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- From: aa595@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Dan Duvall)
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- Subject: Tull 1990 tour program: transcription
- Date: 30 Dec 1992 21:51:42 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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- Below is the introduction from the 1990 Tull tour program.
- The text was written by Ian Anderson:
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- Well it's been one of those years when there is no new
- 'product' as record companies would term our particular brand
- of cornflakes.
-
- So do Tull boys relax on sun-soaked beaches sipping cool drinks
- through long straws, surrounded by servile maidens,
- wind-surfers, powerboats and torn up credit cards? No sirree...
- unlike the bonnie Bros boys, we older and wiser chappies still
- retain our marbles and most of the wonga. Not for us the
- clenched fist salute in defiance of changing times. Not for us
- to teeter on the brink of the abyss into which fall unloved
- lovelies once so fashionable. Sadly, 'though, not for us either
- the thicker barnets of yesteryear, the trim taught [sic]
- buttocks of youth and more free guitar strings than you could
- play in a John Lee Hooker lifetime. Still, you can't have it
- both ways.
-
- Even in this, an off year, the lure of the hungry crowd draws
- us out... into the Transit van: Martin Barre driving, me
- checking suitcases and hotel reservations and David Pegg,
- silent operator in the twilight world of back stage security
- and catering, making the nightly trek to the box office with
- sealed envelopes for the lucky few containing cryptic
- 'after-show-only' passes and season tickets for Fairport
- Convention concerts.
-
- Big boy Doane will have to wake himself each morning on this
- tour, and Martin Allcock will have to learn to put himself to
- bed.
-
- Yes, it's the budget special, with small venues, most of which
- we haven't played for fifteen years. In response to the many
- letters, we thought we'd give it a go... with by necessity, a
- smaller crew and a bit less equipment. Not so much back to
- basics... just back to Sunderland. And if something in the way
- of gigs crops up later in the year... well we might do that
- too... so long as we are able to get into the studio around the
- end of September, suitably visited by the muse, new guitar
- strings and the VAT man; not necessarily in that order.
-
- Right then, here we go... same old Tull, same old stuff, but at
- least you got a new tour programme...
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