The Press, the Internet & Jethro Tull

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Very funny, very good point.




And when you grow up, if you're good we will buy you a bike.

[tullist]

Nov 26, 2012 20:14:41 GMT steelmonkey said:

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.

One of those posts I regret writing even as I write it knowing I should curb my more hateful outbursts. But I would estimate it is for crimes involved with being the poster child for all the AOR and Classic Rock tendencies that began with their like. Mall rock. First child Van Halen. Before giving way to the profound depths of Metallica.

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www.niagarafallsreporter.com/Stories/2012/Nov27/MusicDied.html
The day the music died in Niagara Falls

By Rick DiGregorio

The City of Niagara Falls and its long-suffering residents have suffered many kinds of losses since Albany took 50 acres out of the heart of downtown and created a territory for a tax free sovereign nation called the Senecas to compete against our taxpaying businesses here.

Albany gave a sovereign people a monopoly on gambling so that they and their children could get rich while we suffer and pay high taxes to help support their infrastructure here and grow poorer.

That’s what I call bad governance.

Meantime, the tax-free businesses have driven out many local businesses and the gambling is geared mostly to locals. In effect we support the casino with our gambling losses. And it shows. The city is poorer today than what it was when the Seneca’s first came to town in 2003.

Among the losses to the quality of our lives is the loss of our Convention Center.

Every great city needs a convention center and in fact for true community purpose, a city needs a convention center more than it needs a casino.
Ours was given to the Senecas for a dollar for them to use as a temporary casino. They converted it into their permanent casino which is what it is today.

With the loss of our convention center we lost all the hotel business associated with conventions, for although we do have a pint size conference center that can accommodate a small conference of 3,000 people, our old convention center which could hold 10,000 people was a real convention magnet. Married to the size and scope of our convention center was the appeal of having a convention in Niagara Falls.

For me, personally, one of the great losses incurred by the state giving away our convention center is the loss of music, of the ability of this city to host large scale musical acts. There is no large scale concert venue in the city anymore.

What music we had at the Niagara Falls Convention Center.

I remember seeing Eric Clapton and Santana on the same stage. I have seen Chicago, Seals and Croft, Bob Seger, Blue Oyster Cult, Sly and the Family Stone, the Beach Boys, the Ojays, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley (two shows), ZZ Top, Aerosmith. Deep Purple, Jethro Tull and the Allman Brothers. There was a caliber of stars that used to come to town that now no longer come because there is no concert venue of this magnitude here. There was the rodeo, the monster truck show, boxing, you name it, we had it.

It was a cause for civic pride.

A casino owned by foreigners cannot replace the thrill of having a big concert every month that brought tens of thousands of people into town who afterward poured out to restaurants and stayed at hotels and gave this city glamour and recognition.
People talk all the time about all the things we lost since Albany cheated us into a having a tax free nation and monopoly sovereign casino here, but one thing that should be mentioned prominently is the loss of music.

What a time it was not so long ago, that you could look forward to seeing great stars in the Cataract City.

In Niagara Falls, the day the Senecas came to town, was the day the music died.



Tightrope 'cross Niagara, don't cut my wire. - Ian Anderson ------------------------------------------------------------------>[/b] truetull
www.ministry-of-information.co.uk/setlist/75.htm
At least I can say that I was there for Tull. Great show where Ian Anderson appeared above the band, looking like the WarChild cover.

23/2/75 Convention Center Niagara Falls, NY. USA

The show was delayed because, when making his 'big' entrance, Martin tripped on a cable, damaging the stage rig. Lights and sound were restored within 15-20 mins.


Then later in Toronto for basically the same shoe err show. (actually typed shoe)
7/10/75 Maple Leaf Gardens Toronto, Canada
Star Point
Thick As A Brick (excerpt), Minstrel In The Gallery, Wond'ring Aloud/Again, To Cry You A Song, A New Day Yesterday (w. flute solo, incl. Bourée & Living In The Past), Skating Away..., Ladies (w. drum solo), 'WarChild Suite', Cross-Eyed Mary, The Hare... (intro), Aqualung, Guitar Solo, Wind Up, Back-Door Angels, Locomotive Breath/Hard-Headed English General/Back-Door Angels (reprise)


-tootull

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Missing Amy Winehouse
By Linda Serck - November 29, 2012
Read more: www.getreading.co.uk/entertainment/music/s/2124930_missing_amy_winehouse
“She had such a big heart that if she liked you, you would feel it, she’d give you everything.”

Amy spent five weeks at The Doghouse studio, near Henley, in 2009 while trying to record the Bond theme tune for the film Quantum Of Solace. And while she was there, despite this being a time when the paparazzi were hounding her (so much so that studio owner and former Jethro Tull drummer Barrie Barlow turned the garden hose on some who were hiding in the bushes), and a time when she was in various states of inebriation, she still found time to visit Dale.

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Music By Turner: 2012 was year of music reissues By Ed Turner
Columnist - Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012
chronicle.augusta.com/things-do/applause/2012-12-11/music-turner-2012-was-year-music-reissues
“You go back, Jack, do it again.” (Steely Dan, 1972)

I’m certain that the Dan never thought their entire body of work would be reissued countless times during their lifetimes.

Reissues of an artist’s most popular works are big business these days. The latest trend is to include outtakes, remixes, demos, DVDs and even surround-sound mixes in order to coax the diehard fan into supporting this “cash cow” for artists and (especially) their music companies.

