Posted on 07/24/2010 11:37:54 PM PDT by Nachum
No jesting at all, I’ve had a complete collection of their music, including Martin Barre’s solo albums, for over 20 years. Yes Walk into Light, Under Wraps, SLOB and Nightcap, and Trick of Memory, and A Classic Case (which sadly spawned that whole “Symphonic Band X” sub-genre which by and large stinks), even Kiss of the Gypsy.
Where the release dates matter is that you threw around Aqualung as proof of Ian being anti-religion and a reason to boycott the band, since that was out 5 years before TYTO it makes you look kind of silly. If they should be boycotted because of a 1971 album why wave around a 1976 song.
No I completed my collection BEFORE Rock Island came out, and have stayed current since.
I know Ian isn’t anti-religion, which means I’m not a noob. And you have a desperate need to throw around insults, which means you know the facts are against you.
You mean a double nut spy.
Still no answers to my questions?
Didn’t think so.
*Just* 20 years?
LMAO.
Noob.
I never said I was boycotting him for being “anti-religion”; I’m boycotting him for his liberalism and anti-American statments.
If you’d been paying attention, you’d know that.
I’m baffled.
Our deer won’t touch Juniper or cedar.
Sounds like you guys up there need to start teaching them some respect.
[and knowing the PA DNC, good luck with that]
When they built the Whitetail Ski Resort near here, they told the construction people to notify them of any of the *many* rattelsnake dens so they could “safely relocate them”.
One guy got out of his Cat to have lunch and when he got back in the cab, a timber rattler lunged off the floor and bit him in the throat.
He was dead before he hit the ground.
His best friend then took a shovel to the snake, killing it.
Guess who got a HUGE fine and if I recall rightly, jail time.
Today’s paper has a feature article about some idiot who’s “A Friend To Timbler Rattlers”.
We are told we “have no mountain lions” here despite multiple crdible sightings *and* signs posted with a 24/7 hotline if you see one of the mountain lions we “don’t have”.
We’re also warned that we’ll automaticaly be fined $10,000 if we harm any of the non-existant mountain lions.
[we’ve already been there and done that with the so-called “coyotes”...we’re allowed to blast them at will, now. *that* little “deer herd thinning” experiment went bust when the “coyotes” discovered that newborn beef calves were easier to catch]
The DNR used to all be good ol’ local boys who hunted.
Now it’s liberal tree huggers who wouldn’t survive 10 minutes in the woods.
Pitiful.
[and until the panther’s gone, you ain’t borrowin’ ~my~ goats]
:))
He’s been liberal from day one. And no I won’t answer your questions because they’re just more BS from somebody that’s got nothing but insults. maybe if you could act like an adult, but every time you call me a noob you prove that you are beneath my contempt. You’re not worth paying attention to. bye.
Wrong.
He was an active hunter who sneered at environmentalists.
He was inordinately proud of his gun collection and was heartbroken when a rare, collector’s edition pistol that he had been given had the firing pin removed after the UK went “gun free”.
He was anti-drug, commonly made thinly veiled snide remarks about gays, was pro-smoking and proclaimed a host of other “conservative” views.
Then again, you probably weren’t around back then to know all that.
So, since you can’t answer the hard questions [cough cough *cop out*] here’s an easy one:
Who wrote “Aqualung”?
Even *you* should know that.
“You’re not worth paying attention to. bye.”
The ultimate “I can’t win so I’m taking my ball and going home!”
Thanks.
You’ve been quite...”amusing”, shall we day...:)
Midnight lonely whisper cries,
“We’re getting a bit short on heroes lately”
Sword snap fright white pale goodbyes
in the desolation of Valhalla.
FYI, they’re -not- “coyotes”.
They’re Eastern Wolves.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Wolf
[don’t let that “distribution map” kid you]
They’re almost as big as GSD and are not afraid of humans.
A pack of them backed my dad down a 400 yard ridge, intending to attack him if he turned his back on them.
He did not and after a long, terrifying backwards march over loose, rocky ground, my then-70 year reached his truck and pulled out his rifle.
As soon as they saw that, they hauled ass.
They’re big, unafraid and ~smart~.
I don’t know where some of the disinformation about Ian Anderson is coming from. He is NOT married to a flaming liberal, and he is NOT a flaming liberal. And it was his first wife who wrote the lyrics to the song Aqualung. See the excerpt below from WIKI for some actual facts about Anderson, a man I find fascinating:
“Family and personal life
From 1970 to 1974, Anderson was married to Jennie Franks, a photographer who is credited with writing most of the lyrics to the song Aqualung. Anderson married Shona Learoyd in 1976, described by Rolling Stone magazine as a “beautiful convent-educated daughter of a wealthy wool manufacturer”[3]. She had studied ballet for 10 years, though Anderson met her when she was working as a press officer at Jethro Tull’s then record-label Chrysalis Records. She later became involved with the band’s on-stage special effects.
