Jeff's story

[TM]

Aug 22, 2009 8:48:46 GMT maddogfagin said:

Aug 21, 2009 14:23:30 GMT TM said:

You can't be serious.

Nothing to do with batting averages then ;D

[steelmonkey]

Sadly, for me and the rest of humanity, the bug reminds me of the revelation I had, somewhere around 1992, that I had migrated from the Jethro Tull guest list to the pest list, perhaps, thus far, never to return.....

[nonrabbit]

Aug 22, 2009 15:13:00 GMT steelmonkey said:

Sadly, for me and the rest of humanity, the bug reminds me of the revelation I had, somewhere around 1992, that I had migrated from the Jethro Tull guest list to the pest list, perhaps, thus far, never to return.....

Don't be so modest
You'll get your chance at Modesto send in the ladies first and then you can appear!!

[steelmonkey]

Good plan....I'll check the kid's toy drawer(s) for finger puppets that can double as willie warmers.

[bluehare]

I'm a little bit intimidated by the whole Ian-only-surrounded-by-hotties thing, too.

I am afraid all the allure in our group will have to be laid at the feet of salamander or rebecca (or possibly SM's girly's toys...).

My allure ran out years ago...or I could have accidentally stuck it in the box of my kids' discarded toys that went to the local charity. Somebody else could be walking around right now with my allure (and they probably got it for a great price, besides...).

[salamander]

Ah, well, Rebecca, it's all up to you, girl

[rebecca]

I have always had to rely on charm and wit to make my way in this world instead of any platonic ideal of beauty, and middle age hasn't changed helped. However, who cares? If charm and wit aren't enough, to H-E-double hocky sticks with him! He'd be lucky to have as good a time as we're going to!

[nonrabbit]

Aug 24, 2009 0:41:40 GMT rebecca said:

He'd be lucky to have as good a time as we're going to!

Hear hear and another thing too he and they are lucky to have such great fans.

In fact - if you do get the chance to see them, in person, tell whoever it is that organises these things on the night;
" Would the band like to meet US !!!!" ;D

[maddogfagin]

Aug 23, 2009 20:20:31 GMT bluehare said:

I'm a little bit intimidated by the whole Ian-only-surrounded-by-hotties thing, too.

It's an odd thing that I've only asked to meet IA on 2 or 3 occassions and each time Kenny Wylie was more than helpful. Each time IA signed the concert programme and seemed more interested in how the fans reacted to the concert or how we got interested in Tull in the first place. Never seen him surrounded by "hot chicks", more often than not by the after show Becks beer crate ;D

It may well be that the band's reaction to fans is different in whatever country they are playing in - UK fans always seem a bit reserved and like to hang back and give the band some room but that is only from seeing them in Blighty and once in Germany.

[steelmonkey]

Not bragging but I've been backstage a lot--USA, Germany, Italy...and have never seen a preponderance of hotties...just the aforementioned bruised fruits and sixes of becks/Heiniken or, on a good night, Pilsner Urquell and some middling wine bottles. Ian is polite and usually self-critical and visibly torn between desire to do his bit mingling with friends and fans and equal desire to serve his often stated priority of getting the stage clothes into the hotel sink with Woolite (no joke-it saves money)...I saw him suffer deeply once, in LA, surrounded by cliche entertainment bizness assholes...he was visibly in pain...the low point came when some music store dick for brain made him admire a picture of a baby with an grown up penis 'photo-shopped' in...which he claimed was him....Ian blanched and turned away...I am sure he was stifiling a plethora of appropriate reactions to this guy!