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Post by steelmonkey on Apr 13, 2018 23:19:58 GMT
Sure I'm crazy, but if I can't fess up here....where ?
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Post by steelmonkey on Apr 13, 2018 23:19:30 GMT
None of us, I expect, would be free of some contradictions and embarrassing evolution if our lives were examined via public appearances, interviews and sound bites. How could Ian really keep it all straight and consistent and tied up tight over 50 years of constant interviews, some very in depth, with time to reflect, but most experienced as uninformed bombardment. All growth, all our lives, comes with some self-denunciation of past selves and a large dose of 'I wish I knew then, what I know now". I think Ian is an extraordinary person in so many ways: talent, intellect, taking responsibility, family, charity, integrity...I could go on and on. Some social clumsiness as a younger man or some not quite smoothed edges over a long public life are quite small in comparision to the big picture we can all see. Of course, I am not objective, I am grateful for the music and lyrics that have meant so much for so long. I always tell my kid that I am a deep hippie pacifist...what I don't tell her, is when the chaos starts, there I'll be defending the periphery of the Anderson estate. See you there ?
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Post by steelmonkey on Apr 13, 2018 16:26:21 GMT
Ian's only 70.....
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Post by steelmonkey on Apr 13, 2018 16:24:59 GMT
It was featured on at least two of the bootlegs most available in that era. My favorite Ian-ism from that tour is still ' Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ and John Lennon'....I still mutter that around the house fairly frequently. I think he said it in response to floor crowding.
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Post by steelmonkey on Apr 12, 2018 22:50:03 GMT
Can you get a Happy ( and I'm smiling, walked a mile to drink your carbonated sugar water) Meal at British McDonald's or is that just an American promotion? I need to know these things.
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Post by steelmonkey on Apr 12, 2018 22:47:39 GMT
Current frequency of play on Kindle:
Brick, Exile, Harvest, Fragile. Zep and George not downloaded.
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Post by steelmonkey on Apr 12, 2018 22:46:22 GMT
In order of frequency played:
Brick, Fragile, Harvest, Exile, Zep4, Bangladesh.
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Post by steelmonkey on Apr 12, 2018 22:45:19 GMT
I carried all six to college.....word.
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Post by steelmonkey on Apr 12, 2018 16:52:26 GMT
Waterford gap looks about right for a Forum convention. Set the dates so I can locate cheap flights and reserve my Daze Inn room.
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Post by steelmonkey on Apr 12, 2018 16:48:29 GMT
But you found a picture of them sans purses.....
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Post by steelmonkey on Apr 11, 2018 17:47:34 GMT
I saw 'Paris', in about 1974, in a smallish Denver club. They were really good and both their albums ( self-titled and 'Big Towne 2061') are worthwhile. The only tragic part back then was their odd fashion statement...try find a picture of them without their man purses...even on stage, which looked silly along guitar straps. The other guy in Paris was Hunt Sales...interesting cuz he ended up with Bowie in 'Tin Machine' and his Dad was an old time TV comedian named Soupy Sales.
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Post by steelmonkey on Apr 10, 2018 15:25:26 GMT
Whatever life form prevails in the future...and assuming they will have the intelligence to appreciate Tull....they are going to be very lucky to have so much information in one place. We are the Wikipedia of the Tull universe!
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Post by steelmonkey on Apr 2, 2018 1:12:09 GMT
Good news: Our favorites still very popular in Seattle. I got mediocre seats as the good ones sold out in seconds. I don't care. Anywhere in the venue is fine.
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Post by steelmonkey on Mar 31, 2018 16:51:39 GMT
Baker Street Muse....all of it. What a shock when it remained untouched in 75-76 when it was new. Have they ever played a note of it live?
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Post by steelmonkey on Mar 31, 2018 16:49:57 GMT
Credit card at hand, Seattle tickets on sale in 13 minutes. This will make three on upcoming tour...last two tours I only saw two concert each ( Opera and Home E.) and my three TAAB dips were spread over close to two years...so three in 8 days will be a return to old fashioned TULL SEASON days...like when I saw 5 Crests shows in 10 days...or 3 SFTW in a single week.
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Post by steelmonkey on Mar 30, 2018 21:50:22 GMT
10:00 AM tomorrow tickets on sale for Seattle. It's part of a summer series so I am sure the best seats are gobbled...but still..I will soon be ticketed for three concerts in 8 days. TULL SEASON.
