>>>>(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.
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>Only 9 months until the World Cup....
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>I have not been following the qualifying other than the U.S, limping in. How do you assess Germany's chances?

>95% surviving group games, >66% reaching half finals, somewhat decreased by the assumption other south american teams will have more support than usual. Chances of winning close to nil unless they have a close call/bad streak in group games and develop an angry mind set afterwards while being cast then as underdogs.