The Press, the Internet & Jethro Tull

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Thursday, February 21, 2013
Queen to Receive the Heritage Award From Britain's PRS

PRS for Music established the Heritage Award scheme in 2009 to recognise important live music venues where iconic bands and songwriters performed. Previous awardees include Blur, Elton John, Soul II Soul, UB40, Snow Patrol, Faithless, James, Jethro Tull, Dire Straits and Supergrass.

Read more: www.vintagevinylnews.com/2013/02/queen-to-receive-heritage-award-from.html#ixzz2LYOoscR6



Example of Heritage Award

[maddogfagin]

news.cnet.com/8301-10797_3-57569816-235/escaping-the-iron-curtain-for-silicon-valley/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

Escaping the Iron Curtain for Silicon Valley
Christian Gheorghe grew up in authoritarian Romania and escaped by swimming across the Danube. That was just the start of an impressive career building enterprise analytics companies.

. . . . . .

Starting over
Gheorghe came to American, arriving at "the modern Ellis Island -- JFK [Airport in New York]" with just $26 and not much more English than some Pink Floyd and Jethro Tull lyrics. But he had hope. "I thought there was gold on the streets, and freedom was something you can actually go someplace and sign up for," he said.

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of course there is this...
Rock N’ Roll Diary: February 22
Carter Alan / WZLX.com
February 22, 2013 12:01 AM
wzlx.cbslocal.com/2013/02/22/rock-n-roll-diary-february-22/

In 1989, Jethro Tull won the first Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Grammy Award, to lead singer Ian Anderson’s considerable embarrassment. He (and most everyone) did not consider Tull to be a metal band. Name some of the other contenders for that year’s award.

Answer: Metallica, Janes Addiction, AC/DC and Iggy Pop

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Eight great songs inspired by trainsby Anant Rangaswami Feb 25, 2013
www.firstpost.com/living/eight-great-songs-inspired-by-trains-639016.html
I should have known better than to think one could make a list of great train songs without the Beatles.

Here’s the first of eight great train songs – One after 909, from the Beatles.

One often forgets that, though the Beatles were at their peak much before the advent of music television and music videos, they made a few films and filmed a number of songs. Here’s One after 909, in the original version.

Another Beatles song, I Should have known better, appeared in a train compartment scene of A Hard Day’s Night (though it was not actually performed on a train, but in a van).


The Beatles looking out of a train window. Getty Images

Here we go, with I Should have known better.

Then there are those songs which remind you of the noises and movements on trains. How can one not be transported by Jethro Tull’s Locomotive Breath?


Still on a loudish train journey, and we take a break for CCR’s Midnight Special. It will shine a light on you.


Crosby, Stills Nash and Young take us on another great train journey, when we go aboard the Marrakesh Express. Close your eyes and listen to the music and you’re lulled into a great peace as you near your destination.


And as we come closet to the destination, it’s time to wind down, and get a little soft. Here’s Peter, Paul and Mary with Freight Train.


Glen Campbell’s 12-string guitar makes the journey — all 500 miles of it –easier to deal with. And you can, if you listen, hear the whistle blow.


And finally, we’re, thanks to Simon & Garfunkel, at the end of this list. We’re Homeward Bound.

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Worcester’s Matt Robert Blends Blues and Roots in Original Tunes
Monday, February 25, 2013
Jeffrey Starr, GoLocalWorcester Contributor
Read mucho more; www.golocalworcester.com/lifestyle/worcesters-matt-robert/
"All the kids in my neighborhood were also really into music, so sitting around listening to music was a common pastime even when we were pretty young," he says of his youth. "I remember my friend sleeping over when we were in grammar school and we stayed up late into the night listening to WBCN playing The Beatles A to Z."

Much of the music he was exposed to as a young child came thanks to his much older brother who often could be heard blasting Aerosmith, The Who, Santana and the Rolling Stones. For this reason he had a more mature taste in music than most at his age.

"In fact, for music class in fourth grade I brought in two of my favorite albums: Who's Next and Jethro Tull's Aqualung, and essentially got laughed out of class. The kids didn't really dig Ian Anderson's flute playing," he jokes.

