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Post by nonrabbit on Sept 2, 2012 21:17:58 GMT
nope more subtle than that
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Post by maddogfagin on Sept 3, 2012 7:29:21 GMT
Whats the link between Ian and a hiking trail in the US? The Rattlesnake Trail ?
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Post by nonrabbit on Sept 3, 2012 8:42:09 GMT
Whats the link between Ian and a hiking trail in the US? The Rattlesnake Trail ? No.... the link is a person now deceased and the hiking trail is in California.
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Post by tullist on Sept 3, 2012 13:10:21 GMT
Patti, you must be referring to a personal hero John Muir. If so, cannot say I was aware of a trail,(though if there is one would not be surprised if I have been on it as it is likely either in Yosemite or John Muir Woods) but there is of course the minor miracle of John Muir Woods, an exquisite enclave which I believe is no more than 14 miles from San Francisco. Absolutely extraordinary to think there is a major city that close, to anyone who has ever been there. The connection would be something, along with his words that Graham goes to effort to replicate here with the old posts from the forum, that brings as much pride to me as his music, and that was Ian's decision to bring the holy tract of land over which he was Laird to the care of the John Muir Trust, when doubtless a greater profit might have been realized to selling it to a private interest, often someone who has little intent on investing the proper care. As with much he undertakes, the American film maker Ken Burns, and his 8 part series on America's National Parks, created a masterpiece in which no one plays a more central role, nor is more rightly deified than the Scots/American, (born in Scotland) John Muir. Truly in the discussion for the greatest American, a man in my mind qualified for sainthood. One final aside in this election year, while not absolving our sitting President who I do expect more of, be it known that his opponent has every intent of making available for rape 5 of our National Parks.
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Post by nonrabbit on Sept 3, 2012 16:10:10 GMT
Bang on the button Ray. The John Muir Trail is a long-distance trail in the Sierra Nevada mountain range of California, running 210.4 miles (338.6 km) between the northern terminus at Happy Isles in Yosemite Valley and the southern terminus located on the summit of Mount Whitney. Thats from wiki not from memory of actually walking it I agree as well about the JM Trust and I'll wager a small bet that Mr A sold Strathaird on principle rather than to the highest bidder.
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Post by steelmonkey on Sept 3, 2012 18:28:39 GMT
Pretty cool question and learning answer...I knew Ian sold his lands to a public trust conservancy type entity...didn't know that it was directly related to that kind of decision available out here by the John Muir/ Nature Conservancy Trust agencies...There are a lot of local non-profits, struggling against Reaganesque republican enitites that promote oil and coal exploration and other maximum greed squeezing out of land, water and air. Ray's right....anyone doing anything for the other side is heroic...Ian always described his holdings as a responsibility and temporary stewardship not money grubbing land ownership...and then he proved it was not all talk by passing them on the to good guys...how high integrity is that? Glad you asked: VERY.
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Post by maddogfagin on Sept 3, 2012 18:56:33 GMT
Pretty cool question and learning answer...I knew Ian sold his lands to a public trust conservancy type entity...didn't know that it was directly related to that kind of decision available out here by the John Muir/ Nature Conservancy Trust agencies...There are a lot of local non-profits, struggling against Reaganesque republican enitites that promote oil and coal exploration and other maximum greed squeezing out of land, water and air. Ray's right....anyone doing anything for the other side is heroic...Ian always described his holdings as a responsibility and temporary stewardship not money grubbing land ownership...and then he proved it was not all talk by passing them on the to good guys...how high integrity is that? Glad you asked: VERY. www.jmt.org/skye-estates.aspThe Strathaird Estate was bought by Ian Anderson - a musician in Jethro Tull - in 1978. Anderson started a salmon farming business at Strathaird, which expanded throughout Scotland. The business was reportedly worth over £10 million by the mid 1990s, though much of it has now been sold off[4]. Anderson sold the estate to the John Muir Trust in 1994, for around £750,000[5]. The Trust also own the neighbouring estates of Torrin and Sconser[ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StrathairdHave you learned any difficult lessons about money through mistakes? In the 1970s I bought a property in London on the edge of Regent's Park. It was a splendid terraced house with five bedrooms and a nice courtyard garden and we paid about £90,000, but I was at the end of a brief first marriage and we never moved in. When I met my second wife, we decided to live in the country. So we let the London house but its value plummeted and we ended up selling two years later for just £60,000. It wasn't all bad news because we bought the Strathaird estate with 50,000 acres on the Isle of Skye for about £150,000. The owner had defaulted and we bought at a good price from the bank. You ran a fish farm at Strathaird – did it do well? It was a successful business, but we didn't make a lot of money from it. We had 11 fish farms, a smokehouse and two processing factories. At one point we were employing 400 people, mostly in the factories, and turning over £12m a year. But we spent a huge amount of money and when we sold the estate in the 1990s for £1m we didn't make a bean of profit. At least we came away without having lost anything, but it was nerve-racking because I was aware that just one year of disease would have wiped us out and that's why I left it. www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/fameandfortune/6102159/Fame-and-Fortune-Jethro-Tulls-Ian-Anderson.html#
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Post by nonrabbit on Sept 4, 2012 8:08:26 GMT
Beautiful! but I couldn't live there.
