FLEETWOOD MAC fans for DAVID PALMER

[dontlookdown]

OK OK -

I Take all that back.

I'm supporting the re-election of David Palmer.

Please join me and Jack Bauer in supporting our great president!

[chiliD]

THIS David Palmer?

Former Member of Jethro Tull Changes Sex

By Sherna Noah, Showbusiness Correspondent, PA News


A former member of the Seventies rock band Jethro Tull has had a sex-change operation to become a woman, it was revealed today.

David Palmer, the band’s 66-year-old ex-keyboard player, has swapped his trademark beard for long blonde hair and make-up and is now called Dee. She is recording her first solo album.

The former soldier in the Royal Horse Guards said that she had “felt like this since the age of three” but that it was only since the death of wife Margaret nine years ago that the feelings were pursued.

She told the Daily Mirror: “I want to be judged on my musical ability alone, and nothing else.

“It’s not just wimps who want to do this. To be a girl, it goes a lot deeper than that.”

The guiding force behind Jethro Tull – Ian Anderson – released a statement, saying he hoped fans would accept Dee as a woman.

“I have known for the past two years of David Palmer’s intention to undergo gender-changing procedures and, like many other people who have known David for three decades as a bearded, pipe-smoking man’s man, I found it difficult to understand at first,” he said.

“But I fully support his decision to undertake a new life as a woman.

“To the many fans of Jethro Tull, I can only offer that they should accept Dee Palmer for her new persona and hope that they enjoy her musical activities in the future.”

He added: “The moment when the new Palmer identity was revealed to me was when the then, still David, phoned me to say ‘Ian, there’s something I need to get off my increasingly ample chest’.”

[DownOnRodeo]

24 = snore.

[diamondsnake]

Originally posted by chiliD
THIS David Palmer?

Former Member of Jethro Tull Changes Sex

By Sherna Noah, Showbusiness Correspondent, PA News


A former member of the Seventies rock band Jethro Tull has had a sex-change operation to become a woman, it was revealed today.

David Palmer, the band’s 66-year-old ex-keyboard player, has swapped his trademark beard for long blonde hair and make-up and is now called Dee. She is recording her first solo album.

The former soldier in the Royal Horse Guards said that she had “felt like this since the age of three” but that it was only since the death of wife Margaret nine years ago that the feelings were pursued.

She told the Daily Mirror: “I want to be judged on my musical ability alone, and nothing else.

“It’s not just wimps who want to do this. To be a girl, it goes a lot deeper than that.”

The guiding force behind Jethro Tull – Ian Anderson – released a statement, saying he hoped fans would accept Dee as a woman.

“I have known for the past two years of David Palmer’s intention to undergo gender-changing procedures and, like many other people who have known David for three decades as a bearded, pipe-smoking man’s man, I found it difficult to understand at first,” he said.

“But I fully support his decision to undertake a new life as a woman.

“To the many fans of Jethro Tull, I can only offer that they should accept Dee Palmer for her new persona and hope that they enjoy her musical activities in the future.”

He added: “The moment when the new Palmer identity was revealed to me was when the then, still David, phoned me to say ‘Ian, there’s something I need to get off my increasingly ample chest’.”

All I have to say is, Oh My! I can't wait to tell my Dad, who is like obsessed with Jethro Tull! That'll be funny to see the look on his face

[sodascouts]

CHIT CHAT.

[DeeGeMe]

As much as I like David Palmer, I personally would like to nominate Jack Bauer! Have I mentioned (today) how damn fine Keifer Sutherland is?????

[tommer]

Originally posted by DownOnRodeo
24 = snore.

keep your ass off my leg's range when you say stuff like that.

[dissention]

Originally posted by chiliD
THIS David Palmer?

Former Member of Jethro Tull Changes Sex

Is this true, chili?!?!

[chiliD]

Yep!

[dissention]

Originally posted by chiliD
Yep!

SHOCKING!!!!!!

Mucho gracias for posting that!

[CarneVaca]

Ooooof... A sex change at 66? Better late than never, I guess.

[dissention]

Originally posted by CarneVaca
Ooooof... A sex change at 66? Better late than never, I guess.

I'm sure some porn enterprise will offer him a video deal a la John Wayne Bobbitt.

[chiliD]

Not the first musician to go through it. This was fairly big news back in 1972.

Wendy Carlos (born Walter Carlos, November 14, 1939) American composer and electronic musician. Carlos was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

Wendy Carlos was one of the first famous performers of electronic music using synthesisers. Her first recordings were released under her birth name of Walter Carlos - being a transsexual woman, she changed her name to Wendy Carlos.

She underwent sexual reassignment surgery in 1972. The last release to be credited to Walter was "Sonic Seasonings" (1972). The first as Wendy was the "Tron" soundtrack (1982), which was released on CD in 2002.

Notable works by Wendy Carlos:
Switched-on Bach (1968)
The Well-Tempered Synthesizer
Switched-on Bach II
Switched-on Brandenburgs
Beauty In The Beast
A Clockwork Orange (soundtrack)
Disney's TRON (soundtrack)
Tales of Heaven and Hell
Switched-on Bach 2000 (2000)


External links
Official Wendy (nee Walter) Carlos website

[gldstwmn]

Originally posted by chiliD
[B]

[i]Wendy Carlos (born Walter Carlos, November 14, 1939) American composer and electronic musician. Carlos was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

Walter/Wendy was born in my hometown.

[dontlookdown]

uh....... i was trying to make a little light humour of all the political missives lately by referencing the show "24".

i would never bring up anything having to do with Jethro Tull.

(apparently that David Palmer finely realized that flutes of any kind have no business in rock and roll)