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This Just In
Alert your uncle with the sweet handlebar 'stache: There's a Jethro Tull convention coming
By Dave Herrera Wed., Feb. 27 2013 at 9:30 AM
blogs.westword.com/backbeat/2013/02/jethro_tull_convention_longmont_colorado_may_2013.php
Do you heart Jethro Tull? If so, you better hold on to your hat, hombre. I'm about to flip your wig: For the first time in the States in more a decade, there's a Jethro Tull Convention booked, and apparently, it's happening here. (I know, right?!) Well, not here here, but rather in Longmont up at the Dickens Opera House www.dickensoperahouse.com/ on Saturday, May 18. Truthfully, I have no idea what one does at a Jethro Tull convention, other than waxing enthusiastically about the wonders and genius of the Tull, obviously, but renown tribute act, Living With the Past, is slated to throw down in honor of the 45th anniversary of their classic rock heroes.

See also:
- The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band turns 45
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience's Are You Experienced turns 45
- The Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street turns forty

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Read more: nation.time.com/2013/02/28/it-was-30-years-ago-today/#ixzz2MCr1MlMO
(tiny TULL) mention of the newest...
TIME U.S. * It Was 30 Years Ago Today…
By Mark Thompson Feb. 28, 2013
….that Battleland contributor Franklin C. “Chuck” Spinney’s penetrating countenance gazed out from Time’s red-bordered cover asking U.S. Defense Spending: Are Billions Being Wasted?

The cover story (we’ve put it outside the paywall — Special Limited-Time Offer to read it for free!) — instantly made Spinney the poster child for Pentagon insiders distraught at the profligacy of the Reagan Administration’s military buildup. The sidebar on him inside the magazine (dated March 7, 1983, which means it had been printed a week before), available here, began like this:

Franklin Charles Spinney not only does not appear dangerous, he does not even seem readily distinguishable from hordes of other bureaucrats. His round, smiling face and well-brushed hair rather give him the look of a 37-year-old Charlie Brown.

Alas, the Lucy that was, and remains, the Pentagon didn’t find him very funny. His spiel on the “plans-reality mismatch” – the Pentagon’s seeming inability to craft realistic cost estimates so that today’s plans can fit into tomorrow’s budgets – remains as valid now as it was then.

The cover story was written by Walter Isaacson, who has since gone on to write acclaimed biographies of Henry Kissinger, Ben Franklin, Albert Einstein and Steve Jobs. Presidential photographer David Hume Kennerly took the photos of Spinney that graced the cover package. The cover itself was an illustration of Spinney by Burt Silverman, who also [Bizarre Connection Alert!] did the cover art for Jethro Tull’s Aqualung album (you can see the resemblance here).

We don’t always agree with Mr. Spinney, and he hasn’t always been right, but we always find his thinking relevant and intriguing. We’re pleased that he continues to grace Battleland with it regularly, a decade after leaving the Pentagon, when he’s not out sailing.
nation.time.com/2013/02/28/it-was-30-years-ago-today/#ixzz2MD0ikRJr


The cover itself was an illustration of Spinney by Burt Silverman, who also [Bizarre Connection Alert!] did the cover art for Jethro Tull’s Aqualung album (you can see the resemblance here).




...as he hands you the bill.
And you spin in the slipstream
tideless - unreasoning -

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Canadian view;

The Boomer Revolution hits airwaves
Read more, eh: www.moneysense.ca/2013/02/28/the-boomer-revolution-hits-airwaves/#sthash.SnrXlR87.dpuf
Boomers may launch new careers or businesses after 65, or at least work part-time to stay engaged and make their nest eggs last longer. But, as with their own parents who have aged or left the stage, there will come a time when work truly will be in the boomers’ collective past. As one line in the documentary puts it, some first-wave boomers may soon be “too old to work, too young to die.” ( A variant on Jethro Tull’s Too Old To Rock and Roll, Too Young to Die.)

[steelmonkey]

He was too o o o old to do his jo o ob but he was too young to die eye.

