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Post by bunkerfan on Mar 27, 2011 11:56:45 GMT
Some great reviews there, with a couple mentioning how good "Budapest" was but, up to now I can't find any footage of that song on the net.............Pity.
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Post by tim on Mar 28, 2011 6:38:41 GMT
To be honest Im surprised at the good reviews. Ians voice is shocking and has been for a number of Years now. Still a fabulous flute player of course and Martin Barre worth the admission price on his own, but "40th anniversary of Aqualung " tour coming up? Does he really intend to croak his way through the whole album?
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Post by nonrabbit on Mar 30, 2011 22:40:50 GMT
www.hotpress.com/music/reviews/live/7605017.html"...At its centre is the one-legged satyr, the flauting dervish, the lascivious smirker, Ian Anderson. Still possessed of his box of tics, foot flicks, beard strokes, bug eyed gurning and body jerks, tonight he looks like a pirate gypsy of mischievous intent..." hehehehe
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2011 13:10:10 GMT
In the spirit of the Aqualung tour: A new Canadian review of the album: ;D theconcordian.com/2011/04/05/quick-spins-27/Jethro Tull – Aqualung (Chrysalis/Capitol; 1971) As a band, Jethro Tull has always been somewhat of an enigma for music critics. Are they blues? Progressive? Rock? Folk? Though labeling them is somewhat difficult, their best work — at least in terms of commercial success — is indisputably their fourth release, Aqualung. Songs like “Locomotive Breath,” “My God” and the title track were not only staples of the band’s live shows but are on regular rotation on every classic rock station that’s worth its salt. What makes this a stunning album, however, is not the hits — rather, it is the work as a whole. Songs like “Hymn 43” and “Wind Up” provide both a strong guitar riff and a tongue-in-cheek meditation on religious hypocrisy, a true novelty when the album came out. The shorter gems like “Slipstream” and “Cheap Day Return,” which are peppered between the longer tracks, provide not only pleasant segues, but a cohesion that many of today’s iTunes-friendly albums certainly lack. In short, Aqualung is a well-rounded, well-conceived and well-played album, and it deserves the longevity it has enjoyed through the years. Trial Track: “Locomotive Breath” - Andrew Gulbert Up to me
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2011 2:42:51 GMT
www.rockstarweekly.com/jethro-tulls-ian-anderson-celebrates-40-years-of-aqualung.htmlJethro Tull's Ian Anderson Celebrates 40 Years Of Aqualung Written by Shon Troelstrup on Wednesday, 06 April 2011 Ian Anderson can hardly believe it himself. It has been forty years since the release of Jethro Tull's groundbreaking Aqualung album. With over 7 million copies sold, Aqualung remains the band's highest selling, and perhaps most definitive outing. From the unforgettable opening riff of the album's title track, to the dramatic, soul-searching climax of 'Wind-Up', the album is a wild ride from the gutter to the gates of Heaven, perhaps, earning accolades as one of the greatest 'concept albums' of all time. While Anderson admits that the band never really set out to make a 'concept album', per se, Aqualung was embraced by the prog-rock community as a milestone in a genre rife with them. With its social commentaries on homelessness, mental illness, and the quest for divinity, Aqualung has retained its relevance to this day. That, perhaps, is why Anderson still holds the album so dear. “The album still means the same to me,” says Anderson “There are some songs on the album that I don't play very often, or hardly at all, although I will be playing them again during the next few months, because it's the 40th anniversary of the album. They don't necessarily all have the same resonance, perhaps, as songs like 'Aqualung' or 'Locomotive Breath', or maybe 'My God'. Those are songs that are about something which is still very much a part of my life. So some of them, perhaps, have more contemporary meaning for me than the other songs. That's the case with everything I've ever written.” Anderson cites 'Locomotive Breath' as an example of the album's timelessness. “Well, it's a song very much about issues that concern me, and hopefully most of us these days,” he says. “Issues such as the globalization of the economy, population increase. The effect of that, directly or indirectly on climate change, although that wasn't part of the mix back at the time I wrote it. It was a song essentially about runaway populations and runaway explosive economics, and civilization being on a crazy, out of control locomotive, unable to stop. With seven billion people soon to be officially on the planet and nine billion forecast for the year 2050, all the tandem problems of running out of water, running out of fossil fuels, the resources that we've taken for granted for decades, centuries, even, are soon going to be if not depleted, much more difficult to get at with all the attendant