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Post by nonrabbit on Apr 7, 2008 22:00:54 GMT
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Post by TM on Apr 8, 2008 13:55:13 GMT
Looks like a Tull concert once again.
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Post by admin on Apr 8, 2008 16:06:43 GMT
I am so tempted to click that link.....but I'm gonna have to resist. Thanks for posting tho' I'd forgotten the tour had started now. First night for me will be Cambridge on Saturday so I will give you all the gory details! (Not 'til Monday tho, I'll be offline till then)
I'll take my camera so if I can I will take and post a few photos too.
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Post by nonrabbit on Apr 8, 2008 20:02:39 GMT
I am so tempted to click that link.....but I'm gonna have to resist. Thanks for posting tho' I'd forgotten the tour had started now. First night for me will be Cambridge on Saturday so I will give you all the gory details! (Not 'til Monday tho, I'll be offline till then) I'll take my camera so if I can I will take and post a few photos too. Wasn't sure whether to post that or not - like the football results-' turn away now' Might wait till I see them myself before reading any reviews ?? As you can see by my last post this nonrabbit is having kittens about the concert
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Post by broadsword on Apr 9, 2008 14:17:45 GMT
Oxford show, not a vintage Tull performance, but very good indeed
Set list follows:
( 1) My sunday feeling ( 2) Living in the past ( 3) One for John Gee ( 4) So much trouble ( 5) Sossity, you're a woman/Reasons for waiting ( 6) Nursie ( 7) Serenade to a Cuckoo ( 8) Beside myself ( 9) New day yesterday (10) For a 1000 mothers (11) Bouree - Dave Pegg on bass
Interval
(12) We used to know/Witches promise/With you there to help me (13) Dharma for one - good drum solo (14) Heavy horses (15) Level Pegging - a Fairport Convention track - DP on bass up to and including (17) (16) Farm on the freeway (17) Pussy willow (18) Thick as a brick - Dave Goodier back on bass (19) Aqualung
(20) Encore - Locomotive Breath - all 6 on stage - Dave Pegg on mandolin
Excellent keyboards/drums, Martin a bit subdued, Ians' playing very good, vocals good, not outstanding. bass similar. Dave Pegg top man, better than Dave Goodier, sharper, cleaner sound. Strange on-stage lighting, a bit unneccessary.
Set-list changed, (I assume), to accomodate Dave Peggs' bits.
Overall sound quality very good. John o'Hara, (keyboards), looks more like a school-teacher, but he's no slouch.
Very nice drum solo by Doane, not too long, bashed his kit like a good 'un.
No balloon, or Cheerio at the end, shame about that
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Post by TM on Apr 9, 2008 16:01:02 GMT
Oxford show, not a vintage Tull performance, but very good indeed Set list follows: ( 1) My sunday feeling ( 2) Living in the past ( 3) One for John Gee ( 4) So much trouble ( 5) Sossity, you're a woman/Reasons for waiting ( 6) Nursie ( 7) Serenade to a Cuckoo ( 8) Beside myself ( 9) New day yesterday (10) For a 1000 mothers (11) Bouree - Dave Pegg on bass Interval (12) We used to know/Witches promise/With you there to help me (13) Dharma for one - good drum solo (14) Heavy horses (15) Level Pegging - a Fairport Convention track - DP on bass up to and including (17) (16) Farm on the freeway (17) Pussy willow (18) Thick as a brick - Dave Goodier back on bass (19) Aqualung (20) Encore - Locomotive Breath - all 6 on stage - Dave Pegg on mandolin Looks like they changed it up a bit. Care to expound a bit? Stage presentation, sound quality, Ian's vocals, etc....
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Post by nonrabbit on Apr 11, 2008 11:01:10 GMT
Enjoy the concert tomorrow Col!!! I see you have Bryan McFadden as special guest )) Full report now !!!
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Post by Col on Apr 12, 2008 21:25:29 GMT
Cambridge has just finished and according to Col it was the best he'd seen them in years. Full review to follow at some point when he's back online!
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Post by onewhiteduck on Apr 15, 2008 8:32:53 GMT
Cardiff last night was superb, Tull were back on top form. The best Tull gig I have seen for years. Ians voice was pretty good and the band were excellent. Storming final half an hour blew the roof off. Great to see after some criticisms over the past few years. Going to Bristol too - so glad after last night. Magnificent!! Stick that in your pipe those who said they were past it.