The he hit the water cooler...at about one twenty with no room left to urinate...

[maddogfagin]

Feb 28, 2013 18:16:43 GMT steelmonkey said:

He was too o o o old to do his jo o ob but he was too young to die eye.

The he hit the water cooler...at about one twenty with no room left to urinate...

It's like when you bend down to tie up a shoe lace or pick up something you've dropped on the floor, I think "Is there anything else I can do while I'm down here ?"

Get the paracetamol and the motorised zimmer frame nurse.

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New Jersey 101.5 Clapton To Stop Touring At 70, Should Others Follow?
By Steve Trevelise
nj1015.com/clapton-to-stop-touring-at-70-should-others-follow/

When is a performer really, as Jethro Tull puts it, “too old to rock n roll?”

Eric Clapton has announced that he’ll stop touring when he turns 70 on March 30 2015 because he says getting from show to show is such a pain.

As the classic rockers continue to age, the question now comes up as to when is enough enough? Do you really want to hear a 70 year old Paul McCartney singing “She was just seventeen?” There comes a point even where hair dye and plastic surgery doesn’t cut it anymore and the performer looks more like a mutant than a rocker.

Rock n Roll was always a young people’s medium and it’s been great as we age to still be able to go and see the people who made the music that we love. It makes us reconnect with the time we first heard it, but will seeing them in their seventies make you feel young or remind you that you too are getting older?

The secret I think if a rocker is going to continue on is to write and sell new music for his generation. When John Lennon and Yoko Ono released Double Fantasy he said he hoped that the 16 year olds like it, but it was really written to the forty year olds that he himself was.

Bruce Springsteen is a perfect example of writing and performing to his current fan base which spans all ages. As we move into the septuagenarian years of these performers, it’s going to be interesting to see not only how long they can go, but how long we will pay exorbitant prices to see them.

At what age do you think a performer should stop performing live?


And he was too old to Rock'n'Roll but he was too young to die.
No, you're never too old to Rock'n'Roll if you're too young to die.

When is a performer really, as Ian Anderson puts it, “too old to rock n roll?” ;D

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Music review: Anais Mitchell & Jefferson Hammer, Cecil Sharp House, London
Child Ballads
4 stars out of 5
Holly Williams - Wednesday 06 March 2013
Read more: www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/music-review-anais-mitchell--jefferson-hammer-cecil-sharp-house-london-8522301.html
It's not all ballads – they do stripped down solo material, as well as covers of Woody Guthrie's 'Pastures of Plenty', Emmylou Harris and Gram Parsons' 'Hearts on Fire', and even a daffy but adorable, laughter-filled version of Jethro Tull's 'Skating Away on the Thin Ice of the New Day'. The last two are played unplugged, and they step down from the stage almost into the audience, storytellers for the people to the last.

[maddogfagin]

Live365 Launches Studio365 Mobile App Empowering Online Broadcasters to Manage Radio Stations Anywhere They Go

More at: www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/05/ca-live365-launches-idUSnPnPH71224+160+PRN20130305

Live365, Inc. is a pioneer in internet radio and broadcasting, having broadcast
continuously since 1999. The Live365 radio network reaches millions of
listeners worldwide, offering greater breadth and depth of high-quality
streaming music, talk, and audio than any other network. Featuring 260 genres
of music produced by 5,000+ broadcasters and music tastemakers, Live365 boasts a
roster of artists and radio producers ranging from Carlos Santana, Pat
Metheny, and Jethro Tull, to commercial and public radio stations, to
individual DJs who program stations in every musical style. Live365's end-to-end
broadcast platform empowers individuals and organizations alike by giving them a
"voice" to reach audiences around the globe. Through easy-to-use tools and
services as well as royalty coverage, anyone with a computer and Internet
connection can create his or her own Internet radio station and reach a global
audience with minimal cost and effort.

[steelmonkey]

Probably not a coincidence they mention radio Tull...probably reflects healthy subscriber numbers!

