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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 11, 2014 20:11:03 GMT
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Post by Teacher on Apr 11, 2014 22:37:20 GMT
I expect mine Monday or Tuesday. I am eagerly awaiting, not patiently however.
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 12, 2014 8:31:01 GMT
Three complete listening sessions in and, to my own ears, there are certainly some standout tracks on a brilliant album. I do rate the instrumental track "Tripudium Ad Bellum" highly with it s nod to "Living In The Past" in the time signature and the phrasing of the flute. "After These Wars" is wonderful. I can see this being used in an anti-war context, in the same way as "Wootton Bassett Town" from TAAB2, for many years. "Puer Ferox Adventus" is majestic - an Ian Anderson composition to stand alongside all the previous great songs he's written. And "In For A Pound" is as delicate as anything he's written in a similar vein and style. The bonus CD of the hotel room demos is interesting if you like the idea of hearing how the songs originated and the process of their gestation. Probably won't get played that often but still great to hear the raw song templates. The DVD will have to wait until next week and the 5.1 surround sound mix of the album on DVD will have to wait for TooTull or anyone rich enough to have the equipment to play it on to review it. Sufficiently different to TAAB2 in style so as to avoid comparisons, Homo Erraticus is an album which no one else could, or would, have composed or recorded. Excellent 11/10
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Post by Equus on Apr 12, 2014 8:49:27 GMT
Three complete listening sessions in and, to my own ears, there are certainly some standout tracks on a brilliant album. I do rate the instrumental track "Tripudium Ad Bellum" highly with it s nod to "Living In The Past" in the time signature and the phrasing of the flute. "After These Wars" is wonderful. I can see this being used in an anti-war context, in the same way as "Wootton Bassett Town" from TAAB2, for many years. "Puer Ferox Adventus" is majestic - an Ian Anderson composition to stand alongside all the previous great songs he's written. And "In For A Pound" is as delicate as anything he's written in a similar vein and style. The bonus CD of the hotel room demos is interesting if you like the idea of hearing how the songs originated and the process of their gestation. Probably won't get played that often but still great to hear the raw song templates. The DVD will have to wait until next week and the 5.1 surround sound mix of the album on DVD will have to wait for TooTull or anyone rich enough to have the equipment to play it on to review it. Sufficiently different to TAAB2 in style so as to avoid comparisons, Homo Erraticus is an album which no one else could, or would, have composed or recorded. Excellent 11/10 Promising indeed Graham! I can't wait to get my hands on Homo Erraticus... Ian have never disappointed me before, and even if he "did" I wouldn't really be disappointed... The fact that he is still trying is an example for us all...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2014 13:12:49 GMT
The DVD will have to wait until next week and the 5.1 surround sound mix of the album on DVD will have to wait for TooTull or anyone rich enough to have the equipment to play it on to review it. Surround review at QQ. While I wait for the slow boat to Canada. www.quadraphonicquad.com/forums/showthread.php?18641-Ian-Anderson-Homo-Erraticus&p=206712&viewfull=1#post206712From a first listen its a good album better than TAAB2 IMHO. There is LPCM stereo, and DTS 5.1 on the main DVD, its a shame no 5.1 LPCM. The liner notes say that as SW was ill, it was mixed by Jakko Jaksyk, and it is up to his usual high standard. You're nicely surrounded with some interesting lead guitar movement which adds rather than detracts from the music (so looking forward to the next batch of ELP). Vocals use the centre mainly with bleed into the fronts so it doesn't sound unnatural. I like it. - thanks to DuncanS
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2014 13:15:23 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2014 13:18:37 GMT
Love the outer sticker on the cellophane wrapping. Good old Adrian Got to love "Mr" Tull himself.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2014 13:23:38 GMT
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Post by zombywoof92 on Apr 12, 2014 13:47:22 GMT
The DVD will have to wait until next week and the 5.1 surround sound mix of the album on DVD will have to wait for TooTull or anyone rich enough to have the equipment to play it on to review it. The 5.1 is just great. I'm not usually a fan of surround sound music, but I actually found that 5.1 served and perhaps even improved Homo Erraticus. Worth getting the CD/DVD if you have the equipment.
