Looks like a very colourful and impressive catalogue but will wait for the copy to arrive to digest all off it. From a cursory look some beautiful film posters. Lovely art work by the Beatles.
Didn't print up the funny Ian Anderson drawing as I'd hoped which is a pity but along with the five more I/A letters there are ten David Palma gold, silver, platinum record awards for 'Living in The Past', 'War Child', 'Minstrel in the Gallery', 'Heavy Horses', 'The Best of Jethro Tull', 'Bursting Out', 'Songs from the Wood' and 'Storm Watch'.
My letters are LOT 232 and the albums are LOT 233 to LOT 242. If I could I would put a link in to the catalogue as altogether it looks like a beautifully put together compilation of rich entertainment history which would make interesting reading for many.
Once again, thanks Elmsliegirl for sharing and that whole section on the Bonhams page is definitely worth perusing- some amazing things as well as yours!
Best of luck for the auction and don't disappear from the Forum
Whoops it won't let me copy that image. If you click on the letters pic you'll see a second view, click on that one and a drawing that Ian did in one of the letters is there. You can zoom in for greater detail.
It's from 1969 and if you see,in particular,from 4.56... when Eric Brooks,road manager 'pulls up' in the Bentley - think it might be the flat in Kentish Town or maybe not as Martin Barre appears at the doorway - did they ever share a flat?
Whoops it won't let me copy that image. If you click on the letters pic you'll see a second view, click on that one and a drawing that Ian did in one of the letters is there. You can zoom in for greater detail.
Wow you did amazing stuff here!! I will respond once recovered from my evening glass of wine. Thanks so much. Perhaps I would have been better at accessing the details if it hadn't been 5.30 in the morning.
That documentary is truly amazing non rabbit. I am completely overwhelmed. I don't know if I should burst into tears or burst into tears. I have never seen it before. It takes me right back in time to a place I inhabited. The address was 28 Burghley Road Kentish Town. They show the front door but not the interior. Ian had a single bed not a double one.....a bit of a squash. There was no light switch above the bed. The room was situated at the front of the house. John Evan had the room next door to Ian's. In the film there is a toilet. You hear it flush. I don't remember where that was but it was definitely not en-suite. Martin Barr did not live there.
Ian Anderson's performance in this documentary was exquisite, as I remember it to be. His openness and true nature was also just as I remember it. The last song was just overwhelmingly wonderful. The picture of him settling down to sleep. His views on love verses sex. Just him as I remember. What a truly wonderful treasure.
The filming with his parents took place at 17 Cavendish Road St Annes On Sea. They were not so happy as this during the difficult years. His mother once lamented to me that Ian could have gone to university and the way I am thinking now she meant Oxbridge. Memorable conversation because I told her that he was very very talented and that she shouldn't worry. But I have a grandson who is gifted and I would be mortified if he decided to be in a rock band, so now at last I understand Mrs Anderson's concerns. Then I truly didn't, especially because Ians parents never came to see him play. Neither did my parents. How they missed out.
There was an interview that Ian did fairly recently with someone called Red Beard. This was in connection to his recent album. Ian spoke about the cruelty of his father, the true nature of this particular cruelty Ian actually never told me about. Even though one of our regular topics of conversation was very often the cruelty of our own individual fathers. So I am pretty gob smacked that he has come around to talking about it. If someone could do a link you might understand what I am saying. Ian mentions that his father caught him in an embarrassing position with a girl. I am pretty much sure that girl was me but Ian somehow mocks and trivialises the truth for some reason. Can you give me the exact month in 1969 that this documentary was made???
That documentary is truly amazing non rabbit. I am completely overwhelmed. I don't know if I should burst into tears or burst into tears. I have never seen it before. It takes me right back in time to a place I inhabited. The address was 28 Burghley Road Kentish Town. They show the front door but not the interior. Ian had a single bed not a double one.....a bit of a squash. There was no light switch above the bed. The room was situated at the front of the house. John Evan had the room next door to Ian's. In the film there is a toilet. You hear it flush. I don't remember where that was but it was definitely not en-suite. Martin Barr did not live there.
Ian Anderson's performance in this documentary was exquisite, as I remember it to be. His openness and true nature was also just as I remember it. The last song was just overwhelmingly wonderful. The picture of him settling down to sleep. His views on love verses sex. Just him as I remember. What a truly wonderful treasure.
