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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 7, 2010 18:49:03 GMT
Now I use the term "celebrity" in its widest sense but anyone know of any "celebrity" fans. If football managers count Martin O'Neill of Aston Villa is a fan also Nick Cave, Stephen King and the politician Geoff Hoon are as well. Strange bedfellows indeed
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Post by steelmonkey on Jan 7, 2010 19:07:16 GMT
The American baseball manager, Tony LaRussa is a big Tull fan....Lame-o musicians john tesh and dave Matthews have both described themselves as big Tull fans.
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Post by angusprune on Jan 7, 2010 21:46:50 GMT
In the Crest Of A Knave tour programme Don Airey says that his old cohort Ritchie Blackmore is a huge Tull fan....and, I don't know if this counts, but Michael Barrymore (disgraced ex-comedian and game show host) once said that he used to be in a band that played "all the old Jethro Tull numbers"
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Post by ulla on Jan 8, 2010 9:37:23 GMT
Michael Mendl, a famous German artist who is on tour with the Excalibur show at the moment, confessed, that he is a Tull fan.
Years ago in a Saturday Night Show,Wigald Boning, a German comedian (yes, there are some German comedians!!!) did a "flute solo" on a toilet brush, standing on one leg. It was funny.
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Post by quizzkid on Jan 8, 2010 10:26:02 GMT
Now I use the term "celebrity" in its widest sense but anyone know of any "celebrity" fans. If football managers count Martin O'Neill of Aston Villa is a fan also Nick Cave, Stephen King and the politician Geoff Hoon are as well. Strange bedfellows indeed I saw an interview with Martin O'Neill on the box once at a time when he was being linked to the manager positions at a number of football clubs [pre-Villa] during which he was asked what his fantasy job would be. I poresume they expected an answer as to what club he would like to manage. I think he surprised the host when he replied, "The guitar palyer in Jethro Tull". Carol Decker and the guitarist from t'Pau also declared once in a newspaper interview that they were Tull fans. I think Ian cites Johnny Rotten as a someone who lists Aqualung as one of their most influential albums. How true that is I don't know. I used to be quite surprised that more musicians don't cite Tull as an influence. I'm a few years younger than him but I went to the same secondary school as Michael Barrymore [formerly Michael Parker] but don't ever recall him being in band, during those days.
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Post by Dan on Jan 8, 2010 14:12:38 GMT
I read in an interview that Steve Carell (The Office, Get Smart, The 40 yr.old Virgin) is a big Tull fan. He mentions Tull in this interview at about 1:40.
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Post by angusprune on Jan 8, 2010 16:40:25 GMT
I think Ian cites Johnny Rotten as a someone who lists Aqualung as one of their most influential albums. How true that is I don't know. Implausible as it may seem, it's actually true - I heard JR say so himself in an interview on Radio 2 last year. Apparently "Life Is A Long Song" is one of his favourite singles of all time...I kid you not! I'm a few years younger than him but I went to the same secondary school as Michael Barrymore [formerly Michael Parker] but don't ever recall him being in band, during those days. I remember him mentioning it in passing during the obligatory preamble/chit-chat with a contestant on "Strike It Lucky" who was a budding musician; a quick bit of Googlery reveals that he did indeed play keyboards in a Tull/Cream/Jeff Beck-influenced soul( ) band called "Fine China" circa 1970-71: www.michael-barrymore.co.uk/pages/finechina.html
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Post by quizzkid on Jan 8, 2010 18:36:21 GMT
I think Ian cites Johnny Rotten as a someone who lists Aqualung as one of their most influential albums. How true that is I don't know. Implausible as it may seem, it's actually true - I heard JR say so himself in an interview on Radio 2 last year. Apparently "Life Is A Long Song" is one of his favourite singles of all time...I kid you not! I'm a few years younger than him but I went to the same secondary school as Michael Barrymore [formerly Michael Parker] but don't ever recall him being in band, during those days. I remember him mentioning it in passing during the obligatory preamble/chit-chat with a contestant on "Strike It Lucky" who was a budding musician; a quick bit of Googlery reveals that he did indeed play keyboards in a Tull/Cream/Jeff Beck-influenced soul( ) band called "Fine China" circa 1970-71: www.michael-barrymore.co.uk/pages/finechina.htmlThanks for the links, as for Barrymore, Looks like that was a few years after he left school, he would never had hair that long at St Mick's, and they must have played away from bermondsey, as I was a regular in the "pub" rock circuit in the area and I don't remember any band doing any Tull stuff around then. If that is the case, then i wonder if the Barrymore stage name was borrowed from another "Barrimore"?
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 10, 2010 17:00:15 GMT
In the Crest Of A Knave tour programme Don Airey says that his old cohort Ritchie Blackmore is a huge Tull fan And we could probably add Candice to the fan list as well
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 10, 2010 17:21:12 GMT
And I reckon these two are probably fans as well - playing homage to Glenn and Ian?
