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Post by JTull 007 on Aug 31, 2018 0:41:54 GMT
This is what I've been dreaming of all year !!! LINK 50 Years of TULL Returns to the U.S. at Last
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Post by JTull 007 on Sept 1, 2018 1:14:56 GMT
Holy 50 Years of TULL ... Let's ROCK !!! LINK Ian Anderson presents Jethro Tull 50th Anniversary Tour | Kansas City Starlight Theatre Attachments:
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Post by maddogfagin on Sept 1, 2018 6:44:11 GMT
www.fan-lexikon.de/musik/news/jethro-tull-auf-jubilaeumstour.228194.htmlJethro Tull: on anniversary tour31.08.2018 - 13:15 Augsburg - 50 years "Jethro Tull" - that is really a reason to celebrate. And that's what frontman Ian Anderson thought too, so he's going on an anniversary tour. As part of this, the musician presents a cross-section of the work of the British rock band and also visits Germany, as "Hammerl Kommunikation" announces. In total, "Jethro Tull" will be giving six concerts in the Federal Republic. Here are the dates of the anniversary tour of "Jethro Tull" by Ian Anderson: 15.11.18 Cottbus, Stadthalle 16.11.18 Halle / Saale, Steintor Varieté 17.11.18 Hamburg, More! Theater 19.11.18 Berlin, Music Hall 20.11.18 Mannheim, Rosengarten 21.11.18 Essen, Lichterburg
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Post by JTull 007 on Sept 2, 2018 0:36:01 GMT
Images on Deskgram State Theatre Minneapolis LINK Jethro Tull put on an amazing performance last night so happy to have seen their 50th anniversary tour. Ian Anderson 71 years old with the stage presence of a 20 year old. #musicalgenious
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Post by maddogfagin on Sept 2, 2018 6:37:51 GMT
chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment/jethro-tull-ian-anderson-50-years-tour-ravinia-music-weekend/09/01/2018, 07:30am Ian Anderson celebrating 50 eclectic years of ever-changing Jethro TullByJoshua Miller — For the Sun-Times Ian Anderson recalls his first visit to Chicago in 1969 as one of great anticipation and anxiety. His budding new band Jethro Tull was playing at the Kinetic Playground as support for Led Zeppelin. “You were aware there was pretty hearty competition to get noticed when you were playing alongside Zep,” says Anderson. “We as a lowly opening act had to give a good account of ourselves and try to not be steamrolled by what became, in short order, one of the world’s greatest rock bands ever. More so because they didn’t just do rock. They went into elements of folk music and world music.” Anderson was also eager to visit Chicago because of its contributions to blues music. Ever since he was a teenager growing up in England, he idolized African-American bluesmen such as Muddy Waters for their acoustic country-fused blues. “What resonated with me most was the simplicity, the purity, the fact that it was very exotic,” he says. “It wasn’t the commercialized and rather thin-sounding music of British pop music, which was cheesy and upbeat and friendly and full of sentiments that were not really about the real world.” While he typically shies away from nostalgia, he has a special reason now to reminisce about his career — his current tour is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Jethro Tull, whose hits include “Bungle in the Jungle,” “Broadsword,” “Living in the Past,” “Aqualung” and “Locomotive Breath.” Over the course of that half-century, Jethro Tull has proved to be a true musical chameleon, with forays into folk, blues, classical and hard rock. They are pioneers of the progressive rock sound and were one of the first bands to incorporate flute in rock music. Since forming in 1968, Jethro Tull has released 30 albums and sold more than 60 million copies worldwide. The anniversary concerts take audiences on a trip from the band’s earliest formative material to its biggest hits. It also introduces audiences to many of the thirty-six studio and/or touring members that have been part of Jethro Tull’s history. Anderson is thankful for each incarnation of the band. “Thirty-six different members of Jethro Tull have been able to claim their part in that history,” Anderson says. “I like to fondly remember all their contributions and interactions both socially and musically.” Working with so many different musicians inspired Anderson to write challenging and thoughtful songs, dabbling in various genres. There were not many dull moments creatively as each member came in with his own unique musical skills and background. “It’s energizing because you don’t feel limitations,” says Anderson. “If you work in a certain genre of music, it may be productive [in that] you concentrate all your efforts on doing one kind of thing. But for me it would be rather limiting because I’m naturally curious about music and naturally inclined to explore options. Sometimes those options are stylistically different from the last thing I did.” Anderson’s