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Post by steelmonkey on Sept 10, 2016 17:24:45 GMT
With the sole exception of both Minstrael and Brick being in the top 5, This list is FOS...and I don't mean full of smartness. Catfish ahead of Crest ? Are they trying to be funny ?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2016 18:59:12 GMT
With the sole exception of both Minstrel and Brick being in the top 5, This list is FOS...and I don't mean full of smartness. Catfish ahead of Crest ? Are they trying to be funny ? Sure FOS. Funny, I don't think so. Broadsword certainly needs to get more respect. Catfish vs Crest? Interesting....................
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Post by argentull on Nov 30, 2016 11:43:09 GMT
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Post by fuzzbox on Sept 11, 2017 17:42:11 GMT
Happy 30th anniversary Crest Of A Knave! (Released: Sept. 11, 1987) Crest Of A Knave is the first Tull album that was released after I became a fan as a teen, so it holds a special place. I just listened to "Budapest" from the album. What a great song.
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Post by maddogfagin on Sept 12, 2017 7:22:13 GMT
Happy 30th anniversary Crest Of A Knave! (Released: Sept. 11, 1987) Crest Of A Knave is the first Tull album that was released after I became a fan as a teen, so it holds a special place. I just listened to "Budapest" from the album. What a great song. ultimateclassicrock.com/jethro-tull-crest-of-a-knave/ 30 Years Ago: Jethro Tull Release ‘Crest of a Knave,’ the Album That Won a Metal GrammyBy Martin Kielty September 11, 2017 1:43 PM It’s unlikely that Jethro Tull leader Ian Anderson ever thought his band would be spoken of alongside Metallica, but that’s exactly what happened after the release of Tull’s 16th album, Crest of a Knave which came out on Sept. 11, 1987. The British prog giants had reconvened after a hiatus forced on them by Anderson’s throat surgery, and they aimed to change tack following the disappointing response to 1984’s Under Wraps, which had seen them pursue electronic sounds. With Crest of a Knave, they wanted to turn back toward their trademark mix of acoustic and electric styles – though Anderson did use drum programming instead of drummer Doane Perry on two tracks, “Steel Monkey” and “Raising Steam.” “I was fairly selfish in doing all the writing and the arranging by myself, without inviting the participation of the other members of the group,” Anderson said in a never-aired TV interview recorded at the time. “Most of the Jethro Tull records, contrary to popular suspicion, have not been autocratic – they’ve actually been very democratic. In terms of style, it probably represents the kind of music that I feel happy doing, which is underpinned by a basis in the blues. Not the traditional or academic sense, but in the third- or fourth-generation white-man’s blues, in the sense that we and others were playing it in ’69, ’70 or whatever.” While the album also featured classic Tull epics like “Farm on the Freeway” and “Budapest,” critics noted the significant change in Anderson’s voice after his surgery and the heavier-than-usual reliance on Martin Barre’s electric guitar. In some quarters, the LP was compared to Dire Straits. “We were, in fact, heavily criticized for the Dire Straits flavor of the last album,” Anderson told Paul Roland in 2012. “Martin Barre and I consciously made an effort to avoid that kind of delivery on the new one. So Martin used less of the single coil pickup, and I pitched the songs that bit higher and sang them more forcefully, as I used to do. I was trying to act out the songs a bit more, at the same time singing in a lower register and more quietly to save my vocal cords. I was worried about my ability to sing at that peak for two hours on stage night after night.” Regardless how it happened, the new edge brought Tull a significant increase in airplay when “Steel Monkey” was released as a single, followed by an unusually high number of other tracks — like “Said She Was a Dancer,” “Jump Start,” “Farm on the Freeway” and “Budapest” — that found airplay. Crest of a Knave went gold in the U.S., where it reached the Top 40. In the U.K., it made it to the Top 20, and “Mountain Men,” with its examination of long-past and recent wars, resonated heavily with fans. It quickly became Tull’s most commercially successful album in the States. And then the backlash started. In 1988, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences finally decided to hand out a Grammy Award specifically to heavier music, and the first-ever Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance (Vocal or Instrumental) went to Jethro Tull. That surprised critics, who’d expected Jane’s Addiction‘s Nothing’s Shocking to win; it also surprised the metal community, which thought Metallica’s … And Justice for All would win the award. Nobody from Jethro Tull attended the awards ceremony in February 1989 because they’d been told they’d never win. It didn’t help matters that an ad taken out by Tull’s record company congratulating the band on its win — which cheekily proclaimed “The flute is a heavy metal instrument” — did nothing to calm the metal community. “No one paid any attention to the fact that we were nominated,” Anderson told Powerline in 2012. “They thought, ‘There’s no way Jethro Tull are going to win it. It’s going to be Metallica, because they were the huge, new, straight-out-of-the-box, enormous, hit talent that year. Everybody took it for granted that Metallica were going to win the Grammy, including Metallica themselves. It was ordered to Jethro Tull, to a barrage of boos and hisses and gasps of disbelief. I’d like to think it wasn’t that the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences were voting for Jethro Tull as a heavy rock band or a heavy metal band – they gave us the award because we were a bunch of nice guys who’d never won a Grammy before.” He admitted during that interview that Crest of a Knave “was a pretty good album. It had some good tunes on it. But I don’t think anyone would possibly believe it was a hard rock or heavy metal album. But what the hell? It’s just one of those moments.” Interestingly enough, in that never-aired TV interview, which was recorded long before the Grammy controversy, Anderson said, “We are thought of, I would think, as being a kind of heavy metal group with mandolins.” When Metallica received their second Grammy in 1992, but their first for an album (when the Black Album won), drummer Lars Ulrich began his acceptance speech by acknowledging the Tull win. “The first thing we’ve got to do, obviously, which you guys are expecting, is we’ve got to thank Jethro Tull for not putting an album out this year,” he joked. But Crest of a Knave has a legacy greater than “just one of those moments” – both “Farm on the Freeway” and “Budapest” remained regulars in Jethro Tull sets until Anderson retired the band name in 2011. And both songs have been performed at his solo shows since then.
