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Post by steelmonkey on Oct 16, 2013 19:51:04 GMT
I wish I was up in T.O. keeping jive alive.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2013 19:54:34 GMT
I wish I was up in T.O. keeping JETHRO Tull alive. FIXED! Fixed again.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2013 20:06:08 GMT
What is Ian Anderson doing today? Hamilton, Ontario next. Thick as a Brick: Taking rock into a rather surreal and slightly comedic placewww.thespec.com/whatson-story/4155766-thick-as-a-brick-taking-rock-into-a-rather-surreal-and-slightly-comedic-place/ ByGraham Rockingham "And your wise men don't know how it fe-e-e-ee-els … to be thick as a brick:" Ian Anderson, 1972 When Ian Anderson started writing Jethro Tull's 1972 classic Thick As A Brick, he envisioned it as a spoof. He felt rock 'n' roll had become too full of itself, drifting pretentiously away from its blues-based roots. At the time, prog-rock (as in progressive rock) ruled. Bands like Yes, and Emerson, Lake & Palmer had taken the genre into arty, symphonic places, where it didn't necessarily belong. Anderson also felt a little embarrassed. His band Jethro Tull had contributed to these developments. Anderson was, after all, the musician who introduced the flute to rock 'n' roll. Tull's previous album, the brilliant Aqualung, certainly had its prog-ish moments. So he decided to take a poke at prog by composing "the mother of all concept albums" — one song stretching both sides of a long-play record with enough orchestration to bring a blush to Mahler himself. To top it all off, he created a fictional author for the suite, a child named Gerald Bostock. "It indeed was a parody of the concept album genre, because it was getting a little out of hand," Anderson says in a phone interview from his home in England. "So I said, 'let's go one better.' "We took it into a rather surreal, and slightly comedic place, with a preposterous idea of the lyrics having been written by an eight-year-old schoolboy, then dressed it all up with the slightly pompous and complex music of prog rock." Interestingly enough, Anderson's parody produced some very fine tunes. The resulting album, Thick As A Brick, wrapped in a copy of the fictional 'St. Cleve's Times,' was a smashing success, outselling Aqualung and becoming Jethro Tull's first record to top the American Billboard charts. "It was diligently put together," says 66-year-old Anderson, in his elegant British accent. "I think it is a good balance of slightly surreal humour and serious undertones of that difficult journey from childhood through pubescence and the young adult. "It's that precarious moment just before the rush of hormones when you have a confused idea of the adult world that you get from teachers, parents, older siblings as to whatever it might be." Forty years after the release of Thick As A Brick, Anderson decided to write a sequel, Thick As A Brick 2 (he refers to it as "TAAB 2"). Fans and record labels executives had been urging Anderson to do so for years, but he says he never found the inspiration. "It was only when I had a simple, clear, good idea as a thematic justification for a sequel that I was able to proceed," Anderson explains. "That simple idea was, 'Whatever happened to Gerald Bostock? What might have become of him? After 40 years, as a middle-aged man, where had life taken him?' "So, I sat down to write a number of possible scenarios. I think I wrote 15 and whittled it down to five that I felt were the ones I wanted to cover. Rather than just pick one outcome for his life, I thought I would look at some divergent and alternative courses and explore the way life is for all of us. We may start out doing one thing and end up doing something completely different." Some of the scenarios are quite tough on young Gerald. In one, he is molested by a school teacher and ends up living life on the street. Once TAAB 2 was released last year, on Chrysalis/EMI Records, Anderson turned himself to the task of touring it as a live show. When the original record was released, Jethro Tull never played the album cover-to-cover. There were parts of it that were just too difficult to recreate on stage at the time. Advances in technology have since made it possible, so why not do it now? Even better, why not perform TAAB 1 back-to-back with TAAB 2? That's exactly what Anderson has done. He's performing both Thick As A Brick albums in their entirety on Thursday, Oct. 17, as well as a few classics from the Jethro Tull catalogue. Although most of the members of his touring band have played in Jethro Tull, Anderson decided to tour TAAB under his own name. "I don't mind generic Jethro Tull repertoire tours, that's fine," Anderson explains. "But if it's more of a project, or a conceptual thing, I think that it's important for me to attach my own name to it, partly because I think it's important that the audience understand that they're coming to see something that is quite specific and not just the best of Jethro Tull. "There is a danger if you put Jethro Tull on a ticket, people will come expecting to hear the 15 or 20 most famous songs. That's not what I'm doing … so I don't want people, especially after they've had a few beers inside of them, screaming 'Locomotive Breath.' "Although we just may do that as part of the encore. You never know."
