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Post by JTull 007 on Apr 10, 2014 2:44:13 GMT
Burning Shed says my Homo is in the mail.....hurry mailman deliver de letter de sooner de better
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Post by Equus on Apr 10, 2014 5:10:47 GMT
Burning Shed says my Homo is in the mail.....hurry mailman deliver de letter de sooner de better Hurry, hurry Homo day!
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 10, 2014 8:37:23 GMT
This is what we need - more Buddy Holly on the Forum. Wonderful and gifted artist imo.
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Post by Equus on Apr 10, 2014 15:31:51 GMT
This is what we need - more Buddy Holly on the Forum. Wonderful and gifted artist imo. Buddy Rock's! I'm a big Buddy holly fan. I lived in Mason City Iowa for a year back in 1982 as a YFU student. True story, I'm in the yearbook of Mason City High... 81/82 I think... Buddy Holly was killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake Iowa in 1959, 3 February, along with Ritchie Valens, the Big Bopper, and the pilot... I went to clear Lake with some of my American friends. We went to a place where they played old fashioned jazz... or something like that... The place was dedicated to the memory of Buddy Holly... Strange place... A live orchestra, and an atmosphere like "The Shining..." I had never heard of Buddy Holly before, but was mesmerized hearing the story, and looking at the pictures in the hallway... One of my American friends was actually the daughter of the sheriff that helped to secure the crash site... gruesome story indeed... Here's another Buddy Holly tune...
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 10, 2014 15:36:30 GMT
Just got the despatch notification The following items have been sent: 1 x Ian Anderson - Homo Erraticus (Deluxe Edition) (2CD + 2DVD-V in hardback book preorder)TullCentral and Kscope have certainly pushed out the boat as far as advertising goes - this ad from Record Collector
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 10, 2014 15:53:07 GMT
This is what we need - more Buddy Holly on the Forum. Wonderful and gifted artist imo. Buddy Rock's! I'm a big Buddy holly fan. I lived in Mason City Iowa for a year back in 1982 as a YFU student. True story, I'm in the yearbook of Mason City High... 81/82 I think... Buddy Holly was killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake Iowa in 1959, 3 February, along with Ritchie Valens, the Big Bopper, and the pilot... I went to clear Lake with some of my American friends. We went to a place where they played old fashioned jazz... or something like that... The place was dedicated to the memory of Buddy Holly... Strange place... A live orchestra, and an atmosphere like "The Shining..." I had never heard of Buddy Holly before, but was somehow mesmerized hearing the story, and looking at the pictures in the hallway... One of my American friends was actually the daughter of the sheriff that helped to secure the crash site... gruesome story indeed... Here's another Buddy Holly tune... Certainly "The Day The Music Died"
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Post by steelmonkey on Apr 10, 2014 16:28:33 GMT
They are trying very hard, in a quaint, 20th century way, to launch this album. I hope the Homo does well and doesn't disappoint or disillusion Mr Anderson and his helpers if it fails to get the attention and sales the more newsworthy TAAB sequel managed. Publicity. ads and drum-beating aside...this album already feels like it will require both complete and multiple listenings...two more quaint, twentieth century concepts that may not fly in the tweet and twenty second attention span modern world...oh well....we'll love it ! The only downside is the fear that if positive response to TAAB 2 catalysed new material and ambition, less success this time out may lead to another new album drought? Perish the negative thoughts....and hope 'tea with princess' is safe in the vaults. The full performance of TAAB dragged people in to hear the wonder of TAAB 2....hopefully that success and goodwill follows the Homo.
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 10, 2014 16:43:31 GMT
Love the outer sticker on the cellophane wrapping. Good old Adrian
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 10, 2014 16:56:28 GMT
They are trying very hard, in a quaint, 20th century way, to launch this album. I hope the Homo does well and doesn't disappoint or disillusion Mr Anderson and his helpers if it fails to get the attention and sales the more newsworthy TAAB sequel managed. Publicity. ads and drum-beating aside...this album already feels like it will require both complete and multiple listenings...two more quaint, twentieth century concepts that may not fly in the tweet and twenty second attention span modern world...oh well....we'll love it ! The only downside is the fear that if positive response to TAAB 2 catalysed new material and ambition, less success this time out may lead to another new album drought? Perish the negative thoughts....and hope 'tea with princess' is safe in the vaults. The full performance of TAAB dragged people in to hear the wonder of TAAB 2....hopefully that success and goodwill follows the Homo. Some good observations Bernie. Yes, HE will require the listener to actively concentrate during multiple listenings in the same way that anyone would have listen to APP for the first time. One point that hasn't been mentioned much is the formation of the Calliandra label as the personal imprint of new material by IA. Now will this mean that should things go well with HE then there is the possibility of more direct marketing of any future music via downloading etc ? Worth a thought.
