Jethro Tull musician has sex swap op

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_858591.html

*Jethro Tull musician has sex swap op*

A former member of seventies band Jethro Tull has had a sex-change operation and become a woman called Dee.

Once bearded keyboard player David Palmer now has long blonde hair and wears make-up and black leggings, reports the Evening Standard <http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/>.

She broke the news to flute playing frontman Ian Anderson by saying: "There's something I need to get off my increasingly ample chest."

Anderson stood by his former bandmate, saying: "I found it difficult at first but I fully support his decision."

Palmer, 66, a former soldier in the Royal Horse Guards and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music, is set to embark on a solo career.

She said: "I want to be judged on my musical ability alone, and nothing else."

Her desire to change sex had been an "open secret" in the music business for many years, she said, but she did not go ahead with the operation until the death of wife Margaret nine years ago.

Palmer lives in Hove, East Sussex, but is currently in the Spanish resort of Lanzarote, recording her first solo album before launching a British tour next month.

She said: "I've felt like this since the age of three. It's not just wimps who want to do this. To be a girl, it goes a lot deeper than that. Yes, you are speaking to the person you thought I was - the keyboard player in Jethro Tull."

Jethro Tull was formed in 1968 and had a string of hits including Living In The Past and Teacher. Palmer left the band in 1980.

Story filed: 11:49 Friday 23rd January 2004

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* David Beardsley
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--- In metatuning@yahoogroups.com, David Beardsley <db@b...> wrote:

> http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_858591.html
>
> *Jethro Tull musician has sex swap op*
>
> A former member of seventies band Jethro Tull has had a
> sex-change operation and become a woman called Dee.

i'm sure everyone who's interested wants to see the photos:

http://www.greyspub.com/MIKE/PRESS_KIT_DP/gigs_press%
20DP_tull_biog.htm

OR

http://tinyurl.com/2859x

-monz

--- In metatuning@yahoogroups.com, David Beardsley <db@b...> wrote:
> A former member of seventies band Jethro Tull has had a sex-change
> operation and become a woman called Dee.

Geez, wouldn't a genre change have been easier than a gender change?

Cheers,
Jon

What is the big surprise with this thread? Haven't gender reassignments been
happening regularly in the last 20 years?

Johnny

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--- In metatuning@yahoogroups.com, Afmmjr@a... wrote:
> What is the big surprise with this thread? Haven't gender reassignments been
> happening regularly in the last 20 years?

Who said it was a surprise? I work with a violinist who has been through this, as well as a percussion colleague in Orange County. I'm no stranger to the experience...

Cheers,
Jon

> What is the big surprise with this thread? Haven't gender
> reassignments been
> happening regularly in the last 20 years?
>
> Johnny

Seems like: I've had at least three in the last month. The change to Zeta
Reticuli trisex was particularly rough- but well worth it!.

Danteerinao

Afmmjr@... wrote:

>What is the big surprise with this thread? Haven't gender reassignments been >happening regularly in the last 20 years?
>
No big surprise, just news.

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* David Beardsley
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> > What is the big surprise with this thread? Haven't gender
> > reassignments been
> > happening regularly in the last 20 years?
> >
> > Johnny
>
> Seems like: I've had at least three in the last month. The
> change to Zeta Reticuli trisex was particularly rough- but
> well worth it!.
>
> Danteerinao

What?

-Carl

Carl Lumma wrote:

>>>What is the big surprise with this thread? Haven't gender
>>>reassignments been
>>>happening regularly in the last 20 years?
>>>
>>>Johnny
>>> >>>
>>Seems like: I've had at least three in the last month. The
>>change to Zeta Reticuli trisex was particularly rough- but
>>well worth it!.
>>
>>Danteerinao
>> >>
>
>What?
>
>-Carl
>

Look forward to an explanation in the next issue of 1/1.

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* David Beardsley
* microtonal guitar
* http://biink.com/db

--- In metatuning@yahoogroups.com, "Carl Lumma" <clumma@y...> wrote:
> > > What is the big surprise with this thread? Haven't gender
> > > reassignments been
> > > happening regularly in the last 20 years?
> > >
> > > Johnny
> >
> > Seems like: I've had at least three in the last month. The
> > change to Zeta Reticuli trisex was particularly rough- but
> > well worth it!.
> >
> > Danteerinao
>
> What?
>
> -Carl

Yeah, those trisex nights at the Zeta are really hoppin' these days --
Go Dante, Go Dante, Go Go, Go Dante!!

> > > Seems like: I've had at least three in the last month. The
> > > change to Zeta Reticuli trisex was particularly rough- but
> > > well worth it!.
> > >
> > > Danteerinao
> >
> > What?
> >
> > -Carl
>
> Yeah, those trisex nights at the Zeta are really hoppin' these
> days -- Go Dante, Go Dante, Go Go, Go Dante!!

I'm aware that ZR is one of the places the greys are supposed
to be from. But ... is it also a club of some sort in NYC?

-C.

--- In metatuning@yahoogroups.com, "Carl Lumma" <clumma@y...> wrote:
> > > > Seems like: I've had at least three in the last month. The
> > > > change to Zeta Reticuli trisex was particularly rough- but
> > > > well worth it!.
> > > >
> > > > Danteerinao
> > >
> > > What?
> > >
> > > -Carl
> >
> > Yeah, those trisex nights at the Zeta are really hoppin' these
> > days -- Go Dante, Go Dante, Go Go, Go Dante!!
>
> I'm aware that ZR is one of the places the greys are supposed
> to be from. But ... is it also a club of some sort in NYC?
>
> -C.

Oh yeah, quadrisexuals and pentasexuals come there to rub their cones
together . . .