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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 18, 2019 7:35:30 GMT
www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-wiltshire-50450945Sir Paul McCartney among stars helping Jerry Donahue17 November 2019 Jerry Donahue played with British folk-rock bands Fairport Convention and FotheringayBritish "rock royalty" have rallied to help a highly respected American guitarist who is struggling financially after suffering a stroke. Sir Paul McCartney, Led Zeppelin, Eric Clapton, David Gilmour and Jeff Lynne are among 23 stars to sign a guitar to be sold at auction. Money raised will help Jerry Donahue, who played with the folk-rock bands Fairport Convention and Fotheringay. The guitar is due to go under the hammer on 11 December in Wiltshire. The guitar - a signature Jerry Donahue Telecaster - is expected to sell for in the region of between £10,000 and £20,000. Other big names on the guitar include The Who's Pete Townshend, Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi, Dire Straits's Mark Knopfler and The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson. Mr Donahue suffered a severe stroke in 2016 and has not been able to play guitar since. Dave Pegg, bass player with Fairport Convention and one of the leaders of the fundraising drive, said the stars had come together out of "respect for Jerry". "They recognise he's one of the greatest guitarists in the world with a unique style," he said. "No one else could do the multiple string bends, which is why guitar legends like Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page admire him so much. Since his stroke, Mr Donahue, who lives in Los Angeles, has lost the use of the right side of his body, including his hand. He also has problems with both speech and mobility. Luke Hobbs, auctioneer at Gardiner Houlgate in Wiltshire, said: "This guitar has been signed by rock royalty. "It's like a Who's Who of the greatest musicians the UK has ever produced." Luke Hobbs, auctioneer at Gardiner Houlgate, said: "We've seen autographed guitars before but nothing like this."
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 25, 2019 7:39:10 GMT
Martin Barre on his influences 319 views•Nov 17, 2019 Antenna TV
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Post by bunkerfan on Nov 28, 2019 10:12:22 GMT
Martin Barre told Antenna TV about what a nice guy Jimi was when Jethro Tull played on the same bill as him.
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Post by steelmonkey on Nov 30, 2019 21:16:05 GMT
The billy goat beard or upside down bomb goatee is ill advised.....Julie ?
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Post by nonrabbit on Dec 3, 2019 12:07:39 GMT
The billy goat beard or upside down bomb goatee is ill advised.....Julie ?
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 9, 2020 7:05:42 GMT
www.ultimate-guitar.com/Top 9 Unrightfully Underrated Guitar Players in Rock MusicThey never reached the superstardom, despite their great music. Posted 13 hours ago ------------------------------- Martin Barre
While most of the rock music fans are aware of Jethro Tull, it seems that Martin Barre has always remained under Ian Anderson's shadow. What's more, when Anderson reunited Tull a few years ago, Martin Barre was not involved. Which is really a shame, as he's written a huge portion of the band's work. Aside from Tull, Barre also released a few of his own albums. On them, we can hear his unusual yet very unique blend of hard rock and folk rock elements.link
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Post by rredmond on Mar 12, 2020 17:06:01 GMT
YES! Always dig me some positive press about Martin Lancelot.
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Post by steelmonkey on Mar 13, 2020 2:14:13 GMT
My music pipeline, Amazon Prime, has treated me toa Martin Barre festival...of a sudden, the meeting, trick and live in NY at my ears. The TAAB segment on Live in NY should easily convince any remaining cynics that the Martin Barre band delivers serious Tull.
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Post by rredmond on Mar 13, 2020 14:10:50 GMT
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Post by steelmonkey on Mar 13, 2020 19:54:15 GMT
Yes! It's really good, end to end...much of i similar to we have already heard but the TAAB segment they chose and performed at that time is outstanding.
