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Post by maddogfagin on Aug 5, 2010 17:34:29 GMT
Hopefully this thread will be a useful place to post press/internet articles on the band. To start with, here's one from ynetnews.com from 2006 Jethro Tull's soloist: Show must go on
Ian Anderson, Jethro Tull's soloist and flutist, is still planning to come to Israel. 'I don’t think any of us should succumb to terror, I am afraid of coming to Israel but I am also afraid to cross the street'
Ian Anderson, Jethro Tull's soloist and flutist since 1967, is due to appear in Israel on October 16th, 2006 for the fifth time. Anderson will be playing in concert with the Raanana Symphony Orchestra set to take place at the city's famed amphitheatre.
As of now, it doesn’t appear as though the concert is likely be cancelled.
"I am not afraid to appear in Israel, although when I come to a place like Israel, I know it's not a picnic by the Thames. I am aware of the tension and it saddens me." Anderson said.
When asked whether he is afraid to come to Israel, Anderson responded by saying that he is but he is also afraid to cross the street, and to wake up in the morning.
"We live in a frightening world," he says but doesn't believe in succumbing to terror.
"Last July, there were terror attacks in London, and people got back on the trains the next day. Terror can never win, and we can't really defeat it." Anderson added.
Anderson believes that the mindset of terrorists can't be changed by brut force, but those of the next generation can. He says it's society's and parents' duty to teach their children values, tolerance and mutual respect.
"But as long as there are parents who allow their children to sow the seeds of hate and intolerance, they are in many ways encouraging it."
Anderson's performance in Israel marks the end of the bands' European tour. He doesn't plan on bringing his valuable flute to Israel with him.
"My good flute will stay at home," he said explaining that there is always a risk of loss or damage when going on tour. www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3288083,00.html |
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Post by tullist on Aug 5, 2010 22:13:36 GMT
Love u madly Ian. And yeah, I'm ascared too. (Sorry, just kind of wanted to say ascared or uhscared there, but...i am)
I have to say although I have been vocally against our involvements in Iraq and Afghanistan, after seeing the recent issue of Time Magazine with that horrible picture on the cover of that beautiful Afghanistan girl of at most 18 who had had the nose on her precious face carved out of it as the result of some arrangement where her Father was guilty of some crime against another family I think, and as a result both she and her sister were given as slaves essentially to the offended party, if their intent was to shift opinion, I am afraid in my case it may have worked, I say bravely not having to be the one to go fight this God awful war so far away. To the extent I was at all supportive of it was not to change their ancient ways, or even to get Osama which I find it difficult to believe is not easily within reach of our awesome Special Forces, but because of the accessibility of the nuclear arsenal poorly guarded in nearby former Soviet republics. The lessons of Viet Nam are still too deeply ingrained. But that picture on that cover, it really needs to be seen, have unchained that unreasonable war beast again in my cowardly stomach. God bless our brave soldiers, truly our very best, and those who stand beside us, and God forgive me for my reasoning brought about by a mere image. And god damn that twit who spilled the beans as the result of some broken love affair, may he rot and forever be an outcast.
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Post by steelmonkey on Aug 5, 2010 22:28:48 GMT
I see where you're coming from Ray...it's hard to be all sideline and respect other cultures when that means reading about stonings of adulterers to death and other horrific, sick-macho manifestations of cowardice and control of women...but on the topic of Afghanistan, I'm sure our Brit friends will recognize the importance of Mr Obama ( Mister...the guys a 49 year old kid) reading the Flashman novels...to wit....no one...no one ever...no one ever ever ever has won in Afghanistan...not the Huns or the Mongols or the Chinese or the British or the Russians.....there is no winning in Afghanistan....just death, despair and retreat.....Obama's reading level must allow Flashman perusal....no?
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Post by tullist on Aug 6, 2010 0:18:45 GMT
Yeah Bernie, I should probably retract that, very similar to a lesser extent with my flashpoint emotions directly after 911 seeing one middle aged woman I think in either the West Bank or Beirut doing the victory dance on the day of 911 and I was overwhelmed with emotions against my better angels of needing to see her head on a spike, while not knowing of the welfare of people I talked to on a daily basis in the South Tower, indeed a dumb ass call about the Yankees cut off in mid transmission by the events.
