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[quote name='steve-bbb' timestamp='1370680959' post='2104251'] not seen/heard live by me ... this [media]http://youtu.be/Rhf5_tqxatc[/media] [/quote] Aah, the truly excellent Kasim Sulton.

I'm loving the Hinotori EP!

Steve Hillage is playing a couple of dates next year in collaboration with Japanese prog band Rovo - they're even doing an arrangement of a Mahavishnu Orchestra track! Also some System 7 gigs this year. Details here: [url="http://www.datatransmission.co.uk/blog/rovo-and-system-7/"]http://www.datatrans...o-and-system-7/[/url]

Is that Ray Laidlaw on the drums?

[quote name='Lowender' timestamp='1370570807' post='2102954'] I kinda like that, but at that tempo it loses that cool groovin Glen Cornick bass line. [/quote] I really liked it too, even though to me it sounds more like the theme from "Mission Impossible" with the words to "Living in the past" sung over it. I feel a mash-up coming on......

[quote name='Schnozzalee' timestamp='1370531007' post='2102296'] I don't know how Steve Tyler & Jack Bruce manage to keep it perfect. [/quote] The common denominator would appear to be massive long term drug abuse.

[quote name='KevB' timestamp='1370525780' post='2102204'] I don't think they were in another band together after Tull but may be wrong. Abrahms formed Blodwyn Pig, I think Glen's band was Wild Turkey? [/quote] I think it's me having the brain fart - I'm thinking of Hot Tuna, the band formed by Jack Casady & Jorma Kaukonen from Jefferson Airplane.

[quote name='Coilte' timestamp='1370524624' post='2102179'] I am surprised that so far, no mention has been made about their very first album...."This Was.." It is the only one that features Mick Abrahms. It is very jazz/blues influenced compared to their later albums. As usual, Cornick is amazing through out. [/quote] I was going to mention it, but only in as much as I really don't like it, largely because of the aforementioned jazz/blues influence. Didn't Cornick & Abrahms go on to form another band together?

[quote name='KevB' timestamp='1370519821' post='2102090'] And is that a Wal he's playing? [/quote] Yes, that's definitely an old Wal. And Martin Barre playing a solidbody Rickenbacker!! Thanks for posting the clip, never seen that before - I'll watch it in full later.

[quote name='KevB' timestamp='1370519093' post='2102077'] ...I think Stormwatch is a vastly underrated album.... [/quote] "Stormwatch" is a very good album indeed. Some very nice bass playing on it courtesy of Ian Anderson himself too.

[quote name='Dave Vader' timestamp='1370518796' post='2102071'] Must have been a bad night when I saw it then, Ian's voice is a shell of what it was, and I found myself wishing he would stop trying, and let that other lad he brought in sing the whole thing instead. [/quote] Maybe it was better as it was a smallish indoor show rather than a festival appearance. Or just an off night as you say. His voice is definitely not as good as it was, but overall I thought it was excellent - the young lad sounded spookily like him at times.

[quote name='Dave Vader' timestamp='1370510422' post='2101914'] Saw Anderson doing the Thick as a Brick show at a festival last year, it was not great. i was sad. [/quote] Really? I saw it in Cardiff & thought it was bloody great.

[quote name='Dom in Somerset' timestamp='1370470454' post='2101626'] Get "Live and bursting out" - a live "best of " featuring Glascock at his best. [/quote] "Live-Bursting Out" is a bloody great live album.

[quote name='BassTractor' timestamp='1370468496' post='2101586'] Personally I would add "Warchild". There are som unforgettable songs on that one, like "Two Fingers", "Bungle in the Jungle", "Sea Lion". [/quote] Don't forget "Skating away on the thin ice of the new day" - probably my Favourite Tull song & one of my favourite songs by anybody ever: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTKu-L1b--o

[quote name='CHRISDABASS' timestamp='1370431936' post='2100665'] Having had experience with both brands i would say that sandberg (the ones i have tried) are not up to the same standards as sadowsky. All sandbergs i have played have been rather heavy and clunky feeling in my opinion and in general are less refined when it comes to the finer details like neck alignment, Strings running correctly over the pickup poles etc. [/quote] I played quite a few Sandbergs a few years ago when I did a bit of work in Europe & I have to say I found them to be just as you describe here. I described them at the time as "Agricultural". They may well be a lot better now. Only ever played two Sadowskys (both NYC models & both a while ago) and I found the quality of them to be astonishingly good. Never played a Lull so I can't comment.

[quote name='thisnameistaken' timestamp='1370459242' post='2101337'] For me, Tomorrow Never Knows and For No One are my favourite ones on Revolver. Actually I think For No One is my favourite Beatles tune. [/quote] I was talking about "For No One" with a friend the other day. It is a great song indeed.

[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1370454344' post='2101235'] I'm reading Howard Kaylan's autobiography at the moment, he describes when the Turtles met Lennon for the first time, the Beatles being their idols, and he was such an arsehole to them, to the guitarist in particular who was a bit in awe of them, that the guitarist ran out the restaurant and flew back to the States and never played music again. Lennon took the piss out of him so badly. So Lennon being a total c*** is a big issue for me. [/quote] I've always thought Lennon came across as a total **** too. Lennon did a very similar thing to a young Todd Rundgren which led to an exchange of open letters between them in either Melody Maker or NME.

[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1370451527' post='2101145'] So what album should I buy that I might dig on? [/quote] No need to buy - due to their omniprescence you have already subconciously absorbed the entire Beatles back catalogue. Simply retrieve them via some kind of regression therapy.

[quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1370446147' post='2101016'] You have to admire the sheer bloody - mindedness of this mob . They seem downright mental , and they don't seem to care a jot what anybody thinks about it . The more I hear about this man and his company , the more I like him . I'm getting interested in buying a Rickenbacker ! [/quote] That's his fiendishly cunning plan - by the end of the month the forum will be called "Rickchat", every other make will have been ousted from discussion & we will all have sleepwalked right into it.

[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1370450082' post='2101098'] .....if anyone wants to join me in a 'Sun Ra, not influenced by Beatles shock' thread then lead on! [/quote] Rubbish, he obviously took his name from "Here comes the Sun"....

[quote name='DogHammer' timestamp='1370440831' post='2100885'] we are always writing new material and alot of our best stuff seems to come out after the 3 hour mark! [/quote] Well there's your answer - don't play until after the three hour mark.

[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1370434647' post='2100727'] Like it or not the Fab Fours songs are much more popular than FZs. [/quote] Without a doubt. I used to listen to quite a lot of Zappa when I was younger but he's one of those people that I find I just cannot listen to anymore for some reason. Same with Yes - I used to love them but now there's something about their music I just don't get on with.

[quote name='Conan' timestamp='1370433837' post='2100708'] Good read! It is worth noting that the date on the original complaint was 1997 though... [/quote] Just goes to show that the terrible attitude & contempt for their customers isn't a recent development.

[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1370431823' post='2100661'] This is an assumption a lot of people seem to make. I have only really heard a few of their early songs, Help, Day Tripper, etc. and a few later obvious ones, Hey Jude, Yellow Sub, etc. Same deal with the Stones. I was never interested in either of those bands and they have never been a musical influence. I imagine there are plenty of people like me on here. [/quote] I'm one of them. I have never listened to a single Stones album & the only two Beatles albums I've heard are Revolver & Rubber Soul. I'd have to give The Beatles some credit as far as influences go though as the first bass line I ever learned was from Rubber Soul. They've also indirectly influenced me as they have been a big influence on people I am a fan of such as Todd Rundgren & Cheap Trick.