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Post by steelmonkey on May 3, 2012 20:30:27 GMT
400,000 hours works out to about 45 years, 241 days and a bunch of hours and minutes.
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Post by tullist on May 4, 2012 1:46:57 GMT
I come from a time when its sort of uncool to self promote, sort of un Tull like for that matter, but hey, this is my first official review, its about Ian and....everything. The guy gave me an invite to review the new Fairport thats coming out shortly too, a recording done after letting the fan base vote on their 20 tracks they would most like to see the band perform, apropos title of By Popular Request. Hope I like it alot, or I probably won't want to review it. Pretty safe bet that I will. That guy or an editor added that last line about looking forward to seeing him in November or something. I try not to do alot of looking forward. Sort of wish I had reviewed this prior to reading roughly one hundred other reviews and all the scandalous assessment leading up to it, A Passion Play of its own, complete with breaks for jesters and fooles in the middle. However had I reviewed it earlier, particularly before hearing the live show, my take would have been 4 stars of 5, not my current assessment of bested by nothing in the catalogue, equaled only by Brick. coolalbumreview.com/?p=20942
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Post by steelmonkey on May 4, 2012 15:00:08 GMT
Ray, your review is brilliant, extremely well-written, accurate, objective enviably impressive in all ways and has been forwarded to Tull's publicist for tweet consideration.
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Post by nonrabbit on May 5, 2012 6:22:57 GMT
Interview on a Seattle Weekly blogs.seattleweekly.com/reverb/2012/05/ian_anderson_thick_brick_2_interview.phpDo you have any lasting memories of Seattle? I can remember the first time I was in Seattle in 1969. We were the opening act for the MC5, who were at that point enjoying a certain wave of popularity following the live recording of "Kick Out the Jams." The MC5 were kind of the prototype of everything that became punk in the early to mid-70s in the USA and in the UK. The MC5, I suppose, scared the $h1t out of most of us, but they're largely dead now, sadly. I remember them being pretty fearsome people and pretty threatening, but we met them a couple of years later, when we were playing in Detroit, and they were all meek and mild, real pussycats. They were nice guys who seemed humbled by their short-term success and had fallen on hard times by then. So I remember Seattle very much for that, but I also remember a different kind of fondness because immediately I felt sort of geographically at home, with a strong resemblance to west coast Scotland. Driech is the word we have for it. It's a Scottish vernacular term. It just means what you see when you look out of the window in Seattle most of the time.I'll take a busman's holiday to Seattle then ;D
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Post by nonrabbit on May 5, 2012 6:41:28 GMT
I come from a time when its sort of uncool to self promote, sort of un Tull like for that matter, but hey, this is my first official review, its about Ian and....everything. The guy gave me an invite to review the new Fairport thats coming out shortly too, a recording done after letting the fan base vote on their 20 tracks they would most like to see the band perform, apropos title of By Popular Request. Hope I like it alot, or I probably won't want to review it. Pretty safe bet that I will. That guy or an editor added that last line about looking forward to seeing him in November or something. I try not to do alot of looking forward. Sort of wish I had reviewed this prior to reading roughly one hundred other reviews and all the scandalous assessment leading up to it, A Passion Play of its own, complete with breaks for jesters and fooles in the middle. However had I reviewed it earlier, particularly before hearing the live show, my take would have been 4 stars of 5, not my current assessment of bested by nothing in the catalogue, equaled only by Brick. coolalbumreview.com/?p=20942Excellent Ray! I like your take on the various types of fans and their possible reactions. Remember to post the Fairport one too!!
