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Post by nonrabbit on Feb 1, 2012 18:45:49 GMT
Great interview just finished on Planet Rock. He sounds so enthusiastic and excited - aren't we all. Change of Horses is fabtastic
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Post by snaffler on Feb 1, 2012 18:47:57 GMT
i wont be chuffed if he doesnt play taab 2 in newcastle
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Post by maddogfagin on Feb 1, 2012 18:51:59 GMT
Ian Anderson is going to talk to Nicky Horne on Planet Rock Radio. Listen live at 18.00 tonight www.planetrock.com/ 60 second "snippets" of three songs aired on the programme - "Kismet In Suburbia", "A Change Of Horses" and "Banker Bets, Banker Wins". Not easy to form a definative opinion of the two new songs in such a short form but I reckon we're in for a cracking album. Who would have thought of G. Bostock, or should that be Sir G.Bostock, as a banker.
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Post by nonrabbit on Feb 1, 2012 19:00:03 GMT
Just had a reply back from Tull HQ - TAAB2 will be played at Glasgow Perth and Newcastle.
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Post by snaffler on Feb 1, 2012 19:06:10 GMT
GREAT!!!!!!!
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Post by steelmonkey on Feb 1, 2012 19:06:10 GMT
This is the best thing since....since....since......EVER !!!!!
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Post by oksauce on Feb 1, 2012 19:09:54 GMT
I was unsure about going to see the TAAB tour, but I definitely will be now! just booked my ticket.
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Post by steelmonkey on Feb 1, 2012 19:14:32 GMT
Well Mr Sauce...you can proudly wear your 'best thread ever' ribbon to the gig.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2012 19:19:22 GMT
This is the best thing since....since....since......EVER !!!!! APPtoo
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Post by nonrabbit on Feb 1, 2012 19:26:10 GMT
This is the best thing since....since....since......EVER !!!!! APPtoo .....TAABtoo...APPtoo... tootull over
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Post by bunkerfan on Feb 1, 2012 19:44:26 GMT
Just had a reply back from Tull HQ - TAAB2 will be played at Glasgow Perth and Newcastle. Thank goodness!! I've been at work all day and reading through this thread it's been a little bit busy to say the least but, when I got down to reading that TAAB2 wasn't mentioned in the tour list I was really worried. Relief all round.
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Post by steelmonkey on Feb 1, 2012 22:00:31 GMT
40 plus replies in about 18 hours? Bamn straight this thread is busy...even if you subtract my hysteria.
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Post by nobodyspecial on Feb 1, 2012 22:08:29 GMT
Okay, this is interesting but I have a question or two. Is this a JT album? (it's not to me w/o MB) The other is in the comment from 'tull central' that JT is not dead and that for a year plus IA is concentrating on the TAAB 2 tour, and that MB and DP are not gone??? Or something to that affect???
So, I have mixed thoughts about this. I hope it's good, but (this is not news) I believe that JT should be allowed to be fade if MB is not involved. Carry on IA, but do so under your own banner with your happy players...and I'll purchase TAAB2 but file it under IA and under JT.....hard-nose that I am.
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Post by futureshock on Feb 1, 2012 22:48:01 GMT
As to the issue of whether Martin is on the album or not, I have to also ask "who is Jethro Tull anyway?". The personnel kept changing and the creativity stopped long ago. TAAB2 is a restart project and I'm just hoping that the recording is enjoyable and I'm not basing that judgement on who's participating. If it's really good and it's just a trio of koalas banging coconuts on frying pans, then great. Innovation wins! I don't care who's on it. I still think the reasons for Jethro Tull to split up and take a break are valid. Whoever they are.
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Post by nobodyspecial on Feb 1, 2012 22:54:17 GMT
I would add (oh, my typo above about filing TAAB under IA and 'not' under JT) that I have always wanted IA to step out and away from his usual since COAK safe JT album formula of long and short individual songs to satisfy the masses. It's refreshing to hear him state that he warmed up to the idea of TAAB2 after initially thinking otherwise.
I have little doubt that TAAB2 will be a refined piece with little, if any flaws - what one would expect. If creativity has returned even on the back of TAAB1 then fine - IA still has my vote even if I sound at times like a grumpy old fart!!! I'm just a really picky old fart!!! April 2nd it is then.
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Post by nobodyspecial on Feb 1, 2012 23:05:15 GMT
To 'futureshock'; MB is not on TAAB2. I think it's widely accepted that MB, being with JT since Stand Up, has been, along with IA, JT. Never mind IA's comment of some years ago that w/o MB, JT would not be JT. That's fine. From what the snippets sound like of TAAB2, it sounds pretty good. IA has always been able to produce high quality sound with various players and if he dcides to go along with JT as a band w/o MB, that's his choice. I'm a 'hard-liner' and that's okay too....I'll look forward to hearing some new music either way. Because above all else, that's what has been missing for me.
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Post by nobodyspecial on Feb 2, 2012 2:15:51 GMT
Notice on the youtube video that the musicians are reading and playing to sheet music. Sheet music I'm guessing was transposed fom IA's brain to be played according to his wishes - exactly.
Which is really excellent to see - it definitely seems a bit more of an IA effort as in, 'written by' both lyrically and music notations. TAAB1 was more of a joint effort, if memory serves correctly. So, it may not be a 'real' JT album in that way, but after all, he would be the one to have a follow-up TAAB2.
