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Post by nonrabbit on Apr 20, 2012 20:58:11 GMT
Didn't the SAHB not go down with the crowd better on some tour in America rather than the main act - Tull?
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Post by tullist on Apr 20, 2012 21:01:42 GMT
I would answer that sweetheart if I knew who SAHB is. Can think of no opening act in America, and likely anywhere that was Tulls superior, or even in the ballpark, including Led Zep on that 69 tour, I understand the opener was switched around a bit, I think Tull was on last in Chicago. Even Jimi allegedly said he did not like following Tull on stage.
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Post by steelmonkey on Apr 20, 2012 21:04:08 GMT
Sensational A. Harvey....may have impressed a Bill Graham/deadhead/ Fillmore audience more than rigid old Tull here and there !
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Post by tullist on Apr 20, 2012 21:04:15 GMT
Yeah Bernie, I remember, (probably have related this story already here a half dozen times or so)in 78, in early dosage, maybe still first hour, arriving at my seat with the Uriah Heep guy on stage doing that shriek with the stage bathed in red, and 2 guys in our seats were having a fist fight. I have decided I want to be that kind of boring old guy, telling the same stories over and over until somebody wants to take him out.
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Post by steelmonkey on Apr 20, 2012 21:11:23 GMT
I want to be buried between those stage wings or whatever they were called that Martin and Jeffrey bounded down during Loco Breath and a few other high points.
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Post by nonrabbit on Apr 20, 2012 21:19:02 GMT
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Post by nonrabbit on Jul 18, 2012 12:35:06 GMT
Found this from an Alex Harvey web page "...SAHB were fast becoming the hottest of tips.........the SAHB show was almost scripted people had something to watch all the time," says Ted McKenna "We used to do a song called Love Story [Jethro Tull], and during his introduction Alex wore a smoking jacket and horn-rimmed glasses. He would pick the petals off a rose and eat them, then transform himself from a Noel Coward lookalike into a kind of karate expert...." www.glasgow-barrowland.com/stories/alex_harvey.htmlLoved to have seen that Sadly I can't find any recordings of Alex singing Love Story He would have been a bad decision on the part of Tull management as a support act. i49.images obliterated by tinypic/2rnu82d.jpg[/IMG]
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Post by bunkerfan on Jul 18, 2012 21:38:20 GMT
Found this from an Alex Harvey web page "...SAHB were fast becoming the hottest of tips.........the SAHB show was almost scripted people had something to watch all the time," says Ted McKenna "We used to do a song called Love Story [Jethro Tull], and during his introduction Alex wore a smoking jacket and horn-rimmed glasses. He would pick the petals off a rose and eat them, then transform himself from a Noel Coward lookalike into a kind of karate expert...." www.glasgow-barrowland.com/stories/alex_harvey.htmlLoved to have seen that Sadly I can't find any recordings of Alex singing Love Story Just for you Miss nonrabbit. A maddogfagin/bunkerfan Production
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Post by nonrabbit on Jul 18, 2012 23:15:54 GMT
speechless... not a word I type often amazing brilliant video Thank you
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Post by bunkerfan on Jul 19, 2012 9:42:38 GMT
speechless... not a word I type often amazing brilliant video Thank you Speechless!!!There's a first time for everything. ;D Glad you like the video.
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Post by nonrabbit on Jul 19, 2012 10:08:19 GMT
Comparing the onstage performances of Alex and Ian A. is a bit of a metaphor for the differences between Glasgow and Edinburgh folk. Both acts were theatrical, imaginative, exhuberant and unique however Alex's performances were gutsy and "dangerously wild" - he tipped the balance on the "what's coming next scale!!" In Glasgow it's called gallus - daring, reckless, fit for the gallows. Glaswegians think Edinburgh is the Far East Edinburgh thinks Glasgow is the Wild West Billy Connolly said that you could have more fun at a Glasgow funeral than at a Edinburgh wedding. There's always been a friendly rivalry between the capital of Scotland and Edinburgh Glasgow has balls Edinburgh has ...a castle. nonrabbit Weegie i50.images obliterated by tinypic/14ik19k.jpg[/IMG] i50.images obliterated by tinypic/1ze9j61.gif[/IMG]
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Post by nonrabbit on Nov 9, 2012 9:14:53 GMT
Back to the points made earlier about Ian and his "sympathy" for the 80's supporting bands. Hollywood Suite - Canadian rock band who supported Tull in 84/89 melodic-hardrock.com/bios/noneymoon-suite/"Honeymoon Suites second album was released on Valentine’s Day 1986. ‘The Big Prize’ featured a rare appearance by Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson."
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Post by steelmonkey on Nov 9, 2012 16:18:04 GMT
They were awwwwwful...
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 9, 2012 18:45:44 GMT
Yes they were rather. A certain Tull fan, not me, went to see them live in the UK around the time that album was issued in the hope that IA would make a guest appearance. Alas, no show from the headmaster. Absolute kack.