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Post by maddogfagin on May 13, 2020 6:29:13 GMT
abcnewsradioonline.com/Ex-Jethro Tull guitarist Martin Barre, Pat Travers featured on new album by B.B. King's daughterTuesday, May 12, 2020 A group of well-known guitarists have contributed to a new album by Shirley King, daughter of late blues legend B.B. King. The 11-track collection, which is aptly titled Blues for a King, will be released on June 19 on CD and as a vinyl LP. Among the guest artists who lent their talents to the record: ex-Jethro Tull guitarist Martin Barre, Pat Travers, Elvin Bishop and Steve Cropper. link
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Post by maddogfagin on Aug 7, 2020 6:30:18 GMT
www.rockcellarmagazine.com/Exclusive RockCellarTV Interview with Martin Barre of Jethro Tull (Plus Bonus Performance)BY ROCK CELLAR MAGAZINE STAFF, ON AUGUST 6, 2020 ROCK CELLAR TV The music of Jethro Tull would not have been as powerful and historic were it not for the guitar licks of Martin Barre, an accomplished six-string icon with an even better personality. Barre was one of our marquee RockCellarTV interview subjects, and after a bit of technical delays our full, detailed on-one-one video interview is finally available. Featuring an extensive conversation between Martin Barre and Rock Cellar’s Ken Sharp, there’s also an added performance clip — enjoy it all below: And the performance: RockCellarTV was introduced a few years ago as an effort to allow larger-than-life music icons to get up close and personal, discussing whatever they want — for however long they want, resulting in some candid conversations about hits, successful albums and music legacies … as well as misses, scandals and anything else they were comfortable discussing. Martin Barre joins the ranks of those we’ve spoken with in this capacity during RockCellarTV’s history, a list that includes Todd Rundgren’s Utopia, Walter Egan, Stewart Copeland, Judy Collins, Rita Coolidge, Peter Noone of Herman’s Hermits, Steve Hackett, John Oates, Rick Springfield, Gene Simmons of KISS, Steve Lukather of Toto, Mike Love of the Beach Boys, Todd Rundgren, Ringo Starr and more. Some of these chats took place at Rock Cellar HQ in California, while others were filmed on-location at venues (like the world famous Troubadour in Hollywood, in the case of our chat with John Oates) as the artists prepared for a gig. They’re all up on our YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBaoQUx6OS0www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8q3oeVT7iwwww.youtube.com/watch?v=XpTzZMiZkQEwww.youtube.com/watch?v=13Rmh6CQRZgwww.youtube.com/watch?v=M5Ub69fEG-k
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Post by steelmonkey on Aug 7, 2020 7:15:34 GMT
Why does one of the top 5 rock guitarists of all time and a brilliant, all-around lovely human being have the worst face hair of anyone ever ? Why ?
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Post by steelmonkey on Aug 7, 2020 7:20:02 GMT
Caterpillar crawling into mouth? Woolen drool ? Thick exclamation point? Cotton left behind by surgeon ?
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Post by JTull 007 on Aug 7, 2020 11:11:20 GMT
Caterpillar crawling into mouth? Woolen drool ? Thick exclamation point? Cotton left behind by surgeon ? It's what keeps him playing this... A GUITAR GOATEE
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Post by maddogfagin on Aug 7, 2020 14:04:35 GMT
Caterpillar crawling into mouth? Woolen drool ? Thick exclamation point? Cotton left behind by surgeon ? It's what keeps him playing this... A GUITAR GOATEE Apparently the style MB has is called The Landing Strip
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Post by steelmonkey on Aug 7, 2020 15:53:27 GMT
I have heard that expression to describe hairstyle elsewhere on body.
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Post by rredmond on Aug 7, 2020 16:04:14 GMT
Caterpillar crawling into mouth? Woolen drool ? Thick exclamation point? Cotton left behind by surgeon ? Feel like these could be new Aqualung lyrics Caterpillar crawling into mouth! Woolen drool smearing shabby clothes, oh!
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Post by nonrabbit on Aug 8, 2020 14:25:28 GMT
Caterpillar crawling into mouth? Woolen drool ? Thick exclamation point? Cotton left behind by surgeon ? Feel like these could be new Aqualung lyrics Caterpillar crawling into mouth! Woolen drool smearing shabby clothes, oh!
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Post by maddogfagin on Aug 16, 2020 6:27:32 GMT
www.abc.net.au/Image: John StandishThe Conversation Hour: Martin Barre, Dan Crisp and Caroline O’Connor Virginia Trioli's co-host is broadcaster, author, and musician Derek Guille who was a presenter on ABC Radio Melbourne and Victoria for decades. Then they are joined by guitarist and songwriter Martin Barre, and vocalist, guitar and bouzouki player Dan Crisp. Martin played with Jethro Tull for over 43 years, and his latest (double) album is MLB Celebrates 50 Years of Jethro Tull. You can catch the Martin Barre Band in concert as Martin Barre Celebrates 50 Years of Jethro Tull at Memo Music Hall, St Kilda tomorrow (Wed 27th Nov 2019), and at the Corner Hotel, Richmond this Thursday (28th Nov 2019). Then they are joined by actor, singer and dancer Caroline O’Connor who stars as Aurora in the MTC’s Kiss of the Spider Woman (music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, book by Terrence McNally, starring Caroline O’Connor, directed by Dean Bryant for the MTC). It's on at The Sumner, Southbank Theatre until 28th December 2019. Duration: 1hr Broadcast: Tue 26 Nov 2019, 11:00amlink
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Post by bunkerfan on Sept 23, 2020 14:58:42 GMT
Martin Barre and Darby Todd performing 'Palladio' by Karl Jenkins.
Martin's guitars featured in the video include his Gibson ES 335 built in 1961, Fender Stratocaster built in 1963, PRS P23, Classic guitar, and his Taylor NS42 CE! Video shot on location at Martin and Darby's home studios, and edited by James Bragg in September 2020.
