The Press, the Internet & Jethro Tull

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Classic Rock Stalwarts Visit 'Coast To Coast AM' Saturday
October 12, 2012
www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/111343/classic-rock-stalwarts-visit-coast-to-coast-am-sat
PREMIERE NETWORKS' "COAST TO COAST AM" will go Classic Rock this SATURDAY (10/13) with a quartet of well-known musicians visiting weekend host JOHN B. WELLS.

FREE and BAD COMPANY frontman PAUL RODGERS, MOUNTAIN's LESLIE WEST, JEFFERSON AIRPLANE's JACK CASADY, and JETHRO TULL's IAN ANDERSON will be WELLS' guests, discussing the heyday of '60s and '70s rock and the cultural changes that accompanied the music of that era.





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Don't blame me Blame... ;D the tiny TULL mention

www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20121014/A_LIFE/210130309/-1/A_LIFE
Ska, punk, death-metal, screamo and hip-hop now are an official part of "the arts" in Stockton.

"I call it the 'Jethro Tull Award,' " Middagh Goodwin said.



More than a lifetime to say, “How are you?”
More than an ocean to cross becalmed.
Less than a second to sink in silence.
Yours truly, I remain disarmed.

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Backstage in South Florida
Progressive Rock Revivalists: Examining the Current Crop
By Lee Zimmerman Tue., Oct. 16 2012
blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/countygrind/2012/10/prog_rock_revival_battles_squackett.php
Progressive rock seems to have staged a comeback of sorts recently. One need look no further than Rush, who loaned their 1975 song "Fly by Night" for a current car commercial or that Yes still draws a good crowd even with a substitute singer recruited from a cover band. Likewise, those who caught Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson at the Fillmore recently can attest to the fact that even an album that's 40 years old -- in this case, Thick As A Brick -- can still sound as sturdy as ever.

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tiny TULL mention of the new day.

Double helping by music master
A TALENTED guitarist who can play two of the instruments at once is returning to Carmarthenshire next week.

Rodney Branigan amazed 10,000 festivalgoers in Pembrey two years ago – and will return to the county with a performance at The Parrot, King Street, Carmarthen, on Thursday, October 25.
www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/Double-helping-music-master/story-17094677-detail/story.html


Since his UK debut at Hampton Court Palace in 2007, Rodney has graced the same stages as such British national treasures as Billy Bragg and Jethro Tull.


Got to love "British national treasure". Treasure that Tull.



I continue in my way.

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Strange Brew: Metal's New Obsession With Witchcraft, Biker Blues, and Tina Turner October 17 2012, 12:15 PM ET by Chuck Eddy
Read more: www.spin.com/articles/strange-brew-metals-new-obsession-with-witchcraft-biker-blues-and-tina-turner?page=0
Royal Thunder, Witch Mountain, Christian Mistress, and 2012's blare witch project

The last thing heavy metal needs is another witch hunt. But there's no doubt that cult and occult values from the era of brown-acid rock are back: Bands like Toronto flute-doom heathens Blood Ceremony have released the medicine woman from her dark corner in the woods. Holland's nightmare-inducing Devil's Blood even claim to channel their black-mass liturgy directly from Lucifer. The Swedish band Witchcraft have been alchemizing sylvan séance-stoner magick for a decade now.

As metal developments go, it's unusually listenable. These bands uncover texts lost to history when the genre became single-mindedly focused on its metalness: turn-of-the-'70s dark-arts ritualists Black Widow and Coven; mud-booted biker-festival boogie; sinister folk songs from the Wicker Man soundtrack; even pre-metal-Grammy Jethro Tull. As a result, they chart forest paths more musical than the muscle-headed sonic ugliness that's possessed the genre for its past black-to-death-to-grindcore-to-deathcore quarter-century. But the fad is also ridiculous by definition. Good rock bands rightly worry about being forgotten once the wind changes and ding-dong the witch thing's dead.

For instance: Royal Thunder, from Atlanta; Witch Mountain, from Portland, Oregon; and Christian Mistress, from Olympia, Washington, all of whom have released exceptional new albums in 2012. Like Blood Ceremony and Devil's Blood, they're fronted by women who sing more than scream — in absolutely full-bodied voices, atop heavy churning that frequently partakes in the blues in ways that most metal has suppressed since thrash took over.


Saying I'll never be what I am now.
Telling me I'll never find what I've already found.
It was they who were wrong,
and for them here's a song.

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The Tubes’ satire rock still feels special BY BRUCE INGRAM | Contributor October 17, 2012 3:04PM
mundelein.suntimes.com/entertainment/15768204-421/the-tubes-satire-rock-still-feels-special.html
PIONEER: Do you ever think about the ‘60s/’70s belief that rock ‘n’ roll ended when you turn 30—at which point you either die or turn into your parents?