risk and problem. We are the species that ate ourselves. That's the bottom line. That's what 'Locomotive Breath' is about. Cheerful subject, isn't it?” While Anderson can still look fondly upon the album's content, he doesn't share the same nostalgia for the recording process. “It was a pretty miserable time,” he says bluntly, of the then-newly created Island Studios in London. “We were working in a brand new studio that was converted from an old disused church. Like all new studios, there are a number of shakedown problems to overcome. Technical problems, things not installed correctly or working properly, so we suffered from a lot of technical issues, as well as a pretty awful sound quality. The natural acoustics of the very large room we were working in, and also in the control room. Just the sound of the speakers and the monitoring wasn't very conducive to having a good time, either. So it was technically speaking, quite a difficult, and not very happy album to make. It was cold. It was miserable. It was rather dank and weird, working in a disused church. It didn't have a good feeling about it at all.” Ironically, Led Zeppelin, who were recording their fourth album in the small studio in the basement of the studio were fine. “That room sounded pretty good,” Anderson says of Zeppelin's studio. “But they had it locked out for their own use and we were relegated to working in the big room, which sounded horrible. So, it wasn't a great time in terms of recording, but we struggled on with it, and we had an album that was not necessarily sounding that great, but we made of it what we could and worked a little bit harder in the mastering room to cut the record in the following week after finishing recording.” The band's efforts were soon rewarded, however, as Aqualung went global, launching the band into unexpected markets. “It didn't actually sell big numbers very quickly,” Anderson recalls. “ But I think it marks the point where Jethro Tull was no longer just a British band. We had done, by that stage, probably six US tours. So we were getting quite well known, and perhaps more importantly than just the UK or USA, we were getting quite well known in all the countries of Europe. Within the next few years, Aqualung was beginning to find its way into territories that were not openly inviting, in terms of Western rock music. The album was getting noticed in Russia, India, and Latin America, which at the time, consisted of some fairly hostile regimes. It became kind of an underground culture success story, I suppose. It represented something that was a little contentious. It was questioning. A number of songs on it deal with subject matter that wasn't typical proper rock music. Then, or indeed now, for that matter. There aren't that many songs about population explosion, or songs that contentiously go into the issues of pomp and ceremony in organized religions.” Although Aqualung's liner notes and lyrics tackle the issue of God, the church and spirituality, Anderson openly proclaims that he is not a Christian. However, he still attends service and performs several benefit concerts every year to support the ongoing education of music in church. “I am officially not a Christian,” he says. “However, I'm not a homosexual either, but I thoroughly support the gay community and I thoroughly support the Christian community. I feel no contradiction in supporting the people who derive warmth, satisfaction, spiritual uplift, whatever it might be, whether it's from a homosexual relationship or following Christianity. It's unlikely that I'm going to decide next week, or in ten years from now that I'm gay. It's equally unlikely that I'm going to decide next week or in ten years' time that I'm going to be a Christian. None of those two things are impossible, I just think they're probably unlikely.” With over 50 million album sales, Anderson has definitely earned the title of “rock star”, but he holds an extremely dim view of his musical peers who embrace the aloof rock star lifestyle. Anderson explains that he has been managing his own affairs since 1974, preferring to handle his own flight bookings, tax returns, and everyday business affairs of Jethro Tull. “The idea of stardom as evinced by those who adopt the rock and roll, or showbiz lifestyles as we tend to read about them in the newspaper, well, that's something that's just not for me,” he says bluntly. “The idea of having a private jet or bodyguards or factotums who follow me around and do everything for me is utterly repulsive. I hate people doing things for me that reduce my role in life to being an airhead. “I would hate to think that I work with musicians who are incapable of accessing their airline booking online, printing out their boarding pass and showing up at the gate in time to catch their flight. Frankly, those that can't do that aren't in the band,” he laughs. “We have changed things in recent years and said 'If the average twelve-year-old can get on the internet and seek out the company of a pedophile then you must be able to print out your bloody boarding pass.' What do you think?”
