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Post by nonrabbit on Sept 4, 2014 8:03:24 GMT
hi - saw glenn perform with wild turkey at sheffield touring with you & me in the jungle cd - spent time with glenn, clive & gary (singer) - also saw Glenn join Micj Abrahams & Blodwyns at 100 club years ago (one of a new day's evenings) good fun - also attended the This Was reunion gig in 2003 at Leamington Spa which was wonderful on so many levels - I can remember Glenn being so excited & talking with everyone who approached him - my beloved wife Jackie &had a boliday in the Lake District & stayed in Barrow (the town Glenn lived in as a child) - we met him at the Laurel & Hardy museum in Ulveston - again, he was very giving of his time, we chatted (for a long time !) & laughed about music, life etc & have stayed in touch since via email - some of the stories & emails are unrepeatable but he was such a kind giving guy, always forthright & blunt in his opinionsabout the musicians he had worked with & the records he had made - as i mentioned in my original post I am going to miss Glenn's chats & music - have to admit i shed a tear or 10 when i heard the news & feel so sorry for his family - he will be a BIG miss for all of us & i can't imagine how his wife & kids must feel Hi Dominic, Thanks for sharing,that was interesting and poignant to read. You must surely be the only fan who met him in the Laurel and Hardy museum Hope you like looking around the Forum and feel free to post anytime. Patti
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Post by steelmonkey on Sept 4, 2014 17:34:57 GMT
Surprise quiz: Who knows the direct connection between Glenn Cornick and David Bowie and for bonus points: why is it funny ?
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Post by dominic on Sept 4, 2014 18:23:49 GMT
could it be that glenn was in Paris (with bob welch from fleetwood mac) - original Paris drummer Thom Mooney was replaced by Hunt Sales & Glenn was replaced by Hunt Sales brother Tony - the Sales brothers went on to be rhythm section for Bowie's Tin Machine ? - (how sad am I !)
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Post by steelmonkey on Sept 4, 2014 18:44:35 GMT
That is, of course, correct...and why is that funny ( easier for Americans, i think )?
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Post by dominic on Sept 4, 2014 19:08:36 GMT
something to do with the sales brothers da being soupy sales & glen's previous incarnation as a salesman for a tinned soup (or dog food company) ?
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Post by Tull50 on Sept 4, 2014 19:58:36 GMT
Died Glenn Cornick, original Jethro Tull's bass playertn.com.ar/musica/hoy/murio-glenn-cornick-el-bajista-original-de-jethro-tull_529031Google Translator: The original Jethro Tull bassist Glenn Cornick, died at age 67 at his home in Hilo, Hawaii, United States, due to cardiac arrest. His son, Drew Cornick said that the artist received hospice care before death, adding that his father was "bright and Grumpy" until the day of his death. Cornick Jethro Tull comprised of between 1967 and 1970, and participated in the group's first three albums: This Was, Stand Up and Benefit. Its low also in sounds 1972 album Living in the Past, which contains unreleased material recorded during the previous years. "Glenn was a kind man and ready to be friends with everyone. Always cheerful, he contributed to Jethro Tull your personality as a musician. Since leaving the band, he played with other artists and was a frequent guest at conventions of Jethro Tull, where tastefully refreshed the repertoire of his years, "said Ian Anderson in www.jethrotull.com. After leaving Jethro Tull disc during rehearsals Aqualung, Cornick formed his own group called Wild Turkey. Years later joined Paris, the project Fleetwood Mac guitarist Bob Welch. He also played with Jethro Tull tribute bands. Cornick was married to Brigitte Martinez-Cornick and had two sons, Drew and Alex Cornick and a daughter, Molly Cornick.
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Post by steelmonkey on Sept 4, 2014 20:03:18 GMT
Yes...it's funny that hip rock guys are the sons of schlock early TV comedian Soupy Sales ! You win the prizes to be announced at an unspecified future date.