A performance in Phoenix, October 11 1994 with Michael Manring and Michael Hedges with a duet of Bach's fifth movement from Suite for Lute in E minor.
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Post by coolraven on Jan 10, 2010 21:19:04 GMT
I seem to remember that as a eulogy at the late Paul Newman's funeral, him being a big fan, what else but Elegy was played ( or someone else said Rattlesnake Trail !!)
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Post by tullabye on Jan 10, 2010 23:53:09 GMT
I was at the Hollywood "House of Blues" Tull concert a few years ago and low and behold, Bette Midler was there having a great time, even singing along to a couple of songs.
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Post by Aqualung55 on Jan 11, 2010 11:33:36 GMT
Martin O'Neill is a BIG fan, and I know because I used to work in football myself.
Does "Secretary of Cambridge United for 8 years in the 1990's, then head-hunted by Delia Smith to Norwich City" count as a celebrity?
During that time, I used to 'use' my position and relationship with Radio Cambridgeshire, and can claim to have been responsible for the playing of Skating Away.....and Dun Ringill on two occasions. One week, on the Saturday Breakfast show, the presenter asked a quiz question "name the United Secretary Steve Greenall's favourite band" and the first caller got it right! A week before I left United, I persuaded the PA man to use the intro to Black Sunday for the teams to come out to. Sounded awesome....it was a night match and always good for atmosphere.
Through being at CU, I met the legendary John Belville, who is a Stoke City fan.
And he got to know the band after Barrie Barlow met him, with his Stoke City holdall, at a festival in Europe, and mentioned that he was a Villa fan.
That takes us full circle, back to Villa.
I did take former Cambridge goalkeeper Jon Sheffield to see Tull at Cambridge Corn Exchange....would have been around 1994 ??
Not quite a "Bette Midler" claim to fame.......oh, and I did meet Don Airey on Boxing Day evening in the Crown and Cushion in Great Gransden, Cambs. He used to (may still do) take one of his keyboards into the pub, play Christmas carols, and then it was a free for all singing round the keyboard. I must admit, then chance to sing - beer induced - with an ex Tullie is a happy memory.
Sorry if that's a bit self indulgent, but depends on how you define celebrity ;-)
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 11, 2010 13:46:34 GMT
Martin O'Neill is a BIG fan, and I know because I used to work in football myself. Does "Secretary of Cambridge United for 8 years in the 1990's, then head-hunted by Delia Smith to Norwich City" count as a celebrity? During that time, I used to 'use' my position and relationship with Radio Cambridgeshire, and can claim to have been responsible for the playing of Skating Away.....and Dun Ringill on two occasions. One week, on the Saturday Breakfast show, the presenter asked a quiz question "name the United Secretary Steve Greenall's favourite band" and the first caller got it right! A week before I left United, I persuaded the PA man to use the intro to Black Sunday for the teams to come out to. Sounded awesome....it was a night match and always good for atmosphere. Through being at CU, I met the legendary John Belville, who is a Stoke City fan. And he got to know the band after Barrie Barlow met him, with his Stoke City holdall, at a festival in Europe, and mentioned that he was a Villa fan. That takes us full circle, back to Villa. I did take former Cambridge goalkeeper Jon Sheffield to see Tull at Cambridge Corn Exchange....would have been around 1994 ?? Not quite a "Bette Midler" claim to fame.......oh, and I did meet Don Airey on Boxing Day evening in the Crown and Cushion in Great Gransden, Cambs. He used to (may still do) take one of his keyboards into the pub, play Christmas carols, and then it was a free for all singing round the keyboard. I must admit, then chance to sing - beer induced - with an ex Tullie is a happy memory. Sorry if that's a bit self indulgent, but depends on how you define celebrity ;-) Not self indulgent at all. I reckon you could expand your "story(s)" somewhat especially being headhunted by Delia Smith ;D What became of John Belville? Used to see him a lot at concerts. I was at the Cambridge concert as well and my car broke down on the way home to south London and had to call out the AA. While the AA guy was fixing the car he enquired where I'd been and after telling him about the concert he said he was a Tull fan and had hoped to go but had been rostered on duty. It passed a half hour or so while he fixed the carbureter and off we went into the night on our separate ways. Think the date was September 1995 by the way and if it's the same concert, Martin Barre either broke a string or the equipment failed and IA did a couple of unsheduled acoustic songs whilst everything was being fixed.
