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Post by maddogfagin on Jun 15, 2010 8:14:28 GMT
In the latest record collector Marc Almond comes out as a Tull fan!!!!!! He also cites Glam and Prog as being when music was best. Jim Kerr also lists some proggy groups as some of the best he's seen - including YES. Just got my copy of Record Collector. I see the first albums he claims to have bought are Hair Benefit Fire & Water Electric Warrior
"My life was never the same" he states. 'Tis a funny old world.
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Post by nonrabbit on Jun 25, 2010 15:57:27 GMT
I thought I had read here about Stephen King being a Tull fan?
anyways I'm reading his short stories "Just After Sunset" and one of the stories called "Harvey's Dream" is about a woman who thinks her life is mundane dull and boring then one morning her mundane dull and boring husband tells her about a dream he had and she gets scared...
"....it occurs to her that this is her punishment for dismissing life as thin. Life is actually like a Jethro Tull song,thick as a brick,how could she have thought otherwise...."
made me jump ;D
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Post by nonrabbit on Jun 25, 2010 15:59:34 GMT
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Post by nonrabbit on Jun 30, 2010 8:01:24 GMT
Interview with Ian on the death of Tony Snow in 2008.
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Post by stevep on Mar 23, 2011 21:25:59 GMT
Lloyd Grossman was/is a big fan of Tull. Quote from a newspapaer interview...
"When he was still at Marblehead High School, Loyd had discovered Humphrey Littleton's restaurant reviews in Queen, and 'decided that some day I was going to write about food'. He dabbled in restaurant reviewing at Boston University - 'a Methodist university basically for people who want to be in Boston and haven't managed to get into Harvard'. He read history 'when I wasn't seeing Jethro Tull five nights in a row'."
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Post by stevep on Mar 23, 2011 22:16:34 GMT
A few more Tull fans that I remember reading about:
- Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden. - Stephen Fry - John Deacon of Queen - Hugh Lawrie - he is even starting to look like he should be in Tull.
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Post by nonrabbit on Mar 23, 2011 23:30:40 GMT
I think I read somewhere that Steve Vai was a fan
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 27, 2011 9:31:54 GMT
Poppy Montgomery – The star of Without a Trace was born Poppy Petal Emma Elizabeth Devaraux Donahue. She has a brother named Jethro Tull, and sisters named Rosie Thorn, Daisy Yellow, Lily Belle, and Marigold Sun. From lifelistsblog.wordpress.com
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Post by nonrabbit on Mar 27, 2011 9:43:20 GMT
Poppy Montgomery – The star of Without a Trace was born Poppy Petal Emma Elizabeth Devaraux Donahue. She has a brother named Jethro Tull, and sisters named Rosie Thorn, Daisy Yellow, Lily Belle, and Marigold Sun. From lifelistsblog.wordpress.comI think that is both admirable yet brave at the same time - I suppose it could have been worse Crest of a Knave or Living In the Past running about on a hippy commune somewhere in the desert? I don't know how any of my two sons would have responded to that probably not in the same way as me
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 28, 2011 9:12:03 GMT
Poppy Montgomery – The star of Without a Trace was born Poppy Petal Emma Elizabeth Devaraux Donahue. She has a brother named Jethro Tull, and sisters named Rosie Thorn, Daisy Yellow, Lily Belle, and Marigold Sun. From lifelistsblog.wordpress.comI think that is both admirable yet brave at the same time - I suppose it could have been worse Crest of a Knave or Living In the Past running about on a hippy commune somewhere in the desert? I don't know how any of my two sons would have responded to that probably not in the same way as me You mean you didn't call them Gerald and Bostock? Shame.
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Post by nonrabbit on Mar 28, 2011 10:36:55 GMT
I think that is both admirable yet brave at the same time - I suppose it could have been worse Crest of a Knave or Living In the Past running about on a hippy commune somewhere in the desert? I don't know how any of my two sons would have responded to that probably not in the same way as me You mean you didn't call them Gerald and Bostock? Shame. No just plain old Ian and Martin
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Post by steelmonkey on Mar 28, 2011 23:08:21 GMT
Not a celeb mention but a line in a novel and I'm too lame to find the precise thread...In a book I'm reading a college boy who hates dancing finds himself forced to dance with a coed he hopes to bone and, while trying to find the beat in a Clash or Bowie song, 'sees' his former self, hovering over the scene, livid in long hair, aviator glasses and, of course, a Jethro Tull T-shirt.......anyway...he finds the beat , let's himself go during a Rick james song...and indeed gets the girl....yay for Tull and ex-Tull fans...real and imaginary...
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Post by steelmonkey on Mar 30, 2011 22:38:51 GMT
Later that same book (see above---I'm not a slow reader...it's been busy at work and home) the protagonist finds himslef in a depressing bar with strippers who perks up a bit when a girl in a loincloth gyrates to the tune of 'Bungle in the jungle'...two Tull references in the same book...and still a few chapters to go....