It is astounding to see the hundreds of reissued CDs (and vinyl too!) that were released in 2012 alone. Let’s take a quick peek at nine significant repackages that would be nice gifts for your favorite music aficionado.

1. PAUL SIMON: GRACELAND. This Grammy-winning album from 1987 is now available in a fine “25th Anniversary edition” that has lots of bonus goodies. There’s a terrific DVD, too, that was recorded in South Africa that very year with guests Miriam Makeba and Hugh Masekela. You Can Call Me Al, The Boy in the Bubble and the exquisite title track make this a must for any Simon fan.

2. JETHRO TULL: THICK AS A BRICK. The real “magic flute,” courtesy of Ian Anderson! A sentimental choice, perhaps, as I was fortunate to see the Thick as a Brick tour at Atlanta’s Omni (remember that venue?) and at the Carolina Coliseum.

Tull’s most innovative offering is now available in a superb 40th anniversary package that contains everything imaginable for fans of this disc.

Stereo and surround-sound mixes, a booklet that has interviews, pictures from the tour, and even a high-quality reproduction of the newspaper that accompanied the original release are among the extras. Somewhere, Gerald Bostock is smiling …

3. DAVID BOWIE: ZIGGY STARDUST AND THE SPIDERS FROM MARS. Even Diane Sawyer didn’t wear this much makeup. Another 40th anniversary edition of an album that has been reissued almost as many times as Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon.

The follow-up to Hunky Dory has loads o’ special features, but this one makes the list just because the songs and performances are just so darn good. Soul Love, Rock and Roll Suicide and Suffragette City make this disc worthwhile.

Sure, Ziggy played guitar, but it’s Mick Ronson’s fretwork that earns the first chair in my book. Also available in vinyl.

4. SMASHING PUMPKINS; SIAMESE DREAM. This 1993 classic, the group’s second, was recorded mostly in Marietta, Ga., with Bitch Vig handling the production duties. Sure, it’s basically a Billy Corgan solo album, but who cares?

Three discs are included on this repackaging of arguably their finest hour: one being the original version (though mastered a bit too loud for my tastes), an entire CD of alternate takes and demos, and even a vintage in-concert DVD from the Metro that shows just how great the original band was in performance. Cherub Rock, Today, Soma, Disarm and Rocket all stand testament to just how brilliant and focused Corgan was in the early days.

5. THE DOORS: L.A. WOMAN. “I don’t follow orders, I’m just a dumb singer” is uttered by a very “revved-up” Jim Morrison just before one of the alternate takes of Riders on the Storm. This 1971 rock marvel was his final album with the Doors, and it’s quite the swan song.

I vividly remember hearing the album’s first single Love Her Madly on WAUG-FM that spring and thinking that the Doors were getting commercial again, but that song was the lone nod to pop on the disc. Sure, Love Her Madly was very radio friendly (guitarist Robbie Krieger penned it, not Morrison) but the rest of the disc was as rocking as its predecessor Morrison Hotel. Perfect theme music for your next stay at the Chateau Marmont, where the cars do, in fact, “hiss by your window.” Mr. Mojo Risin’!

6. SUGAR: COPPER BLUE. Husker who? To quote one of the album’s songs, this re-release is definitely A Good Idea. Bob Mould remains one of the great underrated artists of his generation, and his keen sense of melody is all over this masterpiece. The reissue boasts the much darker-sounding EP The Beaster along with a complete 1992 show and booklet.

7. VARIOUS ARTISTS: ATHENS, GA. INSIDE/OUT. My old friend Joe Stevenson once told me he actually “wore out” his cassette tape after countless playings of this unique compilation. This priceless (but now it’s about $12) 1987 peek at the Athens music scene is enjoying its first-time CD release that also includes a DVD of the movie. Music from Pylon, Love Tractor, Dreams So Real, the Flat Duo Jets and, of course, REM are spotlighted.

8. PINK FLOYD: THE WALL (IMMERSION BOX SET). As if we already had enough bricks. Since both David Gilmour and Roger Waters are “knock knock knockin’ on 70’s door,” they’ve seen fit to unleash most everything in their vaults. This set has an exhaustive overview of all imaginable extras: the studio version, a live concert from the era, demos, a surround-sound mix, and a DVD with a documentary of all things Floyd. If you and/or your FFF (fave Floyd fan) wants a Pink Christmas, then do as the album says and Run Like Hell and get it!

9. THE BEATLES: VINYL BOX SET. Every album and single the Fab Four officially recorded on pristine 180-gram vinyl. The sound is warmer than chestnuts roasting on any fire. From Please Please Me to Let it Be, it’s The Beatles, but without the scratches and pops that your old copies had. Highlights? All of ’em. It’s the Beatles!

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Spin back to an older groove

www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/spin-back-to-an-older-groove/article4191452.ece

Another feature of the store is that the overall quality of the records is fairly high (you’ll often run into the phrase ‘mint condition’ here), a fact that the store owner counts as his USP. “It’s increasingly difficult to get good vinyl, these days.” He admits that he would like to sell slightly more ‘popular’ artists, like Jethro Tull and Led Zeppelin, but it’s difficult to get records for these artists that are in good condition.