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Post by JTull 007 on Oct 17, 2013 19:54:04 GMT
Holy Hamilton Ontario ! Another night of Progressive Rock will begin in 4 hours! Tull Party All Night
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Post by maddogfagin on Oct 18, 2013 11:36:06 GMT
Now that is one heck of a superb venue.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2013 14:23:22 GMT
Answering prayers. Now that is one heck of a superb venue. It was a superb show too. Glad we didn't miss it. Ian Anderson & Band rocked hard, loud & proud. The love for Ian was clear.
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Post by JTull 007 on Oct 18, 2013 14:50:20 GMT
Toronto, Canada Home of Massey Hall Such a Historic venue deserves the most 'Historic Tour'... It's like 1995 all over again.
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Post by maddogfagin on Oct 18, 2013 16:42:58 GMT
It was a superb show too. Glad we didn't miss it. Ian Anderson & Band rocked hard, loud & proud. The love for Ian was clear. Great stuff bro. Glad you had a good time. Bernie's next I think ?
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Post by steelmonkey on Oct 18, 2013 17:06:42 GMT
9 days...and actually had a close call in traffic on my bike yesterday...dear God, don't take me with a unused ticket in my humble paws.
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Post by JTull 007 on Oct 19, 2013 19:31:32 GMT
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Post by steelmonkey on Oct 19, 2013 20:58:29 GMT
Windsor gig is Detroit..right across a short bridge and a long time TULL stronghold...they used to sell out gigantic Cobo Hall ( 18,000) year after year...usually with riots outside by the unticketed unfortunates.
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Post by JTull 007 on Oct 20, 2013 3:15:33 GMT
Massey Hall with Steve Thamer Ian and Steve having fun at the aftershow party with wine in plastic cups!
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Post by maddogfagin on Oct 20, 2013 8:18:52 GMT
Sunday, October 20, 2013 JEFFREY MORGAN’S MEDIA BLACKOUT #390 www.jeffreymorgan.info/MY SUNDAY JEFFREY MORGAN’S MEDIA BLACKOUT #390! SIZZLING CONCERT OF THE WEEK: Ian Anderson – Live At Massey Hall In Toronto (October 18, 2013) :: Meanwhile back in the year 2008: JEFFREY MORGAN: I don’t suppose I could talk you into mounting a touring road show of A Passion Play to show those ABBA and Queen musicals what real rock theater would be like. IAN ANDERSON: [laughs] Well... MORGAN: I mean, this is the ideal time. ANDERSON: I think you just hit on the problem with my objections to anything like that because of the words rock theatre. There was a time when the idea of a more theatrical form of rock music did seem as if it was quite fitting. And I suppose in 1972 and 1973 it seemed to me that it was possible to do. But the trouble was that, while we went down that route ourselves—in a humorous way, I mean, it was never meant to be sort of serious; it was always meant to be a bit tongue in cheek and a bit fun... MORGAN: Well, some of us got that. ANDERSON: Yeah! Well, this was the era of Monty Python and the Flying Circus and it was all that surrealistic British humor sort of finding an outlet. But the theatricality of it, after a couple of years, made me feel uncomfortable. Especially because...in the wake of that...I suppose...probably Alice Cooper ’round the same time as Jethro Tull was doing that kind of slightly theatrical approach to rock music. But it seemed that very quickly people were jumping on that bandwagon and the big production tours started happening and people were going bigger and louder and brighter and it seemed somehow to get away from the spirit of what the music was about. And I think somewhere around that time I think I persuaded myself that, really, it was better to be minimizing the theatre to just the occasional use of props or personality kind of moments, rather than it being theatrical in the sense that there were stage sets and carpenters and electricians and all kinds of people you had to have along in order to put something together that became very calculated and very choreographed and scripted which was something that I didn’t feel very good about. Because the improvisation aspect of playing music is something I’ve always felt should extend to the performance as a whole. So I kinda went 180 degrees away from the theatrical side of presentation. But what I do today, I’m well aware that there’s a theatricality in the way I present it. But it’s really a theatricality in personality terms rather than involving other people or involving other elements of presentation. I mean, big, glitzy productions are just something that make me feel uncomfortable. *** *** *** Meanwhile back in the year now, I’m pleased to see