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Post by JTull 007 on Aug 18, 2016 2:12:43 GMT
Gold Disc For Tull Norwegian actress Julie Ege (1943 - 2008) awards a gold disc to Jethro Tull singer and flautist Ian Anderson on the roof of the Dorchester Hotel, London, 19th February 1971. The disc is for over a million sales of their third album...February 19, 1971
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Post by maddogfagin on Oct 10, 2016 7:51:26 GMT
demonszone.com/albums/jethro-tull/benefit/?BenefitPosted on 8 October 2016 by Steven Lornie JETHRO TULL’S third studio album BENEFIT is a record that I have always struggled to get into. Back when I was a teenager, I found this album in my mother’s record collection and I remember it making me feel a little strange. As a kid I was use to a lot of things in rock music, but a flute? Well nearly twenty years later and my opinion for the most part has not changed. Whilst I find BENEFIT to be a worthy successor to the excellent STAND UP, I find the music to be a little samey and not eccentric enough to keep my attention, unlike AQUALUNG or HEAVY HORSES for example. That does not mean that BENEFIT is a bad album however. In terms of song writing, you can tell that IAN ANDERSON and friends had matured a little since the previous record. Their lyrics and over all song writing is a lot more interesting, almost teetering on what would become their trademark style. In terms of sound, it is a damn sight better than STAND UP. The production is a lot more solid providing JETHRO TULL with a nice thick sound, a huge improvement on the more raw ’60s based sound on the previous record. This is easily the band’s first well mixed album. BENEFIT has a lot of heavy guitar work on the album. MARTIN BARRE really churns out some great riffs and solos through out the record, not taking away his skill with an acoustic guitar of course. The guitar playing for the most part feels a lot more prominent then the trademark flute. There is also a lot less of the jazz influences that was present on STAND UP and THIS WAS. Despite my lack of interest in the album. I do feel that it makes a great sequel to its predecessor. They could almost be considered a double album, they lean on each other very well and I would definitely recommend listening to them back to back. Despite the fact that I feel like the band dipped into the same well one too many times with tracks like NOTHING TO SAY, SON and A TIME FOR EVERYTHING being fairly typical JETHRO TULL songs. The album is still an enjoyable listen as a whole and a fine addition to a prog fans collection.
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Post by colbefc on Feb 23, 2017 23:59:43 GMT
I had bought the first two Tull albums and loved them and when Benefit's release day was a month away I went to my local record shop and put a deposit down on it, you could do that years ago. I remember reading a review in a music paper 2 weeks before release date and I was desperate to hear it. I counted the days until release day finally came round. I must have gone into the shop about five times asking if they had it yet until finally i got my hands on it at about 4pm. I rushed home, put it on and was so disappointed when I listened to it, as someone elsewhere said it was so dark. I listened to it many times but none of it stuck in my head. I just put it at the back of my record collection and ignored it for years. Of course now I love it, it is one of my fav Tull albums, out of the 5 I have heard that is , but it has taken 40+ years for me to really appreciate Benefit as the classic it is
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Post by Equus on Feb 24, 2017 4:10:03 GMT
I had bought the first two Tull albums and loved them and when Benefit's release day was a month away I went to my local record shop and put a deposit down on it, you could do that years ago. I remember reading a review in a music paper 2 weeks before release date and I was desperate to hear it. I counted the days until release day finally came round. I must have gone into the shop about five times asking if they had it yet until finally i got my hands on it at about 4pm. I rushed home, put it on and was so disappointed when I listened to it, as someone elsewhere said it was so dark. I listened to it many times but none of it stuck in my head. I just put it at the back of my record collection and ignored it for years. Of course now I love it, it is one of my fav Tull albums, out of the 5 I have heard that is , but it has taken 40+ years for me to really appreciate Benefit as the classic it is I love it too, and it's interesting to hear this story... I don't know exactly what is was, but I think that the first release of Benefit had too much echo... or something like that, and that bothered me for years, but then the remaster came along, and they did something that meant that this classic album came alive for me... When Steven Wilson remastered Broadsword And The Beast it destroyed almost all of my love for that album, but I'm holding on to the original... I think that it's the drums... To me they are too dominant... I simply don't like it... or maybe it's something else... but sometimes the record you just don't like even after listening to it over and over again, ends up being the one you love the most... So one of my rules are: "Keep on listening to it, especially if you don't like it at first." The rule doesn't apply for everything though... but if it's a Tull album, and you just can't get into it... listen, listen, listen... Don't give up after the first spin of the disc... (I have just edited this post because of what one of my friends said to me... He's stil laughing... He believes that I wrote something that could have a double meaning... That was not my intension though... (...holding on to a copy of Broadsword and the beast like it was a dear friend of mine... eh... I really didn't mean it that way... If he's right about this very embarrassing misunderstanding... What can I say... I learned English from a book... Is he right about that??)) Rock 'N' Roll!!
