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Post by maddogfagin on May 24, 2011 8:38:51 GMT
With attitude ;D
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Post by maddogfagin on May 25, 2011 17:45:53 GMT
Clive's last show with Tull is documented, if they are to be believed, by those entrepreneurs bootleggers who produced "Clive's Last Show" from the Fillmore East, 5 May 1971. From halsprogressiverockblog.blogspot.comThe band is clearly energized by the new music they are playing. All but two of the songs performed here are from Aqualung, an album that very few in the audience knew, though My God had been played live for the better part of the previous year. Pretty nervy of the band. But then Tull has always challenged their audience.
This line-up lasted only 5 months from January to May 1971. Clive would be replaced in June by Barrie Barlow. Everyone, except Jeffrey, gets an extended solo (you don't get that these days). The album Aqualung had been released just a few weeks earlier and the crowd's minimal reaction to the now-classic songs is thus explained.From www.electrocutas.co.uk
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2011 13:01:59 GMT
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Post by nonrabbit on May 28, 2011 17:30:09 GMT
Oh wow how'd you get the chance to.." happen to be in an Abbey Rd studio??" ;D ;D Ps I would have blagged my way in days of old in disguise as the tea lady
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Post by maddogfagin on May 29, 2011 6:41:18 GMT
Oh wow how'd you get the chance to.." happen to be in an Abbey Rd studio??" ;D ;D Ps I would have blagged my way in days of old in disguise as the tea lady I worked a few night security shifts at Abbey Road around '92-'93 and had a nose around - interesting place. Derek Lawrence, of Jethro Toe fame, was recording with P.P.Arnold (lovely lady) and that was where I asked him about the spelling mistake on the MGM label. He promised to contact Dave Rees for AND interview but never did. So that's two places associated with Tull I've worked in - Abbey Road and the Chrysalis HQ at Bramley Road.
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Post by nonrabbit on May 29, 2011 11:46:32 GMT
Oh wow how'd you get the chance to.." happen to be in an Abbey Rd studio??" ;D ;D Ps I would have blagged my way in days of old in disguise as the tea lady I worked a few night security shifts at Abbey Road around '92-'93 and had a nose around - interesting place. Derek Lawrence, of Jethro Toe fame, was recording with P.P.Arnold (lovely lady) and that was where I asked him about the spelling mistake on the MGM label. He promised to contact Dave Rees for AND interview but never did. So that's two places associated with Tull I've worked in - Abbey Road and the Chrysalis HQ at Bramley Road. Funny you mentioned that I was just talking to someone last night about working as a steward/security man (them not me!) they were saying that they get paid to stand around watching for eg the TT races in Isle of Man/ football finals and the various music concerts. Security's not a bad job for being in an interesting place!
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Post by maddogfagin on May 29, 2011 12:13:11 GMT
I worked a few night security shifts at Abbey Road around '92-'93 and had a nose around - interesting place. Derek Lawrence, of Jethro Toe fame, was recording with P.P.Arnold (lovely lady) and that was where I asked him about the spelling mistake on the MGM label. He promised to contact Dave Rees for AND interview but never did. So that's two places associated with Tull I've worked in - Abbey Road and the Chrysalis HQ at Bramley Road. Funny you mentioned that I was just talking to someone last night about working as a steward/security man (them not me!) they were saying that they get paid to stand around watching for eg the TT races in Isle of Man/ football finals and the various music concerts. Security's not a bad job for being in an interesting place! I did it for 12 years - 4 years contract guarding with Pinkerton and 8 years at Kingston University but I'm glad I got out of it. The Uni days were, on the whole, rewarding and there were a few locations when I was with Pinkerton which seemed at the time agreeable but apart from the two mentioned above, any other interesting sites were very few and far between.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2011 11:07:51 GMT
www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=249630&page=8"Guys - I've had confirmation from EMI that they are going with a regular DVD for my 5.1 mix. On the plus side the original 70's quad mix will also be included, and both the old and new stereo mixes at 96/24." SW - Steven Wilson
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2011 12:49:12 GMT
Jethro Tull’s Anderson Still Not Satisfied With 1971 ‘Aqualung’: Interview By James M. Clash - Jun 7, 2011 12:00 AM ET www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-07/jethro-tull-s-anderson-still-not-satisfied-with-1971-aqualung-.htmlWhen you discuss “Aqualung” with Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson, you quickly realize that the 63-year-old Scot is still miffed about the way the iconic 1971 album turned out. The London recording studio the band used was a converted church that was “big, echoey, daunting and rather dark,” according to Anderson. “It had all the ghosts of its past, and plenty of technical problems,” says the singer/flutist. “At the end of the sessions, I wasn’t sure what we’d got. It’s a bit like an old photograph; you know it’s in the camera, but you don’t know what the picture is until it’s developed. There’s the feeling you might just have a bit of black film.” Despite Anderson’s reservations, “Aqualung” went on to become the group’s signature work, selling more than 7 million copies worldwide. In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine ranked it 337th on its list of the best 500 albums of all time, ahead of the Doors’s “L.A. Woman” and Bruce Springsteen’s “Greetings From Asbury Park.” To celebrate the 40th anniversary