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Then, four months later, while Gethsemane was playing in London and about to break up because of lack of money, Jethro Tull's manager, Terry Ellis, sent his card up from the audience asking Barre to audition for Jethro Tull. The audition did not go well.
Oct 12, 2023 · Guitarist Martin Barre looked back on his first failed audition for Jethro Tull when the job went to Tony Iommi, noting how the Black Sabbath legend "wasn't comfortable" in Ian...
- Vladimir Nikolić
Oct 11, 2023 · Former Jethro Tull guitarist Martin Barre has spoken out about his break with the band, claiming that his absence from the line-up since 2012 has "diluted" the Jethro Tull brand. Speaking with the VRP Rocks podcast , Barre waxes lyrical on the demise of his relationship with Tull frontman Ian Anderson , saying, "It's a shame, you know?", before ...
May 6, 2019 · During a conversation with the Herald Tribune, classic Jethro Tull guitarist Martin Barre - who was a member of the fold between 1968 and 2012 - talked about the group's staple 1971 track "...
- Marko Jovanović
Oct 25, 2020 · Former Jethro Tull guitarist Martin Barre has spoken of the moment in 2011 when Ian Anderson told him he'd decided to disband Jethro Tull. Until now Barre has been reluctant to talk of the actual moment, but in a new interview with Jeff Gaudiosi of the Misplaced Straws website, Barre recalls the meeting between himself, drummer Doane Perry and ...
Jan 31, 2023 · For Barre this is the album that showed Anderson had emerged as the de facto leader of Jethro Tull. “Ian had changed a little in the way he drove himself. He was so focused and intense on the songwriting side, and had become a major force.
For his second audition, Martin Barre didn’t bring an amplifier or a guitar cord. Even so, Ian Anderson still approved Barre as Abrahams’ permanent replacement. Today, Barre is the next longest-standing member in Jethro Tull next to Ian Anderson. For four decades, Barre’s career focused on Jethro Tull but in the 1990s Barre began to ...