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 7, 2011 7:43:19 GMT
Nice find TT. Psssssst - don't tell Bernie
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Post by steelmonkey on Apr 7, 2011 12:22:13 GMT
I can print my own boarding pass, thank you.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2011 12:53:53 GMT
Listen To The Entire Ian Anderson Interview From RockStar Weekly (while you can) www.rockstarweekly.com/listen-to-the-entire-ian-anderson-interview-from-rockstar-weekly.htmlHas it really been 40 years since Aqualung? Does it seem like it’s been 40 year? What does Aqualung mean to you today? What do you recall about the recording sessions? You told us what Aqualung was about, but what was on your mind when you wrote Locomotive Breath? The songs are still very relevant today. Some songs can’t do that. There are some religious statements on the album. Are you a religious man? Even though you’ve had amazing success with 60 million albums sold, Jethro Tull still seems like superstardom was never the overall quest. Is there a difference for you between stardom and success? Aqualung is the band’s most popular album. Is that the album you think should have been the most popular? Speaking of most popular, it was only a few years ago that Entertainment Weekly called your Grammy win one of the top five Grammy upsets. What is your take on the whole Grammy Awards story? You really are an original. Whenever anyone hears a flute in a rock song, you and Jethro Tull immediately come to mind. Is that an honor for you? Then God, the director, smells a rat. Pulls another rabbit from His hat.
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 7, 2011 18:19:10 GMT
canadasecond.comMarch 23rd 2011 Harper’s election strategy to centre around fiscal prudence and Jethro Tull coversStephen Harper’s Conservative Party has unveiled what they are calling a “sure fire” path to a majority government. However, this path does not go through Quebec or suburban Ontario as most pundits believed. It is now believed by most Tories that the path to that illusive majority is laid along side the progressive rock stylings of Jethro Tull. The Conservatives have long tried to paint themselves as sound economic stewards. However, despite this, they have been unable to consistently poll in majority territory. Harper saw his popularity jump considerably after an impromptu performance of the Beatles’ With a Little Help from my Friends with acclaimed cellist Yo Yo Ma (link). Putting two and two together, Harper’s team feel they now have a strategy that will bring them the gold - mixing economic prudence with the mind altering progressive rock of Jethro Tull. Throughout this campaign, it will now be custom for Harper to make economic announcements praising lower taxes while standing on one leg. All announcements will then be followed by covers of hits like Aqualung and Saboteur by Harper and his garage band. Harper made a brief statement to the press today: “The coalition parties have thrown the country into an unnecessary and costly election that could jeopardize Canada’s economic action plan. In my training as an economist, I can’t overstate the importance of stability in a time of global uncertainty. I must also emphasize the necessity for bold, universal vision like that displayed by the characteristic sound of Ian Anderson’s classical flute and the epic rock guitar licks of Martin Barre. This is magic only the Conservatives can bring” Harper then went on to literally sing the praises of the 2011 budget to the tune of Jethro Tull’s classic 1972 album, Thick as a Brick "Please Note: Canada Second is a satirical political news site and is intended for entertainment purposes only."
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2011 23:11:13 GMT
Too much! Be afraid, be very afraid. ;D Do you really want to hurt me? lol
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Post by steelmonkey on Apr 24, 2011 2:55:39 GMT
Countdown time....according to the website for the venue where Tull is supposed to play on 6-14...the last rumored but not confirmed gig on the west coast...and only one within reach for me...the tickets for the full summer series goes on sale on Monday. This is the kind of place that often saves the best seats for people who buy into the whole series...yeah, right...I'm gonna see the kind Of kenny G's and Ringo Starr allstar fiascos to get first shot at Tull seats...no way...another fear is you need to have some sort of special platinum butt-plug credit card for first picks. Well...no matter...I'm going alone and that allows for flexibility, sleaziness, creativity and uninhibited focus on the front row....I CAN'T WAIT !!!!!!
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Post by nonrabbit on Apr 24, 2011 8:03:04 GMT
Well...no matter...I'm going alone and that allows for flexibility, sleaziness, creativity and uninhibited focus on the front row.... !!!!!! as in?
