John Glascock: what happened?
Emmett Hoops
I know I should know this, but I don't, and I ain't too proud that I
can't ask.
Glascock died in 1979. He plays on three Stormwatch tracks, but was
that out of choice or necessity? Did Ian consider breaking up the
band in '79 (as evidenced by the complete change of direction in "A")?
Is the song "Slow Marching Band" on BatB an homage to Glascock?
Of what did he die?
Seems to me he was one hell of a good bass player: very, very melodic.
It's a damn shame he left this stage early, IMHO.
Is anything known about Ian's (and the band's) reaction to John's
death?
Emmett
Mike
Unfortunately, Mr. Glascock died of a heart attack due to an infection of
some sort. My understanding is he was unable to complete his work on
Stormwatch for health reasons, which is why IA stepped in.
He was a great bass player. I have not seen any public reaction by the
band to his death.
Re: "A", it seems like Ian wanted to freshen up the band-- it was
originally going to be a solo album, and he only kept Martin on. All the
other musicians were released. I understand there were some hard
feeling about this.
mist...@aol.com
In article <32d8623b...@news.capital.net>, eho...@capital.net
(Emmett Hoops) writes:
>I know I should know this, but I don't, and I ain't too proud that I
>can't ask.
>Glascock died in 1979. He plays on three Stormwatch tracks, but was
>that out of choice or necessity? Did Ian consider breaking up the
>band in '79 (as evidenced by the complete change of direction in "A")?
>Is the song "Slow Marching Band" on BatB an homage to Glascock?
>Of what did he die?
He had a heart disease (I don't recall more specifics than that), which
apparently became serious during the Songs from the Wood tour. While he
played on the Heavy Horses LP, he played on very few, of the live shows
supporting that album. (Maybe played on one leg of the tour only? IDR) I
believe he was hospitalized at that time. Tony Williams completed that
tour. In fact, on the 20 Years video with the live footage from the HH
tour,, that's Tony Williams playing. (Isn't he also on at least part of
Bursting Out, uncredited?)
He was able to make it for some of the SW sessions, but Ian had to
complete the bass on the recording. Dave Pegg was hired shortly
thereafter to play for the SW tour and just kind of stuck. I think JG
died while the album was being recorded. "Elegy" is, of course, written
for JG. I don't know about SMB.
I don't think Ian was considering breaking up the band so much as taking a
little time off. _A_ came about initially as a solo project. At some
point, Ian decided it sounded more like Tull than Ian Anderson solo, and
announced that it was, in fact, Tull, much to the chagrin of Barrie, John,
and David Palmer. I think BB and JE are both still kind of bitter over
this turn of events, IIRC.
>Seems to me he was one hell of a good bass player: very, very melodic.
>It's a damn shame he left this stage early, IMHO.
Agreed. Had a great personality as a bass player.
>Is anything known about Ian's (and the band's) reaction to John's
>death?
See above. They were quite upset about it. John's death is discussed in
the @0 Years booklet and maybe in the 25 years book, too.
Derek
Pope, Tormentors/Empire of Energy
Knight Officer, Ordo Pantheris
Assistant Dean, College of Disorder, UU
No clowns!
xmills
Emmett Hoops <eho...@capital.net> wrote in article
<32d8623b...@news.capital.net>...
> I know I should know this, but I don't, and I ain't too proud that I
> can't ask.
> Glascock died in 1979. He plays on three Stormwatch tracks, but was
> that out of choice or necessity? Did Ian consider breaking up the
> band in '79 (as evidenced by the complete change of direction in "A")?
> Is the song "Slow Marching Band" on BatB an homage to Glascock?
> Of what did he die?
surgery .If my memory serves me well (and i will be corrected if it does
not ) the reason for the almost ytotal line up change following stormwatch
is as follows.
Dave Pegg joined to replace glacock and while they were waiting top record
the nexttull album he joined Martin and Ian on what was supposed to be
essentially an Ian solo album however due to record company preasure they
were forced to realease it as a tull album thus causing the lineup change .
i know it doesn't really answer your question but i hope it helps along the
way
Lucas Treffkorn
Emmett Hoops wrote:
>
> I know I should know this, but I don't, and I ain't too proud that I
> can't ask.
> Glascock died in 1979. He plays on three Stormwatch tracks, but was
> that out of choice or necessity? Did Ian consider breaking up the
> band in '79 (as evidenced by the complete change of direction in "A")?
> Is the song "Slow Marching Band" on BatB an homage to Glascock?
> Of what did he die?
> It's a damn shame he left this stage early, IMHO.
>
> death?