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Post by steelmonkey on Mar 30, 2018 15:58:56 GMT
I hope this becomes available via usual toys soon. Looks very interesting and worthwhile.
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Post by steelmonkey on Mar 28, 2018 15:29:56 GMT
Good to start the day with a rousing 'Hava Nagilla'....on the way to work, my Kindle spit up 'Nothing to Say'....great song but sort of like pillow talk without the sex when 'With You There to Help Me' does not precede it.
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Post by steelmonkey on Mar 27, 2018 16:16:11 GMT
Lawyers hammering out details of Tull concert attendance trust fund to be established with my pension money after kid taps it for college. Number of posts on this site, along with essay, required to access the money. Hint: Lawyers advised to focus on APP mentions in essay. In the meantime I will work harder and live meaner to insure maximum funds in the trust.
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Post by steelmonkey on Mar 24, 2018 21:09:01 GMT
I get those kinds of atmospheric mixes a lot on the way to work, when the song in the headphones blends magically with traffic, train sounds and the odd siren....that and the illusion that live audiences on CDs are actually applauding my balletic bike moves and close calls. God winks.
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Post by steelmonkey on Mar 24, 2018 17:12:09 GMT
I made my 13 year old sit still for about 10 minutes and made her watch Prince perform 'Sign o the Times'live from that epic tour. She hated it and declared me stoopid for thinking otherwise.
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Post by steelmonkey on Mar 24, 2018 17:00:33 GMT
Happy Birthday my Tull brother from the exotic south. I hope you have a very healthy, happy, Tull filled year. Is this your big 6-Oh ? Brithdays a good time to remember yet again how lucky we are to live in the Tullecene period of geological history. Think of the billions of souls before and after us who will not share their time on this planet with Ian Anderson. Shudder.
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Post by steelmonkey on Mar 23, 2018 16:45:09 GMT
Well, my daughter is 13 ( no wife) and most of the time I love her more than anything in the world...but some days I would trade her for a good Tull concert and maybe a milk chocolate Suchard or Lindt bar thrown in. Tull music is pretty high on my 'beauty' gradient...I would put my daughter's face asleep and the instrumental section of Velvet Green in about the same strata.
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Post by steelmonkey on Mar 23, 2018 16:39:01 GMT
What a cool thing to find and share. I'm going to relive my first listen, via this guys responses tonight after work. Thank You Very Much for this. Mine first listen was the night of 12-31-72. I was a 15 year old with a new year's eve babysitting gig and when the little kids went to sleep I found TAAB in the records pile. The money I earned was promptly spent on the album, two days later....because the stores were closed on New Year's Day. I wish I could somehow thank those people for putting my lifelong favorite music in my path that night.
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Post by steelmonkey on Mar 22, 2018 15:59:23 GMT
I'm certainly working for Tull....In for 7 tickets to upcoming tour so far. Question for Nonrabbit: If I do more around the house do I get more Ice Cream?
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Post by steelmonkey on Mar 22, 2018 15:54:33 GMT
Stormwatch and A 'new romantic'...okay...I always thought Adam Ant swiped some moves and poses from Ian.
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Post by steelmonkey on Mar 22, 2018 15:46:52 GMT
Very surprised that there is no link on Tull page...how could that be? This amazing album should be of huge interest to Tull fans...far more important and enjoyable than some of the 32 second Ian contribution clips that do get noted on Tull site! Maybe Dee idealistic about pushing album on it's own merits without Tull boost? It's so good...more people should hear it, for sure. I already gave mine away and plan to buy another one....or maybe a few for distribution to friends. Now I have to make friends....damn.
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Post by steelmonkey on Mar 21, 2018 18:00:28 GMT
Thanks Maddog...I would estimate that we just cost my employer about $23.00 on the clock time for me to read the interview. Always a pleasure doing business. Before they took away our you tube access at work, Remy probably cost them hundreds of $.
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Post by steelmonkey on Mar 17, 2018 16:41:50 GMT
My college freind is in current Wilson band, Probyn Gregory,,,he was also in The Wondermints and The Eels. I wonder if he needs a roadie? I just texted to tell him how lucky he is to go to Cropredy
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Post by steelmonkey on Mar 16, 2018 17:58:25 GMT
Very interesting interview. Ian belabors a few points but nevertheless always exposes big brains and wide perspective.
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