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Post by maddogfagin on Oct 19, 2009 15:37:03 GMT
Found this on youtube and reckoned it deserved a thread of its own. Who else would play a concert from a wheelchair Herradura Amphitheatre near San Jose, Costa Rica. March 23, 1996
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Post by admin on Oct 20, 2009 9:10:25 GMT
Lol, brilliant! I'm sure Ian probably wouldn't have thought it was funny but he certainly made the best of it! What a trooper.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2009 4:26:12 GMT
I was at this wheelchair show - amazing performance with Ian signing autographs from the stage, doing a delicate balancing act. ;D
19/8/96 Kingswood Music Theater Vaughan (Toronto), Canada In A Stone Circle, Aqualung, Thick As A Brick, Bourée, Dangerous Veils, In The Grip Of Stronger Stuff, Up The 'Pool, Pibroch/Outer Circle (inst.), Beside Myself, In The Times Of India, Nothing Is Easy, Keyboard solo, Farm On The Freeway, My God, Locomotive Breath, Aquadiddley, Cross-Eyed Mary/Dogs In The Midwinter (inst.)/Dambusters March
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Post by maddogfagin on Oct 21, 2009 7:49:16 GMT
I was at this wheelchair show - amazing performance with Ian signing autographs from the stage, doing a delicate balancing act. ;D It's now firmly placed in the maddog brain that every time I read of acts cancelling a show I think of IA performing in a wheelchair when, in all honesty, he could have cancelled for valid reasons. Would have liked to have been there just to say "thank you" to IA for being a consumate professional.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2009 15:32:11 GMT
groups.google.ca/group/alt.music.jethro-tull/browse_thread/thread/c5d1986950d6650a/f4686b4978625686?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=kingswood#f4686b4978625686Ah, memory. I thought Ian was wheeled out at this show, as he was still in discomfort at this point - he's done that as a joke before, too??? I must have been standing beside Bob Smith, the part about signing the Brick album is right on. Ian really wobbled at that point leaning towards my wife and I at the front of the stage as the pen was passed beside us - great fun."Ian was limping noticeably on his left leg, but put on a strong performance. Lots of chatter between songs. He seemed to be in an excellent mood. Despite his discomfort, he was on his feet for most of the night. One really nice touch... during the encore, a guy in front row centre handed Ian an LP copy of Thick As A Brick. In mid-song, while he was actually singing, Ian took the album, then got a pen from the guy, signed the album, gave it back, then even remembered to put the cap back on the pen and hand it back. All this without missing a beat. Anyway, as I say, I'll try to pass on a few more observations after I've had some sleep. All in all, a great show, especially from Tull. ELP was okay, but not great. Almost all old stuff, very little new... but then again, unlike Tull, ELP hasn't really done much since the 70's have they??" -Bob Smith
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Post by maddogfagin on Oct 24, 2009 7:53:26 GMT
he's done that as a joke before, too??? IA was wheeled out onto the stage in a wheelchair to much laughter from the audience at Wembley Arena in 1988 by Maartin Allcock. They had the "Oh no not another 20 years of Jethro Tull" banner as a backdrop. The support band were Fairport and the ticket cost . . . . £9.50p.
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Post by steelmonkey on Oct 24, 2009 16:06:56 GMT
And at the end of Aqualung...ian and martin B collapsed and were taken offstage , by stretcher and wheelchair...too much laughter...presaging the actual wheelchair gigs years later
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Post by kaibailey on Nov 1, 2009 2:37:10 GMT
Wow how ironic!
It's great that he still went on with the shows. Not many rock and roll frontmen have done that in the past, and a good number of them have been in wheelchairs.
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