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Post by maddogfagin on Oct 22, 2010 7:53:26 GMT
Had the opportunity to briefly listen to the two new songs and can report that Adrift and Dumbfounded is a corker and a typically Tullish song. Full of Martin's guitar, flute, mandolins and would sit comfortably alongside anything we've heard so far. 10 out of 10. It'll Get You In The End is a fine instrumental with flute, guitar and some fine drumming. 9 out of 10 - it gets docked a point for the accordion. Can't wait to view them on youtube when we'll all get a chance to comment I've no doubt.
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Post by stormmonkey on Oct 22, 2010 10:16:59 GMT
Superb! Love it. Hilarious! - particularly the buzzing wings of the bee "sitting astride a twig of a bush". Always loved that line. Rare to see a musical/creative genius read and choreograph such a wonderful and light-hearted piece of absurdist humour. Love the specs adjustment then Ian shaking his specs (with masterful specs-vibrato) at the audience at the end! Priceless! The music is, of course, performed brilliantly too. The important message however...Hare did have his spare pair ANYWAY! lol. BW, N Ireland.
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Post by steelmonkey on Oct 22, 2010 19:42:37 GMT
Yup...good, unexpected,deep-catalogue moments in an astoundingly good set..a step up even from the last IA tour which opened with Dun Ringhill,Just Trying to Be, march the mad Scientist and jeffrey Goes to leister Sq....remind me...what do we complain about?
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Post by rockisland on Oct 22, 2010 19:57:12 GMT
Just found Adrift and Dumbfounded on youtube, sounds really good. 10 out of 10 from me aswell! ;D
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Post by rockisland on Oct 22, 2010 20:07:26 GMT
And here's the other new tune. It hasn't got a name yet, so Ian calls it "that f*cking tune!"
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Post by nonrabbit on Oct 22, 2010 20:50:24 GMT
A&D is beautiful - wish they'd record it. Only slight moan didn't like the keyboard at 2.58 however absolutely nothing to moan about the song Thanks That f*cking song (that f*king accordion) - stoater great song too waaaaaaaaay hey TT ;D ;D Ps I've just been trying to decipher the lyrics LOL haven't done that since teenagehood and lifting the needle off and on ;D ;D ;D anyway it was easier then than youtube I can only get so far "She stands in (sounds like) closet??? something something "old town" ahhh fair takes me back
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Post by bunkerfan on Oct 23, 2010 8:29:19 GMT
These are the best tracks I've heard in a long time, "Adrift & Dumbfounded" sounds like a real Tull classic already, I can't wait to hear Martin play this one. But I'm left wondering how much better it would sound with Andy Giddings on keyboard. I hope Ian finds a name for "That F--king song" soon, it's a great track apart from the squeezbox and the title. With these 2 being so good I can feel a new album coming very soon Thanks for posting rockisland
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Post by nonrabbit on Oct 23, 2010 10:10:07 GMT
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Post by steelmonkey on Oct 23, 2010 17:30:49 GMT
Going back to the two instrumentals in 2008 ( one named after a pub, one about guys sneaking around dressed as trees in war) there is more than enough for a great album length release. I hope the lyric version of Tea with Princess prevails and I hope all the new and newish songs get an official, studio polished release before I get too old to enjoy them.
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Post by bunkerfan on Oct 23, 2010 18:36:44 GMT
Going back to the two instrumentals in 2008 ( one named after a pub, one about guys sneaking around dressed as trees in war) there is more than enough for a great album length release. I hope the lyric version of Tea with Princess prevails and I hope all the new and newish songs get an official, studio polished release before I get too old to enjoy them. I couldn't agree more steelmonkey especially as I'm nearly 10 years older than you ;D
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Post by earsoftin on Oct 24, 2010 15:07:12 GMT
I agree with Bunkerfan - better than the new material on the last UK tour which was a bit too twiddly for my liking - no real sense of direction, unlike these.