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Post by maddogfagin on Oct 26, 2020 10:11:52 GMT
www.loudersound.com/news/martin-barre-opens-up-on-the-moment-ian-anderson-disbanded-jethro-tullMartin Barre opens up on the moment Ian Anderson disbanded Jethro TullBy Jerry Ewing (Prog) a day ago "We were just speechless," says Martin Barre of the moment Ian Anderson split Jethro Tull Former Jethro Tull guitarist Martin Barre has spoken of the moment in 2011 when Ian Anderson told him he'd decided to disband Jethro Tull. Until now Barre has been reluctant to talk of the actual moment, but in a new interview with Jeff Gaudiosi of the Misplaced Straws website, Barre recalls the meeting between himself, drummer Doane Perry and Anderson. "It was Ian's decision," he says. "Because in that year, I can't remember the gig, we were in America and me, Doan (Perry) and Ian sat in a room to talk, Ian asked us and then he dropped that bombshell. He didn't want to play Jethro Tull. He didn't want to do Jethro Tull concerts. Me and Doan were just speechless, really, because Ian has always been a very careful, planned out person, he knows exactly what he wants and what he's gonna do. "In the back of my mind. I thought that this isn't something he's done on the spur of the moment, he really thought through it. It was a very abrupt ending for me and Doane. In a way, it shook me up because I think Tull were getting very lethargic [as a] band and the sets were becoming very much the same every tour and nobody wanted any change. I always try to get changes within the group and ideas in production and line up, but but there was no interest in doing it. "It was a timely occurrence, but it certainly wasn't of my doing or Doane's. So, yeah, essentially, it's all about people management, and some people are good at certain (things) and other people aren't. It was upsetting. I always tell people it's probably the worst decision that Ian's ever made in his life. And whether he thinks so or not, I'll never know. But I'll look at all the other bands touring with their original line ups, or near enough, and people love to see them and hear them. And they will never, ever see or hear Jethro Tull in in the the same respect." Barre, who declined to be interviewed for the recent The Ballad Of Jethro Tull book, which has just been reissued in paperback, also pours cold water on the idea of any possible reunion with Anderson as well, even if the band were inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. "The difficulty is there isn't a Jethro Tull and I don't know how the mechanics of it would work," he says. "I don't want to be a prophet. I don't know. It'd be very, very difficult for me. I think the main thing for me is that my band has given so much to me and for me to Jethro Tull's music. But what whatever happened or didn't happen, but in my mind that they would have to be part of it, because I think it'd be a very ignorant gesture to turn my back on them in any way at all, because they just part my, I think the biggest part, of my musical career." Barre recently announced his own 50 Years Of Jethro Tull double CD release for November 6 through Store For Music. You can read and listen to the full Martin Barre interview here
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Post by acreman on Oct 26, 2020 11:49:34 GMT
www.loudersound.com/news/martin-barre-opens-up-on-the-moment-ian-anderson-disbanded-jethro-tull"It was a timely occurrence, but it certainly wasn't of my doing or Doane's. So, yeah, essentially, it's all about people management, and some people are good at certain (things) and other people aren't. It was upsetting. I always tell people it's probably the worst decision that Ian's ever made in his life. And whether he thinks so or not, I'll never know. But I'll look at all the other bands touring with their original line ups, or near enough, and people love to see them and hear them. And they will never, ever see or hear Jethro Tull in in the the same respect." I feel for Martin. He has always seemed like a good guy, and he's definitely a spectacular guitarist who contributed a great deal to Tull's music. The split was obviously devastating for him. That being said, I think he is perhaps being somewhat extreme with the "worst decision" statement, as least as it pertains to the band. Tull fell away from the grand consciousness ages ago, and their legacy will always revolve around their inclusion of the flute in rock music and those landmark '70s albums. The at-large perception of them won't be affected by Ian wanting to shine the spotlight on his own name for a little while towards the end of his career. And while many hard-core fans don't appreciate how Martin was treated, I don't think their displeasure will offset the enjoyment they've gotten out of all those great records or their recollections of awesome shows attended in years past. Not to mention that Ian earned plenty of praise for his work on Thick as a Brick 2. I think the real tragedy of the split doesn't have to do with the band but with the impact it had on the relationship between two guys who had been part of an amazing partnership for decades.