current band features David Goodier (bass), John O’Hara (keyboards), Florian Opahle (guitar) and Scott Hammond (drums). He’s enjoying this lineup as they do justice to the many versions of Tull. “They have to be capable technically in terms of the nuances and understanding of the music,” he says. “They’re not playing just one edition of Jethro Tull from the early ’70s. So, these guys have to be versatile but not just paying lip service to it. They have to be steeped in many musical styles and a historical understanding of the development of pop and rock music over the last 50 years. “Hopefully that’s something they’re able to do and bring their own little touch to the outcome so they’re not just replicating what someone else played. In some discreet way interpreting it. It’s about finding the balance between replicating and interpreting,” Anderson says. When he’s performing, Anderson says he doesn’t think of a song as being a certain number of years old. Instead it’s about when he last performed the song live. “It’s really hard to be nostalgic about music that you played not 49 years ago but 24 hours ago,” Anderson says. Improvisation plays a big part in keeping arrangements vibrant. “It’s a little different every night, little nuances and slightly different content.” He’s proud many songs are still socially relevant today. For example, “Aqualung” is about homeless and “Locomotive Breath” is about issues relating to population growth. “Topics of religion and other social aspects — those are things that always interested me as a songwriter and perhaps what keeps it fresh for me, that I don’t feel like I’m sucked into nostalgia when I walk onto a stage,” Anderson says. “If you tune into CNN or Fox News, you’re going to be confronting issues which very well may be reflected by me in songs over the years. So, some things don’t really change.” Ian Anderson Presents 50 Years of Jethro Tull When: 7:30 p.m. Sept. 3 Where: Ravinia Festival, Lake-Cook and Green Bay Roads, Highland Park Price: $15-$33 Info: ravinia.org
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Post by JTull 007 on Sept 3, 2018 1:15:56 GMT
An Evening with Jethro Tull 50th Anniversary Tour LINK Time to ROCK @ Ravinia Festival in Highland Park SOLD OUT !!!
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Post by steelmonkey on Sept 3, 2018 16:34:53 GMT
Those are the two words most likely to keep Tull on the road: SOLD OUT. I hope our friend Ray has a ticket in hand.,,,wait, it's tonight, I'll chase him down by email and report results.
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Post by steelmonkey on Sept 3, 2018 16:41:49 GMT
Okay...I emailed Ray a subpoena to go....this is time sensitive so any of you facebook types who can get his attention should urge him to contact me ASAP ( I emailed him my phone number)...
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Post by JTull 007 on Sept 3, 2018 21:24:00 GMT
Jethro Tull Performs Epic Concert at the State Theater LINK In today’s music, making a clear, memorable statement, whether it be a move, riff, solo, is really part of the artists claim to their piece of the pie. It also seems like every musical genre has a signature pose that defines it. Early rock ‘n’ roll will always be summed up by Elvis Presley’s crooked knees in Jailhouse Rock. Disco will be remembered for John Travolta pointing skywards in his white suit. And ‘prog rock’ will forever be associated with Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson standing on one leg while playing the flute, his lustrous locks floating about him.
If the pose sounds eccentric, then so was prog rock. The genre introduced complex chord changes and jazz and classical elements to late Sixties rock. Lyrics often dealt in myth and legend, along with wind instruments abounded. Jethro Tull were kings of the scene, despite myriad line-up changes. They sold 60 million albums, had number ones across the globe and, in more recent decades, even beat Metallica to a Grammy.
Playing the near capacity State Theater in Minneapolis as part of the North America Tour to mark their 50th anniversary, the group provided a largely successful example of how to ‘do’ nostalgia in a modern concert setting. Amazing archive footage was mixed with superb musicianship and engaging storytelling from front man Ian Anderson. As singer, flautist and the band’s only original member, the night was effectively all his. Anderson’s vocials and showmanship were solid through the performance and response from the crowd was overwhelming.
With no opening act, the lights dimmed and show began promptly at 8pm. As the band took the stage, it didn’t take long for Anderson to appear with flute raised as he twisted and leapt about the stage. This was very impressive, not only due to the fact that Anderson is 71 but he seems to have maintained his stage presence over the decades. Minutes into the first song, the crowd roared as pulled off his signature ‘pose’.