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Jade Wright reviews the albums of the week - Liverpool Echo - Dec 14 2012
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-entertainment/music/music-news/2012/12/14/jade-wright-reviews-the-albums-of-the-week-100252-32423963/
Various – Now That’s What I Call Christmas

IT just wouldn’t be Christmas without a Now Christmas compilation in your record collection to keep you singing and bopping over the festive season. On this triple CD selection, there are the usual suspects: John Lennon, Slade, Wizzard, Wham, Mud, Band Aid and Boney M, sitting alongside unusual gems like Silent Night by Sinead O’Connor, In The Bleak Midwinter by Bert Jansch, Ring Out Solstice Bells by Jethro Tull and the wonderful Gaudete by Steeleye Span. With 63 songs and an eclectic mix of music, there is something here for everyone.

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www.npr.org/2012/12/16/166407339/the-mix-xpns-jingle-jams

The Mix: Jingle Jams by Bruce Warren
December 16, 2012


Someone took this Santa's violin.

For the last 14 years, WXPN host and producer Robert Drake has programmed and hosted a 24-hour holiday-music marathon called The Night Before, aired from midnight to midnight on Dec. 24. We decided this year to put more jingle in the jangle and create Jingle Jams on XPN2, a 24/7 stream of holiday music.
Virtually every genre of holiday music is represented in this eclectic mix. It's got classics and obscure nuggets; you'll hear the Beatles Christmas messages, Burl Ives, Phil Spector holiday classics, Johnny Mathis, the Rat Pack's take on the holidays and one of XPN's favorites, Lou Monte's "Dominic the Donkey." Enjoy Jingle Jams — and happy holidays from WXPN and World Cafe.

Artists In The Mix
Aaron Neville • Adele • Aimee Mann • Aretha Franklin • The Avett Brothers • B.B. King • Barbra Streisand • The Beach Boys • The Beatles • Bela Fleck • Bing Crosby • Bob Dylan • Booker T & The MGs • Bright Eyes • Chris Isaak • Clarence Carter • Cocteau Twins • Coldplay • Dave Matthews Band • Death Cab For Cutie • Dinah Washington • Donovan • Edwin McCain • Ella Fitzgerald • Elton John • Emmylou Harris • Elvis Presley • Etta James • Everything But The Girl • The Flaming Lips • Fiona Apple • Frank Sinatra • fun. • Hall & Oates • Jackson 5 • James Brown • Jethro Tull • John Legend • Joey Ramone • John Zorn • Kate Bush • The Killers • Lou Rawls • Louis Armstrong • Lyle Lovett • The Magnetic Fields • My Morning Jacket • Nat King Cole • Nina Simone • Norah Jones • Otis Redding • Patti Smith • Paul McCartney • Paul Simon • R.E.M. • The Raveonettes • Ray Charles • Regina Spektor • Roberta Flack • Roy Orbison • Run-D.M.C. • Saint Etienne • She & Him • The Shins • Smashing Pumpkins • Stevie Wonder • Sufjan Stevens • They Might Be Giants • Tori Amos • Tracey Thorn • U2 • Weezer • Willie Nelson • XTC

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Boxed sets wrap up great musical Christmas if you have the money
By GARY GRAFF
www.sltrib.com/sltrib/entertainment2/55489897-223/album-deluxe-demos-dvd.html.csp
Jethro Tull, "Thick as a Brick: Special Collector’s Edition" (Chrysalis/EMI) » The British band’s interconnected concept album turns 40 with a low-key celebration — the original album remixed for CD and audio DVD, the latter by Porcupine Tree’s Steven Wilson. The reproduction of the original album’s newspaper art is solid, but it would still be nice to have something we hadn’t heard before.

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tiny TULL mention of TULL's best.
Argument starter: Jeff Gold's '101 Essential Rock Records'
Read more: www.philly.com/philly/blogs/inthemix/101-Essential-Rock-Records.html#ixzz2FXmHPbus
POSTED: Wednesday, December 19, 2012, 12:16 PM