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Post by steelmonkey on Sept 12, 2017 18:30:23 GMT
I'll never forget how good 'Farm on the Freeway' sounded as I listened, over and over again, to the cassette tape I made from the radio . A Tull oasis.
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Post by JTull 007 on Sept 13, 2017 0:52:57 GMT
I'll never forget how good 'Farm on the Freeway' sounded as I listened, over and over again, to the cassette tape I made from the radio. A Tull oasis. Cruisin' down the road I could see this too... video by dougbaugh1 From the 1987 Crest of a Knave album, this is Ian Anderson's song dedicated to the erosion of the American Family Farmer. Sweet guitar work by Tull's long time guitarist Martin Barre.
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Post by bigb72 on Dec 1, 2018 5:34:58 GMT
Saw the Nassau coliseum show in November 1987. Been racking my brain who opened. Not a popular group but they were really good. Any help would be appreciated thanks
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Post by maddogfagin on Dec 1, 2018 7:19:52 GMT
Saw the Nassau coliseum show in November 1987. Been racking my brain who opened. Not a popular group but they were really good. Any help would be appreciated thanks Hi bigb72 and welcome to our corner of cyber space. Fairport Convention were the support act on this tour as listed at the ministry of information, a good source of Tull gig information. www.ministry-of-information.co.uk/setlist/87.htm
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Post by stevep on Dec 1, 2018 19:25:35 GMT
Does anyone know who is playing the drums on the Steel Monkey video? My guess is Dave Mattacks but not really sure??
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Post by JTull 007 on Dec 2, 2018 0:17:59 GMT
Does anyone know who is playing the drums on the Steel Monkey video? My guess is Dave Mattacks but not really sure?? According to Prog Archives : Line-up / Musicians
- Ian Anderson / flute, guitars, keyboards, drum programming, percussion, vocals
- Martin Barre / electric guitar - Dave Pegg / electric bass, acoustic bass
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Post by maddogfagin on Dec 2, 2018 7:23:09 GMT
Does anyone know who is playing the drums on the Steel Monkey video? My guess is Dave Mattacks but not really sure?? It looks like Dave Mattacks in the video with drum machine on the album tack.
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Post by bunkerfan on Dec 2, 2018 8:20:42 GMT
Does anyone know who is playing the drums on the Steel Monkey video? My guess is Dave Mattacks but not really sure?? Looks like Dave Mattacks to me Steve and what a good excuse to see this video again
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Post by steelmonkey on Dec 5, 2018 17:17:45 GMT
It's Dave Mattacks....word.
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Post by JTull 007 on Sept 11, 2021 10:44:18 GMT
Happy 34th Anniversary to Jethro Tull 🎤🎸🎹🥁🎸🎸🥁 Crest Of A Knave 🛡️🃏 Released 11 September 1987 in the UK 🇬🇧 — celebrating success. Image by Peter Smith LINK
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Post by maddogfagin on Sept 11, 2021 15:43:23 GMT
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 13, 2022 18:10:22 GMT
Mountain Men ~ Jethro Tull 199 views Dec 24, 2021 RetroSongHits 144 subscribers
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Post by stevep on Jan 13, 2022 19:44:18 GMT
One of my favourite Tull songs...
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Post by tull4ever on Jan 13, 2022 20:01:37 GMT
Great song ,great album
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Post by jackinthegreen on Jan 13, 2022 22:44:54 GMT
Mountain Men ~ Jethro Tull199 views Dec 24, 2021 RetroSongHits 144 subscribers At the 5 minute mark there is an awesome little guitar break from Martin..it's so melodic and beautiful 5.01 - 5.14 to be precise.....stunning
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 14, 2022 6:54:44 GMT
One of my favourite Tull songs... A totally underrated album but up there with the best.
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Post by steelmonkey on Jan 14, 2022 22:10:04 GMT
Tull pulse was rather low when this came out. It landed like a huge comeback.
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 5, 2022 6:36:16 GMT
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