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Jethro Tull

#181
This pic might capture the ultimate Tull for me. However I did love the Barlow/Hammond Hammond era basically as much.

Magus...good story. What kind of neck are you selling?

This year at NAMM I bumped into Doane Perry..who told me Martin Barre was in the building at a booth he mentioned. I took 45 minutes out just to chase down a booth that didnt exist- I guess Doane had it wrong...:bawl:

I dont know...in a place full of music "stars" it was the thought of talking to Barre that made me the most giddy by far. Just speaks I guess to how deeply this one band has moved me since I was 10.

Here's to TULL!
 
#182
xsogol said:
I too loved JG's playing and tone...I especially love the tone on Stormwatch but I'm not sure how many of those tracks were laid down by IA. Does anyone know what rig JG was using? I heard he had a 70s SVT but I can't corroborate this.
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John Glascock plays on "Orion", "Elegy" and "The Flying Dutchman", others were by Ian. He has an SVT on a BBC Live TV gig in '7 and the pics from "Bursting Out - Live" shows him using Marshall amps and cabs.

He also played a Rickenbacker and an EB-3 when he was in Carmen.
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#183
Oh my, you must be the other 5 people left that like J Tull.
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Make that 6! I actually played flute for a long time since buying one in 1972 and was playing Pachelbel's Canon on a stage not more than 5 years ago :)
I started playing bass to have a band again, after so many years as an average guitarist, and I found out that my bass ears have been sculpted by Jack Bruce, Greg Lake and Jethro Tull. I'm having so much fun now!
 
#184
basses55 said:
Magus...good story. What kind of neck are you selling?
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Glenn has bought the neck..

Hi B55 - it was a Fender NOS HMT. Glenn has got one apparently, and wanted another neck as a spare. He's just emailed me and it looks like Clive Bunker is definately going to have to pick it up for him. Suits me fine as i wouldnt really want to send a neck to California.

This is the neck he's just bought

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and this is what it looks like on the Fender HMT A/E

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And oh yeah...is this a Gibson 335 style ??? Havent seen him play this one too many times.

 
#186
MAGUS®;4064278 said:
Glenn has bought the neck..

Hi B55 - it was a Fender NOS HMT. Glenn has got one apparently, and wanted another neck as a spare. He's just emailed me and it looks like Clive Bunker is definately going to have to pick it up for him. Suits me fine as i wouldnt really want to send a neck to California.

This is the neck he's just bought

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and this is what it looks like on the Fender HMT A/E

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And oh yeah...is this a Gibson 335 style ??? Havent seen him play this one too many times.

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You should have Stand Up playing in the background when he comes to pick it up. Hey...take a pic! Post it here:)

Not sure what bass that was on the vid. I've seen pics with him with it here and there.
 
#187
Wouldnt that be cheesy ! Bunker will think he's walked into a Candid Camera episode :)

I have about 5 CD's i could choose from - though stand up isnt one of them

Anyways - that big ol bass...i presume a Gibbo of some kind as i know he played an EB3 for quite some time, so he may have had a passion for Gibsons
 
#188
one word:

TULL!!!!


Cornick, H2, Glascock still Stand Up for the Benefit of great bass playing.

I know I'm still Living in the Past...

:help:
 
#190
This is the first I've seen of this thread and, my apologies, but I'm not going to read the 200+ replies before commenting. I saw Tull on the Aqualung tour at the Anaheim Convention Center back in the year 19-whatever and I still remember it to this day. To me, that was really the last truly 'Tull' album. Even though I continued to buy the first couple released after that (Thick As A Brick and some other one), I lost interest after that as they had so completely changed direction (which a band must do to survive, but it didn't sit well with me). The tour I saw was not the original bass player, but this guy held his own (was wearing an outfit, top to bottom of diagonal stripes)...Sorry if this has already been commented on, just brought back some memories I wanted to share...
 
#191
Has anybody seen them on their last tour? I saw them some time ago, but unfortunately without Noyce, their regular bass player.

I feel like they've lost whatever it is they once had. Might be fact that they're really old guys now, I don't know. Makes me wish I was about 30 years younger:) Still, I'm glad I go and see them at every opportunity!
 
