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Post by nonrabbit on Nov 30, 2015 8:46:33 GMT
Been listening to the album a bit.
I like the lyrics now and the way the songs echo familiar themes.
Blackpool/ Medieval/ Vagabond Folk/ Locomotive Engineering.
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Post by ed on Dec 1, 2015 19:10:09 GMT
I listen to it frequently...frankly more often than TAAB 2
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Post by steelmonkey on Dec 1, 2015 21:39:54 GMT
I listened to it so much, straight thru, when it was new but now I get songs, now and then, random via my Kindle..and they sound very good, very strong...especially Engineer and Cold Dead reckoning...but actually almost all the songs. New Blood a bit annoying.
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Post by ed on Dec 2, 2015 2:04:32 GMT
Cold Dead Reckoning, I think, ranks with the other Tull great songs...It was a good live show too!
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Post by JTull 007 on Dec 2, 2015 3:06:03 GMT
Cold Dead Reckoning, I think, ranks with the other Tull great songs...It was a good live show too! Totally agree! That song and "The Turnpike Inn" are quite special to my ears as well.
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Post by bassackwards on Dec 2, 2015 5:43:01 GMT
I listened to it so much, straight thru, when it was new but now I get songs, now and then, random via my Kindle..and they sound very good, very strong...especially Engineer and Cold Dead reckoning...but actually almost all the songs. New Blood a bit annoying. Monkey, I love new blood. If you're interested I'll tell you the main reason why is that to me it's a bit like "Adrift and dumbfounded"and "ladies". Can you guess what I am alluding to?
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Post by onewhiteduck on Dec 2, 2015 8:56:32 GMT
'After These Wars' is a tremendous track to. Cold Dead Reckoning was great live - I posted a video on here last year. I would retrieve it but got to fly...
OWD
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Post by maddogfagin on Dec 2, 2015 9:43:28 GMT
Cold Dead Reckoning, I think, ranks with the other Tull great songs...It was a good live show too! In hindsight Ian should have kept the Homo Erraticus tour on the road for a few more months, delaying the Opera tour until 2016.
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Post by nonrabbit on Dec 2, 2015 9:50:49 GMT
Cold Dead Reckoning, I think, ranks with the other Tull great songs...It was a good live show too! In hindsight Ian should have kept the Homo Erraticus tour on the road for a few more months, delaying the Opera tour until 2016. Yes I thought that too. It deserves a couple of years and rushing it takes a bit of impetus away from it. It's not as if he's churning the new stuff out like the early days.
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Post by nonrabbit on Dec 2, 2015 9:53:38 GMT
Cold Dead Reckoning, I think, ranks with the other Tull great songs...It was a good live show too! Totally agree! That song and "The Turnpike Inn" are quite special to my ears as well. Turnpike Inn invited me in instantly and I stayed.
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Post by nonrabbit on Mar 18, 2016 18:41:11 GMT
Homo Erraticus man avoids Spain due to an eccentric relative. i65.images obliterated by tinypic/2ednz0g.jpg[/IMG]
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Post by steelmonkey on Mar 19, 2016 17:07:40 GMT
Hello Dali ?
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Post by nonrabbit on Aug 17, 2016 17:28:31 GMT
Five months since we've been in this thread -just scrolled back a little bit and I agree with Graham's post - this album/ songs should have had much more time dedicated to it. I still love it. This thread makes a good read.. maybe alongside Erraticus Complexus
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Post by JTull 007 on Aug 18, 2016 1:37:06 GMT
Five months since we've been in this thread -just scrolled back a little bit and I agree with Graham's post - this album/ songs should have had much more time dedicated to it. I still love it. This thread makes a good read.. maybe alongside Erraticus Complexus Seems like yesterday when I yearned for every tune which made this album so special...
Still do ! Crystal Spotlight LINK
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Post by elberto on Mar 30, 2017 19:28:43 GMT
Anyone noted that the surround version on dvd of Cold Dead Reckoning is different from the one on cd? In the surround version ryan o'donnell alternate his vocals with Ian. On the cd version is only Ian to sing!
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Post by bassackwards on Jun 21, 2018 19:07:32 GMT
New "Blood Old Veins" is rhythmic gem. What does the drumming/rhythm remind you of? It's much like "Adrift and Dumbfounded" on TAAB2. The rhythms unlike nothing I've ever heard and serve the meaning of songs so well.