that Ian Anderson finally took my advice and is putting his money where his props are, even if it doesn’t involve his performing A Passion Play in its entirety with Nightcap’s “Chateau D’Isaster” as a chaser. For not only is he currently traipsing around performing the one and only legendary parody prog rock masterpiece Thick As A Brick in its dual-sided entirety, he’s also giving a bonus full-length recital, live, at no extra charge to the paying public, of the exhaustively titled but no less significant sequel TAAB2: Thick As A Brick 2: Whatever Happened To Gerald Bostock? Now I’m sure that every man jack of you knows all about Thick As A Brick but, for those of you who are arriving a little late to the soirée, I’ll have you know that 2012 marked both the factual 40th anniversary of the original TAAB album and the fictitious 50th birthday of the album’s ten-year-old “lyricist,” precocious prodigy Gerald Bostock. Which was more than reason enough for Ian Anderson to create a new prog rock concept album that dares to posit half a dozen different possible alternate universe scenarios of what Gerald might have done with his life over the past 40 years—with several overt and oblique nods to such past Tullian triumphs as Aqualung and the often aforementioned A Passion Play along the way. Of course, the big tip off that the proceedings, although serious, aren’t to be taken too seriously, is the album’s official attribution to Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson which tags this ambitious effort as being neither a canonical Tull record nor an extra-curricular solo Anderson album. Eschewing the unbanded vinyl single song cycle that defined both TAAB and APP, the new TAAB2 is divided into 17 separate songs, only one of which—“Gerald Goes Homeless: Adrift And Dumbfounded”—truly sounds as if it had been recorded back in 1972. Which only goes to show that Ian could easily have expertly aped his back catalogue had he wanted to. That he chose not to live in the past and come up instead with something that sounds thoroughly modern while still evoking echoes of the past, is a testament to the man’s continual creativity—but that’s nothing compared to what awaits you when you see him perform both compositions on stage. For one thing, at age 66, Ian Anderson is without a doubt not only The Hardest Working Man In Progressive Rock but The Most Energetic Man In Progressive Rock as well. And although he always seemed to have cut a spry figure, in retrospect it’s now obvious that Ian Anderson’s ’60s and ’70s stage attire of coat and boots and codpiece and long hair only slowed him down! For having since divested himself of all such sartorial weight, he now bounds about with a lighter than air vim and vigor that men half his age only wish they could muster on their best days. This explains how, during the course of a double header that lasts well over two hours, Ian Anderson has the bravura stentorian stamina to faithfully duplicate every single lead line and fill that you have memorized off both albums—which means he’s playing the flute during a full 90% of the show. Being no brainy Bostock, all figures are approximate. But it’s not all punny wordplay and complex key signatures because the entire proceedings are continually interwoven with the above-noted Andersonian sense of humor, which manifests itself with impeccable split second timing in almost every aspect of the production, from the upstage lock-step choreography; to the out of his element frogman footage; to the audience participation Prostate Exam and public service announcement which concludes with a sober visual cautionary tribute to such similarly lost luminaries as Dennis Hopper, Johnny Ramone and Telly Savalas. Who loves ya, baby? Ian Anderson does, sweetheart. Listen, when it comes to “bigger and louder and brighter” prog rock concept concerts I’ve seen ’em all at their biggest and loudest and brightest from Welcome To My Nightmare and Brain Salad Surgery to Tales From Topographic Oceans and Diamond Dogs to Journey to the Center of the Earth with the National Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir of America, which is why I’m more than qualified to tell you that never before have I ever seen anyone do more with less than Ian Anderson and his crackerjack band do on this tour. So whatever you do, wherever you are, check your local listings and if Ian Anderson is coming to your town, you owe it to yourself to buy a ducat and pick up on what he’s putting down. Because that’s not opportunity you hear knocking, that’s a telephone ringing—if all you long time Jethro Tull fans catch my drift. Be seeing you! Sun, October 20, 2013
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Post by nonrabbit on Oct 20, 2013 8:53:04 GMT
Way to go Steve!! Glad you met him and had fun.
Thanks for posting Jim.