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Post by maddogfagin on Oct 24, 2010 21:29:39 GMT
I agree with Bunkerfan - better than the new material on the last UK tour which was a bit too twiddly for my liking - no real sense of direction, unlike these. And importantly, as has been pointed out, there is now the realistic prospect of an album's worth of material "in storage" or on a hard disc in IA's studio. Mind you it will be interesting to see if all the instrumentals make it to any final track list or, as I suspect, the likes of The Donkey And The Drum and Birnham Wood To Dunsinane have been consigned to the studio floor.
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Post by nonrabbit on Oct 26, 2010 7:24:55 GMT
got a bit in there for the Tull n Led thread too articles.lancasteronline.com/local/4/303382"The members of Jethro Tull learned how to make the transition from club act to arena gods from Led Zeppelin. Ian Anderson, the gifted musician who turned the flute into a rock instrument, and his band mates were getting ready to release their second album, "Stand Up," when they were tapped to open for Zeppelin during its 1969 tour of the United States. "It was a pretty competitive environment to go onstage and play for a large audience every night," says Anderson, who will perform a solo show Saturday night at York's Strand-Capitol Performing Arts Center. "If you were the opening act for Led Zeppelin, you couldn't hang about. You had to go on and get on with it and be pretty forceful in the way you presented yourself to the audience. "Otherwise, their audience would have murdered us." Talk of 1969 and "Stand Up" is timely because Capitol/EMI on Tuesday will release a deluxe edition of the album. It will feature a remastered version of the original album along with a slew of bonus cuts. The packaging will include the original pop-up element that delighted buyers of the original vinyl record. Musically, however, Tull fans will be most interested in a 1970 concert at Carnegie Hall, including early versions of songs from "Benefit" and "Aqualung," featured both on a CD and a DVD in 5.1 surround sound. "I forgot we actually had a 16-track master to (the Carnegie Hall concert) that was sitting in the bowels of my studio somewhere gathering dust and worse," Anderson says during a telephone interview. "So I shipped those off to EMI and they managed to bake the tapes and recover the audio." Though Anderson, 63, will be performing in York under his own name and not as Jethro Tull, he is bringing a band and will be playing songs from the Tull catalog. As the creative mastermind of the band for more than 40 years, he's entitled. He says he will perform two sets, with the first being more acoustic and the second more electric. "When it's Jethro Tull, it's more of a rock show," he says. "When it's an Ian Anderson show, it just is an opportunity to stretch out a little wider and deeper into both the Tull catalog, much of which is acoustic anyway, and also play some music that is kind of outside the Jethro Tull world. There's four or five new pieces which are essentially more eclectic in their influences." Anderson says he will be performing a song called "Wond'ring Aloud" from the 1971 album "Living in the Past." He says he's never before performed it on-stage. Tull, which has released more than 20 studio albums and for about two decades never let more than two years pass between albums, has not released a new one since 2003's "The Jethro Tull Christmas Album." And Anderson hasn't released a proper solo album since "Rupi's Dance," also in 2003. Anderson says he has plenty of new music but lacks the will to record it. "Frankly, I certainly don't have the appetite for spending the best part of three months in a room with no windows writing, rehearsing, recording, overdubbing, mixing and mastering an album, which is a big job for me," he says. "I don't think I really want to do that if the alternative is I can go out there on a stage and play for some people." Ian Anderson
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Post by bunkerfan on Oct 26, 2010 14:32:41 GMT
Morristown, NJ. 21st Oct.
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Post by steelmonkey on Oct 26, 2010 15:55:18 GMT
Okay, Ian, have it your way...we'll take a well-recorded live album of the best performances of the new material....you can even double up on some of the new stuff by giving us Tull and solo versions or with/without lyric versions. I stand by my wallet, ready to act fast....
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Post by bunkerfan on Oct 26, 2010 18:43:17 GMT
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Post by lrr5151 on Oct 27, 2010 4:29:10 GMT
10/26/2010: Tonight, Ian & the band played a beautiful library in Munhall which actually is considered Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. The venue was excellent and the sound was superb. The set list was the similar if not exact to the Monteral show this month. Ian is still and forever the consumate theatrical showman. While the audiance was reserved, they were apprieciative. The show sold out. This man has lost NOTHING over the years. If you are on the fence about seeing this show, get off your ass and buy tickets, for you will not be sorry.