[tullist]

Mar 9, 2013 13:53:01 GMT maddogfagin said:

Live365 Launches Studio365 Mobile App Empowering Online Broadcasters to Manage Radio Stations Anywhere They Go

More at: www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/05/ca-live365-launches-idUSnPnPH71224+160+PRN20130305

Live365, Inc. is a pioneer in internet radio and broadcasting, having broadcast
continuously since 1999. The Live365 radio network reaches millions of
listeners worldwide, offering greater breadth and depth of high-quality
streaming music, talk, and audio than any other network. Featuring 260 genres
of music produced by 5,000+ broadcasters and music tastemakers, Live365 boasts a
roster of artists and radio producers ranging from Carlos Santana, Pat
Metheny, and Jethro Tull, to commercial and public radio stations, to
individual DJs who program stations in every musical style. Live365's end-to-end
broadcast platform empowers individuals and organizations alike by giving them a
"voice" to reach audiences around the globe. Through easy-to-use tools and
services as well as royalty coverage, anyone with a computer and Internet
connection can create his or her own Internet radio station and reach a global
audience with minimal cost and effort.

On the one hand, really grateful the likes of Live 365 exist. On the other, having sampled it here and there over ten years or so, I really am alarmed at the lack of breath of the individual stations. They really do speak, to a one, of only specific musical avenues. For instance even in jazz, its always bop, ballads, avant garde etc, but none informing on the others, especially telling in that to some extent its all inter related. Makes me wonder if they have a policy against that, or make the cost of operation higher to where its not do able. Some of the better stations on there do charge money, luckily the Tull one is not one of those. Barring perceived financial constraints, and depending upon the time involved vrs expected return, I would start up one of those things literally drawing on all musical forms, with an expected preponderance of Tull, Dead, Jimi, Fabs, Miles, Trane and otherwise certainly going from Bill Monroe to Joey Sebastian Bach and Albert Ayler to Emmylou Harris. But the practicality in me can see why there probably is some unforeseen reason why nobody in the world on 365 appears to be doing that.

[steelmonkey]

I'd pay to listen to your mix, Ray....in a heartbeat...but from commercial point of view, eclectic just doesn't work.....the ad men ( and women) want specific demographic information so they can pitch their crap accordingly.....anyone right in the head enough to appreciate your mix would be a poor candidate for rushing off to the mall and buying something the moment an ad convinces them there lives are worthless without whatever. A nice dream though: Ray Radio....humble start bit somehow goes viral amongst the right audience and gathers momentum.....A combination of pirate radio in the late sixties and the laid back, cooler than cool hippie station we had in Denver in about 1967....KFML...where you could hear Rambling Jack Elliot, Deep Purple, Mozart and Miles all in a row....they has a thing called 'High Street' every day...nothing fancy by today's standards but funnier than hell...they dubbed along, live and spontaneous, to a daily soap opera...maybe 'as the world turns'....huge quantities of dope smoked in the studio and by the audience...and stomach pain inducing laughter for Cheech and Chong/ Firesign Theater consumers....I paid them back for years of cool radio by swiping their copy of War Child before it got to stores.

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Rock N’ Roll Diary: March 12
Carter Alan / WZLX.com
March 12, 2013 12:01 AM
wzlx.cbslocal.com/2013/03/12/rock-n-roll-diary-march-12-2/
Happy birthday to Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane and Starship. Paul first coined the Jefferson Starship name on what album?

Answer: Blows Against The Empire

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

Happy Birthday: Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane & Starship!
1969: Paul Mccartney and Linda Eastman became husband and wife. Unfortunately for The Beatles that same day George and Patty Harrison were arrested for possession of marijuana at their home.
1971: The Allman Brothers Band began a two night live recording at the Fillmore East.
1974: John Lennon and Harry Nilsson were bounced out of the Troubadour in Hollywood for causing a disturbance while waiting for the Smothers Brothers to perform.
1985: John Fogerty’s Centerfold album went gold and platinum in one day.
Lets have a look in the WZLX ticket stash…Jethro Tull presented their “War Child” show at the Garden in 1975 … In ’76 it was the Marshall Tucker Band at the Orpheum … and in 1981 The Grateful Dead lit up at the Garden.