The filming with his parents took place at 17 Cavendish Road St Annes On Sea. They were not so happy as this during the difficult years. His mother once lamented to me that Ian could have gone to university and the way I am thinking now she meant Oxbridge. Memorable conversation because I told her that he was very very talented and that she shouldn't worry. But I have a grandson who is gifted and I would be mortified if he decided to be in a rock band, so now at last I understand Mrs Anderson's concerns. Then I truly didn't, especially because Ians parents never came to see him play. Neither did my parents. How they missed out.
There was an interview that Ian did fairly recently with someone called Red Beard. This was in connection to his recent album. Ian spoke about the cruelty of his father, the true nature of this particular cruelty Ian actually never told me about. Even though one of our regular topics of conversation was very often the cruelty of our own individual fathers. So I am pretty gob smacked that he has come around to talking about it. If someone could do a link you might understand what I am saying. Ian mentions that his father caught him in an embarrassing position with a girl. I am pretty much sure that girl was me but Ian somehow mocks and trivialises the truth for some reason. Can you give me the exact month in 1969 that this documentary was made???
I wasn't sure whether you'd seen it or not so glad you enjoyed it.
It was made in 27/11/69 and I think for German TV. I love the sequence with his parents, his father adjusting the stereo player and how proud his mother was looking at the clips of him kept in a scrapbook.
There's a few other early interviews which show the aspects of his personality which you mention, the openness and an earnest passion coupled with a youthful intensity.
1972 - Australian TV
British Pathe have a small snippet from the 1968 Hyde park concert
Can you give me the exact month in 1969 that this documentary was made???
It was filmed in October 1969 (showing the shows from 1st, London RAH and the 20th in Southampton) and aired on German TV on 27th November 1969. That was the day I became a Tull fan! I watched it on that day as a little boy and things started rolling... I have searched for that documentary for nearly 40 years and fellow Tull fans thought that it was just a dream of mine, because nobody else had seen it! Until a few years ago. If you want to have it for your collection in better quality it is on that double DVD: www.amazon.co.uk/Jethro-Tull-Authorised-Classic-Artists/dp/B001IWUY9Q/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1401871930&sr=8-1&keywords=tull+classic+artists
Thanks again for sharing your wonderful memories with us!
This is certainly the Ian I remember just amazing 10 cars that you tracked down something from so far back. What an effort and really makes a difference. I have managed to watch some of all this great stuff but not everything, so will return again to see more. It makes very cathartic watching. The interview in Australia in 1972 is also very interesting. Ian so articulate but still quite dependant on the B and H cigarette. I didn't think the hat was his style. I am wondering what month that documentary took place as I saw Ian in Glasgow some time in 1972. Jethro Tull did a fantastic gig there at the Greens Playhouse. Ian gave me the best seats in the house, front row in the centre, so that when he leapt from a great height into the splits on the stage right in front of me, barely at arms length, I was completely knocked for six. All together it was a truly great and memorable night. I do have the complimentary ticket stub somewhere that also mentions the support band Tir La Nog so the date of that 1972 gig would be on that. He was off to Switzerland the next day so Jethro Tull were really all over the place globally.
The film in Blackpool is quite interesting too and confirms what he told me in the early nineties that 'nothing seemed to work for him there'. Some of his letters certainly back that up, but not all The nine page one that I mentioned in another post, that is now with Bonhams and begins 'If you think I have nothing at all to feel miserable about.........certainly does. Truth is, there was a lot of support and interest from the few of us during those years, not least all the early band members. We all had lots of fun too and my mother gave Ian many hot dinners. Thanks to all for this I will return and take in the rest. It promises to be sunny all day in London and I am looking forward to my granny duties which for at least five days of the week keeps me well and truly in the present moment xxx
This is certainly the Ian I remember just amazing 10 cars that you tracked down something from so far back. What an effort and really makes a difference. I have managed to watch some of all this great stuff but not everything, so will return again to see more. It makes very cathartic watching. The interview in Australia in 1972 is also very interesting. Ian so articulate but still quite dependant on the B and H cigarette. I didn't think the hat was his style. I am wondering what month that documentary took place as I saw Ian in Glasgow some time in 1972. Jethro Tull did a fantastic gig there at the Greens Playhouse. Ian gave me the best seats in the house, front row in the centre, so that when he leapt from a great height into the splits on the stage right in front of me, barely at arms length, I was completely knocked for six. All together it was a truly great and memorable night. I do have the complimentary ticket stub somewhere that also mentions the support band Tir La Nog so the date of that 1972 gig would be on that. He was off to Switzerland the next day so Jethro Tull were really all over the place globally.