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Post by maddogfagin on Feb 24, 2017 8:57:46 GMT
I had bought the first two Tull albums and loved them and when Benefit's release day was a month away I went to my local record shop and put a deposit down on it, you could do that years ago. I remember reading a review in a music paper 2 weeks before release date and I was desperate to hear it. I counted the days until release day finally came round. I must have gone into the shop about five times asking if they had it yet until finally i got my hands on it at about 4pm. I rushed home, put it on and was so disappointed when I listened to it, as someone elsewhere said it was so dark. I listened to it many times but none of it stuck in my head. I just put it at the back of my record collection and ignored it for years. Of course now I love it, it is one of my fav Tull albums, out of the 5 I have heard that is , but it has taken 40+ years for me to really appreciate Benefit as the classic it is
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Post by steelmonkey on May 12, 2017 15:43:16 GMT
You know what I think? And I know no one asked...I think if you listen to Bowie in the early 70s...especially Ziggy Stardust and Alladin Sane...and you subtract the vocals and your memory of his image and stage costumes etc...you hear music that would have fit very well on Benefit...the riffy, strong guitar, the rhythmic piano, the simple but original and catchy melodies. Songs like 'Changes' and 'Moonage Daydream' and many more fit right in with Teacher and Cry You a Song etc.
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 22, 2019 7:21:41 GMT
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Post by bunkerfan on Apr 20, 2020 11:22:18 GMT
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the release of Jethro Tull’s third studio album, ‘Benefit’.
3 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT 'BENEFIT':
1. ‘Benefit’ is guitarist Martin Barre’s favourite Jethro Tull album. 2. John Evan, who played piano and organ on the album “for our benefit”, and subsequently joined the band for ten years, was actually named John Evans. His missing ‘s’ was a deliberate hangover from the pre-Jethro Tull group The John Evan Band, because it sounded ‘cooler’. 3. Michael Collins, name-checked in the song For Michael Collins, Jeffrey And Me, was the member of the Apollo 11 space-mission who stayed in the main capsule while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon.
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Post by elberto on Apr 20, 2020 14:59:55 GMT
"More celebrations of ‘Benefit’ are to come later this year…"
source: an e-mail from JethroTull@em.rhino.com
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Post by jackinthegreen on Apr 20, 2020 15:35:56 GMT
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the release of Jethro Tull’s third studio album, ‘Benefit’. 3 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT 'BENEFIT':
1. ‘Benefit’ is guitarist Martin Barre’s favourite Jethro Tull album. 2. John Evan, who played piano and organ on the album “for our benefit”, and subsequently joined the band for ten years, was actually named John Evans. His missing ‘s’ was a deliberate hangover from the pre-Jethro Tull group The John Evan Band, because it sounded ‘cooler’. 3. Michael Collins, name-checked in the song For Michael Collins, Jeffrey And Me, was the member of the Apollo 11 space-mission who stayed in the main capsule while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon. Has always been one of my favourite Tull albums, even although I bought Aqualung when it was released, then went back and got the first three after I'd heard that.
