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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2012 17:55:32 GMT
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Post by nonrabbit on Apr 23, 2012 21:40:31 GMT
Now that he's shut everyone up and made an album time to shout for the autobiography?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2012 15:50:38 GMT
Looks like he has the Ian Anderson/Jethro Tull act nailed. www.news1130.com/entertainment/article/353421--whistlers-from-far-and-wide-converge-to-see-who-blows-bestJohn Ruggieri didn't make it to the finals of last year's International Whistling Convention. So this year, he's going to spice his act up a bit. "There's going to be some jokes," the lawyer and professional poker player from Bronx, N.Y., said after signing up. "Maybe even a magic trick. And a trivia game. A whistling trivia game." ...Ruggieri grew up whistling the flute parts of Jethro Tull tunes. He said he's been practicing like a demon for this year's competition, but he knows he's at the mercy of the elements especially the South's heavy pollen.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2012 18:52:11 GMT
Tull bits www.kirklandreporter.com/entertainment/148943235.htmlWhen Gary Stroutsos was in college back in the ‘70s he attended a Jethro Tull concert – and was never the same afterward. Mesmerized by the flute sounds of Ian Anderson, he went to a pawnshop and bought a beginner’s flute for $35. Largely self-taught, Stroutsos had another epiphany during his first big gig, in 1997. A history buff, he discovered his passion while performing with “The American Indian Music and Dance Tour,” where world music met traditional Native American music.
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Post by onewhiteduck on Apr 28, 2012 7:33:44 GMT
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Post by nonrabbit on May 1, 2012 19:06:01 GMT
John Peel's The Space online record collection goes live "The names of the first 100 albums of the late DJ John Peel's record collection have been published online. The John Peel Centre, in Stowmarket, is behind the project, called The Space, which aims to recreate the late broadcaster's home studio and library. Peel, who died in 2004, had a collection of about 25,000 vinyl albums. The names of about 100 will be added in alphabetical order each week. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-17894985thespace.org/by/genre/music
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2012 16:05:38 GMT
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Post by tullist on May 3, 2012 16:28:26 GMT
Maybe I am missing something but both Ian and Anderson are of course common names. As you may know, there is another semi-known musician Ian Anderson,roughly the same age I think, though I am pretty certain this is not him. The "other" Ian Anderson has run a magazine for years, I think its Folk Roots, is himself, to my memory, a folk blues acoustic player, who apparently, I have read, reviles Jethro Tull's Ian.
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Post by nonrabbit on May 3, 2012 16:58:13 GMT
Where do we start with this one The other Iain Anderson that R mentions has indeed run a magazine for years and has a bit of a grudge (I think) with Ian. Different spelling of first name. This is neither of the two though this is a Scottish Dance band with special guests and I'll bet my last shilling guvn'r that it does not include Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull. It a show/celidh with jigs/reels and marching songs. The sort of place where you can shout "Wheech" till your hearts content. It's like your parents generation of Scottish music and just to confuse things even more
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2012 17:24:16 GMT
The Tull With No Fame I aim to confuse, make no mistake. Always & all ways.
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Post by nonrabbit on May 3, 2012 17:40:57 GMT
The Tull With No Fame I aim to confuse, make no mistake. Always & all ways. I think it's catching cause thats not true what I just said up there!The other Ian Anderson is Ian A. Anderson - I don't know any Iain Anderson - do you ?
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2012 18:02:42 GMT
All this time, it had been quite insane to the others. I knew nothing about Iain Anderson.
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2012 18:28:27 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2012 14:04:42 GMT
supergroup Time, not money, can buy happiness www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/Time+money+happiness/6572145/story.htmlTake songs, for example. British supergroup Jethro Tull advised, in its hit Living in the Past, that happiness comes from, well, living in the past. But that song, which speaks of war and of people's decision to think of happier past times, was released during the peak of the Vietnam War, so it might not apply to all people in all places and all circumstances. So perhaps instead we should look to religion, and notably to Buddhism. In contrast to Jethro Tull, the Buddhists advise that there's no sense dwelling on the past or, for that matter, worrying about the future. Rather, maintain the Buddhists, happiness comes from living, fully and completely, in the present. Farm Raised Salmon is a Good Thing…. Right? www.mpnnow.com/amusebouche/x272273501/Farm-Raised-Salmon-is-a-Good-Thing-RightFYI: the 70’s and 80’s rock band Jethro Tull, their front man Ian Anderson, is a very successful salmon farmer with numerous salmon farms scattered throughout New England.
