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Post by steelmonkey on Sept 21, 2018 22:19:42 GMT
Good news, A new Tull book is available on Amazon. Sorry I am not smart enough to deliver the link from my gmail to this post...but it should not be hard to track down. it's called:
ORIGINAL JETHRO TULL. THE GLORY YEARS 1968-1980
The author is Gary Parker
Mine is on the way and you can expect a thorough and unbiased review soon...but I have a really good feeling about this one. I have had some contact with the author and he sounds like the real thing...a true Tull fan as well as accomplished journalist and author. He has shared some previews with me reflecting very comprehensive and in depth interviews (Dee Palmer, for one, but many more) as well as at least some cooperation and archive access from Ian. It appears to be hefty and thorough. So far just print but Kindle and ibook versions in the pipeline. As a funny tantalizer and hint of more to come, Martin was cooperating with the author full bore and with characteristic honesty and insight until his agent shrieked: "STOP...save something for YOUR book!"
Anyway, everyone order this book as we continue to encourage and support all academic, trashy and anything in between efforts to spread the word and illuminate the TULL.
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Post by maddogfagin on Sept 22, 2018 6:22:19 GMT
Good news, A new Tull book is available on Amazon. Sorry I am not smart enough to deliver the link from my gmail to this post...but it should not be hard to track down. it's called: ORIGINAL JETHRO TULL. THE GLORY YEARS 1968-1980 The author is Gary Parker Mine is on the way and you can expect a thorough and unbiased review soon...but I have a really good feeling about this one. I have had some contact with the author and he sounds like the real thing...a true Tull fan as well as accomplished journalist and author. He has shared some previews with me reflecting very comprehensive and in depth interviews (Dee Palmer, for one, but many more) as well as at least some cooperation and archive access from Ian. It appears to be hefty and thorough. So far just print but Kindle and ibook versions in the pipeline. As a funny tantalizer and hint of more to come, Martin was cooperating with the author full bore and with characteristic honesty and insight until his agent shrieked: "STOP...save something for YOUR book!" Anyway, everyone order this book as we continue to encourage and support all academic, trashy and anything in between efforts to spread the word and illuminate the TULL.
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Post by Budding Stately Hero on Sept 24, 2018 20:12:04 GMT
I hope he does a volume II.
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Post by Budding Stately Hero on Sept 24, 2018 20:15:45 GMT
Good news, A new Tull book is available on Amazon. Sorry I am not smart enough to deliver the link from my gmail to this post...but it should not be hard to track down. it's called: ORIGINAL JETHRO TULL. THE GLORY YEARS 1968-1980 The author is Gary Parker Mine is on the way and you can expect a thorough and unbiased review soon...but I have a really good feeling about this one. I have had some contact with the author and he sounds like the real thing...a true Tull fan as well as accomplished journalist and author. He has shared some previews with me reflecting very comprehensive and in depth interviews (Dee Palmer, for one, but many more) as well as at least some cooperation and archive access from Ian. It appears to be hefty and thorough. So far just print but Kindle and ibook versions in the pipeline. As a funny tantalizer and hint of more to come, Martin was cooperating with the author full bore and with characteristic honesty and insight until his agent shrieked: "STOP...save something for YOUR book!" Anyway, everyone order this book as we continue to encourage and support all academic, trashy and anything in between efforts to spread the word and illuminate the TULL. Who is the baby being held? (not Andrew Giddings, I hope ;-)
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Post by steelmonkey on Sept 24, 2018 22:17:11 GMT
Just learned that the book can be consumed via Kindle and ibook. I couldn't wait and ordered to solid copy so I guess I'll party like it's 1979.
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Post by maddogfagin on Sept 25, 2018 6:32:42 GMT
Just learned that the book can be consumed via Kindle and ibook. I couldn't wait and ordered to solid copy so I guess I'll party like it's 1979. Ordered it myself yesterday along with Martin's cd so I should be well set up for the end of the year. Hopefully some naughty people will post some concert stuff as well. BTW do I get the impression that the kindle edition will be published before the paper version ?
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Post by maddogfagin on Sept 25, 2018 6:37:08 GMT
Who is the baby being held? (not Andrew Giddings, I hope ;-)
I was always lead to believe it is Barry's sprog. Mr Giddings was 96 at the time
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Post by steelmonkey on Sept 25, 2018 16:43:52 GMT
Looks like the link allowing purchase of Pegg's book only allows UK/England orders. He doesn't want my humble Wonga? I'll investigate further.
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Post by steelmonkey on Sept 25, 2018 17:45:00 GMT
Never mind. Figured it out. Pegg, paypal and shippers happy to divvy up my 34 pounds/46 dollars. Expect it will be worth it. Two Tull books en route! When they excavate and analyze my metamorphized brain some day it will be all self pity and Tull knowledge.
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Post by steelmonkey on Sept 25, 2018 17:46:14 GMT
I'm in between jobs and spent close to $100 on Tull books this week. Faith or idiocy?