1. The Beatles, Please Please Me
2. Bob Dylan, The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan
3. The Rolling Stones, The Rolling Stones
4. Bob Dylan, Another Side of Bob Dylan
5. Davy Graham, Folk Blues & Beyond…
6. Them, Angry Young Them
7. The Byrds, Mr. Tambourine Man
8. Bob Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited
9. The Who, My Generation
10. Simon & Garfunkel, Sounds of Silence
11. The Rolling Stones, Aftermath
12. The Beach Boys, Pet Sounds
13. Bob Dylan, Blonde On Blonde
14. The Mothers of Invention, Freak Out!
15. Yardbirds, Yardbirds
16. John Mayall with Eric Clapton, Blues Breakers
17. The Butterfield Blues Band, East West
18. The Beatles, Revolver
19. Jefferson Airplane, Takes Off
20. The Kinks, Face to Face
21. The 13th Floor Elevators, The Psychedelic Sounds Of
22. Laura Nyro, More Than A New Discovery
23. The Doors, The Doors
24. Jefferson Airplane, Surrealistic Pillow
25. The Velvet Underground & Nico, The Velvet Underground
26. Grateful Dead, Grateful Dead
27. The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Are You Experienced?
28. The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
29. Moby Grape, Moby Grape
30. Tim Buckley, Goodbye and Hello
31. Pink Floyd, The Piper At The Gates of Dawn
32. Buffalo Springfield, Again
33. Love, Forever Changes
34. Cream, Disraeli Gears
35. Traffic, Mr. Fantasy
36. The Who, The Who Sell Out
37. Leonard Cohen, Songs of Leonard Cohen
38. The Velvet Underground, White Light/White Heat
39. Fleetwood Mac, Fleetwood Mac
40. The Incredible String Band, The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter
41. The Zombies, Odessey & Oracle
42. Small Faces, Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake
43. The Band, Music From The Big Pink
44. Grateful Dead, Anthem of the Sun
45. Jeff Beck, Truth
46. Big Brother & The Holding Company, Cheap Thrills
47. The Byrds, Sweetheart of the Rodeo
48. The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Electric Ladyland
49. Van Morrison, Astral Weeks
50. The Beatles, The Beatles (White Album)
51. The Pretty Things, S.F. Sorrow
52. The Pentangle, Sweet Child
53. The Soft Machine, The Soft Machine
54. Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bayou Country
55. Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin
56. The Flying Burrito Bros., The Gilded Palace of Sin
57. MC5, Kick Out The Jams
58. Sly And The Family Stone, Stand!
59. Neil Young With Crazy Horse, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
60. Alexander Spence, Oar
61. The Who, Tommy
62. Crosby, Stills & Nash, Crosby, Stills & Nash
63. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Trout Mask Replica
64. Blind Faith, Blind Faith
65. Jethro Tull, Stand Up
66. The Stooges, The Stooges
67. Nick Drake, Five Leaves Left
68. King Crimson, In The Court of The Crimson King
69. Vashti Bunyan, Just Another Diamond Day
70. Fairport Convention, Liege & Leaf
71. The Move, Shazam
72. James Taylor, Sweet Baby James
73. Black Sabbath, Black Sabbath
74. Emerson Lake & Palmer, Emerson Lake & Palmer
75. David Bowie, The Man Who Sold The World
76. Cat Stevens, Tea For The Tillerman
77. Carole King, Tapestry
78. Can, Tago Mago
79. Yes, The Yes Album
80. Joni Mitchell, Blue
81. The Allman Brothers Band, At Fillmore East
82. Genesis, Nursery Cryme
83. Faust, Faust
84. The Rolling Stones, Exile On Main St.
85. David Bowie, The Rise And Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
86. Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon
87. Roxy Music, For Your Pleasure
88. Iggy And The Stooges, Raw Power
89. New York Dolls, New York Dolls
90. Big Star, #1 Record
91. Kraftwerk, Autobahn
92. Bruce Springsteen, Born To Run
93. Patti Smith, Horses
94. Ramones, Ramones
95. The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers
96. AC/DC, Dirty Deeds Done Cheap
97. Fleetwood Mac, Rumors
98. The Damned, The Damned
99. The Clash, The Clash
100. Talking Heads, Talking Heads: 77
101. Sex Pistols, Never Mind The b*****s Here’s The Sex Pistols

Here's a coffee table book option for that baby boomer vinyl aficionado rock fan in your life: Jeff Gold's 101 Essential Rock Records.







It's not too late, only begun.

[maddogfagin]

Dec 19, 2012 23:46:32 GMT @tootull said:

tiny TULL mention of TULL's best.
Argument starter: Jeff Gold's '101 Essential Rock Records'
Read more: www.philly.com/philly/blogs/inthemix/101-Essential-Rock-Records.html#ixzz2FXmHPbus
POSTED: Wednesday, December 19, 2012, 12:16 PM

It's not too late, only begun.

Some great albums here, but Forever Changes only at #33

One of the greatest albums ever recorded by one of the best west coast bands and written and conceived by Arthur Lee, with a little help from Bryan MacLean - sacrilege.

[steelmonkey]

Met Arthur Lee in June or July 2002 when a friend's band opened for him in SF...a very 'out there...other planetary dude' Not to mention a full scale diva complete with feather boa, frequent sighs and plenty of attitude. Friends' band ( The Negro Problem) , I think toured with him in the UK later that year.

[maddogfagin]

Dec 20, 2012 18:53:16 GMT steelmonkey said:

Met Arthur Lee in June or July 2002 when a friend's band opened for him in SF...a very 'out there...other planetary dude' Not to mention a full scale diva complete with feather boa, frequent sighs and plenty of attitude. Friends' band ( The Negro Problem) , I think toured with him in the UK later that year.

One of the record shops I used to frequent in Croydon in my youth always had a display of album covers covering the front window and for quite a long time the featured label was Electra.

The owner of the shop would always be playing Love, The Doors et al which prompted me to delve deeper into the, sometimes, mirky world of Arthur Lee and his cohorts.

Reading one of the books on the band by the drummer (Michael Stuart ?) I can understand your reference to him being a "diva" but none the less Forever Changes remains for me one of the outstanding albums ever recorded and a lasting legacy to someone who had his problems, as did the rest of the band, but still managed to produce music which surpases much of the dross produced at that time, Tull excluded of course.

[steelmonkey]

For me it was 'Spirit' that got first prize amongst the L.A. bands of that era...Love a close second then maybe Buffalo Springfield......Dunno why but I have very low 'Doors' tolerance.

[maddogfagin]

Never a great Doors fan myself but they recorded some decent songs.

Spirit were fairly unknown here in the UK, and probably still are, but they were released over here by CBS who featured them quite a lot on compilation albums which was where I first heard "Fresh Gargage", the riff of which crops up today on a number of recordings by new bands.

Shame that they never got the recognition they so rightly deserved.

[maddogfagin]

www.huffingtonpost.com/binky-philips/new-york-dolls_b_2347929.html?utm_hp_ref=entertainment

December 19th, 1972: Me, Opening for The New York Dolls 40 (!) Years Ago
Binky Philips.

Well, [sigh] let's start from the beginning...It was 1972 and Rock was beginning to suck!