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Post by steelmonkey on May 12, 2012 16:05:37 GMT
Maybe a teeny connection between unethical realtors and betting bankers? It all trickles down !
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Post by maddogfagin on Jun 4, 2012 8:19:50 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2012 18:01:19 GMT
Clapton meets curry - June 13, 2012 1522 offers everything a self-respecting neighbourhood pub should — food packed with flavour, reasonably priced drinks, good music and friendly faces. www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/article3523757.eceThere's something typically old-Bangalore about this one-and-half-year-old joint: music icons Eric Clapton, Jethro Tull and Bob Marley look over you from bright, hand-painted posters as you tuck into food that's a no-frills combination of Mangalorean, tandoori and Indian-Chinese. Classic rock tunes provide a lively background score. “We like rock,” says Shashank Hegde, co-owner of the place with his brother Chetan. “And we wanted to start something for people who like rock too.”
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Post by bunkerfan on Jun 13, 2012 19:52:54 GMT
That's sounds looks a fabulous place to eat. Anyone else fancy sharing a curry and a chat with Jethro Tull? Dream on eh
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Post by maddogfagin on Jun 14, 2012 7:47:20 GMT
Clapton meets curry - June 13, 2012 1522 offers everything a self-respecting neighbourhood pub should — food packed with flavour, reasonably priced drinks, good music and friendly faces. www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/article3523757.eceThere's something typically old-Bangalore about this one-and-half-year-old joint: music icons Eric Clapton, Jethro Tull and Bob Marley look over you from bright, hand-painted posters as you tuck into food that's a no-frills combination of Mangalorean, tandoori and Indian-Chinese. Classic rock tunes provide a lively background score. “We like rock,” says Shashank Hegde, co-owner of the place with his brother Chetan. “And we wanted to start something for people who like rock too.” I wonder what ale they have on offer.
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Post by bunkerfan on Jun 14, 2012 19:28:59 GMT
Clapton meets curry - June 13, 2012 1522 offers everything a self-respecting neighbourhood pub should — food packed with flavour, reasonably priced drinks, good music and friendly faces. www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/article3523757.eceThere's something typically old-Bangalore about this one-and-half-year-old joint: music icons Eric Clapton, Jethro Tull and Bob Marley look over you from bright, hand-painted posters as you tuck into food that's a no-frills combination of Mangalorean, tandoori and Indian-Chinese. Classic rock tunes provide a lively background score. “We like rock,” says Shashank Hegde, co-owner of the place with his brother Chetan. “And we wanted to start something for people who like rock too.” I wonder what ale they have on offer. This one I hope.
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Post by maddogfagin on Jun 15, 2012 18:05:12 GMT
From www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18458567Argyll and Bute Council are in the news for falling foul of what's known as the Streisand Effect - the act of trying to suppress information but simply making it more widespread as a result.
Martha Payne, from Argyll, was writing about her school dinners on her NeverSeconds blog, taking pictures of them and offering ratings for their nutritional value.
But Argyll and Bute Council banned her from taking photos of her school's food, saying press coverage of the blog had led catering staff to fear for their jobs.
However, they reckoned without the Streisand Effect, which saw the photo ban make headline news in some of the nation's biggest media organisations and the story spiral into a much bigger one that it ever was before.
The furore forced the local authority to reverse the ban, with the leader issuing a statement to say there was "no place for censorship" on the council.
The story sums up the Streisand Effect, named after singer Barbra Streisand, which is an online phenomenon in which an attempt to hide or remove information - a photo, video, story etc - results in the greater spread of the information in question.
