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Post by ash on May 28, 2014 16:03:14 GMT
Spenny is here. Been a hectic week. So, I was at Edinburgh and Perth, front row, sitting near SH. What a drummer he is! Edinburgh was almost full, I didnt see very many empty seats, unlike Perth. HE in its entirety was a joy to witness live, twice. At Edinburgh, IA completely missed his opening few bars on ÉTU then in Perth he seemed to have a stuck key on his flute. I can't remember what song it was during but the look on his face was a picture. The band played two excellent sets. Was interesting that at both, the crowd were very subdued during HE and very much came alive during the best of. A few of the best of songs I hadn't heard live before. Be interested to hear what the attendance was like last night. I was shocked at Perth. Empty seats everywhere. I mentioned the flute problem in an earlier post on this thread, I think it was during Farm on the Freeway... ....in all the many times I've seen the band since 1972, I heve never seen that happen before.. ...and the flute he plays now is not a cheap one, I bet he was not a happy chappie.... I never seen that either and I've been playing flute that long and seen them for that length of time as well(1972). Did he go off and change his flute? I known he often plays a Sankyo flute on stage and a Powell in the studio, which are both great flutes!If he did change it it could have been a spring that moved off the key or snapped. A spring that has moved is easy to fix. A trip to All Flutes Plus would have been would on the cards when they got to London even if just to get it checked out. No matter how well flutes are made they still need adjusting every year and more so the amount Ian plays He may just have played a wrong note, which he does admit happens and said just that at the All Flutes Plus gig back in Feb this year. I have seen Ian play a wrong note on stage and he just looked at the flute in an odd way and carried on.
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Post by JTull 007 on May 28, 2014 16:05:44 GMT
Ok, looks like I have to leave Norway at some point this year.... This sounds too good to wait another year until Ian possibly brings it to my shores. Germany seems logical...but then again Budapest is beautiful and sooner... They will do the HE-show there, according to tourdates on the Jethrotull.com. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xCYdyxQjRo Wow! Love the intro projection with Ian's head The Wizard of Tull Great find Pondus! Some wild stuff for sure including historic images from the past.
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Post by jackinthegreen on May 28, 2014 19:59:39 GMT
I mentioned the flute problem in an earlier post on this thread, I think it was during Farm on the Freeway... ....in all the many times I've seen the band since 1972, I heve never seen that happen before.. ...and the flute he plays now is not a cheap one, I bet he was not a happy chappie.... I never seen that either and I've been playing flute that long and seen them for that length of time as well(1972). Did he go off and change his flute? I known he often plays a Sankyo flute on stage and a Powell in the studio, which are both great flutes!If he did change it it could have been a spring that moved off the key or snapped. A spring that has moved is easy to fix. A trip to All Flutes Plus would have been would on the cards when they got to London even if just to get it checked out. No matter how well flutes are made they still need adjusting every year and more so the amount Ian plays He may just have played a wrong note, which he does admit happens and said just that at the All Flutes Plus gig back in Feb this year. I have seen Ian play a wrong note on stage and he just looked at the flute in an odd way and carried on. Me too regarding the flute playing Ash, I got one in 1971 after hearing the way Ian was playing it..... I'm pretty sure it was something wrong with a key, it happened twice within a minute or so, it sounded way off... ....so not a mistake by Ian IMO, and no, he carried on with the same instrument.... Maybe he snapped it over his knee after the gig though....
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Post by Tull50 on May 28, 2014 20:09:31 GMT
Ian Anderson - Shepherd's Bush 26 May 2014A little bit of Passion We want more Living In The Past Locomotive Breath By Basab Bose
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Post by ash on May 28, 2014 20:24:56 GMT
Ian Anderson - Shepherd's Bush 26 May 2014A little bit of Passion We want more Living In The Past Locomotive Breath By Basab Bose 8-)Nice. I'll have to go on the second floor next. I guess there was no one up there stopping filming etc
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Post by ash on May 28, 2014 20:28:46 GMT
I never seen that either and I've been playing flute that long and seen them for that length of time as well(1972). Did he go off and change his flute? I known he often plays a Sankyo flute on stage and a Powell in the studio, which are both great flutes!If he did change it it could have been a spring that moved off the key or snapped. A spring that has moved is easy to fix. A trip to All Flutes Plus would have been would on the cards when they got to London even if just to get it checked out. No matter how well flutes are made they still need adjusting every year and more so the amount Ian plays He may just have played a wrong note, which he does admit happens and said just that at the All Flutes Plus gig back in Feb this year. I have seen Ian play a wrong note on stage and he just looked at the flute in an odd way and carried on. Me too regarding the flute playing Ash, I got one in 1971 after hearing the way Ian was playing it..... I'm pretty sure it was something wrong with a key, it happened twice within a minute or so, it sounded way off... ....so not a mistake by Ian IMO, and no, he carried on with the same instrument.... Maybe he snapped it over his knee after the gig though.... Too much "moisture" in the flute and stopping a pad from sealing. Must have been the final few bars of Bouree that set it up
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Post by JTull 007 on May 28, 2014 23:59:22 GMT
Great videos by Basab Bose at Shepherd's Bush. video link Evidently the heavy hand of Aviator Management GmbH has blocked one already. These may not be up for long.