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Post by maddogfagin on Oct 27, 2010 7:34:55 GMT
10/26/2010: Tonight, Ian & the band played a beautiful library in Munhall which actually is considered Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. The venue was excellent and the sound was superb. The set list was the similar if not exact to the Monteral show this month. Ian is still and forever the consumate theatrical showman. While the audiance was reserved, they were apprieciative. The show sold out. This man has lost NOTHING over the years. If you are on the fence about seeing this show, get off your ass and buy tickets, for you will not be sorry. Thanks for the review lrr5151 and welcome to The Jethro Tull Forum. Must admit that I've got to agree with you about IA being the "consumate theatrical showman". Hopefully he'll bring the solo tour to the UK in 2011 or better still perform the set list with Martin Barre as Jethro Tull. Have a great time reading through the numerous threads and I look forward to you participating in the Forum in the future. Cheers Maddog
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Post by bunkerfan on Oct 27, 2010 12:06:02 GMT
I must admit I'm "Wond'ring Again" why Ian doesn't change this to a lower key, He's straining a bit to sing the opening lines but I still loved it
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Post by bunkerfan on Oct 28, 2010 10:26:30 GMT
More from The Gospel accordion to ST. John O' Hara
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Post by bunkerfan on Oct 29, 2010 9:22:57 GMT
I just love this version of "Nursie" and it sounds pretty good to me!
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Post by maddogfagin on Oct 29, 2010 10:15:20 GMT
I just love this version of "Nursie" and it sounds pretty good to me!
Sounds good to me as well - thanks for posting ;D
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Post by tullist on Oct 29, 2010 13:45:02 GMT
I just love this version of "Nursie" and it sounds pretty good to me!
Sounds good to me as well - thanks for posting ;D In a layup the best sounding thing I've heard Tubewise from this tour. Like any good Tulltwit of course excited by the fattened Brick, legendary favorite Wondering Again, and promising new material though I still mark Change of Horses in any of its incarnations as the most sophisticated and well conceived of the lot, but there again I've heard a few well recorded versions of that which make all the difference. And of course the verbal intro to that Nursie, which unfortunately I have now spoiled for myself as doubtless it is the same nightly, is part of what keeps me coming back for decades.
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Post by steelmonkey on Oct 29, 2010 15:12:03 GMT
learning that Tullist will likely attend an illinois version of the current tour has lessened the sting of my own geographic barriers to attendance....really.....I think I'm starting to understand the beauties of the virtual clubhouse we share...
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Post by maddogfagin on Oct 29, 2010 16:11:42 GMT
learning that Tullist will likely attend an illinois version of the current tour has lessened the sting of my own geographic barriers to attendance....really.....I think I'm starting to understand the beauties of the virtual clubhouse we share... Wonderful thought of yours Bernie of Forums such as ours being a “clubhouse”. I suppose it’s a place we can all hang out in our dotage years, with our rocking chairs, commodes and ear trumpets discussing the finer points of Thick As A Brick or Passion Play while some of us are struggling to remember who we are and why we’re here. It’s a shame that supporters of the band have split into different factions over the years but each to their own and in many ways, the more the merrier. Still it could be a place open to all with cheap beer and wine, evening dress optional, tie dyed tee shirts and very loud music.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2010 16:45:31 GMT
Anderson enjoys hands-on approach in music, business www.observer-reporter.com/or/entertainstory/10-26-2010-ian-andersonBy Brad Hundt Staff writer bhundt@observer-reporter.com Tales of chicanery and double-dealing in the music industry over the last 60 years or so are about as common as A minor chords. Bookshelves groan with volumes dedicated to the subject. It's hard to imagine Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson waking up one morning and finding his fortune has evaporated, however. He may be a flute-playing rocker who found the spotlight in the Flower Power era, but it becomes clear in conversation that he's also a shrewd, hands-on businessman who keeps a watchful eye on the profit-and-loss statement. He pieces together the logistics for his own tours, down to the travel and hotel arrangements, and swats aside