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Post by Tull50 on Sept 4, 2014 20:07:22 GMT
Glenn at The 2006 Itullian Convention
Thanks to Marco Molinari
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Post by maddogfagin on Sept 5, 2014 12:53:34 GMT
Couple of photos of Glenn from Didi Zill's book.
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Post by onewhiteduck on Sept 5, 2014 14:20:13 GMT
At Martin's gig the other night before Song For Jeffrey he simply said 'this one is for Glenn' to a very generous round of applause by all.
Nice Touch
OWD
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Post by nonrabbit on Sept 5, 2014 20:02:49 GMT
At Martin's gig the other night before Song For Jeffrey he simply said 'this one is for Glenn' to a very generous round of applause by all. Nice Touch OWD Very nice and would have brought a lump to the throat if I'd been there as I'm sure it did to you.
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Post by nonrabbit on Sept 5, 2014 20:03:53 GMT
could it be that glenn was in Paris (with bob welch from fleetwood mac) - original Paris drummer Thom Mooney was replaced by Hunt Sales & Glenn was replaced by Hunt Sales brother Tony - the Sales brothers went on to be rhythm section for Bowie's Tin Machine ? - (how sad am I !) Impressed
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Post by hardliner on Sept 5, 2014 23:48:35 GMT
Very very saddened to hear this news Ive always thought Glen was the best bassman ever for Tull Simply because his basslines really stick in your head with their strong memorable melodies LITP,Teacher,Bouree,Nothing is Easy to name a few.
Really there hasnt been anything like it since . No disrespect to Glasscock ,Pegg or Noyce who i very much appreciate.
Glen imo is among the best bassplayers ever - Andy Fraser,John Paul Jones,Jack Bruce are some of the few guys in a similar league. RIP Glen
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Post by nonrabbit on Sept 6, 2014 1:16:05 GMT
It's so sad hardliner and such a shock.
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Post by dominic on Sept 8, 2014 12:09:04 GMT
hi - trying to put together full discography for glenn - there will be tull albums & related singles, next wild turkey "turkey" battle hymn", "stealer of years" "you & me in the jungle" "live in edinburgh" "final performance" & related single "life is a symphony" " & related single(s) which i believe were on the albums - 2 paris albums & singles which were tracks from the albums, one album with Karthago "Rock and Roll Testament" - is there anything else ? - any help appreciated in completing the discography & tracking down anything that I haven't got - p.s. if anyone has a copy of the Fairport's Wintour programme 2012 going spare would be much appreciated !
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Post by maddogfagin on Sept 8, 2014 14:56:53 GMT
hi - trying to put together full discography for glenn - there will be tull albums & related singles, next wild turkey "turkey" battle hymn", "stealer of years" "you & me in the jungle" "live in edinburgh" "final performance" & related single "life is a symphony" " & related single(s) which i believe were on the albums - 2 paris albums & singles which were tracks from the albums, one album with Karthago "Rock and Roll Testament" - is there anything else ? - any help appreciated in completing the discography & tracking down anything that I haven't got - p.s. if anyone has a copy of the Fairport's Wintour programme 2012 going spare would be much appreciated ! OK I'm game Bearing in mind I've most probably omitted the most obvious so feel free to amend/correct as you see fit ! Details from various internet sources including www.45cat.com/ , www.electrocutas.co.uk/ and wikipedia Albums (excluding known Tull and Turkey bootlegs) Jethro Tull This Was (1968) Stand Up (1969) Benefit (1970) Living in the Past (1972 compilation) Nothing is Easy - Live at the Isle of Wight (1970 - released in 2004) Aqualung 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition - My God (Early Version) Rolling Stones' Rock And Roll Circus - A Song For Jeffrey - ABKCO Records (1995) Wild Turkey Battle Hymn (1971) Turkey (1972) Don't Dare To Forget (1974) (3 new tracks on a 4 disc sampler) Stealer of Years (1996) Final Performance (2000) Live In Edinburgh (2001) You & Me In The Jungle (2006) Wild Turkey – Rarest Turkey (2002) - Audio Archives AACD 048 (bootleg ?) Karthago Rock 'N' Roll Testament (1975) Bellaphon 288-09-036 Paris Paris (1976) - Zoom Club ZCRCD56 Big Towne, 2061 (1976) - Zoom Club ZCRCD62 UK Singles:The Executives - Lock Your Door / In My Arms (1966) Columbia, UK, DB 7919 Jethro Toe - Sunshine Day/Aeroplane (1968) MGM, UK, MGM 1384 Jethro Tull - A Song For Jeffrey/One For John Gee (1968) Island, UK, WIP 6043 Jethro Tull - Love Story/A Christmas Song (1969) Island, UK, WIP 6048 Jethro Tull - Living In The Past/Driving Song (1969) Island, UK, WIP 6056 Jethro Tull - Sweet Dream/17 (1969) Chrysalis, UK, WIP 6070 Jethro Tull - The Witch's Promise/The Teacher (1970) Chrysalis, UK, WIP 6077 Jethro Tull - Inside/Alive And Well And Living In (1970) Chrysalis, UK, WIP 6081 Wild Turkey - Good Old Days / Life Is A Symphony (1972) Chrysalis, UK, CHS 2004 Some overseas singles (excluding overseas Tull releases duplicating the above): Wild Turkey - Good Old Days / Life Is A Symphony (1972) Chrysalis, Netherlands, 5C 006-93872 Wild Turkey - Easter Psalm / Sanctuary (1972) Chrysalis, New Zealand, CYK-4795 Wild Turkey - Good Old Days [Mono] / Good Old Days [Stereo] (1972) Chrysalis, USA, CHS 2004 - white label promo only Odds and sods: Various – To Cry You A Song - A Collection Of Tull Tales (1996) Magna Carta – MA-9009-2 Primitive Future – Love In Outer Space/Wild Child (1983) Wild Cat Records (USA) WCR-1/WCR-2 (single) Max Strom - Moderne Passion - Future Records (USA) (1982) (album)
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Post by dominic on Sept 8, 2014 16:57:50 GMT
thanks for the info - have the tull, paris, wild turkey & karthago on a mix of cd and vinyl - don't know that I'm too worried about primitive future & max strom altho' picking up a copy of the executives single may be worthwhile - has anybody heard it & if so what kind of sound am i goint to be listening to in the (unlikely) event of picking up a copy ? - as always your site is full of interesting & helpful folk & great info ! - glad i joined & got involved !!
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Post by maddogfagin on Sept 9, 2014 8:15:08 GMT
thanks for the info - have the tull, paris, wild turkey & karthago on a mix of cd and vinyl - don't know that I'm too worried about primitive future & max strom altho' picking up a copy of the executives single may be worthwhile - has anybody heard it & if so what kind of sound am i goint to be listening to in the (unlikely) event of picking up a copy ? - as always your site is full of interesting & helpful folk & great info ! - glad i joined & got involved !! I've never heard The Executives single so I would guess it was either (a) not that great or (b) was similar in style to the "beat combos" of that era - full of earnest endeavour but not that substantial music wise. Chances of picking up a copy I would think are almost, but not quite, impossible to do bearing in mind it was only in 2002 that Glenn managed to find a copy. Still we live in hope don't we
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Post by maddogfagin on Sept 9, 2014 8:39:35 GMT
Glenn Cornick: Bassist whose solid yet supple playing helped to crystallise the sound and direction of Jethro TullPIERRE PERRONE Tuesday 09 September 2014 www.independent.co.uk/Glenn at the Roundhouse in London with Wild Turkey, 1971With his solid yet supple bass playing, his long hair, Indian headband and glasses, Glenn Cornick was an important component of the first two incarnations of Jethro Tull, the British rock band named after the 18th century agriculturist who invented the seed drill. Within a couple of years they went from near-starvation in Luton to second on the bill to Jimi Hendrix at the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970 and became mainstays of the singles and album charts. Cornick proved a great visual foil to Ian Anderson, their Fagin-like frontman, who wore a shabby overcoat and played the flute standing on one leg, trademarks that helped the group stand out from their British blues boom contemporaries as their music evolved to embrace classical, jazz and folk influences and grew ever more distinctive and impossible to pigeonhole. Born in 1947, Cornick traded his