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Watch Record Store day ambassador 2013 - Jack White's video for Record Store Day - United Record Pressing Plant - Nashville
www.postcity.com/Eat-Shop-Do/Do/March-2013/This-Week-In-Sound-Record-Store-Day-Gold-Youth-Young-Galaxy-Royal-Canoe/
There’s another reason to celebrate April 20, and it’s Record Store Day. Every year, on the third Saturday of April, a slew of new releases is dropped at independent retailers, and this year is no exception. While the full list of releases has yet to be revealed, we’re drooling with anticipation at what’s currently on the table: music from Austra, Neil Young, a Black Keys and Iggy Pop 7-inch, Calexico, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, R. Kelly, Jethro Tull, Brian Eno, Jimi Hendrix, Ra Ra Riot, Willie Nelson, Rufus Wainwright and The XX.

[steelmonkey]

Wonder what Jethro's spittin' up ?

[JTull 007]

Mar 12, 2013 20:42:35 GMT @tootull said:

Watch Record Store day ambassador 2013 - Jack White's video
for Record Store Day - United Record Pressing Plant - Nashville
www.postcity.com/Eat-Shop-Do/Do/March-2013/This-Week-In-Sound-Record-Store-Day-Gold-Youth-Young-Galaxy-Royal-Canoe/
There’s another reason to celebrate April 20, and it’s Record Store Day. Every year, on the third Saturday of April,
a slew of new releases is dropped at independent retailers, and this year is no exception.
While the full list of releases has yet to be revealed, we’re drooling with anticipation at
what’s currently on the table: music from Austra, Neil Young, a Black Keys and Iggy Pop 7-inch,
Calexico, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, R. Kelly, Jethro Tull, Brian Eno, Jimi Hendrix,
Ra Ra Riot, Willie Nelson, Rufus Wainwright and The XX.

Loved the Record Store Day tour of the record plant in Nashville.
Jack White does a fine job explaining what secrets are not allowed to be known.
Very cool music tracks also, along with the Toronto Music Scene documentary.

Now which Tull Album deserves to be released in 5.1 Audio or Vinyl Collector's set?

I have a hunch it will be "Benefit" just because it would be an automatic hit on Record Store Day.
Thanks [glow=red,2,300]Tootull[/glow]

[ccola]

Mar 13, 2013 1:47:47 GMT JTull 007 said:

Mar 12, 2013 20:42:35 GMT @tootull said:

Watch Record Store day ambassador 2013 - Jack White's video
for Record Store Day - United Record Pressing Plant - Nashville
www.postcity.com/Eat-Shop-Do/Do/March-2013/This-Week-In-Sound-Record-Store-Day-Gold-Youth-Young-Galaxy-Royal-Canoe/
There’s another reason to celebrate April 20, and it’s Record Store Day. Every year, on the third Saturday of April,
a slew of new releases is dropped at independent retailers, and this year is no exception.
While the full list of releases has yet to be revealed, we’re drooling with anticipation at
what’s currently on the table: music from Austra, Neil Young, a Black Keys and Iggy Pop 7-inch,
Calexico, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, R. Kelly, Jethro Tull, Brian Eno, Jimi Hendrix,
Ra Ra Riot, Willie Nelson, Rufus Wainwright and The XX.

Loved the Record Store Day tour of the record plant in Nashville.
Jack White does a fine job explaining what secrets are not allowed to be known.
Very cool music tracks also, along with the Toronto Music Scene documentary.

Now which Tull Album deserves to be released in 5.1 Audio or Vinyl Collector's set?

I have a hunch it will be "Benefit" just because it would be an automatic hit on Record Store Day.
Thanks [glow=red,2,300]Tootull[/glow]

Beautiful all are!

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Record Store Day 2013 falls on Saturday, April 20 this year, and several artists of interest to jamband fans will be offering special edition vinyl and CD releases for sale in independent record stores across America that day. As reported by the Wax Poetic blog, the following releases are among the roughly 270 vinyl records and CDs being offered by a wide range of artists for Record Store Day 2013:
jethrotull.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=collectors&thread=983&page=7#35693
7” Vinyl
Jethro Tull Living in the Past EP

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Calling LA
It's a circus, (tiny Tull) mention.

