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Barriemore Barlow (born Barry Barlow, 10 September 1949, Birmingham
Birmingham

Birmingham is a city status in the United Kingdom and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. Birmingham is the most populous of England's English Core Cities Group, and is the List of United Kingdom cities by population British city after London, with a population of 1,010,200 ....
) is best known as the drummer
Drummer

A drummer is a musician who plays a drum or drums, particularly a drum kit , marching percussion or hand drums. The term percussionist applies to a musician performing on any percussion instrument, but usually refers to one who plays Classical music or Latin percussion....
 and percussionist for the rock band
Rock Band

Rock Band is a music video game developed by Harmonix Music Systems, published by MTV, and distributed by Electronic Arts. It is the first title in the Rock Band....
, Jethro Tull
Jethro Tull (band)

Jethro Tull are a United Kingdom rock music group formed in 1967. Their music is characterised by the songs, vocals and flute work of Ian Anderson , who has led the band since its founding, and guitarist Martin Barre, who has #Lineups....
, from May 1971 to June 1980.

Christened Barry, the 'Barriemore' was an affectation to suit the eccentric image of Jethro Tull (much as Jeffrey Hammond
Jeffrey Hammond

Jeffrey Hammond was a bass guitar player for the progressive rock band Jethro Tull .Hammond adopted the name "Hammond-Hammond" as a joke, since both his father's name and mother's maiden name were the same....
 had become "Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond").

ow was a school friend, and former bandmate of Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson.






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Barriemore Barlow (born Barry Barlow, 10 September 1949, Birmingham
Birmingham

Birmingham is a city status in the United Kingdom and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. Birmingham is the most populous of England's English Core Cities Group, and is the List of United Kingdom cities by population British city after London, with a population of 1,010,200 ....
) is best known as the drummer
Drummer

A drummer is a musician who plays a drum or drums, particularly a drum kit , marching percussion or hand drums. The term percussionist applies to a musician performing on any percussion instrument, but usually refers to one who plays Classical music or Latin percussion....
 and percussionist for the rock band
Rock Band

Rock Band is a music video game developed by Harmonix Music Systems, published by MTV, and distributed by Electronic Arts. It is the first title in the Rock Band....
, Jethro Tull
Jethro Tull (band)

Jethro Tull are a United Kingdom rock music group formed in 1967. Their music is characterised by the songs, vocals and flute work of Ian Anderson , who has led the band since its founding, and guitarist Martin Barre, who has #Lineups....
, from May 1971 to June 1980.

Christened Barry, the 'Barriemore' was an affectation to suit the eccentric image of Jethro Tull (much as Jeffrey Hammond
Jeffrey Hammond

Jeffrey Hammond was a bass guitar player for the progressive rock band Jethro Tull .Hammond adopted the name "Hammond-Hammond" as a joke, since both his father's name and mother's maiden name were the same....
 had become "Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond").

Jethro Tull

Barlow was a school friend, and former bandmate of Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson. He joined after the departure of Clive Bunker
Clive Bunker

Clive Bunker was a drummer for the United Kingdom band , Jethro Tull , between 1967 and 1971. Bunker left after Tull's release of their album, Aqualung , to get marriage....
 and played on the following album
Album

An album or record album is a collection of related Sound recording and reproduction or music tracks distributed to the public. The most common way is through commercial distribution, although smaller artists will often distribute directly to the public by selling their albums at live concerts or on their websites....
s:

  • "Life's a Long Song" (EP)
  • Thick as a Brick
    Thick as a Brick

    Thick as a Brick is a concept album by the British rock and roll band Jethro Tull . This was their first album featuring new drummer Barriemore Barlow....
  • Living in the Past
    Living in the Past (album)

    For other uses, see Living in the Past .Living in the Past is a double album quasi-greatest-hits collection by Jethro Tull which contains album tracks, unreleased songs, and a number of singles and b-sides that had initially only appeared as British releases before being compiled on Living in the Past for the first time in the...
     (compilation including above EP)
  • A Passion Play
    A Passion Play

    A Passion Play is a concept album released by Jethro Tull . Apparently concerning the spiritual journey of one man in the afterlife, it is similar to Thick as a Brick in that it is one long track split across both sides of the LP vinyl record save for the interruption of the oddly-whimsical spoken word piece "The Story Of The Hare W...
  • War Child
    War Child (album)

    War Child is the seventh studio album by Jethro Tull , released in October 1974.Originally meant to accompany a film project , it was reinstated as a ten-song, single-length rock album after failed attempts to find a major movie studio to finance the film....
  • Minstrel in the Gallery
    Minstrel in the Gallery

    Minstrel in the Gallery is an album by British band Jethro Tull . It is the ninth album by the band, released in September 1975.Ian Anderson's lyrics and subject matter show an introspective and cynical air, possibly the byproduct of Anderson's recent divorce from first wife Jennie Franks and the pressures of touring, coupled with the...
  • Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die!
    Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die!

    Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die! is a concept album released by British band Jethro Tull . The remastered 2002 CD version contains two Hidden track that were cut from the original LP, "Small Cigar" and "Strip Cartoon"....
  • Songs from the Wood
    Songs from the Wood

    Songs from the Wood is an album by Jethro Tull and is officially considered the first of a trio of folk rock albums despite the fact that folk music elements are present in the work of Jethro Tull both before and after this trilogy....
  • Heavy Horses
    Heavy Horses

    Heavy Horses is an album released by Jethro Tull on April 10, 1978. It is considered the second album in a trilogy of folk-rock albums by Jethro Tull, although folk music's influence is evident on a great number of Jethro Tull releases....
  • Bursting Out
    Bursting Out

    Bursting Out is a 1978 in music live album by rock music band Jethro Tull . It was recorded at various locations during the European Heavy Horses tour of May and June 1978, but it is not certain where each track was recorded....
  • Stormwatch
    Stormwatch (album)

    Stormwatch is an album by the rock group Jethro Tull and is considered the last in the trilogy of folk-rock albums by Jethro Tull .The album deals with the deterioration of the environmental ethics, warning of an Apocalypse future if mankind does not cease its drive for economic growth and pay attention to nature....


Upset by the death
Death

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 of bassist
Bassist

A bass player is a musician who plays a double bass, bass guitar, or another low-pitched instrument, such as keyboard bass or a low brass instrument such as tuba or sousaphone....
 John Glascock
John Glascock

John Glascock was the bass guitarist for the rock band Jethro Tull from December 1975 until August 1979. He died in 1979, at the age of 28, as a result of a congenital heart defect....
, Barlow left Jethro Tull in 1980, after completing the final leg of the Stormwatch tour.

Since Jethro Tull

Barlow went on to do various session
Session musician

Session musicians are instrumental performers or vocalists who are available for hire for live performances or recording sessions, as opposed to musicians who are either permanent members of a musical ensemble or who have acquired fame in their own right as bandleaders....
 projects, including work with Robert Plant
Robert Plant

Robert Anthony Plant Order of the British Empire , is an England Rock and Roll singer and songwriter, famous for his membership in the former rock band Led Zeppelin as the lead vocalist, as well as for his successful solo career....
, John Miles
John Miles (musician)

John Miles is an English people singer, songwriter, guitarist and keyboard instrument player, best known for his 1976 Top 40 United Kingdom hit record single , "Music"....
, and Jimmy Page
Jimmy Page

James Patrick Page Order of the British Empire is an English guitarist, composer and record producer. He began his career as a studio session guitarist in London and was subsequently a member of The Yardbirds from 1966 to 1968, after which he co-founded the English rock band Led Zeppelin....
, and he also started his own band for a spell called Storm. He played on the Yngwie Malmsteen album Rising Force
Rising Force

Rising Force is a Yngwie J. Malmsteen project as well as his debut solo album released in 1984. It is also the title of a song on Malmsteen's album Odyssey ....
. He played on the Kerry Livgren
Kerry Livgren

Kerry Livgren is an United States musician and songwriter, best known as one of the founding members and primary songwriters for the 1970s progressive rock band, Kansas ....
 album, Seeds of Change.

Barlow has a recording studio
Recording studio

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, The Doghouse, on his property in Shiplake
Shiplake

Shiplake is a village in Oxfordshire, England on the River Thames, near Henley-on-Thames and opposite the village of Wargrave.An annual event, the Wargrave & Shiplake Regatta is a light-hearted alternative to the famous Henley Royal Regatta....
, Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire is a county in the South East England region, bordering on Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, and Warwickshire....
, England
England

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. He is currently managing a band from Henley on Thames called , and has also been linked with other local bands which echo his own folk-influenced musical history, such as Reading's .

Barlow played percussion on "Artrocker", the opening track of the critically acclaimed 2006 album Get Your Mood On by London
London

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 indie punk
Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed the perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock....
 band, Dustin's Bar Mitzvah
Dustin's Bar Mitzvah

Dustin's Bar Mitzvah were an England four piece band from Acton, London, London. They are signed to Hungy Kid Records in the United Kingdom and Vinyl Junkie records in Japan....
.

In an interview in Drumhead
Drumhead (magazine)

Drumhead is the latest American drum magazine. It was founded in New York, in 2007, the bi-monthly hit the stands on January 2007....
 magazine
Magazine

for quarterly in Heraldry see Quartering Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of Article , generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscription, or all three....
 (December 2007) Barlow announced that he is looking to play on the road again.

Drumming technique

Barlow is known as a very technical and creative drummer. His drumming on the live album
Live album

A live album – commonly contrasted with a studio album – is a recording consisting of material recorded during stage performances. Live albums may be recorded at a single concert, or combine recordings made at multiple concerts....
, Bursting Out, is testimony to his creative talents as a drummer. He was called "the greatest rock drummer England ever produced" by the late John Bonham
John Bonham

John Henry "Bonzo" Bonham was an English drummer and member of the band Led Zeppelin. He was renowned for his power, fast right foot, distinctive sound and "feel" for the groove ....
.

In a comment on his drumming for the Jethro Tull albums he said; "I've always admired people who invent — and on a percussion level I admire inventors of rhythm. I tried to strive for that in Tull, but now I go to great lengths to advise the drummers in the bands I'm managing not to play anything like I used to play in Tull, because it was so busy and over-the-top."

See also

  • Jethro Tull
    Jethro Tull (band)

    Jethro Tull are a United Kingdom rock music group formed in 1967. Their music is characterised by the songs, vocals and flute work of Ian Anderson , who has led the band since its founding, and guitarist Martin Barre, who has #Lineups....


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