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Post by nonrabbit on Feb 26, 2013 11:27:07 GMT
note I didn't put up any names - I'm not getting into names So far we have the rumblings of a new album - the remix of APP/ Chateau and Benefit.... TAAB3 - On the JL interview he hinted that Gerald was also participating in the lyric writing of this - the third part of the trilogy. So can we assume then that TAAB3 will be what was left over from TAAB2?
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Post by steelmonkey on Feb 26, 2013 17:21:09 GMT
Are there hints of Ian doing something less flutey and maybe more like him and Florian sharing electric guitar duties?
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Post by nonrabbit on Feb 26, 2013 17:40:31 GMT
Are there hints of Ian doing something less flutey and maybe more like him and Florian sharing electric guitar duties? Don't think so not yet anyway. I'd like to see B&TB remastered with a different drum sound. There's some powerful songs on that album that could be refreshed and revigorated.
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Post by steelmonkey on Feb 26, 2013 17:42:21 GMT
But no touchee the drums on 'Clasp' I think they are perfect.
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Post by nonrabbit on Mar 2, 2013 11:23:07 GMT
More subtle hints in this interview in Fanzmosisi, Brazilian site re the start of the Latin American tour. www.fanzmosis.com.br/portal/articles.php?id=19&page=2Fanzmosis) Like the album itself expresses, change is inevitable. How would you describe a future for Jethro Tull? In future there is the possibility of a reunion with Martin and friends? Ian Anderson) Anything is possible. But at the moment, my musical life is mapped out until the end of 2015. I have almost finished the writing for a new album project to be recorded at the end of this year and released in 2014. Then, off we go again! Gerald Bostock returns with his new, big idea. More progressive rock concept albums! Just what the world needs! Doesn't it? Perhaps it is just my imagination. and on the eternal name question .... Fanzmosis) Fans are wondering, "Why not Jethro Tull?". Just as in the first version, the composition of TAAB2 are yours. What did you introduce the sequence as a solo project and not a Jethro Tull’s project? Ian Anderson) I tend to use the "Jethro Tull" name these days for generic best-of Tull tours, featuring Martin Barre as guitarist if he wants to do them. For project tours like orchestral, string quartet, acoustic, Christmas shows - or the TAAB tours - I use my own name. But, from where I am standing, on the stage, they are all the same - whatever it says on the ticket.
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Post by JTull 007 on Mar 2, 2013 13:59:32 GMT
Excellent interview shedding more light on the next album. Ian Anderson) Anything is possible. But at the moment, my musical life is mapped out until the end of 2015. I have almost finished the writing for a new album project to be recorded at the end of this year and released in 2014. Then, off we go again! Gerald Bostock returns with his new, big idea. More progressive rock concept albums! Just what the world needs! Doesn't it? Perhaps it is just my imagination. ;DThanks to Nonrabbit for this very cool find from Brazil. Are you the “Tull Chick from Ipanema”? "Aaaaaaaaaahhh" ;D www.belavistario.com/blog/item/2009/04/girl-from-ipanema-with-lyrics--tablature-girl-from-ipanema/catid/15
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Post by steelmonkey on Mar 2, 2013 16:29:54 GMT
The future is Be-yoo-tee-ful.
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Post by Teacher on Mar 2, 2013 16:54:16 GMT
I like what I'm reading here!
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Post by journeyman on Mar 2, 2013 19:45:16 GMT
Sounds very good. It's hard to think of where he would take the story of Gerald from TAAB2--that is why it is intriguing.
A while ago he did mention the possibility of a hard rock album--I wonder if these could be one in the same?
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Post by Tull50 on Mar 2, 2013 20:31:41 GMT
Sounds very good. It's hard to think of where he would take the story of Gerald from TAAB2--that is why it is intriguing. A while ago he did mention the possibility of a hard rock album--I wonder if these could be one in the same? I think the idea of hard rock was about a collaboration, not an album itself. Some more information about this? Thanks journeyman, would be interesting
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Post by nobodyspecial on Mar 5, 2013 20:16:46 GMT
Been listeneing to JT since 1972. The last thing I was thinking about all those years since is what Gerald Bostock, real or imagined, what direction/path he took, etc. PLEASE, let TAAB fade in elegant fashion - no more TAAB albums, no more Bostock. Just move forward and away, there was never a JT album done in sequence that continued with a 'sotry' or 'concept' from a previous album - don't, please don't, IA, make it so now. Enough, move into the future without the past being dragged around your ankles as in 'ball and chain'. I'm happy there are those that enjoy(ed) TAABII, but that was not the case with everyone.
