Barriemore Barlow
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Barriemore Barlow (born 10 September 1949, in Birmingham) best known as the drummer and percussionist for rock band Jethro Tull from May 1971 to June 1980. A school friend and former bandmate of Tull leader Ian Anderson, he joined after the departure of Clive Bunker. He played on the following albums:
- Thick as a Brick
- Living in the Past
- A Passion Play
- War Child
- Minstrel in the Gallery
- Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die!
- Songs from the Wood
- Heavy Horses
- Bursting Out
- Stormwatch
Barlow left Jethro Tull in 1980, after completing the final leg of the Stormwatch tour and went on to do various session projects, including work with Robert Plant, John Miles, and Jimmy Page, and he also started his own band for a spell called Storm.
He played on the Yngwie Malmsteen album, Rising Force.
These days, Barrie is a producer / manager with a newly signed band, The Turnstiles, in Britain. He's got a recording studio (The Doghouse) on his property, which has been occupied by several bands (Gary Moore, Asia, It Bites, and Bad Co., among others).
Barlow is known as a very technical and creative drummer. His drumming on "Bursting Out", is testimony to his great and creative talents as a drummer. He was called "the greatest rock drummer England ever produced" by the late John Bonham.
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."[citation needed]
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