Thursday's TV Highlights:
www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-thursdays-tv-highlights-community-on-nbc-20130313,0,2468571.story
"The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus" The Who, Jethro Tull, John Lennon and Eric Clapton share the stage with the band in this 1968 film. 10 p.m. KOCE




Won't be what I don't want to be,
I continue in my way.

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Don't tell anyone;


Ask Mr. Know-It-All: Niagara's first barrel daredevil
GARY CLOTHIER, ASK MR. KNOW-IT-ALL
United Feature Syndicate
Updated: 03/20/2013 10:45:56 AM EDT
www.yorkdispatch.com/weekend/ci_22830642/ask-mr-know-it-all-niagaras-first-barrel
Q: Who was Jethro Tull of the band Jethro Tull? -- R.L., Levelland, Texas

A: One of the co-founders of the band, Ian Anderson, explains that in the early days, the band was not very good. In order to get rebooked at clubs, it changed its name every week. The band was finally asked to return after playing a gig with the name Jethro Tull. Anderson says he is not really fond of the name and is embarrassed about it because it's not an original name. The original Jethro Tull was an 18th-century agriculturalist and inventor.



Again, Tightrope 'cross Niagara, don't cut my wire.[/i]

[tullist]

I also enjoyed the review of the new Bowie record, and the commentary from his always lucid friend Lou Reed.

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earache!
10 Minutes With Steve Howe
Yes guitarist on the band's three-LP re-creation tonight
By Jim Caligiuri, 2:20PM, Wed. Mar. 20
www.austinchronicle.com/blogs/music/2013-03-20/10-minute-with-steve-howe/
Bands playing an album in its entirety isn’t exactly a recent development. I recall seeing Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, and Yes perform Dark Side of the Moon, Thick As A Brick, and Tales From Topographic Oceans respectively when those LPs were new. Yes tweaks the concept tonight at ACL Live at the Moody Theater.

The decades-old progressive English juggernaut performs three albums on its current tour, The Yes Album (1971), Close to the Edge (‘72), and Going for the One (‘77), with a lineup that includes guitarist Steve Howe, bassist Chris Squire, drummer Alan White, keyboardist Geoff Downes, and relatively new vocalist Jon Davison.

I spoke to Howe earlier this week.

Geezerville: You’re playing three albums. Will there be a break between each one?

Steve Howe: After two, we take an interval and then we play the third one.

G: How did you decide on which albums to play?

SH: Just a general discussion. We could’ve played any of them. We had to come to a sensible, reasonable choice. We consolidated everyone’s views and just came up with these three – this time.

G: I saw you do Tales in 1974, but this is the first time since then that you’ve attempted something similar.

SH: That’s what I’d been saying. It’s been a long time, almost 40 years, that we’ve waited to do that concept again. It was quite original then.

G: Digging into the albums were there any surprises? Anything that you hadn’t performed before or something that was particularly difficult to reproduce?

SH: Yeah, of course, because when you’re just doing songs from an album it changes your view of how it’s done. Also, I was one of the main abdicators for tightening up the show and the way we play the songs, making them more like the albums. Over the years, a lot of parts and feelings have changed. Some of them were quite radical. So I’ve been trying to get everybody to go back. I’m not completely alone in it. Geoff also wanted to go back and learn the albums.

For instance, when we do “I’ve Seen All Good People” we end it for the first time ever like the album. So when there are endings that we’ve gone away from or never used, it’s nice to go back to them. We’ve never played “A Venture” and we’re playing it really well. That’s another song that’s come back. It’s sort of a daunting song to play. We also don’t often play “Parallels” or “Going for the One.”

G: What makes “A Venture” daunting?

SH: Because it’s very sensitive. It’s not a rock song. You’ve got the idea in your mind that you’re playing a song that’s very important to Yes, and it’s unique. It’s like “Wondrous Stores” in its approach.

G: This is a different combination of players for the band, but Yes has always retained its sound whatever the personnel. What can you tell me about the new singer?

