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Post by maddogfagin on May 25, 2021 6:25:55 GMT
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Post by maddogfagin on Jul 31, 2021 6:06:49 GMT
What’s on TV and radio tonight: Saturday, July 31 and Sunday, August 1The Rolling Stones performing live in 1968 REDFERNSThe Rolling Stones: Rock and Roll Circus Sky Arts/Now, 9pm It’s hard to imagine a more evocative Sixties experience than this: the Rolling Stones taking over a makeshift circus in December 1968 as hosts of a night featuring themselves, the Who, some fire dancers, Marianne Faithfull, Jethro Tull, John Lennon and a warbling Yoko Ono, among others. This recording, envisioned as a BBC TV special and directed by former Ready, Steady, Go! helmsman Michael Lindsay-Hogg, was quietly shelved for still inexplicable reasons, a DVD release in 1996 now largely forgotten. linkThe Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus was a concert show organised by The Rolling Stones on 11 December 1968. The show was filmed on a makeshift circus stage with Jethro Tull, The Who, Taj Mahal, Marianne Faithfull, and The Rolling Stones. John Lennon and his fiancee Yoko Ono also performed as part of a one-shot supergroup called The Dirty Mac, featuring Eric Clapton, Mitch Mitchell (also part of The Jimi Hendrix Experience), and Keith Richards. The Rolling Stones and their guests performed in a replica of a seedy big top on a British sound stage—the Intertel (V.T.R. Services) Studio, Wycombe Road, Wembley—in front of an invited audience. The performances began at around 2 pm on 11 December 1968, but setting up between acts and reloading cameras took longer than planned, which meant that the final performances took place at almost 5 o'clock in the morning on the 12th. This concert is the only footage of Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi performing as a member of Jethro Tull, during his brief two-week tenure as replacement for Mick Abrahams. Coincidentally this is also the first live footage of Jethro Tull ever made; no footage of the original lineup with Abrahams (December 1967 – December 1968) is known to exist. The band mimed to the album version of "A Song for Jeffrey" and "Fat Man," so the guitar heard is actually Abrahams, and not Iommi, who may not have known his part sufficiently after only a few days in the band. The Rolling Stones forced them to cut their rehearsal time short, although Ian Anderson sings and plays flute live on "A Song For Jeffrey". "Fat Man" never made the final release, although it is not unreasonable to assume he also sang that live, as the released version (which appears on Stand Up) wasn't recorded until four months later. Finally, the footage shows Ian Anderson's first clumsy attempts at his now famous flute-playing position of standing on one leg. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones_Rock_and_Roll_Circus
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Post by smint100 on Dec 5, 2021 16:16:38 GMT
I'm very late to see this, but Sky Arts was showing the 2008 Classic Artists: Jethro Tull this afternoon which I regret I've not managed to catch before They showed them at the Sunbury Jazz Festival in 1968 (at Kempton Park Racecourse) which is about 10 minutes from my current home Very interesting, including an exploration of some of the band dynamics (as they were back in the day) - but they seemed to have completely missed out the Songs From the Wood/Heavy Horses/Stormwatch albums They really should do a revisit, especially with the release of the new album - there's been a lot of water under the Tull bridge since 2008
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Post by JTull 007 on Jan 9, 2022 17:23:33 GMT
I'm very late to see this, but Sky Arts was showing the 2008 Classic Artists: Jethro Tull this afternoon which I regret I've not managed to catch before They showed them at the Sunbury Jazz Festival in 1968 (at Kempton Park Racecourse) which is about 10 minutes from my current home Very interesting, including an exploration of some of the band dynamics (as they were back in the day) - but they seemed to have completely missed out the Songs From the Wood/Heavy Horses/Stormwatch albums They really should do a revisit, especially with the release of the new album - there's been a lot of water under the Tull bridge since 2008 Classic Artists: Jethro Tull Documentary and factual News LINK 1 LINK 2 The story of the classic rock band from Luton, Jethro Tull, responsible for such renowned hits as Aqualung, Living in the Past, and Thick As a Brick
Sky Arts 12:15am-2:40am (2 hours 25 minutes) Sat 15 Jan
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Post by adospencer on Jan 9, 2022 21:24:01 GMT
I'm very late to see this, but Sky Arts was showing the 2008 Classic Artists: Jethro Tull this afternoon which I regret I've not managed to catch before They showed them at the Sunbury Jazz Festival in 1968 (at Kempton Park Racecourse) which is about 10 minutes from my current home Very interesting, including an exploration of some of the band dynamics (as they were back in the day) - but they seemed to have completely missed out the Songs From the Wood/Heavy Horses/Stormwatch albums They really should do a revisit, especially with the release of the new album - there's been a lot of water under the Tull bridge since 2008 I bought this when it came out on DVD. Its disappointing and unbalanced ,giving far too much emphasis to the very early years and all but ignoring the classic mid period of fabulous success and great albums. I remember saying at the time it gave the impression that the band did little after 1975 or so. Too much Abrahams , not enough Pegg and Barre. Mick likes to chat and seems a great guy but too much emphasis is given to his relatively short period in the band. Certainly for me had Mick stayed in the band I would never have become interested in the first place.
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Post by JTull 007 on Jan 10, 2022 2:12:41 GMT
The Classic Artist Series - Jethro Tull LINK BONUS FEATURES From The Rockpalast Archives JETHRO TULL (Swing In Full Documentary 27.11.1969) Includes interviews with Ian Anderson, John Evans, Mick Abrahams, Barrie Barlow, Martin Barre, Clive Bunker, Dee Palmer, Glenn Cornick, Dave Pegg, Doane Perry, and Peter-John Vettese.
TRACK LISTING A New Day Yesterday, Minstrel in Gallery, Dharma for One, One For John Gee, Someday the Sun Won't Shine For You, Move on Alone, Cat's Squirrel, Nothing is Easy Living in the Past, Hymn 43, With You There to Help Me, Cheap Day Return Under Wraps- Track 2, A Passion Play, Steel Monkey, Budapest, Reasons for Waiting
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 15, 2022 17:18:09 GMT
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 17, 2022 12:05:13 GMT
ALSO ON BBC RADIO TODAY . . . .www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05r401hAward-winning folk artist Lisa Knapp, who has herself written a song inspired by the daily forecast, takes a musical and poetic voyage through the watery regions of the Shipping Forecast and examines the appeal it holds for land-bound musicians, poets and writers. From the poetry of Seamus Heaney and Carol Ann Duffy to the music of Radiohead, Blur and Jethro Tull, the forecast has ingrained itself into Britain's creative arts. Many have employed the Shipping Forecast's natural rhythm and multitude of connotations to conjure up feelings of familiarity and strangeness, of community and alienation, of safety and danger.
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Post by JTull 007 on Sept 12, 2023 0:56:52 GMT
Why Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson Chose the Flute Over Guitar Ian Anderson sits down with Dan Rather to talk about his love of classical music, how guitarists like Muddy Waters and Eric Clapton influenced him, why he ultimately chose the flute as his instrument of choice, and more on The Big Interview!
Watch the full conversation now on The Big Interview: www.axs.tv/channel/the-big-in...
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