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Post by JTull 007 on Apr 12, 2014 13:53:41 GMT
Three complete listening sessions in and, to my own ears, there are certainly some standout tracks on a brilliant album. Sufficiently different to TAAB2 in style so as to avoid comparisons, Homo Erraticus is an album which no one else could, or would, have composed or recorded. Excellent 11/10 Great review Sir Graham. I'll be adding mine very soon.I expect mine Monday or Tuesday. I am eagerly awaiting, not patiently however. I'm praying that it arrives today or Monday. Monday is very special for Lady Metta.
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Post by Equus on Apr 12, 2014 14:26:00 GMT
This looks absolutely wow! I'm never disappointed when it comes to these extended versions of Tull/Ian albums... Great design!
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 12, 2014 15:21:36 GMT
Love the outer sticker on the cellophane wrapping. Good old Adrian Got to love "Mr" Tull himself. Sure have. Not only saddled with that misnomer, but the Adrian Stone-Mason as well.
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 12, 2014 15:28:33 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2014 16:16:28 GMT
Ian Anderson / Puer Ferox Adventus / Vinyl LP (Lenco L75)
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Post by zombywoof92 on Apr 12, 2014 16:32:36 GMT
^ Nice!
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Post by steelmonkey on Apr 12, 2014 16:34:07 GMT
That's MISTER Mr. Tull to you, buddy.
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 13, 2014 8:33:55 GMT
Published on 12 April 2014 by DimitriadisTasos
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Post by JTull 007 on Apr 13, 2014 11:55:09 GMT
Published on 12 April 2014 by DimitriadisTasos That is one cool video by DimitriadisTasos ! We need this guy on the Forum to create some videos once the tour gets rolling. He may be working on further tracks from the album too. Just pure excellence!
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Post by JTull 007 on Apr 13, 2014 12:22:24 GMT
That's MISTER Mr. Tull to you, buddy. If it's on the front label it makes sense to me...
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 13, 2014 17:46:55 GMT
chartchatuk.wordpress.com/Chart Chat Album Review : Ian Anderson – ‘Homo Erraticus’ (14.04.14) This week sees the return of Jethro Tull mainman Ian Anderson (no relation) with his brand new album ‘Homo Erraticus’. Once again Gerald Bostock forms part of the proceedings, a character that Anderson fans will be well accustomed to. The character of Gerald Bostock was first explored on the ‘Thick As A Brick’ album in 1972 when he was just a young boy. Exactly what happened to Gerald was then revisited on the sequel ‘Thick As A Brick 2′ which saw the light of day in 2012. This time around Bostock has uncovered a book entitled ‘Homo Erraticus (The St Cleve Chronices)’ which was written by the equally fictional Ernest T Parritt (1865 – 1928) and details key historical elements of British civilisation and then looks to the future and what it might hold. The premise of the album is that Bostock has written some lyrics around this book and sent them to Anderson. Let the story commence… The album is divided into three parts : Part One : The Chronicles DoggerlandThis is quite a rocky number, backed with John O’Hara’s hammond guitar [ think the author means keyboards ? - MD] and Anderson’s trademark flute. Fans of progressive rock will be delighted with this opening, but it is far more modern than the origins of that genre which were laid in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It sets the scene for the stories ahead with lyrics including “all across the Doggerland / all across before the tides / across with boar and elk and wolves / take the highlands near and wide”. It begins in 7000 BCE, covering Neolithic man and Beaker People. Heavy MetalsDespite its title this is a beautifully composed acoustic number, though weighing in at just 92 seconds long it serves more as a link to the story than a track in its own right. It sees the story move towards the present day, now bridging the gap from 750 BCE to 43 CE which covers the Iron age and