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Post by steelmonkey on Mar 5, 2013 20:19:50 GMT
Well...as much as Ian distances himself from APP in interviews...he has sung the title at least three times in subsequent albums: Skating Away, Gift of Roses and Cozy Corner/Shunt & Shuffle.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2013 16:08:36 GMT
Please excuse any repeats; Google translate; No plates? -He recorded a concept album, which is not very common these days Is it a sort of personal challenge to record an album with an idea from start to finish in a time when people buy songs, no plates? -No, not really. I can think big. Especially after a glass of wine or whiskey! But I never (sic) drink alcohol before noon ... I'm finishing my next concept album right now. Doing some early demos to record in November this year. www.rosario3.com/ocio/noticias.aspx?idNot=126490&Ian-Andersonvos.lavoz.com.ar/pop/rock/ian-anderson-ya-no-me-averguenza-mostrar-mis-letras- Do you plan to release a new studio album? -Yes. In fact, I just finished writing the lyrics. In March I have to record demos and arm the arrangements. Recording sessions are scheduled for November and December this year, so there will be no news until several months. Surely you finish recording before Christmas. I figure that will be released in April next year.
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Post by steelmonkey on Mar 6, 2013 18:20:42 GMT
Concert in July, Album next April ( so figure next july)...note to self: look both ways before crossing street. stay alive.
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Post by nonrabbit on Mar 7, 2013 8:13:19 GMT
There were some hints (I think) in the GB blog of December as to the lyrics and content of the new album. "...And so to January with real snow and real Winter promise! I spent a happy afternoon in the Old Library bookshop with Matt Bunter and his collection of marvellous tomes of all sorts. Historical romances. Politically incorrect Victorian extravaganzas and..... a very interesting, if flawed, unpublished manuscript by Ernest T. Parritt, local amateur historian and grandfather of the present Lord Archie and, who, it turns out, had a curious penchant for historical observation and a bit of fortune-telling to boot. Apparently he wrote this in 1928 in the drawing room at Cruddock Hall* during a hideous early Winter. Unable to venture out to shoot pheasant or seduce the local lassies at the Turnpike Inn, he whiled away six long weeks penning a yarn of ancient history of the British Isles laced with juicy predictions of things to come. Matt and I were both enthralled and amused by his well-intended scholarly meanderings and so I took it home to draw some inspiration for ideas for lyrics for the band I am putting together in my age of febrile middle age crisis...... " * bet Cruddock Hall gets a mention
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2013 14:23:49 GMT
Innocent bystander wants to know. The next album is an Ian Anderson solo album? Possible Brick trilogy...Ian Anderson seems to be joking...again? When I think Tull trilogy. I think of Songs from the Wood - Heavy Horses - Stormwatch - ;D I don't care if Ian Anderson disses, disagrees. & while I'm here, Aqualung is a double concept album...LOL - I miss Martin Barre, today, more than yesterday. (real tears) (real concern) 2016 for Tull? ramble on while we wait for the BIG SURPRISE
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Post by JTull 007 on Mar 14, 2013 19:19:01 GMT
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Post by Tull50 on Mar 15, 2013 16:13:38 GMT
You're welcome Jim , I found another interesting interview from Argentina confirming the previous, I will post it full using google translator... Ian Anderson: "On stage I am only for my satisfaction"Date: 14/03/2013 Author: Fabrizio Pedrotti (@ fabriziorock) | Category: Interviews Tags: Ian Anderson www.rock.com.ar/blog/ian-anderson-en-el-escenario-solo-me-preocupo-por-mi-satisfaccion/The leader of Jethro Tull passed by Argentina, and said he plays to please his audience. He denied that there chances of publishing a sequel to "A Passion Play", although it works with Steven Wilson for republication. Exclusive Interview with Rock.com.ar More than sixty million albums sold with Jethro Tull, dozens of shows in our country (the latest last week in Cordoba, Rosario and the Grand Rex) and the merit of being the man who brought the flute in rock: Ian Anderson is no ordinary musician. The Scot is known for his quirky sense of humor and strong character. It's