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Post by maddogfagin on Jul 7, 2016 7:32:03 GMT
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Post by steelmonkey on Jul 14, 2016 21:21:08 GMT
Released the day of my first Tull concert ever. Fortuitous? I think 'Yes'.
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Post by nonrabbit on Aug 22, 2016 13:50:21 GMT
Seemed rude to backtrack on the "On This Day" thread but it was 43 years this month (18th) that APP was No 1 in the Billboard chart!
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Post by jackinthegreen on Aug 22, 2016 23:03:05 GMT
Seemed rude to backtrack on the "On This Day" thread but it was 43 years this month (18th) that APP was No 1 in the Billboard chart! What I was 61-43 = 18 years old... ....which would have been (1955 + 18) = 1973 Where did all the time go
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Post by Equus on Aug 23, 2016 8:24:49 GMT
Seemed rude to backtrack on the "On This Day" thread but it was 43 years this month (18th) that APP was No 1 in the Billboard chart! What I was 61-43 = 18 years old... ....which would have been (1955 + 18) = 1973 Where did all the time go It's incredible... Think about it... It's nearly 17 years ago when we celebrated the year 2000...
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Post by steelmonkey on Aug 23, 2016 16:20:42 GMT
TURN BACK THE CLOCK
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Post by JTull 007 on Aug 23, 2016 18:02:47 GMT
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Post by nonrabbit on Aug 24, 2016 8:27:18 GMT
Have you not been paying attention to my lecture on Time on the other Thread? Stop counting and it doesn't happen.
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Post by JTull 007 on Jun 21, 2017 0:48:43 GMT
Special thanks to Patti (Non-rabbit) 33 pictures that show what hippy Britain was really like LINK Proof of just how far out hippies could be in 1960s and 70s Britain… (4).....Here’s what broadcast journalism, circa 1973, looked like.
Story of the Hare Who Lost His Spectacles (1973) (5)..........1973 was also the year The Wicker Man came out. Which might explain the surge in maypoles and freaky animal costumes.
(6)...........A ritualistic dance around the maypole at night.
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Post by JTull 007 on Jun 21, 2017 1:00:42 GMT
Hare Who Lost His Spectacles by charris939
Clay Animation short. Set to the soundtrack of "The Hare who lost his spectacles!" by Jethro Tull. First filmed in 1989 on Super 8mm film. Digitally Restored 2006.
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Post by maddogfagin on Jul 11, 2018 6:56:10 GMT
www.beatles.ru/news/news.asp?news_id=14247 45 years old Jethro Tull album "A Passion Play"Date: July 6, 2018 Author: Anton Rasplyuev A source: Beatles.ru Views: 525 "A Passion Play" has become the group's most difficult and ambitious album, being a concept album about life after death, namely about the wanderings in the afterlife of Ronnie Pilgrim shortly after his death. From the side the action was like a theatrical play. The album featured a bizarre structure with many unexpected transitions and arrangements, and demonstrated a rich sound palette (provided mainly by John Evan's keyboard and wind instruments, with Ian Anderson playing also on a soprano saxophone), and skilful execution in the Thallian spirit. The middle of the record is taken by a comic fairy tale in the style of L. Carroll about "The Hare Lost Its Glasses" written by Anderson, Evan, and bassist Jeffrey Hammond. The album is accompanied by a booklet (reminiscent of the cover-newspaper "Thick as a Brick"), as a program of a fictional theater from a mythical city. Directed by the production, composers, and theater administrators were Anderson and the company with changed names, but recognizable from the photographs. "A Passion Play" can easily compete with any intricate prog-rock album, but, obviously, the critics expected the ensemble more lucid material, and therefore accused him of excessive floridity. Anderson: "I wanted to create something like" Thick as a Brick ", but that it sounded more intense and better. Many people did not like this album at that time, but I was ready to take any risks, just to satisfy my creative ambitions and ambitions of my colleagues. " However, the public reacted oppositely to hostile criticisms. I. Anderson: "The album was adventurous in instrumental terms ... but we liked the new recording and its presentation on stage."