the birth of the plough, the axe and the sword. Enter The UninvitedReleased on the internet as a form of teaser for the album, this sees the topics move through the Romans, Saxons and Vikings and on to the American influences on the world which range from “Playboy, Newsweek, Time and Life” through to “Elvis hips and Monroe lips” before name checking “Apple Mac and iPhone App”. Even the Somerset Levels get a mention – residents of that area could not have anticipated just how famous their area would become in 2014, though none would have welcomed the floods that brought them to the front pages. It’s a catchy number and one of the songs I have been quick to revisit after my first listen. Puer Ferox Adventus (Wild Child Coming) At just over seven minutes long this is closest this album comes to an old fashioned epic. It kicks off around 313 CE when Christianity first came to dominate Europe after Emperor Constantine The Great permitted and promoted the religion across the Roman Empire. It’s certainly a track where you have to follow the lyrics to gain full understanding of what is going on. For me this is a good thing, taking me back to the days of my childhood where I would expectantly put the needle on the latest LP I had purchased while sitting down with the sleeve notes and lyrics in my hand. Meliora Sequamur (Let Us Follow Better Things) Another Latin named track, and this one is set in the 12th Century and focuses on Grammar School education. Anderson paints a picture describing “Motarboard, gown, hood and lace come / guide me in learning, in ascension” against an acoustic backdrop. It is perhaps one of the tracks that passes me by initially but may grow upon subsequent plays of the album. The Turnpike InnThe tempo moves back up from folk into rock mode for this track. As the title may suggest, lyrically this centres around the mid 1750′s when highwaymen would be feared along the paths travelled by horses and their rich passengers. I love this track and at just three minutes long it would probably sit quite well on the radio although I believe this album is best enjoyed in its entirety rather than being chopped up into singles as and when the record label deems fit. The EngineerTime now to fast forward to 1847 when engineering was beginning to make dramatic advancements. Events noted here include Brunel’s tunnels, tracks and bridges alongside the railway and steamships sailing to the Americas. Lyrics include “Hard, cast in iron, that engineer : God bless Isambard / Piston scraping, furnace-busting / (he) plays the winning card”. It leads nicely on to the last track in the first part of the album. The Pax BritannicaAnd so the first part of the album draws to the close with this, the eight track. This takes the listener through the century from 1815 to 1914, taking in Albert, Victoria, Commerce and trade while hinting at the power and corruption to follow. “Pax Britannica, Pax Britannica, rules the headland and the wave / Hansa spirit will enrich us, keep us from an early grave / Sweet Victoria, Mother England, gracious queen whom God will save” come the lyrics telling of the time when the British empire was in its prime. Part Two : Prophecies Tripidium Ad BellumThis starts in 1914 at the start of World War I and oncludes in 1939 just as World War II is to begin. Musically there is a full on flute solo as this track introduces the second section of the album. It’s somewhat shorter than the first, consisting of just three tracks which add up to barely ten minutes of playing time. There are no lyrics here, instead the listener is invited to enjoy the rich tapestry of music on offer here. After These WarsThis track opens beautifully and gently moving the story on to the 1950′s which saw the arrival of the television and new prosperity as the effects of World War II started to ease. The British empire was in decline as the world went through a period of genuine transition. The track contains the finest guitar solo on the album although as you would expect Anderson’s flute can also be heard. My favourite lyrics have to be “We thanked the Yank and thanked the Lord / for sparing us from dark invasion. Now to liberate, rebuild and balance Europe’s new equation”. New Blood, Old