Apr 202011
I’m going to be “out of office” today, but meanwhile, a Townsman sent me the following thought-provoking image. What does this image say to you?
I look forward to your thoughts.
I’m going to be “out of office” today, but meanwhile, a Townsman sent me the following thought-provoking image. What does this image say to you?
I look forward to your thoughts.
Pure 1970s
Sitting on the park bench —
eyeing little girls with bad intent.
Snot running down his nose —
greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes.
Drying in the cold sun —
Watching as the frilly panties run.
Feeling like a dead duck —
spitting out pieces of his broken luck.
“bore ’em at the forum.”
If I remember right, Circus magazine was barely a step up from crap like Sixteen and Tiger Beat in terms of readership and sophistication. In other words, breathlessly-fawning press-release teenybopper junk.
Anderson is looking into the window of your soul? I don’t get the art direction.
A Tull digression: I actually saw Jethro Tull on the “A” tour at the St. Paul Civic Center with about 4,000 people. It was the smallest “arena rock” crowd I have ever seen and it was not very good. I have no idea why I went — I guess I sort of liked a buddy’s older brother’s “Songs from the Wood” for about five minutes — so maybe he took us. Maybe I’m wrong and would love to read a defense of Tull.
I summon Townsman Mockcarr!
I saw Jethro Tull in 1975 at Lakeland, Florida. Fine show, but Tull was still pretty much at their prime them. It didn’t hurt that the Sensational Alex Harvey Band was the opening act. I like all of Tull’s albums through Thick As A Brick, but then their output became spottier and the band’s reputation began to fade by the mid-’70s. The A album wasn’t well received by Tull fans (what few were left) because Tull tried to go new-wavey synthy electronic.
Alex Harvey opening for Tull…that’s pretty much a perfectly matched bill.
It means I’ve been wrong all these years in thinking the Hulk couldn’t talk.
A cheap joke would be TV’s Hulk is the only one who can really appreciate Jethro Tull, see, Lou Ferrigno was deaf, ha ha…
I believe Anderson’s look is highlandish. Maybe he missed his chance to do a guest shot on some CBS spinoff like Rhoda, Phyllis, or Maude as a tugboat captain, and was trying to get on Quincy as the guy who lives in the boat next door who always asks him if he wants a “stiff” drink.
Hahaha, etc.!
I’m sorry. The “frame” is bothering me.
TB
Per the sidebar, this magazine article was promoting Live: Bursting Out” from ’78. I saw that tour and it was pretty good (for the pre-16 y.o. fan). I can defend Tull up to about this time. The early stuff (pre-Aqualung) was good, heavy blooze based stuff. Aqualung and the hits were pretty hard for FM-radio fare and the lyrical content was interesting. They had a couple of crappy huge concepts ( War Child) and were in the midst of a bit of comeback with the more folk Songs from the Wood and Heavy Horses . I saw Ian about 6-7 yrs ago, he is still pretty entertaining onstage.
Jack Nicholson got his “Here’s Johnny” acting chops from this.