WAYBILL: Right. (Laughs.) Well, the baby boomers pretty much shot that myth down. It’s a little strange to see that everyone who survived is still out there. Everybody! Not too long away we played with Jethro Tull. It was a big German festival headlined by Jethro Tull with The Tubes as a supporting act. Go figure. But they were unbelievable, man. They were so great. Ian Anderson was so good and so fit and he played his butt off. It was amazing.

We’ve played with Alice Cooper and Uriah Heep (they weren’t so amazing). All of these people I’ve known for years and years, they’re still out there because people still want to see them. And the same goes for us. We’re bigger in Europe than here, actually, especially in England. They love sarcasm, especially when it’s Americans making fun of themselves. We sell out big shows there—but we only go there every couple of years, so maybe that has something to do with it.


what a laugh

[steelmonkey]

When the Tuibes had a hit with 'White Punks on Dope'...a great song...we quickly figured out which of our try-too-hard-to be-hip friends had actually turned into 'White Dopes on Punk' !

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Read more: Test Spins: Tame Impala, Lonerism
www.cornellsun.com/section/arts/content/2012/10/18/test-spins-tame-impala-lonerism
Modern psychedelic records are a lot of things. Of Montreal’s Kevin Barnes melded The Beatles with Philly soul to concoct his own patented brand of depressed sex jams; Super Furry Animals mimicked David Bowie’s space rock excursions; and Australian upstarts Pond paid tribute to psychedelia’s golden age, aping Cream’s heavy riffage and Robert Plant’s shrieks of womb-envy with equal aplomb, while throwing in some flute-playing to please the nine people who were really missing Jethro Tull (don’t worry, Tull fans — one of them is my dad). But one thing these records aren’t is, well, modern. At their best, they come off as wink-filled revivalism; at its worst, they’re a pastiche of what was once a sound at the forefront of sonic experimentation. While Animal Collective’s adventurous soundscapes indisputably carry psychedelia’s torch, it seems that we were missing a forward-looking group that still believed in the infinite possibilities of guitars, effects pedals and amps turned up to 11.



I might not be responsible for the things that I might do.

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Up for judgement;-)

PINCH OF SALT: Priority Means Missing Concert
www.gazettes.com/opinion/pinchofsalt/pinch-of-salt-priority-means-missing-concert/article_17a5c060-1880-11e2-a293-001a4bcf887a.html

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tiny TULL mention - From my good neighbours/neighbors in Buffalo.

Rock Hall gets it right BY: Jeff Miers Published: 10/19/2012
www.buffalonews.com/Article/20121019/GUSTO/121019157
Finally. For many years now, it has appeared that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was hellbent on ignoring certain major bands and musicians in its yearly inductions. One was either in the clique, or most decidedly not.

Fans of progressive rock and hip-hop may be the ones who felt the slight most deeply. For them, the fact that Madonna is in the hall while a hugely influential band like Yes or Public Enemy was not, made the whole thing feel like a bad joke.

Last week, when the hall announced its list of final nominees for the class of 2013, I, for one, felt immensely encouraged. The whole list is comprised of worthy contenders for induction. Even more important, the choices can be read as an attempt by the Rock Hall (and its panel of more than 600 industry members who do the voting) to strike some sort of balance.

Leading the list is a band with one of the most vocal fan-bases extant. Rush, to paraphrase revered radio personality Jim Ladd, has never been a darling of the critical establishment. Yet the Canadian trio has met and surpassed every implied credential for induction, from record sales to longevity. More significantly, Rush remains an artistically vital and commercially successful proposition some 40 years into the game. (The band's concert scheduled for next Friday at First Niagara Center is on the brink of selling out.)

Public Enemy is, for this writer's money, the most important and influential hip-hop act this side of Run DMC, the latter being one of a mere three hip-hop acts already in the hall. (The Beastie Boys and Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five are the other two.) By combining forward-looking production values, inimitable (though many continue to try) beats and astute social commentary and criticism from leader Chuck D, Public Enemy has forged one of the most convincing and enduring “brands” in the genre's history.

Hard-core gangsta collective N.W.A. is also on the induction block this year. Both of these artists represent cutting edge music, still.