of ``Aqualung,'' the band is launching a 15-city North American tour tomorrow at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado. Longtime members Anderson and Martin Barre, the lead guitarist who joined in 1969, will be accompanied by more recent members Doane Perry (drums), David Goodier (bass) and John O’Hara (keyboards). The entire album will be played at each venue. Remixed CD An “Aqualung” collectors CD is also being released, in remixed form. “It wasn’t a great sounding album,” Anderson told me recently by phone from his home in England. “A few weeks ago, I heard some of the tracks digitally remixed from the original masters by somebody with a fresh pair of ears. He kept the feeling of the original, but gave it a lot more weight, made it sound more solid and clear.” In 1971, “Aqualung” was a big departure from mainstream pop -- and from Jethro Tull’s previous blues-oriented releases such as “Stand Up” and “Benefit.” “Aqualung” combined elements of jazz, classical, hard rock and blues. Critics dubbed it a concept album because many songs were related thematically and musically, as in The Who’s rock opera “Tommy.” The plight of the underprivileged was explored in the songs “Aqualung,” “Cross-Eyed Mary” and “Up To Me,” while “Hymn 43” and “My God” were critical of organized religion. Rowdy Fans Anderson, who had scraggly shoulder-length hair in his heyday, is now bald with a neatly trimmed goatee. But he’s still very opinionated. For instance, he rejects the “concept” label for “Aqualung.” “It’s an album of contrast, full of brave dynamic variations across the board -- from big electric guitar riffs to sensitive little acoustic guitar and vocal passages with a string quartet,” he says. “Lyrically it varies from being angry socially to whimsical, slightly surreal moments like in ‘Mother Goose.’” Anderson has little patience with critics or rowdy fans. “It’s particularly disheartening when I’m trying to play the intro to ‘My God’ and someone is hooting over something that is, to me, a very important part of the song,” he says. “It’s not a football match. And if that sounds a bit snobbish, then tough.” Though Jethro Tull has sold over 50 million albums since 1968 and still performs more than 100 concerts a year, the band isn’t in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. “I’ve always thought it is primarily to celebrate American music,” Anderson says of the Hall. “There are a lot more deserving American artists who should be in before British bands. I want to see Captain Beefheart there before Jethro Tull.” The band may not be in the Hall of Fame, but one of Anderson’s outfits is. “A mannequin with my stage clothes is standing next to one of Rod Stewart,” he says. “I remember thinking, ‘Either we had a very bad dry cleaner or the Hall of Fame has a bad one, because the stuff looks impossibly small.’” (James M. Clash writes on adventure for Muse, the arts and leisure section of Bloomberg News. The opinions expressed are his own. To contact the writer on the story: James M. Clash at jclash@explorers.org To contact the editor responsible for this story: Manuela Hoelterhoff at mhoelterhoff@bloomberg.net.
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Post by nonrabbit on Jun 12, 2011 19:24:20 GMT
This interview has been posted before - but I remembered the Aqualung question www.songfacts.com/blog/interviews/ian_anderson_of_jethro_tull/ SF: In the song “Aqualung,” you do something very intriguing with the vocal effect. Can you talk about that?[/b] Ian: Well, I assume you’re talking about what we refer to as telephone burbles, which is where you reproduce the sound of the telephone. You remove all the frequencies, except for a narrow band centering around about 1,000 hertz. SF: Yeah, what gave you the idea to do that?[/b] Ian: It epitomizes the limited frequencies of the telephone. It’s also like when you’re addressing a crowd through a megaphone. Or even perhaps the tinny sound of a voice trumpet, which is a non-active megaphone. It’s a form of address. It’s the sound that woke up young pilots in 1941 and sent them into the skies to battle the Hun. This is the sound of the Tannoy, the calling to arms of young men going up in their Hurricanes and Spitfires. It’s something that’s very much part of the blood of an Englishman. I imagine on American Air Force bases they had something rather similar, except it wasn’t manufactured by an English loudspeaker company called Tannoy. So you had probably another word for it. But it was the best part of something we know. We grew up in the age of these rather thin and reedy electronic ways of getting attention, whether it’s the telephone or the wartime Tannoy. And I suppose that spills over into a vocal effect on a rock album circa 1971. SF: Why wasn’t that song released as a single?[/b] Ian: Because it was too long, it was too episodic, it starts off with a loud guitar riff and then goes into rather more laid back acoustic stuff. Led Zeppelin at the time, you know, they didn’t release any singles. It was album tracks. And radio sharply divided between AM radio, which played the 3-minute pop hits, and FM radio where they played what they called deep cuts. You would go into a album and play the obscure, the longer, the more convoluted songs in that period of more developmental rock music. But that day is not really with us anymore, whether it be classic rock stations that do play some of that music, but they are thin on the ground, and they too know that they’ve got to keep it short and sharp and cheerful, and provide the blue blanket of familiar sounding music and get onto the next set of commercial breaks, because that’s what pays the radio station costs of being on the air. So pragmatic rules apply. fast forward forty years
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Post by tullpress on Jun 14, 2011 18:41:21 GMT
Quite a few posts on this subject now ... does anyone have a notion of whether there will be any previously un-heard tracks on this release, as opposed to different takes of the familiar ones? Maybe I've missed a key phrase or two ...
