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Did Jethro Tull Sponsor the Album of a Beefheart Spin-Off Band?

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progea

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May 6, 2008, 10:33:04 AM5/6/08
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So this is from the official web site of Dr. Arthur Tripp,
chiropractor, who, as Artie Tripp, was also a percussionist for
Mothers of Invention and Captain Beefheart. I found this on
alt.fan.frank-zappa. I didn't know this. Thanks!

http://www.traditionalchiropractic.com/music2.html

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rwalker

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May 12, 2008, 9:31:56 PM5/12/08
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"Jack Mehoff" <romanin...@dick.com> wrote in message
news:806304b069d1f691...@msgid.frell.theremailer.net...

snip
>
> you dont know lots of things, romanian nigger: like why yo mama is
> busy fukking every dicktator in bucharest and your father took it up
> the arse from ceausescu. why not dig up zappa and let him skull fuk
> you, nigga?
>

So, clearly you have a need and compulsion to demonstrate your ignorance and
stupidity in public. We're all very proud of you, and quite impressed, I
must say.


JennaLynn Bane

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May 13, 2008, 5:05:42 AM5/13/08
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Don't feed the troll!!
--
'Coal-black niggers in policemen's hats
nosing where the white men have been.'

progea

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May 13, 2008, 9:54:02 AM5/13/08
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On May 13, 5:05 am, JennaLynn Bane <jennal...@888.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 12 May 2008 21:31:56 -0400, rwalker wrote:
> > "Jack Mehoff" <romaninanig...@dick.com> wrote in message

> >news:806304b069d1f691...@msgid.frell.theremailer.net...
>
> > snip
>
> >> you dont know lots of things, romanian nigger: like why yo mama is
> >> busy fukking every dicktator in bucharest and your father took it up
> >> the arse from ceausescu. why not dig up zappa and let him skull fuk
> >> you, nigga?
>
> > So, clearly you have a need and compulsion to demonstrate your ignorance and
> > stupidity in public.  We're all very proud of you, and quite impressed, I
> > must say.
>
> Don't feed the troll!!
> --
> 'Coal-black niggers in policemen's hats
> nosing where the white men have been.'

His days are numbered anyway.

DOCTOR Mary Ellen Hall McIntire Yasay, Ph.D, (Div.)

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May 14, 2008, 5:11:04 AM5/14/08
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On Tue, 13 May 2008 06:54:02 -0700 (PDT), progea wrote:

>>>> you dont know lots of things, romanian nigger: like why yo mama is
>>>> busy fukking every dicktator in bucharest and your father took it up
>>>> the arse from ceausescu. why not dig up zappa and let him skull fuk
>>>> you, nigga?
>>
>>> So, clearly you have a need and compulsion to demonstrate your ignorance and
>>> stupidity in public.  We're all very proud of you, and quite impressed, I
>>> must say.
>>
>> Don't feed the troll!!
>> --
>> 'Coal-black niggers in policemen's hats
>> nosing where the white men have been.'
>
> His days are numbered anyway.

Excellent!
--
I'm unfaithful, divorced, lost my kids, bankrupt and remarried
a slant-eyed karate instructor. You, however, can call me
DOCTOR McIntire! Come Poke Me! http://preview.tinyurl.com/2wqmqf

Vinnie Yasay

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May 15, 2008, 1:49:45 PM5/15/08
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On Wed, 14 May 2008 05:11:04 -0400, DOCTOR Mary Ellen Hall McIntire
Yasay, Ph.D, (Div.) wrote:

> On Tue, 13 May 2008 06:54:02 -0700 (PDT), progea wrote:
>
>>>>> you dont know lots of things, romanian nigger: like why yo mama is
>>>>> busy fukking every dicktator in bucharest and your father took it up
>>>>> the arse from ceausescu. why not dig up zappa and let him skull fuk
>>>>> you, nigga?
>>>
>>>> So, clearly you have a need and compulsion to demonstrate your ignorance and
>>>> stupidity in public.  We're all very proud of you, and quite impressed, I
>>>> must say.
>>>
>>> Don't feed the troll!!
>>> --
>>> 'Coal-black niggers in policemen's hats
>>> nosing where the white men have been.'
>>
>> His days are numbered anyway.
>
> Excellent!

I wuves U Sweetie!
--
Don't ever ya(say) I don't love Dr. McIntire. Who the fuck else will pay
my bills?

