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Post by onewhiteduck on Jun 8, 2014 21:13:53 GMT
Bought the CD to start then had to have the full monty. Here's a very boring pic of Homo. Shame Florian not on band discussions CD. Rough demo's bit boring. 5:1 bloody hell fire....... thats all I can think of. Translates to f**king hell thats good. Onemixedduck
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Post by nonrabbit on Jun 8, 2014 21:19:45 GMT
View AttachmentBought the CD to start then had to have the full monty. Here's a very boring pic of Homo. Shame Florian not on band discussions CD. Rough demo's bit boring. 5:1 bloody hell fire....... thats all I can think of. Translates to f**king hell thats good. Onemixedduck Right I'll be over in an hour with a can of Pringles. onegenerousnonrabbit
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Post by onewhiteduck on Jun 8, 2014 21:26:43 GMT
View AttachmentBought the CD to start then had to have the full monty. Here's a very boring pic of Homo. Shame Florian not on band discussions CD. Rough demo's bit boring. 5:1 bloody hell fire....... thats all I can think of. Translates to f**king hell thats good. Onemixedduck Right I'll be over in an hour with a can of Pringles. onegenerousnonrabbit Prawn Cocktail still my favourite 2 for £3 in Tesco. Funny thing earlier I had a packet of Tomato and Oregano Bruschetta (is that right spelling?) from Aldi's - bloody lovely they were ( in Welsh accent ) Onespanishduck
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Post by nonrabbit on Jun 8, 2014 21:34:06 GMT
Prawn Cocktail...2 for £3 in Tesco. Tomato and Oregano Bruschetta..... Salt n Vinegar like it or lump it. x
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Post by steelmonkey on Jun 9, 2014 3:21:33 GMT
Aldi and Tesco the enemies when I worked in Hamburg...for Spar...had a whole grocery business shtick called Spar wars...and 'Aldi strikes back' etc.
I so want to hear HE and all Tull in 5.1.....only friends with that kind of music muscle currently in Canada and Wales. Maybe one of the Tullianos who live in or near Barcelona will be my ticket to glorious 5.1 ?
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Post by maddogfagin on Jun 9, 2014 11:35:43 GMT
Bought the CD to start then had to have the full monty. Here's a very boring pic of Homo. Shame Florian not on band discussions CD. Rough demo's bit boring. 5:1 bloody hell fire....... thats all I can think of. Translates to f**king hell thats good. Onemixedduck Right I'll be over in an hour with a can of Pringles. onegenerousnonrabbit You'll probably eat them all before you get there
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Post by maddogfagin on Jun 12, 2014 15:21:44 GMT
Official and from TullCentral
"Filmed over 4 concerts with audio from the High Wycombe show on the 7th of May 2014"
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Post by JTull 007 on Jun 12, 2014 17:15:11 GMT
Holy Homo Erraticus! Love this video and all the cool visuals. Got dancing Tull Chick too!
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Post by onewhiteduck on Jun 12, 2014 17:35:25 GMT
Nice video but can't say I particularly like the choice of song.
OnemiserableDuck
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Post by steelmonkey on Jun 12, 2014 17:43:57 GMT
The honeymoon is over...it's the best song and the title cut....or are you just taking non-rabbit's misconceived side?
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Post by onewhiteduck on Jun 12, 2014 18:12:01 GMT
Great Great Album. Its just this song is not my favourite, I agree with Patti good start and not keen on the spoken bits or references to google Apps etc...... Its just me I suppose. After These Wars,New Blood Old Veins, Puer I cant f**king spell it, my faves today.
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Post by TangoTull on Jun 12, 2014 18:21:19 GMT
Official and from TullCentral"Filmed over 4 concerts with audio from the High Wycombe show on the 7th of May 2014" It's a new DVD?
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Post by steelmonkey on Jun 12, 2014 18:38:37 GMT
I just call it PFA...and I think the flute workout is so good it could find a home in 'Overseer Overture' or even the intro to APP.
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Post by Tull50 on Jun 12, 2014 20:11:33 GMT
Thank you very much Graham and Pondus for these great videos! I do not think they are part of a pro-shot 2016, I can imagine they are promotional videos as in 2012... Banker Bets, Banker Wins 2012By tullmanagement Only one doubt the logo top left may belong to a TV channel?