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Post by steelmonkey on Feb 2, 2012 2:34:12 GMT
Sorry...go ahead, shoot me if i get too rabid...just saw/heard the trailer and my hysteria, enthusiasm, impatience and anticipation for 4-2-2012 has again multiplied exponentially...I mean, why didn't someone tell me? This isn't a CD that will be called TAAB II...THIS IS TAAB II. Holy $h1t! Okay...I'll stop....soon...if I can....ban me for my own good.....
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Post by neptune on Feb 2, 2012 4:05:09 GMT
No Barre. No Buy. No Point. No Tull.
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Post by nobodyspecial on Feb 2, 2012 4:23:01 GMT
Neptune, I can't completely say that I disagree with your sentiments as I'm not a FO fan. But I'm hoping that IA, in writing this material, is doing so with the intention of it NOT being a JT album. Because if he is, I will be disapointed, and that in writing the material he has expectations of it sounding a certain way (of course) and after all, the original TAAB1 and MB and all the rest are still represented (one would expect) to a certain extent in TAAB2 through some original, melodic undertones. There is going to be a fuzzy dividing line to say the least and I'm still not too interested in seeing the shows...Because MB won't be playing live - but I will purchase the disk. I also wonder what the musicians in the DVD package will be saying about their roles in TAAB2? ?
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Post by nonrabbit on Feb 2, 2012 8:23:45 GMT
Maybe for some there is a difficulty seperating Ian and Martin given the history and they way they still play on stage. However I can't understand how any Tull fan would miss this new tour simply because Martin isn't there. Surely being a Tull fan is to recognise firstly the genius of Anderson and it's not like Martin is "resting" for the year - we have after all Martins' Tull to satisfy the fans. The name Tull is surely just a brand name in it's own right now and not just a certain group of musicians.
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Post by maddogfagin on Feb 2, 2012 8:40:21 GMT
Great interview just finished on Planet Rock. He sounds so enthusiastic and excited - aren't we all. Change of Horses is fabtastic And if anybody didn't hear the Planet Rock interview with IA, his voice sounds just a good as on Rupi's Dance/SLOB etc. In fact "Banker Bets - Banker Wins" could be off any of the solo albums. IA also promises to go back to Planet Rock nearer to the release date and do another interview. Think we're in for a treat in early April. Bring it on
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Post by snaffler on Feb 2, 2012 10:40:18 GMT
the track listing on the new album is enough for a good piece of speculation alone! Wootton Bassett Town is particularly interesting, given its recent sad associations. also its no more than a kick in the pants away from minety. i wonder if IA has ever been witness to one of the gut wrenching military repatriations?
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Post by nonrabbit on Feb 2, 2012 11:05:07 GMT
the track listing on the new album is enough for a good piece of speculation alone! Wootton Bassett Town is particularly interesting, given its recent sad associations. also its no more than a kick in the pants away from minety. i wonder if IA has ever been witness to one of the gut wrenching military repatriations? Yes I thought that too when I read the title - maybe it's a reference to Gerald thinking about joining the Army.
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Post by nobodyspecial on Feb 2, 2012 12:01:31 GMT
Hello 'nonrabbit'. I've been to too many JT shows (lost count after 30-ish) and they were mostly while they were still pumping out new albums to not notice the differences today. JT is not a brand to me - it is music. While it may have turned into a 'marketing brand' for you as you say.
Yes, it has mostly been 'written or created' by IA, but the 'sound signature' is just as much MB's by 'his' unique quality sound and phrasing and is as much part of the 'SONIC FORCE' that has been JT as IA's. So for me to recognize the quality of that SONIC FORCE - then I must be as exact with my musical ear as I have always been.
It is NOT a JT show - it's IA's 'band' playing TAAB1 and presumably TAAB2 depending on the venue/show. I've really yet to be enthraled by the performances of JT material they've done. So that is where the 'fuzzy dividing line' I speak of comes into play - I'll have time to decide whether I'll give the tour a go after I listen and listen and listen complusively to TAAB2.
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Thick As A Brick 2 Special Edition Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson (Artist) | Format: Audio CD/DVD Price: $24.45 Bonus DVD includes: 5.1 Surround Sound of entire album tracklisting (Mixed by Steven Wilson). The making of the album (25 min). Interview with Ian Anderson talking about the album. Interview with Steven Wilson. Lyric reading (25min). Artwork www.amazon.com/Thick-As-Brick-2-Special/dp/B0073XORCY/ref=sr_1_2?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1328184526&sr=1-2Thick As A Brick 2 Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson (Artist) | Format: Audio CD Price: $14.20 www.amazon.com/Thick-Brick-Jethro-Tulls-Anderson/dp/B0073XORLU/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1328187657&sr=1-1In 1972, Ian Anderson wrote and recorded the Jethro Tull Progressive Rock classic album Thick As A Brick . The lyrics were credited at the time to the fictitious child character, Gerald Bostock, whose parents supposedly lied about his age. The record instantly became a number one Billboard Chart album and enjoyed considerable success in many countries of the world. So, forty years on, what would Gerald Bostock aged fifty in 2012 be doing today? What might have befallen him? The anniversary part two album will examine the possible different paths that the precocious young schoolboy, Gerald Bostock, might have taken later in life through alter-ego characters with song-section identities illustrating the hugely varied potential twists and turns of fate and opportunity. Not just for Gerald but to echo how our own lives develop, change direction and ultimately conclude through chance encounters and interventions, however tiny and insignificant they might seem at the time. So! Come on ye childhood heroes! Won't you rise up from the pages of your comic-books your super crooks and show us all the way. Well! Make your will and testament. Won't you? Join your local government. We'll have Superman for president let Robin save the day.
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