The film in Blackpool is quite interesting too and confirms what he told me in the early nineties that 'nothing seemed to work for him there'. Some of his letters certainly back that up, but not all The nine page one that I mentioned in another post, that is now with Bonhams and begins 'If you think I have nothing at all to feel miserable about.........certainly does. Truth is, there was a lot of support and interest from the few of us during those years, not least all the early band members. We all had lots of fun too and my mother gave Ian many hot dinners. Thanks to all for this I will return and take in the rest. It promises to be sunny all day in London and I am looking forward to my granny duties which for at least five days of the week keeps me well and truly in the present moment xxx
I've always wondered, ever since I first saw this programme, what happened to the scrapbook that Ian's Mum lovingly kept and if it still exists somewhere in the TullCentral archive. Would be worth a fortune if it did )
This is certainly the Ian I remember just amazing 10 cars that you tracked down something from so far back. What an effort and really makes a difference. I have managed to watch some of all this great stuff but not everything, so will return again to see more. It makes very cathartic watching. The interview in Australia in 1972 is also very interesting. Ian so articulate but still quite dependant on the B and H cigarette. I didn't think the hat was his style. I am wondering what month that documentary took place as I saw Ian in Glasgow some time in 1972. Jethro Tull did a fantastic gig there at the Greens Playhouse. Ian gave me the best seats in the house, front row in the centre, so that when he leapt from a great height into the splits on the stage right in front of me, barely at arms length, I was completely knocked for six. All together it was a truly great and memorable night. I do have the complimentary ticket stub somewhere that also mentions the support band Tir La Nog so the date of that 1972 gig would be on that. He was off to Switzerland the next day so Jethro Tull were really all over the place globally.
The film in Blackpool is quite interesting too and confirms what he told me in the early nineties that 'nothing seemed to work for him there'. Some of his letters certainly back that up, but not all The nine page one that I mentioned in another post, that is now with Bonhams and begins 'If you think I have nothing at all to feel miserable about.........certainly does. Truth is, there was a lot of support and interest from the few of us during those years, not least all the early band members. We all had lots of fun too and my mother gave Ian many hot dinners. Thanks to all for this I will return and take in the rest. It promises to be sunny all day in London and I am looking forward to my granny duties which for at least five days of the week keeps me well and truly in the present moment xxx
I've been at this Tull Forum chat thing for a while now however that's the best post that I have ever read.
The concert at the Green's Playhouse was my first Tull concert and to know your story now of what was going on down at the front of the Hall well to a Tull fan like myself ...no words.
Here's the ticket of the concert (not mine) belongs to a friend who collects Glasgow memorabilia.
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There's a website too that has fans recollections of Glasgow gigs from the Playhouse and the Apollo- what it became after. I saw Tull there too.
'1970 Jethro Tull / Titr na nog / Procal Harlem what a line up, first gig ever in Greens..........I was 15 at the time and had just started work, the gig started around 10pm and went on till 2am if i remember correctly, first time Ian Anderson had performed My God on accoustic guitar, you could have heard a pin drop, now where do you see that nowadays, I must have a copy of the ticket somewhere !!'
We had a Q&A with Glenn Cornick and he mentioned the concert as well;
'2 other great gigs in Britain were Newcastle City Hall and Green's Playhouse in Glasgow. We always seemed to do well with rowdy crowds as we could always get them on our side!'
You might find his recollections and views on the early days of the band interesting.
If I may add too this was the kind of concerts that you could see at the Green's in those heady days and you have to laugh at the price.
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I think I mentioned before that I read your recollections of Blackpool and the early days with Ian and I consider it to be one of the finest, interesting and atmospheric pieces of Tull history out there. I have an image in my head of Ian walking down the back streets with all the noise and bustle in the background, his head probably filled with gigs and music and parental warnings.
Thank you again and I hope all that we've amassed here on the Forum gives you as much pleasure as your contributions are doing to the place.