not surprising that at the time of the interview appears scowling and without cracking a smile grin. But his facial muscles will relax with the passing of the minutes. "Today we had a very bad trip from Cordoba, in a group with the broken ventilation, so the temperature was forty degrees. I feel a little tired, but happy to be at a historic site like this, "explains after soundcheck at the Theatre" The Circle "of Rosario. - How do you calm down when you have days like that? He tried to get into my hotel, go online and check mails. Luckily I have CNN, so I could see him for an hour before coming to the theater. Also grabbed a book by John le Carré, "Our Kind of Traitor". Had reviewed all his work twice, but I found that this was not done. So I was reading today in the group ... - ... Without ventilation. Some text-based in the Caribbean, so it was appropriate for the heat (laughs). A masterpiece of progressive rock The reason that Anderson came to Argentina is the presentation of the sequel to "Thick as a Brick", the album that launched legendary Jethro Tull in 1972. That album tells the story of a poet who has little chance that a rock band would musicalice his prose. Although, of course, it was a game. - Why in 2012 decided to record "Thick as a Brick II"? 'It's a sequel, not a nostalgic album. I took the main character, the fictional Gerald Bostock, and wondered what could have happened in your life, now fifty years. His story serves as a metaphor for those who look back and wonder: "What would have become of me if ...". But perhaps also help those who are in crucial years, where they have to make important decisions. It's all part of the mystery of karma and destiny of each one: you have to find your way yourself, and have a plan A, B and C. As the small-Gerald, in the continuation of "Thick as a Brick" had five different life projects. -Yes, when I composed looking results that were not related. I made a list of about fifteen things: from boy gay prostitute, until military hero and corrupt banker. I also wrote other politician, astronaut and fighter, but I decided I had to choose five. The economy, the greed of bankers and financial speculation were very good songs. And most of all with the 2008 crisis. -Yes. I wrote them when they were fresh news, and I thought they would be old when the album came out. But things are still going on these days, with European regulations that seek to limit the bonuses that are paid to bankers and other issues. -In '70 you said "I Thick as a Brick" was a parody, and should not be taken seriously. What about the sequel? -The first was a kind of satire of progressive rock concept albums. It was intended to be funny, exaggerated and surreal. Not to say it was a joke, just wanted to take things a step further. I tried to make a fiction, something really crazy, like a child write a poem and a rock band will play the music. It is very likely to occur. But the sequel has a kind of balance: some humorous and parodic elements, and also very dark passages and real. Singing about the bombs in Afghanistan, prostitution and beggars is a serious matter. CONCERTSThe shows of the tour "Thick as a Brick" consist of the complete performance of the two albums, plus the odd hit. The presentation took place in Rosario was accurate and fair, with the inclusion of several theatrical elements. - What do you think they would say about your performances Gerald Bostock? -Strangely, the boy on the cover of "Thick as a Brick I" was a model of a catalog, and I liked his look. I tried to trace it back, but the photographer had died and no data, so I could not reach him. The reason is that I had cancer, and when he left the second album was being treated for his illness. Finally contacted me because they knew I wanted to locate. He went to see the show in England last summer (winter in the southern hemisphere), and does not look at all like in that photo. I enjoyed the concert and have some connection with the show. Usually, when I write, a small percentage is based on my experiences and my person. The 20% Gerald Bostock me boy, about 60% is about people I knew or that I read, and the rest are pure inventions. We have to use our imagination to create fantasy. Like my son, he has to explain to her four years of what works-it says by Andrew Lincoln, actor of the series "The Walking Dead" -. When was the garden by day and a girl asked what was the occupation of his father, she said: "Kill zombies" (laughs). -Several years ago confessed that when you play "Aqualung", the self-titled album, you think a bum. What goes