook bar scraping the top of the pier."
At the top, the ladder cut loose on Williams. He rode it down the side of the pier for about 5 feet, and when the ladder stopped moving, Williams didn't. He flew out and then down toward a landing that included just two options: the river or the deck of the barge.
"I did a perfect backward swan dive and I knew I was a dead man," Williams said.
Falling head first, he hit a section of the ladder and started flipping backward through the air. His consciousness gave him a split-screen look at the fall in real-time: one side on fast forward, the other in super slow motion, yet somehow in perfect synch, he explained.
"All I could see were my pant legs. I told myself I didn't want to linger. If I hit the barge, all they'd need was a plastic bag and a shovel to scoop me up," Williams said.
He cleared the barge by inches and hit the water with his upper back and shoulders. When he finally stopped moving he realized he was at the bottom of the river in a spot that was about 8 to 10 feet deep. The life vest he wore was not doing its job - he was not popping to the surface of the water like he should - when he realized he was stuck in river mud about thigh deep.
"My lungs were starting to burn and I needed to breathe," he said. "I just started moving my legs up and down until I finally got my left leg free. I think I instinctively tried to take a breath and thought to myself, "This is how you drown". End of Part 1
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Post by JTull 007 on Jan 16, 2016 15:18:30 GMT
This shows how being a TULL Fan can save your life Roger Williams (mystery to me) The Plunge Part 2 By SCOTT HILYARD (shilyard@pjstar.com) Peoria Journal Star He slipped free of the mud and the life vest launched him above the surface of the river where the oxygen was.
A small group of men watched the fall from the deck of the barge, including Schimmelpfennig. One man was struck by a portion of the falling ladder. Another, the crew foreman, was struck on the foot by a falling piece of steel, which crushed it. The foreman had been running across the deck of the barge with the plan of colliding with the falling Williams to knock him into the river if it looked like he was going to clip the boat.
"The ladder was right there. I reached for it and for the first time in my life I was trying to do something physical, couldn't do it and it scared the hell out of me," Williams said. "Mike Baxter (on the barge) grabbed me by the collar and said 'Roger, I got you. Let go of the ladder.' In one motion he jerked me out of the water and stood me on the deck of the barge."
Soaked and shaken, Williams was somehow able to walk, talk and move. The more seriously hurt person seemed to be the man with the crushed foot. The supervisor, the man with the seriously injured foot and Williams were loaded into a skip box at the end of the crane.
"And they boomed us over to the Pekin side, where we got into an American Bridge Co. truck and I gave directions how to get to Pekin Hospital," Williams said.
"Somehow I fell 70 feet to the bottom of the river, hit my head on the way down, missed slamming onto the deck of the barge and didn't break a bone in my body," Williams said. "But I hurt like hell."
Although it would take some time to learn, Williams was unbroken by the fall, but he was not unhurt. He was back at work on the bridge two weeks after the fall but couldn't physically do the job. He stayed out of work for more than five years.
"I could sneeze and my neck would go out," he said.
He continues to cope with chronic neck and back pain. He walks with a slow, stiff, reciprocating gait. He had his right hip replaced in 2001 in a procedure likely to be repeated in the future on his left one. His doctors have told him the fall basically added 15 years to his chronological age.
"My medical folder's as thick as 'War and Peace,' and I'm a walking barometer for the weather because I feel it all in my bones," Williams said. "But I'm happy to be alive and walking." Scott Hilyard can be reached at 686-3244 or shilyard@pjstar.com. Follow him on Twitter @scotthilyard
As Paul Harvey once said.... "now for the rest of the story" This is how the story relates to Jethro Tull. Roger said: "That day the t-shirt I put on under all my work clothes ironically was 'Too Old To Rock & Roll, Too Young To Die'.
Incredibly ironic was that it was Martin Barre's 35th Birthday." November 17, 1981
As Roger was struggling to free himself from the mud and find air for his lungs, he was thinking this: 'If I don't get out of here right now, I will never get High and Rock with Tull again!' That is what gave him the instinct to survive!
I have never heard such an incredible story of survival before. Whether this is Fate, Luck, or the Lord doing his 'mysterious ways', this story is an inspiration to me. The Lord does move in Mysterious Ways. God Be Praised! "No, you're never too old to Rock'n'Roll if you're too young to die!"
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Post by futureshock on Jan 16, 2016 21:55:32 GMT
Great posts just above. Thought I'd add that I at one point exchanged cashola for a yellow Jethro Tull TOTR T-shirt and immediately felt invigorated as if the concert was still going on (which at the time it was). Probably in Detroit if I remember correctly. Was that the Pontiac Stadium gig? Anyway, it's a great shirt, the bold bright yellow and the asymmetric design, guaranteed to start chats at parties.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2016 16:47:50 GMT
You know you're a Tull fan when...
Even though the Marty Feldman- lookalike who works at the bank is named Margaret, you keep on calling her Mary.
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Post by nonrabbit on Feb 15, 2016 9:22:43 GMT
You know you're a Tull fan when... Even though the Marty Feldman- lookalike who works at the bank is named Margaret, you keep on calling her Mary. Hello Chester Welcome to the Forum. Your obviously one of us when you have Tull and all things Tull going round your head everyday. Hope you enjoy looking through the place. Patti
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Post by JTull 007 on Feb 15, 2016 17:29:19 GMT
This doesn't really bother me but I'm still a TULL Fan... TULL-MAGEDDON Oscar: I tell you one thing that really drives me nuts, is people who think that Jethro Tull is just a person in a band.