Genesis, Yes, ELP, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Jethro Tull, Chicago, et al, were turning Rock into a smug, bloated, empty exercise in meaningless virtuosity. Even The Who and Led Zeppelin were getting "serious." Lyrics about "sharp distance" and "dogs of doom" were driving me up a wall. Where was the glamor, where was the danger, where was the potential for parental hatred? I didn't know what I wanted, but, I knew that this pretentious twaddle was not it!

The British Guitar Pop of T Rex, Slade, Sweet, et al was fun but twee -- like a meal of cotton candy with an occasional cherry cordial or french fry thrown in.

[maddogfagin]

Beatles, Stones and Elvis: 2012's archival music releases
By David Chiu

www.cbsnews.com/8301-207_162-57560493/beatles-stones-and-elvis-2012s-archival-music-releases/

Jethro Tull
"Thick As a Brick"
(Chrysalis/EMI)

Another band is celebrating another anniversary of sorts--Jethro Tull's classic 1972 progressive rock album "Thick As a Brick." This special edition set features the original album on CD and in a remixed version on DVD with 5.1 surround sound along with a recreation of The St. Cleve Chronicle newspaper in which the album was first packaged 40 years ago. According to group leader Ian Anderson in Dom Lawson's liner notes, "Thick As a Brick" was written and recorded as a response to the assumption that the band's previous album "Aqualung" was a concept record. Thus, Anderson crafted an epic-length work consisting of one 45-minutes song divided into two parts. Furthermore, he concocted a fictitious story in that the work was based on a poem written by a young boy named Gerald "Little Milton" Bostock.

"Thick as a Brick" remains one of Tull's best works, and earlier this year, Anderson released a sequel ("Thick As a Brick 2") under his own name.

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www.presstelegram.com/lifestyle/ci_22261506/steve-smith-meat-loaf-stop-touring-moody-blues
FORMER TULL LEADER IAN ANDERSON'S CATHEDRAL CONCERTS Former Jethro Tull leader Ian Anderson performed holiday concerts at the British cathedral in Newcastle and St. Brides Church in London.

Proceeds benefited ongoing repair work at the centuries-old landmarks. The concerts were a blend of traditional Christian Christmas hymns, classical music and Jethro Tull's holiday songs such as "A Christmas Song," according to Britain's Sunday Sun.

Next year, Anderson will pick up his 40 th anniversary "Thick as a Brick" tour that hit America and the U.K. this year. Anderson and his crack solo band will tour in March - Japan in April and 19 gigs in Germany and Switzerland in May. The first half of the show features a complete performance of the entire "TAAB" album, while the second half is comprised of his new book-end sequel CD, "Thick as a Brick 2."

In other news, Official Tull Internet Radio that provides all-Jethro Tull all the time, 24/7 anywhere on earth, has launched. It can be accessed at www.j-tull.com. The station is commercial-free and is loaded with deep cuts, as well as solo music from Anderson and former band guitarist Martin Barre.

Also out is "Jethro Tull: The New Day Tapes Volume 1" by band historian David Rees and Martin Webb with a forward by Anderson. The book is a collection of the entire series of their interviews with band members featured in the Jethro Tull magazine, "A New Day," over nearly the past three decades. The book may be purchased at the Tull website.

By Steve Smith
Posted: 12/27/2012 01:00:00 AM PST

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From "50 Great British Inventions"

Free with the latest edition of The Radio Times

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Legendary promoters revisit rock and roll careers - By Lee Shearer - updated Tuesday, January 15, 2013 - 10:50pm
onlineathens.com/uga/2013-01-15/legendary-promoters-revisit-rock-and-roll-careers
Led Zeppelin got $2,500 to play before an estimated 700,000 people in the second Atlanta Pop Festival in 1970. Janis Joplin made just $500, legendary concert promoter Alex Cooley recalled Tuesday.

But the music industry is a different animal now, Cooley and his longtime partner Peter Conlon said.

Back then, artists toured to promote their albums, which provided the bulk of their income, said Conlon, president of Peter Conlon Presents.

“Now they make 90 percent of their money touring. It’s the opposite.,” said Conlon, who co-founded Atlanta’s Music Midtown festival with Cooley in 1994.

The two came to the University of Georgia campus Tuesday to record an interview with Lisa Love, former executive director of the shuttered Georgia Music Hall of Fame. An audience of more than 100 people, many UGA music students and local musicians, filled an auditorium in the university’s Richard B. Russell Building to hear the men talk about the arcs of their careers and the music business.

“What would that be in today’s money?” Conlon asked his former business partner, who retired seven years ago, about the payments to Led Zeppelin and Joplin.

“Not that much, really,” replied Cooley.

He’s right. Inflation-adjusted, Led Zeppelin got a little more than $14,000 and Joplin got a little less than $3,000.

“Today, the acts control things,” Cooley said. “(Concert promotion) is a rough business now. It’s a rough way to make a living.”

Some acts can gross $2 million from a single concert, Conlon said.

And take along three certified public accountants on their tours, Cooley added.

The artists make more money, but their tours are expensive, they said. U2 chartered a jumbo jet for one tour, setting up a dining room inside.

Even paying the expenses of chartered airliners and entourages of dozens of people, the big groups make big money, Cooley said.

Middle range groups, though, can’t make money, he said.

Cooley said he didn’t want to sound like someone longing for the good old days.

“I’ve spent seven years just downloading music. It’s such an incredible technology thing,” he said. “I love downloading music.”