Throughout the show, there were ‘surprise virtual guests’ making video introductions to the songs. Guests included some of the 32 former Jethro Tull members such as Tony Iommi from Black Sabbath and original guitarist Mick Abrahams, who left to form the wonderfully-named Blodwyn Pig. Celebrity fans such as Iron Maiden’s Steve Harris also provided a great grounding on the upcoming song. Anderson evening a lot of wit and humor to round out the song introduction.
Just before the intermission, two songs, My God and Thick as a Brick, drew huge responses from the crowd. Anderson explained how My God got him into a bit of trouble in the southern states as there were ‘religious concerns’. With many of the fan favorites echoing throughout the performance, it was great to see the setlist span 50 years of solid hits, along with some songs that have been rarely played live. In all, the show proved that Jethro Tull continues to carry on a unique tradition and sound. 18 EXCELLENT Images by David Rubene
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Post by JTull 007 on Sept 5, 2018 1:31:49 GMT
Rose Music Center just announced that LINK the Ian Anderson presents JETHRO TULL officially SOLD OUT! . Show is 9/5 at The Rose Music Center At The Heights. Doors will open at 6:00pm and JETHRO TULL will begin at 7:00pm.
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Post by JTull 007 on Sept 6, 2018 12:52:08 GMT
Get ready for a great night of music! 🎶 LINK Ian Anderson presents Jethro Tull 50th Anniversary Tour comes to #WolfTrap this Friday wolftrap.org/f/090718
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Post by JTull 007 on Sept 6, 2018 14:09:39 GMT
HOLY WOLF TRAP !!! I'm almost ready to leave... Special thanks to my TULL Friend Kenneth Talbot "Present Time With Good Company"
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Post by JTull 007 on Sept 6, 2018 14:29:35 GMT
On this very special night, I'll be dressed just right
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Post by maddogfagin on Sept 7, 2018 7:40:08 GMT
www.newtownbee.com/concert-preview-classic-rocker-ian-anderson-celebrating-jethro-tull-50/09062018Concert Preview: Classic Rocker Ian Anderson Is Celebrating Jethro Tull At 50 By John Voket Published: September 06, 2018 at 12:00 am
WALLINGFORD — A healthy portion of Ian Anderson's massive and diverse catalog of music taps situations, references, melodies, and characters that could be centuries old. But at half a century, Anderson's contributions as the Grammy winning front man of the classic rock band Jethro Tull have created a legacy of their own.
Anderson is showcasing a cross section of material from those 50 years of Jethro Tull in a global tour that arrives at the Toyota Oakdale Theatre on Wednesday, September 12.
While he and his current line-up of band mates — bassist David Goodier, drummer Scott Hammond, keyboardist John O’Hara, and guitarist Florian Ophale — could not get out of any concert hall without delivering Jethro Tull staples like "Thick As A Brick," "Aqualung," and "Locomotive Breath," he is also digging deep and coming up with a few lesser known gems.
Based on observations from earlier in the tour, hard core fans should be thrilled to hear renditions of "Heavy Horses," "Songs From the Wood," "My Sunday Feeling," and "Some Day The Sun Won't Shine For You," among the dozen and a half tunes on the two set bill.
Looking back to the band's beginnings, Anderson uses an online bio to reflect on how the band arrived at its memorable name, which had nothing to do with any actual member.
"Back in February, 1968, we had many different names which usually changed every week," Anderson recalled. "Since we were so bad that we had to pretend to be some new band in order to get re-booked in the clubs where we aspired to find fame and fortune. Our agent, who had studied History at college, came up with the name Jethro Tull (an eighteenth century English agricultural pioneer who invented the seed drill). That was the band name during the week in which London’s famous Marquee Club offered us the Thursday night residency. So it stuck."
Although one of Jethro Tull's more popular tunes is entitled "Living In The Past," Anderson states that he and the band are still very much living in the moment.
"I am not one for nostalgia or reminiscences and prefer to live in the present and the future," he said. "However, some of our audience obviously like the nostalgia bit, and the older material which we play is, for them perhaps, a trip down memory lane.
"For us," Anderson continued, "it’s not about playing a song which could be thirty years old. It’s about playing something 24 hours old, since that’s when we probably last played it on stage. Our style of music is, I hope, a little bit timeless and not rooted in a particular music fashion."
