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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 19, 2012 19:22:29 GMT
San Diego Evening Examiner (1972 - exact date unknown)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2012 20:42:54 GMT
How many Brick threads does it take to put forward the Tull message?
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Post by steelmonkey on Jan 19, 2012 22:00:12 GMT
All in all it's just another Brick in the......oh sorry...wrong band
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 20, 2012 8:45:49 GMT
How many Brick threads does it take to put forward the Tull message? Can't get enough brother. Now read on:
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Post by nonrabbit on Jan 20, 2012 8:55:51 GMT
How many Brick threads does it take to put forward the Tull message? Can't get enough brother. Now read on: Too True A quote from a member of the younger generation on Twitter; "Jethro Tull thank you for making one of the best 40 minute songs ever. It will keep me company as I cram this studying"A quote from the not so young generation; "Remembering how much I listened to Jethro Tull's Thick as a Brick when I was...Oh never mind.."Mr Anderson - Take a bow!!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2012 15:08:05 GMT
Quad or more Brick threads. OK...by kind permission. Watch out! lol
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 20, 2012 19:29:38 GMT
“THICK AS A BRICK” ALBUM REVIEW “ANDERSON’S WORK BOGGLES THE MIND” BY DAVID PROCTOR THE SALT LAKE CITY TRIBUNE SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH JUNE 23, 1972 “Thick As A Brick,” Jethro Tull, Reprise, MS 2072… “So you ride yourself over the fields, and you make all your animal deals, and your wise men don’t know how it feels, to be thick as a brick.” It was exactly a year ago this month that the wild band of Britishers known as Jethro Tull invaded the Salt Palace for a fantastic concert. It was during this visit that I had the opportunity to visit with the head Tull. The famous, one–legged flautist, Ian Anderson. During that interview (printed in two parts, June 11 and 18 of last year in the IX Section) Ian and I were discussing what would follow the total success of “Aqualung.” One of the possibilities, he mentioned, “was doing an extended piece of music, covering the whole side of an album. And by George, he’s done it. And not just one side, but both sides of an album plus all of a 12 page newspaper, which makes up the cover. Impressed? Overwhelmed is the way I reacted. The damn thing is a masterpiece. ENGLISH NEWSPAPER. Critiquing this album seems almost as much of an undertaking as the conception must have been. To start with the cover, as mentioned, is a full 12 page English newspaper, “The St. Cleve Chronicle and Linwell Advertister.” The town and the cast of characters which continually pop up throughout the paper are nothing, but the product of Anderson’s fertile imagination. But it does take a good second glance to realize that. The theme of the lead article, of several articles and ultimately tied to the album itself, is the story surrounding Anderson’s imaginary 8 year old literary genius. Gerald “Little Milton” Bostock, and his epic poem, “Thick As A Brick.” It seems that Gerald’s poem was judged first and slated for a prize when it was disqualified by the St. Cleve District Art and Literary Society for “… an extremely unwholesome view towards life, his God and Country.” All this supposedly caught the eye of Anderson and he” wrote the music for the poem and hence the album. The record label even credits Gerald Bostock with Anderson as co-writers. Within the newspaper we find that 8 year old Gerald is also implicated in the pregnancy of his some time, co-poet Julia Fealy,14 seated so daintily on the cover. There are also the usual stories of UFO sightings, demonstrations, accidents, marriages, general news and advertising. But none of this is exactly what you’d see in a real newspaper. One of the ads for instance is for Brooks Travel Agency. It claims tours to America, Europe, Japan and Australia under the direction of Eric Brooks, director. It happens that Eric Brooks is their road manager and thus responsible for all the bands travel arrangements. FAMILY FUN PAGES. There is even a section of “Family Fun Pages” made up of one page, which contains an unsolvable crossword puzzle and a children’s “connect-the-dots” puzzle, which when connected turns out to be rather adult. Then there is the TV section full of terrible puns and such programs as “Silent Prayer . . . Billy Graham” and “News . . . Repeat.” And how about a radio, log with a “Not in colour” notation beside several programs. There can also be found a society section, sports, classifieds, editorials and a feature length story on World War II. As I mentioned, characters in stories, say on page two, seem to feel free to pop up several times in the course of the paper. Like a repertory theater cast. Max Quad pops up as does a gentleman named Derek and a disappearing non-rabbit. There are also several references in the music itself to articles in the paper. All in all, the entire packaging job is incredible and will wile away many idle hours for you, if you care to try and figure it out. Typos and all. But so much for trivialities. TO THE MUSIC… If you think the cover sounds complex wait till you try the album, itself on for size. No Cut Editing. The music you hear on the radio has been divided into edits by some bright eyes at Reprise so that the DJ’s don’t go buggy trying to decide where to start and stop when playing the album. The divisions are rather arbitrary and the copy you buy will not have them so all in all it’s kind of confusing when trying to discuss certain parts of the record. . . “So what is ‘Thick As A Brick’ about?” you ask. “I was afraid you were going to ask that.” I see no way of knowing for sure unless I get a chance to ask the author when he is in town this trip. (Jethro Tull will be appearing June 28 at the Salt Palace at 8 p.m.). One reviewer compared “Brick” to Eliott’s “Wasteland”, a comparison I don’t feel it warrants. But there sure is a lot to this thing. The more you read it and listen to it the more you get out of it. www.magicalmomentphotos.com
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 22, 2012 9:15:44 GMT
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 22, 2012 9:21:24 GMT
And a few months earlier in 1972, Uncle Mick was at the Cambridge Tech. Canteen.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2012 23:57:47 GMT
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 7, 2012 8:35:09 GMT
Thick As A Brick Jethro Tull
Dave Marsh, Creem, August 1972
Jethro Tull’s admirers are wont to believe that the lads are an inventive, entertaining, eminently witty, oft profound rock group, with a propensity for satire matched only, if at all, by the Mothers of Invention.
While I prefer Tull’s verbal sallies (or sillies) to the L.A. Philistine’s, I can’t bring myself to entirely embrace Ian Anderson and his pack of Anglo-Philistines, either. Jethro Tull may think they are making art, which is something that isn’t of much use in the twentieth century in the first place, but it looks from here as though they are only making an ultra-sophisticated lounge music for the post-lunar space age.
Thick As A Brick is Tull’s most ambitious work to date. It is full of what Jethro is beloved for, lengthy, pseudo-weighty musical passages, much given over to soloing and other forms of British excess, and your typical comedic bit here and there.
Bonzo Dog they ain’t.
And, to be perfectly frank, Thick As A Brick bores me to tears. It doesn’t even have the calm chutzpah to offend. You can listen to it but it beyond me why anyone’d want to.
The targets are too easy. Organized religion was buffooned out of existence by Lenny Bruce’s “Religions, Inc.” sketch, and it is perhaps typical of Ian Anderson’s vaguely megalomaniac stance that he thinks himself capable of rendering the target worthy of the missile. Anderson’s ambition is finally so low that it is easy to find even the most pedestrian and finally, the most pleasant, portions of it offensive. Ian doesn’t really like his audience--veiled contempt was a phrase designed for persons of his demeanor--and the result is that his only ambition seems to be to please himself and some unnamed-but-obviously-elite clique of true artisans and the appreciators of same.
What you get, if you like it, is probably just what you paid for: some validation of your own sense of values, no matter how defensively couched. Some rationalization, even, of the idea that pop is made for low-level mentalities. Those are not necessarily bad things to get from a piece of what is, after all, pop itself--unquestionably, mass culture has earned its own disrespect. And, after all, Thick As A Brick’s posturings probably aren’t any worse that Lennon’s or McCartney’s, or, particularly, Frank Zappa’s.
Like the Mothers’, in fact, Jethro Tull’s stance is finally self-defeating, in all probability. As Zappa found out to his chagrin, when people you’ve trained to out-hip each other find out what’s up with YOU, then you’re positively outhipped.
