I remember that concert! That was the one when we ran into Peggy at a bar before the show and I had to escort him to the loo (no I didn't have to assist him after that!), and then my wife lay down on that road in protest of my getting upset with her for smoking after saying she'd quit...that would have made a great photo actually (kind of a spin on the Passion Play album cover)...
Mike
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I remember that concert! That was the one when we ran into Peggy at a bar before the show and I had to escort him to the loo (no I didn't have to assist him after that!), and then my wife lay down on that road in protest of my getting upset with her for smoking after saying she'd quit...that would have made a great photo actually (kind of a spin on the Passion Play album cover)...
Mike
Jeez, what a control freak, why were you so upset with her....you weren't married yet, and I don't think you were even engaged at the time! But I do remember that, now that you mention it, and I also remember when we met Peggy at the bar.
We drove up there and saw all three shows at The Orpheum, but what I have no recollection of is where we stayed. I assume it was a hotel in downtown Boston.
Those shows were great, Tull brought down the house, and the third night was I think the best of all. First time I ever sat in the front row, I think.
And then when we got back, we also saw both shows at the Beacon!
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Re: Cool Tull Photo of the Day « Reply #3 on Apr 7, 2011, 10:56pm »
'Hello from the Hard Rock' - NYC, 1989
Ian did an appearance with Scott Muni of WNEW, broadcasting live from the Hard Rock Cafe (then located on West 57th between Broadway and 7th), as part of the promotion for the Rock Island tour. Naturally, I was there.
[BTW, if you plan to visit NYC in the near future, the pizza place shown in the background of photo #4, Mariella Pizza, is no longer at that location, but is right around the corner on Eighth Avenue between 56th & 57th. All they do is pizza, and it's the best in the City.]
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Re: Cool Tull Photo of the Day « Reply #4 on Apr 8, 2011, 9:53pm »
In the seventies and eighties, The Lone Star Cafe on Fifth and West 13th was a very popular southern rock/country rock venue, with lots of well-known acts and a 40 foot iguana sculpture on the roof. It was known for getting rowdy.
The Lone Star Cafe closed in 1989 and was replaced by the larger Lone Star Roadhouse on West 52nd Street, but the Roadhouse only lasted a few years. The link below says it was shuttered in 1992, but that is incorrect because Tull played a seventy-five minute lunchtime set there in April of 1993, with a ponytailed Matt Pegg filling in for Dad Pegg on bass. The show was broadcast live on WNEW and started at noon.
I snuck out from my office on Park Avenue South at 11:30, jumped in a cab, but got caught in traffic and missed the first ten minutes of the show. But still, it was great to see Tull during lunch hour!
"The do-er and the thinker, no allowance for the other, as the failing light illuminates the mercenaries creed." Boxes come and boxes go, you need the cash or be in the know.
I refused one of glasses of wine simply on the basis that Ian had his fingers in the glasses.
I would never have refused a glass of wine from Ian, even if his finger was in it. What a nice memory that would have been to have (sharing a glass of wine with Ian). Now the memory that's in it's place, is you refused the wine because his finger was in it... I am so not germaphobic.
I refused one of glasses of wine simply on the basis that Ian had his fingers in the glasses.
I would never have refused a glass of wine from Ian, even if his finger was in it. What a nice memory that would have been to have (sharing a glass of wine with Ian). Now the memory that's in it's place, is you refused the wine because his finger was in it... I am so not germaphobic.
Silken...
Well that's because moments earlier he had just cleaned the spit out of his flute. ;)
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Re: Cool Tull Photo of the Day « Reply #19 on Aug 16, 2011, 9:53pm »
Head adjustment.
This photo has several stories tied into it.
Story #1 - My post-Tull-show bummer.
The picture was taken after a show in Pougkeepsie in 1997, which I saw with Rob Scollo. That day I had driven to Rob's house in Rockland County and left my car there; we took his car up to Poughkeepsie.
After the show we drove back to his house. He offered to let me stay over because it was around 2:00 a.m. I told him I couldn't because I had to work the next day.
So I drove my 1992 Mercury Cougar that I had just finished paying off back to the City, except I missed the exit on the Henry Hudson for 79th Street, thinking I could get off at 72nd, however there is only an entrance ramp at 72nd. So I had to go all the way down to 57th Street. I'm in the left lane on the Henry Hudson, passing one of the new Trump buildings that was just going up in the West 60's at the time. There's a car about four or five car lengths behind me, and then I see in my rear mirror a burst of headlights as another car, speeding and out of control, and tearing around the car that was behind me, entering the left lane at a very high speed. I knew he was going to hit me so I braced myself.
Two seconds late he hit me sending me into a tailspin several times. But the Cougar was a 3,800 pound tank, and because I knew it was coming I braced myself, so I was okay. When I got out I saw that the car which had hit me was a SUV, and it had flipped over and it's engine had caught fire a little. Traffic at 3:00 a.m. was backed up for miles as the police and fire department responded to the scene.
My Cougar was totalled. The guy who hit me wound up suing me for supposedly changing lanes, but it was clear from the point of impact and damage what had happened. My insurance company lawyers ultimately had the case dismissed. A few years later I read that one of the lawyers who represented the guy was disbarred.
Story #2 - Martin Barre's invitation to my Tull Cave.
The guy standing next to Andy in the photo is this guy Gene, who I knew from many Tull shows and conventions back in the day. He was an avid tennis player and was friendly with Martin. He would play tennis with Martin whenever Tull came to town.
In 1992 Tull played two shows at the Beacon Theater for the Light and Dark Tour. I was living in a 'Tull Cave' a block away from the theater. It was a 600 square foot studio apartment that was on the first floor, but felt like a basement apartment because it was in the back of the building facing the wall of another building, and got no light, except for a single sliver of light, consisting of about four photons of light that tried to enter the apartment for about three minutes a day at around noon. I say "tried" because I had the window shades always pulled down all the way, no matter what time of day or night, because the windows were covered with decades of thick black soot. (This was before incinerators in NYC were banned in the mid-1990s, and buildings had to switch to trash compactors.) My friends all called the place "the cave" because it was so dark, and with all my Tull stuff there, it really was a Tull Cave.
Anyway, for those two Beacon shows, me and Mike Grin hosted pre- and post- show parties in my nearby cave, with 15-20 fans showing up both nights, people I had just met a year or two earlier, like Benjamin and Debbie, Dennis, Beverly, Lee, Glenda and Steve from Maryland, Gene and several others.
On one of the nights Gene said that he had given Martin my address and invited him to the post-show party, so we were all waiting and hoping for Martin to ring the doorbell. But it didn't happen, and in retrospect, we should have realized that Martin is a shy type who probably doesn't care for parties too much. We still had a great time though, hanging out and partying in the cave, playing Tull music (still mostly vinyl LPs at the time) with Benjamin playing guitar and all of us singing Tull tunes.
Photos of my 'Tull Cave' -- and from my Tull Cave parties -- to follow. Look for them in the existing Tull Cave thread just started a few days ago by Jim!
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