And having just had dinner with my veteran 84 yo Father he talked me down off somewhere i really should not have been posting here concerning, but if you get your hands on that, I think, current issue of Time magazine and its attendant story, I defy anyone, particularly males beholden to beautiful women in particular, to be unmoved, its like hitting me at my weakest point, and if the intent was to sway opinion, it was at least temporarily successful. And as much as I am receeding from said opinion, I am still nearly jingoistic as regards our military and my perception that all these legendary armies that have attempted said goal prior to us and those who walk with us still are not us, and the feeling that when the United States sets a goal and means it it can never be stopped. But again I ain't the one who has to bring the fight so on that account alone I know I need to shutup, even though generations before me have been in all those prior ones back to the Civil War, in that one on both sides we lost people. I am glad someone with a more balanced head than I can sometimes be is at the controls,although generally my outlook has been getting out of each "theater" altogether. But swayed again so easily by regular outbursts from Ahmidenijad about there having been no holocaust, which so many young men like my Father saw firsthand, and the talk of the annihilation of the sovereign state of Israel. Sort of like that Time magazing cover, for all the ghastly images of the various concentration camps, there is no picture more moving than one, and I really don't know how they were dressed so well likely having just alighted from a train like cattle, a picture taken from the back of a nicely dressed young Mother, apparently in winter with a two year old and a three year old in either hand following their Mother as they had always done, only this time it was to the gas chamber. I just know very great evil has always got to be stopped at all costs. Back to Tull folks, sorry.
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Post by nonrabbit on Aug 7, 2010 8:27:52 GMT
No need to apologise T for bringing up emotive subjects isn't that what life's all about - that and music? but definately NOT football/basketball  The way I look at it (wars) after being on the planet for 52 years is we are still dealing with human emotions on a very very basic level. I hope we survive long enough as a species to eradicate violent confrontation and deal with the problem we have individually and collectively with the issue of control - but I somehow don't think we will. This idea of fighting for injustice is great and the only alternative we have at this point of human existance but what about Africa? North Korea? other countries where human rights are exploited on a regular horrific basis - do we the fight them all or is their a hidden agenda. I watched a programme last night on the solar system - which is expanding by the way what tiny little insignificent lonely beings we are  and isn't it great or a miracle we're still here |
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Post by steelmonkey on Aug 7, 2010 13:38:12 GMT
Thanks for the clarification non-bunny...I've expanded significantly since trading in bike messengering for indoor work...I thought it meant I was becoming a fat, old pig...but now I see it's just my small part in the solar-systemwide expansion....
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Post by nonrabbit on Aug 7, 2010 18:13:55 GMT
Thanks for the clarification non-bunny...I've expanded significantly since trading in bike messengering for indoor work...I thought it meant I was becoming a fat, old pig...but now I see it's just my small part in the solar-systemwide expansion.... Your very welcome monkey of the steel any other questions/ problems/issues ask away and I will answer them after I've watched the discovery channel or read a"How to..." article in a mag |
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Post by nonrabbit on Oct 5, 2010 7:25:50 GMT
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Post by maddogfagin on Oct 5, 2010 7:50:58 GMT
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blogs.westword.com/backbeat/2012/08/review_iron_maiden_denver_comfort_dental.phpIron Maiden at Comfort Dental, 8/13/12 By Tom Murphy Tue., Aug. 14 2012 During the opening song, Bruce Dickenson took up residence at various points of the stage and gestured with a theatrical melodrama worthy of stage actors-cum-screen actors of the early twentieth century right out of a F.W. Murnau or Fritz Lang picture. "Can I Play With Madness," with its Jethro Tull-esque rhythms, got the entire crowd singing along almost immediately. Though definitely metal, that song felt like some pop song fondly remembered from childhood. For many of us, it really was. You put your bet on number one and it comes up every time. to be continued...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2012 20:45:42 GMT
Faithless to receive Heritage award at the Jazz Cafe in Camden www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2012/08/14/faithless-to-recieve-heritage-award-at-the-jazz-cafe-in-camden/PRS for Music set up the Heritage Award in 2009 to recognise the unusual ‘performance birthplaces’ of famous bands and artists. Previous awardees include Blur, Elton John, Soul II Soul, UB40, Snow Patrol, James and Jethro Tull. Faithless and the Jazz Café have contributed significantly to shaping the British music landscape. why do the faithful have such a will to believe in something?
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Post by gongsi on Aug 15, 2012 6:49:03 GMT
yes,i agree with you.
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Post by maddogfagin on Aug 15, 2012 15:13:54 GMT
And the playlists were diverse. The most famous proof came with a quasi-prog song, “Stairway to Heaven,” eight minutes and three seconds long with drums that don’t come in until 4:17. There was no radio or TV promotion other than occasional spots on Don Kirscher’s Rock Concert and the King Biscuit Flower Hour. In Britain and in the States, a strange, experimental band could get on equal promotional footing with an actual pop act. “It wasn’t like you see it now,” says Derek Sutton, formerly the road manager for Procol Harum and Jethro Tull, “where a few conglomerates corner the market and the programming is decided up top.” 