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Post by nonrabbit on Sept 25, 2018 22:18:54 GMT
I'm in between jobs and spent close to $100 on Tull books this week. Faith or idiocy? There is never a bad nor wrong time to buy a book.
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Post by maddogfagin on Sept 26, 2018 6:39:21 GMT
Never mind. Figured it out. Pegg, paypal and shippers happy to divvy up my 34 pounds/46 dollars. Expect it will be worth it. Two Tull books en route! When they excavate and analyze my metamorphized brain some day it will be all self pity and Tull knowledge.
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Post by steelmonkey on Sept 29, 2018 20:22:27 GMT
The Glory years book is very, very good. New information, at this late date and with the known limits reached by many other authors, would be an impressive 10-15%, But the point of this book is to put strong parentheses around generally acknowledged 'peak Tull' by defining 'Jethro Tull' the band, as a separate and distinct entity from Jethro Tull, the Ian Anderson enterprise that recently marked 50 years. Parker shines his capable journalism on the days of, In order of importance: Anderson, Hammond, Palmer, Evans, Barre, Barlow and Glascock and what made them a band, not a bunch of Ian helpers. he chronicles, in detail, the evolution of Jethro Tull from friends from the John Evan era thru the demise of this group after Stormwatch and provides details and insight around each album and each member in those years. It is a pleasure to read despite the 'What ifs, maybes and might of beens that are considered if this group had held together longer. Parker has unlimited respect for Ian in all the Tull iterations but places the peak years, well, at a peak. Very worthwhile book despite bottom line 'preaching to the converted' and some messiness around why he does, in fact, devote plenty of pages to pre-Aqualung, well known history which contradicts basic thesis of Peak Tull lasting from addition of Barlow thru messy end during Stormwatch.
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Post by maddogfagin on Sept 30, 2018 7:24:58 GMT
The Glory years book is very, very good. New information, at this late date and with the known limits reached by many other authors, would be an impressive 10-15%, But the point of this book is to put strong parentheses around generally acknowledged 'peak Tull' by defining 'Jethro Tull' the band, as a separate and distinct entity from Jethro Tull, the Ian Anderson enterprise that recently marked 50 years. Parker shines his capable journalism on the days of, In order of importance: Anderson, Hammond, Palmer, Evans, Barre, Barlow and Glascock and what made them a band, not a bunch of Ian helpers. he chronicles, in detail, the evolution of Jethro Tull from friends from the John Evan era thru the demise of this group after Stormwatch and provides details and insight around each album and each member in those years. It is a pleasure to read despite the 'What ifs, maybes and might of beens that are considered if this group had held together longer. Parker has unlimited respect for Ian in all the Tull iterations but places the peak years, well, at a peak. Very worthwhile book despite bottom line 'preaching to the converted' and some messiness around why he does, in fact, devote plenty of pages to pre-Aqualung, well known history which contradicts basic thesis of Peak Tull lasting from addition of Barlow thru messy end during Stormwatch. Thanks for the review Bernie - with the many books about Tull now on the market we must have the complete story, more or less. It's going to be interesting to see what the music press make of this book when it's released in paper format at the end of the year.
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Post by earsoftin on Jan 2, 2019 17:23:51 GMT
Working my way through the Parker book and will have more to say when I've finished it. But I have one question which somebody on this forum might be able to answer. On page 38 he refers to Jennie Franks as 'a secretary in Chrysalis' publishing department'. I thought it was Shona who was the secretary (as featured in Baker Street Muse - 'From the typing pool goes the mini-skirted princess with great finesse.') I understood that Jennie was a student at the time when she took the pictures that inspired 'Aqualung'. I've seen that this question has already been posed some years ago but I can't see any answer. Can anybody shed light?
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 3, 2019 7:29:29 GMT
Working my way through the Parker book and will have more to say when I've finished it. But I have one question which somebody on this forum might be able to answer. On page 38 he refers to Jennie Franks as 'a secretary in Chrysalis' publishing department'. I thought it was Shona who was the secretary (as featured in Baker Street Muse - 'From the typing pool goes the mini-skirted princess with great finesse.') I understood that Jennie was a student at the time when she took the pictures that inspired 'Aqualung'. I've seen that this question has already been posed some years ago but I can't see any answer. Can anybody shed light? I always understood that Jennie Franks worked at Chrysalis and that Shona Learoyd also worked at Chrysalis in the press office having been a ballet dancer previously.
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Post by tullpress on Jan 3, 2019 18:00:51 GMT
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Post by steelmonkey on Jan 3, 2019 20:52:20 GMT
The man knew where to shop for wives...at full service record label. Then his son married record label heiress. Very victorian.
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Post by nonrabbit on Jan 3, 2019 22:42:24 GMT
The man knew where to shop for wives...at full service record label. Then his son married record label heiress. Very victorian.
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Post by earsoftin on Jan 7, 2019 14:19:20 GMT
That's brilliant Andrew - thanks so much for reminding me of what a wonderful resource Tull Press is (and that I should look there first!)