Paul Armstrong, head of social for Mindshare, a global media network, says the Streisand Effect is a reminder to brands and celebrities about the effect groups, and individuals, can have on the internet in a very short space of time.
"People have an innate inquisitiveness. When this is mixed with a fear of missing out, feeling something is being hidden from them or that someone is overacting to something, it can cause individuals to react in undesired or mischievous ways that others then support.
"Mix this combination with a natural dislike for censorship and brands or individuals can have a recipe for disaster on their hands."One classic example The High Court in the UK ordered five British ISPs to block access to The Pirate Bay in April this year, due to concerns over copyright infringement. The subsequent media coverage led to The Pirate Bay, a file-sharing website based in Sweden, receiving a record amount of traffic. The number of unique visitors increased by up to 12 million during that period, according to the site's blog. Paul Armstrong describes this as "a prime example of large entities misunderstanding the internet and publicity. Announcing the blocking only served to create desire to know more".
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2012 16:16:00 GMT
Tightrope 'cross Niagara, don't cut my wire.
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Post by steelmonkey on Jun 16, 2012 16:41:55 GMT
' One side hate and one is hope' who remembers Leon Russel ?
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Post by maddogfagin on Jun 20, 2012 15:48:46 GMT
And mentioning the Toronto Sun (which we were in another thread) I looked up their website and found this from August 2009.
No shows and 'Oh, no's! Forget about who was at Woodstock ... check out the bands that weren't there -- and the reasons why DARRYL STERDAN First posted: Sunday, August 16, 2009
Tommy James is living proof that anybody who remembers Woodstock wasn't really there.
The man behind pop-rock nuggets such as Mony Mony, Crimson and Clover, I Think We're Alone Now and more recalls that fateful August 1969 weekend like it was yesterday. Mainly because he and his band, The Shondells, were on the other side of the world -- just one of the many big-name acts of the day who famously and foolishly missed out on what would become the most important festival in music history.
"We could have just kicked ourselves," says the 62-year-old singer-guitarist from his New Jersey home. "We were in Hawaii to do two concerts two weeks apart, and we were staying in this Spanish villa at the foot of Diamond Head. We had servants. The biggest decision of the day was whether to go in the ocean or the swimming pool."
That is, until the phone rang.
"I got a call from my secretary, Joann," James says. "She said Artie Kornfeld (one of the event's promoters) wanted to know if we would come and play this festival at a pig farm. That's how it was put to me. I said, 'You want me to leave paradise and fly 5,000 miles to play a pig farm? Are you nuts? Tell them to start the gig without me.' "
They did. And soon, James and his bandmates saw it all on the news.
"Three days later, we knew we really screwed up," he says, laughing. "It was all my fault. But, hey, I got more mileage out of not going than I would have if we'd been there."
James isn't the only classic rocker who skipped the three-day event.
In fact, the list of artists who didn't play Woodstock is almost as impressive as the list of those who did. Here's a rundown of who wasn't there, and why:
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The Beatles
Although The Fabs had played their famous rooftop set on their Apple HQ in London that January, they hadn't done a full concert since 1966 -- and were days away from finishing Abbey Road. Those are the facts -- but the rumours are more fun. One story goes that promoters contacted John Lennon, who refused to play unless Yoko's Plastic Ono Band was included. Another version has Lennon eager to perform but unable (or unwilling) to enter the U.S., since then-President Richard Nixon wasn't exactly a fan.
Jeff Beck Group
Former Yardbirds guitar slinger Beck and his band -- including singer Rod Stewart, keyboardist Nicky Hopkins and future Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood -- were scheduled to play but split up the week before, which Beck has since publicly regretted. Well, duh.
The Byrds
Roger McGuinn and Co. were apparently asked to take part, but declined for unknown reasons. Maybe they didn't really want to be rock 'n' roll stars after all.
