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Post by nonrabbit on Mar 5, 2016 15:56:02 GMT
Don't know if we've seen this before but someone called Jakob Maulwurf has very cleverly put together these two videos documenting the changes in Ian's vocals through the years.
Where's the very first example taken from?
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 5, 2016 17:10:23 GMT
Don't know if we've seen this before but someone called Jakob Maulwurf has very cleverly put together these two videos documenting the changes in Ian's vocals through the years. Where's the very first example taken from? It's from "The John Evan Band - Live '66" CD issued with IA's permission by AND in 1990 and incorrectly called a bootleg in a few places on the internet. Details are as follows: 1 Twine Time 2 Hold On I'm Coming 3 Let The Good Times Roll 4 Don't Fight It 5 Respect 6 Water 7 Everything's Gonna Be Alright 8 Mr. Pitiful 9 Boot-Leg 10 Stupidity 11 Pink Champagne 12 I Want You 13 Wade In The Water 14 Work Song 15 Shake 16 Twine Time 17 Last Night 18 Straight No Chaser Released - 19 November 1990 (UK) Recording location and date: October, 1966 at Casterton, and Summer '66 at John Evans' house ("Straight No Chaser" only) Production: Neil Smith and Adrian Wagner Cover Concept by: Dave Rees Cover Art by: Dave Rees Musicians: Ian Anderson (vocals) John Evans (organ) Bo Ward (bass) Ritchie Dharma (drums) Neil Smith (guitar) Tony Wilkinson (sax) Neil Valentine (sax) Chris Riley (guitar on "Straight No Chaser") DR's sleeve notes from 1990 " Until fairly recently very little was known about the history of the John Evan Band. We knew that it included many people who were eventually to play in Jethro Tull, but nothing of the following they had and the places they played, and no way of actually knowing what they sounded like. In 1986 I wrote a piece on Tull for Record Collector magazine, and as a result I received a letter from one Don Read who told me he had managed The John Evan Band in the '60s and still had the first demo tape they had recorded, plus a few items that I might be interested in. Indeed I was, and subsequently parted with an arm and several legs to purchase said items, one of which was a press cutting which revealed that the band had actually appeared on TV in 1966. This was surprising in view of lan Anderson's vague recollection of them having been "the worst band in the world", and my colleague Martin Webb was temporarily jolted out of the serene tranquility of his 'work' with the Civil Service to endeavour to track down anybody who might remember the band, or even have played with them. To this end he placed an ad in the Blackpool press, and waited..... and waited. Just as we had all but given up hope of any response he got a very brief note from Chris Riley, one time guitarist with the band, and eventually we met him and spoke to him at great length about the history of the band. Before and after our meeting Chris did a tremendous amount of work to try to piece together the storyline for us, and at a subsequent meeting he introduced us to another band member, sax player Tony Wilkinson. The conversations we had with Chris and Tony, and later with ex JEB and Tull stars John Evans and Barrie Barlow, along with some amazing photographs courtesy of Tony and John's mum Alice gave us a lot of material to work with, and #2l of "A New Day" was devoted entirely to part 1 of the John Evan Band story. And that was the catalyst for the next part of this story....
In 1989 Tull played a charity gig in Inverness, and Neil Smith (Chick Murray) went along to see them, and met up with lan Anderson for the first time since leaving the JEB in 1967, when his place was taken by Mick Abrahams. Backstage, somebody gave him a copy of A.N.D. #21, and a few weeks later he contacted me offering to come down to talk to us about the band and dropping the bomb shell that he had a recording of one of their gigs from 1966. He had recorded it just after joining the band, onto a tape deck tucked away at the back of the stage, simply to enable him to listen to the songs at home and learn them properly! Subsequent listening to the tape brought a whole new insight to the story, because it proved to be actually rather good! Strange to hear Ian Anderson singing a selection of soul and R&B covers, but fascinating stuff nevertheless. We just had to put it out for the fans! The quality of the recording is obviously not great, but the original tape has been well looked after and the sound deterioration is not disastrous, thankfully. With cunning use of a graphic equaliser and careful positioning of the listener it is possible to listen to this recording without too much discomfort, which has been cleaned up and digitally remastered by Adrian Wagner, as far as is possible. Having said that though, bear in mind that it is not possible to make a silk pig out of Percy's ear..Or something like that. Look upon this recording as a priceless collectors item detailing a unique piece of musical history, rather than the listening experience of the decade.
The "Thank Yous" to all the people who have helped, directly or indirectly, to make this possible;- Chris Riley, Tony Wilkinson, John Evans, Barrie Barlow, lan Anderson, Dave Pegg and Kenny Wylie. To Martin Webb for his great work on the John Evan Band story and the family tree. And of course to Neil Smith for making the recording in the first place, and doing the spade work to get us this far- It was worth it in the end!"
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Post by nonrabbit on Dec 13, 2016 12:02:02 GMT
Just listening to the String Quartet version and the original as well. His pronunciation of the "rrr's" has changed. I assumed he's got more Scottish the older he's got but then he hasn't lived there for ages so maybe it's more West Country?
See 1.34 on the original and the word "parrrties"
and the same here at 1.36
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Post by nonrabbit on Dec 13, 2016 19:03:36 GMT
I've noticed too that he's very posh sounding now at the "Hey Santa passes us that bottle will you" He was very London on the original but he lost that accent a long time ago.
And while I'm here and it's not a moan but I always liked the slight "Oirish" of " Ah sure does not need making" again in the original. That's changed as well to "I'm sure does not need making"
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Post by jackinthegreen on Dec 13, 2016 21:50:42 GMT
I've noticed too that he's very posh sounding now at the "Hey Santa passes us that bottle will you" He was very London on the original but he lost that accent a long time ago. And while I'm here and it's not a moan but I always liked the slight "Oirish" of " Ah sure does not need making" again in the original. That's changed as well to "I'm sure does not need making" I hate to disagree with you lovely nonrabbit... )...but I don't see any difference really........... He had a great voice back in the day, and not now for sure, but on that recording it's not obvious...
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