In a recent interview with The Newtown Bee while preparing for the US leg of the "Ian Anderson Presents: An Evening w/ Jethro Tull 50th Anniversary Tour," the ever-serious and monumentally indulging singer, songwriter, and multi instrumentalist settled into the conversation reflecting on how the tour was going so far.
"You have to accept that there are going to be varying responses and varied understanding of the historical side of the band depending on where you're playing," Anderson said. "If I'm in Los Angeles, New York, or Philadelphia, because the band has been touring the states since 1969, a lot of the references I make and the video stuff will make reasonable sense.
But I'm really there to celebrate the repertoire of Jethro Tull, and the 36 band members who have been part of that story. And then a few months into next year, done and dusty — we'll have done the 50th Anniversary thing and I can get on to the rest of my life. As much as it's fun to do this and wallow in nostalgia for awhile, it's tricky for me primarily because nostalgia for me is not the moving force when it comes to performing a song that you last performed not 49 years ago, but just last evening. So the currency in which I deal is very much of the present day."
What's In A Name?
Changing gears, Anderson went on to discuss how he approaches creating and naming albums.
Referencing the track "Minstrel in the Gallery," which became the title of Jethro Tull's eighth studio album back in 1975, Anderson explained how the process of creating songs sometimes determined whether an album project would have thematic continuity, or perhaps just a collection of the individual numbers that were ready to record when it was time to head back into the studio.
"It's always very difficult to decide which it is because they are not discreet little episodes in the gathering together of material and conceiving an album," he said. "They get sort of interlinked by our day by day work. It's probable in the case of [the album] Minstrel In The Gallery, that it came along much the same as Too Old To Rock and Roll, Too Young To Die, or Aqualung. It's in the title or the opening line of the song, and you sort of thing as you're getting there that maybe this is the way in which you wrap it up in a nice parcel to put under the Christmas tree.
"But to say that the title precedes everything else, or it's maybe appended at the end once you look through the song list and you're thinking which one sounds like a good album title, it varies from album to album. Certainly there have been albums I didn't have a title for until I'd written all the songs, and then there have been times when I've come up with an album title and then fulfilled that in the song writing process — whether there's a title track or not.
"It's not a production line," Anderson added. "There's no modus operandi in putting it together. It's more of an organic process and I think that's the beauty of working in this medium of music. You get to be creative and there's no hard and fast rule about how you reach the conclusion — every album, every song, every version of the band with different musicians, they all have their own life. That's part of the fun."
One of the more "modern" hits the current Jethro Tull lineup is performing this tour is a tribute to another American archetype, the struggling subject of the 1987 hit "Farm On The Freeway."
"If you're talking about it in painterly terms, you'd call it 'social realism.' It's about something that matters to a group of people in contemporary society," Anderson explained. "Even today the farmers of America are facing increased challenges as we are over here in a post-Brexit world. It's not going to be business as usual. So perhaps it's the job of a songwriter, or a journalist like yourself, John, to draw attention to certain issues — to get people to think about them and perhaps to make some difference.
"This is one of the songs from the [Grammy winning] Crest of A Knave era that resonated in America. I didn't call it "Farm On The Motorway," I didn't set it in England, I set it very much in the USA. The language of the song and the way it's sung has more to do with contemporary Americana.
"As someone who has been involved with farming as well as aquaculture, it reflects what I've seen as I'm driving through rural parts of the USA. My eyes are open driving through the countryside - looking at what crops are growing, and the machinery that helps them achieve their aims and other necessities of the modern age as they try to find the efficiencies required to feed an ever expanding planet."
Reflecting In Blue
Turning to the very origination of Jethro Tull, Anderson reflected on the shift from being one of a huge collection of British acts emulating the Blues that emanated from across the pond.
"In the summer of 1968, when we finished our first album — which I titled This Was Jethro Tull very knowingly on the assumption that the opportunistic material we used to get noticed might not represent the future of the band — that gave way to some song writing I began to present to the other guys," Anderson said. "But it was clear that Mick Abraham, a very competent and energetic blues guitarist, wasn't relating to it. It's not a fault, he just didn't have an interest in it.
"But Glenn [Cornick] and Clive [Bunker] were willing to try different things beyond their experience, if not their technical ability. But they were excited to deal with new songs and new ideas. So that material I started writing in the summer of 1968 became the Stand Up album, which I regard in many ways as the first Jethro Tull album because it's almost all original material.