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Post by earsoftin on Jan 15, 2019 19:37:55 GMT
I was rather disappointed by this book. I suppose a great deal depends on whether you have read any of the previous histories of the band – I think I’ve read most of them, and there’s nothing much new in here. There’s always some interesting details, but overall this is neither a comprehensive history of the band nor a persuasive analysis of the ‘glory years’. I suppose I got off to a bad start with Parker’s description of Blackpool as ‘a modest resort town perched on the North West coast of England. From its earliest days, Blackpool, thanks to a rugged surrounding terrain, was a destination only for the most earnest. However, by the end of World War II, the town had morphed into a resort of sorts, becoming a magnet for working -class English seeking relief from urban life in nearby Lancashire.’ A quick look at Wikipedia, let alone the many good books about British seaside resorts, would tell you that by the 1890s Blackpool was attracting some three million visitors a year and was the leading British resort – hardly ‘modest’ and hardly ‘by the end of World War II’. (And Ian knows that it was not just working people from Lancashire who visited – as he sings in Big Dipper: ‘The mist rolls off the beaches:/ the train rolls into the station./ Weekend happiness seekers pent-up saturation./ Well, we don't mean anyone any harm,/we weren't on the Glasgow train.’) Ian has made no secret of his dislike of Blackpool, a dislike that chimes with later comments in the book about beachgoers in general and in Monaco in particular. That sort of connection is just missing from Parker’s account. What is also missing is any reference to many of the other works on Tull. I suppose you could perhaps forgive the lack of mention of the other histories of the band, but there have been book length studies of Aqualung and TAAB/Passion Play – but you wouldn’t know it from the references. Why that’s a problem is that the book claims to be a treatment of the years in which these albums were produced, but there’s precious little analysis beyond the central thesis that Tull were a band during these years and afterwards just a support act for Anderson. Parker’s case is not helped by some rather snide remarks – ‘a revolving door of increasingly faceless sidemen toiling under the name of Jethro Tull’ seems both wrong and unnecessary. As it happens, most of my favourite albums were from those years, but there are also great songs (my user name gives a pointer to one!) and the excellence of Roots to Branches to name but one. In addition, the evidence he presents rather contradicts the story, as Ian seems to have been rather prickly and dictatorial for much of the band’s existence. Where I think Parker misses an opportunity is to compare the Tull experience with other bands. For example, he notes Steve Van Zandt as dismissing Tull as ‘theatrical’. If Parker turns to Springsteen’s excellent autobiography, he can find Bruce’s views on the band in which Steve Van Zandt played. The separation of them as the E Street Band was deliberate in a band where one person had the vision and the songwriting skills. ‘Democracy in rock bands,’ writes Springsteen, ‘with very few exceptions, is often a ticking time bomb. The examples are many, beginning and ending with the Beatles.’ I wonder if the same could be said of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Although I can’t lay my hands on the references, I think Iommi went back to Sabbath with the determination to be the leader and I think Peggy learned a good deal to take back to Fairport. There are also quite a few errors in the book. So it is neither a considered analysis (and it rather descends into a rant about the Hall of Fame – one we can agree with, but rather a waste of space) nor is it a comprehensive history. It’s a pity that David Rees has never updated his book but I guess we will soon have the official version.
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 16, 2019 6:56:25 GMT
I was rather disappointed by this book. I suppose a great deal depends on whether you have read any of the previous histories of the band – I think I’ve read most of them, and there’s nothing much new in here. There’s always some interesting details, but overall this is neither a comprehensive history of the band nor a persuasive analysis of the ‘glory years’. I've read most, if not all, of the previous books on Tull and my problem with this book is its title. In my opinion Parker's claim that the time scale he uses were the "glory years" would have been much better argued had he written about the later years and as such used examples to illustrate his arguments.
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Post by JTull 007 on Feb 16, 2019 2:18:54 GMT
Jethro Tull Ian Anderson Gentleman rocker (Camion Blanc) (French Edition) Kindle Edition by Julien Deleglise (Author) LINK
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Post by JTull 007 on Mar 21, 2019 1:20:17 GMT
QUANTI MINORIS + Launch of "Jethro Tull - Half a Century with a Flute" LINK 1 LINK 2 Thursday 21.3. / 19:30 / Concert ...As the Czech fans will be pleased to welcome your great band in the Czech Republic in the end of March 2019, I would like to use this occasion and to invite you to the Book Launching ceremony that will take place in Prague´s Mlejn Club on 21st March 2019. The launching will be organized within the concert of the Moravian folk-rock group Quanti Minoris (sometimes titled as "Moravian Jethro Tull").
We will be more than pleased and honoured to welcome you on this event!... Vladimír Řepík
...Ian is very pleased to hear about your book launch and wishes you a great evening. Unfortunately he cannot attend as he has already booked flights and arranged travel to Ostrava for dinner with the band... All the best, James, Jethro Tull and Calliandra Production
Těšíme se s Karlem na Vás Na Slamníku a ve Mlejně! Jetřich Tyl
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Post by JTull 007 on Mar 21, 2019 1:37:42 GMT
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