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Post by steelmonkey on May 29, 2014 2:09:48 GMT
Critique Oblique: Unbelievable....Tears will likely flow during that one in September !
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Post by bunkerfan on May 29, 2014 6:40:46 GMT
Critique Oblique: Unbelievable....Tears will likely flow during that one in September ! For me 'The best of Jethro Tull' was a very emotional part of the concert. 'With you there to help me' being a perfect example. My eyes were certainly a bit moist at the opening few bars of that great song and of course 'Critique Oblique' can't fail to draw the tears. So Bernie by the time it gets to 'There was a rush along the Fulham Road.There was a hush in the Passion Play' you'll be crying like a baby.
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Post by maddogfagin on May 29, 2014 7:53:25 GMT
Ok, looks like I have to leave Norway at some point this year.... This sounds too good to wait another year until Ian possibly brings it to my shores. Germany seems logical...but then again Budapest is beautiful and sooner... They will do the HE-show there, according to tourdates on the Jethrotull.com. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xCYdyxQjRo Wow! Love the intro projection with Ian's head The Wizard of Tull Great find Pondus! Some wild stuff for sure including historic images from the past. "You are talking to a man who has laughed in the face of death, sneered at doom and chuckled at catastrophe. I was petrified."The Wizard of Oz
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Post by JTull 007 on May 29, 2014 12:06:30 GMT
Step forward, Mar-Tin Man! 8-|You DARE to come to me for a heart, do you?
Image by Graham
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Post by maddogfagin on Jun 2, 2014 12:32:36 GMT
jonb52.wordpress.com/Gig Review: Ian Anderson – The Sage May 16 2014Johnny Blakey, June 1, 2014 ‘Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson’ it said on the ticket, which if I am honest made it sound a little like a tribute band but, if that was the case, then it was a bloody good tribute band! I can totally see the reason behind that nomenclature, however, as it wasn’t Jethro Tull. Okay, so the band have operated a revolving door policy for the last 40 odd years and current members David Goodier and John O’Hara were present and correct – but the only other mainstay in the band since the departure of guitarist Mick Abrahams in 1968, Martin Barre was absent. Additionally the set was split into two with the first half consisting of Anderson’s new solo album Homo Erraticus, played in its entirety, with the second half made up of Tull ‘classics’. Homo Erraticus is an album that I had not quite come to terms with before this gig. Being somewhat of a ‘trilogy’ with Thick as a Brick and Thick as a Brick 2, the common denominator being the ‘writer’, the fictitious Gerald Bostock, it had not altogether gelled with me. I would, however, advise anyone in the same boat to see Ian Anderson live, as the back projection pulls the whole album together, I now finally ‘get it’! However it has to be said that the video footage is not exactly ‘hi-tec’ but does a job, although it did sometimes feel like you were watching 1970’s Old Grey Whistle Test at times! Anderson is assisted on stage by actor Ryan O’Donnell, who altenatively gambols and stalks the stage like a demented sorcerer’s apprentice, wild eyed, engaging with the audience and adding a touch of theatre to complement the projections. His voice is very much like Ian Anderson’s and they share the vocals on most songs, he even gets to take over the hand held cymbals on Songs From the Wood, albeit smaller than those used by the maestro himself in the days of past! Although the first session and Homo Erraticus was well received by a very appreciative audience, I have a sneaking suspicion that, like me, most of those assembled were there for the Jethro Tull set! Starting with an excellent rendition of the classic 1969 single Living in the Past, complete with projected clock counting down the years, the band proceeded to deliver a flawless set, documenting the history of one of England’s most loved and enigmatic progressive rock bands. You have to hand it to Ian Anderson, as the set progressed, the projection threw up many images of him as a much younger man. It must take some balls to stand in front of so many ghosts of your past, however I suppose it didn’t bother him so much, as he couldn’t see them as he faced the massed throngs! The set, although well received relied a lot on old singles rather than classic album tracks. There was nothing from Thick as a Brick, Minstrel in the Gallery, Broadsword, Stormwatch or (thankfully) A, however a few old classics were given an airing including With You There to Help Me, Sweet Dream and an excellent version of