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Post by maddogfagin on Jun 22, 2018 6:42:09 GMT
New "Blood Old Veins" is rhythmic gem. What does the drumming/rhythm remind you of? It's much like "Adrift and Dumbfounded" on TAAB2. The rhythms unlike nothing I've ever heard and serve the meaning of songs so well. Homo Erraticus is such an under rated album that I think in years to come we'll still be talking about it over and above others that have been analysed to the limit. No one else, apart from IA, could have written such an amazing body of songs.
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Post by steelmonkey on Jun 22, 2018 16:47:24 GMT
Ian says he ripped the rhythm for New Blood right from Living in the Past. It's a good song for World Cup....People getting around to other countries !
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Post by bassackwards on Jun 25, 2018 18:15:47 GMT
New "Blood Old Veins" is rhythmic gem. What does the drumming/rhythm remind you of? It's much like "Adrift and Dumbfounded" on TAAB2. The rhythms unlike nothing I've ever heard and serve the meaning of songs so well. Homo Erraticus is such an under rated album that I think in years to come we'll still be talking about it over and above others that have been analysed to the limit. No one else, apart from IA, could have written such an amazing body of songs. I agree. "New Blood.." is a nice breezy little song. I think the genius of it is in the rhythm and drumming. For the longest time the rhythm reminded me of something then i finally figured it out. If you drift along with the song it's exactly like riding in the back seat of a car or carriage being jostled to and fro. Simularily, the rhythm of Adrift and Dumbfounded is like sitting in a boat, the little waves raising and lowering and rocking the boat.
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Post by maddogfagin on Jun 27, 2019 14:24:51 GMT
Available now on download. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0006707"Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the people, plants and animals once living on land now under the North Sea, now called Doggerland after Dogger Bank, inhabited up to c7000BC or roughly 3000 years before the beginnings of Stonehenge. There are traces of this landscape at low tide, such as the tree stumps at Redcar (above); yet more is being learned from diving and seismic surveys which are building a picture of an ideal environment for humans to hunt and gather, with rivers and wooded hills. Rising seas submerged this land as glaciers melted, and the people and animals who lived there moved to higher ground, with the coasts of modern-day Britain on one side and Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium and France on the other."
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2019 11:36:22 GMT
In HOMO ERRATICUS, IA (Gerald Bostock) not only contemplates the past, but also muses about the future: Does anybody have the charts, coordinates or maps-- A hint of a direction to avoid further mishaps? A throw of dice, a toss of coin decides what Mrs. Luck might bring As we navigate this desert by our cold dead reckoning Cheer up, Charlie, brave a smile; lift your chin and walk the walk See angels watching over all; the snake, the dove, the circling hawk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When IA still was accepting emails, I wrote to him in early December, 2012. I joked that the ancient Mayans had predicted the end of the world on 21/12/2012, and I thanked him for the pleasure that TULL's music had given me for the previous 40 years. I thought a sudden nuclear attack by Putin or North Korea would be the most likely scenario for our end. On January 1, 2013 he began writing Homo Erraticus. Did I plant the seed in the mind of our rock hero for COLD DEAD RECKONING? Of course not! But, sometimes, I like to fantasize otherwise . ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I once saw of photo of Anderson being welcomed in Moscow by Russian dignitaries while a suspicious Putin (then head of the KGB) lurks in the background .
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 29, 2019 13:44:02 GMT
I once saw of photo of Anderson being welcomed in Moscow by Russian dignitaries while a suspicious Putin (then head of the KGB) lurks in the background.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2019 14:47:53 GMT
I don't think TULL's music is considered subversive in any way but, still, Ian is lucky that he hasn't developed a sudden case of radiation poisoning- Poisoned umbrellas and polonium: Russian-linked UK deaths ... www.theguardian.com › world › mar › poisoned-umbrellas-and-pol... Mar 6, 2018 - Poisoned umbrellas and polonium: Russian-linked UK deaths ... November 2006 after drinking a cup of tea laced with radioactive polonium. ... VLADIMIR PUTIN denied all involvement and refused to extradite either of the killers ...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2019 21:18:15 GMT
From a 2016 interview:
Hold on. You had lunch with Mikhail Gorbachev?