VeinsThe second part draws to a close with a nod to the 1960′s where package holidays first started to take off, introducing Europe to the Brit abroad on holiday. Part Three : Revelations In For A PoundFast forward to 2013, and this is a 37 second track which opens the third and final part of the album. “I’ve started to I’ll finish. I’m here, so I’ll stay” declares Anderson as the listener is about to go through the present and into the future. The Browning Of The GreenFinally we reach the present day and the topic of overpopulation comes up as the chorus notes “it’s the browning of the green / we’ll be tight as canned sardine”. Again it’s a little more rocky, but with generous helpings of keyboards and flute along the way. Per Errationes Ad AstraJust as Tripidium Ad Bellum has no words, this track has no music. Set in 2024 the sleevenotes describe it as a “warning from the far, alien side” although it namechecks Neil, Buzz and Michael from the 1960′s Apollo mission to the moon. Cold Dead ReckoningNow the album concludes as we head thirty years into the future with turmoil, tempest, sea-level rise and the end of the old order. Musically it very much follows the rest of the album and it seems a fine way to end proceedings. This album is entertaining from start to finish. Listeners should take time to read Anderson’s foreword and the notes from Gerald Bostock as it has been developed as a complete package. I managed to get my hands on a deluxe edition which also contains an additional DVD featuring a “Making Of” piece and a 5.1 Surround Sound version of the album. His last outing on ‘Thick As A Brick 2′ saw him back inside the top forty album chart and I think that this could do even better for him. Finally people often ask me if I was named after Ian, but my parents were unaware of the delights of Jethro Tull. However given my taste in music I am very happy to share my name with the legendary performer! Ian Anderson (not the same one)
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Post by Equus on Apr 13, 2014 18:23:22 GMT
Does anyone have the lyrics for Homo Erraticus yet? Everyone of them? If you have them, please post them as soon as you can... Hopefully I will have my copy tomorrow... I am confident now that Ian, and the band, has produced another master piece... ... Fluuutee??? Uuhh, uuhh...? ... No it's not... but don't give up... the speer is nothing, compared to the invention of the Flute...
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Post by bunkerfan on Apr 14, 2014 10:21:02 GMT
I have ten minutes before I have to leave for work and still the postman hasn't been,
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 14, 2014 12:33:52 GMT
From James at TullCentral: Ian Anderson Day - Germany. German fans getting their record! Hot Shot Records, Hannover Saturn, Dortmund Saturn, Cologne
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Post by JTull 007 on Apr 14, 2014 13:19:32 GMT
From James at TullCentral: Ian Anderson Day - Germany. German fans getting their record!
Saturn, Cologne Wow! Now that's the way to sell great music Crank it up!!!!!
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Post by Equus on Apr 14, 2014 15:15:11 GMT
I got it! Listening to it now!! Wonderful as always!!!
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Post by nonrabbit on Apr 14, 2014 18:23:37 GMT
Home from work and brown package behind door. Opened brown package and have Ian Anderson's new offering in my hands. Speaking as a Homo Erraticus virgin (not used either of those words ever or for a very long time - you work out which) I will now listen to it in my bedroom with no interruptions and get back later.
I fully expect some parts will instantly thrill and some will need to be practised further.
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Post by stevep on Apr 14, 2014 19:02:33 GMT
Have given the album a couple of listens over course of the day and I have to admit that I really don't like it much. Will continue to listen to see if it grows on me though..
I guess that it is all about individual tastes and other long standing Tull fans generally seem to be impressed. For me the stand-out tracks are Heavy Metals, Turnpike Inn and Browning of the Green.
