MacNuggets

[Moz]

Originally Posted by michelej1

and that fella from Fleetwood Mac chased his bandmates through the hills with a loaded shotgun.

Huh. Never heard that one before.

[vivfox]

Jethro Tull

“It came to my awareness early on that if you employ managers and tour managers you end up spending an awful lot more money than you need to. You'd get booked into hotels just because they had the best commission, not because they were near the show or the airport. I also got fed up with the idea that you'd have roadies to pack and carry your suitcases. You can sometimes draw from the murky depths this amazing ability to actually get on the right aeroplane yourself.” Anderson has been managing himself since the midSeventies, his wife, Shona, does the books and his son, James, is promoting the British leg of the current tour.

It helps if you started at the Marquee Club in 1968

Not much use to today's Facebook hopefuls but as Anderson points out: “Deep Purple, Fleetwood Mac, Yes, King Crimson, Jethro Tull all began there and are still working. It was an incredibly inventive era, one that perhaps we're only beginning to really appreciate now.”

Fans age with a band. “Whether they like it or not, Duran Duran's core audience is now 40-year-old mums,” Anderson says. But contrary to rumour, Tull fans are not all middle-aged gents in real-ale T-shirts. “We are not constricted by a particular age group. We have a lot of Asians but not many black people. It's mixed gender but not so mixed that we have a lot of gays. There are bands with a strong gay following, which makes a difference to the numbers.” Clearly all those years in tights and codpiece did not work.

Anderson famously ran a successful salmon-farming business in Scotland, now sold. Hobbies include growing hot chillis and the study and conservation of the 26 species of small wildcats in the world.

“I don't want to live in my stately home in the country and have Waitrose deliver to me. On Friday morning I'll be with my wife in the Toyota Prius at Cirencester Waitrose. That's part of being out there.”

Anderson doesn't travel on the tour bus, preferring to journey alone on the train. “What you encounter on the frequently dodgy streets around stations is a way of keeping in touch with British society.”

http://entertainment.timesonline.co....cle3881098.ece

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by Moz

Huh. Never heard that one before.

Yeah, Clifford Davis wasn't his band mate. He didn't chase him. I don't think there were hills involved . . .

It's like playing that game "telephone" in school. You sit students in a circle and have one after the other whisper a story into the ear of the person next to them. By the time you get to the end of the line, the story being told is wildly different from the one that you started with.

Michele

[vivfox]

Engelbert Humperdinck

It was when he met up with his old roommate Gordon Mills in 1966, who was then manager for Tom Jones, that the singer's career began to climb.

Mills suggested a new stage name would be far more marketable and so the 30-year-old decided to change his professional name to "Engelbert Humperdinck," borrowing the moniker from the classic German opera composer of the same name. The composer was most famous for the opera "Hansel and Gretel."

In celebration of his 40th anniversary, last September, Humperdinck released "The Winding Road" (Alliance/IDN), a new CD featuring songs he calls "contemporary British classics," all written by the likes of James Blunt, Eric Clapton, Elton John, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Christine McVie and Sting.

To go along with his new album, Humperdinck also launched his new 100-city world tour which kicked off in Nevada earlier this year. He'll be centerstage tonight at the Star Plaza Theatre in Merrillville.

http://nwitimes.com/articles/2008/05...420056bc92.txt

[vivfox]

Crossroads @ 9pm
Sara Evans is a little bit country and Maroon 5 is a little bit rock-and-roll, but there's plenty of common ground as tonight's show illustrates. Here they collaborate on Evans' "I Could Not Ask for More" and "Some Things Never Change," as well as Maroon 5's "This Love," "She Will Be Loved" and "Won't Go Home Without You." They also cover a song that was originally a duet by Stevie Nicks and Don Henley: "Leather and Lace."

Ghost Whisperer @ 8pm
Melinda Gordon tries to help the dead communicate with loved ones, `but sometimes the messages she receives are intense and confusing. Tonight, she looks into a 1979 murder trial prosecuted by her father, hoping to find a connection to his disappearance.

http://tv.hollyscoop.com/what-to-wat...ition_798.aspx

[belladonnadream]

Originally Posted by Moz

Huh. Never heard that one before.

Maybe they me Jeremy..or Peter

[michelej1]

From a comment on metafilter, September 10, 2009:

http://www.metafilter.com/84939/Rese...th-religiosity

I think we've all had the experience of deciding to like something, some painting or movie or song, especially if we think back to adolescence. We play the song over and over again, watch the movie repeatedly, ponder the painting for hours, reread the book, whatever. Sometimes this works. I decided that I was going to really try to figure out what people liked about ABBA, a band I'd made easy slagging of for years, and got to really enjoy them. Likewise, David Bowie, Pere Ubu, etc. Sometimes, it doesn't. No matter how many times I listen to Fleetwood Mac's Buckingham-Nicks output, it still bores the hell out of me and makes me want to wash my ears out with Napalm Death. And sometimes it takes partway but not completely, like Velvet Underground, where I don't think I'll ever like Nico's voice, even though I can get where they were coming from.