>
I know this one. John Glascock underwent open heart surgery some time
before the recording of the Stormwatch album. He never fully recovered,
and during the recording his health deteriorated so rapidly that Ian had
to play mmost of the bass parts himself. John Glascock eventually died,
presumably because of the surgery thing. Too bad.
Lucas Treffkorn
Biffyshrew
mist...@aol.com wrote:
>Dave Pegg was hired shortly
>thereafter to play for the SW tour and just kind of stuck. I think JG
>died while the album was being recorded. "Elegy" is, of course, written
>for JG.
John Glascock died after the album was completed, while the band (with
Dave Pegg) was on tour. Specifically, the band learned of his death after
the show in San Diego, which happens to be the show I saw on that tour.
Since he was still alive, though seriously ill, when the album was
finished, it would have been in monumentally bad taste to have dedicated
"Elegy" to him.
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mist...@aol.com
In article <19970114030...@ladder01.news.aol.com>,
biffy...@aol.com (Biffyshrew) writes:
>mist...@aol.com wrote:
>
>>Dave Pegg was hired shortly
>>thereafter to play for the SW tour and just kind of stuck. I think JG
>>died while the album was being recorded. "Elegy" is, of course, written
>>for JG.
>
>John Glascock died after the album was completed, while the band (with
>Dave Pegg) was on tour. Specifically, the band learned of his death
after
>the show in San Diego, which happens to be the show I saw on that tour.
>Since he was still alive, though seriously ill, when the album was
>finished, it would have been in monumentally bad taste to have dedicated
>"Elegy" to him.
Damn!! I THOUGHT he died while they were on (some) tour, but I just
couldn't get it straight in my mind. Thanks for setting the record
straight, Biff.
David Charlap
<mist...@aol.com> wrote:
>
>I don't think Ian was considering breaking up the band so much as taking a
>little time off. _A_ came about initially as a solo project. At some
>point, Ian decided it sounded more like Tull than Ian Anderson solo, and
>announced that it was, in fact, Tull, much to the chagrin of Barrie, John,
>and David Palmer. I think BB and JE are both still kind of bitter over
>this turn of events, IIRC.
I don't know about BB, but WRT JE, I don't think so.
I spoke with John Evans at the most recent Tull convention (in New
York, this past fall) and he didn't sound the least bit bitter. He
said he just didn't want to do that kind of stuff (playing rock music
in a band) anymore. (He's currently not working in music at all.)
According to Ian (in the Tull Lyric book), they parted company because
John wanted to play classical piano and not rock music.
Maybe this is just the 10+ years of time apart blurring the details in
everybody's memory, and maybe it's everybody being nice to each other
in public, but I think there's a lot of truth in these statements as
well.
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Richard Begley
mist...@aol.com writes: > In article <32d8623b...@news.capital.net>, eho...@capital.net
> (Emmett Hoops) writes:
>
> >I know I should know this, but I don't, and I ain't too proud that I
> >can't ask.
> >Glascock died in 1979. He plays on three Stormwatch tracks, but was
> >that out of choice or necessity? Did Ian consider breaking up the
> >band in '79 (as evidenced by the complete change of direction in "A")?
> >Is the song "Slow Marching Band" on BatB an homage to Glascock?
> >Of what did he die?
>
> apparently became serious during the Songs from the Wood tour. While he
> played on the Heavy Horses LP, he played on very few, of the live shows
> supporting that album. (Maybe played on one leg of the tour only? IDR) I
> believe he was hospitalized at that time. Tony Williams completed that
> tour. In fact, on the 20 Years video with the live footage from the HH
> tour,, that's Tony Williams playing. (Isn't he also on at least part of
> Bursting Out, uncredited?)
>
> He was able to make it for some of the SW sessions, but Ian had to
> thereafter to play for the SW tour and just kind of stuck. I think JG
> died while the album was being recorded. "Elegy" is, of course, written
>
Actually, "Elegy" is one of the three tracks Glascock played on on Stormwatch -
really startlingly bad taste if it was about him.
>
> >Is anything known about Ian's (and the band's) reaction to John's
> >death?
>
"Barrie, who had always been the closest to John, described the shock:
'We had one more gig to do - I cried all the way through the gig. I was like a
zombie. In fact, I must have been like a zombie for months and months,
it just hurt so much.'"
Martin Nike
Biffyshrew (biffy...@aol.com) wrote:
: mist...@aol.com wrote:
: >Dave Pegg was hired shortly
: >thereafter to play for the SW tour and just kind of stuck. I think JG
: >died while the album was being recorded. "Elegy" is, of course, written
: >for JG.
Elegy was written by Palmer for his Father.