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Post by Tull50 on Jun 12, 2014 22:21:23 GMT
Well Jim has solved my doubt, the logo belongs to Caliandra Thanks Sir Jim
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Post by steelmonkey on Jun 13, 2014 2:35:13 GMT
That live video of 'Enter' did nothing to decrease my belief that it is the best track on the album and four plus minutes of very, very TULL ,TULL.
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Post by maddogfagin on Jun 13, 2014 10:25:58 GMT
Not Living in the PastWritten by: Berton Averre Friday, June 13, 2014 www.rockcellarmagazine.com/I was going to review the new Ian Anderson album. Not exactly review; more of a think piece. I was a big fan of Jethro Tull‘s, particularly in the early days. My brother and I saw them at Devonshire Downs, which was a San Fernando Valley version of Woodstock in ’69. In three days and nights, we saw Hendrix (twice), Spirit, Three Dog Night, Johnny Winter, Ike and Tina Turner, Creedence, Taj Mahal, the aforementioned Jethro Tull…that’s off the top of my head. Hendrix was supremely pissed off the first night and was awful, which is why we saw him twice; because he came back on Sunday afternoon, vowing to make up for the Friday night debacle, which he promptly did in an epic jam with Steve Cropper and other worthies. The blonde lead singer from Smith kept trying to horn in, and Eric Burdon finally slung her over his shoulder and carried her off the stage like a sack of potatoes. As for Tull, I can’t tell you if Mick Abrahams was still playing in the band: I was rather high at the time. If you’re a Jethro Tull fan, you know that guitarist Mick Abrahams left the group after the first album (apparently immediately after, which might be the reason it was called This Was). He went on to form Blodwyn Pig, who were favorites of ours as well: we saw them at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, opening for Procol Harum. I think the stage monitors sucked, because Mick sang sharp the entire set. Procol Harum did A Salty Dog live. Can you imagine? Getting back to Ian Anderson, the album Tull followed up This Was with was entitled Stand Up, and it was sublime. Abrahams had been replaced by a guy named Martin Lancelot Barre (although in later years he sensibly enough dropped the “Lancelot” part). For years (decades) I assumed him to be responsible for all these great acoustic guitar parts on many of the songs — no one could mix powerful rock with great folky tunes like Jethro Tull, with the possible (okay, obvious) exception of Zeppelin. A careful reading of the credits of Stand Up, though, suggests that Barre played only electric, which means all those tasty, intriguing, inventive acoustic guitar parts (as well as mandolin) must have been Mr. Anderson. Well, I don’t know about you, but I’m impressed. Do you know the song Fat Man? It’s wry to the point of being nasty, and centers around a terrific faux-Indian kind of riff, accompanied by Clive Bunker whipping out the hippest bongo drums part ever. And no, that’s not an oxymoron. The ballads on Stand Up also hold up extremely well: Look Into The Sun tugs at the nostalgia rings as well as anything from the era. As for the heavier songs, the aforementioned Bunker, Barre, and bassist Glen Cornick are all at the top of their crazed game. It’s the kind of record that reminds you how far we’ve come…downward. So now, over 40 years later, Ian Anderson puts out not just an album but a concept album. As I understand it, the songs on Homo Erraticus are representations of the works of a fictitious poet. Well, why not? Many of the songs’ titles are in Latin. And again, why not? “Erraticus” means erratic, or in this case perhaps wild: “Wild Man”. We have Puer Ferox Adventus (Arrival of the Wild Boy), Meliora Sequamur (Better Course?), and Tripudium Ad Bellum (Dancing To War). Why the Latin? We still hear it in law and medical jargon: in any other context we react to Latin as something insufferably stuffed-shirt. Except Anderson is way too smart a guy simply to stick out his chest and proclaim “Look at me: I’m speaking Latin!” The text of these songs seems to deal with the March of Time, kind of a “how do we find ourselves here?” I’m thinking Latin is an excellent tool to draw the line between past and future civilization: What could possibly scream “old dead guys” better? The starting point for the song Arrival of the Uninvited is the Roman Conquest (“We’re here!”) but it quickly careens into the twentieth and twenty first centuries with a dizzying spew of pop culture references: “Presley hips, Monroe lips”, “Bubblegum and Google