Teacher, apparently suggested, much to Ian Anderson’s chagrin, by Ryan O’Donnell (give that man a toffee apple). Ian Anderson is a little more laid back these days, preferring to let Ryan O’Donnell take centre stage, but the legend has not lost any of his charisma, exhibited during his frequent forays to the front of the stage, mostly during flute solos. At these times he exhibits the same wild eyed madness that he is known and loved for – fixing members of the audience with a steely glare which strangely doesn’t make you feel uncomfortable, just more at one with the performance. Yes his voice isn’t as strong as it used to be, but his flute playing is just as manic and if anything even better and more dramatic than ever before. As the set drew to a close after excellent renditions of My God, Too Old to Rock and Roll, surprisingly an excerpt from Passion Play and the classic, Songs From the Wood, and the riff to Aqualung rang out, the clock on the projection melted away, echoing perhaps the timelessness of this Tull classic. At this point it would be appropriate to mention the part that guitarist Florian Ophale played in the evenings’ proceedings. Having played the perfect foil to Anderson for most of the gig it was on Aqualung that he really broke out and shone. Having never merely replicated Martin Barre’s solos on the Tull songs but stamping his own identity over them, he took the solo on Aqualung to new heights finishing with some excellent wah wah which gave the song another dimension altogether. After a rousing encore of Locomotive Breath it was sadly all over and as the Gateshead crowd stood and gave the band a fantastic ovation it was time to reflect on the evening. The first set, a stunning and excellent rendition of Anderson’s (or is it Bostock’s) vision of early civilisation in Britain, according to Ernest T Parritt, was the unexpected highlight of the evening. The second set, as brilliantly as it was played left me with a slight feeling of emptiness. Was it the classics that were omitted, the fact that it did slightly feel like a ‘best of’ set or, to echo my opening paragraph, had I just witnessed a rather brilliant tribute band?
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Post by JTull 007 on Jun 10, 2014 15:55:10 GMT
Set List from City Hall May 1st, 2014
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www.etnow.com/news/2014/6/entec-tours-with-ian-andersonlatest news headlines Entec Tours With Ian AndersonUK - Entec is supplying lighting and sound for singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Ian Anderson’s current UK concert tour. Anderson, best known as lead singer, flautist and acoustic guitarist for rock band Jethro Tull is enjoying performing material from his latest and most successful solo album to date, “Homo Erraticus”. It is lighting designer Mark Wheatley’s first full blown tour with Entec. The west London based rental specialist did supply extras for some shows on last year’s ‘Thick As A Brick’ tour and after that Wheatley was really keen to work with them again. “Working with Entec is a brilliant experience; they have a great attitude towards work and people, the kit is excellent and I am very happy to use Entec any time.” The show is divided into two halves. The first is a performance of ‘Homo Erraticus’ in its entirety, and the second is a selection of greatest hits from the Jethro Tull era, so two completely different approaches are needed to lighting the show. Also there is video running throughout most of the performance so there is a large white projection screen upstage to contend with and that has to be lit around. Anderson has some very clear ideas of what he wants to see, and relies on Wheatley to come up with the best and most creative solutions of making these happen on stage. The artist is also not keen on haze, so with that parameter in mind, and the projection, the choice of fixtures becomes crucial. He chose Robe LEDWash 600s for his main wash lights because they produce: “Nice beams with lots of punch.” He uses them to create pseudo-ACL looks that really suit a lot of the music. He also likes the colour correction of the LEDWashes which is great for “getting old-school looks when you need them.” There are 18 LEDWash 600s in total, eight on the back truss, four on the mid and front trusses and two upstage on the floor. The back truss also features six Clay Paky Sharpys – which are ideal for punching through in front of the projection screen and there are six Martin MAC 700 Spot moving lights plus two on the mid truss, two on the front and two on the floor, one on an 8ft high vertical truss tower and the other on the top of a flightcase for height differential. Additionally there were two Sharpy on the floor. The front truss wash lighting is augmented with six Varilite VL 2000 Washes, with another two downstage left and right on the floor for low