--
Martin Nike
Correct Systems Research Group,
Dept. Of Computer Science, University Of Sheffield, England
"I really really want to zig-a-zig huh" - Roger Waters:-)
Beowulf
In the "Stormwatch" tour book (which is around here somewhere) Ian
is quoted in depth regarding John Glascock's health problems. If
my memory serves, the story went something like this: John
Glascock had some sort of oral surgery procedure done which,
against all odds, somehow resulted in an infection of his heart.
At the time of this interview, John was still alive and Ian
expressed his hope that he would again join the band.
Unfortunately, John died not long after, I think during or shortly
after open heart surgery. I had read of his demise in "Billboard"
about a month before I saw the SW tour where I picked up the
tourbook.
I was deeply saddened by John Glascock's passing. I'll never
forget the flying leap he took from the stage to the end of the
runway during "Locomotive Breath" during the HH tour in Cincinnati
so many years ago.
Odall
I have an 19 year old son who was born with "pulmonary stenosis" (sp?)
Which I beleive is what John Glsacock had. I'm not a medical proressional
but as it has heen explained to me....One of the valves in the heart does
not properly close wheh it is supposed to. The membrain on this valve is
"rough" instead of smooth. The roughness tends to "catch" bacteria and
infection. Penicilin (sp) is a must at least 24 hours before any dental
work. I heard, but can't verify, that Jonn Glascock had some dental work
done sans an antibiotic.
BTW My son was perfectly normal for 18 1/2 years, but has lost 25 lbs in
the last 6 months, and is very listless. So far the Doctors are stumped
but are confident it is related to his pulmonary stenosis.
Hope this helps.
Thanks
Paul
...but the tune ends to soon for us all.
xmills
Re elegy on stormwatch I went to see David Palmer with the London
Philharmonic a couple of years back and he performed a version of Elegy
with lyrics dedicated to his father but to be honest I don't know if the
dedication to his father was due to the newly added words or if elegy had
always been dedicated to him.
Rob
MANONAFISH
As I recall it was an eye infection that spread to his heart.
Raymond O. Lentz
Thankx for this posting. I was reading Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock
and Roll which stated that John Glascock never toured with the band. I
vaguely remember seeing him on the Too Old tour in 1976.
Harry Broker
As I recall it was an abscessed tooth which became infected an subsequently
infected a heart valve. This led to open heart surgery which alas was
unsuccessful. Take care of those teeth.
XXOO Harry B.
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Harry Broker
Don't know where RS got that load of crap. John Glascock did all the Tull
tours from the time he joined the band until he could no longer perform. At
least all the shows I attended.
XXOO Harry B.
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Rob Burgess
Raymond O. Lentz wrote:
>
> Thankx for this posting. I was reading Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock
> and Roll which stated that John Glascock never toured with the band. I
> vaguely remember seeing him on the Too Old tour in 1976.
idiocy of RS's comment.
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Chaan Muan
John died because a tooth abcess somehow (I'm not a doctor) infected a
heart valve which eventually led to his heart failure.
JMclenagan
I saw the Songs from the Wood tour in 1977 in Miami, and John Glascock was
certainly on tour with them then.
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> I know I should know this, but I don't, and I ain't too proud that I
> can't ask.
> Glascock died in 1979. He plays on three Stormwatch tracks, but was
> that out of choice or necessity? Did Ian consider breaking up the
> band in '79 (as evidenced by the complete change of direction in "A")?
> Is the song "Slow Marching Band" on BatB an homage to Glascock?
> Of what did he die?
> It's a damn shame he left this stage early, IMHO.
>
> death?
>
Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)
> On Sunday, January 12, 1997 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-5, Emmett Hoops wrote:
> > I know I should know this, but I don't, and I ain't too proud that I
> > can't ask.
> > Glascock died in 1979. He plays on three Stormwatch tracks, but was
> > that out of choice or necessity? Did Ian consider breaking up the
> > band in '79 (as evidenced by the complete change of direction in "A")?
> > Is the song "Slow Marching Band" on BatB an homage to Glascock?
> > Of what did he die?
> > Seems to me he was one hell of a good bass player: very, very melodic.
> > It's a damn shame he left this stage early, IMHO.
(This is not uncommon.) Thus, only 3 tracks were done before he
couldn't play anymore. Ian played on the rest (revealing himself to be
one of the best bassists in rock---just listen to "Dark Ages" or "North
Sea Oil" or, indeed, the entire album.
> > Is anything known about Ian's (and the band's) reaction to John's
> > death?
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Live in Europe. Ian Anderson. John Glascock. John Evans. David Palmer. Barrymore Barlow. Martin Barre.
Best. JT live album ever.
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