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Post by admin on Apr 21, 2008 11:35:31 GMT
Cardiff last night was superb, Tull were back on top form. The best Tull gig I have seen for years. Ians voice was pretty good and the band were excellent. Storming final half an hour blew the roof off. Great to see after some criticisms over the past few years. Going to Bristol too - so glad after last night. Magnificent!! Stick that in your pipe those who said they were past it. Found a youtube video of Cardiffs special guests, Ths Crook Family with Tull www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfgVGs8ni7M
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Post by tullistray on Apr 21, 2008 17:48:51 GMT
Cardiff last night was superb, Tull were back on top form. The best Tull gig I have seen for years. Ians voice was pretty good and the band were excellent. Storming final half an hour blew the roof off. Great to see after some criticisms over the past few years. Going to Bristol too - so glad after last night. Magnificent!! Stick that in your pipe those who said they were past it. In fairness most of the *professional* reviews I have seen in recent years, admittedly usually from smaller cities or towns, certainly the large US cities are loathe to even admit their sold out shows exist, have been very good to excellent to best show ever seen in any genre. (Saw 2 with that take, Anna Phoebe shows I recall, both from last years UK spring tour, one I think in York.) The negative reviews I have seen have been on the net from allegedly ardent fans, and usually with a bent towards heavy metal or prog, neither camp one that I believe Tull ever to have been a member of, TAAB and Passion Play not withstanding. I don't even like it when Ian pays lip service to ELP, Yes or Genesis, none of whom i precisely dislke, but all of whom I consider no more a relative of Jethro Tull than Sun Ra, other than their birthdates are very similar, and they all were members of the wrongfully maligned progressive era, where radio would play rock, jazz, folk,blues, celtic, classical you name it, all of which had everything to do with the creation of acts such as Tull and many others, it was ok to know how to play your instrument. (Then came the punks and their manifesto of f**k art lets dance, a genre that has been given far too much credit, and if music were a sport, any era of Tull would administer a serious beating to that genres best operators such as Talking Heads and Elvis Costello, let alone the other turds like the Clash, I'll take my " real music" from the master operators like Muddy Waters or Howlin Wolf and leave the punks and new wavers and hip hoppers to their nasty ass powders.) . In fact, given their humor, they are probably closer to Ra. If you wanted to see truly bad Tull reviews you would need to return to the period of about 73-82 when Tull still managed to get sneering reviews along the lines of "Jethro Tull? Is that swivel eyed turd still around then? I shall have to give them a good thrashing"
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Post by admin on Apr 22, 2008 9:03:34 GMT
Yeah it does seem to have come a bit full circle doesn't it? The press seem to love Tull at the moment and alot of fans who have been loyal for so many years seem quite negative.
Not sure I agree with you about the Punk thing. Most of it was indeed terrible but some of the Punk and new wave artists were excellent IMO. Not always my cup of tea musically of course but from your list Elvis Costello stands out for me as a great musician and songwriter. With you all the way on the hip hop though. ;D
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Post by fatman on Apr 26, 2008 13:54:49 GMT
Oxford show, not a vintage Tull performance, but very good indeed Set list follows: ( 1) My sunday feeling ( 2) Living in the past ( 3) One for John Gee ( 4) So much trouble ( 5) Sossity, you're a woman/Reasons for waiting ( 6) Nursie ( 7) Serenade to a Cuckoo ( 8) Beside myself ( 9) New day yesterday (10) For a 1000 mothers (11) Bouree - Dave Pegg on bass Interval (12) We used to know/Witches promise/With you there to help me (13) Dharma for one - good drum solo (14) Heavy horses (15) Level Pegging - a Fairport Convention track - DP on bass up to and including (17) (16) Farm on the freeway (17) Pussy willow (18) Thick as a brick - Dave Goodier back on bass (19) Aqualung (20) Encore - Locomotive Breath - all 6 on stage - Dave Pegg on mandolin Looks like they changed it up a bit. Care to expound a bit? Stage presentation, sound quality, Ian's vocals, etc.... This set list contains nothing really new, nothing that they have not been playing regularly for the past 5-10 years. Do they really need to play LITP at every show on every tour, as they have been doing lately? I would have liked different songs from the first few albums, stuff like A Time for Everything or For Jeffrey, Michael Collins and Me, or fully sung versions of We Used to Know and Reasons for Waiting rather than largely instrumental medleys of those songs where Ian sings maybe two lines from each song. This is a very disappointing set list as far as I'm concerned. And the fact that there is STILL no new Tull album in the works is beyond belief. Who needs more re-mastered anniversary versions of old albums, or more live videos of recent tours or more "fully authorized" Jethro Tull retrospective videos? Jeff