the notion of having an entourage tend to those seemingly picayune details. "Most musicians are just lazy," the 63-year-old Anderson explained by phone earlier this month from his home in the rural reaches of western England. "They like to have servants. They like to have people, lackeys, do things. They have to have tour managers and personal roadies and people who change their guitar strings for them and carry their luggage." He continued, "I think it's a rather bad experience to believe that you live in this rarefied world where you believe you are terribly important, and there are all these people fussing about and taking care of things. But you're not your own man. You're totally dependent on these folks." Anderson's independent streak also shines through in his musical life, where he continues to front Jethro Tull while also touring and recording on his own. He'll be flying solo into the Carnegie Library Music Hall of Homestead Tuesday. He's not touring to push a new album or project. "It's what I do, I'm a musician," he said. But he will be playing some new songs that he'd like to record next year and, perhaps, make them available as downloads as he finishes them. There hasn't been a new Tull album since a 2003 Christmas set, but one of the band's most-revered discs, 1969's "Stand Up," is being reissued this week in a deluxe form, with bonus tracks and a live DVD added. "Stand Up" contains "Living in the Past," which, along with "Aqualung" is one of the oft-played Jethro Tull staples of classic rock radio. "I don't think in these days, the idea of making an album every year, or every couple of years, is at all feasible or advisable," Anderson said. "And, frankly, at my advanced age, I don't think I want to enter into a room with no windows for three months while I write, arrange, rehearse, record, mix and master an album. I don't really relish the thought of that." At his advanced age, though, Anderson is getting some laurels heaped on him, including some honorary degrees and an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) medal from Queen Elizabeth II. It's the same award the Beatles received in 1965, and, like the Fab Four, Anderson felt a little ambivalent about it when he got the news. "I had a little problem with it at the time. It was just after (Prime Minister) Tony Blair had left government, and like many people, I was very strongly opposed to the Iraq invasion." But Anderson decided to accept it anyway. And even though he condemns Blair's foreign policy decisions, he points out that the former premier recently offered guidance on choosing charities to donate proceeds from concerts he played in Israel. "No one is really as bad as they're made out," Anderson said. "It's just a terrible error of judgment. There are a lot of bad things about Tony Blair, but there are probably a lot of bad things about me, too. But, on balance, I'm an OK guy." Jethro Tull's pied piper relishes rocking livewww.nwitimes.com/entertainment/music/article_e92b8a21-32e1-5dd9-841a-f671c43e70a3.htmlBy Tom Lounges Times Correspondent nwi.com | Posted: Friday, October 29, 2010 12:00 am WHAT: An Evening with Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson WHEN: 8 p.m. Oct. 30 WHERE: Rialto Square Theater, 15 E. Van Buren Street, Joliet, Ill. HOW MUCH: $35, $45, $55, $65 and $75 FYI: (815) 726–7171 or RIALTOSQUARE.COM Ian Anderson – known throughout the world of rock music as the flute–playing vocalist of the legendary Jethro Tull – performs on Saturday with his solo band tomorrow in Joliet, Ill. "While it's a show by the Ian Anderson band, the repertoire will be largely comprised of Jethro Tull songs, some classics and some forgotten little gems, and perhaps a few that we have never before performed live on stage," Anderson said. While Anderson admits audiences would never let him leave a stage without breaking out such landmark JT show staples as "Aqualung," "Locomotive Breath," and "Cross–eyed Mary," he expects the set list will be pleasing and a bit surprising. Perhaps "two or three selections" from his catalog of eclectic solo recordings – "Walk into Light" (1983), "Divinities" (1995), "The Secret Language of Birds" (2000), and "Rupi's Dance" (2003) – will be included in the two unique sets of music planned for Saturday's show. "The first is mostly acoustic and the second predominantly electric," he explained, "with a 20-minute bathroom break, which is an important part of the evening out as you know." Anderson's musical choices on this tour will include Tull's 1972 epic "Wondering Again," which deals with such still topical issues as "economic globalization, population increase, pollution, and climate change." Another surprise will be a rare live treatment of Tull's 1974 hit single "Bungle in the Jungle," which Anderson has not performed on stage in decades. Those and other favorites will be heard along side of a few new