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Post by steelmonkey on Apr 10, 2014 17:03:31 GMT
If this is indeed a business experiment, it's probably worth the money to invest in multiple copies to insure future productions. Who knows...maybe 2CD 2 DVD deluxe sets will be worth hundreds on ebay in twenty years.
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Post by steelmonkey on Apr 10, 2014 17:04:35 GMT
Or maybe my eternal legacy will be squandering daughter's collge money on albums and concerts.
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Post by Equus on Apr 10, 2014 17:06:27 GMT
Buddy Rock's! I'm a big Buddy holly fan. I lived in Mason City Iowa for a year back in 1982 as a YFU student. True story, I'm in the yearbook of Mason City High... 81/82 I think... Buddy Holly was killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake Iowa in 1959, 3 February, along with Ritchie Valens, the Big Bopper, and the pilot... I went to clear Lake with some of my American friends. We went to a place where they played old fashioned jazz... or something like that... The place was dedicated to the memory of Buddy Holly... Strange place... A live orchestra, and an atmosphere like "The Shining..." I had never heard of Buddy Holly before, but was somehow mesmerized hearing the story, and looking at the pictures in the hallway... One of my American friends was actually the daughter of the sheriff that helped to secure the crash site... gruesome story indeed... Here's another Buddy Holly tune... Certainly "The Day The Music Died" The Beatles loved Buddy Holly, or was it just Lennon and McCartney? They were greatly inspired by Buddy Holly anyway... 3 February 1959... The day the music died...
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Post by Equus on Apr 10, 2014 17:22:51 GMT
If this is indeed a business experiment, it's probably worth the money to invest in multiple copies to insure future productions. Who knows...maybe 2CD 2 DVD deluxe sets will be worth hundreds on ebay in twenty years. Or 60 years...? Something to look forward to, and another reason for stayin' alive...
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Post by Equus on Apr 10, 2014 17:34:16 GMT
They are trying very hard, in a quaint, 20th century way, to launch this album. I hope the Homo does well and doesn't disappoint or disillusion Mr Anderson and his helpers if it fails to get the attention and sales the more newsworthy TAAB sequel managed. Publicity. ads and drum-beating aside...this album already feels like it will require both complete and multiple listenings...two more quaint, twentieth century concepts that may not fly in the tweet and twenty second attention span modern world...oh well....we'll love it ! The only downside is the fear that if positive response to TAAB 2 catalysed new material and ambition, less success this time out may lead to another new album drought? Perish the negative thoughts....and hope 'tea with princess' is safe in the vaults. The full performance of TAAB dragged people in to hear the wonder of TAAB 2....hopefully that success and goodwill follows the Homo. Some good observations Bernie. Yes, HE will require the listener to actively concentrate during multiple listenings in the same way that anyone would have listen to APP for the first time. One point that hasn't been mentioned much is the formation of the Calliandra label as the personal imprint of new material by IA. Now will this mean that should things go well with HE then there is the possibility of more direct marketing of any future music via downloading etc ? Worth a thought. I shamelessly predict that Ian's Homo album will do very well in San Francisco, and Greenwich village...
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Post by steelmonkey on Apr 10, 2014 18:03:35 GMT
Not only because I live in SF ?