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Post by fatman on Apr 26, 2008 14:02:17 GMT
Yeah it does seem to have come a bit full circle doesn't it? The press seem to love Tull at the moment and alot of fans who have been loyal for so many years seem quite negative. I am not one of those long term fans who have been bashing Tull for the past fifteen years. I thought Dot Com was okay even though it was mostly retreads of past Tull songs and I loved Secret Language of Birds and Rubbing Elbows. The Christmas album was good, say three stars out of five, and as recently as 2002, Tull were a very powerful live act. It's really only the past few years that I have fallen off the bandwagon, because of all the orchestral stuff, the truncated songs where Ian sings only two or three lines and the rest is instrumental, the cover versions of Led Zep, Queen and ELP, and Jethro Tull playing five or six Lucia songs at a Jethro Tull concert. They've really lost me with all of that, and I refuse to buy any more Tull products other than a new album which never seems to be forthcoming. Jeff
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Post by nonrabbit on Apr 26, 2008 17:05:48 GMT
Looks like they changed it up a bit. Care to expound a bit? Stage presentation, sound quality, Ian's vocals, etc.... This set list contains nothing really new, nothing that they have not been playing regularly for the past 5-10 years. Do they really need to play LITP at every show on every tour, as they have been doing lately? I would have liked different songs from the first few albums, stuff like A Time for Everything or For Jeffrey, Michael Collins and Me, or fully sung versions of We Used to Know and Reasons for Waiting rather than largely instrumental medleys of those songs where Ian sings maybe two lines from each song. This is a very disappointing set list as far as I'm concerned. And the fact that there is STILL no new Tull album in the works is beyond belief. Who needs more re-mastered anniversary versions of old albums, or more live videos of recent tours or more "fully authorized" Jethro Tull retrospective videos? Jeff I agree with you about a new album, long overdue! As far as choice of songs go I also agree that I would have loved to have heard For Michael Collins...but thats surely down to personal taste. However I don't agree about not including LITP or the like. I am taking three 'twenty year olds' to this concert and as recent recruits to Tull they asked if they would be playing LITP etc. It's a tricky business trying to choose the right songs fit all categories!!! I'm happy to see so many young people discovering Tull.
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Post by tullistray on Apr 26, 2008 21:30:59 GMT
Yeah it does seem to have come a bit full circle doesn't it? The press seem to love Tull at the moment and alot of fans who have been loyal for so many years seem quite negative. I am not one of those long term fans who have been bashing Tull for the past fifteen years. I thought Dot Com was okay even though it was mostly retreads of past Tull songs and I loved Secret Language of Birds and Rubbing Elbows. The Christmas album was good, say three stars out of five, and as recently as 2002, Tull were a very powerful live act. It's really only the past few years that I have fallen off the bandwagon, because of all the orchestral stuff, the truncated songs where Ian sings only two or three lines and the rest is instrumental, the cover versions of Led Zep, Queen and ELP, and Jethro Tull playing five or six Lucia songs at a Jethro Tull concert. They've really lost me with all of that, and I refuse to buy any more Tull products other than a new album which never seems to be forthcoming. Jeff Very good post but having seen every tour since 72 pretty nearly every one has had elements in it that were non Tull, but without question whatever pieces have been re interpreted have come with Jethro Tull's stamp all over it. Yeah, they played Kashmir but never had any doubt that this was Jethro Tull. Additionally, obviously one guy's opinion, but I would give much higher marks to Dot Com, the highest marks possible to the Christmas Album, and very honorable mentions indeed to his orchestral works. Hardly expecting most to agree with me, and certainly not saying I'm right, having come in just before Benefit, that and Stand Up were really the ones that drew me in, but I believe everything since Roots have been superior records over all to Benefit, my perception being how gracefully Ian has aged, and the perceived shot in the arm to quality young musicianship fitting seamlessly into the Tull mindset as evidenced by Lucia, Anne and Anne Marie, lord knows this level of musicianship has not been encouraged by radio since the overwhelmingly overpraised onset of punk over thirty years ago, this reality being without question why there is no new Jethro Tull, Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix etc, all without question a product of their time, a time that was laughed into triviality many many years ago. The joke has in fact been on the world. Oops I did it again anyone. Oddly not that bad a song, especially when Richard Thompson got his hands on it.
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