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 11, 2010 14:09:26 GMT
Just remembered that the late Alan Freeman of Radio 1 and Capital Radio fame was also a very big Tull fan and used to play them a lot on the Saturday Rock Show. I phoned him up when he was presenting his programme one Saturday night and got him to play Budapest and he called "Crest of a Knave" one of the best albums ever recorded that year. Tommy Vance (also of Radio 1 and Capital Radio) was also a big Tull fan. I briefly met him at a Tull concert in Hayes, Middlesex, where he was reviewing the concert for his programme later in the week. Another great radio presenter now sadly departed. BTW I doubt very much if any of Metallica are Tull fans although I maybe wrong
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Post by Aqualung55 on Jan 11, 2010 15:24:28 GMT
Hey, Mad Dog...cheers for a rapid reply, as well as the encouragement. If ever we meet at a gig, I'll fill in some of the gaps....but seeing as when I left NCFC, I agreed not to talk much about my time there, I won't ...on here ;-)
Funnily, I had once intended to write down my experiences, as there are many, but for now, I can say that John Belville is now retired from his job on the railways and spends most of his time either following Stoke or enjoying well earned breaks around the world. He and I still swap postcards and Christmas cards. John got me a backstage pass at Manchester Apollo in about 1992 ?? and though Messrs. Anderson and Barre weren't around, I did meet Doane Perry, Andy Giddings and Dave Pegg....and have the photo's to prove it. And how cool is it when Mr Pegg shook my hand and said "any mate of John's is a mate of mine.....what are you drinking?" So we shared a few Becks in the very dingy back stage area.
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 12, 2010 9:49:59 GMT
First words from Peggy when I initially met him in the bar at the end of a Fairport concert at Wimbledon Theatre many years ago were "so what are you having?".
Although I think Fairport as a group are "fans" (if you can call them that) of Tull, I've never known if Simon Nicol is a fan of JT or not.
He's never recorded with Tull although he has appeared on stage with them in the past at various venues and at Cropredy.
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Post by quizzkid on Jan 14, 2010 12:57:53 GMT
Another fan was the late Dave Stevens, the American comic book artist. He mentions Tull in his posthumously released biography "A Brush with passion", as one of his favourite bands he listened to when growing up.
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 16, 2010 18:38:05 GMT
Would I be correct in assuming Don Van Vliet aka Captain Beefheart is a fan?
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Post by nonrabbit on Jan 25, 2010 10:03:24 GMT
again using the term "celebrity" loosely taken from Times interview with Anderson May 2008 "Jethro Tull have some unlikely political fans, including Geoff Hoon. “I'm not exactly happy about his stance on Iraq when he was Defence Secretary. Still, it's hard to dislike someone who has been gushing how much he likes your stuff ... But God forbid that Tony Blair owns one of my albums.” The Russian President-elect Dmitri Medvedev has named Tull as one of his four favourite groups. In fact they are a hit generally with the big men of Russia - except one. In 1991 Anderson was photographed with the Mayor of St Petersburg. “He seemed like an OK, urbane character but on the edge of this photo is this face, it's an evil-looking guy who is his bodyguard. He's staring at me and clearly doesn't like me. Many years later someone showed me the picture again and said, ‘Do you recognise that face on the edge of the photo?' It was Vladimir Putin in his days as a KGB minder"
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Post by steelmonkey on Jan 26, 2010 0:49:29 GMT
I've always been impressed at the extent of Tull's popularity in Russia...not only amongst the common folks but amongst the big dogs as well. Tull was on par with the Beatles as early as the mid-eighties when the first glimmers of glasnost allowed western music to be distrubuted. I think of it as proof that Tull is real art...not lightweight pop crap if the culture that produced Dostoyevsky, Pushkin and countless other artistic and philosophical heavyweights throughout history are somehow able, despite language barriers, to 'get' Tull. Ian certainly looks the part of heartless commissar from the Soviet era....maybe they sense his authority !
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 26, 2010 9:57:35 GMT
I've always been impressed at the extent of Tull's popularity in Russia...not only amongst the common folks but amongst the big dogs as well. Tull was on par with the Beatles as early as the mid-eighties when the first glimmers of glasnost allowed western music to be distrubuted. I think of it as proof that Tull is real art...not lightweight pop crap if the culture that produced Dostoyevsky, Pushkin and countless other artistic and philosophical heavyweights throughout history are somehow able, despite language barriers, to 'get' Tull. Ian certainly looks the part of heartless commissar from the Soviet era....maybe they sense his authority ! Interesting thoughts Steel but does Vladimir Putin play the flute?
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Post by earsoftin on May 2, 2010 15:11:52 GMT
Iain Banks, leading Scottish novelist, has this brief comment in his Raw Spirit: in search of the perfect dram:
'Masham is full of Good Things, like the White Bear Inn (which appears to have some connection to Jethro Tull, a band I still have a real soft spot for)'
That's it - but it must count! From memory the great Ian Rankin (in my view a much better Scottish novelist!) has a passing mention, but I'm blowed if I can remember where!