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Post by steelmonkey on Apr 24, 2011 15:43:17 GMT
Nothing dramatic in my search for best seat...just no restrictions that would be in play if i had a 'date' or even companion less focussed on Tull than me...alone i can wheel and deal for tickets outside the venue...hell, I don't mind the other role...selling off an extra ticket or more if the best scenario for me involves trading a ticket in hand and or cash or whatever for a pair or more etc etc and then find my self the vendor not vendee and not even cry if I end up going deeper in my cash than planned. Once in...I can keep an eye on unused seats...this venue sells series tickets and plenty of seats go unused...especially good ones, up front as silicon valley corporate types give a pass to one gig or another on the long summer list...and if i get kicked out by a late arrival? who gives a f**k? and if the people in the front rows know I'm a bounder? I'm a proud bounder....it's just me, the universe and my favorite band onstage....ready, aim, attack!!! I'll buy the best seat I can get....arrive at the venue around soundcheck time and see if i recognize any connected regulars ( The six and violence guy, Kurt, an MD named Terry who was VIP with Ian and Doane for a few years and now gets in the side door via friendship with the merchandise walllah...or Even James D or Shona if they're looking friendly ( fat chance,,,the gig I'm going to will be a fifth nite in a row, i believe)...or maybe Ian...he always remembers the bicycle guy/pest......Alas for the good old guys: Gerd, Kenny, Peggy, Maaart
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 24, 2011 17:37:24 GMT
Thursday 21st April 2011Ben Harper and Relentless7 ZZ Top Michael Franti & Spearhead Toots and the Maytals Los Lobos Xavier Rudd Ernest Ranglin Luciano and Jah Messenjah Band Warrior King Funky Meters Ruthie Foster CW Stoneking Nat Col and the Kings The Bamboos Ray Beadle The Hands Friday 22nd April 2011BB King Grace Jones Toots and the Maytals Rodrigo y Gabriela Blind Boys of Alabama featuring Aaron Neville Los Lobos Raul Malo Funky Meters Ernest Ranglin Luciano and Jah Messenjah Band Warrior King Fistful of Mercy Xavier Rudd Trombone Shorty Eric Bibb Ruthie Foster CW Stoneking RocKwiz Live The Dingoes Ray Beadle The Hands Saturday 23rd April 2011Michael Franti & Spearhead John Legend Wolfmother Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi Band Robert Randolph & The Family Band Imogen Heap Raul Malo Kasey Chambers Mavis Staples Trombone Shorty Joe Louis Walker Tim Robbins & The Rogues Gallery Band Little Bushman BB and the Blues Shacks Indigo Girls RocKwiz Live The Snowdroppers Phil Jones & the Unknown Blues Sunday 24th April 2011Gurrumul Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi Band The Cat Empire Pete Murray (cancelled) Blind Boys of Alabama featuring Aaron Neville Robert Randolph & The Family Band Mavis Staples Irma Thomas Cecilia Noel Public Opinion Afro Orchestra Trinity Roots Washington Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band Ash Grunwald Jeff Lang Saltwater Band Peter Rowan & The Blue Grass Band RocKwiz Live Phil Jones and the Unknown Blues The Snowdroppers Barrence Whitfield Monday 25th April 2011Bob Dylan Elvis Costello & The Imposters Jethro TullBuffy Sainte-Marie Irma Thomas Diesel Public Opinion Afro Orchestra Cecilia Noel Trinity Roots Tim Robbins & The Rogues Gallery Band Joe Louis Walker Catain Matchbox Whoopee Band Tony Joe White Michelle Shocked Saltwater Band Peter Rowan & The Blue Grass Band Kate-Miller Heidke The Mad Bastards Eli Paperboy Reed RocKwiz Live The Snowdroppers Barrence Whitfield B.B and the Blues Shacks Bobby Alu Tuesday 26th April 2011Bob Dylan Elvis Costello & The Imposters Leon Russell George Clinton Parliament Funkadelic Buffy Sainte-Marie Gurrumul Buffy Sainte-Marie Paul Kelly Tim Finn Tony Joe White Michelle Shocked Eli Paperboy Reed The Mad Bastards Bobby Alu www.when-is.com.au/category/events/upcoming
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Post by steelmonkey on Apr 26, 2011 15:19:48 GMT
Local Tull gig finally official on the website of the winery...individula tix on sale May 9th afetr season ticket holders and rodney richpig corporate needledicks get their entitled first call....no matter....I'll be there...front and center on June 14th...a fifth night of a five day run...most venues outdoors, the likes of red rocks...death for vocal cords....better hope Shona's totin' the vaporizer and humidifier or i might be singing louder and clearer than ian that night!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2011 15:31:23 GMT