Ian: Yes, we had a lunch meeting some years ago [during Jethro Tull’s 2008 Russian tour]. He said, “This is what wars are going to be fought over, water! Not oil.” He was thumping his fist on the table and making his point very eloquently in Russian. Fortunately we had a very good translator.
Meanwhile, back in the (former) U.S.S.R, Boris Yeltsin showed that he was the prototype for today's modern politician (Trump, Boris Johnson, Toronto's mayor- the late Rob Ford):
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Post by steelmonkey on Nov 30, 2019 1:19:50 GMT
In the Stormwatch booklet Ian brags that, like with new songs in 1979/80, in 2013 he played homo before greatest hits. I guess he forget that on night 7 of the tour he dumped 4 homo songs and replaced them with greatest hits. Guess what Ian....we pay attention.
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Post by steelmonkey on Nov 30, 2019 1:23:53 GMT
I was sad for Tull fans downtour....I saw 2 nights of uncircumcised set list.
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Post by maddogfagin on May 5, 2020 6:41:24 GMT
Ian Anderson - Erraticus Hotel Demos 1,665 views•Feb 10, 2016 Hall Of Fame Records
01 Doggerland 1:20 02 Heavy Metals 1:28 03 Enter The Uninvited 3:28 04 Puer Ferox Adventus 3:16 05 Meliora Sequamur 2:36 06 The Turnpike Inn 1:56 07 The Engineer 1:23 08 The Pax Britannica 1:16 09 Tripudium Ad Bellum 1:20 10 After These Wars 3:24 11 New Blood, Old Veins 1:53 12 In For A Pound 0:39 13 The Browning Of The Green 2:45 14 Per Errationes Ad Astra 1:05 15 Cold Dead Reckoning 3:19
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Post by eridom on May 5, 2020 16:35:32 GMT
Ian Anderson - Erraticus Hotel Demos1,665 views•Feb 10, 2016 Hall Of Fame Records 01 Doggerland 1:20 02 Heavy Metals 1:28 03 Enter The Uninvited 3:28 04 Puer Ferox Adventus 3:16 05 Meliora Sequamur 2:36 06 The Turnpike Inn 1:56 07 The Engineer 1:23 08 The Pax Britannica 1:16 09 Tripudium Ad Bellum 1:20 10 After These Wars 3:24 11 New Blood, Old Veins 1:53 12 In For A Pound 0:39 13 The Browning Of The Green 2:45 14 Per Errationes Ad Astra 1:05 15 Cold Dead Reckoning 3:19 That was amazing and what really struck me was the great acoustic guitar work by Ian and how little the other band members offered on HE. I think this album may have been more successful as a true solo acoustic album by Ian. It really gives me hope that the new album will have five or six songs with just Ian on guitar as he has hinted. Thanks for posting this as I’ve never heard these before and really put things in perspective for me.
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Post by ash on May 5, 2020 19:08:19 GMT
Ian Anderson - Erraticus Hotel Demos1,665 views•Feb 10, 2016 Hall Of Fame Records 01 Doggerland 1:20 02 Heavy Metals 1:28 03 Enter The Uninvited 3:28 04 Puer Ferox Adventus 3:16 05 Meliora Sequamur 2:36 06 The Turnpike Inn 1:56 07 The Engineer 1:23 08 The Pax Britannica 1:16 09 Tripudium Ad Bellum 1:20 10 After These Wars 3:24 11 New Blood, Old Veins 1:53 12 In For A Pound 0:39 13 The Browning Of The Green 2:45 14 Per Errationes Ad Astra 1:05 15 Cold Dead Reckoning 3:19 That was amazing and what really struck me was the great acoustic guitar work by Ian and how little the other band members offered on HE. I think this album may have been more successful as a true solo acoustic album by Ian. It really gives me hope that the new album will have five or six songs with just Ian on guitar as he has hinted. Thanks for posting this as I’ve never heard these before and really put things in perspective for me. Was this not on the limited edition four-disc deluxe set? I didn't buy that version at the time but keep looking out for it at a "good" price
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Post by JTull 007 on May 6, 2020 1:36:25 GMT
Was this not on the limited edition four-disc deluxe set? I didn't buy that version at the time but keep looking out for it at a "good" price PRICELESS !!!!
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