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Post by Koba the Cat on Feb 15, 2012 15:37:58 GMT -5
I was aware of Tull from an early age going back to when Bungle was a U.S. radio hit when I was 5 years old. I remember it on Top 40 AM radio! Then Aqualung was popular among boys in grade school, as well as the A Tour video being in early MTV rotation. My senior year in High school was '86-'87, and around that time I was exploring my own musical tastes (I hated '80's music in favor of '60s and '70's) and bought M.U. on CD in early '87, followed by Crest when it came out. Then Tull came to New Haven in '87, and although not a big fan, as an 18 year old college freshman I thought it would be cool to go and I caught Tull Fever!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2012 2:41:28 GMT -5
Wow, I didn't know they used to air the A tour show on MTV in the early days... sort of comical when you consider what it is nowadays.
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Post by Misteman 4 on Mar 4, 2012 11:52:13 GMT -5
before discovering Tull when I was about 15..I listened to Alice Cooper alot, loved the album "killer" with "halo of flies" etc. however the music lyrically was shallow and i knew it. One day whilst no one was watching a kangaroo ran close by...and loudly proclaimed..."you must go in search of more intelligent music"!!..soooo at a party while smoking alot of what we called "thai-stick" a friend put on the album "Thick as a Brick" and after finding out I had never heard of Tull then proceeded to play "Aqualung" and an album that had just been released and that was "WarChild". This was in 1974 and I had just started high school and was in the process of making NEW friends. So soon after I started buying the remaining Tull albums I had not yet heard. I loved them all excepte "This Was" and I still have never much warmed up to that one. The only other Tull album I didn't much care for was "Catfish Rising".
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Nursie Dear
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Post by Nursie Dear on Mar 4, 2012 14:16:49 GMT -5
When I was 12 my then 20 year old brother stuck phones on my head and made me listen to TAAB. It HURT my brain but I loved it! 18 months later I found myself buying War Child at the local department store. That's what really hooked me.
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Post by Mttbsh on Mar 4, 2012 18:58:47 GMT -5
At the age of 15 (seems the age many of us discovered Tulll) it was early 1971 and my buddy's very cool older sister was playing Tommy and the James Gang and Aqualung on her amazing stereo system that one could hear all the way down at the beach 4 blocks away. The first song I heard was My God, and a few months later that was Tull's opening piece when I saw them at the Seattle Center Coliseum, my first real rock concert. I remember Ian kicking his stool across the stage and Jeffrey (in oversized sunglasses) and Martin diving out in an explosion of rock guitar.I was completely gobsmacked.
The following year I was even more amazed by the TAAB concert, to this day my favorite concert by any band. I again saw Tull at the Coliseum for A Passion Play, WarChild, Minstrel, Songs from the Wood, I looked forward every year to seeing what Tull would do next.
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