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Post by prestonplatform on Nov 5, 2008 20:45:35 GMT
DVD for sale at Amazon UK Passion Flute . search DVDs I am pretty sure that this is a unofficial release but somehow it has ended up on Amazzon .
I have just bought it and it is the Lugano show from 05 which was shown on Swiss TV
Worth seeing camera work is great , but I am sure that most would prefer not to line the pockets of .........
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Post by admin on Nov 6, 2008 21:04:50 GMT
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 10, 2008 10:41:53 GMT
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 12, 2008 17:19:04 GMT
Just got the Passion Flute dvd from ebay. Lugano, Switzerland, 9 July 2005. Good sound and picture, at least on my copy, and the recording runs for 104 minutes. Track listing is:
Aqua Intro For A Thousand Mothers Nothing Is Easy Jack-In-The-Green Serenade To A Cuckoo Beggar's Farm Boris Dancing Weathercock We Five Kings Up To Me Bouree (actually spelt Boure on dvd cover) Mother Goose Empty Cafe Farm On The Freeway Hymn 43 A New Day Yesterday Budapest Aqualung
Encore: Locomotive Breath Protect And Survive Cheerio
Nothing new that we haven't seen or heard before I'm afraid but excellent none the less for us Tull fans who weren't there. Will give it a full viewing this weekend (work until then unfortunately) but on a quick run through seems IMO a worthwhile purchase.
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Post by silkenmist on Nov 13, 2008 17:48:56 GMT
Good Day to You.. A few months back a friend of mine bought the Tampa Stadium 76 DVD (from this company) and made a copy for me. This was one of the most exciting Tull shows I have ever had the pleasure of being at and then having the DVD of the actual concert to see it, some 32 years later. What a rush!!!!! Silken...
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 13, 2008 18:23:45 GMT
Good Day to You.. A few months back a friend of mine bought the Tampa Stadium 76 DVD (from this company) and made a copy for me. This was one of the most exciting Tull shows I have ever had the pleasure of being at and then having the DVD of the actual concert to see it, some 32 years later. What a rush!!!!! Silken... Thanks for that. I'll investigate their DVDs in the new year when I've got some spare cash ;D Yes, excellent show was tampa - will have to add it to my ever lengthening list of music to listen/watch
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Post by admin on Nov 17, 2008 10:01:44 GMT
Just watched it all through and......it's ok...ish.
It starts off well enough with rollocking run throughs of For A Thousand mothers & Nothing Is Easy but after that Tull seem to kick down a gear and it all seems to me to become Tull doing just another gig in another town. Don't get me wrong here, the playing is exemplary as always and Ian sounds good but it's all a bit workmanlike IMO, it would be great by most bands standards but it seems to lack any real sparkle. It does have it's moments, the arrangement of Hymn 43 with the folky beginning segueing into the rock second half, Jon Noyce's great bass solo for Bouree etc etc but on the whole it feels a little like they are going through the motions. On the plus side they do round the show off with a fiery Aqualung and Loco Breath which lose none of their punch despite being so familiar.
So, in a nutshell, great start, great finish and watchable middle section. There are better Tull DVD's than this one but it's definitaley worth picking up if you can find it cheap! 7/10
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 17, 2008 10:25:43 GMT
Just watched it all through and......it's ok...ish. It starts off well enough with rollocking run throughs of For A Thousand mothers & Nothing Is Easy but after that Tull seem to kick down a gear and it all seems to me to become Tull doing just another gig in another town. Don't get me wrong here, the playing is exemplary as always and Ian sounds good but it's all a bit workmanlike IMO, it would be great by most bands standards but it seems to lack any real sparkle. It does have it's moments, the arrangement of Hymn 43 with the folky beginning segueing into the rock second half, Jon Noyce's great bass solo for Bouree etc etc but on the whole it feels a little like they are going through the motions. On the plus side they do round the show off with a fiery Aqualung and Loco Breath which lose none of their punch despite being so familiar. So, in a nutshell, great start, great finish and watchable middle section. There are better Tull DVD's than this one but it's definitaley worth picking up if you can find it cheap! 7/10 You beat me to it Col, gonna watch it in full this afternoon but from my initial quick run through still seems a good purchase if you can find it for the price of 3 or 4 pints! Maybe it was the fact that they were, as you say, "going through the motions" which prompted IA to re-vamp the band membership ?
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Post by admin on Nov 17, 2008 10:47:44 GMT
Just watched it all through and......it's ok...ish. It starts off well enough with rollocking run throughs of For A Thousand mothers & Nothing Is Easy but after that Tull seem to kick down a gear and it all seems to me to become Tull doing just another gig in another town. Don't get me wrong here, the playing is exemplary as always and Ian sounds good but it's all a bit workmanlike IMO, it would be great by most bands standards but it seems to lack any real sparkle. It does have it's moments, the arrangement of Hymn 43 with the folky beginning segueing into the rock second half, Jon Noyce's great bass solo for Bouree etc etc but on the whole it feels a little like they are going through the motions. On the plus side they do round the show off with a fiery Aqualung and Loco Breath which lose none of their punch despite being so familiar. So, in a nutshell, great start, great finish and watchable middle section. There are better Tull DVD's than this one but it's definitaley worth picking up if you can find it cheap! 7/10 You beat me to it Col, gonna watch it in full this afternoon but from my initial quick run through still seems a good purchase if you can find it for the price of 3 or 4 pints! Maybe it was the fact that they were, as you say, "going through the motions" which prompted IA to re-vamp the band membership ? Yeah, possibly. But funnily enough I actually think Andy Giddings & Jon Noyce are really good in it. It's a bit difficult to put my finger on what it is about it I think falls a bit flat in places, maybe it's just because they were in the middle of a long tour and a bit knackered? Am I also right in thinking that I read somewhere IA doesn't really like playing big open air gigs and prefers the intimacy of a smaller theatre?
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 17, 2008 13:21:49 GMT
You beat me to it Col, gonna watch it in full this afternoon but from my initial quick run through still seems a good purchase if you can find it for the price of 3 or 4 pints! Maybe it was the fact that they were, as you say, "going through the motions" which prompted IA to re-vamp the band membership ? Yeah, possibly. But funnily enough I actually think Andy Giddings & Jon Noyce are really good in it. It's a bit difficult to put my finger on what it is about it I think falls a bit flat in places, maybe it's just because they were in the middle of a long tour and a bit knackered? Am I also right in thinking that I read somewhere IA doesn't really like playing big open air gigs and prefers the intimacy of a smaller theatre? First things first and it struck me almost at once - why can't we Brits, and for that matter most other nationalities apart from the Swiss, have a Tull concert on TV? I agree with Col about it falling flat a bit in places which I think was the choice of one or two songs IMO. I could have done without "We Five Kings" and "Boris Dancing" and substituted something like "Black Sunday" or "TAAB" in their place. I also think the camera work was over enthusiastic which wasn't the fault of the band however. Overall a good souvenir if you'd been there (wish I had been ) and I'd give it 8 out of 10. A concert recording I'll be revisiting frequently.
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