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Post by jtul07 on Aug 15, 2011 11:44:09 GMT -5
Jim what an incredible collection and thanks for sharing it. Your wife must be very Tull-tolerant, i couldn't see Mrs Quizz leeting me dispaly all my "stuff" Tull memorabillia in the house. My wife is the best part of being a Tull Fan. She secretly wishes to pose for the next "Passion Play" album cover. I just can't say enough good things except, "Can I go to the next Tull gig in North Carolina?" I love your Evolution artwork. It does make for a better Man.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2011 3:07:43 GMT -5
I love your Evolution artwork. It does make for a better Man. Thanks, Jim much appreciated. and hopefully it might be available soon in a unique and useful format.....
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Post by tootull on Aug 17, 2011 9:21:19 GMT -5
Wow & wow. jtull07
Thanks for the view, I feel completely sane.
...here on the inside, outside so far away.
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Post by jtul07 on Aug 18, 2011 21:34:21 GMT -5
I can't be too excited about these items. Bumper Stickers from a Tull Convention in '97. Just look at the amazing workmanship. Yeah, it's just a Tull Sticker. An economical way to express your Tullness.
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Post by jtul07 on Aug 19, 2011 14:33:49 GMT -5
Bridget is a special Tull loving Beagle. She requested I post her favorite items from her personal Tull Cave. All her pieces are 12" picture discs with 1 album cover. She had to include that for obvious reasons. It's my own "Rock Island". Bridget does not drink alcohol, but she still wants this in her Tull Cave.
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Post by jtul07 on Aug 19, 2011 15:15:52 GMT -5
If you thought this album was lame, then you are wrong. I still like it for many reasons. I love the uniforms, but they were hard to keep clean. For his part Mark Craney deserves a special knighthood "Sir Mark Craney - A Drummer for Jethro Tull" He will always be missed.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2011 16:00:18 GMT -5
When it came out "A" was a shock.. but now I love it.
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Post by jtul07 on Aug 21, 2011 15:46:17 GMT -5
"Divinities" Bought from an U.K. poster dealer. It remains in a tube most of the time until I can find the right frame for it. p.s. Notice the live date at Shepherds Bush Empire May 24th. > bottom right corner.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2011 17:13:13 GMT -5
I guess I will have to break out the 5foot tall Ian, that was used for Ministrel In The Gallery
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Post by jtul07 on Aug 21, 2011 20:09:12 GMT -5
I guess I will have to break out the 5foot tall Ian, that was used for Ministrel In The Gallery That would be another great addition to the virtual Tull Cave. There are no limits, only more Tull works of art.
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Post by Nonfatman on Sept 24, 2011 8:51:08 GMT -5
If you thought this album was lame, then you are wrong. I still like it for many reasons. I love the uniforms, but they were hard to keep clean. For his part Mark Craney deserves a special knighthood "Sir Mark Craney - A Drummer for Jethro Tull" He will always be missed. I never thought this album was lame.....I loved it from the start, except for the sound quality, but the remastered edition took care of that. I've always felt that A was extremely effective in what it set out to do, which was to create a tense and chilling atmosphere apropos of the Cold War international politics that prevailed at the time. Back then, people were really scared of a nuclear war. I remember when Reagan was running for president....people actually thought he would push the red button if elected. The A album captured the essence of that fear. It was also a prophetic album. Look at the lyrics to And Further On..."we saw the heavens break, and all the World go down to sleep....saw fiery angels kiss the dawn...will we still be here further on?" I was in New York and watched the fiery angels kissing the sky on 9/11, the day the World (Trade Center) went down to sleep, and for months afterward New Yorkers worried whether or not we would still be here "further on." Ian wrote those lyrics 20 years earlier. Jeff
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Post by Nonfatman on Sept 24, 2011 9:35:00 GMT -5
When I first moved into the City in 1987, I lived in a small studio apartment on the upper west side, two blocks from the Beacon Theater, which my friends all called "The Cave." It was on the ground floor, but felt like a basement apartment, as it faced an inner shaftway and the wall of another building, so no natural light entered, except for a tiny beam of sunlight that lasted for about two or three minutes, usually around noon. The apartment was also adjacent to the elevator shaft, so the walls would vibrate each time the elevator moved up or down....which was pretty much always. The sense of cavernous darkness and gloom was exacerbated by the fact that the windows -- which were the original sash cord windows from when the building was built sixty years earlier -- were covered by soot which rose from the incinerator at the bottom of the shaftway just beneath the apartment. (These were the days before incinerators were banned by the City