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Post by newtwhoknewtoomuch on May 10, 2010 7:26:19 GMT
I've been listening a lot recently to Bursting Out and Live At Madison Square Garden.
In particular, Songs From the Wood.
It seems to me that there might be some pre-recorded component to the performance as the backing vocals in the acappella section sound a LOT like Ian's voice.
In addition, the little flute riff after "It'll make of you an honest man" is apparently played by Barrie Barlow while standing on his drum stool and with no mic in sight. I think we can safely assume it's not him playing it. It can't be David Palmer or John Evan playing it on a synth, as they're standing at the front of the stage, taking part in the 'harmonies'.
So, is Ian singing along to a backing track?
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tullist
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Post by tullist on May 10, 2010 16:36:19 GMT
I've been listening a lot recently to Bursting Out and Live At Madison Square Garden. In particular, Songs From the Wood. It seems to me that there might be some pre-recorded component to the performance as the backing vocals in the acappella section sound a LOT like Ian's voice. In addition, the little flute riff after "It'll make of you an honest man" is apparently played by Barrie Barlow while standing on his drum stool and with no mic in sight. I think we can safely assume it's not him playing it. It can't be David Palmer or John Evan playing it on a synth, as they're standing at the front of the stage, taking part in the 'harmonies'. So, is Ian singing along to a backing track? I and many other of the over 50's certainly will remember the little Barrie joke in real time, which was used I think in both 77 and 8, and yes, funny and un expected the first time, also Barrie standing on one leg and the spotlight appearing on him suddenly if I recall right. The 77 tour I remember and have boots to remind me that Ian announced the other guys as being about to under take their first onstage singing, and certainly in many following years a backing track has been used on that piece, I just don't remember if any of that was as early as 1978, usually dead evident if it sounds a little too precisely like the original.
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greg
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Post by greg on May 11, 2010 8:40:30 GMT
Hi,
yes it was definitely a backing track. I seem to remember it actually got played a couple of times at the wrong point in concerts - ditto the harmonies in heavy horses - forcing much embarrassed chuckling onstage...
Cheers, Greg
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Post by Aqualung55 on May 13, 2010 12:25:13 GMT
Interesting, I have always thought when Tull opened the show at Manchester Apollo, October 1987, Crest of a Knave tour, that the backing was tape generated.
Difference then, to now, was that Ian's voice was still excellent, and he didn't seem to be straining to reach the high notes. Which begs the question, when he was writing songs all those years ago, did he consider that as his voice changed in later years, he might not always be able to hit the heights?
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