through your head when interpreting "Thick as a Brick"? She tried to imagine what I sing when I go on stage. Sting said in an interview that when playing, you forget everything and put your mind blank. Just recite the words, and I'm the opposite: I need to feel I'm in the character's skin. In this sequel to recite a line that says "Treat myself to quality time, to test porsche and snort a line, Hermione eat for lunch" ("I found a moment of quality, I tested a Porsche and snorted a line, I ate at Hermione in my lunch "). Refers to a banker "playboy" who is going on vacation, taking cocaine and having oral sex with his girlfriend at lunch. I liked the idea, but do not use drugs and noon is a bit late for me for sex, because I'm a morning guy (laughs). To sing that phrase I put in the subject's mind, so it means something to me. I hope that those who understand something to symbolize the letter. I am a person who takes the stage when thinks of himself. I know the public is down there, but I do not play that. I'm here for you, but for me. I'm incredibly generous, but when I go on stage I am only for my satisfaction. I think it's an honest way of doing things. If you try to please the audience, only going to be offering a service, like they're doing laundry, cocinándoles or giving a massage. When you enjoy what you do and put passion that reaches them. THE NEW MATERIAL-You are preparing your next studio album. How is that process? -I have already written, but I still have to do three or four demos. Then the musicians step and it all together, including the arrangements. In November or December we will record it in my studio in England. -In July marks forty years since the launch of "A Passion Play", and many fans are wondering if they will work on the second part of the material. -The chances are nil. That album was a good idea, but was a little intense and complex. The next album was never completed, mostly for technical reasons - "Chateau D'Isaster Tapes", released as unreleased material in 1993 -. We also had a lot of pressure with the band members. As not finished, we returned to France and recorded "A Passion Play" in a heartbeat. We had to hurry, because we already had scheduled. In recent months I had to listen a lot, because we were re-mixándolo with Steven Wilson in surround sound. I needed to understand the music again. It's good, but it is an album that I wait to touch live. Just because it's the fortieth anniversary does not seem a good reason to come back to invest my time in it. I know I will disappoint some fans, maybe three or four (laughter).
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2013 19:26:37 GMT
So the story spreads... Ian Anderson Says His Next Album Will Be Folk-Prog-Metal Hybrid by Billy Dukes July 10, 2013 1:17 PM ultimateclassicrock.com/ian-anderson-new-album/Ian Anderson promises new music in 2014. And while he knows what direction the project will take (it’s a concept album), details — like whether or not it will be a solo record or a Jethro Tull LP — are still up in the air. Either way, Anderson says it will be a folk-prog-metal hybrid. It looks like he’s aiming for a release date sometime around Easter 2014. Anderson plans to begin recording in December and the first tour for the new album will begin in the U.K. in April. “Further tours throughout 2014 will feature the new material in a more theatrical setting … together with a selection of the best of Jethro Tull,” Anderson wrote in a blog post on Jethro Tull’s website. But even he seems to be undecided about the new record’s final destination: “‘Is this to be an Ian Anderson album or a Jethro Tull album?’ I hear you ask. Not sure, really, I reply, if somewhat evasively …” The new record will be more aggressive than 2012′s ‘Thick As a Brick 2,’ Anderson’s latest album. That means “much less acoustic guitar from me and more flute and heavier guitar sounds,” Anderson said. He also put a tentative release date on the remixed and remastered edition of Tull’s ‘A Passion Play’ and ‘The Chateau D’isaster Tapes,’ which became the band’s sixth album. The sale of the group’s old record company has pushed the release to early 2014, according to Anderson.
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Post by journeyman on Jul 12, 2013 10:16:40 GMT
Thanks so much for the post Tootull. You bring good news. Heavier and Flutier--these are things I am happy to hear.
So perhaps we won't be able to hear the last and final days of Gerald after all. His evasiveness when asked if it will be Tull is probably nothing to be read into, but who knows.