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Post by nonrabbit on May 2, 2010 15:24:44 GMT
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Post by earsoftin on May 2, 2010 16:51:43 GMT
Thanks - that's a pretty good list from Rebus! Interesting to see the Fife connection with Nazareth. Rankin is somebody with lots of interesting things to say about music, although I found the Arab Strap stuff just a little beyond my taste. Saw him at a book reading and he's the sort of person you'd like to have a chat with.
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Post by parkbench on Jun 11, 2010 13:17:44 GMT
In the latest record collector Marc Almond comes out as a Tull fan!!!!!!
He also cites Glam and Prog as being when music was best.
Jim Kerr also lists some proggy groups as some of the best he's seen - including YES.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2010 13:23:25 GMT
I see that Johnny Rotten has been mentioned here's some recent Johnny Rotten comments by Ian. www.nj.com/entertainment/music/index.ssf/2010/06/ian_anderson_brings_jethro_tul.htmlThink you’re too punk-rock to appreciate Jethro Tull? Johnny Rotten wouldn’t say the same. Ian Anderson, the charismatic piper who has successfully guided Tull through the shifting pop landscape for the past 40 years, counts the notorious Sex Pistols singer as a fan. “In the ’70s, John Lydon was one of the most vehement denouncers of anything and everything that preceded his band,” says Anderson, 62. “He has subsequently revealed to me, in person, that he was always a Tull fan, and that ‘Aqualung’ was a pivotal record for him. “I believe his pose on stage probably owes something to the cover of that album.” Why wouldn’t it? Years before punk shook up the establishment, Anderson’s lyrics on “Aqualung,” “Benefit,” and other classic ’70s LPs challenged organized religion and confronted social inequality. Anderson’s wild-eyed performances as Jethro Tull’s frontman have been praised for their manic intensity. His eccentric style and sardonic wit continue to appeal to individualists of all kinds.
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Post by nonrabbit on Jun 11, 2010 17:08:30 GMT
In the latest record collector Marc Almond comes out as a Tull fan!!!!!! He also cites Glam and Prog as being when music was best. Jim Kerr also lists some proggy groups as some of the best he's seen - including YES. Huh when I think back to 1976 and all the flack that appeared overnight about all the music that I listened too
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Post by tullist on Jun 11, 2010 19:00:02 GMT
I see that Johnny Rotten has been mentioned here's some recent Johnny Rotten comments by Ian. www.nj.com/entertainment/music/index.ssf/2010/06/ian_anderson_brings_jethro_tul.htmlThink you’re too punk-rock to appreciate Jethro Tull? Johnny Rotten wouldn’t say the same. Ian Anderson, the charismatic piper who has successfully guided Tull through the shifting pop landscape for the past 40 years, counts the notorious Sex Pistols singer as a fan. “In the ’70s, John Lydon was one of the most vehement denouncers of anything and everything that preceded his band,” says Anderson, 62. “He has subsequently revealed to me, in person, that he was always a Tull fan, and that ‘Aqualung’ was a pivotal record for him. “I believe his pose on stage probably owes something to the cover of that album.” Why wouldn’t it? Years before punk shook up the establishment, Anderson’s lyrics on “Aqualung,” “Benefit,” and other classic ’70s LPs challenged organized religion and confronted social inequality. Anderson’s wild-eyed performances as Jethro Tull’s frontman have been praised for their manic intensity. His eccentric style and sardonic wit continue to appeal to individualists of all kinds. While I cannot say I have not had a few moments in life where the Sex Pistols amused and entertained me, I take any compliments from them or the Ramones as being of very low quality. I say this because I assure u having lived thru the punk years and Chicago's punk bars starting in the mid seventies, (only going because friends and of course girls were there) none of those people would have admitted any such thing until about 90, there simply was nothing less punk than Tull, though in actual fact, Ian was much better at the anger aspect than any of those, in large part, clowns. I used to occasionally wear Tull shirts or tweed jackets to these punk bars, and always looked borderline hippie, and probably was to some extent looking for a fight, many was the time I met cool appraising stares from cockatoo headed boys in "t shirts so precisely torn" usually about 120 pounds on a 5 10 frame, and yes, a part of me wanted to beat their arrogant asses into submission. I have long been baffled why people stood by in London when the Sex Pistols were actually spitting at older folks, had that happened in Chicago I have little doubt their scrawny drug addled bodies would shortly have been in the Chicago river. Ditto on my feelings for the over heralded punk rock era, bits of which I did like, had Jimi not died and the Beatles not become too popular to exist I do not believe that era would ever have occured, and it still would have been ok to have an original idea, with maybe a little musicianship on the side, without falling to the equally questionable arena of prog.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2010 20:36:01 GMT
tullist, Right on! A lot of your posts ring true for me. Tull shirts or tweed jackets to these punk bars, I took up this cause in Toronto. Don't tell anyone.
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