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Post by maddogfagin on Jun 15, 2011 7:42:58 GMT
Quite a few posts on this subject now ... does anyone have a notion of whether there will be any previously un-heard tracks on this release, as opposed to different takes of the familiar ones? Maybe I've missed a key phrase or two ... Nothing definate as far as I can see Tullpress so maybe that's part of the "surprise" ?
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Post by maddogfagin on Jun 16, 2011 18:31:50 GMT
Another European 7" single sleeve using an image from this line-up.
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Post by steelmonkey on Jun 18, 2011 21:14:47 GMT
EMI-Canada ? Jesus, it never ends
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2011 22:07:35 GMT
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Post by maddogfagin on Jun 19, 2011 8:30:58 GMT
Looks lovely. Would you recommend it as a good holiday destination TT ?
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Post by nonrabbit on Jun 19, 2011 9:30:51 GMT
Looks lovely. Would you recommend it as a good holiday destination TT ? very nice - on a Xmas card After the weather we've had I want sun that shines for at least a week
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2011 18:24:53 GMT
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Post by hollowmoor on Jun 23, 2011 12:45:22 GMT
Hello all,
Does anyone have (or know someone who has) contact details for Tull's 1971 tour manager Eric Brooks or head roadie Roy Bailey? If so, please PM me as soon as possible as EMI are keen to speak to them.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2011 13:42:12 GMT
EMI EMI EMI EMI EMI EMI EMI EMI EMI EMI EMI EMI EMI EMI EMI EMI EMI EMI EMI EMI EMI EMI EMI EMI EMI EMI EMI EMI EMI EMI EMI EMI EMI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please treat Aqualung with respect, the fans, too. Hi res audio please. DVD-A
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2011 13:43:35 GMT
^Venting^
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Post by maddogfagin on Jun 23, 2011 13:55:10 GMT
Vent away brother, vent away
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Post by hollowmoor on Jul 4, 2011 10:56:42 GMT
hello all, Another little task for us, you might recognise the following picture from Glenn Cornick's collection taken by Ian's first wife Jennie Franks of the band during the summer 1970 US tour. Does anyone have a top quality copy of this photo, or better still can anyone identify other pictures from the same session in colour?
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Post by maddogfagin on Jul 4, 2011 14:30:20 GMT
Circus magazine from July 1970 has a b&w image from the same photo shoot.
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Post by tullpress on Jul 4, 2011 17:28:30 GMT
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Post by steelmonkey on Jul 5, 2011 2:17:22 GMT
Presumably the trip to USA that ended with Glen's dismissal at the NYC airport and tactless switch of tickets so he wouldn't return on the same flight? What a way for his participation in Tull to end: 'Boarding call for flight whatever to london....you there, not so fast....'
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Post by maddogfagin on Jul 5, 2011 8:01:51 GMT
Presumably the trip to USA that ended with Glen's dismissal at the NYC airport and tactless switch of tickets so he wouldn't return on the same flight? What a way for his participation in Tull to end: 'Boarding call for flight whatever to london....you there, not so fast....' From acapella.harmony-central.com/showthread.php?1814131-Attention-all-Tull-Fans-The-Glenn-Cornick-InterviewSean: Jethro Tull have been described as being a very “tame” band offstage, yet you were always described as the “party animal.” Was it just that you were more socially outgoing than the others? If so, did that cause a lot of tension? Glenn Cornick: That story is somewhat of an exaggeration though the band as a whole were not very social. I was the one, however, who really enjoyed touring and who really thought life on the road was great. When I think of the alcoholics, druggies and womanisers who have been in the band since, I think my exploits pale in comparison! I wasn't aware at the time of any tension but I suppose it was possible with Ian's narrow minded values.
Sean: Here’s the big question everybody wants to know: under what circumstances did you leave Jethro Tull, and why? Did you leave on good terms? Glenn Cornick: I was fired from the band. At the end of an American tour, we were waiting at Kennedy Airport to fly home and I was taken aside by our manager and told that Ian no longer wanted me in the band. My flight had been changed so that I wouldn't be on the same plane as them and no real reason was given.
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Post by hollowmoor on Jul 5, 2011 8:16:49 GMT
That'll be a scan of the original on Glenn's site (I think?), so your best bet is to ask him for a high-res copy, maybe. Unfortunately Glenn is on holiday so no luck there. The reason why they are looking for this photo (or others from the same session) is because the photographer has given permission to use them.
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