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Post by Equus on Apr 10, 2014 18:50:38 GMT
Not only because I live in SF ? So you're from San Francisco? I didn't know that... I've always wanted to visit the place...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2014 21:09:05 GMT
Entertainment Tonight Couldn't link video - any assistance appreciated HELP! see Ian Anderson video: www.etonline.com/music/145338_Jethro_Tull_Wandering_Walking_Dead_Connection_Homo_Erraticus/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ETTopStories+%28EJethro Tull's Wandering 'Walking Dead' Connection, 'Homo Erraticus' By DAVID WEINER April 10, 2014 Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson is back with an all-new album, Homo Erraticus, out April 15, and he sits down with ETonline for a Skype interview from his U.K. home to talk about the impressive scope of the project; the pop-culture trappings of a song on the album that incorporates The Walking Dead references – and how his son-in-law, Walking Dead star Andrew Lincoln, confides in him for some fatherly advice! "He asks me what I think," says Anderson of his son-in-law Lincoln -- married to his daughter Gael -- checking in to see if he's seen the latest episode of the AMC juggernaut. "It's not going to change the way he acts, or influence the writers or the directors, but I think he's genuinely interested in my appraisal of it." There's clearly a Walking Dead influence on Anderson's new song Enter the Uninvited, which compares the European invasion of Romans, Saxons and Vikings to the omnipresent invasion of pop culture iconography, from current fast-food franchises to binge-watching TV. Part of the song's lyrics list Star Trek, Baywatch, Friends, Sopranos, West Wing, Madmen, Walking Dead/Officer Rick will turn the trick and banish zombies - from our heads. Anderson explains, "Instead of men in boots, we send our culture out into the worldwide arena. … I rather like the idea that America's big contribution in terms of impacting upon the world is through the cultural exchange of media, particularly film and television, which America does so well." Related Video: Exclusive 'Walking Dead' Deleted Scene Back in 2012, Ian Anderson dusted off Gerald Bostock, the fascinating child protagonist of his 1972 Jethro Tull album Thick as a Brick, for a follow-up visit to see where Gerald was in life as an adult. Following the success of Thick as a Brick 2, ETonline asked Anderson if he had closed the book on Gerald for good, and he replied, "Maybe Gerald has a little life in him yet. ... I rather like the cantankerous, failed politician and middle-aged [Gerald], getting a bit kind of angry. I quite like the angry Gerald." Cut to 2014 and the introduction of Anderson's follow-up project, Homo Erraticus, which interesting takes a look at the scope of history, from post-Ice Age hunter-gatherers to the state of humanity 30 years into our future, all interpreted through the point of view of Gerald. The concept of the "prog-folk-metal" album has Gerald discovering a dusty unpublished tome called Homo erraticus (The St Cleve Chronicles), written by a local amateur historian that "summarizes key historical elements of developing civilization in Britain and seems to prophesy future scenarios too," and dramatizing/exaggerating the manuscript's themes as metaphors for modern life. "When you're doing a prog rock album for the 21st century, you've got to tackle big subjects and be brave about it," says Anderson. "And the slightly preposterous, over-the-top idea that you can cram 8,040 years of history into 52 minutes, why mess about? Get on with it – do something challenging." Stay tuned to ETonline for more with Ian Anderson.
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Post by Equus on Apr 10, 2014 21:26:54 GMT
I don't exactly know where to post this, so I'll just post it here... Andrew Lincoln, Ian's son in law. He also talks about Ian...
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Post by Equus on Apr 10, 2014 21:45:24 GMT
just in case this haven't been posted...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2014 22:05:25 GMT
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Post by steelmonkey on Apr 11, 2014 3:32:41 GMT
What if I'm wrong and Homo IS as good as TAAB 2 ?
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 11, 2014 8:17:19 GMT
Or maybe my eternal legacy will be squandering daughter's collge money on albums and concerts. Why not. It does make sense after all you've raised her to become a pillar of society and has a Father who's a Tull fan. Go for it
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Post by Equus on Apr 11, 2014 8:20:45 GMT
What if I'm wrong and Homo IS as good as TAAB 2 ? Well, Ian's voice isn't getting better... and I have this idea that the melodies perceived in Ian's head, when it comes to the singing part of the music, are so much better than what he is able to perform, live and in the studio... (... I just hate to say this, because generally I just love Ian's voice...) but I was very surprised when I heard Thick As A Brick 2, and the voice of Ryan O'Donnell... Generally I think that Ian's voice works very well on Thick As A Brick 2, but I still think that leaving the singing up to another singer might just produce something better than what we are presented with now... This is my main concern, having heard a few samples of Homo Erraticus... Ian's singing... Frank Zappa used different singers, and it created a kaleidoscope of interesting new approaches to singing his songs... Homo Erraticus would be very well suited for something like that... With Ian singing parts that his voice can manage... The question: "Will it be as good as Thick As A Brick 2." is hard to answer... mainly because human perception is so personal, and what I like and experience as being great, wonderful, and fantastic may be perceived as a failure by somebody else... As you probably noticed, I just love to ad a little music, so here is Frank Zappa, with another singer, blasting away...
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Post by Equus on Apr 11, 2014 8:45:39 GMT
Oh... Great! Thanks TooTull...
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Post by Essan on Apr 11, 2014 12:20:07 GMT
A brief review of the album in today's Sun newspaper (don't know if it's online, but you have to pay to access the Sun website .... )
Intricate noodling? I can't wait!