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Post by nonrabbit on Mar 30, 2011 22:45:31 GMT
Later that same book (see above---I'm not a slow reader...it's been busy at work and home) the protagonist finds himslef in a depressing bar with strippers who perks up a bit when a girl in a loincloth gyrates to the tune of 'Bungle in the jungle'...two Tull references in the same book...and still a few chapters to go.... well I hope it all works out just dandy for him
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Post by nonrabbit on Apr 28, 2012 19:34:21 GMT
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Post by steelmonkey on Apr 28, 2012 20:10:49 GMT
Probably good taste....beware irony !
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Post by oksauce on Apr 29, 2012 15:25:19 GMT
Just remembered that the late Alan Freeman of Radio 1 and Capital Radio fame was also a very big Tull fan and used to play them a lot on the Saturday Rock Show. I phoned him up when he was presenting his programme one Saturday night and got him to play Budapest and he called "Crest of a Knave" one of the best albums ever recorded that year. Tommy Vance (also of Radio 1 and Capital Radio) was also a big Tull fan. I briefly met him at a Tull concert in Hayes, Middlesex, where he was reviewing the concert for his programme later in the week. Another great radio presenter now sadly departed. BTW I doubt very much if any of Metallica are Tull fans although I maybe wrong I think Metallica covered Cross-Eyed Mary once, not sure about that though.
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Post by steelmonkey on Apr 29, 2012 18:02:01 GMT
I got tricked by that...cuz i actually like Metullica ....saw them live a few times even acoustic at a benefit...actually talented, no-joke, real thing rock and roll guys...but anyway...Iron maiden covered Cross-Eyed Mary...it's even a B side or box set rarity...and someone synched it to a metallica performance in Germany....looks real as can be and easy enough to sound like metallica...I was bummed when i learned i had been tricked...I wanted to think Metallica would cover a Tull song.
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Post by oksauce on May 1, 2012 12:01:46 GMT
I got tricked by that...cuz i actually like Metullica ....saw them live a few times even acoustic at a benefit...actually talented, no-joke, real thing rock and roll guys...but anyway...Iron maiden covered Cross-Eyed Mary...it's even a B side or box set rarity...and someone synched it to a metallica performance in Germany....looks real as can be and easy enough to sound like metallica...I was bummed when i learned i had been tricked...I wanted to think Metallica would cover a Tull song. Ah yes that's right, it was Iron Maiden. I don't care for Metallica all that much, though they have their moments.
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2012 13:40:37 GMT
works as a smiley
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Post by nonrabbit on May 1, 2012 16:23:30 GMT
God I hate those vocals
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Post by tullist on May 1, 2012 17:37:53 GMT
God I hate those vocals It is confusing to me how one can even like both. I occasionally wonder just what it is that people who find, at least some element of Tull interesting, (I think its usually the snot running down his nose, got him by the balls, classic rock or Ian singing in a voice that can be construed as evil crowd, the ones with so much boorish shouting on the original Brick tours and to some extent on all the ones before and after, doubt if their interest extends to Eurology for instance)see in bands the likes of Metallica, Black Sabbath, Rush or even most of the prog rock world of their time. And yet their knowledge of a music that I believe has alot more kindred spirit with Tull, in terms of at least a small effort being required of the listener, jazz music, will not fill a thimble. Or even classical music, to the extent that world I mentioned have any knowledge of it, it will be the most pompous orchestral things from Beethoven or Elgar, or classical lite like Peter and the Wolf or the Nutcracker.
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Post by nonrabbit on May 1, 2012 18:15:34 GMT
God I hate those vocals It is confusing to me how one can even like both. I occasionally wonder just what it is that people who find, at least some element of Tull interesting, (I think its usually the snot running down his nose, got him by the balls, classic rock or Ian singing in a voice that can be construed as evil crowd, the ones with so much boorish shouting on the original Brick tours and to some extent on all the ones before and after, doubt if their interest extends to Eurology for instance)see in bands the likes of Metallica, Black Sabbath, Rush or even most of the prog rock world of their time. And yet their knowledge of a music that I believe has alot more kindred spirit with Tull, in terms of at least a small effort being required of the listener, jazz music, will not fill a thimble. Or even classical music, to the extent that world I mentioned have any knowledge of it, it will be the most pompous orchestral things from Beethoven or Elgar, or classical lite like Peter and the Wolf or the Nutcracker. I used the word God in the sense of a name that I was taught as a wee girl and as Spike Milligan said - It sits on your shoulder and you can't throw it off in so many words;) I agree with you on Cross Eyed and borrowing/abusing it - it's not just a case of "dirty lyrics" and a rock beat for flips sake. Anyway, on the classical point;
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Post by zobstick on May 2, 2012 12:02:22 GMT
Not sure if it makes him a fan as such, but Dave Myers of Hairy Bikers fame has been heard to extol the virtues of both Jethro Tull and Ian Anderson once or twice during the course of their cookery programmes on the telly!