in the nineties, and buildings were required to replace them with trash compactors). Because of the soot-caked windows, I kept the shades permanently drawn closed. The place was a perfect Tull cave, with the kind of thick, solid walls typical of pre-war construction, so I could blast Tull to my heart's content, without fear of complaint, and that's exactly what I did. And, naturally, the walls were adorned with Tull posters, etc., and I had a little Tull shrine. The cave is shown in the first photo, circa 1989. You can see my rainbow-colored Living in the Past Tull mirrror, which broke a few years later when I dropped it, while using it to check my hair....which I foolishly thought I was losing during a baldness scare that lasted five or six years. I still regret breaking that mirror, and I never went bald. The second photo is from October, 1992, during the Little Light Music Tour. It was Tull's first-ever shows at the Beacon Theater, two blocks away from "the cave." The year before, at the opening night of the Catfish tour in Providence, I made a lot of Tull friends, and I made even more friends at the first Tull convention in Newport, Rhode Island in April '92. So before the Beacon shows I contacted some of these friends and told them I was having pre- and post-show parties both nights at my Tull Cave, and word seemed to spread. More on my 'Tull Cave' parties to follow. Jeff Edit- I just realized the top photo was not 1989, it was probably November or December 1991, because it was obviously taken after Catfish Rising was released, and since I see my yellow backstage pass, it had to be taken after the Nov. 1991 show at the Nassau Coliseum, when Mike Grin and I first met Ian...but that's a whole other story!
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Post by Nonfatman on Sept 25, 2011 9:05:02 GMT -5
These pictures were taken at my post-show party after the first Little Light Music show at the Beacon. There were twenty of us that night. (I know this because I have a large, framed group photo from that night, but for some reason cannot find the 3x5 copy of that pic.) The following night I had even more people crammed into my tiny Tull cave, as word spread, but I don't have photos from that night. I'll have to ask Icecreamman, who helped me host these parties, and is shown in the second photo with his future wife, Vicky. (He is currently the keyboard player in the great Tull tribute band, War Child.) On the second night (but apparently not the first) this guy Gene, a friend who I knew from several shows and the 1992 convention, was there. Gene knew Martin fairly well....well enough to play tennis with Martin whenever Tull were in town. Gene told Martin about my party and gave him the address, so we were all hoping that Martin would join us at my cave. But it did not happen. I had just started dating the girl in the photo -- whose beads I am adjusting -- a few weeks earlier. She was a deadhead who had seen The Dead dozens of time. At the Beacon show earlier that night, we had fifth row center, directly in front of Ian's microphone. The show had a kind of mellow Grateful Dead vibe, being mostly acoustic, and they had a rug, I think, and the art deco decor. We were smoking a little weed, and she was loving the first half of the show! (She had never seen Tull before.) But then, after the intermission, some people in the rows ahead of us were late getting back to their seats when the show resumed. The intermission was only 20 minutes and the restroom lines were ridiculously long, so it really wasn't their fault. Ian was obviously distracted by them and pissed off, because during the middle of For A Thousand Mothers, Ian stepped back from the microphone and shouted "Sit the FUCK down" at the people who were struggling to get back to their seats. You could only hear it if you were sitting very close, but there was no mistaking what Ian had said. From that moment on, the girl was totally turned off to Tull and the show, and told me later she thought Ian was an asshole for doing that (although she made a point of saying how cool Martin was). I don't think she was very happy to be at my post-concert Tull party either. So, basically, Ian cost me a chance to get laid that night. Thanks a lot, Ian! Jeff
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Post by jtul07 on Sept 25, 2011 9:44:29 GMT -5
But then, after the intermission, some people in the rows ahead of us were late getting back to their seats when the show resumed. The intermission was only 20 minutes and the restroom lines were ridiculously long, so it really wasn't their fault. Ian was obviously distracted by them and pissed off, because during the middle of For A Thousand Mothers, Ian stepped back from the microphone and shouted "Sit the FUCK down" at the people who were struggling to get back to their seats. You could only hear it if you were sitting very close, but there was no mistaking what Ian had said. From that moment on, the girl was totally turned off to Tull and the show, and told me later she thought Ian was an asshole for doing that (although she made a point of saying how cool Martin was). I don't think she was very happy to be at my post-concert Tull party either. So, basically, Ian cost me a chance to get laid that night. Thanks a lot, Ian! Jeff Now Jeff, we can't be blaming Ian for that. She was just playing hard to get. Some ladies are difficult to figure out. ;D Ian: please be more understanding.