Nevertheless, there are those who have criticized the hall for inducting even this meager number of hip-hop artists, crying foul that a rock and roll institution would “stoop” to include rap within its hallowed halls. This is absurd. If the hall of fame was going to limit itself to specifically rock 'n' roll music, then it should not have inducted any artist whose best work came, say, after the Beatles released “Revolver” and launched the rock era. By such a standard, the Rock Hall would include Chuck Berry and the Rolling Stones, but certainly not Marvin Gaye or the Who. Hip-hop is as valid a medium as the blues. If blues artists, soul artists, R&B artists, disco artists (Donna Summer is nominated this year, too), heavy metal artists, or any permutations thereof, can be considered for induction, then hip-hop can as well.

Who else is on this year's list? Surprisingly, considering the hall's previous snobbery toward hard rock bands from the '70s, the mighty Deep Purple made it to the final nomination process. Casual listeners might know this band solely as the group behind the iconic “Smoke on the Water,” but those who paid closer attention know that Purple has always been so much more than that. Its virtuosic heavy rock – sometimes falsely written off as plain old heavy metal – melded blues, classical music, psychedelia and aspects of Blue Note-era organ trios into a unique and powerful hybrid.

The band has had several distinct phases but most prominent is the Mark II lineup, fronted by Purple's finest singer, Ian Gillan, and including guitarist Ritchie Blackmore, organist Jon Lord – who succumbed to cancer in July – drummer Ian Paice and bassist Roger Glover. The also excellent Mark III lineup substituted David Coverdale for Gillan and Glen Hughes for Glover, and later, Tommy Bolin for Blackmore.

This group added funk and soul to the equation, made two fantastic albums and one very good one. In the '90s, after Gillan and Glover had returned, Blackmore split (again) and Steve Morse took over guitar duties. All of the above-mentioned musicians should share the podium at the induction ceremony should Deep Purple make the final cut.

Randy Newman, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Heart, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, Albert King, Kraftwerk, the Marvelettes, the Meters and Procol Harum – for the first time in the hall's history, I can't find one artist among these nominees who doesn't belong in the hall.

So we're on the right track. But here's a list of only a few of the artists the hall still hasn't dealt with, and needs to, soon: Yes; the Jam; Cheap Trick; Afrika Bambaataa (nominated, but not inducted); Peter Gabriel (solo); Kiss; Kate Bush; Jethro Tull; Roxy Music; Brian Eno; Daniel Lanois; Thin Lizzy; Dire Straits; David Byrne (solo); Todd Rundgren; T. Rex; and King Crimson.

I'm sure you've got your own list. Please share.

email: [e-mail]

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Mon Oct 22, 2012

Ian Anderson and friends Christmas concert

Time: Fri 14 Dec 2012 (19:00) Event: Concerts & Comedy
Ian Anderson (ex Jethro Tull) and friends performing one of their legendary Christmas shows in the cathedral, Ian regularly performs in England’s great churches and cathedrals, such as Canterbury and Winchester, donating all box office takings to the church involved.

Widely credited for popularising the use of the flute in rock music Ian’s Christmas concerts are an exciting mix of styles and reflect the sacred and historical space in which the concert takes place
When & where
Dates & times:
Fri 14 Dec 2012 (19:00-00:00)
Venue:
The Cathedral Church of St. Nicholas
Address:
Newcastle upon Tyne. NE1 1PF
tyneandwear.sky.com/events/event/44157

Booking Information
Seating is unreserved and a small number of seats may have a restricted view.
Venue: St Nicholas Cathedral, Newcastle
Tickets: £25 - note £2.50 booking fee per ticket.

Details

Dunfermline-born Ian Anderson formed the seminal progressive folk/rock group Jethro Tull in 1968. They went on to become one of the most successful and enduring acts in British rock history, with landmark albums such as Aqualung, Thick As A Brick and Too Old To Rock ‘n’ Roll, Too Young To Die.

Ian Anderson solo shows are well known as a musical journey through the man’s career with many surprises and the great musicianship his fans have grown to expect. Ian and his band perform on a regular basis in British Cathedrals and he is bringing his Christmas show to St. Nicholas Cathedral, Newcastle upon Tyne.

Please note this event is being sold on behalf of St. Nicholas Cathedral, Newcastle upon Tyne.

This concert will take place at:

The Cathedral Church of St. Nicholas
St. Nicholas Churchyard,
Newcastle upon Tyne.
NE1 1PF

www.stnicholascathedral.co.uk
Booking Information
Seating is unreserved and a small number of seats may have a restricted view.
Venue: St Nicholas Cathedral, Newcastle
Tickets: £25 - note £2.50 booking fee per ticket.

thesagegateshead.org/event/ian-anderson/

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Party time with Fairport Convention star Dave Pegg
26 Oct 2012
Birmingham's Town Hall will be the setting for Fairport Convention star Dave Pegg's musical birthday bash.
www.birminghammail.net/whats-on/music/fairport-convention-star-dave-pegg-268263

Fairport Convention’s bass player Dave Pegg throws a musical party next Friday to celebrate his 65th birthday.