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Post by maddogfagin on Sept 4, 2012 18:26:37 GMT
Beautiful! but I couldn't live there. Far too many mosquitoes and loud & brash tourists running around thinking they own the place. Must really hack off the residents who I suspect now regret the building of the bridge across the Kyle of Lochalsh in 1995 Mind you, the pub in Kyle looks OK
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Post by nonrabbit on Nov 16, 2012 21:46:57 GMT
Who is this with a Tull connection? i47.images obliterated by tinypic/2uj5fl3.jpg[/IMG]
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Post by steelmonkey on Nov 16, 2012 23:17:26 GMT
John Gee ?
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 17, 2012 9:03:39 GMT
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Post by nonrabbit on Mar 1, 2013 11:11:59 GMT
Who is Ian talking to here, when is it and what's the circumstances? i47.images obliterated by tinypic/atpwqx.jpg[/IMG]
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Post by onewhiteduck on Mar 1, 2013 12:02:03 GMT
Who is Ian talking to here, when is it and what's the circumstances? i47.images obliterated by tinypic/atpwqx.jpg [/IMG][/quote] Is it Mexico Airport circa 1970 and the immigration man is asking Ian if it would be possible to play the flute with his 4 fingers?
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Post by nonrabbit on Mar 1, 2013 13:55:20 GMT
Who is Ian talking to here, when is it and what's the circumstances? i47.images obliterated by tinypic/atpwqx.jpg [/IMG][/quote] Is it Mexico Airport circa 1970 and the immigration man is asking Ian if it would be possible to play the flute with his 4 fingers?[/quote] Nope but top class answer and may I also add.... Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapusi47.images obliterated by tinypic/qovjgk.gif[/IMG]
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2013 14:06:02 GMT
No one likes a know-it-all...
Ian Anderson & Los Angeles Philharmonic Conductor Zubin Mehta
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2013 14:50:28 GMT
Wonderful site. Very interesting. "There was a brilliant clash of colour as Mehta, tempestuous leader of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, and Anderson, boss of Jethro Tull, held their musical summit conference." www.tullpress.com/nme7mar70.htm
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Post by nonrabbit on Mar 1, 2013 16:28:34 GMT
Correct and by the way I didn't nick it from Tullpress in fact Ihave problems getting into that link you provided - honest Does it also give the circumstances of the meeting as well? if not what are they?