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Post by nonrabbit on Mar 5, 2016 12:54:32 GMT
You know your a Tull fan ( or maybe just obsessive) when you hear a note change and a particular way of singing it in a song and you know Ian did the very same note change but it's buggin you because you can't remember which song. Pay attention Could someone please put me out my misery? It's on the video I posted earlier and it's at 2.14 where the harpist/singer goes up in a note. I think it's a song from SFTW but I don't know!!
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Post by nonrabbit on Mar 5, 2016 15:42:52 GMT
Could someone please put me out my misery? It's on the video I posted earlier and it's at 2.14 where the harpist/singer goes up in a note. I think it's a song from SFTW but I don't know!! Put myself out my own misery. It's the change at 0^10 = nothing at all ( so not SFTW ) at the bit where he sings "The long restless rustle of high-heeled boots calls.." You know the bit Like I said " You know your a Tull Fan" when not only the songs but bits of them are in your head since waaay back.
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Post by onewhiteduck on Mar 13, 2016 9:37:23 GMT
Newsflash... Firstly apologies for being 'away'for a few weeks. I've recently (3 months) met a really nice young lady and all is going well .. apart from one thing. She loves here music bit its Metallica, Foo fighters, Audioslave... you know the type of thing. Anyway I'm on the case and have spent a good deal of time trying to bring here into the land of us Tull folk. Getting there slowly (She likes Broadsword and the Beast)... I think A Passion Play is going to be a lost cause tho! Thinking of you all while I carry on with my very best efforts to convert her to our side. ReverendWhiteDuck
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Post by nonrabbit on Mar 13, 2016 9:53:12 GMT
Newsflash... Firstly apologies for being 'away'for a few weeks. I've recently (3 months) met a really nice young lady and all is going well .. apart from one thing. She loves here music bit its Metallica, Foo fighters, Audioslave... you know the type of thing. Anyway I'm on the case and have spent a good deal of time trying to bring here into the land of us Tull folk. Getting there slowly (She likes Broadsword and the Beast)... I think A Passion Play is going to be a lost cause tho! Thinking of you all while I carry on with my very best efforts to convert her to our side. ReverendWhiteDuck Bernie's the one to speak to on that matter. He has lots of experience in encouraging girls to like Tull When my turn comes around to dip my toes in the old relationship palaver I wonder if it would be too picky of me to stipulate a love of Tull in the list of a perfect man? But then if he does like Tull he will be perfect... psst pass us the sick bucket
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Post by JTull 007 on Mar 13, 2016 11:21:14 GMT
Newsflash... Firstly apologies for being 'away'for a few weeks. I've recently (3 months) met a really nice young lady and all is going well .. apart from one thing. She loves here music bit its Metallica, Foo fighters, Audioslave... you know the type of thing. Anyway I'm on the case and have spent a good deal of time trying to bring here into the land of us Tull folk. Getting there slowly (She likes Broadsword and the Beast)... I think A Passion Play is going to be a lost cause tho! Thinking of you all while I carry on with my very best efforts to convert her to our side. ReverendWhiteDuck This sounds like a job for "The Turnpike Inn"... Save the soft TULL for later
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Post by bunkerfan on Mar 13, 2016 11:53:01 GMT
Newsflash... Firstly apologies for being 'away'for a few weeks. I've recently (3 months) met a really nice young lady and all is going well .. apart from one thing. She loves here music bit its Metallica, Foo fighters, Audioslave... you know the type of thing. Anyway I'm on the case and have spent a good deal of time trying to bring here into the land of us Tull folk. Getting there slowly (She likes Broadsword and the Beast)... I think A Passion Play is going to be a lost cause tho! Thinking of you all while I carry on with my very best efforts to convert her to our side. ReverendWhiteDuck You must be in love Andrew because you haven't mentioned yesterday's win by England over Wales. Try putting Aqualung on repeat and it might convert your young lady to a lifetime of Tull appreciation. Good luck!
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Post by tullabye on Mar 13, 2016 16:33:26 GMT
When you car holds six CDs in the cradle and all are Tull related. Drives my wife crazy.
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 13, 2016 16:49:27 GMT
When you car holds six CDs in the cradle and all are Tull related. Drives my wife crazy. When I was allowed to drive I used to have boxes of Tull cassettes in the car - great minds think alike
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 13, 2016 16:51:45 GMT
Newsflash... Firstly apologies for being 'away'for a few weeks. I've recently (3 months) met a really nice young lady and all is going well .. apart from one thing. She loves here music bit its Metallica, Foo fighters, Audioslave... you know the type of thing. Anyway I'm on the case and have spent a good deal of time trying to bring here into the land of us Tull folk. Getting there slowly (She likes Broadsword and the Beast)... I think A Passion Play is going to be a lost cause tho! Thinking of you all while I carry on with my very best efforts to convert her to our side. ReverendWhiteDuck Updates please with the conversion to the Church of Tull
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Post by ash on Mar 13, 2016 20:06:17 GMT
When you car holds six CDs in the cradle and all are Tull related. Drives my wife crazy. I used to do that . Now I have a USB stick full of Tull
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