The Birmingham Town Hall concert includes a set by The Dylan Project fronted by local rocker Steve Gibbons with guitar wizard P J Wright and members of Fairport performing their interpretations of classic Dylan songs.

There’s some unusual audience participation when Warwick singer-songwriter Anna Ryder organises a mass performance of the Blue Danube Waltz on drinking straws.

Birmingham-born Pegg joined folk-rock legends Fairport in 1970 and was also bassist with Jethro Tull for 10 years.

Tickets for the 7.30pm show on 0121 780 3333.

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Mark Gatiss's tribute to movie horror is a gruesome treat
The Doctor Who and Sherlock writer takes an expert look at cinematic spine chillers, from Argento to Del Toro, says Sarah Dempster
Read more: www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2012/oct/26/horror-europa-with-mark-gatiss?newsfeed=true
A full moon looms, a synthesizer gulps and – dun dun duuuuuun – it's all aboard Horror Europa With Mark Gatiss (Tuesday, 9pm, BBC4)

...It's difficult to get one's Review Show bloomers in a twist over, say, The Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue, a Spanish "eco-zombie" boggler in which swarthy extras lumber, plank–armed, through the Peak District while dressed like Jethro Tull after an industrial farming tragedy (sample line: "I'm mad about apples!"). "This is very much how I remember the 1970s," says Gatiss to director Jorge Grau over footage of a corpse in a greatcoat staggering past a Ford Anglia. "Apart from the living dead."

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Saturday, October 27, 2012 - Gloucestershire Echo

Martin's new day
www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/Martin-s-new-day/story-17191699-detail/story.html
A ROCK guitarist who has toured with Jethro Tull will be performing at The Guildhall in late November.

Martin Barre has formed the Martin Barre New Day band, which will be playing classic music from the Jethro Tull back catalogue on November 23.

He's sold 60 million albums worldwide and nowadays Barre plays with an array of celebrated musicians.

Doors open at 7.30pm and tickets cost £17.50 in advance and £20 on the door. Call 01452 503050.

[steelmonkey]

Oh my God...talk about damning with faint praise.....'toured with Jethro Tull' is a long way off the truth...more like...'Jethro Tull's once and future vice -president, multi-year stallworth, huge, huge, part of Tull's glorious history...second only to what's his name on flute and founder...clip above makes him sound like Kit Morgan.

[tullist]

Kit Morgan. With no disrespect to him, (I believe I saw he plays with a current version of Curved Air, probably lots of other stuff)excellent reference point. Can you make Martin seem any more obscure?
I realize the likelihood is that this is written by someone at least 20 years our junior, to which, the answer would be, yes, they are that obscure. I do realize Tull itself is something of a loud asterisk, not an exclimation point like....Black Sabbath or Rush!
Which, when everything is weighed out as regards Tulls current level of importance, is, in most parts, a good thing. I like my Tull bite sized, not arena sized.

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Late extra;

The Bengal's Purr Lewiston High School Lewiston, ID
my.hsj.org/Schools/Newspaper/tabid/100/view/frontpage/articleid/553146/newspaperid/4415/Dillard_receives_reward_for_past_review.aspx
Dillard receives reward for past review
Wednesday, November 07, 2012 By Bree Derry
Senior reporter Kevin Dillard uses his tablet in an interview with Jethro Tull guitarist Florian Ophale, Monday, Oct. 22, at Abravanel Hall in Salt Lake City, Utah. (SEE link-Photo courtesy of Nolan Dillard) -

Journalism student Kevin Dillard recently received three free tickets to Jethro Tull’s concert in Salt Lake City, Utah, Monday, Oct. 22.
In a previous online issue of “The Bengals Purr”, Dillard reviewed Jethro Tull’s album “Thick as a Brick 2”. Singer Ian Anderson’s publicist Anne Leighton discovered the review and commented on the page. Leighton discovered the review on “The Bengal’s Purr” online page.
“It’s very rewarding when journalists really research (in this case listen to the songs and get some history of the band) their articles,” said Leighton, Friday, May 18, in her comment. “Wonderful that it’s being done on the high school level.”
Leighton offered a place on her press release list to “The Bengal’s Purr “and left her email for contact purposes.
After exchanging e-mails with senior and Purr Editor in Chief Nicole Moeckli, Leighton offered Dillard row 8 tickets to the concert, as well as an interview with current guitarist Florian Ophale.
“This was a great experience for Kevin as a student journalist,” said Moeckli. “I don’t know if anyone from the Purr has received a similar opportunity.”