"There are elements of blues musically and lyrically that still occur in my recent songwriting, but I came to the collusion that I was not black, and I didn't know anything about the experience of black American folk musicians — it was something I couldn't claim to have an authenticity about, especially before Jethro Tull when I saw concerts promoted by a couple of German guys who brought over a host of black American musicians who were household names."
Anderson said those popular American blues artists were not only put up onto the stages of Europe's finest concert halls, but were treated by audiences with a reverence that he thought must have been "unnerving, but undoubtedly something they must have enjoyed."
"That opened our eyes to the music and to the fact that I could imitate and respect it, but I could never be one of those musicians. You know that it's not you. It's not your background or your culture. I can trace my genes to the cradle of the Tigris and Euphrates, but the one thing for sure that I know — is that I don't have any right to be going out and plagerizing and imitating something that is not my music.
"I say that in the full knowledge that I do still play a couple of songs that you would say are blues songs. But I do it not with a sense that I'm trying to pretend I am of that background — I'm performing the pale imitation, the middle class white boy is doing his thing but in a respectful, even perhaps a reverential way. ...which kind of makes it okay. For the moment I'm doing it because it's part of how Jethro Tull began."
For tickets and more information on the September 12 Jethro Tull concert, visit www.oakdale.com.
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Post by bassackwards on Sept 7, 2018 17:30:32 GMT
All dressed up with somewhere to go!!! Have a Tullishly good time!!!!
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Post by maddogfagin on Sept 8, 2018 6:31:49 GMT
www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/wolf-trap-welcomes-jethro-tull-on-its-golden-anniversary/article_fc26532a-b1e6-11e8-a01e-e3ff85500be7.htmlWolf Trap welcomes Jethro Tull on its golden anniversaryBy Keith Loria / Special to the Fairfax County Times Sep 6, 2018 Updated Sep 6, 2018 0 As frontman, flutist, guitarist, composer and singer for iconic British rock band Jethro Tull for 50 years, Ian Anderson has a place in the music annals that is reserved for very few. Under his watch, Jethro Tull has recorded 30 albums and sold more than 60 million copies worldwide. During the band’s 50-year history, it has also performed more than 3,000 concerts in more than 50 countries, and Anderson has been lending his flute mastery at every one of them. In recognition of the anniversary of the release of Tull’s debut album, “This Was,” the vinyl that introduced flute to rock as a front-line instrument, Anderson has toured all summer celebrating the achievement. On Sept. 7, Jethro Tull will play one of the last legs of the tour at Wolf Trap. “What people expect and what they get might not always be exactly the same thing, but they’re going to be close-ish,” Anderson said. “I’ve been around a long time and I know there are certain fans who want the key tracks that are emblematic of the music I have put out over the years, so I know I need to prepare those for the show.” Anderson noted that the concert will include songs from its formative period to more beloved tunes from the Tull catalogue, mixing in songs from albums such as “This Was,” “Stand Up,” “Benefit,” “Aqualung,” “Thick As A Brick,” “Heavy Horses,” “Crest Of A Knave” and even a touch of 2012’s “TAAB2.” “It’s a happy event to have a varied, eclectic output of music and perform a range of that on stage,” he said. “And that’s a joy, because my favorite songs tend to be the same as those of the ticket buyers.” Although the band has gone through numerous changes since its debut—most notably the absence of original member Martin Barre who parted ways with Anderson in 2012—the band’s signature sound remains. Tull’s 2018 lineup includes guitarist Florian Opahle, keyboardist John O’Hara, bassist David Goodier and drummer Scott Hammond. “This is a celebration of all the 33 band members who graced our ranks— musicians who brought their talents, skills and styles to bear on the performances live and in the studio,” Anderson said. “The guys I play with now have been with me for more than a dozen years and people I know pretty well.” At 71, Anderson still enjoys playing live, though he admits it’s not an easy gig, and he’s not one of those people who punches the air in celebration after each performance. “If you’re not mentally and physically exhausted and don’t feel like you’ve been run over by a very large steam locomotive, then you haven’t been doing your job,” he said. “It’s not a moment of rejoicing, but a sense of relief. A half hour later, after that beer and some time to relax, you have that uplifting moment and it’s a good feeling, but I’m not looking for people to tell me it was a good show. I’ll change the subject rather quickly.” Anderson isn’t a fan of social media, but he does meet fans of all ages at various events and sometimes after concerts, and likes to hear about how they discovered the Jethro Tull sound. “It’s my feeling that the first 10 years of Jethro Tull, geographically speaking, we probably reached 95 percent of the audiences we were ever going to bring into the mix,” Anderson said. “Most of our older fans discovered us in the late ’60s or early ’70s. The younger fans have found us through the internet or their parents’ record collection and realized how many great bands came up in that time period.” Earlier this year, the band released “50 For 50,” a career-spanning three-disc CD set that features 50 songs chosen by Anderson himself from all 21 of the band’s studio albums. And there’s plenty more to come. “In 2019, we already have a lot of shows booked and there’s a couple of recording projects I am working on and some other musically-related projects I am working on, so I have enough to keep me busy for the next four years,” Anderson said. “At my age, it’s energizing to be thinking a couple of years ahead, and I look forward to all of that.”
