Tull mentions: in the (local) news

[TM]

This is from my neck of the woods...

Paramus hands Old Tappan its first loss
Thursday, January 21, 2010

Last Friday night Jethro Tull's classic rock song "Locomotive Breath," blasted through the loudspeakers as the wrestlers from Old Tappan and Paramus took to the mat before a jam-packed audience.

The lyrics, "The train won't stop going, no way to slow down," were fitting for the host Spartans, because much like an old steam engine, they started off slowly only to build momentum as the night went on.

Once Paramus got going, they ran away like a freight train defeating the Golden Knights 41-25.....

www.northjersey.com/sports/82226862_Old_Tappan_suffers_its_first_loss.html

[Nonfatman]

From today's NY Daily News, a review of a new album entitled The Courage of Others by the Brit-folk band, Midlake.

www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music/2010/01/26/2010-01-26_midlakes_the_courage_of_others_musters_brilliant_inspiration_from_60s_britfolk_a.html

The reviewer states that bandleader Tim Smith initially tried "to follow the critically reviled Jethro Tull" but then changed course for the better by recording this album, even though each and every song is an imitation of a single Fairport Convention song, Fotheringay!

To the reviewer that's a good thing because, in his words, "Fairport produced far more erudite, smart and blithe work than Tull ever did."

Sorry, pal, but I beg to differ.

Jeff