And your right about grandkids keeping us in the present xx
OK I have just had a search for that ticket to no avail. I must admit there is a lot of stuff to wade through. I am determined to find it and post. Mine is blue yours is a much more favourable tea stained colour. I think the ripped off corner is practically the same. I also saw Cat Stevens and David Bowie at the Greens Playhouse. I noticed they were not so nearly as up front or dynamic as Jethro Tull. In fact they performed quite under performed performances in comparison. Though I love both their albums at the time and still do. Ian's voice and live performance was incredible. If that was your first concert you must have been bowled over. David Bowie once belonged to the Lindsey Kemp Troupe who were very active at the Citizens Theatre Glasgow at the same time. I was part of the Citizens Theatre acting company during this period and encountered Lindsey Kemp, it was all quite extraordinary...the theatre and what was happening creatively.....still I would say that Jethro Tull back then was an insurmountable force. I gave the other complimentary ticket to a friend of mine at the time. The director I was working with on a production of I think 'The Crucible' or 'The Marat Sade' he loved the Jethro Tull show but graciously declined to come back stage with me afterwards. I note the date on the ticket 26th of March 1972. Strangely I had a lucid dream in the early March. Face to face with Ian. I asked 'When will I see you?' he replied 'I will phone you on your birthday'. He actually did phone me on my birthday and that is how I ended up at the concert. So where were you sitting and do you remember Ian landing in the splits? I think it was an almost impossible thing to do, even though he had taken ballet lessons as a child and I wondered if I had imagined it. Though I have to ask myself how could I ever have imagined such a thing. It's amazing to hear from someone else that was actually there.
OK I have just had a search for that ticket to no avail. I must admit there is a lot of stuff to wade through. I am determined to find it and post. Mine is blue yours is a much more favourable tea stained colour. I think the ripped off corner is practically the same. I also saw Cat Stevens and David Bowie at the Greens Playhouse. I noticed they were not so nearly as up front or dynamic as Jethro Tull. In fact they performed quite under performed performances in comparison. Though I love both their albums at the time and still do. Ian's voice and live performance was incredible. If that was your first concert you must have been bowled over. David Bowie once belonged to the Lindsey Kemp Troupe who were very active at the Citizens Theatre Glasgow at the same time. I was part of the Citizens Theatre acting company during this period and encountered Lindsey Kemp, it was all quite extraordinary...the theatre and what was happening creatively.....still I would say that Jethro Tull back then was an insurmountable force. I gave the other complimentary ticket to a friend of mine at the time. The director I was working with on a production of I think 'The Crucible' or 'The Marat Sade' he loved the Jethro Tull show but graciously declined to come back stage with me afterwards. I note the date on the ticket 26th of March 1972. Strangely I had a lucid dream in the early March. Face to face with Ian. I asked 'When will I see you?' he replied 'I will phone you on your birthday'. He actually did phone me on my birthday and that is how I ended up at the concert. So where were you sitting and do you remember Ian landing in the splits? I think it was an almost impossible thing to do, even though he had taken ballet lessons as a child and I wondered if I had imagined it. Though I have to ask myself how could I ever have imagined such a thing. It's amazing to hear from someone else that was actually there.
My first Jethro Tull gig was in 1972 at Stockton and I agree Ian's voice and live performance was incredible then, in fact I was blown away by the sound and the energy of the whole band. Happy memories.
As for Ian doing the splits. I don't remember him doing it at Stockton but I could be wrong.
Now tell us more about his ballet lessons. I bet you don't have a photograph of him in his ballet gear but if you do. Post It!
And who comes here to wish me well? A sweetly-scented angel fell, She laid her head upon my disbelief, And bathed me with her ever-smile.
My first Jethro Tull gig was in 1972 at Stockton and I agree Ian's voice and live performance was incredible then, in fact I was blown away by the sound and the energy of the whole band. Happy memories.
As for Ian doing the splits. I don't remember him doing it at Stockton but I could be wrong.
Now tell us more about his ballet lessons. I bet you don't have a photograph of him in his ballet gear but if you do. Post It!
According to the Ministry of Tull that gig at Stockton - 17/3/72, ABC Cinema, was cut short because of heckling - just saying
If that's true then it would have been a case of the flying two finger salute rather than the flying two legged split.
