Doane Perry – From a Stretch Limo to a Tijuana Taxi Oh, the changing fortunes of traveling musicians. One minute Donald Trump’s white stretch limo is shuttling you silently into New York City in garish and slightly embarrassing style with a full refrigerator of drinks and hors d’oeuvres and the next moment you’re in a tin can of a taxi, … Read More
Doane Perry’s Diary – July 2001 We had a fantastic European tour taking in sights and places, old and new in Western and Eastern Europe. This time we had the colorful and charismatic Young Dubliners with us, introducing them to a new Euro audience who seemed to take to them as instantly as they took to the local beer. I … Read More
News Update: July 2001 Another train, another day speeding up the mighty Rhine (down again, tomorrow). Since we last spoke, dear reader, we have journeyed through Euroland via Holland, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Italy and back to the Fatherland where we fell upon the ground, kissing it madly after a nearly thwarted attempt to leave Pasta-heaven. Strikes in the airports of … Read More
News Update: May 2001 God bless Deutsche Bahn and all those who roll with her. I write this from the train en route to Magdeburg from Frankfurt, near which we played last night on the second concert of our European tour. Quiet as a mouse, we snake our green and sunny way across the heartland of Germany – double glazed … Read More
News Update: April 2001 Off to Nashville! Tull head to the music capitol of the USA, at least that’s how the proud Nashvillians would like to see it, for a brief TV recording of a few songs for the TNN Channel. Recorded at the Wildhorse Saloon on the 1st May, this show will spearhead the new series of Classic Rock … Read More
News Update – March 2001 I suppose that the most significant news at the moment is the addition of new tour dates on the website. The US dates have been the most recent to be finalised and the European dates are already on sale. Scandinavia will be on sale soon and the UK shows at the end of March. The … Read More
Here in the United Kingdom, we have been bombarded of late through the media with scare stories on so-called “economy class syndrome”, the potentially lethal risk to travellers on long haul flights from blood clots. Such a thrombosis – or DVT – can result, as we all now unhappily know, from the pooling of blood in the lower leg during … Read More
A Dollar for the Little Guy: The Andean Mountain Cat ProjectIn the remote and rarified world of the high Andes, where the one-legged flute-playing god of the local Indians roams and the night temperatures regularly fall below freezing, live the last of a little-known species – the surviving examples of the Andean Mountain Cat (Felis jacobita). Only recently photographed for … Read More
Doane Perry’s Diary – January 2001 2001 began with a series of interesting and varied musical assignments. NAMM came and went with an enjoyable series of appearances with keyboardist Vince DiCola and “Chicago” lead vocalist and bassist Jason Sheff for the Alesis folks. Once again I found myself probing the depths of the new Midi machinery that Alesis came out … Read More
News Update: January 2001 Well, last year of the False Millennium is now behind us and the glorious voyage into the True New is finally undertaken. When I was in Brazil recently and on a local radio station, I was surprised but comforted to learn that they (the Brazilians) were celebrating on the correct year and, on returning home, I … Read More
