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Welcome to the home page for The Boy Scout Manual.
Over time we plan for this site to become the most comprehensive repository on the web for all memorabillia and other material for the band Jethro Tull, Ian Anderson, and the musicians who have been part of one of the most unique and musically diverse bands of the last 50 years.
The site is currently in the first stages of construction, so please bear with us as we develop the site and continue to add content from some of the most extensive fan and private collections from around the globe.
Although neglected largely by the music press and music historians over a number of years heyday, the band, its leader Ian Anderson, together with long-serving guitarist Martin Barre and the myriad of other gifted musicians and players who have formed Jethro Tull, and its predecessor bands since ithe mid to late 1960s, now find themselves the subject of growing interest in the newly awakened fields of progressive and classic rock, with the band and the music influencing an ever increasing sphere of new and emerging prog bands and musicians.
This site will aim, over time, to provide a home for much, if not all the available material which has been associated with one of the most unique and critically acclaimed, and in some cases unnecessarily maligned, bands to emerge from the British "blues boom" of 1968.
We are in the process of uploading content but hope that fans from across the Tull community will want to contribute material to an archive of memorabillia that reflects the history of one of music's most unique bands.
If you have anything to contribute [digitally] then please get in touch via our contacts page.
This site is singularly and wholly affiliated with the Jethro Tull Board, the biggest and best independent on-line Jethro Tull chat arena on the web, seriously, accept no substitutes!
The Jethro Tull Board can be found at
www.thejethrotullboard.proboards.com
A huge debt of gratitude to all those fans who are cutting across divides to supply copies of their memorabillia to The Manual, but I send my personal thanks to 'Derek Pith' who is helping me collate the images here and for making his own extensive personal collections available to fans worldwide here.
So,
Bless my boots! Upon my soul!
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The Boy Scout Manual
Pat K