# John Carter of Mars News **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 18, 2008, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-carter-of-mars-news/441797 "2008-03-18T17:13:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-carter-of-mars-news/441797/21 "2008-11-10T22:26:51Z")
> [@Contrapuntal](#): > > Well, I saw them live in '72 (I think.) I had no idea they were still performing. [Here’s the cover](http://www.amazon.com/Broadsword-Beast-Jethro-Tull/dp/B00070DK14/ref=sr_1_25?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1226355865&sr=1-25) the guy did. The album appears to have been released in 2005. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-carter-of-mars-news/441797/22 "2008-11-10T23:08:55Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > [Here’s the cover](http://www.amazon.com/Broadsword-Beast-Jethro-Tull/dp/B00070DK14/ref=sr_1_25?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1226355865&sr=1-25) the guy did. The album appears to have been released in 2005. Seems to be at least the second remaster of a 1982 album. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-carter-of-mars-news/441797/23 "2008-11-10T23:33:41Z")
> [@Contrapuntal](#): > > Seems to be at least the second remaster of a 1982 album. They’ve put out a few completely new albums since 1990, and they’ve almost all been universally panned. Someone here once bitched that Ian needed to pay more attention to the songs he was writing than the salmon farm he was running. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-carter-of-mars-news/441797/24 "2008-11-11T07:09:40Z")
Jethro Tull is about to tour with [Anoushka Shankar](http://www.anoushkashankar.com/home_html.php). ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-carter-of-mars-news/441797/25 "2008-11-11T08:36:20Z")
Wow, this is one serious hijack. ---
**Author:** ![robz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ac8455/32.png) [@robz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robz)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-carter-of-mars-news/441797/26 "2008-11-11T14:42:13Z")
I saw them this summer, at the Music Fest, Bethleham, PA. They were great. The last time I saw them was two years in row, late 70’s, Boston Garden. The only song they missed this summer was Crosseyed Mary. > [@Contrapuntal](#): > > Well, I saw them live in '72 (I think.) I had no idea they were still performing. ---
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-carter-of-mars-news/441797/27 "2008-11-11T15:35:39Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > It seems Ian had broken his leg in South America about 2 weeks prior to our show, so he did the whole thing in a wheelchair. I understand he did his whole world tour that way. He still had a ton of energy, and moved all over the stage, but it was very weird. Did he balance on one wheel when he played the flute? Not seen them since, um, 1974(?) but they played here only a few months ago, iirc. Kind of meant to go see them, but didn’t. It might have been an\* Aqualung\* anniversary tour or something. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-carter-of-mars-news/441797/28 "2008-11-11T16:00:43Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > I’d rather see them adapt the Danny Dunn books, if they’re really looking for material for kid-positive books. Agree – [so long as the concept is updated.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=6065567&postcount=24) ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-carter-of-mars-news/441797/29 "2009-07-17T01:18:19Z")
I saw a casting call today for Edgar Rice Burroughs, John Carter’s teenage nephew and “the very first Comic-Con fanboy.” ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-carter-of-mars-news/441797/30 "2009-07-17T01:27:03Z")
Taylor Kitsch from Friday Night Lights [is playing John Carter](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401729/). Willem Dafoe signed on to play Tars Tarkas. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-carter-of-mars-news/441797/31 "2009-07-17T01:51:43Z")
> [@Rubystreak](#): > > Taylor Kitsch from Friday Night Lights [is playing John Carter](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401729/). Willem Dafoe signed on to play Tars Tarkas. Did you see who’s listed as writing the screenplay? Novelist Michael Chabon. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2009, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-carter-of-mars-news/441797/32 "2009-07-18T20:56:10Z")
I don’t really care how they do the harnesses. I want to know how they do the banths. I like Gino d’Achille’s version: [http://www.tarzan.com/bib/0425.html#Gino](http://www.tarzan.com/bib/0425.html#Gino) The d’Achille cover is the one with the flat-chested chick in a gold bikini, with the red sky in the background. I like it because it doesn’t really look anything like a terrestrial lion, and yet, if you were trying to describe it to someone who had never seen one, you might use “lion” as a metaphor. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2009, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-carter-of-mars-news/441797/33 "2009-07-19T05:11:26Z")
Oh that photo brings back memories. The copy of _Thuvia_ I swiped from my Dad’s bookshelf & read was the one at upper left, with the ruined city. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-carter-of-mars-news/441797.md?page=1)