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Post by nonrabbit on Oct 20, 2013 8:55:31 GMT
That Morgan bloke is the official biographer of Alice Cooper and The Stooges, I thought at the start of the interview he was going to ask; " I don't suppose I could talk you into.... allowing me to write... "
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2013 14:58:09 GMT
Ian Anderson shows he's not thick as a brick at Massey Hallwww.examiner.com/review/ian-anderson-shows-he-s-not-thick-as-a-brick-at-massey-hall?cid=rss Ian Anderson - Thick As A Brick live Rating: 4 Star out of 5 October 19, 2013 He may have first encountered fame in 1967, but Ian Anderson still knows how to rock. His Oct. 18, 2013 concert at Massey Hall may have included less physical firepower, but Anderson brought it all in the metaphorical sense. Opening up the set with seven men in trench coats setting up shop, the focus was quickly shifted to a video of Gerald Bostock, Anderson’s fictional figure from the Jethro Tull concept albums Thick as a Brick 1 and Thick as a Brick 2. First exposed as a poet prodigy, Gerald is now seen at a clinical psychologist’s office. But as with any Anderson concert, the man in charge quickly got down to business, appearing at left centre stage with a guitar. The rest of the night was a bit of a blur, if only to speak commendably of how well Anderson’s playing has stood the test of time that one song can seamlessly meld into another. And given his age and recent health scares, it was understandable—if not entirely expected—to see Anderson act out a colonoscopy PSA with audience members Tom and “Doctor” Doug. After the “exam” was over, Anderson remarked, “That wasn’t such a terrible experience?” And by pure coincidence, he had picked out a fan with a biting sense of humour. “It was very nice!” quipped Tom. It would be remiss not to mention Anderson’s flute-playing, quite possibly the one trait that has made him most well known to fans. Alternating between a guitar and flute (but mostly flute), Anderson danced, punched, and one-legged his way through Thick as a Brick parts one and two. His decades of practice and passion for the woodwind were evident not in his physical exaggerations, but in his eyes, growing so big at times that the whites were visible. And for good reason, too. Anderson has developed such a unique timbre and style with the flute that it almost becomes its own character, much like The Bird in Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf. His voice may not have been in as great shape as his Jethro Tull days, but Anderson wisely knew that and handed over the reigns to the younger Ryan O’Donnell. Together, the two of them sang, danced, and kitsched their way through the night, making for one heck of an entertaining show. Anderson may be long removed from his glory days as the heart and soul of Jethro Tull, but the man showed he still has a few tricks up his sleeve.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2013 15:00:14 GMT
by pure coincidence - yeah, that's the story.
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Post by JTull 007 on Oct 20, 2013 18:42:39 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2013 12:07:41 GMT
Ian Anderson @ Massey Hall – Toronto Live Review Giancarlo Del Toro October 21, 2013 www.thescenemagazine.ca/ian-anderson-the-massey-hall-toronto-live-review/Ian Anderson @ Massey Hall – Toronto Live Review Who: Ian Anderson From: Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland Where: Massey Hall, Toronto, ON When: Friday, October 18th, 2013 Total Score: 8.6/10 stage presence 10 image/sex appeal 7 musical ability 10 originality 10 crowd reaction 6 Crowd: Easily a sold out show. Not the most loyal crowd though, many people in the audience left the show after the charismatic flutist finished playing Thick As A Brick. It is a shame they didn’t stay for Thick As A Brick, Part 2 (Ian’s latest album) as the remaining fans were pleased to find that Part 2 measures up very well against the original one. Younger people were hard to find even though I spotted Blood Ceremony‘s Alia Obrien and had a nice chat with her. Style: Progressive rock tinged with folk Image/Sex Appeal: The man who spent most of 70′s dancing around on stage in a codpiece and tights (you really could get away with wearing anything if you were in a band in that decade) has toned it down a bit. Memorable song: The uber-talented hub around which Jethro Tull has always revolved is back! Although Aqualung remains Jethro Tull‘s biggest selling record, Thick As A Brick went to number 1 in the USA while the band’s popularity was dipping in the UK. Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson performed Thick as a Brick 1 & 2 , deliberate concept albums with only one track each making up the full length of the record. The man from the woods alternated between a guitar and flute (the instrument that is almost a natural part of him). However, he didn’t dance as much which is understandable for a man his age. The same thing could be said about his voice, but Ryan O’Donnell was there to help as many of vocals on these songs employ a high vocal range with long, sustained notes that are beyond Anderon’s current vocal capabilities. Ian Anderson was joined by Florian Opahle on electric guitar; John O’Hara on keyboards; Ryan O’Donnel on vocals; David Goodier on bass; and Scott Hammond on percussion.