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Post by nonrabbit on Sept 8, 2018 22:21:13 GMT
What a great piece of advertising that was ...see Westboro Baptist Church's protest at the Starlight concert - Sept 1st.
(wouldn't dream of posting it here - it's offensive)
"Papa can I go see Jethro Tull (or Ian Anderson's Jethro Tull(?)
"Hell (and damnation) you can Son!"
"Right I'm off......."
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Post by bunkerfan on Sept 9, 2018 6:37:50 GMT
At Wolf Trap on 9/7/2018
Can anyone see Jim Thanks to Steven Weintraub for uploading
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Post by maddogfagin on Sept 9, 2018 6:38:54 GMT
www.israelvalley.com/2018/09/jethro-tull-groupe-de-rock-britannique-israel-octobre-2018/Jethro Tull, British rock band, Israel in October 2018.By Israelvalley Desk | September 8th, 2018 | Categories: CULTURE Failure at the BDS. Tickets for the upcoming Jethro Tull concert, a British rock band, are on sale in Israel (October 2018). Jethro Tull is a group of rock British , originally from Blackpool , Lancashire , in England . He is trained in the second half of the 1960s . His music is marked by the very particular vocal style of the leader Ian Anderson (a nasal voice but remarkably true), his unique work of flutist , and by constructions of unusual and often complex songs. The music of Jethro Tull incorporates elements of classical and Celtic music , blues (especially in its beginnings) as well as phasesrock art alternative of rock . Despite this, it is difficult to identify specific artists who have directly influenced or are directly influenced by Jethro Tull, whose work remains apart in the world of rock. The band releases its last album in 2003 ( The Jethro Tull Christmas Album ) and continues tours until 2011. InApril 2014While dedicating himself to his already well-honed solo career (including Walk Into Light , Thick as a Brick 2 and Homo Erraticus ), Ian Anderson announces that Jethro Tull is well and truly over. However, singer and flautist Ian Anderson will be back in concert with a brand new Jethro Tull on April 17, 2018Royal Albert Hall, to celebrate the 50 th anniversary of the group. The musicians were Florian Opahle on guitar, David Goodier on bass, John O'Hara on keyboards, Scott Hammond on drums and virtual surprise guests. The band revisited Jethro Tull's career by alternating old classics and newer material from the latest albums.
