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Post by futureshock on Jan 11, 2011 5:41:13 GMT
Feel free to post the interesting rituals you've witnessed or assisted in over the years just before people attend concerts.
I didn't have room in the poll for parking lots parties, going to pubs before the concert, driving 700 miles through the night to get there, selling all your Led Zeppelin albums to pay for the Tull ticket plus bus fare, not going to the Tull concert because you're buying a pretty girl a really great weekend holiday, driving out to an edge of town mall parking lot at midnight and playing Tull REALLY loud, etc. etc. etc.
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Post by nonrabbit on Jan 11, 2011 9:29:26 GMT
None of the above tend to listen to loads of Tull after the concert. I like the sound of the parking lot party don't do it in Britland as far as I'm aware - probably the weather (again) no idea if they are as much fun as they sound but it would be a good idea to share the experience with fellow attenders. I had a bad experience at the 40th concert from the audience boring boring boring most of them sat at the start with their bag of boiled sweets not talking and staring intently towards the stage like it was a works presentation or a seminar on the perils of middle age I spoke to a fellow geek in front of me about who the support act might be and I got an uninvited monotonous lecture on all the support acts he'd seen over the years - i cracked a joke he turned away Looking back to concerts it was usually a meet up in the nearest pub to the venue in those days you couldn't even go back to the same pub after the event cause the licensing hours were crap so you went back to someone's flat and said; "I've just been to a Tull concert" response "Yeah heard they were good live - but too folky for me"
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 11, 2011 10:07:55 GMT
Feel free to post the interesting rituals you've witnessed or assisted in over the years just before people attend concerts. I didn't have room in the poll for parking lots parties, going to pubs before the concert, driving 700 miles through the night to get there, selling all your Led Zeppelin albums to pay for the Tull ticket plus bus fare, not going to the Tull concert because you're buying a pretty girl a really great weekend holiday, driving out to an edge of town mall parking lot at midnight and playing Tull REALLY loud, etc. etc. etc. Tull concert ritual: 1. Meet in nearest pub or similar then onto the venue 2. Check the merchandise 3. Meet up with the regulars 4. More beer, although not too much 5. Exchange pleasantries with band members. Used to be great in the days of Peggy, Maart, Andy G etc. 6. Concert 7. Maybe an autograph or two at the end of the show 8. Find transport home Get home to the usual comments next day - "it was a good gig then? I heard you stumble in at 2 in the morning"
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Post by Aqualung55 on Jan 11, 2011 11:33:10 GMT
Shamed to admit that though I liked Living in the Past when it came out, I was more into T Rex, Slade and Gary Glitter (no jokes please...) when I was 13, so it wasn't until 1987 that I first saw Tull. However, I am pleased to report in 30 odd gigs since, I have always worn my Crest of a Knave T shirt and it only gets worn at Tull gigs now, as too many washes would render it very invisible!
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Post by bunkerfan on Jan 12, 2011 20:01:52 GMT
Shamed to admit that though I liked Living in the Past when it came out, I was more into T Rex, Slade and Gary Glitter (no jokes please...) when I was 13, so it wasn't until 1987 that I first saw Tull. However, I am pleased to report in 30 odd gigs since, I have always worn my Crest of a Knave T shirt and it only gets worn at Tull gigs now, as too many washes would render it very invisible! My Crest of a Knave T shirt is still in my Tull T shirt drawer and I'm afraid is almost unwearable. It's 2 sizes too small and almost see through. I reckon that batch was a bit dodgy, or did I wash it on a boil wash My favourite will always be the Broadsword one
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Post by tommie on Jan 12, 2011 23:16:14 GMT
I dye my goatee, I memorize my jokes, I see if my skull cap fits and doesnt smell from the sweat, I test my left knee to see if it hurts when I lift it..........no, wait! That's IAN's pre-concert rituals. sorry. I mis-read the question.
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Post by steelmonkey on Jan 12, 2011 23:17:51 GMT
I have managed to hold on to, all these years, the sheets of paper on which i counted down backwards, the minutes, starting at well over a week, to my first Jethro Tull concert, updated multiple times daily...first thing in the morning, upon return home from school and a few times throughout the evening or even excited waking up in the middle of the night a few days before the actual concert. I hope someone has the good sense to toss it in my casket or upon my funeral pyre, come what may...
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 13, 2011 8:49:48 GMT
I dye my goatee, I memorize my jokes, I see if my skull cap fits and doesnt smell from the sweat, I test my left knee to see if it hurts when I lift it..........no, wait! That's IAN's pre-concert rituals. sorry. I mis-read the question. And remembers to take the flute onto stage + the words to the excellent new songs he's been performing over the last few months. Can't please some people
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Post by steelmonkey on Jan 13, 2011 15:42:00 GMT
Without being too Tommie-esque, i must admit, my friend Mark and I DID imagine Ian bathing in local currency before gigs.
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Post by tommie on Jan 13, 2011 22:12:26 GMT
Steel, it is an honor to always read ur posts. You wit is appreciated, and at times you've actually been a little Tommie-esque ! haha
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Post by snowball on Aug 27, 2017 19:17:47 GMT
at a show in 2007 the providence performing arts center Ian looked right at me when I stood on one leg in the aisle - I'm sure he thought "who's this bozo" because I also happened to be wearing a felt multi-striped jester cap with bells.
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