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Post by nonrabbit on Nov 20, 2015 12:34:26 GMT
On the trail my dear Maddog on the trail... Did find this though and spent a good few minutes scrolling through it - wonderful page not just for you Geordie's (where's Snaffler?) out there either  It's got Hendrix, Go Go girls and Soft Machine.. no Tull but Soft Machine were everywhere!! Fascinating read and pics Gigging In The North East 1965- 1972www.readysteadygone.co.uk/category/the-venues/ |
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 20, 2015 19:26:31 GMT
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Post by bunkerfan on Nov 20, 2015 19:39:00 GMT
Nice bit of detective work Mr Maddog.  Sounds like it was a fun gig. If we ever have another Q & A with Ian I'd love to ask him to tell us more about this first Tull gig. |
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 21, 2015 9:54:46 GMT
Fillmore East was rock promoter Bill Graham's rock venue on Second Avenue near East 6th Street in the (at the time) Lower East Side neighborhood, now called the East Village neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan of New York City. It was open from March 8, 1968 to June 27, 1971 and featured some of the biggest acts in rock music at the time. The Fillmore East was a companion to Graham's Fillmore Auditorium, and its successor, the Fillmore West, in San Francisco, Graham's home base. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fillmore_East21 - 23 May 1970
Fillmore East
NYC, NY. USA John Sebastian was the headline act. Support: Clouds. Nothing Is Easy, My God, With You There To Help Me, By Kind Permission Of..., Dharma For One (incl. 15-min drum solo), We Used To Know, Guitar Solo, For A Thousand Mothers Fillmore West was a historic rock and roll music venue in San Francisco, California which became famous under the direction of concert promoter Bill Graham from 1968-1971. Named after Graham's original "Fillmore" location at the intersection of Fillmore Street and Geary Boulevard, it stood at the southwest corner of Market Street and South Van Ness Avenue. There is now a Honda automobile dealership at that location. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fillmore_West30 April, 1 & 2 May 1970
Fillmore West
San Francisco, Ca. USANothing Is Easy, My God, To Cry You A Song, With You There To Help Me, By Kind Permission Of..., Sossity: You're A Woman/Reasons For Waiting, Dharma For One, We Used To Know, Guitar Solo, For A Thousand Mothers  Set lists as ever from www.ministry-of-information.co.uk/ and my thanks to Dave C. for the scans of the above he sent me. He's a rabid Led Zep fan with a passing interest in Tull and as both bands played many times at the same venues, both individually and in the early days on the same bill, it seems more than a worthwhile co-operation. |
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Post by nonrabbit on Nov 22, 2015 9:38:03 GMT
Great pics and info on this thread. Well done MR M |
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Post by nonrabbit on Nov 22, 2015 9:46:10 GMT
When I was looking for a pic of The Bay Hotel Sutherland I too came across the "legendary" ( word bandied about a lot) promoter Geoff Docherty. " North East music promoter who was responsible for bringing some of the world’s top bands to Wearside, Geoff "Doc of The Bay" Docherty booked some of the best-known groups in the '60s and '70s, bringing them to the city to perform at the now-defunct Bay Hotel and The Locarno Ballroom, along with promoting many major gigs at Newcastle City Hall and the Mayfair."Hats off to these people who in those days made it possible that you didn't have to travel all the way to the nearest capital city to see top acts. Go to thinking as well that Ian surely must have a good few stories about promoters he's met over the years. Graham's already posted the link to Geoff's site - worth clicking. www.geoffdocherty.co.uk/index.html |
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 22, 2015 10:00:28 GMT
2/10/70 Greens Playhouse Cinema