#192
IMO....they (Ian) lost alot of it after Heavy Horses..sometime in the earlier 80s...but its been even more lost in the last 10-15 years lol.

Its been a source of frustration and dissapointment for I dont know how long....for me..and my other Tull fanfriends/family.

His voice/throat gradually gave out...and the writing became fairly inconsequential for me.I didnt like the new guys as much either..could be the songs they had to play but it seemed there was less character and style in the playing too. I guess like most big bands in the 60/70s they had a shelf life for passion and uniqueness in the writing and performance areas..but they did go an awful lot longer than most bands from that era.

I have to admit, up until Heavy Horses and the odd song on subsequent albums (Dun Ringell) they produced maybe some of the most beautiful and powerfully original music I've ever heard or will ever hear..and those albums/songs will always live with me in a very personal way...they still make me want to root for them and I know I'm blinded in a way. However, it still gives be a thrill to go to see them and just hear that flute and those older songs start up....I have few heros but Ian and the old band are some of them and I really dont let the "new" Tull of the last 20 years erase that.

So...a toast to Ian, Martin, Clive, Glen, Jeffrey, John, John G, and sometimes David.:)

There..got that off my chest!
 
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#194
Jo6Pak said:
This is the first I've seen of this thread and, my apologies, but I'm not going to read the 200+ replies before commenting. I saw Tull on the Aqualung tour at the Anaheim Convention Center back in the year 19-whatever and I still remember it to this day. To me, that was really the last truly 'Tull' album. Even though I continued to buy the first couple released after that (Thick As A Brick and some other one), I lost interest after that as they had so completely changed direction (which a band must do to survive, but it didn't sit well with me). The tour I saw was not the original bass player, but this guy held his own (was wearing an outfit, top to bottom of diagonal stripes)...Sorry if this has already been commented on, just brought back some memories I wanted to share...
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http://www.ministry-of-information.co.uk/setlist/70b.htm

Too bad you aren't going to read the thread, because this
little link has the date of your show.

19/10/70 Anaheim Convention Center Anaheim, Ca. USA
Flute Cake - (Openining Act)
Nothing Is Easy, My God, We Used To Know, With You There To Help Me/By Kind Permission Of..., A Song For Jeffrey, Sossity: You're A Woman/Reasons For Waiting
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I saw the RI auditorium show 2 weeks later. Same zebra suit.

Of course, you may have seen the June 19th 1971 show.
Was Livingston Taylor there?

There were no shows in Anaheim after that that I can see,
I went as far as 1973 when they were performing Passion Play.
 
#196
If you check that link, it appears Tull did quite a few shows with LT.

Zebra suit guy was Clive Bunker. Cornick was 'released' from
his association with the band during the previous US tour,
according to an email I got from him a couple of years back.
The list notes that the last show in November was Cornick's last with
the band, and that they recorded Auqualung in the studio in December.

Much of this info comes from the concert goers. The show
I went to was originally listed as being played in the
Providence Civic Center, which was not the case. I knew
it had been played in a hockey rink, the home of the RI Reds,
now torn down. I was able to demonstrate through a few
historical sites that this venue was incorrect, as the venue
had not yet been built at the date listed. They then corrected
that to the 'Rhode Island Auditorium'.

Tull had an excellent backup band on the show I saw. IIRC
the band was called 'Freedom'. They played 3 songs, all
rather long. I vividly recall one guitarist playing a left handed
Gibson double neck, and the other a Gibson Flying V. They
really cooked. They got a standing O and an encore call,
and finished with 'Dirty Water', about a half hours worth.
People were jumping up and down on the wooden chairs in
the place, and screaming. When they were done, the lights
stayed down, and John Evans started with a piano solo that
went into My God. I think, anyway, its all a little fuzzy now.

So the crowd was TOTALLY fired up, and there was no
intermission, they came right on stage with the same
backline. Very, very professional and impressive opening.
And the show just got better from there.

A knockout warmup band, segued into a high energy Tull
show. One of the best shows I have ever seen.

:bassist: :hyper:
 

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