Dillard owned three virtual albums. When asked how he ranked Jethro Tull, he replied with, “It’s definitely in the top three.”
Dillard never expected a reward due to his review. “I was kind of speechless [when they offered tickets],” he said.
Dillard only paid the gas money required to drive the 605 miles to Salt Lake City, and he stayed with his dad in Boise for the trip.
“I was ecstatic!” said Dillard. “I’d say I’m a pretty big fan.”

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Steven Wilson is progressive rock's renaissance man
BY: Jeff Miers
www.buffalonews.com/Article/20121109/GUSTO/121109242
Whenever I start to feel like I'm taking on too many projects, have spread myself too thin, and perhaps should have heeded my mother's advice and treated music as a hobby rather than an all-consuming obsession, I think of Steven Wilson.

As the leader of, and brain-trust behind Porcupine Tree, Wilson has earned a reputation as modern progressive rock's leading light. Deservedly so, to be sure, but this in itself is apparently not enough to keep Wilson busy. He's a member of at least three other bands, has a successful solo career, and has become one of the most in-demand record producers, engineers, mix technicians and session musicians.

Let's grab a quick gander of Wilson's activity in 2012 alone.

The latest album from King Crimson mastermind Robert Fripp and his current musical partner, saxophonist Theo Travis, is known as “Follow,” and Wilson provided it with editing, mastering, mixing and post-production.

Guitarist Steve Hackett released “Genesis Revisited Vol. 2” last week, and Wilson played guitar and sang on the collection.

He and longtime friend, Opeth leader Mikael Arkerfeldt, comprise a band called Storm Corrosion, and Wilson produced, co-wrote, arranged, performed on and provided string arrangements for the duo's self-titled album.

Wilson also dropped his own “Grace for Drowning” solo masterpiece at the end of 2011, and spent a good portion of 2012 touring.

This dizzying flurry of activity didn't stop there, but rather included production credits for Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull's ambitious “Thick As A Brick II” album.

At the same time he was working on Anderson's 40-years-on sequel, Wilson was finishing up another ambitious and highly demanding project. “Thick As A Brick,” the original groundbreaking and, by this point, clearly timeless 1972 album from Jethro Tull, was granted a new stereo mix and a 5.1 surround sound mix by Wilson, at the personal behest of Anderson.

The original recording boasts a dense mix, a byproduct of even more dense arrangements from Anderson, who, as it turns out, was creating the masterpiece of his life's work with “TAAB.”

Wilson has an uncanny ability to repaint and touch up rock versions of the Sistine Chapel. He's earned the respect of some of the most notoriously curmudgeonly, detail-oriented artists in rock – guys like Anderson, for example, don't let any old fool with a Pro Tools rig near their masterworks.

Fripp, in fact, helped to get the whole Wilson-as-remastering-genius ball rolling when he handed him six seminal King Crimson albums to provide with new mixes.

Wilson was also commissioned to work his magic on a pair of Emerson Lake & Palmer classics – “Tarkus,” that band's finest hour, and “Emerson Lake & Palmer,” its debut.

Wilson isn't sitting still as 2012 nears its end. He's about to drop a double-disc known as “Octane Twisted,” an audio/visual document of Porcupine Tree in concert. (This is bound to be a mighty collection, which is not news to you if you happened to catch Porcupine Tree's earth-shaking show at the Town Ballroom a few years back.)

A visit to SWHQ.co.UK is something I highly recommend, by the way. Completely unsurprisingly, the site boasts a thoroughly modern, cutting-edge graphic design, an easily navigable overview of where Wilson's been and where he's going, and a slew of assorted other goodies.

One of these is a consistently updated playlist from Wilson, provided as both curio for the curious, and subtle nod toward cool, often obscure sounds from tour guide Wilson. The latest of these includes shout-outs to Howlround, Use of Ashes, Stockhausen, Vatican Shadow, Kreng, Bill Nelson (nice one, Mr. Wilson!), ELO, the Sleep of Reason, Tears for Fears and Aleksi Perala.

What has Wilson's more than obviously inspired work ethic taught us? Many things, certainly, but principal among them is the disabusing of the notion that one can only do so much in a given day. I'm guessing the guy doesn't sit around frittering the hours away watching television too often. I'm not even sure he takes a break to eat!

What's clear, above all else, is the suggestion that the modern- day musical wunderkind needs to diversify, to become knowledgeable in many areas – from composition to production – and most significantly, to always keep moving.

