BOC: Meltzer's review of OYFoOYK

[Eric Siegerman]

On Sun, Apr 16, 2000 at 12:12:04PM -0400, Bolts of Ungodly Vision
quoted (um, I think) Meltzer:
> A classic rock paranoid, [Pearlman]
> changed 'em from Soft White UNderbelly to the Stalk-Forrest Group (the
> what??) when a West POint dropout, sone of one of Patton's generals, didn't
> so much salg as ignore them -- "the less said, the better" -- in  a Voice
> review of their Fillmore East appearance with Jethro Tull and Jeff Beck.

Amazing coincidence that this should happen at a concert where
Tull was also playing!  Here's how Tull got their name, as
described by Ian Anderson in
http://www.rockonline.com/liveinchat/tull121999.html:

> Back in February, 1968, we had many different names which
> usually changed every week, since we were so bad that we had to
> pretend to be some new band in order to get re-booked in the
> clubs where we aspired to find fame and fortune. Our agent, who
> had studied History at college, came up with the name Jethro
> Tull (an eighteenth century English agricultural pioneer who
> invented the seed drill). That was the band name during the week
> in which London's famous Marquee Club offered us the Thursday
> night residency. So it stuck. Is it too late to change? I
> thought so.

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