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Post by nonrabbit on Apr 20, 2020 17:47:01 GMT
Benefit Benefit Benefit
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Post by nonrabbit on Apr 20, 2020 17:47:36 GMT
"More celebrations of ‘Benefit’ are to come later this year…" source: an e-mail from JethroTull@em.rhino.com Sounds good. Any more info?
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Post by JTull 007 on Apr 21, 2020 1:03:59 GMT
Who said a quarantine was a bad thing? LINK After a little studio cleaning Redbeard just found a 30 year old interview with Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull never before heard on radio. You can hear part of that interview, this week, IN THE STUDIO with the story behind Tull's April 1970 third album Benefit, the record that gave oxygen to 1971's Aqualung. bit.ly/3cyojip
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 22, 2020 7:12:46 GMT
"More celebrations of ‘Benefit’ are to come later this year…" source: an e-mail from JethroTull@em.rhino.com Sounds good. Any more info? Well it may be the announcement of the book format for the album to bring it into line with the other albums by SW, or may be not. It gets even more confusing when press releases are released by seemingly different companies - Rhino/Warner Bros/ Parlophone or, as I suppose, are they all the same ?
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Post by argentull on Apr 22, 2020 18:47:07 GMT
Sounds good. Any more info? Well it may be the announcement of the book format for the album to bring it into line with the other albums by SW, or may be not. It gets even more confusing when press releases are released by seemingly different companies - Rhino/Warner Bros/ Parlophone or, as I suppose, are they all the same ? I think Parlophone is owned by Warners and Rhino is the US distributor. BUt a statement of the record label itself about forthcomming stuff is certainly about physical format music IMO.
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 23, 2020 6:33:52 GMT
Well it may be the announcement of the book format for the album to bring it into line with the other albums by SW, or may be not. It gets even more confusing when press releases are released by seemingly different companies - Rhino/Warner Bros/ Parlophone or, as I suppose, are they all the same ? I think Parlophone is owned by Warners and Rhino is the US distributor. BUt a statement of the record label itself about forthcomming stuff is certainly about physical format music IMO. Yes, I reckon so as well. If this is the case then it's highly likely that "A" will be delayed a bit but then apart from any deluxe Benefit book format we've got the Record Store Day "Stormwatch 2" release and IA's next release which we must hope he's working on during enforced lock down/house arrest. I mean in this day of internet files being sent by email (can someone explain to an old git like me exactly how it works )other musicians can fairly easily add to any forthcoming Tull/solo album without leaving the confines of their house, assuming of course that they've got the right equipment.
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Post by maddogfagin on Aug 4, 2020 6:21:37 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2020 13:43:42 GMT
This photo is strange...why are there 2 Ian Andersons?
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Post by maddogfagin on Aug 4, 2020 14:24:59 GMT
This photo is strange...why are there 2 Ian Andersons? I'll have to pass on that as I don't know. I did ask the late Michael Veith the same question many years ago - he didn't know either. Think we'll have to put it down as either artistic licence or drug usage in the art dept.
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Post by argentull on Sept 30, 2020 18:29:18 GMT
The Benefit book set with extras "not on the 2013 edition" sounds very promising...
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Post by jackinthegreen on Sept 30, 2020 23:24:53 GMT
The Benefit book set with extras "not on the 2013 edition" sounds very promising... Yes......guaranteed to get the fanatics (me included) buying....the fools that we are Benefit was, and still is in my top 5 Tull albums. With you there to help Me, has to be one of the most incredible tracks ever
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Post by argentull on Oct 1, 2020 0:36:18 GMT
The Benefit book set with extras "not on the 2013 edition" sounds very promising... Yes......guaranteed to get the fanatics (me included) buying....the fools that we are Benefit was, and still is in my top 5 Tull albums. With you there to help Me, has to be one of the most incredible tracks ever Indeed! And the studio version of To cry you a song is magical! It is Bach transformed into Rock and Roll!!
