>>>(And welcome back fellow Tull afficionado)
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>>Now we are back in agreement. Jethro Tull was one of the first concerts I saw live. I can still picture Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond playing while dancing backwards. My first concert, not long before, was Carole King opening for James Taylor. One of the girls I went with on a "group date" -- we were all way too young to drive -- was nuts about James Taylor. She followed him after the end of it and got a Dixie water cup he had taken a drink from. "It's his water! It's his water!" I should definitely have learned music instead of playing sports.
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>Tull was my first concert and out-Poissons the distribution of live concerts visited ;-)
>But due to Ian's voice in the last 3 years I did not visit them...
>Even if someone like Meat Loaf might have it easier to get somebody when somewhere he does not have a previous contact, I believe preferrring sports makes up for it in the execution.

Only 9 months until the World Cup....

I have not been following the qualifying other than the U.S, limping in. How do you assess Germany's chances?