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Middle-Aged Guy's Travelogue of a Trip To Detroit Inspired by Jethro Tull
www.deadlinedetroit.com/articles/2606/middle-aged_guy_s_travelogue_of_a_trip_to_detroit_inspired_by_jethro_tull
November 11th, 2012, 9:54 AM

Again, say what you will about Detroit, and, certainly, much of the city is blighted, but spend a little time downtown and you recognize pretty quickly that this once was a fabulous, prosperous city. Handsome architecture abounds, even though many beautiful buildings sit empty.

On Friday night, a newspaper buddy stopped by the hotel and led us down the street to a delightfully quirky, hipster bar and restaurant named Cafe D’Mongo’s Speakeasy. Only open on Friday and Saturday nights, it was filled with antiques and odd decorations, offered just two entrees, each accompanied by macaroni and cheese, and could easily be called an engaging, one-of-a-kind place. Score.

After D’Mongo’s, we traveled to a downtown club called PJ’s Lager House, which was running very good bands on and off stage virtually every hour. Score again.

Saturday, we found another great place for lunch, and when we toured the downtown, we encountered something entirely unexpected: a giant anime convention with more than 10,000 young people dressed up as bizarre, cartoon-like characters. The normally not-busy downtown people-mover was packed like a Tokyo subway with people with blue and pink hair, strange costumes and nerdy but fun-loving attitudes.

That led up to our ultimate destination — the concert — which turned out to be even better than we’d imagined. For all of us, our Tull period came and went a long time ago, but for one night, the theatrics and classically influenced music sounded pitch perfect. And the audience of middle-aged folks like us was large, attentive and appreciative.

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The Scotch Snap: Mars, Deftones and musical thievery
By Thom Watt 12 November 2012 19:15 GMT
Read more: entertainment.stv.tv/showbiz/200187-the-scotch-snap-mars-deftones-and-musical-thievery/
In a far more insightful quip on the nature of song ownership than I can muster, Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull added his own slight variation on Wilde’s theme: “Talent borrows, genius steals, $hit copies.”

If a tree falls on a turntable...
Posted by Elizabeth Manus November 12, 2012 03:22 PM
Read more: www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/brainiac/2012/11/if_a_tree_falls.html
If you’re an observant person, you may have noticed that the cross-section of a tree, with its concentric rings, looks a lot like a phonograph record. So . . . could you actually play it?

Someone has come up with a way. Inspired by Jethro Tull’s album “Songs From the Wood,” Austrian media artist Bartholomäus Traubeck created a record player that plays slices of wood, 12 inches across and 8 millimeters thick.

Tree rings can’t actually be played like a record – among other things, they’re concentric circles rather than the long spiral groove of an LP. Traubeck’s modified turntable uses a camera instead of a needle, turns the rings into data, and then uses an algorithm to translate it into piano “music.”

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Jethro Tull guitarist Martin Barre helps Mansons celebrate anniversary
Read more: www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk/Tull-guitarist-helps-shop-celebrate-anniversary/story-17327344-detail/story.html
JETHRO Tull guitarist Martin Barre and Mikey D from Skindred top the bill at the Mansons Guitar Show on Saturday and Sunday at the Exeter Corn Exchange.

The show will be part of the shop's 20th anniversary celebrations.


Manson's have become world renowned as guitar specialists and have a client list which includes Led Zeppelin, Muse, Them Crooked Vultures, Biffy Clyro, Yes, Jethro Tull, Seasick Steve, Arctic Monkeys, Oasis, Lightning Seeds and many more.

Tickets are available on-line at www.mansons.co.uk

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Speaking of hair, you don't need no stinkin' photo to guess who. DO YOU?

Can You Guess Which Rocker This Mustache Belongs To?
ultimateclassicrock.com/guess-mustache-5/
This thinly sculpted mustache comes from one of rock’s guitar greats, who got his start in such bands as the Rockin’ Chevrolets, The Rest and Mythology before finding fame playing something where the output sounded a wee bit louder than his first three bands.

Do you have a guess yet on whose mustache this is? Here’s another hint: He once joined Jethro Tull, but left the band after one gig. Do you have a clue as to who the man behind the mustache might be?

[maddogfagin]

Nov 16, 2012 20:07:50 GMT @tootull said:

Speaking of hair, you don't need no stinkin' photo to guess who. DO YOU?

Can You Guess Which Rocker This Mustache Belongs To?
ultimateclassicrock.com/guess-mustache-5/
This thinly sculpted mustache comes from one of rock’s guitar greats, who got his start in such bands as the Rockin’ Chevrolets, The Rest and Mythology before finding fame playing something where the output sounded a wee bit louder than his first three bands.

