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Post by lordmarcovan on Mar 29, 2014 4:36:10 GMT -5
... the first newly-released Tull album you ever bought?
All this H.E. pre-release anticipation got me to thinking about this.
I had to spin me back down the years and days of my youth, to draw the lace and black curtains (of memory)...
I became a Tull fan in 1980. I remember seeing Stormwatch in the record stores. Very eye-catching cover on that one. One of my favorite Tull album covers, actually. (Favorite album covers- there's a good topic for another thread, if it hasn't been done already. Probably has.)
I'd bought Stormwatch by around '81 or so. (Can't remember when I got the "A" album.)
But I can't have bought either of those when they were brand-spankin' new.
It was Broadsword. That had to have been the first new Tull album I bought on vinyl. Would've been during my senior year of high school.
I clearly remember buying Under Wraps after I'd embarked upon my (ill-fated) freshman year of college. Found that one in the college bookstore, actually.
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Post by Mothfairy on Mar 29, 2014 18:59:00 GMT -5
Dot Com. Didn't become a fan until mid to late nineties.
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Post by Lucas on Mar 29, 2014 19:17:56 GMT -5
None! Didn't become a fan until around 2005.  |
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Post by Michael Crowe on Mar 30, 2014 0:44:11 GMT -5
Went to get Aqualung ( heard it on the radio ), store didn't have it, bought Benefit instead, along with a Swiss yodling album at the same time to irritate my brother. The latter got the most play for a while.
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Post by TM on Mar 30, 2014 13:41:22 GMT -5
Good question.  This was my first "new" album. Being a high school freshman I recall having to decide whether or not to buy this album or Pink Floyd's Animals. I asked some of my older friends and the consensus seemed to be this one. Certainly wasn't a bad "beginning". Tull received regular FM radio airplay in NY with this album. The title track and The Whistler were played daily for a lengthy period of time. Then of course WOR-TV recorded Tull and created a TV program about them and the culture of rock music at that time. Our HS video department recorded the program and we were permitted to watch it during our lunch - repeatedly! Here it is put out by our friend Erin. Unfortunately I missed this show, but when I saw all the upper classman arriving in school the next day with their new Tull T-shirts, I knew I would not miss another tour. |
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Post by Biggles on Mar 30, 2014 15:05:13 GMT -5
This Was.. how old am I?
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Post by TM on Mar 30, 2014 15:46:11 GMT -5
Very old.  |
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Post by Morthoron on Mar 30, 2014 19:38:04 GMT -5
Very old. Farting dust. |
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Post by Nonfatman on Mar 30, 2014 19:54:29 GMT -5
Good question. This was my first "new" album. Being a high school freshman I recall having to decide whether or not to buy this album or Pink Floyd's Animals. I asked some of my older friends and the consensus seemed to be this one. Certainly wasn't a bad "beginning". Tull received regular FM radio airplay in NY with this album. The title track and The Whistler were played daily for a lengthy period of time. Then of course WOR-TV recorded Tull and created a TV program about them and the culture of rock music at that time. Our HS video department recorded the program and we were permitted to watch it during our lunch - repeatedly! Here it is put out by our friend Erin. Unfortunately I missed this show, but when I saw all the upper classman arriving in school the next day with their new Tull T-shirts, I knew I would not miss another tour. I remember sitting in a high school ceramics class, first period, the radio was playing and Cup of Wonder came on. There was quite a bit of FM airplay for SFTW, and I recall some deejay, I think it was Carole Miller comparing it favorably to TOTRNR, which she said was a bit of a disappointment, although that album (the first new one that came out after I had discovered Tull a few months earlier) was never a disappointment to me. I remember when I was 15 years old, I rode my bicycle up to the shopping plaza where there was a Rickel's Home Center that had a record department, and I took it home and devoured it with my ears, and eyes too, because I loved the comic strip and artwork, and all those raunchy lyrics, with the Ray Lomas figure giving the obscene hand gesture. For some reason that was very appealing to an adolescent male! Jeff |
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Post by TM on Mar 30, 2014 20:06:02 GMT -5