Glasgow, UKen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%27s_PlayhouseOpened 15.9.27 by George Green Ltd. Architect John Fairweather, seating 4,368 - the largest cinema in Europe. Closed 30.6.73. Reopened as Apollo cinema/concert hall, 8.9.73-16.6.85. Demolished 9.87. A review of the Jethro Tull and Procol Harem [Harum] gig in 1970 clearly made a big impression on one fan who writes "There was no need for the Playhouse bouncers to "close the door" or "bar the gate," for I wouldn't have left the premises for the gifts of all three kings". www.glasgowapollo.com/index.asp?s_id=1&m_id=2&page=2Certainly bleers th' e'e. |
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Post by nonrabbit on Nov 22, 2015 11:16:22 GMT
2/10/70 Greens Playhouse Cinema
Glasgow, UKen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%27s_PlayhouseOpened 15.9.27 by George Green Ltd. Architect John Fairweather, seating 4,368 - the largest cinema in Europe. Closed 30.6.73. Reopened as Apollo cinema/concert hall, 8.9.73-16.6.85. Demolished 9.87. A review of the Jethro Tull and Procol Harem [Harum] gig in 1970 clearly made a big impression on one fan who writes "There was no need for the Playhouse bouncers to "close the door" or "bar the gate," for I wouldn't have left the premises for the gifts of all three kings". www.glasgowapollo.com/index.asp?s_id=1&m_id=2&page=2Certainly bleers th' e'e.Stood on that very pavement for tickets!! It's an Australian bar now. If you pan out you'll see an old theatre across the road that's where Ian plays now when in Glasgow and where I saw them for the 40th about forty years from when I first saw them at the Greens! This venue was the place that Yvonne mentioned when Ian got her tickets to see them. And if you move a bit up the road - a couple of blocks, you'll find the Scottish Ballet where Ian's brother, Robin was admin. goo.gl/maps/fN9VCihcAXw |
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 23, 2015 9:23:16 GMT
Despite a slight change of name, this is more than likely the Talbot Tory Club nowadays 21 April 1966
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 24, 2015 15:58:01 GMT
1 February 1971
Teatro Smeraldo
Milano, ItalyTull's first concert in Italy. Sold-out. Riot police reportedly dispersed thousands of ticketless people. www.ministry-of-information.co.uk/
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 26, 2015 9:10:12 GMT
12 June 1971
HIC Arena
Honolulu, Hi. USA
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Post by tulltales on Nov 26, 2015 10:17:34 GMT
One of the Photo's shows that Tull did a show with a band called "Fairport Convention". This group produced a concept album that I highly recommend called, "Babbacombe Lee" www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Plm0BuSoYUMy brother had a tape of it in the early 70's (yes, I'm so old my first condom was made out of bark), I loved that tape but like all the others, it was un-labeled. So, when the tape finally wore out I spent the next 20+ years trying to find out who the group was and then find a copy of it. Long story even longer, I finally found a mint condition album in Pittsburg, Pa. It cost me $50 dollars, a small price to pay for years of listening pleasure. Not sure if Ian had any connection with that group, but I'm fairly sure he had a connection to "Steeleye Span". Please let me know if I'm wrong about that. |
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 26, 2015 10:29:52 GMT
One of the Photo's shows that Tull did a show with a band called "Fairport Convention". This group produced a concept album that I highly recommend called, "Babbacombe Lee" www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Plm0BuSoYUMy brother had a tape of it in the early 70's (yes, I'm so old my first condom was made out of bark), I loved that tape but like all the others, it was un-labeled. So, when the tape finally wore out I spent the next 20+ years trying to find out who the group was and then find a copy of it. Long story even longer, I finally found a mint condition album in Pittsburg, Pa. It cost me $50 dollars, a small price to pay for years of listening pleasure. Not sure if Ian had any connection with that group, but I'm fairly sure he had a connection to "Steeleye Span". Please let me know if I'm wrong about that. From jethrotull.com/the-attic/past-band-members-and-guests/dave-pegg/Dave “Peggy” Pegg was born in Birmingham, England on November 2nd 1947. Music was in the Pegg blood, Dave’s grandfather having been a mean banjo player and his father, a singer.