Do you have a guess yet on whose mustache this is? Here’s another hint: He once joined Jethro Tull, but left the band after one gig. Do you have a clue as to who the man behind the mustache might be?

Nope ;D

From the same site, just love the police mug shots!

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Nov 17, 2012 9:26:49 GMT maddogfagin said:

Nov 16, 2012 20:07:50 GMT @tootull said:

Speaking of hair, you don't need no stinkin' photo to guess who. DO YOU?

Can You Guess Which Rocker This Mustache Belongs To?
ultimateclassicrock.com/guess-mustache-5/
This thinly sculpted mustache comes from one of rock’s guitar greats, who got his start in such bands as the Rockin’ Chevrolets, The Rest and Mythology before finding fame playing something where the output sounded a wee bit louder than his first three bands.

Do you have a guess yet on whose mustache this is? Here’s another hint: He once joined Jethro Tull, but left the band after one gig. Do you have a clue as to who the man behind the mustache might be?

Nope ;D

From the same site, just love the police mug shots!

;D ;D ;D Yeah!

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1972: Forty Years Gone! Music — The First Internet!
By Rob O'Connor | List Of The Day – 16 hours ago
Read more: ca.music.yahoo.com/blogs/list-of-the-day/1972-forty-years-gone-music-first-internet-021036552.html

Once upon a time before this newfangled internet put us all in touch with one another on an alarming basis, young people used music to communicate their dreams and desires, to plot the revolution and to tell each other what they had for breakfast, lunch and dinner. By 1972, accepted wisdom says the party of the 1960s was in clean-up mode and while there is certainly a less optimistic tone to the music of 1972, it isn't as if musicians suddenly turned to regurgitating their classic albums on stage or reissuing their entire catalog with remastered sound and extra photos. No, there was still work to do.

Here are 25 choices from 1972, picked in a random, absolute order that says more about my cut-and-paste skills/ laziness than you'd like to believe.

12) Jethro Tull -- Thick As A Brick, Living In The Past: Confession: in 1983, I made a tape edit of Thick As A Brick, where I edited out all the "boring" instrumental parts and got the song down from 45 minutes to 23 and change. In truth, the edits I made with a lowly pause button were random and quite jarring to anyone who wasn't me. But it became the way I learned the album. So you can imagine my surprise and annoyance when CD reissues of the album did not feature my personal edit of the album. That said, I've grown to like the instrumental breaks ok.

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The Best Musical Soundtrack for Exploring the Oregon Coast
Published 11/23/2012
Read much more; www.beachconnection.net/news/music112312_322.php
Newport. Something about this central coast town just demands a soundtrack for richly orchestrated jazz (like Bill Evans Trio with Symphony Orchestra album from 1966) or raucous Celtic music like Tempest or Jethro Tull. They impart a sense of misty history as well as vibrant beauty. Also, electronica wizards Teddy Bears tug at me around here, with their quirky, slightly twisted musical visions.

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Music Review: Porcupine Tree - Octane Twisted (2CD/1 DVD)
Read more: blogcritics.org/music/article/music-review-porcupine-tree-octane-twisted/
The original studio recording of The Incident is not without its flaws - it's hard to listen to "Time Flies" without being instantly reminded of the similarities to Pink Floyd's Animals for one thing. But you can't help but admire the audaciousness of Steven Wilson in trying to produce an album-length conceptual piece like this. It's like the modern-day equivalent of something like Jethro Tull's Thick As A Brick - an album which Wilson, not coincidentally, recently remastered for its anniversary release.

The thing is, even though it shares some of Tull's more pretentious qualities, The Incident is ultimately a more consistently listenable piece of music. On this live recording, even the shorter, more ponderous passages reveal intricate little shades of light and shadow only hinted at on the original. But when called upon to crank it up on the more rocking parts of The Incident like "Drawing The Line," Porcupine Tree prove they can also tear the house down.

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'The Way We Were' is not our national anthem
8 hours ago • The Rev. Dr. Stanley Sears, Special to The Citizen
Read more: auburnpub.com/lifestyles/the-way-we-were-is-not-our-national-anthem/article_dcf8cede-bf12-593b-923e-48630d09e919.html
Next month, many of us will pull out familiar readings for Christmas Eve candlelight services. While the narrative from Luke finds its way into nearly every Christmas Eve service, the other readings vary from year to year. The homily differs every year, even though the basic story of the birth of Jesus remains unchanged. The same can be said of “Silent Night,” as the candles are lit. There are many wonderful seasonal songs and Christmas carols. So, it would be a shame to use only one small group every year.