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Post by steelmonkey on Jul 11, 2018 15:39:15 GMT
Happy Anniversary 'APP'. 45 years of unworldly joy each time I have heard it whether live, record album, cassette, CD, crummy bootleg, exquisite re-issue and via headphones as an MP3. Only my favorite music EVER. It's nice to be able to skip words and offer a person a window into one's own life , if they happen to be interested, by simply saying: "Just listen to this, that's how it feels to be me"
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Post by JTull 007 on Jul 14, 2018 1:25:27 GMT
OMG !!! after 45 years it gets signed @ TOLLWOOD !!! HISTORIC myRockworld memorabilia - Jethro Tull - Album A Passion Play - 1973 - Vinyl - on the back cover signed by Ian Anderson in Munich 12.7.2018 Alex Werkmeister Ian Anderson
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Post by maddogfagin on Aug 11, 2018 6:29:47 GMT
www.gazzettadiparma.it/news/news/532274/a-passion-play-i-jethro-tull-tra-paradiso-e-inferno.html"A passion play", the Jethro Tull between heaven and hellby Michele Ceparano11 August 2018 - 07.00 "There was a rush, along Fulham road, there was a hush in the passion play". "A passion play" - translated into Italian sacred mystery - opens and closes at Fulham Road, the ideal location for one of the most controversial albums of Jethro Tull's legendary career. But also the most significant. A record, released in '73, which divided fans and, above all, criticism. Complex and elaborate musically and under the textual profile (so many metaphors and word games, cryptic and mysterious in the style of Ian Anderson and the British band), has, like other works by Jethro Tull, the religious theme at the center. It is a progressive style concept that consists of two long passages "A passion play" 1 and 2, interspersed, at the beginning of the second facade, by the irresistible story "The story of the hare who lost his spectacles". A very successful way to play down (though, to a certain extent) through a story in which, as in Aesop and Phaedrus, the protagonists are the animals and whose narration is entrusted to the voice of Jeffrey Hammond. Returning to the main theme of the concept that this year extinguishes 45 candles, the Jethro Tull narrate the story of Ronnie Pilgrim, a character with the most evocative name that goes to pair with the Gerald Bostock of "Thick as a brick". Dead, Pilgrim visits heaven and hell. In the end it will be reborn after an adventure in which the enigmatic Magus Perdé will also appear, which is nothing but the devil. All in an unforgettable ending, just like in "Thick as a brick". This album, a sort of Dante's Comedy according to Anderson, has been called controversial and divisive. But it was certainly not a flop, especially in the United States. So much so as to be counted even today, despite the complexity, among the masterpieces of the band. Including the black and white cover of the fresh suicide ballerina dancer on stage (to give the face to the unfortunate protagonist is Jane Calthorpe). A brilliant punch in the stomach. The fact is that "A passion play" perhaps can not enter the club the first time. The writer, for example, had this impact. He listened to him and, since he was neither "Aqualung" nor "Thick as a brick", exceptional works that also had the merit of immediately enchanting the listener, put him away and for some time devoted himself to something else. Then, after a few days, he took it out and listened to it again. From that moment, "A passion play", with his initial "Speak to me" beating from "The dark side of the moon" by Pink Floyd (released the same year as the Jethro Tull album) was his only album for about a month. And he fascinated him so much, once in London, to go on a pilgrimage, just like Rory Pilgrim, to Fulham Road just to listen to "A passion play" on the spot. Notice, therefore, to those who do not know it yet:
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Post by maddogfagin on Feb 26, 2019 7:20:09 GMT
Jethro Tull: 'A Passion Play' - Classic Album Review 564 views
Classic Album Review Published on Jul 28, 2018
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Post by maddogfagin on May 21, 2019 6:48:45 GMT
bestclassicbands.com1973: The Year in 50 Classic Rock Albumsby Jeff Tamarkin It’s probably not the first year that comes to mind when the subject is great albums of the 1970s. But then you look more closely—Quadrophenia, Houses of the Holy, Innervisions, Let’s Get It On, Piano Man, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road—and it all comes into clearer focus. All four former Beatles released fine albums in 1973. And—oh, yeah—there was this thing called The Dark Side of the Moon. We looked back at hundreds of albums released in 1973 and whittled the list down to the 50 that we think represent the cream of the year’s crop. Many of these titles remain cornerstones of any essential classic rock record collection, sounding as fresh now as when we first removed the vinyl from the shrink-wrapped album jacket. We’re not ranking them; they’re arranged alphabetically by artist. How many of the 50 do you own? LinkJethro Tull—A Passion Play—Tull leader Ian Anderson was enamored of the concept album, and this, their sixth album, found them embracing religious concepts and attempting to create from that a thematic suite of songs set to prog musical ideas. The album reached the top of the charts in America even while taking a critical drubbing.