My first Jethro Tull gig was in 1972 at Stockton and I agree Ian's voice and live performance was incredible then, in fact I was blown away by the sound and the energy of the whole band. Happy memories.
As for Ian doing the splits. I don't remember him doing it at Stockton but I could be wrong.
Now tell us more about his ballet lessons. I bet you don't have a photograph of him in his ballet gear but if you do. Post It!
According to the Ministry of Tull that gig at Stockton - 17/3/72, ABC Cinema, was cut short because of heckling - just saying
If that's true then it would have been a case of the flying two finger salute rather than the flying two legged split.
I do remember the heckling incident. If I remember rightly it was during a flute solo that started a group near the front having a go at Ian on how long the solo was because they had to catch a bus, and the concert was cut short but I don't think by much with Ian getting the last word in by saying "sorry we have to catch a bus"!
And who comes here to wish me well? A sweetly-scented angel fell, She laid her head upon my disbelief, And bathed me with her ever-smile.
Found the ticket. Bit of a search as it was hiding in an unlikely letter sent approximately 20 years later from Skye. I note that I was seated in row E so that tells me that I wasn't actually sitting in the front row unless they had removed rows A, B, C, and D. The ticket was all of 90p, a whole 25p more expensive than row HH. So I am awfully glad I didn't have to pay for it. To be honest I can't remember the line up or the album they were playing, only that the show was spectacular. Was Jeff the only other original band member playing? I distinctly remember seeing him in the hotel afterwards but not actually on the stage. The others are a complete blur, perhaps because they were all people I didn't know, unless I have just erased the true snap shot from memory. Speaking of which, yesterday while my youngest grandchild took her afternoon nap, I watched the film 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' for the second time in two weeks. For anyone who doesn't know, it's about a couple who go through a procedure to erase all memories of each other. Brilliant thought provoking film but totally off topic.
Bunkerfan regrettably I have no pictures of Ian in ballet clothes. I think he took ballet classes as a child not when I knew him. The idea that he could pop over to my parents house dressed in a leotard and tights having travelled on the buss from St Annes on Sea for 45 minutes, landed in the splits in the drive way and asked me to take a photo of him is just a wonderful thought......and admittedly not beyond the bounds of possibility but disappointingly for me, my mother and most of the neighbours he didn't think of that one.
I messed about with the copy because it lost it's colour blue. Now it's green but can you see it ? I see you can but the blue has been lost.
I appreciate the question. I'll try to be brief. Yes I did write a book about 15 years ago but could not get permission to publish. Others were very encouraging and after running a few pages by a lawyer I put some on the Internet. It was a way of dealing with the rather challenging nature of memory and served its purpose. Though there was nothing incriminating, the truth is probably better disguised as fiction or in the words of a song. I still think there is an untold story. A mix between "Sanity, Madness and the Family', 'Sunshine of the Spotless Mind', 'The Strange Life of Ivan Osokin' and to a much lesser degree 'Spinal Tap'. Most of mine is hidden under the floor boards and will probably stay there.
Found the ticket. Bit of a search as it was hiding in an unlikely letter sent approximately 20 years later from Skye. I note that I was seated in row E so that tells me that I wasn't actually sitting in the front row unless they had removed rows A, B, C, and D. The ticket was all of 90p, a whole 25p more expensive than row HH. So I am awfully glad I didn't have to pay for it. To be honest I can't remember the line up or the album they were playing, only that the show was spectacular. Was Jeff the only other original band member playing? I distinctly remember seeing him in the hotel afterwards but not actually on the stage. The others are a complete blur, perhaps because they were all people I didn't know, unless I have just erased the true snap shot from memory. Speaking of which, yesterday while my youngest grandchild took her afternoon nap, I watched the film 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' for the second time in two weeks. For anyone who doesn't know, it's about a couple who go through a procedure to erase all memories of each other. Brilliant thought provoking film but totally off topic.
Bunkerfan regrettably I have no pictures of Ian in ballet clothes. I think he took ballet classes as a child not when I knew him. The idea that he could pop over to my parents house dressed in a leotard and tights having travelled on the buss from St Annes on Sea for 45 minutes, landed in the splits in the drive way and asked me to take a photo of him is just a wonderful thought......and admittedly not beyond the bounds of possibility but disappointingly for me, my mother and most of the neighbours he didn't think of that one.