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Post by bondy on Oct 30, 2020 12:39:43 GMT
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Post by maddogfagin on Oct 30, 2020 15:32:36 GMT
From the official site at jethrotull.com/benefit-2cddvd-collectors-edition/Following the release last year of the 40th anniversary edition of Thick as a Brick, on 28th October Chrysalis Records will release a Collector’s Edition of Jethro Tull’s Benefit album. Benefit was Jethro Tull’s third album, first released in April 1970. Transcending the blues influences of their 1969 album Stand Up, it was a much more hard-rocking album which saw the band utilise more advanced studio techniques. It reached number 3 in the UK. Tull_exploded_packshotThe Collector’s Edition of Benefit plus bonus tracks has been mixed by Steven Wilson and approved by Ian Anderson. CD2 is a mono and stereo disc of rare and previously unreleased versions of tracks and singles associated with the period Benefit was released in (more information available on request). The audio only DVD includes a surround sound mix of Benefit, 96/24 tracks of Stereo in UK and US running orders. In addition, the Collector’s Edition will include a booklet featuring an 8,000 word essay written by Martin Webb, as well as interviews with band members and a selection of photos, some of which are rare and previously unseen. CD 1 1-With You There To Help Me (6.20) 2-Nothing To Say (5.13) 3-Alive And Well And Living In (2.48) 4-Son (2.53) 5-For Michael Collins, Jeffrey and Me (3.49) 6-To Cry You A Song (6.16) 7-A Time For Everything ? (2.45) 8-Inside (3.48) 9-Play In Time (3.49) 10-Sossity; You’re A Woman (4.37) BONUS RECORDINGS 11-Singing All Day (3.07) 12-Sweet Dream (4.03) 13-17 (6.20) 14-Teacher (4.58) (UK single version) (stereo) 15- Teacher (4.03) (US album version) (stereo) TRACKS 1-10 PRODUCED BY IAN ANDERSON EXECUTIVE PRODUCER TERRY ELLIS CD 2: ASSOCIATED RECORDINGS 1-Singing All Day (mono)* 2-Sweet Dream (mono) 3- 17 (mono) 4- Sweet Dream (stereo)* 5- 17 (stereo)* 6-The Witch’s Promise (mono) 7-Teacher (UK single version) (mono) 8-Teacher (US album version) (mono) 9-The Witch’s Promise (stereo) 10-Teacher (UK single version (stereo) 11-Teacher (US album version) (stereo) 12-Inside (mono) 13-Alive And Well And Living In 14-A Time For Everything (mono) 15-Reprise AM Radio Spot 1 (mono) 16-Reprise FM Radio Spot 2 (stereo) *PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED DVD – DTS & DOLBY DIGITAL 5.1 & STEREO VERSIONS OF THE FOLLOWING: 1-With You There To Help Me (6.20) 2-Nothing To Say (5.13) 3-Alive And Well And Living In (2.48) 4-Son (2.53) 5-For Michael Collins, Jeffrey and Me (3.49) 6-To Cry You A Song (6.16) 7-A Time For Everything ? (2.45) 8-Inside (3.48) 9-Play In Time (3.49) 10-Sossity; You’re A Woman (4.37) Bonus recordings 11-Singing All Day 12-Sweet Dream 13-17 14-Teacher (UK single version) (stereo) 15- Teacher (US album version) (stereo) NEW 5.1 SURROUND SOUND AND STEREO MIXES BY STEVEN WILSON FLAT TRANSFER OF ORIGINAL UK LP MASTER AT 96/24: UK RUNNING ORDER 1-With You There To Help Me (6.20) 2-Nothing To Say (5.13) 3-Alive And Well And Living In (2.48) 4-Son (2.53) 5-For Michael Collins, Jeffrey and Me (3.49) 6-To Cry You A Song (6.16) 7-A Time For Everything ? (2.45) 8-Inside (3.48) 9-Play In Time (3.49) 10-Sossity; You’re A Woman (4.37) US RUNNING ORDER 1-With You There To Help Me (6.20) 2-Nothing To Say (5.13) 3-Inside (3.49) 4-Son (2.53) 5-For Michael Collins, Jeffrey and Me (3.50) 6-To Cry You A Song (6.15) 7-A Time For Everything (2.44) 8-Teacher (4.04) 9-Play In Time (3.53) 10-Sossity; You’re A Woman (4.39) Additional flat transfer recordings at 96/24: 11-Sweet Dream (stereo) 4:08 12-17 (stereo) 5:32 13-The Witch’s Promise (stereo) 4:01 VINYL EDITIONS UK Edition: A vinyl edition featuring the new & previously unreleased Steven Wilson mix of the UK running order of ‘Benefit’ on 180g heavyweight vinyl, will be released on the same day. US Edition: In the US the album will also be released on vinyl later this year. Details to be announced soon.