So not everybody liked it when it was first released
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Post by tullist on Mar 7, 2012 14:11:21 GMT
Oh not so sweet nostalgia. Now that children, was the kind of Jethro Tull review I remember. Dave Marsh one of the famous guys, can't say it isn't well written, because it is, or even that it is not a valid opinion, one can only perceive stuff with one's own brain. But it also was around this period that I began to take affronts to Jethro Tull and Ian Anderson only a couple notches below afffronts to my Mother. And 40 years later I have not much improved. In fairness, even though Tull was an enormous act at the time, not sure if a reviewer listened to a product more than once. Like pretty much all of Tull's output between 71 and 9, I was hardly blown away on first listen, particularly in the cases of TAAB and the Play.
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Post by steelmonkey on Mar 7, 2012 16:16:48 GMT
Jethro Tull may think they are making art, which is something that isn’t of much use in the twentieth century in the first place
yeah, Dave..you nailed that....Art was on death's doortep in 1972...we hardly give at a thought 40 years later...
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 7, 2012 19:00:13 GMT
No room for compromise in Thick As A Brick
The new Jethro Tull album explores the ambiguous verses of one forty-four-minute song
Noel Coppage. Stereo Review, September 1972 The new Jethro Tull album for Reprise, Thick As A Brick, is already enjoying thunderous commercial success, which must mean that the public still has an appetite for rock music that is both vigorous and adventurous. Thick As A Brick is not, however, what anyone could call conventionally “commercial,” even taking into account the fanatic loyalty of Tull devotees: an entire album devoted to one forty-four-minute “song,” which is built around a difficult, often obscure, and sometimes tedious poem, has obviously made few compromises in order to sell itself.
What Ian Anderson and his mates have done is to fashion an album whose basic sound is reasonably dependable and whose constituent parts can be immediately assimilated, even if deciphering the whole has to be put off indefinitely. The distinctive Tull sound, keyed to Anderson’s flute, has been altered slightly; John Evan’s organ becomes the unifying instrument, and Tull has changed drummers. The new one, Barriemore Barlow, is fast, sharp, and trained--but a bit conservative. He doesn’t muffle the phrase endings the way Clive Bunker did and so is responsible for a slight erosion in the group’s style.
Anderson was criticized for making a fuss about so unhip a subject as hypocrisy in the Aqualung album. I expect he will draw fire now for beating such other “dead” horses as war-mongering and dollar-chasing. But reports of the death of those particular nags were much exaggerated. A by-product of the Jesus Movement was that it gave hypocrisy a rich new field in which to work--young people. And, as Thick As A Brick tries (I think) to say, those who overthrow the war mongers and money changers tend somehow to settle into their own patterns of waging war and chasing loot.
The album is packaged in the form of a newspaper containing fair to good satire on journalism. Its lead story tells of the controversy surrounding Thick As A Brick, an epic poem written by Gerald “Little Milton” Bostock, age eight. It seems the Society for Literary Advancement and Gestation (SLAG) announced the poem as winner of a national literary contest and had Gerald read it on television. The society reversed itself after psychiatrists said the boy’s mind was unbalanced and the telly station received “hundreds of protests and threats.” The newspaper also carries a review by one Julian Stone-Mason, B.A., of the new Tull disc Thick As A Brick. Mr. Stone-Mason notes: “Poor, or perhaps naïve taste is responsible for some of the ugly changes of time signature and banal instrumental passages linking the main sections, but ability in this direction should come with maturity.
Mr. Stone-Mason has a point, but most of the instrumentals are reasonably interesting rock time-fillers--not as good as those in Tommy, to be sure--and there are a few passages, such as the one between the banishment of the father and the son’s final decision to emulate the father’s tyranny, that really make the grade as program music. Perhaps this bloke Stone-Mason oughter ’ave another listen.