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Post by JTull 007 on Oct 21, 2013 16:10:30 GMT
Ian Anderson @ Massey Hall – Toronto Live Review Giancarlo Del Toro October 21, 2013 www.thescenemagazine.ca/ian-anderson-the-massey-hall-toronto-live-review/Ian Anderson @ Massey Hall – Toronto Live Review Who: Ian Anderson From: Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland Where: Massey Hall, Toronto, ON When: Friday, October 18th, 2013 Total Score: 8.6/10 stage presence 10 image/sex appeal 7 musical ability 10 originality 10 crowd reaction 6 Crowd: Easily a sold out show. Not the most loyal crowd though, many people in the audience left the show after the charismatic flutist finished playing Thick As A Brick. It is a shame they didn’t stay for Thick As A Brick Part 2 (Ian’s latest album)I won't cast doubt on this review, however the idea of leaving a concert after 1 set is APPalling. Maybe I'll give them the Benefit of the doubt and they had family emergencies that caused them to leave. Or maybe it was Friday night and they had a long week and got tired from all the Rock and Roll. Or maybe they needed to bring extra underwear after they pissed in their pants with all the talk of prostates. Whatever the reason, Ian Anderson was very happy to sell them tickets that they clearly did not deserve. Of course in the final analysis, they are Too Old to Rock and Roll, Too Young to Die.
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Post by steelmonkey on Oct 21, 2013 17:53:20 GMT
I'm far more interested in TooTull's impressions than Mr Del Toro's fill in the blank format/dribble.
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Post by bunkerfan on Oct 21, 2013 18:56:21 GMT
I'm far more interested in TooTull's impressions than Mr Del Toro's fill in the blank format/dribble. Here Here!
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Post by JTull 007 on Oct 21, 2013 21:41:46 GMT
Flutestobranches Review jethrotull.proboards.com/post/42679 I just wanted to echo David's excellent review from Boston at the Wang Theatre. David is from Attleboro, Mass. which was close enough to Boston for this complete performance of TAAB 1&2. With all the cool Tull friends I have met since being online, David has a unique perspective since 1984. His appreciation for detail and nuance are always welcome. Here is the embroidery on his Tull Jacket. Looking great at a concert is always important. Rock On David!
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Thanks, Jim. Sorry for the cat hairs visible on my IA jacket; my two felines shed like crazy! -- David
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Post by maddogfagin on Oct 22, 2013 8:02:03 GMT
Thanks, Jim. Sorry for the cat hairs visible on my IA jacket; my two felines shed like crazy! -- David Yeah those pesky felines moult like hell sometimes
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2013 13:59:22 GMT
Edmonton Slight repeat...the name of the city changes & the story remains the same... Ian Anderson brings Jethro Tull to the Winspear Centre By Ted Shaw, Postmedia News October 21, 2013 Read more: www.edmontonjournal.com/entertainment/Anderson+brings+Jethro+Tull+Winspear+Centre/9062786/story.htmlIan Anderson of Jethro Tull is the creative power behind the legendary act and the only original member of the band. Photograph by: John Kenney , John Kenney / THE GAZETTE Preview Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson When: Thursday at 8 p.m. Where: Winspear Centre Tickets: $47.50 to $91.50, Winspear Centre box office, winspearcentre.com, 780-428-1414 ----- Jethro Tull is — and has been from the early days — Ian Anderson with guests. Some of the new musical content in TAAB2 was reshaped from songs he had composed and never used for other recordings. While the familiar marching themes are there in slightly different form, TAAB2 is divided into distinct tracks with brief pauses between them unlike the seamless flow of the two sides of TAAB. Is there room for a third Thick as a Brick that looks at Gerald Bostock in his dotage? “I don’t know about that, but something tells me we haven’t seen the last of him.” jethrotull.com/tour-dates/
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2013 14:32:21 GMT
The church of Anderson I'm far more interested in TooTull's impressions than Mr Del Toro's fill in the blank format/dribble. Here Here! In a daze since the performance - I'll give it a try. The attentive audience was a big part of the story. Hamilton reinforced my love for Ian Anderson's music. The crowd was loyal & for the most part everyone was there at the end, standing for Locomotive Breath. I was very impressed with TAAB2 live. Impressed by all. Locomotive Breath left a few misty-eyed. Might be the loudest Anderson has been in a small venue. Loud bass with a muddy start, cleared as the show progressed. The band seemed more hard rock (can I say metal) at this volume. I was impressed by the unity. Ryan O’Donnell's performance was the surprise for me, a must see as YouTube does not do justice that's for sure. I thought I would not be comfortable with a substitute for Ian's singing, but of course I was pleasantly surprised (Bernie's earlier praise was confirmed). Ian Anderson's vocal was the best I've heard live since 1989.
