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Prentice Jack
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Post by piles on Nov 28, 2009 12:09:08 GMT
I ask this purely because they are my three favourite bands from that era (with Tull being number 1 of course ;D). Did they ever play together on the same stage, whether it be one opening for the other or be it a festival?
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 28, 2009 14:37:26 GMT
I ask this purely because they are my three favourite bands from that era (with Tull being number 1 of course ;D). Did they ever play together on the same stage, whether it be one opening for the other or be it a festival? Hi Piles and welcome to the forum. Not sure about headlining with Rush but with Pink Floyd yes, sort of! 29 June 1968 at Hyde Park in London A free outdoor concert with Pink Floyd, Roy Harper, Tyrannosaurus Rex and Jethro Tull Have a look through the tour dates at www.ministry-of-information.co.uk/setlist/index.htm or www.electrocutas.co.uk/datehistory.htmBoth excellent sites for this kind of info.
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Post by piles on Nov 28, 2009 23:45:28 GMT
Awesome, thanks Maddog, will check out the site!
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Post by nonrabbit on Mar 18, 2018 23:15:55 GMT
The Forum is huge and there's a few Threads at least given over to Pink Floyd. I remember a few years ago trying to find all the links between Floyd and Tull. I know that I started a Thread about it however I can't bleedin find it now. Anyway thanks to Forum member Mayhew ( jethrotull.proboards.com/post/75004/thread) and his question about PF and this thread, I've only gone and found something that I've been looking for - for ages. A book by Julian Palacious - Syd Barrett And Pink Floyd - Dark Globe. And in it; ' Proto - Jethro Tull group John Evan Smash played support to the Floyd in Ainsdale. Ian Anderson watched riveted from sidelines, rapt at his first exposure to psychedelia. "Genuinely amazing, it wasn't their songs as much as the way they broke all musical and presentational barriers. I never did any drugs so I wasn't interested in the psychedelic aspect of what they were doing. The way they mixed rock,folk and Eastern influences was fascinating, very eclectic." I will now search for more details - dates, places, authenticity of book. Join in if you wish! Extract from BOOK
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Post by nonrabbit on Mar 18, 2018 23:32:25 GMT
I remember now what I had seen before. From the Manchester Beat.com - a section on John Evan Band. " May 3rd 1967, the John Evan Smash played at The Moulin Rouge, Southport (giggle) with Pink Floyd" www.manchesterbeat.com/groups/johnevan/johnevan.phpSo we have Ainsdale and Southport - anyone fill the gap here?
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Post by jackinthegreen on Mar 18, 2018 23:43:02 GMT
I remember now what I had seen before. From the Manchester Beat.com - a section on John Evan Band. " May 3rd 1967, the John Evan Smash played at The Moulin Rouge, Southport (giggle) with Pink Floyd" www.manchesterbeat.com/groups/johnevan/johnevan.phpSo we have Ainsdale and Southport - anyone fill the gap here? Great article to see those early gigs, funny how Ian never mentions Floyd when talking about other bands.....especially "prog" bands, he always name checks ELP or Yes, or Genesis, but never Rush or Focus etc. He was so busy doing the Tull thing I guess, a lot of it passed him by.... Nice one N/R
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 20, 2018 7:42:54 GMT
Been mentioned many times before on the JT Forum but worth a reminder for anyone new to the Jethro Tull Experience. www.rhino.com/article/rhino-historic-tours-pink-floyd-jethro-tull-in-hyde-parkRhino Historic Tours: Pink Floyd & Jethro Tull in Hyde ParkWednesday, June 29, 201648 years ago today, two bands who have since gone on to become among the most popular in rock ‘n’ roll history – along with a few other not-insignificant names – played a free concert in Hyde Park, providing a lot of people with a lot of fond musical memories in the process. London’s Hyde Park has played host to a number of free concerts over the years, but it’s arguable that none were quite as memorable as the very first. Indeed, legendary UK DJ John Peel went so far as to say as much outright: “I always claim that the best outdoor event I've ever been to was the Pink Floyd concert in Hyde Park, when I hired a boat and rowed out and I lay in the bottom of the boat, in the middle of the Serpentine, and just listened to the band play. I think it was the nicest concert I’ve ever been to.” The event kicked off with a performance by Roy Harper, arguably best known to Pink Floyd fans for providing the vocals to the band’s song “Have a Cigar,” and Harper was followed by Jethro Tull, who definitely still qualified as up-and-comers in 1968, but they’d already begun to build a reputation as a stellar live band at that point, and by all accounts they lived up to that reputation. Next up: Tyrannosaurus Rex, who’d yet to shorten their name to T. Rex and were still very much in the psychedelic folk phase of their career, but their current sound meshed well with the rest of the music of the day. And what of the Floyd’s great gig in the park? Well, the band’s set list for the day involved a grand total of four songs, but if you know the songs in question – “Let There Be More Light,” “Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun,” “Saucerful of Secrets,” and “Interstellar Overdrive” – then you know that they could’ve kept playing all day just with that quartet of tracks alone. Everyone onstage seemed to have as good a time as the people in the crowd: Nick Mason looked back on the show and described it as “a lovely day,” noting that “it was much more a picnic in the park than a mini-Woodstock,” and Harper said, “I don’t think it ever got better than that one.” Not bad for free, eh?
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