level front cross lighting, which are very effective. Anderson decided there should be no followspots on the tour which helps with the video cutting through and also means that he has to be a little more choreographed and stand on his marks at the appropriate moments as his fans are all keen to see him! The whole rig is asymmetrical which brings a fresh dynamic into play with everything at odd and quirky heights and angles. Wheatley is using a ChamSys MQ100 console to control everything and his crew are Entec’s Sudip Shrestha and Steven ‘Sven’ Jolly, whom he describes as “absolutely top guys”. Audio Entec’s James (Kedge) Kerridge is systems technician and makes sure that FOH engineer Mikey Downs and monitor engineer Emanuele Giovagnoli are happy with the sound every day and that the d&b V-Series PA is fine tuned to perfection for each venue. The left and right flown hangs are comprised of six d&b V8s and two d&b V12s with three V-SUBS ground stacked per side. For fills they are using four Q10s across the front and are also carrying four Q7s for use as and when needed. These are all driven by d&b D12 amplifiers and processed via a Dolby Lake LP8D8 device. The venues are primarily theatres and some concert halls, all of varying sizes and one of the challenges, especially in the older theatres can be getting the sound image up high to reach the backs of the upper balconies. Both engineers are using their own consoles on the road which are Behringer X32s, and Entec is providing a full mics-and-stands package and one d&b M6 wedge for Anderson. The other five in the band are on IEMs which they own. From Entec it is a relatively straightforward audio set up which has to sound fantastically detailed and clear every night. 11th June 2014
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Post by JTull 007 on Jun 11, 2014 18:24:34 GMT
Thanks again Tootull! This is my kind of info on the lighting and sound! I love it
Mark "Taz" Wheatley - Lighting Technician Mikey Downs - Sound Engineer
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Post by onewhiteduck on Jun 11, 2014 18:38:41 GMT
When I had 3 videos from Bristol deleted by Aviator, I had to tick a box and agree I had breached copyright and promised to behave in the future. I still got them and their not bad at all, sound is really good. If anybody wants them is there another way to share/send them without a bunch a right wing capitalist bastards* stopping me? *personal view OnecriminalDuck
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Post by steelmonkey on Jun 11, 2014 20:09:01 GMT
OWD: we vote the same, too.
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Post by bunkerfan on Jun 12, 2014 14:22:00 GMT
When I had 3 videos from Bristol deleted by Aviator, I had to tick a box and agree I had breached copyright and promised to behave in the future. I still got them and their not bad at all, sound is really good. If anybody wants them is there another way to share/send them without a bunch a right wing capitalist bastards* stopping me? *personal view OnecriminalDuck I've found this site that might do the trick. I haven't used it myself but it looks ok. If you do give it a go please let us know what it's like. Cheers! www.dropshots.com/
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Post by maddogfagin on Jun 19, 2014 14:27:29 GMT
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Post by TangoTull on Jul 30, 2014 16:50:32 GMT
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Post by onewhiteduck on Aug 13, 2014 10:25:13 GMT
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Post by JTull 007 on Aug 13, 2014 11:27:29 GMT
Well done by One Cool Duck Colston Hall May 6, 2014
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Post by nonrabbit on Aug 13, 2014 12:23:39 GMT
Feck You Tube - Irish version i62.images obliterated by tinypic/2qi2ofm.png[/IMG]
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Post by onewhiteduck on Aug 13, 2014 12:31:22 GMT
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Post by JTull 007 on Aug 16, 2014 3:22:22 GMT
Now it's working... Thanks again One Cool White Duck
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Post by onewhiteduck on Aug 20, 2014 18:05:38 GMT
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Post by JTull 007 on Aug 20, 2014 18:44:49 GMT
OWD... "Check it out" "Looks great!" ... Flo
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Post by steelmonkey on Aug 20, 2014 18:58:15 GMT
Remind me, who won the cold war ?
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Post by Equus on Aug 20, 2014 19:12:28 GMT
Remind me, who won the cold war ? ...Frisco?
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Post by steelmonkey on Aug 20, 2014 20:30:34 GMT
No, we got all the incompetent Russian Doctors lowering our life spans.
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