But the same technology has changed the way we experience music, Conlon said as Cooley nodded in agreement.

“You’re by yourself in a room,” Conlon said. “It’s not a social thing.”

Besides observations on the evolution of the music industry, the men also shared stories and memories of some of the great musicians they’ve met through their work, like Michael Jackson and Chuck Berry, an unpleasant man, both agreed.

Cooley recalled early days staging concerts for the Allman Brothers as they burst out of Macon to became international superstars.

“It was magic, it really was,” he said. “They can play for six hours without drawing a breath.”

Conlon began as a UGA student, working in a student organization that booked concerts for the campus. When he began, the University Union was booking the same soul acts that had been popular years before, but were drawing just a handful to UGA concerts in Stegeman Coliseum.

Conlon convinced them to bring in rock and roll acts like Jethro Tull and the Allman Brothers, which sold out.

Conlon took a four-year detour to work for Jimmy Carter’s presidential campaign and then in the White House during the Carter administration.

While there, he organized benefit concerts for Carter. When Carter lost his 1980 re-election bid, Conlon got into concert promotion full-time.

Conlon and Cooley formed a partnership in 1982 that lasted until seven years ago, when Cooley retired.

Born in 1939, Cooley attended UGA and Georgia State University before going off to see a bit of the world

He and some friends got the idea for the first Atlanta Pop Festival — staged months before the more famous Woodstock — when they drove down to south Florida to scuba dive and heard about a rock music festival that weekend in Miami.

They went to hear the music instead of diving. Cooley was so taken with what he had experienced that when he returned to Atlanta, he got together 17 partners and staged the first Atlanta Pop Festival, he said.

“We did it because we didn’t know it was impossible,” he said. “Looking at it now, I wouldn’t even dream of it.”

Unlike the disastrous, yet iconic, Woodstock festival that followed, the first Atlanta Pop Festival had no major problems and turned a profit, he said.

“We felt guilty (because it made money),” Cooley said.

The second festival, in small-town Byron, drew an estimated 700,000 people, the biggest gathering ever in Georgia except for the 1996 Olympics. More would have come, Cooley said, but traffic was backed up north all the way to Atlanta’s Varsity restaurant.







They grow all their roses red,
and paint our skies blue

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Ensemble specializes in three-part creativity
hamptonroads.com/2013/01/ensemble-specializes-threepart-creativity
By Teresa Annas - The Virginian-Pilot - January 25, 2013

Back before Greg Pattillo - part of the genre-bending Project Trio ensemble set to perform Saturday at the Ferguson Center for the Arts - became a viral phenom on YouTube, he was a teen with a dilemma.

How could he play his instrument, the flute, and be considered football-player cool?

He talked to his baby boomer mom, and she told him about Jethro Tull. The classic-rock band's frontman was Ian Anderson, who transformed the flute from straight-laced nerdy into a testosterone-propelled tool of aural ecstasy.

Soon afterward, in the early '90s Mom took him to a Jethro Tull concert. "There were all these old people walking around in motorcycle jackets," Pattillo recalled. "It was the first rock concert I ever saw."

It also happened to be the birthday of Johann Sebastian Bach. Pattillo was thrilled to see Anderson perform his classical-into-rockin' version of Bach's "Bourrãe."

"Coolest thing ever."

He promptly found the sheet music for "Bourrãe." "I had it memorized as a sophomore in high school. I've known it ever since."

In the late 1960s, Ian Anderson had long, wild hair and a thick mustache.

At 35, Pattillo has slightly unruly hair, but a noteworthy mustache, too. Also like Anderson, he lifts one leg while playing the flute, like an egret in a pond.

Pattillo admits that's a conscious nod to Anderson.

Nowadays, an Anderson-influenced "Bourrãe" is just one of the many supercool, attention-getting, funky-side-of-classical compositions presented by Project Trio.

The group consists of three men who became friends while students at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Bassist Peter Seymour, cellist Eric Stephenson and Pattillo formed the group in 2007, once they all moved to New York City.

By then, Pattillo had lucked into a video that was among the first to go viral on YouTube. It shows Pattillodoing his signature skill - beatboxing flute. Beatboxing is a style of vocal percussion that came out of hip-hop.

Pattillo learned to beatbox while playing flute to accompany slam poets on street corners while he was living in San Francisco.

Now that first video - named "Beatboxing flute inspector gadget remix" - is just one of 81 videos on Project Trio's YouTube channel, which has about 75,000 subscribers. The group's publicist said the combined video viewership is 73 million.

In some videos, Pattillo teaches beatbox flute. In others, patrons may preview the group's many stylistic allusions and fusions - from straight-ahead jazz to a calypso-rhythm take on the "Super Mario Bros." video-game theme.

To put across a Charles Mingus big-band composition, "Fables of Faubus," the trio works double-time to conjure a rich, diverse sound that suggests many more players.

Educational outreach is important to this group. While on the Peninsula, Project Trio is meeting with young musicians.

The musicians want to let students know about other paths besides playing famous composers' music and seeking a traditional music career.

When the trio started, the members could find no music for cello-bass-flute, so they wrote and arranged their own. They also opted to manage themselves and produce their own albums and videos. "That's something we had to learn on our own."

No one taught them how to fuse styles, either, like using the complex rhythms of Indian classical music in "Raga Raja."

"You can't fake authenticity," Pattillo said. "Whatever it is you're trying to cross over and do, it needs to be real." To take on a style, such as salsa, "you really need to get inside of the music."