One of the underlying questions from the recent election was how our nation reacts to change. There are countless songs about this, ranging from “Time Waits for No One” by the Rolling Stones to Jethro Tull’s “Living in the Past.” One of my favorite is “The Way We Were,” which was written by Marvin Hamlisch and sung by Barbara Streisand. In fact, when parishioners react to changes with “But we’ve always done it this way,” I smile and remind them that “The Way We Were” is not in our hymnal.

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Foreigner - guitar/sax player Tom Gimbel - By Leslie Michele Derrough - November 26, 2012
www.glidemagazine.com/articles/59030/tom-gimbel.html
Why don’t you take us back to the beginning: Where did you grow up and how did you discover rock & roll?

Well, I was just like every other kid growing up. It was in New Jersey and I remember when I was a little kid we used to sing that song about (singing) “Them old cotton fields back home” and they would get to this part, “When I was a little bitty baby my mama used to rock me in the cradle,” and I loved that song because we would all go “ROCK me in the cradle” and it was like a lullaby but it drove me crazy in a good way. So I remember that was like my first inclination that I wanted to be a ROCK musician.

And from there I was just banging on pots and pans and I wanted to be a drummer initially. My parents got me drum lessons to just shut me up, I think (laughs). From there they made me take piano lessons against my will. Went back to the drums. I was a drummer all the way through grade school and the early part of high school but as I got into guitar it was better for me cause I wanted to play chords and melodies and make notes and write songs. So that was my first two instruments.

Then along the way, my older sister had discovered Jethro Tull and she played it for me, this album called Thick As A Brick, and I was knocked out. So someone had mentioned to me that playing the flute in Jethro Tull was not that hard. And I said, that’s impossible, I got to try this. My sister had a flute and I got some of the fingering charts and started learning some of the notes and lo and behold it wasn’t that hard (laughs). I’m sure Ian Anderson would have a lot to say about this but he’s been very outspoken about the fact that he went to the flute because he didn’t think he could be good enough on guitar like Eric Clapton or Jimi Hendrix. So I think he’d probably agree.

Anyway, that got me started on the flute and once I went to college, they said, if you’re going to be a flute player you also have to play the sax. And that was music to my ears. I was delighted, I couldn’t wait to play the sax. That was right when I was about seventeen. I really got into sax, had some great instructors. I went to the Berklee College Of Music and studied with the great famous Joe Viola, no longer alive but he was head of the Woodwind Department and somehow I conned my way into getting lessons with him (laughs). And it changed my life, just like you would imagine it would. I just learned everything there was to learn about music and the nice thing is, at the end if you go the full four years, “We’ve taught you everything, now forget it and go play like a feeling musician.” That’s the best lesson of all that they teach you at the end. But you have to learn all that stuff first before you can forget it (laughs). So for a lot of years people walk around going, “I never went to Berklee, well, maybe I did but I forgot,” (laughs). “But they told me to forget.” It’s like, what’s the movie? Men In Black where they erase with the little lighters but they leave the knowledge intact.



Day old... or I forgot. ;D
Ming's on his high horse as world goes to pot
www.independent.ie/lifestyle/mings-on-his-high-horse-as-world-goes-to-pot-3304878.html
It's been a pretty good month for pot smokers abroad. Not only was marijuana legalised in the US states of Colorado and Washington but also a law in The Netherlands, intended to prohibit the sale of marijuana to foreigners, was scrapped.

Pot smokers now have a host of destinations to get high. Luke 'Ming' Flanagan now looks set to ride this wave, or rather hazy mist, of foreign success in an effort to legalise marijuana here. He's long maintained that the already widespread use of the substance and the greater dangers posed by alcohol and tobacco are firm reasons for its legalisation.

Of course, Ming could have a point. Alcohol can lead to organ failure, cigarettes to cancer, and fast food to diabetes and a life spent surfing the internet in the hope of finding someone with a fat fetish. Marijuana on the other hand tends to lead to a deep appreciation for the works of Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull and Spongebob Squarepants.

Ming claims that the Government is losing a 'massive' amount of money by not regulating and taxing it. With the discussion on turf-cutting rights, once Ming's raison d'etre, now about as popular as reruns of Jim'll Fix It, it seems that Ming's renewal of the cause which made him so politically irrelevant for years might just be the ticket to greater political relevance in 2013. Now if only Mick Wallace could find something too.

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Flying so high, trying to remember

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Good juxtaposition of Posts as it begs the question; why would the netherlands pass a law banning marijuana sales to Foreigner....the guy in the band seems nice enough and grateful to Tull for their contribution to his development as a musician...why single him out...I don't get it, i really don't.