www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/the-voice-may-be-feeling-the-years-but-tull-are-still-solid-as-a-brick-20110427-1dwkk.htmlThe voice may be feeling the years but Tull are still solid as a brick John Shand April 28, 2011 State Theatre, April 26 THE passing years have not been kind to Jethro Tull. Ian Anderson's voice, a functional rather than vigorous instrument, is now softer, more reedy and endowed with less range. His stage antics, once amusing, theatrical and lewd, seem more mannered, and were inevitably toned down in keeping with those passing years. Yet there are other aspects of this maverick band - which over 44 years has covered blues, hard rock, progressive rock, English folk and even flirted with jazz and classical - that are unaffected by age. Anderson's wit is one (even if the Pythonesque theatrics are long gone), his flute another and Martin Barre's magnificent electric guitar playing is a third Now, too, the desires of audience and Anderson converged within that huge back catalogue. Their best album, 1971's Aqualung, supplied four songs and the show's spine. The quirky song Up To Me was a surprise, as was My God, a rarity in their concerts, which has lyrics of particularly current relevance. Even more than Thick as a Brick, this embodied the Tull trademark of Anderson's lilting acoustic guitar being suddenly savaged by the electric onslaught of Barre, keyboard player John O'Hara, bassist David Goodier and drummer Doane Perry. It also contained the night's strongest flute playing. Although a limited improviser, Anderson infuses the instrument with such energy as to make it credible for rock. Barre's best work came on Aqualung, a solo of spiralling melodies and thrilling momentum, delivered via one of the great electric guitar sounds in rock history. He provided the only real interest in the pedestrian Budapest, and goaded a potent Locomotive Breath. Earlier Anderson had aired two of his gentler cameos, Life is a Long Song and Nursie, fine songs easily overlooked in Tull's heyday, and which are now kinder to his voice than most. Perry featured on a thumping Dharma For One, which, like many pieces, was sufficiently reworked and imbued with freshness to prevent this being strictly a nostalgia show. Thick as a brick ... Jethro Tull performs at the 22nd Annual Byron Bay Bluesfest. Photo: Michelle Smith
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2011 15:31:48 GMT
www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/the-voice-may-be-feeling-the-years-but-tull-are-still-solid-as-a-brick-20110427-1dwkk.htmlThe voice may be feeling the years but Tull are still solid as a brick John Shand April 28, 2011 State Theatre, April 26 THE passing years have not been kind to Jethro Tull. Ian Anderson's voice, a functional rather than vigorous instrument, is now softer, more reedy and endowed with less range. His stage antics, once amusing, theatrical and lewd, seem more mannered, and were inevitably toned down in keeping with those passing years. Yet there are other aspects of this maverick band - which over 44 years has covered blues, hard rock, progressive rock, English folk and even flirted with jazz and classical - that are unaffected by age. Anderson's wit is one (even if the Pythonesque theatrics are long gone), his flute another and Martin Barre's magnificent electric guitar playing is a third Now, too, the desires of audience and Anderson converged within that huge back catalogue. Their best album, 1971's Aqualung, supplied four songs and the show's spine. The quirky song Up To Me was a surprise, as was My God, a rarity in their concerts, which has lyrics of particularly current relevance. Even more than Thick as a Brick, this embodied the Tull trademark of Anderson's lilting acoustic guitar being suddenly savaged by the electric onslaught of Barre, keyboard player John O'Hara, bassist David Goodier and drummer Doane Perry. It also contained the night's strongest flute playing. Although a limited improviser, Anderson infuses the instrument with such energy as to make it credible for rock. Barre's best work came on Aqualung, a solo of spiralling melodies and thrilling momentum, delivered via one of the great electric guitar sounds in rock history. He provided the only real interest in the pedestrian Budapest, and goaded a potent Locomotive Breath. Earlier Anderson had aired two of his gentler cameos, Life is a Long Song and Nursie, fine songs easily overlooked in Tull's heyday, and which are now kinder to his voice than most. Perry featured on a thumping Dharma For One, which, like many pieces, was sufficiently reworked and imbued with freshness to prevent this being strictly a nostalgia show. Thick as a brick ... Jethro Tull performs at the 22nd Annual Byron Bay Bluesfest. Photo: Michelle Smith