Having said that it is not to my taste, I am just amazed that (in his late 60's) Ian Anderson is still generating music that is very different to anyone else. The album packaging and marketing looks great and IA has obviously put a huge effort into this album. Us Tull fans are extremely lucky. Sorry to be the contradictory one.. but I prefer to say as I find...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2014 19:50:28 GMT
Ian Anderson – Homo Erraticus – New Release Apr 14 Posted by bryanmorey94 progarchy.com/2014/04/14/ian-anderson-homo-erraticus-new-release/Ian Anderson’s new album, Homo Erraticus, is out today, according to his website. According to iTunes, it comes out tomorrow. Today, tomorrow, whenever it is, this is a must have album. I have had a chance to listen to it a couple of times over the past few days, and I am thoroughly impressed. Ian Anderson proves, yet again, that he is a master of modern cultural critique. He is not just some old guy playing music. He is clearly aware of the world of today, and he does a masterful job of commenting on it in a humorous way. I wish I could give you a full review of the album right now, but professors have this strange policy of wanting papers turned in on time. Weird, right? Briefly, the album covers basically all of British history, from Roman times, through today, and predictions for the future. Ian Anderson and company (which is essentially Jethro Tull, just not called that because of the absence of Martin Barre) wonderfully meld together history with cultural critique. I particularly enjoyed the backhanded reference to his son-in-law, who plays the lead role in the hit AMC TV show, Walking Dead. The line up for the band is the same as it was on Thick as a Brick 2: Ian Anderson (vocals, flute, acoustic guitar), David Goodier (bass), John O’Hara (keyboards and accordion), Florian Opahle (guitar), Scott Hammond (drums), and Ryan O’Donnell (backing vocals). I noticed that they lowered the key of the music, so Ian Anderson sounds a lot better on this album than he did on TAAB2. O’Donnell also provides excellent backing vocals, sometimes singing lead. The instrumentation is amazing, as you would expect from anything produced by Ian Anderson. I am even more astounded by Florian Opahle’s guitar playing. As my friend and fellow progarchist, Connor Mullin, pointed out to me, his style of playing is more akin to King Crimson than it is to Martin Barre. This is not all that surprising considering Opahle toured with Greg Lake before joining Ian Anderson. His playing is simply fantastic. In the end, Homo Erraticus should certainly be added to any prog rock collection. Ian Anderson has proved that you are never too old to rock and roll.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2014 19:51:39 GMT
Ian Anderson Releases New Solo Album, Talks 'End' of Jethro TullBy Gary Graff, Detroit | April 14, 2014 12:54 PM EDT www.billboard.com/articles/news/6052275/ian-anderson-solo-album-homo-erraticus-jethro-tullA second consecutive Ian Anderson solo album -- "Homo Erraticus," due out April 15 -- is affirming to Jethro Tull fans what they mostly already suspected, that the long-lived group is effectively no more. Anderson writes as much in liner notes to the deluxe edition of "Homo Erraticus," declaring that, "The huge body of work that is the Jethro Tull catalogue stands firm close beside me and in good stead... But I think I prefer, in my twilight years, to use my own name for the most part being composer of virtually all Tull songs and music since 1968." And he tells Billboard that "nothing is going on at all" with the band these days. "And that's the point," Anderson explains. "To me, Jethro Tull is...the vast body of repertoire that's Jethro Tull, the record catalog, the music, and I think that, if we look back on it, it kind of came more or less to an end during the last 10 years or so (with) a couple of live albums and a studio album of Christmas material. That might define the last albums under the name Jethro Tull. It's a body of work I rather think is now kind of historical, since the weight of it lies back in the 70s and 80s in terms of volume. And I rather think it's nice to kind of leave that as legacy." Anderson adds that recording and touring under his own name now also allows him to shed some guilt he's felt since February of 1968, when the group's booking agency gave Jethro Tull the name of an 18th century British agriculturist after several other monikers were rejected. "If you'd asked me 20 years ago did I regret anything about my musical career, my answer then, as it is today, has always been the name of the band," Anderson admits. "I can't help but feel more and more as I get older that I'm guilty of identity theft and I ought to go to prison for it, really. It's almost as if I watched old Jethro Tull at the cash machine and leaned over his shoulder as he put his credit card into the machine to check out his PIN and filched his credit card form from his back pocket as he walked away and then fleeced his bank account. It doesn't make me feel very good. I never paid much attention in history class, so I didn't realize we'd been named after