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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2012 10:49:24 GMT -5
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Post by TM on Nov 16, 2012 11:04:31 GMT -5
Interesting to see the differences between the releases. Thanks for posting Charlie. I remember years ago when I thought I had the largest Tull collection....  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2012 11:08:31 GMT -5
Nice!, that's the way to do it, always great to see stuff that's been owned or tracked down and not just pinched off the web.
And yes, they will be uploaded to The Boy Scout Manual soon, as will a lot of other things given that Charlie has agreed to join me over there to help out on the galleries and mangement side now that the back room office nerdy stuff is on its way to being sorted out.
New addiitons will also include, other than the inscrutible 'Mr Pith', the arrival of a new image viewer, which will allow images to be viewed in higher resolution and a new section "The Memory Bank", which is being prepared and will potentially bring a whole lot of 'data' to the hands of our members in the future.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2012 11:17:14 GMT -5
I remember years ago when I thought I had the largest Tull collection.... LOL, me too, I used to think, no-one could beat this, ah, the innocence yet arrogance of youth. What next, an Angolan Passion Play single ;D |
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Post by jtul07 on Nov 16, 2012 11:29:11 GMT -5
I remember the first time I heard "This Was" on 8 track. The songs were so different from everything that followed. It seems more basic blues unless you consider "Dharma For One" as heavy. I love the Carnegie Hall version much better.  Great collection Charlie. AWESOME ! ;D I love all the dogs on the cover too. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2012 11:51:48 GMT -5
,,LOL. you never know what I might pull out of my sleeve
I always wanted to compile a complete discography on Tull for all the releases world wide. There are many great web sites,and books that I have got information from. How ever I would love to have it by every country and the year it was released.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2012 14:12:47 GMT -5
Nice!, that's the way to do it, always great to see stuff that's been owned or tracked down and not just pinched off the web. And yes, they will be uploaded to The Boy Scout Manual soon, as will a lot of other things given that Charlie has agreed to join me over there to help out on the galleries and mangement side now that the back room office nerdy stuff is on its way to being sorted out. New addiitons will also include, other than the inscrutible 'Mr Pith', the arrival of a new image viewer, which will allow images to be viewed in higher resolution and a new section "The Memory Bank", which is being prepared and will potentially bring a whole lot of 'data' to the hands of our members in the future. Ah ha!! Yes! "Ours the interest and we thank you"!!! Darin |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2012 15:17:25 GMT -5
Ah ha!! Yes! "Ours the interest and we thank you"!!! Darin  Given that many of us have invested our lives [and wallet contents] in Tull for many years it seemed apt. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2012 15:50:08 GMT -5
Nice Job Charlie, thats a lot of This Was.....mine was the red over gold reprise label, at least the first of the 3 copies I ended up with. Mike and This WasOne of my best friends in 1969 was a drummer and he turned me on to this album. Mike was a very very talented drummer, Buddy Rich was his idol and he could play just like him. He used to spout off all the time about rock drummers (and rock musicians in general) being dummies and simpletons. I had my own tastes but really respected his opinion. He was pretty big on Ginger Baker also, we listened to a lot of Zappa, Hendrix, John Lee Hooker but he would always throw on some cool oddity (to us) like Bitches Brew by Mile Davis, which included John McLaughlin and Chick Corea... so when he pulled out This Was and said "now this guy has it goin on!" speaking of Clive and Dharma For One. "This is a good rock band, These guys smoke!" Mike didn't say this often so I paid attention....."and I liked it" It WAS like nothing else at the time. Great musicianship and really curious humor (like the Harpo horn and screaming during the drum solo, and what was a Caghorn? and the guy groaning while playing a flute) coupled with the old men and dogs cover and especially the back with the freaky guy offering up the fishbone. This was a big winner for me and when Stand Up came out I immediately snapped it up and it was even better, like "one step up". That cool and curious change of direction continued for many years. Mike went absolutely ape over Barriemore Barlows joining the band and borrowed my "Supercharged" double LP boot and wore out the side with the 18 min. drum solo. Mike actually learned parts of it, amazing to me. He wasn't to crazy about the prog direction that Tull took, on that we parted ways musically. (I was proud to have been able to turn him on to Focus a couple of years later, his (Mikes) playing style was alot like Pierre Van Der Linden. We both saw them at the Whiskey, tiny place, big show(!)) I think lot of people who discovered Tull during, say, Warchild or SFTW or even later, BECAUSE they where more inclined towards or attracted to that prog/polished Tull, and started picking up their back catalog are understandably put off by the first raw sounding blues album. But This Was always had its special place for me as the "first discovery", there was nothing like it at the time, and that remained the thing about Tull that keeps me interested. and another thing, I was hanging with Mike in a market scanning magazines in 1970 when we came across the full spread picture that is now my avatar and decided then and there we had to go see this guy! BTW back in the old days Mike and I vigorously ingested, or smoked, our weight in a variety of illegal substances and it was crazy fun....crazy fun all the time. Like a lot of us, I had to slowly "pull up on the stick" to avoid hitting the ground hard and live my life.
I hadn't talked to Mike in many years but I knew where to get a hold of him.... his Moms. He did not pull up on the stick. I called him last March just to say hello.
He is now CRAZIER THAN A SHIT HOUSE RAT!!!
I cannot believe he is not institutionalized. I mean raving crazy.
If you wonder how crazy a shit house rat is? I'll give you his number. I think there's a lesson in there.......somewhere. (But I don't think it had anything to do with This Was.) Darin Cody Mike & I back in the 70s about play a gig.  |
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