Once onstage, they don't rely on the uniqueness of their compositions. "You'll see energy. We are communicating with each other up there, and we do not hold back.

"We sweat. And we really get in there with the audience. We make sure they're enjoying themselves. If they're not, we kick it into overdrive."

Like any rock star would.

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From www.herald.co.zw/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=64963:hip-hop-influence-on-zim-musicians&catid=43:entertainment&Itemid=135

Hip-hop influence on Zim musicians

"Zimbabwean musicians have always loved to imitate music coming from America starting with rock from Deep Purple, Jethro Tull and Led Zepelin in the 1970s, Soul music from Otis Redding, Arthur Conley and Percy Sledge to rap music by modern day hip-hop artistes such as Jay-Z."

So Tull, DP and Zep are American acts now

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Meanwhile, in Canadian news...

by: Glenn Perrett
January 29, 2013 1:39 PM

Quality Jazz and Awesome 60s Music!
69
Baba Scholae
Ad Vitam Records
www.simcoe.com/blog/post/1572606--quality-jazz-and-awesom-60s-music

When it comes to music my favourite era was the sixties - even though I was too young to fully appreciate the sounds from this decade. I had never heard of the group Baba Scholae before. This group was founded in 1967 by Jean-Yves Labat de Rossi (..."who was to become Mr. Frog a few years later on the other side of the Atlantic.") Other members of the group are Steve Baylis, John Arthur Holbrook, Alan Jones, Jules Vigh and Woody Woodbine on lead vocals. In 1969 the group made an album in London which was never released.

The master tapes were forgotten for more than 40 years until the CD, titled 69, was recently released. In the CD liner notes Jean-Emmanuel Deluxe states, "<<69>> of the Baba Scholae is a major album of the year 1969. It is a cult disc that never disappoints...a classic work worthy to be ranked with the Rock masterpieces of the period."

This album is awesome. I don't know how many times I've listened to this CD since I got it a couple of weeks ago and it sounds better every time that I play it. The first song, "1984 - Melancolia Street" reminds me a little of Jethro Tull. Good music and vocals.

It's not easy to categorize the music on the CD. Some songs are rock, others are closer to folk while others are psychedelic rock. It is one of the few CDs that I know of where I can say that every song on the album is very good.

If your musical tastes lie in the 1960s, you will want to give this exceptional, recently unearthed, album from 1969 a listen.

Double Rainbow
Virginie Teychene
Jazz Village

Looking for a good jazz CD? How about two? Double Rainbow contains two jazz CDs from Virginie Teychene - Portraits and I Feel So Good.

Teychene has a beautiful voice and the music on the jazz CDs is very good. Portraits features songs written by the likes of Charles Mingus ("Portrait") and Ira Gershwin and George Gershwin ("I Was Doing All Right"). This CD starts out with "You Make Me Feel So Young" and finishes with the exceptional Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog Jr. song "God Bless the Child". While I prefer David ClaytonThomas' version of "God Bless the Child", Teychene's is also very good.

Other songs that I liked on the this CD include "The Good Life", "Daydream" and "I Was Doing All Right". This CD contains approximately 70 minutes of quality jazz.

The second CD in this 2-disc set is I Feel So Good. Some of the songs I particularly enjoyed are "Moonlight Seranade", "Up Jumped Spring", "Early Hours" and "Just a Song".

This CD is approximately 67 minutes in length. Both CDs contain 14 songs providing 28 jazz tunes on this 2-CD set.




to cry you a song

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February 05, 2013 08:22 ET
EDDIE JOBSON's Four Decade World Tour: Featuring the Music of Roxy Music, Frank Zappa, Curved Air, UK and More

MONTREAL, QUEBEC--(Marketwire - Feb. 5, 2013) -

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FMPM is honored to welcome back EDDIE JOBSON, Saturday April 27, 2012 at the intimate 400-seat Gesù amphitheater. Following a sold-out appearance in 2012 with progressive rock super-group UK, keyboardist and violinist maestro EDDIE JOBSON will take fans on a musical journey spanning his diverse 40-year career featuring the music of Roxy Music, Frank Zappa, Curved Air, UK, UKZ and more including never before played solo material. JOBSON will be joined by an all-star cast of internationally renowned musicians including bassist/vocalist Marc BONILLA (Keith Emerson Band), keyboardist Billy SHERWOOD (Yes), guitarist Alex MACHAREK (UKZ) and drummer Virgil DONATI (Planet X).

Signed at age 17 as a teenage rock prodigy by Warner Bros. as a keyboardist and rock violinist on three Roxy Music albums, JOBSON then replaced George Duke and Jean-Luc Ponty in Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention followed by a stint in Curved Air. By the late 1970's he went on to found super-group UK with bassist/vocalist John Wetton. JOBSON has contributed to more than 60 albums and dozens of videos, and also performed with King Crimson, Jethro Tull, Phil Collins and Yes.

TICKETS: Tickets for reserved seats on sale Saturday February 9 at noon at the Gesù box office at 1200 de Bleury or 514-861-4036, and via Admission at 1-855-790-1245 or www.admission.com. Tickets are $75 including taxes, plus applicable service charges.

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www.marketwire.com/press-release/eddie-jobsons-four-decade-world-tour-featuring-music-roxy-music-frank-zappa-curved-air-1753205.htm

big brother watches over me
And the state protects and feeds me
And my conscience never leaves me
- Ian Anderson

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Feb 5, 2013 15:01:01 GMT @tootull said:

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Great news Tootull. ;D
I would love to see a show like this. Progressive music by Eddie Jobson is worth every dollar.
I met him in '95 after the "Divinties" show in New York. He was there as a fan of the music just like me.