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Post by maddogfagin on Sept 9, 2018 6:51:36 GMT
www.chicagonow.com/hippy-shakes/2018/09/jethro-tull-and-yes-at-ravinia-a-week-of-fifty-year-old-progressive-rock/Jethro Tull and Yes at Ravinia: A week of fifty year old progressive rockBy Howard Moore, Saturday at 11:48 am The summer concert season is coming to an end. We're down to the last two weeks of the Ravinia Festival in suburban Highland Park. This was the week of fifty's at Ravinia. It started with Jethro Tull bringing their fiftieth anniversary tour to the north burbs. It ended with Yes bringing their fiftieth anniversary tour to the same venue. Oh yeah, 50 Cent also made his debut at Ravinia (words I never imagined I would ever say) but for this review, we'll concentrate on the two legendary bands in the world of Prog Rock. There have been thirty-nine musicians that have played in Jethro Tull. But there is one constant, Ian Anderson. As long as the flutist/vocalist/frontman is still around, there will always be a version of Tull. The other pieces are interchangeable. I don't mean to disrespect guitarist Martin Barre, who was with the band for more than four decades, but this always has been and always will be Ian Anderson's band. To celebrate these fifty years of music, Anderson has taken the band out on a world-wide tour, because that's what rock bands do. The concert is almost two hours of classic prog rock. Anderson uses a multi-media presentation which adds to the music. He shows former band members and other rock legends introducing their favorite Tull songs. He also uses the screen to add to his vocals, which are strong in the beginning of the show but fade some towards the end....understandable for a man who is now seventy and has been singing for five-plus decades. The show is divided into two sections, with a fifteen minute halftime break. The opening is highlighted by "A Song For Jeffrey" and "My God", which Anderson said got the band into some trouble in the southern USA. The second set has a powerful version of "Aqualung" and the encore finale of "Locomotive Breath." The only song you were left wanting to hear was "Cross Eyed Mary." C'mon Ian, in a greatest hits show, you have to do that song. Overall, it was a very good show. Anderson is still able to run back and forth across the stage, playing his flute and keeping the audience engaged. I left wondering how is this band not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? Talking about R&R HOF bands, one of it's newest inductees is the band Yes. They're part of the 2017 class. Like Tull, they started playing music in 1968, and they're also celebrating with a tour. This version of Yes features Jon Anderson, Rick Wakeman and Trevor Rabin. I say "this version" because there is another group of musicians, which includes Steve Howe and Alan White, that also is labeled as Yes. That band played in Chicago earlier this year. Confusing? Well, yeah...a little. But they all decided that instead of wasting time and money on court fights and lawyers, to just be cool about the name, play the music and keep the cash themselves. Sounds sensible. When "Yes" hits the stage, you'd look at the way they were dressed and you wouldn't think classic rock band. No outfits except for one....Rick Wakeman is standing by an impressive set of keyboards, wearing a flowing gold cape. It almost matches his shoulder length blonde hair. He reminds you of either Greg "Hammer" Valentine or Ric Flair walking into a WWE wresting ring. Wakeman is a true musician from the classic rock era. He has the look and he's ready to rock. It brings us to the music and the musicians. These guys can play! Anderson still has that high tenor voice you heard on all the hits. Rabin is an outstanding guitarist and the tunes give him time to shine. Wakeman is still among the greatest on the keys. You watch him moving back and forth between a group of different boards and he's still making those incredible sounds that you remember from the 1970's albums. But....as technically perfect as it is, it sounds like these guys have been playing the same thirteen songs over and over and over for more than a year. It sounds that way because this is exactly what has happened. The set list never changes and the music is missing a lot of the heart and soul you like to see when hearing a band play live. There were some highlights. My favorite was an excellent version of "Perpetual Change" and while doing "Owner of a Lonely Heart", they break into a few verses of Cream's "Sunshine of your Love." One word of advice for Jon, Trevor and Rick, when your audience is in their mid to late 60's (like you guys), knock off the twenty-five minute songs. We don't have the attention spans to keep interested for that long anymore. Thanks in advance. So that's it for Prog Rock week at Ravinia. It was a reminder of the olden days when you could have seen both these bands, on the same bill, for FOUR BUCKS! Man, those were the days. Hmmm....I wonder what became of the band Kimberley?