I messed about with the copy because it lost it's colour blue. Now it's green but can you see it ? I see you can but the blue has been lost.
Thank you for your reply elmsliegirl. I wasn't really expecting you to have a photo of Ian in ballet kit but as you say a "wonderful thought"!
Could this one have been taken in Blackpool?
And who comes here to wish me well? A sweetly-scented angel fell, She laid her head upon my disbelief, And bathed me with her ever-smile.
To be honest I can't remember the line up or the album they were playing, only that the show was spectacular. Was Jeff the only other original band member playing? I distinctly remember seeing him in the hotel afterwards but not actually on the stage. The others are a complete blur, perhaps because they were all people I didn't know, unless I have just erased the true snap shot from memory.
That's funny, because you saw the core of the John Evan Band (Ian, John, Jeffrey, Barrie) plus Martin Barre on stage that night. I am sure they played Thick As A Brick (nearly whole album plus solos, news, etc.), A New Day Yesterday and the obvious Aqualung tracks.
Nope, this photograph was taken like many others on the day of the press conference at Lake Geneva in Montreux in spring 1974.
Haha, Thought not. I suppose the giveaway is there's no candyfloss salesman, buckets, spades and bingo, cockles, mussels, rainy days, seaweed and sand castles, icy waves, deck chairs, rubber dinghies, old vests, braces dangling down or iron tower.
And who comes here to wish me well? A sweetly-scented angel fell, She laid her head upon my disbelief, And bathed me with her ever-smile.
You are absolutely right 10 cars that is funny that I don't remember John and Barrie. Jeff chatted to me briefly so perhaps that's why I remember him.
I wasn't actually thinking about the details of the albums in 1972. The words from most of the plays I performed way back then escape me too. Also forgotten the details of many of the plays I saw or which actor took which part. I think if you buy the albums it is different because they will remind you of the gig you saw but I only ever had the Jethro Tull albums that Ian gave me and that didn't include 'Thick as a Brick' or 'Aqualung'. Memory is odd because I do remember the performances of the John Evans early songs. Summer Time, Midnight Hour, Pa Pa's Got a Brand New Bag, Mr Pitiful etc
It's so lovely to speak to someone who shared my first Tull concert.
I don't remember the splits but I do remember him flying all over the stage and coming away thinking that I'd seen the best showman ever. That thought has stayed with me after all this time.
So you were at the Citizens at the time - were you staying in Glasgow?
I was brought up in the West End - the kind of bohemian part of the city. I went to RSAD&M as a child but sadly didn't pursue an acting career as I had a major disappointment in that I was in a line to take part as an extra in my favourite TV programme - Dr Who. They stopped at me as they had all the extras they needed. Put me off for life!
Talking of the Citizens they just had the go ahead for a five million pound redevelopment plan.
I lived in Glasgow for two and a half years. First for a little while in (can't spell it...er hum Solihull Street) with some very outrageous and wonderful gay guys. Oh the memories. If we talked one to one I would tell you. You were there at that gig...Oh my!! We then lived in Mc Cullock Street.....a rough end of town in Pollock Shields ( I am really not looking up the spelling) and I taught some very violent glaswegian boys on probation drama. The Citizens Theatre was in the Gorbals until they flattened it. I am trying to remember the name of the pub next door. Was it the Mc Klellan? Nothing could ever be like those days with Giles, Philip, and David who ran the Citizens Theatre, such innovative theatre, amazing sets, design and extraordinary gay sophistication. You shouldn't have been put off. Being an extra in Doctor Who is certainly not what you would have wanted. Having said that, I wouldn't necessarily recommend a life in any entertainment career. There are a few exceptions but in my experience the people who are the most happy are quite low profile. I wonder what 5 million will mean to the Citizens. That's a lot of money. It used to run on a shoe string ( they picked up costumes from Paddy's Market) and it worked very well that way.
Teaching drama to the gang boys (mainly boys in those days) now that would have been some craic as they say over here in Ireland! However don’t know if you’d agree but there’s theatre in all aspects of life so it wouldn’t be such a leap for some of them from ‘performing’ on the street to performing on stage, mind you discipline might have proved to be difficult!
Would Love to hear your stories about those days if we ever get the chance to catch up.
