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Posted: **Sat Apr 08, 2006 12:22 pm**

Nothing to with rics but still...I saw them to night. And what a great band. I took this picture for you.

Posted: **Sat Apr 08, 2006 12:29 pm**

Frode, thanks for the pic. I am so jealous, Jethro Tull is one band I have wanted to see and never seem to get the chance. From the pic it looks like you had a great seat and hopefully a great time too.

Shawn

Posted: **Sat Apr 08, 2006 12:36 pm**

I saw them at the Capital Center in the Washington DC area in the mid 70's. Definitely a great band to see.

Posted: **Sat Apr 08, 2006 12:48 pm**

I worked with then once - it wasn't the easiest night of my life!

Posted: **Sat Apr 08, 2006 1:37 pm**

I saw Passion Play in San Diego..

That was back when the rock tours were named after the album they were hawking.

Posted: **Sat Apr 08, 2006 2:02 pm**

I saw a show from the "Broadsword and the Beast" tour. It was in the early 80's I think. The crowd was not responding at all to the "new material" and Ian was more than a little annoyed by that. He stopped the band in the middle of a song and announced that they would now play the music that we apparently came to hear and went directly into Aqualung. I have heard that he is prone to the occasional hissy fit.

Posted: **Sat Apr 08, 2006 2:24 pm**

Hey, if he ended up playing what they wanted to hear, mission accomplished!!!

Posted: **Sat Apr 08, 2006 2:56 pm**

I too, saw the Passion Play tour, in Cleveland in '73.

Posted: **Sat Apr 08, 2006 3:06 pm**

Thanks Jeffrey, I couldn't remember the year. Brain cells and all, you know!

Posted: **Sat Apr 08, 2006 3:52 pm**

yep ... I saw Tull on that tour in Chicago ... man he sure did put on a good show ... I also saw him touring for his lp "A" in California about '79 he had the guy from UK playing electric violin and keys Eddie Jobson ... he had a good bass player on that tour as well Dave Pegg ... and Martin Barre is a really good guitarist as well ... man I miss the old progressive rock band tours ... back in the 70s you could see a good entertaining concert for a reasonable amount of money ...

Posted: **Sat Apr 08, 2006 4:10 pm**

You know Jeff, except for that flat wound phobia, you got good taste! That concert brought to mind two more concerts I went to in San Diego, Zep's Physical Graffiti, and ZZ Top's World Tour(the one with all of the animals). ZZ had 50,000 watts(San Diego Stadium), and they sounded like ****. It was too much power. Elvin Bishop came on first and was fine(way less power). The bass amd the drums were off all night.

Posted: **Sat Apr 08, 2006 4:37 pm**

Tull had the best sound I've ever heard in a big venue...and in one of the worst imaginable...the basketball arena at CU Boulder....

Pay the sound man as much as the band members are getting and you've really got something...

Posted: **Sat Apr 08, 2006 4:57 pm**

I love the Quad PA that Pink was using back in the 70 ... and I think they still use a similar rig today ...

Charley ... I like the flat sound ... I get it by palm muting ... I just don't want to be stuck in that mode ... and the clicky sound that flats make can bug me ... but there is a seductive smoothness to flats ... but there is a more seductive side to rounds ... for me flats are best on a fretless bass ...

Posted: **Sat Apr 08, 2006 8:40 pm**

I wish just concerts in general would be cheap these days . . . unfortunately, we have a nice monopoly to deal with *cough*Ticketmaster*cough* and bands not making enough money off of CD sales requiring them to charge more for the tour to make ends meet.

Posted: **Sat Apr 08, 2006 10:11 pm**

Quote "Pay the sound man as much as the band members are getting and you've really got something..."

We speak the same language, Dane. A lot of bands don't seem to realise that the one person who can make or break their gig is the FOH engineer and therefore it pays to keep him sweet!

The moral of the story is "P off the sound guy and you ain't gonna sound good no matter how good you play!".