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 14, 2012 19:16:12 GMT
Anyone got a Revox ?
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 23, 2012 16:23:59 GMT
i've heard the whole "banker bets, banker wins" on planet rock. great song. mike Hi Mike and welcome to the Forum. Enjoy having a good look around the place and look forward to reading your posts. Have sent you a PM about the youtube link. If you have any questions for Terry Ellis feel free to post them and in due course we'll send all that we receive off to him. MD/Graham
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Post by tuxedomarty on May 31, 2012 16:37:00 GMT
TAAB is one of the greatest albums of all time, and as a fan of bands like Yes and Genesis, I especially appreciate it since it's supposed to be a satire of bands like those two. Although I can only hear the full 40 minute version in small doses though, because I don't want to ruin the experience from listening to it so much, so I mostly just listen to the 3 minute version on 2001's The Very Best of Jethro Tull by Capitol Records.
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Post by steelmonkey on Jun 29, 2012 15:05:00 GMT
Go Steve Go
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2012 16:20:10 GMT
It's up to EMI now. 5.1 is done.
and the nursery rhyme winds along
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Post by maddogfagin on Jun 29, 2012 18:37:06 GMT
It's up to EMI now. 5.1 is done. Thanks John for the info. I'm looking forward to its release to see what they've done to the mighty and majestic opus.
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Post by steelmonkey on Jun 29, 2012 21:43:43 GMT
I dare not hope for any 'extra' material...right? But still...a remix like that one done on Aqualung will be worth a few more dollars spent on the piece of music that introduced me to Tull and has never failed to impress in the 38 years and 6 months and 29 days since that fortunate day.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2012 15:03:30 GMT
It's up to EMI now. 5.1 is done. Thanks John for the info. I'm looking forward to its release to see what they've done to the mighty and majestic opus. Thick as a Brick - mighty and majestic opus - I like that. Due in September, fingers crossed.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2012 15:05:01 GMT
I dare not hope for any 'extra' material...right? But still...a remix like that one done on Aqualung will be worth a few more dollars spent on the piece of music that introduced me to Tull and has never failed to impress in the 38 years and 6 months and 29 days since that fortunate day. extra bricks! let's build another Tull brick house.
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Post by steelmonkey on Jun 30, 2012 15:17:17 GMT
' wouldn't it be nice?' ( in sing-songy Beach Boys voice )
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Post by maddogfagin on Jun 30, 2012 15:33:11 GMT
I dare not hope for any 'extra' material...right? But still...a remix like that one done on Aqualung will be worth a few more dollars spent on the piece of music that introduced me to Tull and has never failed to impress in the 38 years and 6 months and 29 days since that fortunate day. extra bricks! let's build another Tull brick house. At first I thought you were referring to another place but then I realised that it was here, the Forum's very own "cyber" pub
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Post by maddogfagin on Jun 30, 2012 17:31:46 GMT
nothing too serious - let's have fun - ENJOY JETHRO TULL MUSIC! That's an order. A very sensible suggestion. I'm off to re-visit Nightcap as we speak.
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Post by steelmonkey on Jun 30, 2012 18:32:49 GMT
Gave TAAB 2 a break after overdosing on a road trip....sounded great this morning on it's authorized re-entry to car CD player.
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Post by mothergoose on Jul 1, 2012 2:26:20 GMT
extra bricks! let's build another Tull brick house. At first I thought you were referring to another place but then I realised that it was here, the Forum's very own "cyber" pub I was thinking the same thing mate. Then I figured it was your summer dwelling. lol.
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Post by maddogfagin on Jul 1, 2012 9:43:21 GMT
I was thinking the same thing mate. Then I figured it was your summer dwelling. lol. Summer dwelling - you must be joking. All year round waterering hole for Tull fans with guest beers chosen by Bunkerfan and a lively juke box and small auditorium for use by visiting bands. Sounds like a bit of heaven to me - now where did I put my lottery ticket. Oh, btw, how is NY these days?
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