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Post by steelmonkey on Nov 5, 2014 4:14:52 GMT
Have I mentioned lately how lucky I feel to have seen the full HE...TWICE ?!
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 5, 2014 8:37:25 GMT
Have I mentioned lately how lucky I feel to have seen the full HE...TWICE ?! Yes
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2014 15:15:25 GMT
Have I mentioned lately how lucky I feel to have seen the full HE...TWICE ?! qué guay
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 6, 2014 8:58:43 GMT
The IntelligencerNovember 6, 2014 Link to web pageIAN ANDERSON After the British Invasion of pop bands, blues-rock groups started flooding the United States in the late-1960s: Cream, Savoy Brown, Led Zeppelin, our own Grand Funk Railroad and Mountain, to name a few. The prog-rock band Jethro Tull certainly had its roots in blues-rock in the early days, but stretched out musically, probably due to lead singer Ian Anderson’s flute-playing. The lighter sound of that instrument lent a pastoral feeling to the band’s overall sound. Interestingly, Anderson had never learned how to play the flute. He just blew into it and got the sounds he wanted, often talk-singing into the instrument. These days, he plays more concerts solo than he does with Tull, so the focus is solely on him. That caused him to take flute lessons a few years ago to see what he was missing. The result has been a more melodic output from Anderson, sometimes performing with orchestras, sometimes recording albums with orchestras. Recently, he released a sequel to Jethro Tull’s classic album “Thick as a Brick,” but now he has come up with another concept disc, “Homo Erraticus” (2014), which is loosely based on the unpublished manuscripts of a 19th century author. Anderson will showcase the new CD at his concert Friday at Caesars Casino at 2100 Pacific Ave. in Atlantic City. Among the new prog-rock songs are “Doggerland,” “Heavy Metals,” “Browning of the Green” and “Cold Dead Reckoning.” The rest of his set list will consist of Tull’s greatest hits, including “Aqualung,” “Locomotive Breath,” “Living in the Past,” “Teacher,” “Bouree,” “Thick as a Brick” and “Too Old to Rock And Roll: Too Young to Die!” Show time: 9 p.m. Tickets: $55 to $105. Information: 609-348-4411.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2014 20:25:08 GMT
Ian Anderson Wants Fans to Stop Following Him to Hotels by Dave Swanson November 6, 2014 2:45 PMultimateclassicrock.com/ian-anderson-physical-fans/In a new post on Jethro Tull‘s Facebook page, frontman Ian Anderson asked fans to keep their distance. “To the pursuit-jockeys,” he writes. “Please don’t follow me back to hotels after shows. There have been a few threats of physical violence towards me in recent times, and my first assumption is that someone following me in a car after a show and jumping out when I pull into a hotel is up to no good.” Anderson is quick to note that some fans simply want an autograph, “whether for yourself or Mr. eBay.” But he said that’s not the issue here. “My hotel is my sanctuary,” he continues. “You frighten my wife and put me under pressure to react to potential violence. Stop and think: If you were on your way home from work, late at night, and you became aware of a car or two following you to your home in the dark, you would get worried and understandably probably lock your car doors and call the cops.” Overzealous fans aggressively tracking down the flute-playing minstrel has obviously ruffled Anderson, and understandably so. Fan replies to his comments range from the sympathetic (“When all is said and done, the artist is still a person entitled to their private life!”) to the sarcastic (“You will get beat by a flute!”). In closing, Anderson emphatically states, “PLEASE DON’T DO THIS. I won’t be in a good mood, and I won’t sign your albums, in spite of your arguments and protestations. You will get angry, call me names and I will get even angrier than you … Not a nice way for any of us to end the otherwise pleasurable evening.” So keep that in mind as Anderson makes his way across the U.S. on his current tour, and when he heads over to Europe and Australia to end the year. Next: Top 10 Jethro Tull Songs
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 7, 2014 9:58:56 GMT
Ian Anderson Wants Fans to Stop Following Him to Hotels by Dave Swanson November 6, 2014 2:45 PMultimateclassicrock.com/ian-anderson-physical-fans/In a new post on Jethro Tull‘s Facebook page, frontman Ian Anderson asked fans to keep their distance. “To the pursuit-jockeys,” he writes. “Please don’t follow me back to hotels after shows. There have been a few threats of physical violence towards me in recent times, and my first assumption is that someone following me in a car after a show and jumping out when I pull into a hotel is up to no good.” I find it incredible that he's had to do this and things must have got bad on this tour. You can always spot a "pursuit jockey" - they're the ones with a pile of albums or cds in a bag and expect IA and the others to sign each one. As my dear old Dad would have said "It's the times we live in dear boy, the times we live in"