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Post by JTull 007 on Mar 1, 2013 18:58:36 GMT
Who is Ian talking to here, when is it and what's the circumstances? My theory is the guy on the left is a promoter for the band and is telling Ian what to expect for food and drinks after the show. Or perhaps what time the band will start on a Festival like Isle of Wight.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2013 19:47:26 GMT
Regards to Andrew Jackson. www.tullpress.com/index.htmThis web site is created and maintained by Andrew Jackson. Special thanks to Glenn Cornick for making his personal archive available, Mike Wain and Harry Auras for articles, and Gerrit de Geus for date and source information. www.tullpress.com/nme7mar70.htmNEW MUSICAL EXPRESS Click for full picture 7 March 1970 JETHRO IN A SHOTGUN WEDDING? It was the moment of truth in on Stage Two at the studio in beautiful downtown Burbank. Zubin Mehta, cool and sleek and looking like an advertisement for a Hollywood escort service, met Ian Anderson. There was a brilliant clash of colour as Mehta, tempestuous leader of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, and Anderson, boss of Jethro Tull, held their musical summit conference. Anderson with his flowing hair and multi-coloured suede bush hat, bright, tight orange-brown trousers, and Mehta, natty in white tie and tails, the picture of brilliantined niceness, talked — and those privileged to be present listened raptly. Mr Mehta asked Mr Anderson how he came to play the flute, and the lanky Scotsman replied: I've got a lousy voice and the flute's pretty handy — you can always stick it in your back pocket. Said Mr Mehta, leader of one of America's leading orchestras: Do you still sing with your group? Ian nodded and whipped back: Do you still sing with yours? And so it went on as 'long-hairs' from two different worlds met to tape a TV special promoted by America's powerful Bell Telephone Company. The show may be seen in Britain later this year. They are calling it 'Switched On Symphony' after several titles like 'Pop Goes the Symphony', 'From Bach to Rock', and 'The Longhairs — Bach, Beatles and Beyond' were discarded. This latest classi-pop experiment is being put together by that brave if slightly unorthodox transplant from London, Jack Good. It was Jack who with shows like 'Six-Five Special' and American shows like 'Shindig' gave rock a national respectability on TV when Auntie BBC and others of that ilk frowned on anything more hectic than Victor Silvester. Somehow Good's trouble all along has been that he's too far ahead of his time. In California he put on shows like 'Hair' — his was called 'Catch My Soul', a rock version of 'Othello' with Jerry Lee Lewis thumping and jumping on his piano. But somehow it didn't quite click. Two years later 'Hair' came along and everyone said, "Why didn't someone do something like 'Hair' two years ago?" Jack Good did. Now here is the genial owl-eyed Englishman back on the experimental trail with a symphony orchestra, Jethro Tull, the Nice, San Francisco's Santana, and Ray Charles. They've even thrown in comedian Jack Benny so that the over-30s don't switch off before the switched-on symphony get underway. Good has had problems. When he and co-producers Pierre Cossette and Burt Sugarman suggested it would be nice if they invited Paul McCartney to pop over to Burbank to host the show, the telephone company bosses nearly had a blue fit. Didn't Mr McCartney once confess he'd taken ... and in a world-wide magazine? the big chiefs echoed. Exit one Beatle. About marrying the symphonic set with the pop set, Good is enthusiastic but cautious. I think this is the music of the Seventies (he says). We are going to see the disappearance of the big groups and the emergence of the soloists — back to the Presley, Cliff Richard era. The groups are disintegrating and there will be three kinds of music: concert, concert rock, like we're doing with Mehta, Jethro Tull and the Nice, and the revival of the solo performers who will still appeal to the teenybop crowd. On the day of the taping, Good, who resembled a befuddled scout master who had misplaced his troop, bounced around in brown tennis shoes with a hole in one toe and a baggy blue tracksuit. We already have concert orchestras playing pop music — I call that lollipop music — but we're trying to get pop groups playing with orchestras — playing with them and not playing their music and vice versa. Their worlds are so separate, but we can still have a gigantic symphonic rave up. One scene in the show has the 104-strong symphony orchestra under Mehta's baton joining the Nice in a pop-concert version of 'America' from West Side Story. There was Mehta and his men in their 'penguin suits' and organist Keith Emerson and his group perched precariously in opera-type balconies behind velvet curtains in front. They were a strange combination, the traditional musicians and Emerson — a dazzling figure in a skin-tight silver costume that made him look like a cartoon-strip spaceman. After half a dozen tries at the one song everyone was happy. But there were a good few tense moments as Good shouted instructions to the Nice, who were miming to recorded music, and then Mehta persisted in getting his orchestra to reach perfection pitch. If this one comes off, Good may be on to a winner. There's nothing to stop Mehta teaming up with Credence Clearwater or the Grateful Dead or any group, says Good. One orchestra musician commented: Somehow the mating of the two worlds isn't very logical. It's more like a shotgun wedding. After the marriage everyone will stand back to see if they really do live happily ever after. line Note: In the June 1967 issue of 'Life' magazine, Paul McCartney shocked the world's press by admitting to taking LSD. Many thanks to Glenn Cornick for this article
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Post by bunkerfan on Mar 1, 2013 20:47:57 GMT
Correct and by the way I didn't nick it from Tullpress in fact Ihave problems getting into that link you provided - honest Does it also give the circumstances of the meeting as well? if not what are they? I think he's accusing Ian of stealing his hat and he's just asking for it back. That's my theory for what it's worth.