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 27, 2011 17:54:34 GMT
www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/the-voice-may-be-feeling-the-years-but-tull-are-still-solid-as-a-brick-20110427-1dwkk.htmlThe voice may be feeling the years but Tull are still solid as a brick John Shand April 28, 2011 State Theatre, April 26 THE passing years have not been kind to Jethro Tull. Ian Anderson's voice, a functional rather than vigorous instrument, is now softer, more reedy and endowed with less range. His stage antics, once amusing, theatrical and lewd, seem more mannered, and were inevitably toned down in keeping with those passing years. Yet there are other aspects of this maverick band - which over 44 years has covered blues, hard rock, progressive rock, English folk and even flirted with jazz and classical - that are unaffected by age. Anderson's wit is one (even if the Pythonesque theatrics are long gone), his flute another and Martin Barre's magnificent electric guitar playing is a third Now, too, the desires of audience and Anderson converged within that huge back catalogue. Their best album, 1971's Aqualung, supplied four songs and the show's spine. The quirky song Up To Me was a surprise, as was My God, a rarity in their concerts, which has lyrics of particularly current relevance. Even more than Thick as a Brick, this embodied the Tull trademark of Anderson's lilting acoustic guitar being suddenly savaged by the electric onslaught of Barre, keyboard player John O'Hara, bassist David Goodier and drummer Doane Perry. It also contained the night's strongest flute playing. Although a limited improviser, Anderson infuses the instrument with such energy as to make it credible for rock. Barre's best work came on Aqualung, a solo of spiralling melodies and thrilling momentum, delivered via one of the great electric guitar sounds in rock history. He provided the only real interest in the pedestrian Budapest, and goaded a potent Locomotive Breath. Earlier Anderson had aired two of his gentler cameos, Life is a Long Song and Nursie, fine songs easily overlooked in Tull's heyday, and which are now kinder to his voice than most. Perry featured on a thumping Dharma For One, which, like many pieces, was sufficiently reworked and imbued with freshness to prevent this being strictly a nostalgia show. Thick as a brick ... Jethro Tull performs at the 22nd Annual Byron Bay Bluesfest. Photo: Michelle Smith Thanks TT
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 27, 2011 17:55:16 GMT
www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/the-voice-may-be-feeling-the-years-but-tull-are-still-solid-as-a-brick-20110427-1dwkk.htmlThe voice may be feeling the years but Tull are still solid as a brick John Shand April 28, 2011 State Theatre, April 26 THE passing years have not been kind to Jethro Tull. Ian Anderson's voice, a functional rather than vigorous instrument, is now softer, more reedy and endowed with less range. His stage antics, once amusing, theatrical and lewd, seem more mannered, and were inevitably toned down in keeping with those passing years. Yet there are other aspects of this maverick band - which over 44 years has covered blues, hard rock, progressive rock, English folk and even flirted with jazz and classical - that are unaffected by age. Anderson's wit is one (even if the Pythonesque theatrics are long gone), his flute another and Martin Barre's magnificent electric guitar playing is a third Now, too, the desires of audience and Anderson converged within that huge back catalogue. Their best album, 1971's Aqualung, supplied four songs and the show's spine. The quirky song Up To Me was a surprise, as was My God, a rarity in their concerts, which has lyrics of particularly current relevance. Even more than Thick as a Brick, this embodied the Tull trademark of Anderson's lilting acoustic guitar being suddenly savaged by the electric onslaught of Barre, keyboard player John O'Hara, bassist David Goodier and drummer Doane Perry. It also contained the night's strongest flute playing. Although a limited improviser, Anderson infuses the instrument with such energy as to make it credible for rock. Barre's best work came on Aqualung, a solo of spiralling melodies and thrilling momentum, delivered via one of the great electric guitar sounds in rock history. He provided the only real interest in the pedestrian Budapest, and goaded a potent Locomotive Breath. Earlier Anderson had aired two of his gentler cameos, Life is a Long Song and Nursie, fine songs easily overlooked in Tull's heyday, and which are now kinder to his voice than most. Perry featured on a thumping Dharma For One, which, like many pieces, was sufficiently reworked and imbued with freshness to prevent this being strictly a nostalgia show. Thick as a brick ... Jethro Tull performs at the 22nd Annual Byron Bay Bluesfest. Photo: Michelle Smith Thanks TT