ones, "Adrift and Dumfounded" (about social pressure) and "A Change of Horses." Anderson founded Jethro Tull in 1967, naming the band after an 18th century agriculturalist, and has proceeded to become one of rock music's more unique and recognizable stars during his 40–plus years of nonstop recording and touring with the fabled group. Widely recognized as the man who introduced the flute to rock music, Ian Anderson remains the crowned exponent of the popular and rock genres of flute playing. In addition to classical flute, he also plays ethnic flutes and whistles, along with acoustic guitar and the mandolin family of instruments, providing the acoustic textures, which are an integral part of most of the Jethro Tull repertoire. After a global 2010 summer tour that brought Jethro Tull to Ravinia in Highland Park, Ill., in June, Anderson has returned to these shores leaving most of his legendary prog–rock group at home in England. His core band on this tour includes David Goodier (Tull's bassist), classical multi–instrumentalist John O'Hara (currently Tull's keyboardist and accordionist), along with British drummer Scott Hammond, and German rock and flamenco guitarist Florian Opahle. Anderson has kept fans happy in recent years by raiding the dusty vaults at EMI Records and remastering long-shelved and often–never released original tapes into wonderful CD and DVD compilation packages. The most recent was last year's "Jethro Tull: Live At Madison Square Garden 1978." Anderson just wrapped up work on a new set, scheduled for release just before the holidays. This one pairs a remastered version of Tull's second album, "Stand Up," with assorted unreleased bonus songs recorded during that same time, plus a live concert DVD companion of Tull performing in 1970 New York's Carnegie Hall during the "Stand Up" tour.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2010 16:52:12 GMT
learning that Tullist will likely attend an illinois version of the current tour has lessened the sting of my own geographic barriers to attendance....really.....I think I'm starting to understand the beauties of the virtual clubhouse we share... Wonderful thought of yours Bernie of Forums such as ours being a “clubhouse”. I suppose it’s a place we can all hang out in our dotage years, with our rocking chairs, commodes and ear trumpets discussing the finer points of Thick As A Brick or Passion Play while some of us are struggling to remember who we are and why we’re here. It’s a shame that supporters of the band have split into different factions over the years but each to their own and in many ways, the more the merrier. Still it could be a place open to all with cheap beer and wine, evening dress optional, tie dyed tee shirts and very loud music. I don't know if I like this post at all...hang out in our dotage years... LOL I'm standing on the leading edge The Eastern seaboard spread before my eyes "Jump" says Yoko Ono "I'm too scared and too good looking" I cried "Go on", she says "Why don't you give it a try? Why prolong the agony all men must die" Do you remember Dick Tracy? Do you remember Shane?
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Post by tullist on Oct 30, 2010 18:00:33 GMT
One word as regards the first of those articles, and thank you for posting. That word is RESPECT. I can only shake my head in dismay and bewilderment when I think of all the wayward speculations I have read in Tullworld on the net as regards various assessments of Anderson's character, financial motives, etc. I am most reminded of a quote from the Civil War (the American one) from General Sherman as regards the profound work done by the nurse Clara Barton and would merely change the gender, "She ranks me." (I ain't totally crazy, I am well aware that Ian's contribution to the human race would be a speck on Clara Barton's, but then, she wasn't amongst my favorite musicians) Although clearly I am a longtime ardent fan of this man's music I am as much a fan of his character and humor, so yeah, I do believe he outclasses the vast majority of his fellow humans, many, embarrassingly so. For such perceptions amongst the words that have been used to describe me on Tull boards is sycophant and although I have met him, had my picture taken etc, trust me, I could be in the same room and feel no need to introduce myself, and could easily yawn in his presence, I merely have always acknowledged the very best qualities I see in fellow humans, and Ian Anderson has always been near the top of the list.
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Post by maddogfagin on Oct 31, 2010 8:21:17 GMT
Thanks for those Tootull. Much appreciated
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 2, 2010 8:54:04 GMT
From the Rialto Square Theatre, Joliet Illinois, October 30, 2010
Short, but sweet ;D
Thanks to Hagens for sending the link.
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