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Post by nonrabbit on Mar 1, 2013 22:15:49 GMT
Thanks TT that was what I was looking for..in fact more! I should have put that pic in the Captions thread
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Post by nonrabbit on Mar 23, 2013 20:13:44 GMT
This concert 1970 is (in)famous for not happening. JT were due to play on Saturday August 1st. i48.images obliterated by tinypic/312d6oh.jpg[/IMG] Can you list all JT concerts that have been cancelled over the years?
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Post by steelmonkey on Mar 23, 2013 21:05:16 GMT
For sure Thanksgiving 1984 in LA...and a whole Australian tour right after.
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Post by tullabye on Mar 24, 2013 6:16:47 GMT
For sure Thanksgiving 1984 in LA...and a whole Australian tour right after. Well not quite because I was at Universal that night watching Tull play after a great Thanksgiving dinner. The day after was cancelled as well as the rest of the tour. It was so painful to see Ian struggle but as always gave everything he had. Fly by Night and European Legacy were two of my faves and both were played.
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Post by steelmonkey on Mar 24, 2013 6:37:43 GMT
I'm sure you're right...I remember going to Pollo Loco on Sunset and La Brea the next night and 'celebrating' a desolate Thanksgiving with unusable Tull ducats in wallet....the show in San Francisco, only a few days earlier, showed much less voice stress...only noticed it during the Loco-TOTRARTYTD encore but the LA gig he did finish was visibly hard for him...at the time we weren't worried a bit...figured it was deep into a very long tour and probably too many gigs in a row in dry air cities....despite cancellations we didn't realize or suspect we were witnessing the begining of the end of Ian's full voice.
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Post by bunkerfan on Mar 24, 2013 7:53:28 GMT
I had tickets for this gig but still went to London for the weekend anyway. had no money worries then. (From Sounds magazine) 28 April 1973 JETHRO CANCEL WEMBLEY GIGS Doctor orders Ian to rest Jethro Tull have been forced to cancel both their Wembley concerts this weekend (April 28 and 29). Chrysalis announced this week that Ian Anderson was suffering from nervous exhaustion and is under orders from his doctor to rest for at least two weeks. Tull have rescheduled both Wembley concerts and will now appear on Friday, June 22, and Saturday, June 23. Ticket holders for this Saturday's concert will now have their tickets honoured at the June 22 concert, and holders for this Sunday will be able to get in on June 23. Ticket money will, however, be refunded if they are returned to whence they came. A spokesman from Chrysalis told Sounds that Tull had not taken a holiday for a year — they have been appearing continuously in countries all over the world, and in addition to live appearances they have been recording. In March the band finished their European tour, and since then they have been rehearsing their Passion Play stage show, and recording a five-minute film which will be shown during the Passion Play stage show. Tull are scheduled to go to America at the beginning of May but they may miss the beginning of the tour unless Anderson has recovered. The band had hoped to take a holiday during June but they will now play Wembley instead.
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Post by ash on Mar 28, 2013 15:15:14 GMT
Yeah no money worries. My ticket was £1 ;D Funny I didn't see you there.
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Post by bunkerfan on Mar 29, 2013 20:24:53 GMT
Sorry I missed you there ash but, I was in The Stalls at £1.10p.
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Post by nonrabbit on Apr 15, 2013 10:15:23 GMT
This was something? i47.images obliterated by tinypic/14xicno.jpg[/IMG]
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