He took up the guitar while at school, and with the help of the ’60s British Guitar Bible – Bert Weedon’s “Play in a Day”, graduated to the school, and then local, bands.
After leaving school, he worked in an insurance office for about a year, but was soon motivated to take up music professionally by the sound of R&B and the Blues, especially as played by the then contemporary Birmingham local heroes, The Spencer Davis Group, featuring the sixteen year old Steve Winwood,
As lead guitarist in Roy Everett’s Blueshounds he toured in less than luxurious style in the back of a Bedford van, sleeping at night atop the Hammond organ. He first took up the bass guitar with the name pop band, The Uglys, spending a night locked up in prison in the Danish town of Esbjerg, by way of introduction to the exotic delights of foreign touring.
Dave then switched styles to work with the Ian Campbell Folk Group, learning to cope with the double bass, and learning the mandolin. This move produced an on-going love for traditional Folk Music but the invitation to join Fairport Convention in 1969 came at just the right time to allow Dave the opportunity to enjoy the best of both worlds of Folk and Rock music.
After touring and recording numerous albums within the context of the somewhat declining fortunes of the ’70s Fairports, Dave was asked to join Tull in 1979 to replace the ailing John Glascock, whose health, following heart surgery, had never returned to full strength. For the next fifteen years, Dave was the stalwart bassist for JT, touring countless times in the USA and throughout Europe and most of the rest of the world. He is featured on the “A” album, “Broadsword”, “Under Wraps”, “Crest of a Knave”, “Rock Island”, “Catfish Rising”, and “”Roots to Branches”, as well as numerous live recordings, including “A Little Light Music” also featuring his Fairport buddy, Dave Mattacks.
Dave was responsible, during this lengthy career with Tull, for re-forming the Fairports, first through their annual get-together at the Cropredy Folk Festival which he and the band still promote and organise, and then with new records made in Dave’s own Woodworms Studio. More and more Fairport tours were on offer and Dave began to find life a little stressful, unhappily balancing the demands of both groups.
In the process of recording the 1995 album, “Roots to Branches”, Dave began to feel the choice had to be made between his first love FC and the Tull band which had brought him so much enjoyment, friendship and wonga (dosh) over the years. The presence on some of the tracks of US bassist Steve Bailey who had been brought in to cover for Dave while he was touring with FC, made it seem easier to make the move then, although it was Jonathan Noyce who eventually took over the position.
Having bid farewell to Tull boys, Dave began to enjoy a little more time off but was soon succumbing to the pleasures and pains of more FC tours and recordings, as well as continuing to put together the growing and demanding Cropredy Festival event.
With a lifelong commitment to nurturing the legacy of British Folk Music, Peggy continues to perform with Fairport, dividing his time bewtween his homes in Brittany, France and Banbury in England.
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 27, 2015 9:08:19 GMT
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 29, 2015 9:48:09 GMT
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 30, 2015 10:17:15 GMT
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Post by maddogfagin on Dec 1, 2015 9:56:16 GMT
6-7 January 1968
Abbey Road Studios
London, UKwww.ministry-of-information.co.uk/Recording 'Sunshine Day'. This is at odds with the Q & A that Derek Lawrence held with us back in April 2012 where he states2) How many sessions did you record with them and were they all at Abbey Road? All on 4-track?
"The four Candy Coloured Rain tracks were recorded at Abbey Road but Sunshine Day/Aeroplane were recorded at CBS Studios New Bond Street"
and later . . . "Obviously I did at least six tracks but if my memory serves me right at CBS we did four tracks that being Sunshine Day, Aeroplane and I think with brass Sock it to me and one other.