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Post by nonrabbit on May 5, 2012 8:07:25 GMT
Thank you IanAs we ponder the years that have passed and wonder what might have been..... www.stcleve.com/Love it So Gerald went into politics and got rich!! - doesn't suprise me as he had the look of a politician about him however didn't have him down as a labour activist i42.images obliterated by tinypic/ixeg5i.jpg [/IMG] i41.images obliterated by tinypic/ei5bn6.jpg[/IMG][/quote] You see Bernie I'm right it's something that happens after a Tull concert ....or is something that happens after an Ian Anderson plays TAAB concert......... ;D ;D
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2012 12:58:19 GMT
slight web repeat Ian mentioned Fred Goodwin. wcbsfm.radio.com/2012/03/28/jethro-tulls-ian-anderson-talks-thick-as-a-brick-2/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_GoodwinSir Fred Goodwin 'acted like he was off to play golf' as RBS collapsed www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/8736315/Sir-Fred-Goodwin-acted-like-he-was-off-to-play-golf-as-RBS-collapsed.htmlThe first single, “Banker Bets, Banker Wins,” could double as an anthem for the occupy movement, but was written well before protesters camped out in New York’s Zuccotti Park. But it was inspired by the global meltdown of the late ’00s: “I’d just moved all of my personal funds from the Royal Bank of Scotland in disgust at the then-chief executive Fred Goodwin who’d awarded himself huge bonuses and obscene levels of remuneration for a job very, very badly done, paying people for sub-substantial performances, and home-wrecking and life-wrecking failures. It disgusted me, so I took all my money from that bank and moved it elsewhere. Goodwin recently had his knighthood stripped from him. When I wrote (“Banker Bets, Banker Wins”) in 2011, I was concerned that in 2012 we wouldn’t still be talking about it, but we certainly are still talking about it.” - Ian Anderson
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2012 13:01:36 GMT
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Post by steelmonkey on May 5, 2012 13:25:39 GMT
Mission Accomplished...ray's review got tweeted throughout Tull land....I assume it's cuz of my e-mail to the publicist lady...of course, it could be that they have a Tootull quality web search maven on hand.
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2012 14:06:54 GMT
Sound check: DVDs and music from yesterday’s artists www.sunherald.com/2012/05/03/3925008/sound-check-dvds-and-music-from.htmlTAAB2,’ Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson (Chrysalis/EMI, HHHH) Last year’s 40th anniversary edition of Tull’s most famous album, “Aqualung,” was only the beginning. That recording, which was called a concept album by the press of the time, wasn’t, but Anderson decided to make the following LP “the mother of all concept albums” by making it one song spreading over both sides of a vinyl disc. The cover “newspaper” mentioned a brilliant English youngster who wrote the lengthy poem that provided the song’s lyrics. The subsequent life possibilities of that fictional prodigy, Gerald Bostock, provide the subject matter of this April 3 CD/DVD release. Ian’s backing personnel here includes keyboardist John O’Hara, bassist David Goodier, guitarist Florian Opahle and drummer Scott Hammond. The DVD features a more-expansive mix than the CD, a “making the album” video, interviews with the musicians and Anderson separately and together, and Ian reading the lyrics in various locations. Unlike the original, there are separate songs here, but they flow together, so it’s hard to point out highlights. However, since most of us haven’t heard the entire TAAB in years, this is a good companion piece that will serve well in concert. Tull fans and progressive rock enthusiasts will enjoy this release.
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2012 14:09:20 GMT
Mission Accomplished...ray's review got tweeted throughout Tull land....I assume it's cuz of my e-mail to the publicist lady...of course, it could be that they have a Tootull quality web search maven on hand.
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Post by tullist on May 5, 2012 15:24:03 GMT
Thanks Bernie, I like a good twitching on a full moon day. Since that function is not available a twitter seems related, I definitely like the way alot of birds move their heads, and I have successfully emulated a few.
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Post by tullist on May 5, 2012 15:27:20 GMT
Thanks Patti. I rattled that off without even checking it, remarkable no spelling errors, somewhere about a third of the way thru I see an idea I started that I did not actually complete
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Post by tullist on May 5, 2012 15:31:46 GMT
Interview on a Seattle Weekly blogs.seattleweekly.com/reverb/2012/05/ian_anderson_thick_brick_2_interview.phpDo you have any lasting memories of Seattle? I can remember the first time I was in Seattle in 1969. We were the opening act for the MC5, who were at that point enjoying a certain wave of popularity following the live recording of "Kick Out the Jams." The MC5 were kind of the prototype of everything that became punk in the early to mid-70s in the USA and in the UK. The MC5, I suppose, scared the $h1t out of most of us, but they're largely dead now, sadly. I remember them being pretty fearsome people and pretty threatening, but we met them a couple of years later, when we were playing in Detroit, and they were all meek and mild, real pussycats. They were nice guys who seemed humbled by their short-term success and had fallen on hard times by then. So I remember Seattle very much for that, but I also remember a different kind of fondness because immediately I felt sort of geographically at home, with a strong resemblance to west coast Scotland. Driech is the word we have for it. It's a Scottish vernacular term. It just means what you see when you look out of the window in Seattle most of the time.I'll take a busman's holiday to Seattle then ;D Absolutely no disrespect to Seattle and its environs, Cascades, ocean not far, Puget Sound, but having seen both, (though not the islands moreso north toward Vancouver BC)Ian is being overly kind. No contest in appearance, Scotlands west is certainly the prettier, though nowhere on the planet, though San Francisco is damn good at it, is better at coffee. Absolutely worth a visit, so many of those.