a dead guy until a couple of weeks later." "Homo Erraticus," which follows Anderson's 2012 release "Thick As a Brick 2," is his third album to employ the fictional Gerald Bostock, who Anderson introduced on Tull's 1972 concept album "Thick as a Brick;" Bostock is "credited" as Anderson's co-writer on the new album's 15 songs, which examine British history past and present along with some visions for the future -- although Anderson himself came to study history later in life. "At school we only did two years of history and had three dreadful history teachers who were appalling at their trade,just dreadful people," he notes. As for the album, Anderson adds that, "I slightly jokingly say it's a folk-prog-metal album with classical music and folk music influences. We have a rich arrangement of essentially rock music, but with lots of elements which are part and parcel of my style, I suppose.I don't try to write music in a style, but that's the context. I think it's important that it can be seen to link with things I've done in the bigger body of work that is 44 years in the making, really." Anderson and his current band -- all of whom have served tenures as part of Jethro Tull -- hit the road to promote "Homo Erraticus" starting April 28 in U.K., with European dates into August and U.S. shows during the fall. He plans to play the new album in its entirety, with a second half that will include "a selection of the best of Jethro Tull's sort of classic songs." He'll also be digging deep for three songs that Anderson says "are quite well-known pieces by Jethro Tull" that have been rarely played live but are going to be part of this year's set. "It's kind of interesting to find three songs I've always discounted doing again, but when I went to listen to them again I discovered there were elements of those things that I really did like that overwhelmed the things I didn't like," he explains. "So I just have to tune out those negative association and just get on with doing the job." More of the same... Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson uses solo album 'Homo Erraticus' to effectively end former bandwww.musictimes.com/articles/5479/20140414/jethro-tull-frontman-ian-anderson-uses-solo-album-homo-erraticus.htmJethro Tull fans might as well buy tickets to Ian Anderson's solo tour. The vocalist, long the frontman for Tull, has more or less confirmed that the prog-rock band has called it quits. It was possible that the solo album from Anderson, the second consecutive record the performer's put out since Tull last released a record of its own, could have been just that: another solo album. Alas, Anderson seems to write the epitaph to his former band in the liner notes to Homo Erraticus, the new album. "The huge body of work that is the Jethro Tull catalogue stands firm close beside me and in good stead... But I think I prefer, in my twilight years, to use my own name for the most part being composer of virtually all Tull songs and music since 1968." An interview with Billboard indicated that the decision wasn't strictly a personal decision for Anderson. "To me, Jethro Tull is...the vast body of repertoire that's Jethro Tull, the record catalog, the music, and I think that, if we look back on it, it kind of came more or less to an end during the last 10 years or so," he said. "It's a body of work I rather think is now kind of historical, since the weight of it lies back in the '70s and '80s in terms of volume. And I rather think it's nice to kind of leave that as legacy." The good news for Tull fans is that all the members of Anderson's solo touring group were at one point or another members of Jethro Tull. So it's entirely possible that the vocalist/flautist could tackle hits such as "Aqualung" and "Thick As A Brick" at his solo shows. Then again, he may hate the idea of playing "the classics." As Anderson also revealed to Billboard, he has long hate Tull's name because it was thrust upon them by a booking agency, and he's long felt that the group has been guilty of misappropriating the name of the real Jethro Tull, a notable figure in British agricultural history. Let it be known that the original Tull perfected the horse-drawn seed drill.
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Post by Equus on Apr 14, 2014 19:55:00 GMT
Have given the album a couple of listens over course of the day and I have to admit that I really don't like it much. Will continue to listen to see if it grows on me though.. I guess that it is all about individual tastes and other long standing Tull fans generally seem to be impressed. For me the stand-out tracks are Heavy Metals, Turnpike Inn and Browning of the Green. Having said that it is not to my taste, I am just amazed that (in his late 60's) Ian Anderson is still generating music that is very different to anyone else. The album packaging and marketing looks great and IA has obviously put a huge effort into this album. Us Tull fans are extremely lucky. Sorry to be the contradictory one.. but I prefer to say as I find... We all have the right to our own experience, but who knows maybe it will grow on you?
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