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Post by pamelasews on Sept 25, 2011 13:02:01 GMT -5
I had just started dating the girl in the photo -- whose beads I am adjusting -- a few weeks earlier. She was a deadhead who had seen The Dead dozens of time. At the Beacon show earlier that night, we had fifth row center, directly in front of Ian's microphone. The show had a kind of mellow Grateful Dead vibe, being mostly acoustic, and they had a rug, I think, and the art deco decor. We were smoking a little weed, and she was loving the first half of the show! (She had never seen Tull before.) But then, after the intermission, some people in the rows ahead of us were late getting back to their seats when the show resumed. The intermission was only 20 minutes and the restroom lines were ridiculously long, so it really wasn't their fault. Ian was obviously distracted by them and pissed off, because during the middle of For A Thousand Mothers, Ian stepped back from the microphone and shouted "Sit the FUCK down" at the people who were struggling to get back to their seats. You could only hear it if you were sitting very close, but there was no mistaking what Ian had said. From that moment on, the girl was totally turned off to Tull and the show, and told me later she thought Ian was an asshole for doing that (although she made a point of saying how cool Martin was). I don't think she was very happy to be at my post-concert Tull party either. So, basically, Ian cost me a chance to get laid that night. Thanks a lot, Ian! Jeff Just as well. If the relationship got serious and you married her .....
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2011 19:02:48 GMT -5
great album! but at the time it came out was a real shock.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2011 20:10:42 GMT -5
hahaha Well would she have survived life with you down the road with an attitude like that!? I've been to two "Dead" event/concerts in the 90s and I couldn't believe the whole "taper" section! (One of my friends was one) and given the whole band sanctioned event I would say that comparatively Ian IS the "Concert-nazi". But I still would rather go see Ian. She had some pretty stringient rule sets for performers! was being a little "sensitive" Great "Cave"! and great party Darin
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Post by jtul07 on Sept 26, 2011 8:43:04 GMT -5
that sucks Jeff.. I have seen Ian have the same effect on some women also.. That bastard! seriously I also hate when Ian gets pissed at the crowd it's a real buzzkill! it's bad enough when you get into the show and find this on your table. So now i have to hold in this monster piss until intermission because if i get up Ian will stop the show, put a spotlight on me, and let me have it. How does it feel to be in the play huh! f-that That must be why John Evan had a urinal device on his piano. I think an empty bottle works well at times. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by Nonfatman on Sept 29, 2011 20:59:47 GMT -5
that sucks Jeff.. I have seen Ian have the same effect on some women also.. That bastard! seriously I also hate when Ian gets pissed at the crowd it's a real buzzkill! it's bad enough when you get into the show and find this on your table. So now i have to hold in this monster piss until intermission because if i get up Ian will stop the show, put a spotlight on me, and let me have it. How does it feel to be in the play huh! f-that Lol, I know just what you mean. I've seen him blast audience members on a number of occasions. Jeff
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Post by Nonfatman on Sept 29, 2011 21:02:54 GMT -5
I had just started dating the girl in the photo -- whose beads I am adjusting -- a few weeks earlier. She was a deadhead who had seen The Dead dozens of time. At the Beacon show earlier that night, we had fifth row center, directly in front of Ian's microphone. The show had a kind of mellow Grateful Dead vibe, being mostly acoustic, and they had a rug, I think, and the art deco decor. We were smoking a little weed, and she was loving the first half of the show! (She had never seen Tull before.) But then, after the intermission, some people in the rows ahead of us were late getting back to their seats when the show resumed. The intermission was only 20 minutes and the restroom lines were ridiculously long, so it really wasn't their fault. Ian was obviously distracted by them and pissed off, because during the middle of For A Thousand Mothers, Ian stepped back from the microphone and shouted "Sit the FUCK down" at the people who were struggling to get back to their seats. You could only hear it if you were sitting very close, but there was no mistaking what Ian had said. From that moment on, the girl was totally turned off to Tull and the show, and told me later she thought Ian was an asshole for doing that (although she made a point of saying how cool Martin was). I don't think she was very happy to be at my post-concert Tull party either. So, basically, Ian cost me a chance to get laid that night. Thanks a lot, Ian! Jeff Just as well. If the relationship got serious and you married her ..... That's true, Pam, but I wasn't really thinking about getting married, just.....well, you know.....and she eventually did succomb to my charms! Jeff