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 7, 2014 10:17:10 GMT
Casinos: Jethro Tull's zombie connectionCHL 11:09 p.m. EST November 6, 2014courierpostonline.com Link to articleWhen British actor Andrew Lincoln, who stars in the runaway AMC zombie series "The Walking Dead," began dating a young woman in the film industry named Gael Anderson, he was clueless he was courting the daughter of rock 'n' roll royalty. Even after his new girlfriend told him her dad was Ian Anderson, the front man for the progressive rock band Jethro Tull, Lincoln drew a blank. "I didn't know who Jethro Tull was," the actor told Rolling Stone magazine last year. Then two of his more musically-inclined friends set him straight about his girlfriend's famous lineage. Lincoln was impressed, but it wasn't until Gael Anderson invited her new beau home to meet the folks that it began to sink in. "That's when I realized he was a rock star. He's an amazing guy," said Lincoln, who, at 41, is two years younger than "Aqualung" and "Thick as a Brick," two of the early albums that put Jethro Tull on the musical map. Ian Anderson, the versatile and innovative musician who was once one of Europe's most successful salmon farmers (talk about career diversity) now thinks it's pretty cool that his daughter is married to a star of one of the darkest yet highest-rated series in cable television history. Now in its fifth season, and with ratings continuing to build each week, Anderson's familial connection with the "The Walking Dead" has proven to be a conversation-starter for people who approach Anderson and ask about his famous son-in-law. But that doesn't mean the Anderson family gets a sneak preview of plot lines on the series that haven't been made public. Like other cast members from "The Walking Dead," Lincoln is tight-lipped about anything involving the show. Besides, Anderson doesn't watch the show very often because of his close connection to Lincoln. "It's quite hard for me to watch (because) Andy's one of the family," Anderson said, before revealing a wicked sense of humor. "It's quite hard to detach yourself from someone that you know in the family capacity and then somehow divorce yourself from that when you watch them do their shtick," he said. "I can't quite shake the idea that (Lincoln's character) Officer Rick Grimes is in Cornwall on a brief holiday with my daughter and he will be sleeping with her tonight." While he won't discuss "The Walking Dead" in any detail, Anderson is more than happy to talk about "Homo Erraticus," his sixth studio solo album (not counting the 21 studio albums he released as a member of Jethro Tull). Anderson will perform the new album in its entirety Friday at Caesars Atlantic City. Then, after a brief intermission, he'll haul out a treasure trove of old hits, like "Aqualung," "Locomotive Breath," "Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll" and "Songs from the Wood," all of which help the show live up to its billing as "The Best of Jethro Tull performed by Ian Anderson." "Homo Erraticus" is based on unpublished manuscripts by amateur historian Ernest T. Parritt, who examined key events in British history with a string of prophecies stretching to the current day and into the future. The music features "appearances" by Gerald Bostock, a fictional character originally created by Anderson for Jethro Tull's 1972 concept album "Thick as a Brick." Bostock also is the focus of Anderson's 2012 solo album "Thick as a Brice 2." But Anderson, 67, told vintagerock.com that Bostock's emergence in his new album isn't the third and final leg of a trilogy. "It's simply that I think sometimes when writers write they have some characters that they maybe bring back in to another story, or another context," he said. "They're like old friends dropping in for a cup of tea, but they don't necessarily have to overstay their welcome or dominate the procedure. So Gerald is just a writer's device; something for continuity, an old friend that the fans can recognize, even though he's now middle-aged and a bit cranky." " 'Homo Erraticus' is the story of all of us," he said. Just as he did on "Thick as a Brick 2," Anderson uses a few spoken-word passages on both the album and during the live show. He's got a rich speaking voice that straddles the line between tenor and baritone and fits well in between the musical parts. Occasionally, he'll even do some voiceover work for documentaries or radio broadcasts. "It's not something I make a living out of. I just do it for fun once in a while," he explained. "But the spoken word is the language of conveyance that I'm using right now. It's the way that I put across ideas and thoughts and notions, which can either be improvised or they can be scripted."