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Post by maddogfagin on Aug 17, 2019 6:40:48 GMT
Found the following in a dusty alcove in the vaults here at MD Mansions. The link is still "live" and at: lah.nithaus.org/Pages/pplay.htmlThe Annotated Passion Play This is a work in progress. ['tis a great read for the weekend and any downtime you may have ]
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Post by steelmonkey on Aug 18, 2019 21:00:24 GMT
I too walked the Fulham Road in London with great reverence the very first time I visited England.
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Post by JTull 007 on Aug 9, 2020 21:38:06 GMT
And who comes here to wish Apollo well? Jethro Tull - A Passion Play LINK
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Post by JTull 007 on Sept 17, 2020 1:10:28 GMT
A Passion Play ( The Original 1973 album remixed to stereo by Steven Wilson ) LINK
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Post by orion12 on Nov 3, 2020 9:43:37 GMT
APP in Ian Anderson's own words:
''The ‘step too far’ album. We decamped to the Château d’Hérouville in France where Elton had recorded, and had a rotten time: technical issues, gastric bugs… we just wanted to go home. So we did, and had a frantic few weeks of writing a new album. Two pieces made it on to the War Child album and one or two morphed into something more sophisticated, but they never came to light on that album. Steve Harris [Iron Maiden] loves A Passion Play. I’m glad someone liked it!”
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 3, 2020 11:38:43 GMT
APP in Ian Anderson's own words: ''The ‘step too far’ album. We decamped to the Château d’Hérouville in France where Elton had recorded, and had a rotten time: technical issues, gastric bugs… we just wanted to go home. So we did, and had a frantic few weeks of writing a new album. Two pieces made it on to the War Child album and one or two morphed into something more sophisticated, but they never came to light on that album. Steve Harris [Iron Maiden] loves A Passion Play. I’m glad someone liked it!”
The Château d’Hérouville
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Post by jackinthegreen on Nov 4, 2020 0:59:00 GMT
APP in Ian Anderson's own words: ''The ‘step too far’ album. We decamped to the Château d’Hérouville in France where Elton had recorded, and had a rotten time: technical issues, gastric bugs… we just wanted to go home. So we did, and had a frantic few weeks of writing a new album. Two pieces made it on to the War Child album and one or two morphed into something more sophisticated, but they never came to light on that album. Steve Harris [Iron Maiden] loves A Passion Play. I’m glad someone liked it!”
The Château d’Hérouville That is a spooky looking place isn't it?
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Post by jackinthegreen on Nov 4, 2020 0:59:45 GMT
I love the album though.
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Post by orion12 on Nov 4, 2020 3:46:34 GMT
That is a spooky looking place isn't it? Agree. It looks like a perfect place to writing and recording something like Flying Dutchman and Dark Ages.
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Post by JTull 007 on Nov 10, 2020 2:23:44 GMT
Salute to Bernie (Steelmonkey) How A Passion Play changed Jethro Tull forever
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 16, 2020 9:48:22 GMT
Japanese release with obi strip
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 17, 2020 14:08:21 GMT
How A Passion Play changed Jethro Tull forever . 2,302 views•Nov 7, 2020
Classic Rock Album Reviews 175 subscribers
In 1972 Jethro Tull were one of the biggest rock bands on the planet In the March of 72 they had released the concept album Thick As A Brick . The album and tour had been a massive success for the band , Tull's follow up album A Passion Play was given a unanimous thumbs down from the music press . The criticism and negative reviews of the album and Tull's live performances of APP affected the band so deeply that later that year they announced their retirement from live performances . Happily in 1974 they returned to live performances . In this video I recall my memories of that time and look at some of the music papers pieces on Tull in that period . I also look at how that period affected the band .