Good question. This was my first "new" album. Being a high school freshman I recall having to decide whether or not to buy this album or Pink Floyd's Animals. I asked some of my older friends and the consensus seemed to be this one. Certainly wasn't a bad "beginning". Tull received regular FM radio airplay in NY with this album. The title track and The Whistler were played daily for a lengthy period of time. Then of course WOR-TV recorded Tull and created a TV program about them and the culture of rock music at that time. Our HS video department recorded the program and we were permitted to watch it during our lunch - repeatedly! Here it is put out by our friend Erin. Unfortunately I missed this show, but when I saw all the upper classman arriving in school the next day with their new Tull T-shirts, I knew I would not miss another tour. I remember sitting in a high school ceramics class, first period, the radio was playing and Cup of Wonder came on. There was quite a bit of FM airplay for SFTW, and I recall some deejay, I think it was Carole Miller comparing it favorably to TOTRNR, which she said was a bit of a disappointment, although that album (the first new one that came out after I had discovered Tull a few months earlier) was never a disappointment to me. I remember when I was 15 years old, I rode my bicycle up to the shopping plaza where there was a Rickel's Home Center that had a record department, and I took it home and devoured it with my ears, and eyes too, because I loved the comic strip and artwork, and all those raunchy lyrics, with the Ray Lomas figure giving the obscene hand gesture. For some reason that was very appealing to an adolescent male! Jeff Carol Miller...I sent her a letter once asking her to dedicate a Tull song to my then girlfriend. I asked her to play Elegy (which my girlfriend loved) but instead I think Carol played Cross-Eyed Mary. lol |
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Post by Michael Crowe on Mar 31, 2014 1:12:46 GMT -5
You were a waiter at the Last Supper. Your birthday suit needs pressing. When you were young the Dead Sea was only sick. Your day starts off with a coffee and the obituaries. You don't need glasses anymore, you just drink straight from the bottle. You go to orgies just to eat the grapes. When you bend to tie your shoe laces you look around to see what else needs doing while you're down there. You remember when Jethro Tull was the guy who played the flute. |
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Post by homoDUNC78 on Mar 31, 2014 6:44:14 GMT -5
 I've enjoyed JT's music ever since I was 4 (1982), so Broadsword was the first new music of JT I ever heard. My dad enjoyed their music, but wasn't a "fan". He had Benefit, LITP, APP, Warchild, Minstrels (copied cassette), A (copied cassette), and Broadsword. After that he only purchased UWraps and Crest. I would often make cassette compilations from these albums if off sick from school and listen often. I also regularly watched the 20years documentary that I had recorded from TV. Don't know why it took me so long to purchase my very own Tull CD....suppose my pocket money went on playing snooker and a few pints of beers. However, in 1995, I got Roots on day of release and it is one of my favs today. I then purchased an album or 2 every fortnight, which I had to order from local record store at £14.99 each! My dad was dead jealous when I had Aqualung. |
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Post by lordmarcovan on Mar 31, 2014 23:50:35 GMT -5
How old? There's an all too obvious answer.   |
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Post by Heavy Horse on Apr 1, 2014 3:23:32 GMT -5
My parents had Minstrel and Heavy Horses. I've no idea why. According to my dad, they bought Minstrel on the strength of having heard some jazzy instrumental and were disappointed it wasn't more of the same. Why they then bought HH is a deeper mystery. I was about 12 when I started getting into the albums and I played them incessantly. I bought Broadsword about two years after it came out and, about a month later, Under Wraps hit the shops with a wet thud! So... Under Wraps it was! It's fair to say I was quite surprised, when I first heard it! Probably as surprised as my parents, when they listened to Minstrel, expecting to hear Bouree part II!
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Post by lordmarcovan on Apr 2, 2014 0:40:09 GMT -5
I for one never disliked Under Wraps, though I'm sure it must've been a shock to established Tull fans.
My parents (well, stepmother, who was an ex-hippie type) had Heavy Horses on 8-track. In the early 80s, we still had an 8-track player in our van.
It was her vintage cassette (a shocking lime-green Chrysalis tape) of Aqualung that was my very first Tull exposure. So I have her to thank. She's a big Fleetwood Mac fan, and of course loves the Beatles, too, whereas Dad is more into classical music. (Which might be why my favorite Tull is that which has a classical or Celtic flavor to it).