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Post by JTull 007 on Nov 7, 2014 16:07:09 GMT
Salute to Rredmond (Ron) @ Caesars Circus Maximus Theater Rocks with Ian Anderson TULL Ian TULL Link
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Post by bunkerfan on Nov 7, 2014 16:47:23 GMT
I'd love to sit in one of those comfy seats with the little round tables in front with a cool beer on it while watching the entire HE being performed. Dreaming again!
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 8, 2014 10:01:03 GMT
Ian Anderson to perform at the WellmontNOVEMBER 8, 2014 LAST UPDATED: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2014, 1:21 AM BY BRIAN ABERBACKwww.northjersey.com/arts-and-entertainment/music/jethro-tull-voice-tours-as-himself-1.1129448Musically, "Homo Erraticus" continues in the tradition of Anderson and Jethro Tull's brand of heady progressive and folk rock and complex, poetic lyrics. Highlights include the prog-rock workouts "Doggerland" and "New Blood, Old Veins," and acoustic, pastoral pieces "Heavy Metals" and "In for a Pound." While he has performed "Homo Erraticus" in its entirety in Europe, Anderson is playing about two-thirds of the 60-minute album in the U.S., leaving more room in the approximately two-hour set for Jethro Tull classics.
Anderson said American audiences in general prefer hearing past hits to new music. Anderson said that he "slightly regrets" not playing all of "Homo Erraticus" in America, but added that he thoroughly enjoys performing Jethro Tull staples like "Aqualung," "Locomotive Breath" and "Thick as a Brick."
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 9, 2014 9:53:25 GMT
www.redbankgreen.com/2014/11/red-bank-minstrel-gallery.htmlRED BANK: MINSTREL IN THE GALLERYOne of rock’s truly stand-alone (even stand-on-one-leg) figures returns to Red Bank this Sunday, as Jethro Tull mastermind Ian Anderson delivers both The Best of Tull and his most recent solo album. In the shuffling madness of the Locomotive Breath, a stranger from across the pond arrived at station stop Red Bank eleven years ago — prepped to bring an intimate evening of song and story to the stage of the Count Basie Theatre, and preceded by a newspaper interview that dared to offer pointed opinions on President George W. Bush, Prime Minister Tony Blair, the Iraq incursion, and the American penchant for flag-waving in general. That bit of commentary got the longtime linchpin of prog-rock pioneers Jethro Tull booed at the Basie and other dates on his fall 2003 tour — but apparently undaunted and undampened in spirit, Ian Anderson would return multiple times to the Monmouth Street landmark that’s become a comfortable cradle for his rather unique blend of baroque pop stylings, bop jazz accents, British folk blues, and hypercurrent references. This Sunday night, November 9, the bearded bard is back on the Basie boards, for a program that promises to chase “The Best of Tull” with a thorough examination of his newest, self-released solo effort, Homo-Erraticus. If you’re a certain-age consumer who snatched up Tull releases like Aqualung, War Child and Too Old to Rock and Roll…Too Young to Die when they first hit the record store racks — or even if you’re a more recently minted collector of polyvinyl platters — you surely paused for a closer look when you first encountered the ambitious Tull epic Thick as a Brick and its one-of-a-kind cover that unfolded into an entire fake newspaper. Scattered throughout were mentions of one Gerald Bostock, a boy-genius poet prodigy who allegedly wrote the album-length epic that baffled fans (and mortified rock radio programmers) in 1972 — and forty years later, Anderson would revisit his alter ego with the inevitable Thick as a Brick 2. Released last April, Homo Erraticus continues the Bostock saga, in a way that blends flutey and familiar Jethro Tull elements with semi-automatic salvos aimed at social media platforms, instantly obsolete tech, soon-obsolete humans, and the anymore eternal state of war. Like recent Basie visitor Chrissie Hynde, Anderson will be showcasing tunes from the new release this Sunday — and again like Hynde, he’ll be expected to chase it all with an ample sampling of standards from his old band.
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Post by JTull 007 on Nov 10, 2014 19:56:43 GMT
2014 Ian Anderson TULL U.S. Tour Final night in Montclair, NJ Ian LINK
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Post by JTull 007 on Nov 11, 2014 16:09:22 GMT
21 Images from November 6th @ The LINCOLN Theatre by Joy Asico FB Link
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2014 18:00:26 GMT
Thanks Jim, you rock as always. CHEERS!
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Post by bunkerfan on Nov 11, 2014 20:49:24 GMT
A worrying sign in these modern times, I just hope the message from Ian gets through!