The couple have lived in a 16th-century redbrick farmhouse on the 500-acre Pophleys estate in Buckinghamshire, England, and on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. They currently live in Wiltshire, England. They have two children: James Duncan Anderson, also a musician; and Gael, who works in the film industry and is married to the actor Andrew Lincoln.
Anderson is a survivor of deep vein thrombosis, and has done several public service announcements to raise awareness of the disease.
Among his interests Anderson lists protecting wild cats, especially those that have been rescued from harsh captivity; cameras, chiefly Leicas; Indian cuisine – he has written a beginner’s guide, thus far published only on the Internet.[4]
Anderson describes himself as being “somewhere between Deist and Pantheist” religiously, according to his foreword to the pamphlet for his 2006 St. Brides charity concerts for the homeless.[5]
Anderson has never taken the driving test, though he lists off-road motorcycling among his interests.
[edit] Business activities
Anderson is a successful businessman away from the music industry, and he has owned several salmon farms. His Strathaird concern[6], based on his estate on the Isle of Skye was worth £10.7 million in the late 1990s, when parts of it began to be sold off. He currently owns a group of companies which reported a gross profit of £1.8 million in 2004, when the Sunday Herald newspaper reported:
He and his wife Shona, the sole shareholders and directors, shared a £500,000 dividend and emoluments, excluding pension contributions, of £850,954. A modest pre-tax loss of £5,806 was booked for the year but the balance sheet shows shareholders’ funds stand at £3.2m. Income included a payment of £209,517 following one of the rock group’s regular checks on its flow of royalties.[7]”
I don’t know where some of the disinformation about Ian Anderson is coming from. He is NOT married to a flaming liberal, and he is NOT a flaming liberal. And it was his first wife who wrote the lyrics to the song Aqualung. See the excerpt below from WIKI for some actual facts about Anderson, a man I find fascinating:
“Family and personal life
From 1970 to 1974, Anderson was married to Jennie Franks, a photographer who is credited with writing most of the lyrics to the song Aqualung. Anderson married Shona Learoyd in 1976, described by Rolling Stone magazine as a “beautiful convent-educated daughter of a wealthy wool manufacturer”[3]. She had studied ballet for 10 years, though Anderson met her when she was working as a press officer at Jethro Tull’s then record-label Chrysalis Records. She later became involved with the band’s on-stage special effects.
The couple have lived in a 16th-century redbrick farmhouse on the 500-acre Pophleys estate in Buckinghamshire, England, and on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. They currently live in Wiltshire, England. They have two children: James Duncan Anderson, also a musician; and Gael, who works in the film industry and is married to the actor Andrew Lincoln.
Anderson is a survivor of deep vein thrombosis, and has done several public service announcements to raise awareness of the disease.
Among his interests Anderson lists protecting wild cats, especially those that have been rescued from harsh captivity; cameras, chiefly Leicas; Indian cuisine – he has written a beginner’s guide, thus far published only on the Internet.[4]
Anderson describes himself as being “somewhere between Deist and Pantheist” religiously, according to his foreword to the pamphlet for his 2006 St. Brides charity concerts for the homeless.[5]
Anderson has never taken the driving test, though he lists off-road motorcycling among his interests.
[edit] Business activities
Anderson is a successful businessman away from the music industry, and he has owned several salmon farms. His Strathaird concern[6], based on his estate on the Isle of Skye was worth £10.7 million in the late 1990s, when parts of it began to be sold off. He currently owns a group of companies which reported a gross profit of £1.8 million in 2004, when the Sunday Herald newspaper reported:
He and his wife Shona, the sole shareholders and directors, shared a £500,000 dividend and emoluments, excluding pension contributions, of £850,954. A modest pre-tax loss of £5,806 was booked for the year but the balance sheet shows shareholders’ funds stand at £3.2m. Income included a payment of £209,517 following one of the rock group’s regular checks on its flow of royalties.[7]”
Way to go.
You just answered the only question I thought he’d get.
I got my “disinformation” from his own lips.
WIKI is hardly a credible source for disproving liberality.
Prior to his dressing down by outraged Americans, he frequently poontificated upon his “world views” on his official site, www.j-tull.com.
Since that, he seems to have shut up about his “world views” and all his archived articles have been scrubbed.
You *do* know he’s ‘very concerned’ about “global warming”, don’t you?
That WIKI article must be old.
He donated his Strathaird properties [including the famous iron age fort “Dun Ringill” to the John Muir Society *years* ago...or so -he- said.
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