ChristineR
@christineritc
A mere speck in the universe. South Jersey girl at heart. Love 1970s prog rock. Jethro Tull fanatic/Tullevangelist. Basement bassist. Ailurophile. Kitchen prose, gutter rhymes, divers. Harmonium/Serge Fiori-obsessed. NoVA, USA, Virgo Supercluster
Think of how many more you'd have for Ticket Stub Wednesday if you did! 😁 These are my oldest ones. Not as cheap as $7.50 but still cheap compared to today.
It's me! 😁 They put everyone's contributions (including band members and collaborators) in chronological order, so I am pretty close to the back of the book. Still, I'm honored to have been included! (Even if the guy did correct my US spelling of "favorite" to the UK spelling lol.)
#JethroJuly day 13 Deluxe Box of the "Lend Me Your Ears" book from 2022. I sprang for the deluxe box because (1) I have no self-control when it comes to Tull stuff and (2) I'm in it. It came with playing cards, coasters, a guitar pick. The last photo is all the stuff that was in the red envelope.
Harmonium's L'Heptade, because it was recorded in the house Serge Fiori lived in at the time.
#JethroJuly day 11 My Jethro Tull library (with an appearance by some Yes and Rush books). The red box with no writing on it will make an appearance on another day. (Mainly because I don't have 31 days of interesting posts, lol.)
#JethroJuly day 10 An old ad from around 1969 which I've had for a few years and still need to get framed so I can hang on my wall.
You know I can! 😁 (I also can't promise this won't turn up as a separate #JethroJuly post if I run out of ideas before thr 31st lol.)
#JethroJuly day 9 Two flute pins, one very tarnished after nearly 33 years! The 25th anniversary tour was my first Tull show. My high school best friend agreed to go with me since I knew no other Tull fans then. I paid for her ticket and drove only to have her complain about the music for months.
Moving Pictures - Rush Phantasmagoria - The Damned 90125 - Yes Don't Say No - Billy Squier
#JethroJuly day 8 "I have NO idea what to get for her anymore." "I don't know either. Does anyone make Jethro Tull socks?" 😀
#JethroJuly day 7 A small collection of bootlegs. The most well-known (Flute Cake) was kindly sent to me by a Twitter friend. The rest, I pick up when I run across them and they're not too expensive.
#JethroJuly day 6 Why have just one 20th anniversary box set when you can get one in each format? (In my defense, I bought these all secondhand and they were very inexpensive.) I wish I could say that this is as excessive as it gets. 😂
#JethroJuly day 5 A couple of mugs that I got from Burning Shed a while back. I really like the album art for Living with the Past. Still kicking myself for not getting all of the albums they had when I had the chance!
#JethroJuly day 4 I have a "thing" for bags so a while back I decided to get a bunch made with album cover art. These are my Tull ones. (I stopped getting them done after the Living in the Past one because the quality of how they paced the art on the bag went way downhill.)
Heading back to Montréal in September to feed my Harmonium addiction. There is just something about sharing the love of a band's music with the rest of an audience. I've never seen any show like this before but I'm really looking forward to it!
#JethroJuly day 3 Letting my Tull flag fly on the road with a license plate tribute. Personalized plates are super cheap in my state. I figure $10 USD per year is well worth the enjoyment I get out of seeing it!
#JethroJuly day 2 A fabulous tapestry blanket of Jethro Tull's second album Stand Up. The detail on this is incredible. (Another photo from Jethro July 2024 but this thing is difficult to photograph due to the fact that I'm kind of short. 😂)
The only update / new photo since 12/2020 is that I got Martin Barre to sign my Minstrel in the Gallery album. I also showed him photos of my stairwell. 😁 #JethroJuly
Side B: ▫️ Concert programs from the 25th, 40th, & 50th anniversary tours (1993, 2008, 2018) ▫️ Reproduction tour poster ▫️ Russian version of the Original Masters release ▫️ Tour program from 2007 It's really tough to get decent photos due to the lighting/reflection, so I am recycling. :) #JethroJuly
Side A: ▫️ Concert program, Thick as a Brick 1 & 2 tour ▫️ Vintage magazine ads for the This Was and Stand Up albums (I have one for LitP that I haven't gotten around to getting framed) ▫️ String quartets album & sheet music, signed by Ian Anderson (sheet music also signed by John O'Hara) #JethroJuly
▫️ Venue poster from the 2012 Thick as a Brick 1 & 2 tour, Richmond, VA ▫️ Tour poster from Martin Barre's 50 Years of Jethro Tull tour in 2019 (signatures include Clive Bunker & Dee Palmer [RIP]) ▫️ Single sleeves #JethroJuly
#JethroJuly day 1: My stairwell. I took these photos for Twitter when i finished this project in 12/2020, having survived balancing a ladder on the stairs to hang it all. I still haven't replaced that light. More detailed photos follow in the thread...
Ha! You definitely didn't! I actually followed the account back because the (real) Dennis seemed fairly active on an (presumed) official Twitter account and honestly who would pretend to be this guy? Then I got this DM and I blocked him right away because come ON lol.