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Post by maddogfagin on Dec 18, 2020 7:27:13 GMT
ultimateclassicrock.com/jethro-tull-passion-play-an-extended-performance-review/Jethro Tull, 'A Passion Play: An Extended Performance' - Album Review RYAN REED Published: July 26, 2014 With Jethro Tull's 1972 opus 'Thick as a Brick,' band mastermind Ian Anderson aimed to subvert the bloated prog-rock excess of his peers while also paying tribute to their epic sweep. And he succeeded. With its absurd lyrical concept, inter-connected musical themes and instrumental bombast, 'Brick' celebrated the genre's complexity while also lampooning its straight-faced one-upsmanship. Released during the height of the prog boom, the album brought Tull an even broader fanbase, topping the American charts. But at what cost? Half-parody or not, 'Brick' was the band's crowning achievement -- and it left Anderson in a tough spot: figuring out how to top it. Attempting to avoid England's insanely high tax rates, Anderson and company fled to Switzerland -- and later the Chateau d'Herouville studio in France, where they started work on another ambitious song cycle. But after facing an array of difficulties (from food poisoning to technical glitches), a dismayed Tull whisked back to London. With only 17 days remaining until the start of their American tour, Anderson re-worked bits of the old material (dubbed “Chateau D’Isaster”) for what would become 'A Passion Play' -- another ambitious prog-rock set based around one lengthy suite split into 20-minute halves. (And, to the dismay of many Tull die-hards, a fanciful, Monty Python-esque palette-cleanser called 'The Hare Who Lost His Spectacles.') Premiered in full on-stage, 'A Passion Play' earned hostile reviews, with critics blasting its compositional density (Anderson's fluttering soprano sax being a prime target) and abstract lyrical concept (based around a theme of death and afterlife judgment). Tull fans remain firmly split into two distinct camps -- it's either the band's clear masterpiece or their obvious "D'Isaster." The truth, as usual, isn't so simple. While never reaching the seamless heights of 'Thick as a Brick,' 'A Passion Play' remains an essential follow-up -- and thanks to this new 'Extended Performance' reissue, that fact becomes even clearer. With a more direct remix (and spacious 5.1 mix), Porcupine Tree's Steven Wilson (who previously offered a face-lift to 'Aqualung' and is currently trudging through the entire King Crimson back catalog) puts the band's extraordinary interplay in sharper focus. Barring a few stray sax overdubs, Wilson keeps the arrangements firmly in-tact, but his version lets the songs breathe a bit more -- removing some of the reverb from Anderson's expressive voice, punching up Barrie Barlow's propulsive drum kit and Martin Barre's subtle guitar shadings. The album's mighty first side rivals the majesty of 'Thick as a Brick' note-for-note -- from the haunting classical theme of 'The Silver Cord' to the bluesy attack of the 'Best Friends' to the eerie pummel of 'Critique Oblique.' It's a winding journey from start to finish, brimming with John Evan's brilliant organ work and Anderson's agile singing. But, unlike 'Brick,' 'A Passion Play' recycles some of the same musical motifs on its long-winded second side, causing it to lose focus. The true selling point on this reissue is Wilson's exquisite mix of the "Chateau D’Isaster" tapes. While most of the material has been previously released on various box sets (with the lovely 'Skating Away' reworked for 1974's 'War Child'), the hour-long set feels at its most cohesive here. In the insightful liner notes (which also include band interviews and journalist essays), Wilson says his goal was to "be more faithful to what actually happened in the studio in 1972," freeing the material from the anachronistic reverb (and overdubbed Anderson flute parts) that made previous versions feel inauthentic. The best moments here -- the explosive 'No Rehearsal,' the quirky 'Law of the Bungle' -- feel more genuine to their time period. This 'Extended Performance' probably won't sway the album's fiercest critics. But at least it re-opens the conversation, offering a clearer window into a work of a flawed genius.
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Post by JTull 007 on Feb 7, 2021 0:48:49 GMT
Steven Wilson & Tim Bowness on Jethro Tull's 'A Passion Play'
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