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Post by maddogfagin on Sept 10, 2018 6:30:06 GMT
Jethro Tull celebrates 50 years at the Mannby Jonathan Takiff, For the Inquirer, Posted: 18 hours ago SILVIA FINKE “Too Old to Rock and Roll, Too Young to Die”? Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson came up with that notion when he was all of 27. But today, at a spry 71, the iconic flute-playing (still on one leg!) Pied Piper of Progressive Rock remains very much in the game. On Saturday, his 50th anniversary celebration of the band packed the Mann Center shed — with a nice spillover onto terrace seats, too — for a nearly two hour, 17-song session that delighted the mostly boomer-generation crowd. The "party pooping" Anderson has claimed he's not one for nostalgia and still churns out the occasional new album like 2014's cranky Homo Erraticus and 2017's The String Quartets. Yet, he opted to concentrate on the first, most successful decade of the band's work — that eclectic mishmash of blues (like the evening's early bird special "My Sunday Feeling" and "New Day Yesterday"), crunchy rock riffage (show-closing "Locomotive Breath" scorched by guitarist Florian Opahle) and several representations of back-to-our-agrarian-roots English folk ("Heavy Horses," "Songs From the Wood," "Farm on the Freeway") that have been key to the band since they named themselves after the inventor of the automatic seed-planting machine. Less represented were other branches of the Tull tree of life like classical and jazz, though of course they had to do the essential mash-up of Johann Sebastian Bach and Rahsaan Roland Kirk that is "Bouree." Also given short shrift were those East Asian flavors that Anderson likes to play. I was really craving a taste of the raga-beat "Fat Man," likewise "Nothing is Easy" and "Living the Past." Still there were enough samples from all columns in this eclectic musical menu to remind anew how Tull set the “anything goes” tone for the free-form rock radio stations of their era (like WMMR, also celebrating its 50th birthday with an alumni bash this month) and all the listeners who fell under its sway. Given the band’s liberating impact, it’s truly a crime that Jethro Tull hasn’t been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Always a great showman, Ian Anderson upped the ante of his once-innovative "Tullavision," a closed-circuit video system this time with a well-synchronized and artful rear projection display that let the band play along with youthful versions of themselves and their predecessors, as well as with ringers like Icelandic singer-fiddler Unnur Birna Björnsdóttir and actor/musician Ryan O'Donnell — who hit all the high notes on "Aqualung," now beyond Anderson's reach. The front man also had keyboardist John O'Hara and bass player David Goodier handle some of the high harmony notes, on songs the studio-obsessive Anderson originally overdubbed himself. But Anderson's odd (for rock) baritone voice is so distinctive he can't really have others sing in unison with him as cover-ups, he recently shared in a chat, as contemporaries like Brian Wilson, Billy Joel, and Paul McCartney often do. Happily, the Tull-acaster is blowing his flute and harmonica with as much strength and skill as ever, which helps explain why instrumentals played such a big (maybe exaggerated) part of the anniversary play list — from "Dharma for One" (with a big drum solo by Scott Hammond ) to a left-field "medieval folk rock" entry credited to King Henry VIII. Also dressing up the video screen and adding to the festive celebration were invited band alumni (Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond, Mick Abrahams, John Evans) and noted fans (like Joe Bonamassa and Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi) to introduce their favorite Tull tunes. Oddly missing in action was the band's last departing original, guitarist Martin Barre, who left in a 2011 breakup, but has since contributed anecdotes to deluxe reissues of Jethro Tull albums. There was also no reintroduction of the group's longtime arranger and sometime keyboardist formerly known as David Palmer. Now she's Dee Palmer. My Sunday Feeling Love Story A Song For Jeffrey Some Day The Sun Won't Shine For You Dharma For One A New Day Yesterday Bourée My God Thick As A Brick A Passion Play Too Old To Rock 'n' Roll, Too Young to Die Songs From The Wood Pastime With Good Company Ring Out Solstice Bells Heavy Horses Farm On The Freeway Aqualung Locomotive Breath
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Post by JTull 007 on Sept 11, 2018 3:00:50 GMT
50 Years of TULL returns to the Beacon Theatre LINK
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Post by JTull 007 on Sept 12, 2018 2:15:16 GMT
SOLD OUT at The Beacon Theatre OMG !!!
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Post by JTull 007 on Sept 12, 2018 2:46:17 GMT
Last night of the U.S TULL Tour 2018 ... INCREDIBLE !!! To all TULL Fans that ROCKED this year... SUPERB LINK 1 LINK 2 Toyota Oakdale Theatre Ian Anderson Presents: Jethro Tull 50th Anniversary Tour
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Post by JTull 007 on Sept 13, 2018 2:23:26 GMT
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Post by JTull 007 on Sept 13, 2018 11:22:40 GMT
Wolf Trap September 7th @ 3 minute 25 seconds I'm clapping while standing & 7 minute mark the guy with fist raised to the far right is me
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Post by steelmonkey on Sept 13, 2018 17:25:56 GMT
Okay, that counts as being in the video !
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Post by nonrabbit on Sept 13, 2018 22:33:36 GMT
I can see and feel the passion Jim...... (That's a line I don't usually type) Looks like a hell of a concert.
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Post by JTull 007 on Sept 14, 2018 2:12:44 GMT
Okay, that counts as being in the video ! It felt like John Evans & Unnur Birna were there too
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Post by rredmond on Sept 14, 2018 16:18:34 GMT
I thought the big old school television was a real prop at first. But that back screen was really cool! --Ron--
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