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Post by trw1964 on Apr 3, 2014 7:23:56 GMT -5
Good question. This was my first "new" album. Being a high school freshman I recall having to decide whether or not to buy this album or Pink Floyd's Animals. I asked some of my older friends and the consensus seemed to be this one. Certainly wasn't a bad "beginning". Tull received regular FM radio airplay in NY with this album. The title track and The Whistler were played daily for a lengthy period of time. Then of course WOR-TV recorded Tull and created a TV program about them and the culture of rock music at that time. Our HS video department recorded the program and we were permitted to watch it during our lunch - repeatedly! Here it is put out by our friend Erin. Unfortunately I missed this show, but when I saw all the upper classman arriving in school the next day with their new Tull T-shirts, I knew I would not miss another tour. 1st new Tull album that I bought at the time of release was Songs from the Woods. Aqualung was the 1st Tull album in my collection. I picked up Floyd's Animals as my 1st 8 track. Glad that I did not go to far down that technology road in music formats. |
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Post by Biggles on Apr 3, 2014 20:40:12 GMT -5
You were a waiter at the Last Supper. Your birthday suit needs pressing. When you were young the Dead Sea was only sick. Your day starts off with a coffee and the obituaries. You don't need glasses anymore, you just drink straight from the bottle. You go to orgies just to eat the grapes. When you bend to tie your shoe laces you look around to see what else needs doing while you're down there. You remember when Jethro Tull was the guy who played the flute. LOL.. I really enjoyed that. But, you left one out. He's so old that he recognized Clive's solo on "Dharma For One" as a Gene Krupa comp from 1946. |
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Post by Biggles on Apr 3, 2014 21:01:16 GMT -5
Very old. Farting dust. Farting dust would be nice. No longer an option. Nowadays every fart must be treated as a shart. |
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Post by Michael Crowe on Apr 4, 2014 0:16:16 GMT -5
You were a waiter at the Last Supper. Your birthday suit needs pressing. When you were young the Dead Sea was only sick. Your day starts off with a coffee and the obituaries. You don't need glasses anymore, you just drink straight from the bottle. You go to orgies just to eat the grapes. When you bend to tie your shoe laces you look around to see what else needs doing while you're down there. You remember when Jethro Tull was the guy who played the flute. LOL.. I really enjoyed that. But, you left one out. He's so old that he recognized Clive's solo on "Dharma For One" as a Gene Krupa comp from 1946. Wh'are ye been Bigs? This list was funnier last week. Yeah I had to leave one for you. Ironicly I just finished reading Krupa's biography last night. Okay, one more. He's so old that having sex is like shooting pool with a rope. |
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Post by Biggles on Apr 4, 2014 1:10:11 GMT -5
How old? There's an all too obvious answer. To be honest, I had an aunt that was really cool. She gave me Jimi Hendrix Experience "Are You Experienced" for Christmas in '67 and Jethro Tull "This Was" Christmas '68. At the time I was listening to Peter, Paul and Mary/ The Kingston Trio/ The New Cristie Minstrels/ Pete Seeger etc... Imagine the paradigm shift. I was shocked. But there was so much music in the home at that time, growing up in Detroit with Motown happening and Dad listening to Miles Davis/ Dizzy Gillespie and all those great jazzers. It was time for our/my generation to have it's time. From day one, Tull morphed, mutatated, transformed and more often than not kept my interest for well over 40 years. Ian is right "You're Never Too Old". |
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Post by Biggles on Apr 4, 2014 1:46:55 GMT -5
LOL.. I really enjoyed that. But, you left one out. He's so old that he recognized Clive's solo on "Dharma For One" as a Gene Krupa comp from 1946. Wh'are ye been Bigs? This list was funnier last week. Yeah I had to leave one for you. Ironicly I just finished reading Krupa's biography last night. Okay, one more. He's so old that having sex is like shooting pool with a rope. LOL, I'll pay you back later. Mike, you have no idea what a week it's been. My modem crashed Monday morning (approx 2:00 am) and I've been chasing this gremlin all week, but alas! I'm back up thanks to my crack ISP. I'll spare you the details. Regarding Krupa: I remember being immersed in 'This Was' and 'Dharma For One' and pops says "ya know, that's Gene Krupa he's playing". And he put on a 78 rpm with the same friggin solo as DFO. I was blown away. Anyway, now I've got to read that Krupa bio too. |