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Post by JTull 007 on Oct 22, 2013 15:11:06 GMT
The church of Anderson In a daze since the performance - I'll give it a try. The attentive audience was a big part of the story. Hamilton reinforced my love for Ian Anderson's music. The crowd was loyal & for the most part everyone was there at the end, standing for Locomotive Breath. I was very impressed with TAAB2 live. Impressed by all. Locomotive Breath left a few misty-eyed. Might be the loudest Anderson has been in a small venue. Loud bass with a muddy start, cleared as the show progressed. The band seemed more hard rock (can I say metal) at this volume. I was impressed by the unity. Ryan O’Donnell's performance was the surprise for me, a must see as YouTube does not do justice that's for sure. I thought I would not be comfortable with a substitute for Ian's singing, but of course I was pleasantly surprised (Bernie's earlier praise was confirmed). Ian Anderson's vocal was the best I've heard live since 1989. Because Sir Tootull likes to leave me guessing, I was very happy for his presence at this show. He of all people has an appreciation for cool music as well as humor. I sometimes get that way myself.
Regardless of what others have said in other Chat groups, this was a special moment in Tull History. I'm always smiling when I go to see a performance with Ian Anderson and His Chums...Rock On!~ P.S. I get Tull Tears too at the end of a show. Tears of joy and hoping it will never end.
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Post by maddogfagin on Oct 22, 2013 15:25:02 GMT
The church of Anderson In a daze since the performance - I'll give it a try. The attentive audience was a big part of the story. Hamilton reinforced my love for Ian Anderson's music. The crowd was loyal & for the most part everyone was there at the end, standing for Locomotive Breath. I was very impressed with TAAB2 live. Impressed by all. Locomotive Breath left a few misty-eyed. Might be the loudest Anderson has been in a small venue. Loud bass with a muddy start, cleared as the show progressed. The band seemed more hard rock (can I say metal) at this volume. I was impressed by the unity. Ryan O’Donnell's performance was the surprise for me, a must see as YouTube does not do justice that's for sure. I thought I would not be comfortable with a substitute for Ian's singing, but of course I was pleasantly surprised (Bernie's earlier praise was confirmed). Ian Anderson's vocal was the best I've heard live since 1989. Thank you Brother TooTull. Take it you thought it was rather fine concert then
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2013 15:28:33 GMT
The church of Anderson In a daze since the performance - I'll give it a try. The attentive audience was a big part of the story. Hamilton reinforced my love for Ian Anderson's music. The crowd was loyal & for the most part everyone was there at the end, standing for Locomotive Breath. I was very impressed with TAAB2 live. Impressed by all. Locomotive Breath left a few misty-eyed. Might be the loudest Anderson has been in a small venue. Loud bass with a muddy start, cleared as the show progressed. The band seemed more hard rock (can I say metal) at this volume. I was impressed by the unity. Ryan O’Donnell's performance was the surprise for me, a must see as YouTube does not do justice that's for sure. I thought I would not be comfortable with a substitute for Ian's singing, but of course I was pleasantly surprised (Bernie's earlier praise was confirmed). Ian Anderson's vocal was the best I've heard live since 1989. Because Sir Tootull likes to leave me guessing, I was very happy for his presence at this show. He of all people has an appreciation for cool music as well as humor. I sometimes get that way myself.
Regardless of what others have said in other Chat groups, this was a special moment in Tull History. I'm always smiling when I go to see a performance with Ian Anderson and His Chums...Rock On!~ P.S. I get Tull Tears too at the end of a show. Tears of joy and hoping it will never end.Make no mistake the encouragement here on The Jethro Tull Forum sent us to Hamilton. Which brings me to Florian Opahle. Man that guy is ice-cool replacing Martin Barre. Played his role perfectly as a backing band member for one of the greatest songwriters in the history of ROCK.
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