bums”. Okay, that’s my new favorite couplet. One of the best songs — and very good it is — is entitled New Blood, Old Veins. I think we all know that feeling. If I had to mention anything that disappointed me in the music, I’d admit to kind of missing the snarl in Anderson’s singing. There are a boatload of singers in the annals of rock who do snotty (I’ve christened an entire sub-genre of 60s garage music “Snot Pop”): but no one ever did sleazy like Ian Anderson. There was always a whiff of the unsavory hiding around the corner, waiting to jump out at the slightest provocation. Was there ever a more disturbing first two lines of a song than “Sitting on a park bench/Eyeing little girls with bad intent”? And we hadn’t even gotten to the snot running down his nose yet. There’s another thing that happens with certain styles of music that’s unfortunate without at all being the musicians’ fault. Have you ever listened to a band from the 70s and heard a possible source for Spinal Tap? I think in this case it’s not much more than the mandolin parts (“And the elves were dancing”), but still not the optimum reference point for an artist, I should think. Homo Erraticus features actual musicians (good ones) actually playing. Yay. The only quibble I had with the recording aspects was the guitar sounds, which sounded a bit processed. Nothing beats the old 50 watt Marshall head. Now watch, someone will chip in, “That WAS a 50 watt Marshall head, dummy!” Well, come on: you don’t expect me to research this stuff, do you? All the hallmarks of Anderson’s music are in strong evidence. The shifting of tone, the musical ability to give different songs different faces. Time changes, key changes, tempo changes: all keeping us listeners alert. Another thing that jumped out at me on first hearing was the One-Legged Wonder has clearly been developing his flute chops over the years. Frankly, he’s playing a lot better than he ever did: a much clearer, more confident tone, especially in the upper register. This speaks volumes to me. The catchphrase of a true musician isn’t “I’m bitchen”, but “I want to get better.” Which might answer the question I was originally going to pose as this article’s raison d’etre (not Latin, but for snootiness pretty damn close). To wit, Why? Why do great artists of the past put out albums in the present? Tull fans will be pleased (which actually should be answer enough for me), but isn’t the relative blip the album creates in the silent-universe echo of the Internet a bit, well, depressing for someone who spent a decade or two selling in the millions and thrilling sold out arenas? "It all comes down to expectations, I suppose, and motivation." Maybe Ian Anderson is following in the footsteps of the great cellist Pablo Casals, who was asked in an interview why the acknowledged maestro of his instrument for an entire generation would still play in his 90s? Casals’ response: “I think I’m seeing some improvement.” Well, on the off chance that Ian Anderson gives two $h1ts what I think, this was at heart an album worth writing, playing, recording, and (gulp) putting on Spotify. The songs address those same modern realities that give rise to my impertinent Why?, and in an honest, thought-provoking, entertaining manner. Compared to whatever else is out there right now, that’s definitely an improvement.
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Post by bunkerfan on Jun 13, 2014 15:09:27 GMT
That live video of 'Enter' did nothing to decrease my belief that it is the best track on the album and four plus minutes of very, very TULL ,TULL. For my money it's certainly the darkest on the album but as favourites go, I still think 'Puer Ferox Adventus' is outstanding and I always think to myself, "yes that's my favourite" until I get to track 10 and 'After These Wars' has me changing my mind.
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Post by onewhiteduck on Jun 13, 2014 16:29:08 GMT
That live video of 'Enter' did nothing to decrease my belief that it is the best track on the album and four plus minutes of very, very TULL ,TULL. For my money it's certainly the darkest on the album but as favourites go, I still think 'Puer Ferox Adventus' is outstanding and I always think to myself, "yes that's my favourite" until I get to track 10 and 'After These Wars' has me changing my mind. Good Call JohnBunkerFan - I feel exactly the same. The two stand out tracks for me. OneHotDuck
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Post by ash on Jun 13, 2014 16:54:10 GMT
Well made video...Lets hope we get the whole concert on DVD I just can't stop playing this album or get it out of my head!