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Post by steelmonkey on May 5, 2012 15:59:49 GMT
When it's pouring rain in Seattle and you make a move to go inside or cover your head, the natives look at you funny and explain 'it's only drizzle'.
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Post by nonrabbit on May 5, 2012 16:24:58 GMT
Interview on a Seattle Weekly blogs.seattleweekly.com/reverb/2012/05/ian_anderson_thick_brick_2_interview.phpDo you have any lasting memories of Seattle? I can remember the first time I was in Seattle in 1969. We were the opening act for the MC5, who were at that point enjoying a certain wave of popularity following the live recording of "Kick Out the Jams." The MC5 were kind of the prototype of everything that became punk in the early to mid-70s in the USA and in the UK. The MC5, I suppose, scared the $h1t out of most of us, but they're largely dead now, sadly. I remember them being pretty fearsome people and pretty threatening, but we met them a couple of years later, when we were playing in Detroit, and they were all meek and mild, real pussycats. They were nice guys who seemed humbled by their short-term success and had fallen on hard times by then. So I remember Seattle very much for that, but I also remember a different kind of fondness because immediately I felt sort of geographically at home, with a strong resemblance to west coast Scotland. Driech is the word we have for it. It's a Scottish vernacular term. It just means what you see when you look out of the window in Seattle most of the time.I'll take a busman's holiday to Seattle then ;D Absolutely no disrespect to Seattle and its environs, Cascades, ocean not far, Puget Sound, but having seen both, (though not the islands moreso north toward Vancouver BC)Ian is being overly kind. No contest in appearance, Scotlands west is certainly the prettier, though nowhere on the planet, though San Francisco is damn good at it, is better at coffee. Absolutely worth a visit, so many of those. I know people who have been to Seattle and they say it's a great place, I had an uncle who came from farming stock north of the city. I have one photo of him standing in a sunny (maybe the more north you go) field with one of those grain tower thingys behind him and from my position in Scotland it looked very exotic, very 60's US of A
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Post by steelmonkey on May 5, 2012 17:04:04 GMT
nah...it's Mulberry lane end to end there...they mostly guzzle coffee and try tell you how much like SF it has become. Very beautiful nearby but you have to expect the place that gave us Starbucks to be rather cut and paste generic end to end.
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Post by nonrabbit on May 5, 2012 17:53:56 GMT
nah...it's Mulberry lane end to end there...they mostly guzzle coffee and try tell you how much like SF it has become. Very beautiful nearby but you have to expect the place that gave us Starbucks to be rather cut and paste generic end to end. San Fran is one of the most beautiful cities in the world you lucky monkey you.