Now, where did I put that rolling pin.......!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2012 17:56:43 GMT
Joe Piscopo on Frank Sinatra and Saturday Night Live By Jon Solomon Thu., Aug. 9 2012Joe Piscopo joined the cast of Saturday Night Live in 1980, after honing his stand-up chops at New York's Improv; he stayed with the show until 1985. During his SNL stint, he became known for such original characters as the Sports Guy, as well as celebrity impersonations of David Letterman and Frank Sinatra... Read more: blogs.westword.com/showandtell/2012/08/qa_joe_piscopo_on_working_fran.phpI knew you were a singer, but I was surprised to find out that you play guitar, tenor sax, keyboards, flute and drums as well. I know. I'm a frustrated rock-and-roller from the early days. I studied piano formally and then when the Beatles and the Stones came in, a great era of rock and roll came in, I was just totally smitten with that. Of course, I picked up the guitar. And then I listened to the drums and I tried to emulate the classic drummers like Buddy Rich and Gene Krupa. I also dug the riffs of Mitch Mitchell who played for Jimi Hendrix. There are great drummers now -- Nick Menza's a great drummer from Megadeth -- but Mitch Mitchell just filled in. People don't understand that as brilliant as Hendrix was on guitar, Mitch Mitchell is on the drums. I really heard that. I could hear that when I listened to all those rock tunes. Now I just kind of jump on stage and make a living of living out my fantasies a little bit -- well, not all my fantasies, but almost all of them. * I heard that you were a big Jethro Tull fan in high school, which is one of the reason you started playing the flute. There it is. Baby, that was it. That's so funny. Ian Anderson... You know what, I listened to that and thought, "How creative is that?" The '60s, man, I'm telling you, they had the greatest music of all time. It was just the base of rock and roll. After Elvis did his thing and all the great rock and rollers did their thing early on, those monster rock groups like Jethro Tull... Flute, a freakin' flute? I said, "What, are you kidding me?" I went down to the music store and said, "Gimme the flute." I learned that Blood, Sweat and Tears did a great song called "Flute Thing," which was based on a classical music piece by Satie. I learned that and I put that on that. We do it in a comedy way. It's always with a comedy riff to it. I tell you what, man, there was some great stuff out there and I was fortunate enough to be part of a generation that had this great eclectic mix of great rock and roll, but always true to the standards because people want to hear the Frank Sinatra stuff.
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Post by maddogfagin on Aug 15, 2012 11:02:02 GMT
www.bbc.co.ukNewsnight host Esler to front rock music awards gigNewsnight's Gavin Esler has taken on an unlikely role as the host of a rock music awards show. The 59-year-old BBC journalist and presenter will MC the Progressive Music Awards in London in September. As Newsnight host, he has interviewed a range of world leaders including President Clinton and Tony Blair. The inaugural awards - launched by Prog magazine - will honour music acts past and present. Esler has long been a fan of prog rock and is a supporter of its roots in British music history. "I grew up listening to bands ranging from King Crimson and Jethro Tull to Colosseum and Pink Floyd," he said. "Prog rock is a great British invention and it's time we celebrated and rewarded not just past greatness but also the inventiveness of today's bands who are successors to this extraordinary British success story." Along with presenting Newsnight, he hosts Dateline London on BBC World and presents on the BBC News Channel. Among the bands nominated in the Prog Music Awards are Jethro Tull, Marillion, Pink Floyd and It Bites. The editor of Prog magazine, Jerry Ewing, said the awards have been "a long time coming". "When one considers the enormous amount of success that progressive artists have garnered over the past four decades, and perhaps more importantly the enjoyment they have given millions of fans over the years, it's only right we give something back to the musicians themselves. "Given the buoyancy of the genre in recent years, we felt that the time was certainly right," he added. The awards bash will be held Kew Gardens on 5 September 2012.
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Post by nonrabbit on Nov 6, 2012 10:34:31 GMT
Tom Woods, American historian and New York Times best selling author went to see his favourite band and blogged; "...Usually by the end of a concert I’ve had my fill. When this was over, I wanted it to start all over again...." Full article; www.tomwoods.com/blog/ian-anderson-was-great-in-chicago/
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Post by blackout on Dec 5, 2012 23:41:17 GMT
Ok there. What about fellow genius songwriter and performer, the great Nick Cave. Not only is the influence quite clear to see in Caves work but the fact that the Bad Seeds used to soundcheck with 'Locomotive Breath' ( I know, I saw it. Wish I could have recorded it, it was amazing ) surely says it all. Add to that that Caves son was christened 'Jethro Cave' and I rest my case m'lud.
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Post by steelmonkey on Dec 6, 2012 1:49:20 GMT
Nick Cave is one guy who doesn't need more to add to his off the charts coolarity factor...but digging Tull indeed makes him EVEN cooler....check out this very nasty video if you dare: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ0ohmx4kiMHow cool is that ?
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Post by maddogfagin on Dec 6, 2012 9:01:53 GMT
Ok there. What about fellow genius songwriter and performer, the great Nick Cave. Not only is the influence quite clear to see in Caves work but the fact that the Bad Seeds used to soundcheck with 'Locomotive Breath' ( I know, I saw it. Wish I could have recorded it, it was amazing ) surely says it all. Add to that that Caves son was christened 'Jethro Cave' and I rest my case m'lud. Welcome along to The Jethro Tull Forum blackout. Your case is proved beyond doubt sir. Anymore Tull celebs? MD
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