On that note, I was married to a musician in Glasgow (lead singer/composer) not anywhere near as talented or creative as Ian however they both shared a love of performing and coincidently my ex was a quiet bloke off stage and morphed into something else onstage too. However I always smile when I read that Ian wanted to be a police officer at one point in his life because when the music world proved a no hoper for my ex he said the same thing that if he couldn’t be a successful musician he would join the police – which he did.
He joined a Force which was in a tourist area of England and in those days he had a tall Bobby hat and a cloak would you believe – very’ Ripper at Large’ anyway I remember thinking that he hadn’t really given up performing when he walked down the street as a Bobby. There’s a lot of drama, acting skills and a touch of ego required to be an officer of the law.
The community and decade that you spent living in Glasgow was in great contrast to the general lives and population of the city then. There’s a great video of Neil Young busking at Central Station - its shot in black and white - all these wee ‘wifies’ with their polyester scarves and raincoats, men in their grey suits and bowler hats filing into the station staring at this ‘exotic’ man sitting and singing on the ground. It really brings it back to me that when I was sixteen I wanted something so different and filled with much more colour and like a moth to a flame I sought out the ‘different’ and ‘colourful’
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May 15, 2022 8:39:21 GMT
jackinthegreen: Cheers MD, I can only see the link from the "Home" page, but disappears when looking at threads etc, so find if I open it up in a new window it then plays constantly
May 15, 2022 13:29:06 GMT
jackinthegreen: So I have it bookmarked to open at any time....nice in the background if reading on t'internet
May 15, 2022 13:31:36 GMT
jackinthegreen: Did anyone on the forum see Tull at the De Montfort Hall in Leicester in September.....
May 19, 2022 1:10:39 GMT
smint100: Good Lord, why did no one tell me about the radio.net! I've spent a joyful afternoon in the garden watching the strawberries ripen - I mean, editing a book - and listening to unadulterated Tull. Heaven!
May 21, 2022 14:56:50 GMT
ash: Is anyone aware of a recent statement from Ian saying he doesn't have COPD and it's only asthma? Just asking
Jun 1, 2022 9:21:29 GMT
rredmond: I thought it was both?
Jun 4, 2022 19:34:53 GMT
ash: One can be mistaken for the other because of similar symptoms but COPD is the nasty one! I'm talking an updated statement from Ian early this year.
Jun 5, 2022 9:16:48 GMT
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nonrabbit: Sounds joyous smint100 - all round!
Jun 13, 2022 17:15:56 GMT
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marshall: Hello, I was at the concert at De Montfort Hall in September along with a number of other shows. I try to get to as many as possible in the UK.
Jun 21, 2022 9:54:11 GMT
jackinthegreen: Thank-you marshall I travelled down from Scotland for the Marillion Weekend there, great venue isn't it! It was standing downstairs, I guess the Tull gig was all seated....did they sell out? Please join in on the forum threads! Cheers
Jun 22, 2022 10:23:28 GMT
marshall: I live in Cumbria and I had booked for the Glasgow show which was,of course, cancelled.
Jun 23, 2022 12:39:45 GMT
marshall: No need to thank me by the way. I was a member of this Forum some year's ago but I forgot my log in details. I will do my best to contribute. I have been a Full can since the early singles and I have some fabulous memories as well as tales to tell.
Jun 23, 2022 12:43:14 GMT
jackinthegreen: In that case welcome back marshall. I am a Full can too....if that's rhyming slang for Tull fan
Jun 24, 2022 20:23:29 GMT
jackinthegreen: I think you may have been neilstcleve
Jun 26, 2022 7:52:47 GMT
steelmonkey: My new. secret, self identity: Full Can. California Cockney rhyming slang? Why not?
Jun 27, 2022 1:50:44 GMT
ash: "California Cockney rhyming slang? Why not?" Many reasons if your family has Cockney routes
Jul 3, 2022 12:04:52 GMT
steelmonkey: People my age learned of it and some of it from 'A Clockwork Orange', way back when.
Jul 4, 2022 2:05:35 GMT
steelmonkey: And I was taught that Tull members and crew called us civilian fans 'Billies' for Billy Bunter = Punter.
Jul 4, 2022 2:06:56 GMT
ash: My granddad would use Cockney rhyming slang now and then, more so if he was having a Darby. I will let him off seeing as he was born about half a mile from St Mary-le-Bow church.
Jul 4, 2022 7:41:40 GMT
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