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Post by tullist on May 5, 2012 17:58:50 GMT
It is that and its environs 200 miles in any direction make it awfully tough to beat. But I will bet Bernie will agree that when you see it everyday, while it certainly does not lose its appeal, still not at all the same as visiting it. Traffic over either main bridge of course insane. And those 30 degree angle streets are a bitch to carry groceries along!Plus I would never mark humility as being one of San Fran and the Bay Areas finer traits, talking about the human factor. Having said that likely our most aware political area, specifically San Francisco and Berkeley. But elements can be so self righteous I feel like joining the other team. What I need is the warmth, courtesy and humor of the rural and parts of the urban south, (think Charleston, New Orleans, Mobile) coupled with the staggering beauty of the Bay Area, Carmel, Yosemite, Redwoods, Napa . Amongst the things that occured to me in 2 short spells out there was the Bay Area was too good for most of the people who live in it. Ain't I a swell guy
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Post by nonrabbit on May 5, 2012 21:00:35 GMT
It is that and its environs 200 miles in any direction make it awfully tough to beat. But I will bet Bernie will agree that when you see it everyday, while it certainly does not lose its appeal, still not at all the same as visiting it. Traffic over either main bridge of course insane. And those 30 degree angle streets are a bitch to carry groceries along!Plus I would never mark humility as being one of San Fran and the Bay Areas finer traits, talking about the human factor. Having said that likely our most aware political area, specifically San Francisco and Berkeley. But elements can be so self righteous I feel like joining the other team. What I need is the warmth, courtesy and humor of the rural and parts of the urban south, (think Charleston, New Orleans, Mobile) coupled with the staggering beauty of the Bay Area, Carmel, Yosemite, Redwoods, Napa . Amongst the things that occured to me in 2 short spells out there was the Bay Area was too good for most of the people who live in it. Ain't I a swell guy Brilliant brilliant Ray put travel writing on your CV as well ..love the penultimate line ;D ;D
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2012 13:10:44 GMT
May 12, 2012 at 1:00 am Music review: Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull, "Thick as a Brick 2" By John Timpane Philadelphia Inquirer From The Detroit News: www.detroitnews.com/article/20120512/ENT04/205120302#ixzz1uf0my05EIan Anderson of Jethro Tull, "Thick as a Brick 2" (Chrysalis) OK, it won me over. After several listenings, some alongside Jethro Tull's original, famous/notorious 1972 smash "Thick as a Brick" (40 years old this year), I gotta tell ya and no kiddin': This is a fine album, more than worthy of its namesake. "TAAB2" revisits Gerald Bostock, the little boy who supposedly wrote the impenetrable lyrics for the original "TAAB." The sequel is a direct, coherent, sustained meditation on a worthwhile theme: fate, and possible lives taken or not. The tracks are uniformly interesting and moving, with (or despite?) Anderson's trademark neck-breaking segues among folk, heavy rock, ballad, and Asian modalism. None of the other old Tulls are here, but Anderson has assembled a team of blindingly talented players. The music is tight, biting, live-in-studio (as the original was!), and Anderson is a better flutist than ever. And lyricist. Wait for the package, coming later this year, of "TAAB2" with "TAAB" — but know this is one of Anderson/Tull's better albums, all sneering energy and humane concern. Highpoint: the exquisite, unearthly "Changing Horses," among his best single tracks ever. GRADE: B+
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Post by steelmonkey on May 12, 2012 15:20:50 GMT
I love accurate, positive reviews.....brings a smile to an old man otherwise bitter at work. Thanks for finding and sharing these kinds of Tull-a-grams, Dudley Doright.
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Post by nonrabbit on May 12, 2012 15:25:48 GMT
I agree with everything my esteemed collegue has just said. I also agree that A Change of Horses is an Anderson stand out classic ( warning ..listening just now to it - emotional outburst expected) and I can't get the image of him walking over his fields on a cold winter's day as he does on the TAAB2 DVD - hauntingly beautiful and it makes me cry.
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Post by steelmonkey on May 12, 2012 15:31:34 GMT
Please don't cry...I hate it when you cry.....Dudley Doright is a cartoon Canadian Mountie...check him out .......
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Post by nonrabbit on May 12, 2012 15:40:52 GMT
Please don't cry...I hate it when you cry.....Dudley Doright is a cartoon Canadian Mountie...check him out ....... Hahahaa this boy? i50.images obliterated by tinypic/f2u4oh.jpg[/IMG] ;D over to you TT
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2012 15:43:26 GMT
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Post by steelmonkey on May 12, 2012 16:01:19 GMT
Doggy poo-poos in the morning mail represents some kind of extreme in the Tull Literature....dunno what exactly....but it's ....uh....extreme.
Colorado exit line: let's make like a goalie and get the puck outta here...
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2012 16:22:36 GMT
Doggy poo-poos in the morning mail represents some kind of extreme in the Tull Literature....dunno what exactly....but it's ....uh....extreme. Colorado exit line: let's make like a goalie and get the puck outta here... www.metalunderground.com/news/details.cfm?newsid=23244
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Post by maddogfagin on May 12, 2012 16:25:33 GMT
Doggy poo-poos in the morning mail represents some kind of extreme in the Tull Literature....dunno what exactly....but it's ....uh....extreme. Normally the act of someone with a psychotic nature exacting their form of revenge against a former friend or friends who dared to expound views in contrast to their own. Yes, we've all met and known such "wonderful" characters in our lives but in the end the best way to deal with such people is to ignore them and, happily, they go away as the attention that they crave doesn't materialise.
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