SH: He joined us around this time last year when we toured the Pacific Rim. Jon was a golden find. We’d been with Benoit David for a while. When we went to Europe, he wasn’t so strong and he wasn’t so strong in his commitment for us. Things didn’t go well and after that tour we hoped he was going to recover his health and the enthusiasm we needed, but it didn’t work out. So Yes, striving to keep moving forward, found Jon Davison.

Of course before [2011’s] Fly From Here album, Trevor Horn introduced us to some songs he’d written with Geoff Downes, my cohort in Asia, and the next thing we know he’s playing in Yes and Oliver Wakeman isn’t. It’s the story of bands that have had multiple members. It’s like an orchestra. If somebody wanes or doesn’t maintain their enthusiasm for their position, then he doesn’t stay.

G: As a longtime fan, I think it keeps things interesting.

SH: Whatever turns you on [laughs].

G: I see the band will be involved in something called Cruise to the Edge at the end of the month. Will it be your first experience with something like that?

SH: My only experience with a cruise is one I did as a solo artist 12 or so years ago and I wasn’t so sure I wanted to do one again. This is a bigger affair. We agreed to do it because why not. We need things to do and this is different enough for us. That’s how we’re approaching it really. As far as we knew at first, it was just going to be Yes. We had no idea they were going to add a bill. When we saw what they added, we went, “That’s a lot bands. Where did they all come from?” Everybody wanted to be part of it and that’s quite flattering.

G: Bring sunscreen.

SH: Oh yeah, like I’m going to be sitting on deck sunbathing [laughs].

G: Thanks for your time.

SH: Before you go, my son was just in Austin during South by Southwest playing in a band called Little Barrie. He’s the drummer, Virgil Howe. I think he’s just left. We almost crossed paths and I would have loved to have been there when he was playing.


Yes 2013

[steelmonkey]

I'd go see them do "Yes Album' and Close to the Edge' but call it a night before they could shove that watery, Police sounding, Going for the One down my throat.

[steelmonkey]

This week's New Yorker magazine has an article about a punk fashion exhibit in an NYC Museum and explains the roots of punk as reaction to 'overblown bombast, bands such as Jethro Tull, Yes and Pink Floyd'.......thanks butthead...now go work on your shocking pink mohawk.

[tullist]

Mar 22, 2013 17:28:50 GMT steelmonkey said:

This week's New Yorker magazine has an article about a punk fashion exhibit in an NYC Museum and explains the roots of punk as reaction to 'overblown bombast, bands such as Jethro Tull, Yes and Pink Floyd'.......thanks butthead...now go work on your shocking pink mohawk.

Totally agree Bernie, I still maintain something along the lines of hatred for punk and new wave. And I would agree for the need to return to basic rock and roll, which I LOVE, but somewhere in there from the start, the punks and new wavers lost connection with what constitutes a good song, but had the sneers down pat. I love 50's rock and roll, and the blues from the likes of Howlin Wolf, Muddy Waters, T Bone Walker to which rock and roll obviously owes a very great debt. And I do believe proggers to some extent lost contact with the notion of a good song, for all their instrumental wizardry, I still don't feel their best will equal that of the best in jazz or classical, so the importance of a good song remains paramount. In a nutshell I think punk and new wave sucked, and hold a similar perception for that from the past that punk embraced, say...the Velvet Underground, and anyone else who tried to make nice with those f**ks. Truly Who are You. And I believe that punk and new wave helped lay the groundwork for the development of lack of common courtesy, or of paying attention. And though I am certainly amused by Johnny Rotten, I will fight him anytime. And I will want to know why he did not open his yob in 76 about liking Jethro Tull. Ditto for the Ramones. F**K them. Their endorsement years after the fact, when the coast was clear, is not needed.

[steelmonkey]

Be nice to the Ramones, Ray...less of them alive than beatles...something Darwin about that.
And they called themselves the ramones cuz they were beatle nuts who knew that McCartney's Hotel registration name was Paul Ramone. I learned Ian's hotel name when I called him to do the radio interview but i was told by the publicist to never tell...so I won't !!!