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 11, 2014 12:52:51 GMT
www.progrockmusictalk.com/FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 2014 Prog Rock Review: Ian Anderson-Homo Erraticus Release Date: April 15, 2014 Label: Kscope Music Ian Anderson is back at it again with a follow up to the surprising sequel to Thick As A Brick, the strong TAAB2. That stout showing with a different band gave Mr. Anderson as much authority as one would expect being the driving force behind Jethro Tull since their inception. So what does the prog legend do for an encore now? Under the banner of Ian Anderson, which equates to Jethro Tull to most of us longtime listeners, we now have the persnickety Gerald Bostock taking another journey on Homo Erraticus. Note that it is not referred to as Homo sapiens but our species gone a bit astray or erratic. Anderson and band are back in fine and witty form on this release. He colorfully describes the gist of the story on their website and it gives the perspective audience a window into what is going to happen upon listening to the new progressive rock journey. In summary…The now middle-aged Gerald Bostock after a trip to Mathew Bunter’s Old Library Bookshop in Linwell village, the two gents came across a dusty, unpublished manuscript, written by local amateur historian Ernest T. Parritt, (1873 -1928), which is entitled “Homo Britanicus Erraticus.” Then from there the album jumps into three suites as the story moves along. Part One: Chronicles is comprised of tracks 1-8, Part Two: Prophecies tracks 9-11 and then rounded out with Part Three: Revelations with tracks 12-15. Anderson brings back the talented Florian Ophale to lead the way on lead guitar along with David Goodier (bass, and double bass), John O’Hara (orchestral conductor, piano, keyboards and accordion), Scott Hammond (drums and percussion) and Ryan O’Donnell (additional vocals). Anderson continues to burn the midnight oil while opting to explore new avenues and challenges rather than resting on the laurels of previous accomplishments. His voice is the perfect complement to the most entertaining music found on this new album. The pace of each track is ever changing and the scope is broad with artistic strokes of progressive rock, metal and folk to create the backdrop to the story, all with energetic purpose. I think Ian has adjusted well to losing some range in his vocals over the years and the music more than compensates for that change. He is a storyteller supreme and the music is the proverbial icing on the cake. ”Doggerland” leads things off nicely and sets the tone for a proper Jethro Tull/Ian Anderson outing and from that point it gets “progressively” more interesting whilst moving into each suite. As usual Ian’s flute adds an entirely different dimension to the music and it just would not be the same without it of course. The different moods and atmospheres are placed properly throughout and the story masterfully told by the master himself. “The Turnpike Inn” is likely to remind you of the heavier JT with the guitar playing, it still works very well. As much as I respect Martin Barre and have enjoyed his work over the years I cannot see where he is missed, particularly on this rocker. Ophale does more than an adequate job and most certainly Ian would take no less than the best musicians to work with to perform his compositions. “The Engineer” picks it up again with some strong guitar lines and Ian’s voice is very capable here. “Tripudium Ad Bellum” keeps the fires burning with rapid flute lines to kick off the proceedings then the intro takes a turn with some nice jazzy guitar as Ian has some fun leading the way with his flute. Suddenly it changes again with some driving passages like TAAB had to offer. It is an instrumental foray that introduces you to the second suite in a most classic prog way. “The Browning Of The Green” rounds out the final suite. It is a drive you home number with great music from all points. The combinations of instruments and unique vocals created in this recording take the best of what Anderson and band has to offer. The rock, folk and metal combined is what you would expect and that is exactly what you get on this entertaining excursion. “Cold Dead Reckoning” ends the opus most appropriately with the classic JT sound and flair. The title has finality to it and the music lures you in and hits hard leaving you to think what could possibly come next but alas this story is over. In the end what you get is an all-encompassing state of man set to music that surely has another chapter to tell down the line. I don’t think we have heard the last of Gerald Bostock…that is if man made it out of the desolate land he walked upon as the curtain closes one more time. I must admit upon first listen I was not too sure about this album but after several more subsequent spins it grew on me a few notches upon the ladder of approval. This is not music you can listen to in the background; it demands your complete attention to be appreciated as an entire work of art. It’s never cut and dried with Mr. Anderson and you will find once you consume every bite of this full course meal that Homo Erraticus is yet another triumph. This is indeed a musical story that deserves repeated listens. Is this another prog rock classic? I have no doubt that it is. You must add the album to your collection if you have a place in your heart and soul for progressive music. 5/5 Stars Key Tracks: Doggerland, The Turnpike Inn, The Browning Of The Green Keith “MuzikMan” Hannaleck-Prog Rock Music Talk Founder
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 11, 2014 15:18:52 GMT
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Post by steelmonkey on Apr 11, 2014 15:47:18 GMT
National treasure? Snap out of it dude, : Universal treasure !
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Post by JTull 007 on Apr 11, 2014 16:35:54 GMT
National treasure? Snap out of it dude, : Universal treasure ! This is a Tull Treasure... Worth more than you can imagine to folks like us.
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Post by Equus on Apr 11, 2014 17:48:51 GMT
National treasure? Snap out of it dude, : Universal treasure ! This is a Tull Treasure... Worth more than you can imagine to folks like us. Yes!!! They will never understand us... Jethro Tull forever!
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