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Post by Michael Crowe on Apr 8, 2014 0:42:44 GMT -5
Wh'are ye been Bigs? This list was funnier last week. Yeah I had to leave one for you. Ironicly I just finished reading Krupa's biography last night. Okay, one more. He's so old that having sex is like shooting pool with a rope. LOL, I'll pay you back later. Mike, you have no idea what a week it's been. My modem crashed Monday morning (approx 2:00 am) and I've been chasing this gremlin all week, but alas! I'm back up thanks to my crack ISP. I'll spare you the details. Regarding Krupa: I remember being immersed in 'This Was' and 'Dharma For One' and pops says "ya know, that's Gene Krupa he's playing". And he put on a 78 rpm with the same friggin solo as DFO. I was blown away. Anyway, now I've got to read that Krupa bio too. When I was coming up every drummer was influenced by either Krupa, Rich or Bellson, moreso than Baker and Bohnam. Then in the eighties it seems all the rock drummers looked and sounded like Tommy Aldrige. My computer has crashed twiced in the last month. I think it has become self aware. My last one did that so I fired a couple of rounds of 45acp into that one after it died, just to make sure. Seriously. |
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Post by Biggles on Apr 8, 2014 21:08:37 GMT -5
LOL, I'll pay you back later. Mike, you have no idea what a week it's been. My modem crashed Monday morning (approx 2:00 am) and I've been chasing this gremlin all week, but alas! I'm back up thanks to my crack ISP. I'll spare you the details. Regarding Krupa: I remember being immersed in 'This Was' and 'Dharma For One' and pops says "ya know, that's Gene Krupa he's playing". And he put on a 78 rpm with the same friggin solo as DFO. I was blown away. Anyway, now I've got to read that Krupa bio too. When I was coming up every drummer was influenced by either Krupa, Rich or Bellson, moreso than Baker and Bohnam. Then in the eighties it seems all the rock drummers looked and sounded like Tommy Aldrige. My computer has crashed twiced in the last month. I think it has become self aware. My last one did that so I fired a couple of rounds of 45acp into that one after it died, just to make sure. Seriously. Yep, you are correct, Krupa, Rich or Bellson were the kings. I went with Krupa as, Rich was sort of the Paul McCartney of drummers, a little to full of himself, then when he died painfully of brain cancer I let up on let him. There are a couple of duals w/him and Krupa on utube. Bellson was no sloutch either. A couple of other notables later on, Philly Joe Jones (w/Miles) and Joe Morrello (Dave Brubeck). These guys actually studied music. |
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Post by Michael Crowe on Apr 9, 2014 0:57:07 GMT -5
When I was coming up every drummer was influenced by either Krupa, Rich or Bellson, moreso than Baker and Bohnam. Then in the eighties it seems all the rock drummers looked and sounded like Tommy Aldrige. My computer has crashed twiced in the last month. I think it has become self aware. My last one did that so I fired a couple of rounds of 45acp into that one after it died, just to make sure. Seriously. Yep, you are correct, Krupa, Rich or Bellson were the kings. I went with Krupa as, Rich was sort of the Paul McCartney of drummers, a little to full of himself, then when he died painfully of brain cancer I let up on let him. There are a couple of duals w/him and Krupa on utube. Bellson was no sloutch either. A couple of other notables later on, Philly Joe Jones (w/Miles) and Joe Morrello (Dave Brubeck). These guys actually studied music. According to the biography I read Krupa learned to read music later on, after he had been successful. My brother is a pro drummer and he studied after Morrello and Carmine Appice. In fact, back when I did some drum programing commercially I would use Appice as a basic guide because he was so stacatto, which is an easier style to program. Trying to program like Barlow is impossible, for me anyway. Yeah, Buddy Rich was a clown, but when it came to power and speed he had few equals. I've watched the duels he had with Krupa and Bellson and a couple others. One duel with Bellson was interesting. When Bellson laid into his double basses Rich countered by reaching down with his right hand to assist his foot in doing triplets and quads on the kick drum whilst rolling the snare with his left hand - a one hand roll - amazing stuff. Bellson just laughed and shook his head. There's an entertaining footnote to Rich's death. When he was laid up in the hospital a nurse came in and asked if he was allergic to anything. Rich, in his typical smart ass form said, "Yeah, two things - Country and Western." That was supposidly his last words. |
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