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Post by schubertmachiavelli on Feb 3, 2021 11:49:44 GMT
So, according to the latest edition of AND that dropped through my letterbox this morning, the updated Benefit box set is due later this year, but currently awaiting a clearance on some live material that is hoped for inclusion.
Between the lines, I'm guessing that means whatever else the bonus tracks include, it won't be yet another reissue of the Carnegie Hall gig (I'm assuming rights of use for that one is firmly in the Tull camp already) — or at least won't just be that. All good to me!
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Post by JTull 007 on Feb 19, 2021 0:26:00 GMT
Special thanks to Tullpress JULIE HANDS IT TO JETHRO LINK The group is Jethro Tull. The girl is Julie Ege, whose picture you may have seen once or twice in the past few months. The place is the penthouse suite of the Dorchester Hotel. And the reason for the meeting is the presentation, by Julie, of a Gold Album to the group for worldwide sales of more than a million of the album 'Benefit'.
But Tull-man Ian Anderson was much more keen on talking about the group's new album, out this month. It's called 'Aqualung'. One side consists of songs about people — including a tramp-like figure called Aqualung — named after the wheezing cough from which he suffers.
Jethro Tull's British tour kicked off last weekend and goes on until March 20.
Footnote: to avoid any possible confusion, Julie Ege is the one in the striped sweater.
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Post by JTull 007 on Apr 15, 2021 1:16:42 GMT
Thank you Dave Rees "Benefit next, then Broadsword Not another remix, but 'new' bonus (live) material and, of course, the book-set packaging" Image by Graham Douglas
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Post by Budding Stately Hero on Jun 26, 2021 0:15:55 GMT
Any word on the anticipated forthcoming updated Benefit box set in book form, later this year?
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Post by adospencer on Jun 26, 2021 4:43:00 GMT
Funny how we all vividly remember our circumstances around the time of each Tull release? Big part of our lives! Anyway my "Benefit" story is this. I came "late" to Tull, my introduction being "Brick" and "LITP" via a friend on the school bus in 72. This is all pre internet of course, and the average teen in England didn't know who Tull were so I had no idea about previous releases. As the aforementioned two albums became important I became curious about previous releases. Someone eventually issued me with a home taped cassette of "Benefit". I didn't like it , it seemed a heavy handed dark album, all about difficult domestic relationships, nothing like the pastoral Tull that had delighted me so far. As such , I dismissed all of the albums pre "Brick" and never heard them till "Warchild" was out. Again I clearly remember being in a friends car and he was playing music (might have been on 8 track) and I heard a vaguely familiar song that I really liked. When he told me it was Tull "Stand up" I quickly sought out the back catalogue of those four albums that Id missed. "This Was" I didn't like (and still don't, not proper Tull) , "Aqualung" as we know is a classic. So my early aversion to "Benefit" kept me away from the delights of two classic early albums for a couple of years! ( As an aside I always think "Stand Up" is ahead of its time. It has a sound and feel that makes it seem like the album came just before "Brick". Anyway I digress)
Back to "Benefit". Truth is, its not a favourite and I don't spin it much. I love "Nothing to Say" , but much of the rest still seems dark and sombre with a theme of old girlfriends and difficult parents and the cover is the worst ever. Probably I'm being unfair to it, it might be less about the actual music and more about my memories of the time. Sometimes that happens doesn't it? For better or worse a particular album , always locks us into the time and place where we first heard it.
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