The Doors
The L.A. rockers supposedly cancelled at the last moment due to Jim Morrison's distaste for large outdoor gigs. Drummer John Densmore was at the festival, and can be seen in the film at the side of the stage during Joe Cocker's set.
Bob Dylan
Zimmy was allegedly being courted, but backed out after one of his kids got sick. Word is he was also ticked off at the hippies hanging around his house near the town of Woodstock. Instead, he played at the Isle of Wight festival in the U.K. two weeks later.
Free
The British hard rock outfit fronted by barrel-chested belter Paul Rodgers was asked to perform and declined. All right, then.
Iron Butterfly
Drastically overestimating the popularity of In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, these California rockers supposedly demanded helicopters to fly them in from a New York airport. They also wanted to take the stage immediately upon arrival, be paid in full upon completion, and be flown back to the airport. Promoters supposedly said they'd consider it -- then never called back, thus sparing 600,000 people from yet another drum solo.
Jethro Tull
Singer-flutist Ian Anderson supposedly passed because he "didn't want to spend the weekend in a field of unwashed hippies" -- even if he could have minimized his discomfort by standing on one leg. Another rumour has it that the band was intimidated and thought Woodstock might derail its burgeoning career if the performance tanked.
Led Zeppelin
The British blues-rock phenoms were urged to perform by their record label, but famously combative manager Peter Grant reportedly refused "because at Woodstock we'd have just been another band." They toured on their own instead, which brought them to Toronto, where they played two brief shows at the Rock Pile a few hours after Jimi Hendrix's sizzling Day 4 set at Woodstock.
Lighthouse
The Canadian rockers led by drummer and vocalist Skip Prokop were asked to play, but backed out for fear Woodstock would be a bad scene -- as opposed to Sunny Days.
Joni Mitchell
Mitchell was the victim of bad advice -- her agent told her it would be a better career move to do The Dick Cavett Show. She wrote her iconic song Woodstock based on what boyfriend Graham Nash told her.
The Moody Blues
The Nights in White Satin crew was listed on the original posters, but backed out after being booked in Paris the same weekend.
Procol Harum
The British symphonic-rock pioneers were invited but declined because they had already been on tour for months and guitarist Robin Trower's wife was about to give birth.
Paul Revere & The Raiders
No wonder their kicks just kept getting harder to find -- Mark Lindsay and his American garage-rockers also reportedly declined to perform.
The Rolling Stones
Even if the Stones were invited to Woodstock, they couldn't have played because singer Mick Jagger was filming Ned Kelly all summer in Australia. If that wasn't enough, Keith Richards' wife, Anita Pallenberg, had just given birth to their son Marlon in London that week.
Spirit
Randy California and his psychedelic rockers turned down the festival, preferring to head out on a promo tour. Good career move, Dr. Sardonicus.
Frank Zappa
The iconoclastic Mothers of Invention leader once claimed the band had been invited to play but he passed. Given his well-publicized disdain for hippies, that might have been a good move for all concerned.
Roy Rogers
In the recently expanded Woodstock DVD, festival producer Michael Lang says he wanted the cowboy crooner to close the weekend by singing Happy Trails -- but "his manager didn't think it was such a great idea." Can't imagine why.
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Post by maddogfagin on Jun 21, 2012 11:42:12 GMT
With picturesque views such as these, the headmaster could have opened Kilmarie House as a B & B instead of selling it in 1994. Just thought Attachments:
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Post by steelmonkey on Jun 21, 2012 15:15:39 GMT
Pegg's got a B & B in Brittany ! Rehab NOT, anyone ?
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Post by steelmonkey on Jun 29, 2012 15:01:36 GMT
Funny article: New Jews ( Asians?) Old Jews ( Me, for one) Orange Juice ( kid gets a glass in the morning, like it or not!)
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2012 16:22:44 GMT
Funny article: New Jews ( Asians?) Old Jews ( Me, for one) Orange Juice ( kid gets a glass in the morning, like it or not!) Well! Make your will and testament. Won't you? Join your local government. We'll have Superman for president let Robin save the day.That's all I got...LOL Superman is Canadian btw
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