Joe Musico

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Nov 19, 2009, 10:50:39 AM11/19/09
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That's a very interesting tie-in to my mind, as I saw the Thick As A Brick tour
with The Magic Band as warmup band (and the good Captain's boys damn near
stolen the show from Ian & the lads) but I was unaware that much else had
come from that pairing. I'd read recently that the Eagles also played warmup for JT
on the same year, the TAAB tour, and what an odd match, that; JT were staging
this full-on surreal production and playing the entire LP, and opening the evening
was this mellow country rock band from Southern Cal ! The only upside to seeing
that show would have been that Randy Meisner was still in The Eagles at that juncture.

"Twenty one and strong as I can be..." vs

"Your sperm's in the gutter, your love's in the sink..."

Don't you sometimes wish everyone under 30 could get a live taste of what rock
felt like, at & after the bend in the century at 1958ish, when electric guitars
replaced the clarinet in popular music..?

Joe Musico

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Nov 19, 2009, 11:34:36 AM11/19/09
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Oh, man, I just looked at Art Tripp's home page, went through the pics section, http://www.traditionalchiropractic.com/music4.html
and the upper right pic of Art aka Ed Marimba at the microphone, with Rockette Morton
in the background getting ready for his bass solo could have been taken that night in
West Palm Beach when I was forever changed by the two god-like bands that were
about to play! As I recall, the Captain had strode to the mic with that instrument in his
hand and claimed it was the real (something) snake (years and drugs have clouded me
mind) and Ed walked to the mic later and claimed to have the faux version of it.

I just know I'm going to get ridiculed, or flamed by someone for even writing this in
here, but I mostly don't give a damn. I'll drop back by in a month or a year and see who
had what to throw my way; comradely memories or monkey poo...

I just read the rest of that article that was borrowed from and so selectively redacted,
and found that Tripp moved to Mississippi, just up the bend in Florida from me here, so I may have
to go visit the good doctor and get my memory renewed on his precise wording that night. It probably was
that very night the pic was taken, as Morton's suit was very memorable.

Overall, I was quite satisfied with the return on the $4 I paid for my ticket.


Dan Camper

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Nov 28, 2009, 12:33:17 AM11/28/09
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On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:50:39 -0500, Joe Musico wrote:

> That's a very interesting tie-in to my mind,

Fuck off Tom Giarmo
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http://tr.im/1f9p

rwalker

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Nov 29, 2009, 6:27:50 PM11/29/09
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On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:34:36 -0500, Joe Musico
<cliff_...@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Oh, man, I just looked at Art Tripp's home page, went through the pics section, http://www.traditionalchiropractic.com/music4.html
>an

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"anyway, i didn't hear anything until about two months ago when bill
shumow's mother rang to say that the band would be in england in a
week's time, and would i give them a ring - would i? christ, i could
hardly wait. eventually, i established contact and got the story. the
band had effectively dispersed around october [1973], leaving bill
harkleroad, mark boston and artie tripp stuck in northern california
working at odd jobs to buy the beans, wondering what to do and where
the money to do it would come from. then, like the proverbial fairy
godmother jethro tull [an english band - t.t.] arrived in los angeles
to sell out the forum five nights on the trot - and earn the supreme
accolade that all musicians aspire to.

"during jethro tull's stay, mark called at their hotel in his 1955
pickup truck to take ian anderson out into the desert for a spot of
bike riding, and the upshots of it being that they offered their
support for the making of an album. the magic band and jethro tull had
toured together in the south of america doing about fifteen dates in
1972, during which time a complex web of friendships grew up based on
mutual respect, but perhaps most of all on the band's unashamed
admiration for the musicians in the magic band. at beefheart gigs in
england in 1972 it was usual to find a couple of whopping great black
motors stacked outside the stage door, which had ferried various
members of tull to the gig.

"naturally, the band accepted: their efforts to get the support of the
los angeles music business had been plagued by the business' belief
that they were irredeemably weird, odd, crazy loonies, hopeless to
deal with on a business level, unsaleable on a musical level. what
rats most business people are.... so, briefly, that was how i came to
be meeting the two bills at newton abbot station. we travelled back to
the house they were living in and i learnt that the recording was
going satisfactorily, given that the band members were possibly being
distracted by their comprehensive research into rough devon cider and
darts playing. "

From:

http://www.freewebs.com/teejo/odd/mallard.html

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