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Post by steelmonkey on May 4, 2011 19:52:22 GMT
Nothing is Easy
Got my ticket for Tull in saratoga...an outdoor winery where a lot of people get first grab at tix before little people like me....got on the computer at exactly 10:00 AM for 'pre-sale' available to me for being on their mailing list...asked for best of the expensive seats and told, at 10:04, 'too late...try best of best left...when three iterations of being offered a single seat in the first row ...the very last seat on the far side of the 3 sided stage...an awful spot really, behind the piano ...no thanks...then picked a mediocre but okay seat in the second section, somewhat to the side and tickmaster insisted i had a password that I got about 15 years ago and forgot so had to go thru all that and finally 'scored' a mediocre seat for 106.50....okay...that gets me in the door...then the battle for upgrade begins. I remember, before i had a kid, when Tull ticket was the primary reason to look both ways when i croos the street and simply stay alive...not wanting to go to the next world with an unused ducat!
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Post by maddogfagin on May 16, 2011 15:41:55 GMT
Anyone for Dublin, 18 March? PM the Kennel.
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2011 21:12:17 GMT
www.j-tull.com/tourdates/index.htmlupdated May 16, 2011 Chicago date added for Jun 27th October dates for Ian in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Estonia www.wdrv.com/home.php10 years ago we set out to play the greatest music ever made. It's been a fabulous decade long ride. Now, it's time to celebrate, with another Drive Free Birthday Concert...Monday, June 27th at the Rosemont Theatre featuring Jethro Tull & The Aqualung 40th Anniversary Tour along with special guests America! Register here for the drawings for free tickets. And it all trickles down. Yes it all trickles down. Well it all trickles down from me to you.
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Post by maddogfagin on May 24, 2011 18:03:08 GMT
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Post by steelmonkey on May 24, 2011 18:27:50 GMT
There,there, princess....don't get yerself all worried and make it worse...just buck up, breath deep, it'll be over before you know it and you'll get your reward.
(speech above, as needed for ian before a festivalor my daughter before a flu shot)
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Post by steelmonkey on May 24, 2011 18:29:04 GMT
But I bet ian gets more for playing a festival than a couple princess stickers and a pat on the head.
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Post by tullist on May 25, 2011 1:51:07 GMT
As I so rarely get a chance to really sit down and listen to his music in the past twenty five years, and it has never ever worked for me as background music, it is often in the interviews that I see the individual that my level of respect for is equaled by nearly no one of my lifetime. In recent years this was best exemplified by one that nearly strictly concerned the myriad problems facing this globe and specifically its human inhabitants, I cannot over emphacize how rare a man I find him to be, truly not over stating to say that this is a great man, a genuinely great thinker. And of course I am not stupid enough to say any of this stuff to his face, more likely to yawn in it. But anyway, while pretty much the length and breath of this article to me is one of sheer wisdom, wit and common sense, its the reference to Status Quo, bless their jamming hearts, that is a grand slam home run. And why it is not overstating it to say I love and respect this man, always have, always will. Again, nothing I would say to his face, at least not until the end. More likely to ask what methodology he used to quit smoking but I feel I know him, and know him well, and I just don't think he's the type to put a patch on, I suspect he met it head on, and beat that beast on the first attempt. The man is a noble warrior, and always has been.