acoustic guitar for a bass when he was 16 and played in several local bands in his native town of Barrow-in-Furness and in Blackpool, making his recording debut with the Executives on a single, "Lock Your Door", in 1966. The next year, while holding down a job in the Civil Service, he joined the John Evan Smash, a seven-piece R&B outfit featuring Anderson. They turned professional and moved south, where the agents Terry Ellis and Chris Wright, later co-founders of Chrysalis Records, could help them secure engagements. But they only got as far as Luton, and were soon down to a nucleus of Anderson, Cornick and new guitarist Mick Abrahams, bolstered by his friend Clive Bunker on drums. The quartet gigged under a variety of names until they began developing a following at London's Marquee club as Jethro Tull, and then triumphed at the August 1968 Sunbury Jazz And Blues Festival, the forerunner of Reading organised by the Marquee team. By then Ellis had spent £1,000 recording This Was, their debut album, at Sound Techniques studio in Chelsea, and he and Wright cut a deal with Chris Blackwell's Island Records to release what became the first Chrysalis production, and a Top Ten entry, in November 1968. However, Abrahams left and they drafted Tony Iommi, later of Black Sabbath, for an appearance to promote their first single "A Song For Jeffrey" on The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus the following month. Adding guitarist Martin Barre they recorded Stand Up, famous for its distinctive woodcut style gatefold cover from which the musicians popped up, and the instrumental "Bourée", their memorable adaptation of Bach's Bourrée in E minor underpinned by Cornick's bass, their entrée into mainland Europe. The album topped the UK charts in summer 1969, consolidated the success of early singles "Love Story" and "Living In The Past", and paved the way for "Sweet Dream" and "The Witch's Promise", their subsequent releases. They also made headway in the US after signing with Reprise and touring with Vanilla Fudge and Led Zeppelin. Cornick kept fastidious diaries of his times with the Tull, which enabled Brian Rabey, author of A Passion Play: The Story Of Ian Anderson And Jethro Tull, to detail their busy schedule in 1969 and 1970, the year they issued the Top Three album Benefit. "We did a lot of touring in the States playing the Benefit songs and even some things that would later go on to Aqualung," the bassist recalled. "I don't think the band was ever better than we were at that time. At the end of 1970 I was fired. No reason has ever been given." He was replaced by Jeffrey Hammond, Anderson's friend, a former member of the John Evan Smash and the inspiration for several Tull classics, including "A Song For Jeffrey" and "Jeffrey Goes To Leicester Square". Anderson felt that, by then, Cornick "just wasn't cutting musically or socially with the rest us." Chrysalis encouraged Cornick to start his own group, Wild Turkey, but it folded after two albums. The bassist joined the German band Karthago and then teamed up with the American-born singer and guitarist Bob Welch, who had just left Fleetwood Mac, in a group named Paris after the city where the collaboration was first mooted. For many years Cornick remained based in California, travelling back to Britain for the occasional Wild Turkey reunion. Along with Abrahams and Bunker he also participated in the recording of the Jethro Tull tribute album To Cry You A Song – A Collection of Tull Tales in 1996. Paying tribute to Cornick, who died of congestive heart failure, Anderson wrote: "Glenn was a man of great bonhomie and ready to befriend anyone, especially fellow musicians. Always cheerful, he brought to the early stage performances of Tull a lively bravado both as a personality and a musician. His background in the beat groups of the North of England and his broad knowledge of music were always helpful in establishing the arrangements of the early Tull. Glenn was a frequent guest at Tull fan conventions where he would join in with gusto to rekindle the musical moments of the early repertoire." Glenn Douglas Barnard Cornick, bassist and songwriter: born Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria 23 April 1947; married Brigitte Martinez (two sons, one daughter); died Hilo, Hawaii 28 August 2014.
