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Post by boydie1 on Nov 9, 2010 21:38:08 GMT
Just received a DVD boot of this show. I'd seen clips on Youtube but I just had to post to say that I think this is the best footage I have ever seen of Tull. If they never released anything else on DVD they should release this one. The band sound amazing and there is a swagger and self-assurance that I have not seen on other recordings. The instrumental passages are particularly stunning. I've seen the band live in the early 70's on the UK Aqualung and Brick Tours but I have to say this is the band at their best. They LOOK great too.
Ironically this wasn't the best year for their recorded output with TOTRAR sounding very lame IMHO but this live stuff is just amazing.
Only pity is that it is not the whole show. They've got to release this officially some day surely - nothing else they have released comes close!
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Post by steelmonkey on Nov 9, 2010 22:31:13 GMT
Very accurate assessment, in my opinion...of a boiling hot tour after a lesser album. They were selling BIG venues and getting the kind of city to city attention associated with stones and zep tours...no way there isn't enough footage in Tull's vaults...I mean they were using 'Tull-a-vision' in the big venues...someone must have had the sense to record most, if not all of the bigger gigs....NYC was bust cuz the stadium is next door to the airport...but tampa is known as an epic day in Tull-history....maybe some non-Tull 'owner' of the Tull-a-vision tapes is speculating and hoping the value will increase...who knows?
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 10, 2010 8:49:19 GMT
If anything exists I would have thought it would have surfaced by now. The rumours have spread over the years to a film archive in America who want vast amounts of money to part with any unseen footage of the band to a TV company in France who hold unseen early footage.
It's the same with many of the recorded songs which have been left off albums (have a look through the Holy Grail thread) - do they still exist or have they been wiped rather akin to the policy of the dear old BBC to erase early TOTP performances.
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