The Candy Coloured Rain tracks were From 21 Subtract, Blues for 18th, On the 7th side of 9, Invasion of Privacy recorded at Abbey Road"jethrotull.proboards.com/thread/2093
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Post by maddogfagin on Dec 2, 2015 15:28:24 GMT
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Post by maddogfagin on Dec 4, 2015 10:05:29 GMT
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Post by maddogfagin on Dec 5, 2015 10:27:40 GMT
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Post by maddogfagin on Dec 7, 2015 9:41:36 GMT
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Post by maddogfagin on Dec 8, 2015 15:16:46 GMT
27 August 1968
Blaises
London, UKA venue that sadly no longer exists. blackcablondon.net/tag/blaises-club/ has a lot of information about the clubs and buildings that Jimi Hendrix was associated with and the Blaises Club is mentioned about half way down the page. Located in the basement of the now demolished Imperial Hotel, Blaises (named after the cartoon character, Modesty Blaise) was a cramped, sweaty club which, according to Melody Maker journalist, Chris Welch, was a venue, “where musicians, agents, managers and writers allowed themselves to be deafened whilst imbibing quantities of alcohol.”
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Post by maddogfagin on Dec 10, 2015 10:22:12 GMT
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Post by steelmonkey on Dec 10, 2015 18:22:13 GMT
This is a very cool thread. I tried to find some pictures of 'Mammoth Gardens' a venue in Denver that hosted Tull in 69 and/or 70.....part of that time they may have called it the 'Denver Fillmore' to associate the place with the more famous Fillmores on both coasts. Tull was huge in Denver...they overflowed Mammoth Gardens and when they came back in 1971: Red Rocks Riot !
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Post by maddogfagin on Dec 11, 2015 9:29:22 GMT
This is a very cool thread. I tried to find some pictures of 'Mammoth Gardens' a venue in Denver that hosted Tull in 69 and/or 70.....part of that time they may have called it the 'Denver Fillmore' to associate the place with the more famous Fillmores on both coasts. Tull was huge in Denver...they overflowed Mammoth Gardens and when they came back in 1971: Red Rocks Riot !  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fillmore_Auditorium_(Denver)"The most remembered show was performed in April 1970 by Jethro Tull. During the show, a patient escape from nearby hospital, St. Luke Medical Center, entered the kitchen area and began stabbing himself in the chest. Tainted as "bad juju", the club closed in October 1970 as a push by city officials to have the venue closed to improve the surrounding neighborhood. The building reopened briefly in 1976 as a farmers' market, known simply as The Market however, this only lasted four months." |
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Post by maddogfagin on Dec 13, 2015 9:57:08 GMT
13 May 1973
Civic Coliseum
Knoxville, Tn. USA The first confirmed live performance of 'A Passion Play', with no timing, equipment or other problems reported. The audience were "spellbound". Included 'A Passion Play', 'Thick As A Brick', and 'Chateau D'isaster' material. www.ministry-of-information.co.uk/ www.cardcow.com/
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Post by maddogfagin on Dec 15, 2015 9:24:26 GMT
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Post by maddogfagin on Dec 16, 2015 9:22:32 GMT
7 & 8 May 1978
Rainbow Theatre
London, UK Quartet, No Lullaby, Sweet Dream, Skating Away..., Jack-In-The-Green, One Brown Mouse, Heavy Horses, A New Day Yesterday (w. flute solo (incl. God Rest Ye.../Bourée), Living In The Past (inst.)/Songs From The Wood, Wond'ring Aloud, Hunting Girl, Too Old To Rock'N'Roll..., Conundrum (incl. drum solo), Minstrel In The Gallery, Pop Goes The Weasel/Cross-Eyed Mary, Locomotive Breath, Thick As A Brick, Quatrain/Aqualung/Dambusters March/Aqualung (reprise)www.ministry-of-information.co.uk/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Theatre
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Post by maddogfagin on Dec 17, 2015 9:29:16 GMT
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Post by bunkerfan on Dec 17, 2015 9:33:36 GMT
I went to Fleetwood once and it was closed. Mind you the fish and chips were great.  |
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Sounds like it was a fun gig. If we ever have another Q & A with Ian I'd love to ask him to tell us more about this first Tull gig.