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Post by nonrabbit on Nov 10, 2012 7:14:14 GMT
Headmaster with one of said 80's band member i47.images obliterated by tinypic/1ftvux.jpg[/IMG]
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 10, 2012 13:59:26 GMT
Back to the points made earlier about Ian and his "sympathy" for the 80's supporting bands. Hollywood Suite - Canadian rock band who supported Tull in 84/89 melodic-hardrock.com/bios/noneymoon-suite/"Honeymoon Suites second album was released on Valentine’s Day 1986. ‘The Big Prize’ featured a rare appearance by Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson." I'd forgotten they were Canadian.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2012 14:59:07 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2012 14:59:36 GMT
Back to the points made earlier about Ian and his "sympathy" for the 80's supporting bands. Hollywood Suite - Canadian rock band who supported Tull in 84/89 melodic-hardrock.com/bios/noneymoon-suite/"Honeymoon Suites second album was released on Valentine’s Day 1986. ‘The Big Prize’ featured a rare appearance by Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson." I'd forgotten they were Canadian.Forget again! ;D
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Post by nonrabbit on Nov 10, 2012 17:15:46 GMT
Headmaster with one of said 80's band member sorry not headmaster - Scout leader
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Post by nonrabbit on Nov 10, 2012 17:18:06 GMT
I posted that video but only listened to the first couple of seconds of the flute playing to make sure it was him ;D
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Post by tullist on Nov 10, 2012 19:10:10 GMT
I posted that video but only listened to the first couple of seconds of the flute playing to make sure it was him ;D Well and truly. I saw that tour 4 times so after that I was able to discern what time Tull went on, I think I avoided these guys 3 times. There were so many bad opening acts for Tull, nearly always, that I really wondered whether IA had any say in these matters, and, if so, does he actually think we might like that $h1t? It even made me question whether I was hearing Tull wrong, that all these knowing naysayers may in fact be right. Even ELP, who I did like between 70 and 73, were a dead bore in 93 or so. Having Procol changed things a bit, never was a fan save for the masterpiece song A Salty Dog which I don't think even Tull has topped ON RECORD, and to hear that guy in the same voice as decades before was most impressive. And of course the Fairports who would make a great permanent opening act though their experience in vans and so on with Tull was not altogether pleasant I have learned. But the onset of the girl violinists was a major plus, brainstorm, from IA, have enjoyed each and every one of them. There was a valid argument at the time of Lucia because of the amount of non Tull stuff played, but if you look at the actual length of those shows, (about 25 minutes longer than normal)you were still getting the same amount of Tull. And that girl could burn, which, say Starcastle, the 1976 USA opener, could not. Airey fairy Yes crap, devoid of personality. It is a trip to see the openers on the Aqualung and TAAB tours, most of whom ended up being bigger than Tull, or at the very least remembered much more fondly by history. And many of the best, say Captain Beefheart or Steeleye Span, were booed by those audiences, largely made up of rock and roll mongrels, Tull happened to be the flavor of the year. But others were Glenn Cornicks band and the Eagles who I saw in May and November, (the Eagles lightly booed I recall) Yes, Roxy Music, others I am likely forgetting.
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Post by nonrabbit on Mar 7, 2013 9:44:35 GMT
Picking up on the points mentioned earlier in the thread about Ian pitying some support acts and some of them worthy of it, here's one that sounds to me like they wouldn't be in that category. KILLING FLOORi45.images obliterated by tinypic/33ol8iw.jpg[/IMG] KF supported Tull on 1/11/68 at the California Ballroom, Dunstable, England. "KILLING FLOOR were formed in 1968 and were an active part of the British "blues boom" of the late 1960s.." "The band played concerts with Jethro Tull, Ten Years After and many other names of the time..." www.marshalamp.com/kfhistory1024.htmPlaying Live in an unamed London club 1969 and in direct reference to the past comments; "Mick Clarke of Killing Floor remembers that Ian Anderson went out front to watch their set. He seemed quite impressed until Mick started a number off in the wrong key and they had to start over. When they had got going again, Ian had gone. Mick says "it's always the embarrassing moments you remember most". www.california-ballroom.info/bands/jethro-tull.htmi49.images obliterated by tinypic/11t3jw4.jpg[/IMG] new album new tour www.marshalamp.com/kfnews.htm
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Post by bunkerfan on Jun 7, 2013 14:01:01 GMT
Just for you Miss nonrabbit.
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Here's a recent comment on this video on our youtube channel. Anyone heard this story before and more to the point,is it true?
"Heard this on Planet Rock this evening. Apparently, SAHB were the support act for 'Tull, at some gig, many years ago. Anyways, SAHB's gear went missing in transit, Tull let them use their gear. This track was recorded as a tribute"
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Post by nonrabbit on Jun 7, 2013 16:33:14 GMT
Thank you very much They supported Tull in 75/76 and I'm sure we have that same story in the cellars somewhere - but don't make me look just now not since we just moved !!
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Post by nonrabbit on Jun 7, 2013 20:46:09 GMT
SAHB's equipment was stolen from one of the lorries in Fronton, Miami, Florida on either the 28th /29th August 1975.They were touring with Tull at the time and Zal Cleminson,guitarist,is quoted as saying; "My classic SAHB gear was a ’60s Gibson SG, a Marshall 100-watt head through a Vox Beatles cabinet, and no effects. Everything was stolen in Miami while touring with Jethro Tull, so I replaced it with a 100-watt Sunn stack and a Gibson Firebird" Alex Harvey wrote a song about the experience called "The Mafia Stole My Guitar" "The mafia stole my guitar aha aha The old type Telecaster aha aha Down Florida way where they swing all day The sun beats down on Miami Town Collecting the dues For singing the blues"
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Post by morthoron on Jun 9, 2013 15:28:15 GMT
Without a doubt the best "support" band that I saw backing Tull was Fairport Convention. What a concert! Fairport had just released "In Real Time" (love that album, by the way), and Dave Pegg stayed on stage the entire time as bassist for both bands. Peggy had some stamina! Fairport's version of "Matty Groves" was the best song of the evening for either band.
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Post by maddogfagin on Oct 25, 2017 7:45:33 GMT
Jamul was a support act to Jethro Tull back in April 1970 as this poster, currently on Ebay, will testify. Jamul were a four piece band consisting of Bob Desnoyers: Guitar (acoustic), Guitar (electric), Vocals, Steve Williams: Harmonica, Vocals, John Fergus: Bass guitar, Vocals, Ron Armstrong: Drums, Vocals More about Jamul can be found HERE
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