Jethro Tull sorry for bashing flag

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Tuesday, November 18, 2003

[JohnHuang2]

Tuesday, November 18, 2003

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[Dane]

Sorry Ian, can't help it if your head is as "thick as a brick".

[Squantos]

Hope Ian will accept my apology in kind for shoving that flute up his ass if I ever I meet him in person......

These POS losers say what they mean, what they really mean and then their bankers make em apologize like a 6 year old . Trash......nothing but human trash.

Stay Safe Ya'll......rant over !

[MayDay72]

Sorry Ian, can't help it if your head is as "thick as a brick". -Dane

Actually I think that we exhausted all of the obvious Jethro Tull references over here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1020355/posts

[Rockitz]

"Poor old sod..."

[skr]

Despite being a teen in the 70s, the only thing I remember about Jethro Tull is that they had horrible album covers. I can't even imagine what "Aqualung" sounds like. Certainly no big loss in my musical education.

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

Oops! My bad, I thought they were referring to our Jethro Tull.

BTW: did he ever come out of his bomb shelter after Y2K?

[JohnHuang2]

BTW: did he ever come out of his bomb shelter after Y2K?

hehehe

[Strider]

"I now regret the tone of these statements and offer my belated apologies to those offended ... "

He can appologize all he wants. As far as I am concerned, he can go to hell.

[dasboot]

I love some of his stuff. "Skating Away" is a monumentally good tune; and I think it will be sung in pubs 500 years from now. Of all his tunes, I think that is the most universally loved. He's a damn gifted writer.

"Bungle in the Jungle" is another great one. One of those 'sing-along' choruses everybody knows.

Why would anybody get upset by political commentary from a guy who wears a cod-piece? [g]

[KneelBeforeZod]

which one is jethro tull?

[FlyVet]

I really didn’t understand – even after 35 years of visiting the USA on a regular basis

Well...maybe yer stupid.

[JohnHuang2]

Well...maybe yer stupid.

Bingo.

[geege]

I walked out of a Tull concert at Madison Square Garden years ago after getting in for nothing......Their music did nothing for me then and still can't move me...

[Bonaparte]

"...as is now apparent to me?"

I guess Ian was asleep in a vault during the Ditzy Chix fiasco.

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

Seriously, did he ever come up? I haven't seen him post since 1999, and enquiring minds want to know: is he still down there, checking out his stock options and baseball cards? Or did he come up, and was so embarrassed that he blew the call so badly that he remains in anonymous obscurity to this day?

[xp38]

From the Britannica website....

Jethro Tull (1674-1741)

Born: 1674 at Basilson, Berkshire Agriculturalist

Died: 1741 at Hungerford, Berkshire

Jethro Tull (1674-1741), born in Basildon in 1674, was a major pioneer in the modernisation of agriculture. The son of a Berkshire farmer, he trained for a legal career, but financial problems compelled him to opt instead for farming. Determined to improve agricultural methods and increase yields, Tull experimented at Howberry farm, Crowmarsh, near Wallingford with a seed-drill which could sew three rows of seeds simultaneously. Later, he devised a horse-drawn hoe to clear away weeds. In 1731, Tull published his ideas about farming and plant nutrition in The New Horse Houghing Husbandry: or, an Essay on the Principles of Tillage and Vegetation'. Despite initial resistance to Tull's revolutionary ideas, they were eventually adopted by large landowners, and in time formed the basis of modern agriculture. Tull died at Prosperous Farm, near Hungerford on 21 February 1741.

[FlyVet]

Their music did nothing for me then and still can't move me...

I grew up in the '70's and never did see what was so good about them either, although many of my friends thought they were great. I had a friend who worked at the local minor-league hockey stadium in Kalamazoo, and Tull played there one night. He told me that backstage, after the concert, Anderson would look at someone and start laughing uncontrollably...a little too much acid that night, perhaps.

[JohnHuang2]

Haven't seen him either. I suppose he's still down there...