Kai
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Post by futureshock on Jul 13, 2013 9:51:40 GMT
Are there hints of Ian doing something less flutey and maybe more like him and Florian sharing electric guitar duties? I'm always surprised that Ian doesn't take more instruments on stage, but with the big theatrics out, so disappeared some of the instruments for the whole band; crash cymbals for SFTW, marimba, etc. But two acoustics is always an inventive combination for Tull. There was that great bamboo flute for some songs off Roots to Branches. That was a great tone. Something smaller than a calliope will show up some day I guess.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2013 13:46:24 GMT
A trilogy is a set of three works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as three individual works. Part three where Gerald the rock star is born...that's my story and I'm sticking to it unless someone changes my/their mind.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2013 14:55:20 GMT
New Tull concept CD and 'Passion Play' to be released; Engelbert and Gene Simmons duet By Steve Smith Posted: 07/18/2013 01:00:00 AM PDT www.presstelegram.com/ci_23676822/steve-smith-new-tull-concept-cd-and-passionNEW CONCEPT CD FROM TULL'S IAN ANDERSON AND EXPANDED 'PASSION PLAY' DUE Former and possibly future Jethro Tull mastermind Ian Anderson will release a new concept album a la his legendary British band's early '70 s classics, "Thick as a Brick" and "A Passion Play" next Easter, according to his latest blog on the Jethro Tull website. Former and possibly future Jethro Tull leader? Last year, the 65-year-old Anderson, who is touring his highly successful 40 th anniversary "TAAB" tour for a second year, told guitarist Martin Barre, who has been with Tull since the second album, "Stand Up" in 1969, and Los Angeles-based drummer Doane Perry, who joined Tull in 1984, that he didn't want to continue as Jethro Tull. In his blog, he writes, "'Is this to be an Ian Anderson album or a Jethro Tull album,' I hear you ask? 'Not sure, really,' I reply, if somewhat evasively-.'" Anderson wrote the album in January and recorded his demos in February. He'll record it, either with his solo touring band or with Jethro Tull this November and December. He plans on touring behind this new concept album throughout 2014. He notes that Barre will shortly release a new solo album, his fifth, and is playing small "An Evening of Jethro Tull Music," gigs in England (he's playing Fairport Convention's annual Cropredy Festival on Aug. 9) and that Perry is studying orchestration and arranging in L.A. and jokes that Perry "plans to release his first symphony, 'Beethoven and I' in 2028." In other Anderson news, the notorious Westboro Baptist Church, known for picketing the funerals of soldiers killed in battle, as well as the likes of gay teen Matthew Shepherd, who was beaten to death because of his sexual preference, as well as film critic Roger Ebert, who church leaders called, "a fag enabler," picketed his concert at the Kaufman Theatre in New York City. Church leaders said they did this action "to warn this doomed world that God hates adulterers. Ian is representative of a world of perverse adulterers who have enabled and justified fags." The same church leaders declined to provide any further explanation. Anderson, who performs annual Christmas concerts in several of England's cathedrals, was married to first wife Jenny from 1970-1974, and since 1976 to Shona, has yet to comment on the pickets. According to the foreword he wrote for the pamphlet for his 2006 St. Brides charity concerts for the homeless, religiously, he describes himself as being "somewhere Deist and Pantheist."
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Post by futureshock on Jul 23, 2013 19:26:00 GMT
Are there hints of Ian doing something less flutey and maybe more like him and Florian sharing electric guitar duties? First part of that request is one of the funniest Tull-comments. "Can we have more Miles Davis with much less trumpet please?" The second part has always been an opportunity that Ian never went after; and using an electric guitar doesn't necessarily mean using it like a rock band, and the guitar design chosen allows for an electric to be a great semi-acoustic instrument with a new range of expressions. I'm thinking of the semi-hollows and mid-balanced instruments like a Strat or an SG, probably given custom pickups to brighten and balance them up a bit. Stay away from instruments like the tinny Telecasters and there could be some option for a regular acoustic player to find an electric instrument that has good tone to mix with both the acoustic instruments and as a blend to electric tones from the PRS and Les Paul's on stage left. Note on Strats: they can sometimes sound "soapy" or hollow in tone, due to the fact the guitar body has been extensively routed out top and back. A "hard tail" design, with no tremolo feature, gives the guitar back quite a bit of rich tone. They are not common but they are made regularly. I'd never buy a regular Strat.
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