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Steve Vai on Soloing Tips and Learning from Zappa - Neil Chrisley|08.15.2012 www2.gibson.com/News-Lifestyle/Features/en-us/steve-vai-on-soloing-tips-learning-0815-2012.aspxWhat was the first music you heard that made you want to play guitar? The first real music that stimulated me was the soundtrack for West Side Story. And that was a good thing. It was historical music, and it involved a lot of composition. I loved composition and the idea of writing music. I was trying to write music before I started playing guitar. And then I heard Led Zeppelin. That changed everything for me. My sister was listening to all this great music – Led Zeppelin, and Alice Cooper and Sly and the Family Stone. As soon as I heard the solo in “Heartbreaker,” the urge to have a guitar – and play guitar – became overwhelming. That’s what got me started. Where did you go from there? I had a friend who lived down the street – his name was John Sergio – and he turned me onto the really great progressive rock music of the ’70s. I started listening to bands like Queen and Jethro Tull and Emerson Lake & Palmer and Yes. That’s the stuff I cut my teeth on, in the beginning. I tried to pick things up by ear, and play as much as I could. And then my lessons with Joe [Satriani] were very important. I could sit across from him and see a real guitar player. He was gifted beyond anyone else I knew. That’s where I began learning how to apply the music theory I was being taught in school to the guitar. And just the idea of being in a rock band meant a lot. When you’re in a rock band in high school, there’s nothing cooler than that. "We're getting a bit short on heroes lately.'' |
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The one I missed...  Prog Spring Entry 1: Before it was a joke, prog was the future of rock ‘n’ roll.By David Weigel|Posted Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012, at 3:45 AM ET www.slate.com/articles/arts/prog_spring/features/2012/prog_rock/history_of_prog_the_nice_emerson_lake_palmer_and_other_bands_of_the_1970s_.htmlBut if ever a form of popular music dropped dead suddenly, it was prog. Progressive rock essentially disappeared, and has remained in obscurity for 35 years, ridiculed by rock snobs, ignored by fans, its most famous artists—Yes, King Crimson, ELP, Jethro Tull—catchphrases for pretentious excess. ...of the newest day. <stop me> ;D Prog Spring
Entry 4: Rick Wakeman, Yes, and the insane excess that doomed prog.By David Weigel|Posted Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012, at 3:45 AM ET www.slate.com/articles/arts/prog_spring/features/2012/prog_rock/the_fall_of_prog_the_insane_excess_of_rick_wakeman_and_yes_.htmlThere were signs from the start that this might not go over. Jethro Tull had just put out A Passion Play, full of metaphor-rich wordplay and surprise-twist melodies. It got panned on the front page of Melody Maker by a critic who’d wanted to like it. “If this is where ten years of ‘progression’ have taken us,” wrote Chris Welch, “then it’s time to go backwards.” But Yes never thought about scaling back. They wanted to reach transcendence, not radio. “We’re close to the edge of spiritual awareness within the framework of the group, making music,” vocalist Jon Anderson told the New Musical Express. “We have this long song, which we felt could hold a listener’s ear for the whole length, rather than just a track here and there that they like.” Step into the viewing room.
The cameras were all around. We've got you taped you're in the play.
Here's your I.D. (Ideal for identifying one and all.)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2012 13:50:19 GMT
Prog Spring Entry 5: Prog lives! By David Weigel|Posted Friday, Aug. 17, 2012, at 3:45 AM ET www.slate.com/articles/arts/prog_spring/features/2012/prog_rock/prog_music_today_nearfest_kanye_west_and_the_fans_who_still_love_prog_.htmlThe fans I met at NEARfest knew that prog has been disrespected, and they knew why. Why hadn’t Jethro Tull or King Crimson or Van Der Graaf Generator been invited to Cleveland, into the Hall of Fame? Because Rolling Stone’s Jann Wenner hated prog. Why was the music written out of accepted rock history? See previous answer. Why didn’t television or radio play their music? In a 2011 oral history of MTV, one producer recalls that Asia—a prog supergroup, the breakout band of 1982, 10 percent of all albums sold that year—nailed down the first-ever live MTV concert. But it made for boring, unsexy TV. Out it went. But that’s no way to judge a decade of music, and it’s not really an ego-builder for the solid bands in the new prog niche. The experiments of the Yes/Genesis/ELP era weren’t forgotten. You can’t sell that many records without a generation of musicians breathing in the influence. The innocent young master - thoughts moving ever faster -
has formed the plan to change the man he seems.
And the poet sheaths his pen while the soldier lifts his sword.
And the oldest of the family is moving with authority.
Coming from across the sea, he challenges the son who puts him to the run.
What do you do when the old man's gone - do you want to be him?
And your real self sings the song. Do you want to free him?