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Post by Nonfatman on Sept 29, 2011 21:44:07 GMT -5
hahaha Well would she have survived life with you down the road with an attitude like that!? I've been to two "Dead" event/concerts in the 90s and I couldn't believe the whole "taper" section! (One of my friends was one) and given the whole band sanctioned event I would say that comparatively Ian IS the "Concert-nazi". But I still would rather go see Ian. She had some pretty stringient rule sets for performers! was being a little "sensitive" Great "Cave"! and great party Darin Thanks, and here's the epilogue to my Tull Cave story. In 1994, about two years after these photos were taken, my Tull Cave became infested -- appropriately enough for a Tull Cave -- by mice. I hadn't seen any mice for the first seven years I lived there, roaches were another story, though, because my apartment was directly over the incinerator in the basement. That did bring periodic bouts of roaches, but the building never had mice until they put in a trash compactor, after the City of New York banned incinerators. Something about the compactor attracted the mice, apparently, in a way that the incinerator did not. So, in around October 1994, I started seeing mice, and the problem got worse and worse (I later found out it was far worse than I thought.) I had twenty two confirmed kills, by standard mousetraps, glue traps (which are okay if you don't mind hearing mice squeal horrendously for several hours before they die) and two by bludgeoning, but then the mice wised up and stopped going to the traps, and I started seeing more and more of them, every morning when I got ready for work and every night when I came home. They would run from the radiator in the main room (behind my Tull shrine) along the wall and around a corner into the kitchen, which is where they apparently were entering, and they would go back and forth. One ran over my foot once in the kitchen. As time went by I started seeing them run across the room, near where I had a trundle bed, that people in my photos are seen sitting on two years earlier, prior to the infestation. I found out later the mice had gotten into the bed, there were droppings all over the lower bed, and they also got into my stove and destroyed it by chewing on the wires. After six months it got so bad in there I moved out, and in with an ex-girlfriend for a year on Long Island, and I took down all of my stuff, including this huge art-deco piece of styrofoam pop-art, of the Little Light Music cover art, which I had gotten from the Tower Records art department some time after the photos were taken. The Tull Cave underwent extensive renovations during the next year, the carpeting was ripped out, the floors were refinished, a new kitchen was put in, with a new wall because there were these huge gaps in the walls behind the cabinetry and dishwasher where the mice had been entering, a new bathroom and new windows, because those soot-encased sash windows were horrible. In 1995, I moved back into the Cave, but it was no longer as much of a Tull Cave in appearance, although obviously in spirit and in music it still was. In preparation for the renovation and painting, I had taken down all my Tull stuff from the walls and got rid of most of it. I brought my art-deco piece to Garden City, where I had moved, but when I returned to NYC, I stupidly trashed it because it was delicate and difficult to transport, and had already been slightly damaged when I brought it home from Tower Records in the trunk of a cab, which had to be tied down because the thing was like 3' x 5' and too big to fit inside if the trunk were closed shut. I continued living in the renovated cave until I got married in July 2000, when I moved into my wife's apartment on Bleecker Street in Noho, and a little over a year after that, we witnessed the Towers on fire from the corner of Bleecker and Mercer, as I have related in another thread. Jeff
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Post by pamelasews on Sept 30, 2011 7:15:58 GMT -5
Just as well. If the relationship got serious and you married her ..... That's true, Pam, but I wasn't really thinking about getting married, just.....well, you know.....and she eventually did succomb to my charms! Jeff Exactly. Funny just how things just happen.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2011 15:53:31 GMT -5
A spread from a one off book named "Beyond Woodstock" (1970) It used to have text and some nice quotes from 1970 but I removed them when I scanned it and repaired it. It has hung in everyplace I lived for 15 years and has been reduced to a ragged moisture damaged rag. The text can be found on Tullpress. This was the impetiss (along with a lot of friends) for my going to see them in 71. Darin
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2011 15:57:44 GMT -5
1972 Darin Cody
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2011 16:01:45 GMT -5
The first ad for the LA Warchild shows. The following week 2 more dates were added, setting attendance records at the Forum. Thats appox. 19,700 seats a night. Darin Cody
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