Jethro Tull Support Tour (Mar 1980)

A chance encounter with Michael Schenker, his ex-UFO band-mate Phil Mogg and Jethro Tull's Dave Pegg at a gig in Brussels, comprising Baelen and Kazuki playing as a duo under the Lustfaust banner, leads to an offer to play as support for Jethro Tull in Germany, after their original support pull out at the last minute. Van Baelen's decision to inform Kruger invigorates Kruger's interest and sense of showmanship but ultimately proves to be a bad idea. Kruger clashes musically with Baelen and Kazuki's more jazz-based development with horrible sonic results and his ridiculous costumes and outlandish, offensive and violent attempts to engage the audience are not appreciated. Each of their gigs features him taunting the audience then wading into their midst for the beating that awaits him. The forth of these shambolic nights, sees Kruger hospitalised and also sees Jethro Tull come to the end of their tether, sacking Lustfaust from the tour. Accounts of their performances suggest they were perhaps lucky to last past the second date of the tour; the night of Kruger's infamously absurd Canada Goose costumed debacle.
giglist
- Saarlandhalle, Saarbrucken, Tuesday 18 March, 1980
- Frederich Eberthalle, Ludwigshafen, Wednesday 19 March, 1980
- Musterlandhalle, Munster, Thursday 10 March, 1980
- Deutschlandhalle, Berlin, Friday 11 March, 1980