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Post by orion12 on Oct 26, 2020 12:54:39 GMT
Good ol' times
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Post by bunkerfan on Oct 26, 2020 16:39:21 GMT
www.loudersound.com/news/martin-barre-opens-up-on-the-moment-ian-anderson-disbanded-jethro-tullMartin Barre opens up on the moment Ian Anderson disbanded Jethro TullBy Jerry Ewing (Prog) a day ago "We were just speechless," says Martin Barre of the moment Ian Anderson split Jethro Tull Former Jethro Tull guitarist Martin Barre has spoken of the moment in 2011 when Ian Anderson told him he'd decided to disband Jethro Tull. Until now Barre has been reluctant to talk of the actual moment, but in a new interview with Jeff Gaudiosi of the Misplaced Straws website, Barre recalls the meeting between himself, drummer Doane Perry and Anderson. "It was Ian's decision," he says. "Because in that year, I can't remember the gig, we were in America and me, Doan (Perry) and Ian sat in a room to talk, Ian asked us and then he dropped that bombshell. He didn't want to play Jethro Tull. He didn't want to do Jethro Tull concerts. Me and Doan were just speechless, really, because Ian has always been a very careful, planned out person, he knows exactly what he wants and what he's gonna do. "In the back of my mind. I thought that this isn't something he's done on the spur of the moment, he really thought through it. It was a very abrupt ending for me and Doane. In a way, it shook me up because I think Tull were getting very lethargic [as a] band and the sets were becoming very much the same every tour and nobody wanted any change. I always try to get changes within the group and ideas in production and line up, but but there was no interest in doing it. "It was a timely occurrence, but it certainly wasn't of my doing or Doane's. So, yeah, essentially, it's all about people management, and some people are good at certain (things) and other people aren't. It was upsetting. I always tell people it's probably the worst decision that Ian's ever made in his life. And whether he thinks so or not, I'll never know. But I'll look at all the other bands touring with their original line ups, or near enough, and people love to see them and hear them. And they will never, ever see or hear Jethro Tull in in the the same respect." Barre, who declined to be interviewed for the recent The Ballad Of Jethro Tull book, which has just been reissued in paperback, also pours cold water on the idea of any possible reunion with Anderson as well, even if the band were inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. "The difficulty is there isn't a Jethro Tull and I don't know how the mechanics of it would work," he says. "I don't want to be a prophet. I don't know. It'd be very, very difficult for me. I think the main thing for me is that my band has given so much to me and for me to Jethro Tull's music. But what whatever happened or didn't happen, but in my mind that they would have to be part of it, because I think it'd be a very ignorant gesture to turn my back on them in any way at all, because they just part my, I think the biggest part, of my musical career." Barre recently announced his own 50 Years Of Jethro Tull double CD release for November 6 through Store For Music. You can read and listen to the full Martin Barre interview here That's a very interesting read and I'd like to hear Ian's version just to keep things equal but I'll not hold my breath on that one
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Post by jackinthegreen on Oct 26, 2020 19:46:16 GMT
Well it wasn't that Ian didn't want to play Tull's music anymore was it? He just didn't want to play it with him (Martin), the question is why?
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Post by jackinthegreen on Oct 27, 2020 1:37:33 GMT
Well it wasn't that Ian didn't want to play Tull's music anymore was it? He just didn't want to play it with him (Martin), the question is why? I think there is more to this, I honestly think that Martin had questioned on Ian's vocals, and maybe he (Martin) thought he was indispensable........and Ian called his bluff. There has to be something major that happened, because Ian did not stop doing the Tull stuff...he just did it with other people, and is still doing it!!!!! and not an emoji in sight n/r........
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Post by JTull 007 on Oct 27, 2020 1:54:34 GMT
Sour Grapes... I realize this discussion has been taking place since 2012. Martin felt Ian was treating him with less respect in the way things ended... BUT Martin was part of TULL ever since Tony Iommi was let go... Either way he had more years in TULL than any other member except Ian. What more could be said except... THANK YOU VERY MUCH
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Post by Eka on Oct 27, 2020 7:34:36 GMT
Could it be just money thing? Martin and Doane as being part of Tull maybe had a bigger share, while now all of them are session musicians.
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Post by orion12 on Oct 27, 2020 9:00:45 GMT
'Classic Rock' magazine had a long interview with Ian in april. Some answeres were interesting:
CR: At this late stage of your career, is there any chance that you would get what’s left of the old band back together for one last hurrah?
Ian: "It would be an awfully crowded stage. And in many cases those old band members no longer play and haven’t for many years. It’s a tricky one. And I’ve always felt awkward about the idea of getting the old band back together, because which edition of the band are we talking about? Picking some people and not others would be favouritism. And I don’t have favourites''.
CR: As you say, Tull lives on, and will do for as long as you’re out there playing the band’s music.
Ian: ''If the show is all Jethro Tull repertoire, I feel that’s Jethro Tull. If you looked at Wikipedia two or three years ago, it said ‘Jethro Tull was…’ Now, that past tense has disappeared, due to some grudging acknowledgment that Jethro Tull goes on. I’ve always argued that Jethro Tull is not at an end any more than The Beatles are. The Beatles still sell millions of records and downloads. The glorious thing about the world of entertainment is that your work lives on after you''.
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