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Spaced - Canadians follow Tull's Ian Anderson. ;D

Astronaut and Rocker to Premiere Space-Earth Duet Friday
by Elizabeth Howell, SPACE.com Contributor
Date: 06 February 2013 Time: 06:00 AM ET
;D Read much more: www.space.com/19654-astronaut-space-duet-barenaked-ladies.html
A song inspired by space will become the first tune to premiere via a ground-and-orbit duet.

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield will collaborate with Canadian musician Ed Robertson, best known as a member of the Grammy Award-winning Barenaked Ladies group, to release the first duet to premiere from space and Earth simultaneously.

On Friday (Feb. 8), Hadfield will perform in space, and Robertson will sing with a youth choir in Toronto ...

... While Robertson and Hadfield will be the first to premiere a song by playing it simultaneously from Earth and space, their performance will not be the first Earth-space duet. That distinction belongs to NASA astronaut Cady Coleman, who collaborated with Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson on the ground to play the band's song "Bourree" over a satellite connection.

That concert, in which Coleman played the flute, took place April 11, 2011, during the space station's Expedition 27 mission. The performance was a celebration of the 50th anniversary of humanity's first spaceflight by Yuri Gagarin on April 12, 1961.

Music is a common pastime for astronauts. If they're not listening to it as they gaze at Earth, they are often creating it themselves.



Expand the universe.
Head for the Big Bang.

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The beat goes on, beat goes on - Drums keep pounding a rhythm to the brain - La de da de de, la de da de da

Why Is Prog Rock So Inadequate, Simplistic, Reductive, Portentous and Perfect?
By Sean Murphy 7 February 2013
Read much-o more: www.popmatters.com/pm/column/167842-why-is-prog-rock-so-inadequate-simplistic-reductive-portentous-perfe/
“I may make you feel, but I can’t make you think”. This line, from Jethro Tull’s Thick as a Brick, serves as a succinct summation of why prog rock did—and does—inspire such intense adoration and/or aversion. The people who reject it (then, now) likely would ask, and not without merit, who wants to think? Music typically fails if it can’t burrow past your beer gut.

La de da de de, la de da de da

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(tiny TULL) mention of the newest


Voluntary work for technology chief
Read more: www.thestar.co.uk/news/business/voluntary-work-for-technology-chief-1-5404045
Paul Wood,Chief Exec of Sheffield Technology Parks,Arundel Street,Sheffield City Centre,who is leaving his post after 20 years to work in South America

By Bob Rae Business Editor
Published on Wednesday 13 February 2013 07:54

After graduating from Liverpool University, Peter went on to play a key role in aquaculture projects, establishing prawn hatcheries in Ecuador and Indonesia and salmon farms off the Isle of Skye.

In the process, he worked for organisations and individuals as varied as confectionery giants Mars, oil companies Elf and Petrofina and Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson





And who am I to fast deny the right to take a fish once in a while?

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Rock N’ Roll Diary: February 13
Carter Alan / WZLX.com
February 13, 2013 12:01 AM
wzlx.cbslocal.com/2013/02/13/rock-n-roll-diary-february-13/

Ronnie Van Zandt’s headstone was stolen from its gravesite in Florida on this day in 1982. It was found two weeks later. How old was the Lynyrd Skynyrd singer when he died in the plane crash?

Answer: 3 months shy of his 30th birthday

Here’s the rest of today’s Rock N’ Roll Diary!

1964: The Beatles arrived in Miami to tape their second Ed Sullivan appearance- over 7,000 screaming teenagers greeted them at Miami Airport!
1966: The Rolling Stones made a return appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show…Surprising, because Ed had vowed not to have the band on again.
1972: Led Zeppelin was forced to cancel a concert in Singapore when officials refused to allow them off the plane because of – get this – their long hair!
1982: Ronnie Van Zandt’s headstone, weighing over 300 pounds, was stolen from his gravesite in Orange Park, FL. It was found two weeks later.
1998: The Eagles sued the National Foundation to Protect America’s Eagles, claiming that the organization infringed on the band’s name and image.
2001: Bob Dylan won an Academy Award for his song “Things Have Changed” from the movie Wonder Boys.
2006: The University of New Hampshire banned Ram Jam’s “Black Betty” because school officials considered the song “theoretically racist.” The song had been used since 1977 as a rally song during hockey games. “Black Betty” was originally written by a black man – Leadbelly, back in the 1940s.
Rummaging through the WZLX ticket stash…Jethro Tull was at the Boston Tea Party in 1969 for the 1st of 3 nights… And in 1982 Rod Stewart played the Garden.

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Last Friday...in Canadian news...
The Walking Dead returns:
Read more, eh: www.thestar.com/entertainment/television/2013/02/08/the_walking_dead_returns_andrew_lincoln_talks_rick_carl_daryl_and_carol.html
Andrew Lincoln is ensconced at home outside London, England, surrounded by wintry white. And yes, even though he’s nailed the accent and swagger of a deadly earnest Georgia sheriff hacking his way through the zombie apocalypse that is The Walking Dead, he is so, very, very English.

He jokes that when he comes home and sees his wife Gael, “I hop on one leg and pretend to play the flute” like his famous father-in-law, Brit prog rock legend Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull.