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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2013 0:22:57 GMT -5
Are you saying that you could have taken me back in to meet Ian instead of leaving me behind?  Damn, you look really torn up there Paul (your looking so young) Mothfairy should be ashamed....  |
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Post by Mothfairy on Apr 9, 2013 1:16:58 GMT -5
Ok, well I really wasn't thinking, when James said that I was barely remembered it until later. It's hard to explain! I think I thought that once I received that autograph, maybe it wasn't an option anymore. I do know that while James offered that, AG led me back downstairs and you know how he uh...cared more about the woman fans than man fans. I don't know if it was possible then. Maybe if I had said James, yes let's go get them, I'm so sorry I got distracted by IA. :'''(
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Post by TM on Apr 9, 2013 8:52:13 GMT -5
Are you saying that you could have taken me back in to meet Ian instead of leaving me behind? Damn, you look really torn up there Paul (your looking so young) Mothfairy should be ashamed.... Yes, especially since that's the closest I'd ever come to looking like Brad Pitt. |
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Post by TM on Apr 9, 2013 8:53:40 GMT -5
Ok, well I really wasn't thinking, when James said that I was barely remembered it until later. It's hard to explain! I think I thought that once I received that autograph, maybe it wasn't an option anymore. I do know that while James offered that, AG led me back downstairs and you know how he uh...cared more about the woman fans than man fans. I don't know if it was possible then. Maybe if I had said James, yes let's go get them, I'm so sorry I got distracted by IA. :'''( Sooooooooooo, what you're sayin is all these years I shouldn't have been feeling bad that I crushed your make-up into the carpet of your car? |
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Post by Mothfairy on Apr 9, 2013 11:32:30 GMT -5
Nope, I deserve that and more.
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Post by TM on Apr 9, 2013 11:39:57 GMT -5
We had alotta fun despite you using your gender to your own advantage.  |
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Post by Mothfairy on Apr 9, 2013 12:06:46 GMT -5
I didn't use it, but I guess it just kind of happened that way, haha.
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Post by Werbinox on Apr 23, 2013 4:16:33 GMT -5
Me and a friend went to see them during the Rock Island tour at the old Omni in Atlanta (which has long since been imploded) The show was great. Afterwards we wandered down and back to the tour bus / limo area, all of it fenced and gated against unauthorized admission. It didn't look good for getting in. No one else was there except us, so we loitered for a bit, hope fading away. Then some dude, don't know if he worked there or what, opened the gate, came out and saw us, and offered the advice "just walk around like you belong there". He let us in, and that's what we did, walked with purpose like we had a job to do. This almost always works and Ive used it many a time since to get into places I wasn't supposed to be in. Walking down one of the endless cavernous hallways we came upon some people milling around, wearing coats, and - it was the band. Suddenly we are standing in their midst, yakking away, and it was incredibly weird because it wasn't weird at all, like the most natural thing in the world. Ian wasn't there, but everyone else was. I remember talking to Doane the most, a big, tall man that you literally as well as figuratively look up to, as he was the most affable of the lot, at least to us interlopers at that moment. I don't remember what we talked about, but I do remember much laughter. Dave Pegg was there. His face was red, and he held a beer in his hand. But of course! I asked him something he didn't hear, and he hit me with an absurdist, Python-type response of "What-What?!" all the while making a goofy face and leaning his head over. They all slowly made their way towards the exit so we walked with them. Martin, who was shorter than I expected, was the polite, shy man I had read and heard he was. He smiled but said little. I told him their instrumental rendition of "Sea Lion" was the highlight of the show for me, and this caused him to grin broadly. He definitely appreciated hearing that! Finding ourselves outside, the band got into waiting limos, and there, but 20 or so feet away, was Ian. Funny how I got to meet everyone in the band BUT him. He stared at me for a moment, and I seized my chance. Understand I was a bit drinkey at this point. Perhaps beer drunk. Also giddy at the heady company at the very least. I stared back and sang a snippet of his own tunes at him - "there's ghosts, and beasties out there in the night, so I sing you no lullabuy!" emphasizing the "you" and pointing at him as I sang it (yes, the typically drunk crazy aggressive American audience member you prolly need security against!) He wagged his eyebrows at me and smiled, then got in his limo. And they all took off and that was that. Maybe some day I will relate my drunken air guitar playing to Al DiMeola, or the time I got to drum Frank Zappa's "Inca Roads" on my legs (leaving them black and blue) with Mike Keneally while he played it on acoustic guitar and sang. Tales for another time  |
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Post by TM on Apr 23, 2013 10:53:00 GMT -5
Drunken air guitar to Al DiMeola sounds like it could be pretty dangerous Werb.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2013 12:43:54 GMT -5
Drunken air guitar to Al DiMeola sounds like it could be pretty dangerous Werb. Do you use the "air circular" or "air flat picking" method while executing this ?  |
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Post by Werbinox on Apr 24, 2013 17:31:21 GMT -5
@darin Cody - I don't know either. In my version, its all in the head motion. Ever seen Al get that head going when he's ripping those runs?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2013 19:54:53 GMT -5
@darin Cody - I don't know either. In my version, its all in the head motion. Ever seen Al get that head going when he's ripping those runs? Ohh Werb, As a matter of fact, yes, in 1977(?) (I think it was after "the Land of the Midnight Sun" album.... he opened for the original UK. It was a good good night. (and yes he needed a neck brace!) PS do you check your personal messages? Darin |
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Post by Mothfairy on Apr 24, 2013 20:09:23 GMT -5
Aren't we still waiting on TM's version...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2013 7:27:58 GMT -5
...Boy I guess I will have to do mine soon.....
I wonder which one I should do......
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Post by TM on Apr 25, 2013 8:52:42 GMT -5
Aren't we still waiting on TM's version... Yes! But I'm going to start a new thread because I'm going to have to do it in installments as time permits and I don't want to muddy this thread any further. |
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Post by Mothfairy on Apr 25, 2013 11:05:57 GMT -5
Start a new thread? Installments?
You may have been envious of my going backstage but then a couple of days later you had me beat with that experience and I was so sad I couldn't go.
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Post by Tommiebaby on May 2, 2013 0:33:24 GMT -5
Well....my 2 (short & sweet) conversations with Ian.......being my lovable, critical self
1) Called WNEW-FM here in NYC in Sept '87 and criticized him for doing that "MARKET RESEARCH" thing for "Crest......." by going to 10 major cities and having small groups of Tull fans listen to a bunch of new material and fill out these market research forms, grading each song, saying what Tull should play in concert, what song they should open with, etc. (He was so freaked out that their previous album, "UW" failed and their arena shows were like half filled). So, i told him this approach he was now taking seemed very STERILE, BUSINESS-LIKE only and very "non-artiste". That he should record and play in wherever his artistic muse was leading him. But he's business and money first...lost a lot of respect for him then. Market research?! By the artist himself?! Wasnt he rich enef by that time?
2) In 2002 at Turning Point Casino in Verona, NY Tull was playing this small casino-like like place with pretty tables and people actually eating & drinking during the show (Was there any place he WON'T play?.Geez) Anyway, these rowdy, drunk kids were at a table right at the stage and they were screaming, obnoxious, etc. So, the ever-petulent Ian stopped the show caold & walked over to them and told them to fuckin shut up or he was leaving. So........seizing on this opportunity, since it was now quite and I. too, was at a table right next to the stage said...."Ian, what do you expect?! You now play at these rowdy bar-type places to to make a buck and you want the crowd to be how YOU want them them to be?!" He heard every word I said and just glared and walked away in a hissy fit.
Ian dont like my honesty ha ha
But, i must be a masochist, cuz I keeps a-seeing him. Gonna go twice in Oct to the Beacon. What the fuck is wrong with me?!!!! PLEASE.....RYAN!..........DON"T LET IAN "SING"! I BEG YOU!!!!
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Post by Tommiebaby on May 2, 2013 13:21:56 GMT -5
Thanks, Dane......you ,too.
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2013 6:41:37 GMT -5
Darin--really awesome story man!!
Sorry it took me so long to reply. I read the thing halfway through, stopped because my attention was required elsewhere, and delayed finishing it until now.
This should be published!
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2013 10:36:37 GMT -5
Darin--really awesome story man!! Sorry it took me so long to reply. I read the thing halfway through, stopped because my attention was required elsewhere, and delayed finishing it until now. This should be published! Thanks Kai I did publish it, right here on TJTB!! |
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Post by kelpie on May 7, 2013 13:40:28 GMT -5
early 90's....Campus Club, Providence RI. 100+ shows in four countries. Stories would take up a book.
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Post by TM on May 7, 2013 15:24:54 GMT -5
early 90's....Campus Club, Providence RI. 100+ shows in four countries. Stories would take up a book. Great. We're all ears. |
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Post by kelpie on May 7, 2013 15:56:28 GMT -5
How many members of Tull does it take to parallel park a car? LOL  Uploaded with ImageShack.us |
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Post by TM on May 7, 2013 20:28:12 GMT -5
How many members of Tull does it take to parallel park a car? LOL Uploaded with ImageShack.us We all know who the passenger is. Is that Peggy behind the LR? |
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Post by Nonfatman on May 7, 2013 20:33:46 GMT -5
early 90's....Campus Club, Providence RI. 100+ shows in four countries. Stories would take up a book. Hi, Lee....great to hear from you on the Board! I'm definitely interested in hearing some of your stories. If it happens to be a long story, feel free to tell it in a series of separate posts. We've used what we like to call 'the installment method' to good effect several times in the past. (See the Ian Greets The Jethro Tull Board thread for a very funny story of how Paul and I met Ian a couple of years ago!) Providence 1991, the kick-off of the Catfish Rising tour, seemed to be when a lot of friendships were first made among Tull fans on the east coast. At least it was that way for me. But I didn't get to meet the band for the first time until a week or so later, at the Nassau Coliseum show, and there is a great story involving me and Mike Grin about that....in fact, it is the mother of all installment stories! Jeff |
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