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Post by nonrabbit on Aug 21, 2012 14:48:48 GMT
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Post by nonrabbit on Aug 21, 2012 15:03:50 GMT
RIP Scott McKenzie
I know it's a cliche and the subject of much guffawing among my offspring but that whole thing defined my culture - you didn't have to live in the headquarters either.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2012 14:27:44 GMT
Stereoboard Look At The History Of This Weekend's Reading And Leeds Festivals - Wednesday, 22 August 2012 www.stereoboard.com/content/view/174407/9The 60s and 70s played host to a very different festival than today. The 60s carnation was headlined by names including The Yardbirds, Manfred Mann, The Rolling Stones, Cream, The Who, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull... those with no sandwiches please get off the bus |
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Post by steelmonkey on Aug 22, 2012 17:48:02 GMT
I had an older T Rex album at college that got worn down from constant plays...now I can't remember the name but it had 'Woodland Stomp' on it and all kinds of folk/rock/psychedilic/song fragment hippie stuff on it...it was just Bolan and one other guy...really good stuff....now i remember: A Beard of Stars.
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Post by maddogfagin on Aug 22, 2012 18:06:43 GMT
Stereoboard Look At The History Of This Weekend's Reading And Leeds Festivals - Wednesday, 22 August 2012 www.stereoboard.com/content/view/174407/9The 60s and 70s played host to a very different festival than today. The 60s carnation was headlined by names including The Yardbirds, Manfred Mann, The Rolling Stones, Cream, The Who, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull... those with no sandwiches please get off the busChris Blackwell Savvy Svengali By Brent Hagerman exclaim.ca Jethro Tull is signed by Island in 1968 after successful shows opening for Pink Floyd at the first free rock festival in London's Hyde Park, and an appearance at Sunbury's Jazz and Blues Festival. The band's hybrid folk/blues/rock style takes them away from the Alex Korner-inspired British blues boom they grew out of and sits well with Island's growing reputation for cross-pollinated music. Their debut, This Was, is released in November. The band's managers, Terry Ellis and Chris Wright, found Chrysalis Records, who, for its first 12 years, is an Island subsidiary. Another band leaving their traditional blues nest, Free, is also signed by Blackwell and release their debut Tons of Sobs. Their raw approach to blues rock helps kick-start hard rock and later proto-metal. John Martyn becomes Island's first white solo artist in 1968 with release of London Conversation. He begins a long relationship with the label despite never achieving commercial success. Through artists such as Martyn, Blackwell develops a reputation for nurturing and persevering with artists he likes, regardless of financial gain.From wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_BlackwellAfter discovering The Spencer Davis Group, featuring Steve Winwood, Blackwell focused on the rock acts that Island had signed. Island became one of the most successful independent labels of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s with artists like Traffic, King Crimson, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Jethro Tull, Cat Stevens, Grace Jones, Free, John Martyn, Sly and Robbie, Sparks, Spooky Tooth, Nick Drake, Roxy Music, Robert Palmer, Melissa Etheridge, The Cranberries and U2. "The bigger labels are supermarkets", Blackwell remarked. "I like to think of Island as a very classy delicatessen."[3] However, Chris has admitted to turning down some major names. One was Elton John: He considered the pianist too shy to become a performer.
Island and Blackwell himself became renowned for a relaxed, nurturing vibe. Blackwell showed skill in spotting and creating trends, as well as a gift for finding talent. He had an imaginative flair for marketing, and Island's releases were often packaged in lovingly designed gatefold sleeves.[2] Blackwell has said: "I really believe that if people see something that looks good, subconsciously they'll think maybe there's something going on inside, on the record. There were times when somebody came out with a cover which was actually better than the record itself, so I'd have to send them back to remake the record." |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2012 14:33:21 GMT
Newton Person of the Week: Steve Bailey - Aug 24, 2012 Newton resident and chairman of Berklee College of Music's Bass Department www.wickedlocal.com/newton/news/x631384131/Newton-Person-of-the-Week-Steve-Bailey#axzz24TMiCBNbThroughout his 40 years playing the bass, the Newton resident has played with legendary musicians like Victor Wooten, Jethro Tull, and Hank Jones. Bailey has been a teacher for nearly three decades at schools like Musicians Institute, UNC Wilmington and Coastal Carolina University. From Ian Anderson, I learned that group dynamics are integral to creating Jethro Tull compositions. He is a very funny guy who likes to “have a go” at the new guy. I’ve had many memorable times working with him, not the least of which was a band trip to Stonehenge.Gavin Esler: 'Prog rock is eccentric British genius'www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2012/aug/24/gavin-esler-prog-rock?newsfeed=true Prog trio … Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson, Gavin Esler and King Crimson's Robert Fripp. Photograph: David Warner Ellis/Jeff Overs/Michael Putland/Redferns/PR/Getty
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Post by steelmonkey on Aug 24, 2012 20:04:43 GMT
She'd be so much better off with me....and I'm pretty good with babies....almost never dropped mine on her head.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2012 22:06:14 GMT
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and isn't it great or a miracle we're still here