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Post by nonrabbit on Jun 13, 2014 17:55:31 GMT
That live video of 'Enter' did nothing to decrease my belief that it is the best track on the album and four plus minutes of very, very TULL ,TULL. For my money it's certainly the darkest on the album but as favourites go, I still think 'Puer Ferox Adventus' is outstanding and I always think to myself, "yes that's my favourite" until I get to track 10 and 'After These Wars' has me changing my mind. How long has it been out now? We'll have to do an update on it again?
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Post by nonrabbit on Jun 14, 2014 20:11:49 GMT
Doggerland has risen magnificently from my first few listens - it's outstanding.
Still love the eccentricity of Heavy Metals - it makes me dance.
Love the two tracks of Enter...and Puer ..in that sequence. The ending of Enter... blends really well into the start of Puer...
His voice sounds really good on Puer...
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Post by acreman on Jun 15, 2014 16:02:42 GMT
Well, I've given the disc a whole bunch of spins at this point, so I thought I'd post some impressions.
I liked Doggerland, Tripudium Ad Bellum, After These Wars, and Cold Dead Reckoning right off the bat. Tripudium has been my favorite so far, but Doggerland keeps getting better and better with every listen. Great tracks.
As far as Enter the Uninvited, Puer Ferox Adventus, The Turnpike Inn, The Engineer, New Blood Old Veins, and The Browning of the Green go, there are things about them or parts of them that I really like, but they haven't struck me as great tracks on the whole--at least not yet. EtU has grown on me quite a bit.
Heavy Metals is pleasant but seems to me a rehash of TaaB2 material. Meliora Sequamur and The Pax Britannica pass me by every time.
I like TaaB2 better, and there aren't many Tull albums that I prefer HE to. Still, it has its share of high-quality tracks and great moments.
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Post by nonrabbit on Jun 16, 2014 14:01:00 GMT
Well, I've given the disc a whole bunch of spins at this point, so I thought I'd post some impressions. I liked Doggerland, Tripudium Ad Bellum, After These Wars, and Cold Dead Reckoning right off the bat. Tripudium has been my favorite so far, but Doggerland keeps getting better and better with every listen. Great tracks. As far as Enter the Uninvited, Puer Ferox Adventus, The Turnpike Inn, The Engineer, New Blood Old Veins, and The Browning of the Green go, there are things about them or parts of them that I really like, but they haven't struck me as great tracks on the whole--at least not yet. EtU has grown on me quite a bit. Heavy Metals is pleasant but seems to me a rehash of TaaB2 material. Meliora Sequamur and The Pax Britannica pass me by every time. I like TaaB2 better, and there aren't many Tull albums that I prefer HE to. Still, it has its share of high-quality tracks and great moments. There are songs that really stand out and there is as you say, bits of others that do and those that do not. Is it not always this way with a Tull album? Meliora is good only as a medieval 'filler' it's not a great song but it gives a feeling of a 12th century educational establishment - which is described by Ian on the lid of the album I'm on my own it would seem in thinking that the intro sounds of Turnpike Inn are worthy of the best sound effects of a radio play that's setting the scene for a dark night of highwaymen and old pubs. It's up there in the category of best Tull atmospheric intros along with The Clasp and Peebreak. However as said before, it then goes on to spoil itself by sounding too much like Kismet and not anywhere as good. I'm not with you on Tripudium but maybe if I stop skipping it more and listen - I might.
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Post by JTull 007 on Jun 16, 2014 17:10:43 GMT
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Post by Tull50 on Jun 16, 2014 19:58:40 GMT
Good choice Jim, this song every time I like more, also up on my list Cold Dead Reckoning, very Tull song
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Post by steelmonkey on Jun 17, 2014 1:00:09 GMT
A great song...exemplary in Ryan/Ian vocal sharing. It sounded murky to me at first...but now it's more than welcome....over and over again...no reservations about the Turnpike Inn at all.
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Post by tullabye on Jun 17, 2014 4:09:20 GMT
Turnpike is good but CDR is great! CDR>>Turnpike.
1) CDR 2) Old Blood New Veins 3) Doggerland 4) Engineer 5) After These Wars 6) Turnpike 7) PFA 8) TAB 9) BOTG 10)Pax Brittanica 11)In For a pound 12)Heavy Metals 13)MS
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Post by maddogfagin on Jun 17, 2014 7:55:25 GMT
Puer Ferox Adventus has, from the very beginning, been my overall favourite on the album. Nothing more to add
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