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Post by maddogfagin on Sept 10, 2014 10:27:51 GMT
thanks for the info - have the tull, paris, wild turkey & karthago on a mix of cd and vinyl - don't know that I'm too worried about primitive future & max strom altho' picking up a copy of the executives single may be worthwhile - has anybody heard it & if so what kind of sound am i goint to be listening to in the (unlikely) event of picking up a copy ? - as always your site is full of interesting & helpful folk & great info ! - glad i joined & got involved !! Couple of updates: Leigh Stephens – And A Cast Of Thousands (1971) UK, Charisma CAS 1040 Paris - Big Towne, 2016 (mono) (1976) - Capitol P-4356 (white label promo single)
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Post by maddogfagin on Sept 11, 2014 8:07:59 GMT
Couple of nice images of the band (mark II) The contact who sent me these many years ago labelled the black and white image as "pissed off Martin"
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Post by nonrabbit on Sept 11, 2014 9:09:48 GMT
He was going for the mean n moody look ended up just moody.
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Post by JTull 007 on Sept 11, 2014 11:18:15 GMT
Couple of nice images of the band (mark II) The contact who sent me these many years ago labelled the black and white image as "pissed off Martin" Martin... "It's cold and windy! WTF does this have to do with Jethro TULL ?"
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Post by nonrabbit on Sept 25, 2014 16:17:12 GMT
Brigitte has posted this and given me her blessing to post it here;
My dear Friends, As most of you know my sweet husband Glenn died last month after months of bad health. I'm doing my best with the English stiff upper lip, but it's not easy and I'm truly grief stricken.
I know it's rather cheesy and Glenn would not approved communicating on Facebook, but it's quick and global so here it goes.Sat.Nov.1st. we are having a worldwide cheer for Glenn at 6:00 p.m. So anywhere you are, London Barrow,Barcelona,Railey Beach,Parma , Marin County,SanPedro Montevideo,Fullerton,join us in raising a pint and toasting one of the greatest bass players in rock and roll history.
And if anyone is in Hilo, you are welcome to our celebration of Glenns' life.
You knew my husband and how much he loved a party, so cheers!
Brigitte
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Post by steelmonkey on Sept 25, 2014 16:24:47 GMT
Please assure Brigitte, via the dreaded F-book, that I will participate on that day, at that precise time.( I am assuming she means 6:00 PM Hawaii time...which may already be Nov 2 in Europe ?). California is 3 hours ahead of Hawaii so 9:00 PM on a Saturday night is a perfect time for a beer in Glenn's honor.
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Post by maddogfagin on Sept 25, 2014 16:47:30 GMT
Please assure Brigitte, via the dreaded F-book, that I will participate on that day, at that precise time.( I am assuming she means 6:00 PM Hawaii time...which may already be Nov 2 in Europe ?). California is 3 hours ahead of Hawaii so 9:00 PM on a Saturday night is a perfect time for a beer in Glenn's honor. Easiest thing is to drink to Glenn's memory all weekend - seems logical and most sensible thing to do. Hell, I'll start now - six weeks early
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Post by steelmonkey on Sept 25, 2014 19:48:22 GMT
Yeah, me too, cheers.......mainland American morons, on honeymoon or vacation in Hawaii...didn't think about the time difference from the mainland and would bet on televised sports events, with sleazy locals, who already knew the final scores of games already played and aired later on the islands. Stupid tax ?
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Post by rbgflute on Sept 28, 2014 3:21:07 GMT
My small tribute to Glenn Cornick. Mr. Cornick was truly a musical force of nature, and an essential founding member of Jethro Tull. (by Robert Gilmore) In Memory Of Glenn Cornick
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Post by rbgflute on Sept 28, 2014 3:29:45 GMT
re: In Memory of Glenn Cornick (video tribute)
I received a touching comment on YouTube about the above tribute video that I thought I would share with this group. It is from Glenn Cornick's son, Alex Cornick:
"thanks for all of this i never knew my dad was so famous"
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