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Post by Equus on Nov 11, 2014 21:44:35 GMT
A worrying sign in these modern times, I just hope the message from Ian gets through! Seriously... Don't stalk anyone! Leave the people that we love the most, alone! And just in case you didn't know... Ian has guns... lot's of guns... and a kick ass Son In Law, who eats zombies for breakfast!
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 13, 2014 9:24:36 GMT
JETHRO TULL’S IAN ANDERSON ROCKS RED BANK, NEW JERSEY’S COUNT BASIE THEATRENovember 12, 2014 BY ELLIOT STEPHEN COHENwww.examiner.com/article/jethro-tull-s-ian-anderson-rocks-red-bank-new-jersey-s-count-basie-theatrePHOTO BY ELLIOT STEPHEN COHEN“I’m a sprightly 67-year-old with a bladder of steel,” announced former Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson, at the midway point of Sunday night’s two-hour concert. “Some of you aren’t. So, make a quick visit to the lavi loo, and we’ll be back in 15 minutes with more of the best of the rest of Jethro Tull.” Indeed, Anderson does look sprightly. The long-hair, full-beard, and 19th -century clothes of his younger days are gone. (The wild-eyes remain.) However, unlike many of his British contemporaries, who fell prey to drugs and alcohol, he’s apparently lived a pretty clean life as a highly successful musician and prominent salmon farmer. Tonight, attired simply in a white T-shirt, black leather vest and form-fitting grey jeans, he effortlessly pranced the stage while alternately singing and playing his iconic flute, whose sound made Jethro Tull stand out from other bands of its era. While Anderson told me earlier this year that for now he’s retiring the Tull name to the “annals of rock music history,” advertising his current tour as “The Music Of Jethro Tull,” the music of a band that The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has shamefully ignored inducting for years, certainly doesn’t hurt ticket sales. As with most famous musicians of his generation, older fans, who made up the majority of the nearly sold-out audience, were most likely there to hear his classic “hits” from the ’70s. Nevertheless, Anderson’s most recent album, “Homo Erraticus,” which took up most of the concert’s first half, while not up the standard of past Tull albums like “Aqualung” and “Living In The Past” is actually quite good, and shows an older artist still passionate about his work. The show began with a narration by singer/actor Ryan O’Donnell, who was discovered by band keyboardist John O’Hara and was brought into the group to sing some of Anderson’s parts, while he’s playing the flute. The ensemble performed new selections from “Homo Erraticus"..."Puer Ferox Adventus," "Tripudium Ad Bellum," and "Cold Dead Reckoning." Video accompaniment helped propel the story line which is supposed to chronicle mankind's existence from 7000 B.C to the present, although in its aborted presentation (the British tour included the full album) was sometimes difficult to follow. While such long-time Jethro Tull stalwarts like guitarist Martin Barre are not present on this tour, Anderson’s crack four-piece band including O'Hara, ace-guitarist Florian Opahle, keyboardist John O’Hara, bass player David Goodier and drummer Scott Hammond, did itself proud accompanying Anderson and O'Donnell on the the new material, as well as the famous Tull numbers. Of course, the crowd went wild in the second half, hearing“Living In The Past,” “Too Old To Rock And Roll: Too Young To Die,” “Teacher.” "Aqualung," and other Tull favorites. The band encored with a highly spirited “Locomotive Breath,” with Anderson clearly relishing every minute, prancing and mugging like a wide-eyed 20-year old auditioning for his big break.
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Post by JTull 007 on Nov 16, 2014 16:22:50 GMT
Ian Anderson TULL 2014 tonight in Murten, Switzerland SOLD OUT TULL Link
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Post by JTull 007 on Nov 17, 2014 15:24:18 GMT
:DIan Anderson's Jethro TULL tonight @ Théâtre du Léman TULL Link
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Post by steelmonkey on Nov 17, 2014 23:36:17 GMT
Why am I in front of my computer in a generic suburb of San Francisco when i should be in beautiful, historic, classy, multicultural, multilingual Geneva, Switzerland seeing Tull right now? Why ?
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Post by Equus on Nov 18, 2014 12:24:00 GMT
Why am I in front of my computer in a generic suburb of San Francisco when i should be in beautiful, historic, classy, multicultural, multilingual Geneva, Switzerland seeing Tull right now? Why ? To be in Switzerland, or not to be in Switzerland. That is the question!
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