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Post by maddogfagin on May 25, 2011 7:52:17 GMT
But then I wonder if in some ways IA says these things just as some kind of amusement to wind folks up. Bernie's post about the blue denim wearing brigade is a case in point.
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Post by steelmonkey on May 25, 2011 16:07:15 GMT
ian does, undoubtably qualify as a great man...it would take a long analysis to titrate out the relativity of this staement. he is a man of superior intellect, consistent integrity and reality based, exemplary approach to the world around him....how is greatness is quantified depends on whether he is being compared to, say, rock stars in his fame/success bracket, upper class, humble origin guys in Great britan, potential eotists from too much success and adoration, etc etc etc.. he is smart, suprbly talented, far more deeply poetic than he would ever admit and just plain fair and decent.....I'm afraid much of hsi other 'greatness' is simply in comparision the the types of monters people become with success, especially in rock and roll- he surely dodged that ( well, up to a point!). I bet he's a great dan and Husband...and that counts for a lot...i also thinks he gives a good % to charity.
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Post by tullist on May 25, 2011 20:26:40 GMT
Well Graham, doubtless if the interview concerns music his humor is nearly always present. However, in the interview posted I am quite certain he means everything very literally, while combining it with his wit, and Status Quo, virtually unknown over here in over 40 years, I realize are some sort of standard bearers for party time in the UK, indeed probably much better loved by "punters" than Tull. Lost on me, but there again lots of people's musical perceptions, people I would hope to be kindred spirits, re Tull fans, are. I sometimes wonder when I see Tull fans having an equal interest in Black Sabbath, Rush, much big name prog but certainly not all, if I have been mishearing them all along. I sometimes get a similar vibe off Deadheads, when I see there musical interests too squarely centered in San Francisco of 40 plus years ago, and most of that music I like, just seems to me that music such as either of those organizations have put out over the length and breath, would lead folks into more disparate avenues, while, in Tull's case, when people say they are fans, they are really specifically referring to the years 69-74 which they can fit a little more snugly into their classic rock paradigm, and even then my perceptions would be much different. I am certain, though can not mark specifically, that Tull had much to do with my investigation of classical, jazz, folk and blues even though it was all sort of happening with me at the same time. And damn sure remember the interview, or comment Bernie refers to, I think it was in Circus, and particularly memorable because likely it was the only time they were mentioned that year. He said that were Jesus to come back now, that he would join Ian in turning over the blue jean racks at a place like the Gap, and how nice it would be to see people dressed with more character at his concerts, (which I took to heart for a time back then) as opposed to looking out on a sea of blue denim. While I doubt he has anything specifically against denim, merely referring to the lemming behavior that in recent decades has seen backward baseball caps, and tattoos covering much of one's body. But the specific interview I was reaching for is one Non Rabbit posted a month or two ago that I found nothing short of moving, maybe ya'll read it the first time, if not, here it is to be ignored again. www.retrosellers.com/features198.htmAnd yeah steelmonkey, great is, an in part, somewhat non descript term, sometimes mistakenly meant with a positive bent, as clearly in specific terms both Hitler and Attila the Hun, and to a lesser extent Bin Laden were great men. I think that interview up there shows a different type of great. P.S. Particularly when you get down to that part of the interview when he is asked, what about sad? Those parts that address world events is why I have sometimes said this guy would make a very great leader, no surprise to me, that at least in a small way, he knows a man I have a very deep admiration for, Mikhail Gorbachev.
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Post by maddogfagin on May 26, 2011 8:02:23 GMT
Certainly IA has a mind of his own and I would class his humour and attitude to blue denim, for instance, Status Quo (who I've never got into music wise) and his obvious love of cats and other wild life etc., a breath of fresh air in a sometimes drab old world. He is a complex character of that there is no doubt in my mind, and he knocks spots off a great many world leaders, fellow rock stars and the Simon Cowells of this world with the "instant stardom" syndrome. I've no doubt that probably this is the reason we all got into Tull in the first place without really understanding the reason why and only realising it over a period of months after hearing IA's lyrics and music and comparing it with others around at the time. There is no one like him around at the moment and hasn't been for quite a few years.
Long may it continue
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