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Post by steelmonkey on Sept 25, 2014 2:05:29 GMT
I didn't realize that this song is the spiritual version of General Crossing ! Song of the day always appreciated and educational....I look forward to next 666 posts. I can dare the devil...It's Jewish New Year tonight.
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Post by onewhiteduck on Sept 25, 2014 8:06:03 GMT
Power and Spirit is great. Love church organ 'Spirit' sound and then boom, Ophale's savage 'Power' guitar bursts in. I don't see a weak track on the album. Some I like more than others but not weak. My honest opinion.
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Post by Equus on Sept 25, 2014 9:14:44 GMT
I didn't realize that this song is the spiritual version of General Crossing ! Song of the day always appreciated and educational....I look forward to next 666 posts. I can dare the devil...It's Jewish New Year tonight. Thank you Sir Steel! I try my best to find something interesting, and hope that I do find something once in a while... Happy Jewish New Year!
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Post by Equus on Sept 25, 2014 9:38:46 GMT
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Post by Equus on Sept 25, 2014 19:35:23 GMT
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Post by JTull 007 on Sept 25, 2014 23:34:10 GMT
Dedicated to whomever decided to change the Set List on the 2014 U.S. Tour
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Post by Equus on Sept 26, 2014 10:26:02 GMT
This is music that Ian really likes...
Number 9...
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Post by Equus on Sept 26, 2014 11:16:52 GMT
Ian also mentions Muddy Waters as someone that he really likes... I don't know that much about this, but I'll just post it anyway...
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Post by Equus on Sept 26, 2014 11:33:51 GMT
Draco (/ˈdreɪkoʊ/; Greek: Δράκων, Drakōn) (circa 7th century BC) was the first legislator of Athens in Ancient Greece. He replaced the prevailing system of oral law and blood feud by a written code to be enforced only by a court. Draco's written law became known for its harshness, with the adjective draconian referring to similarly unforgiving rules or laws... Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draco_%28lawgiver%29Banker Bets, Banker Wins:Education, micro-managed. MBA: a doddle mastered. City-bound, Canary Wharf. A cushy number, fluky bastard. Banker bets and banker wins, never missed yet, for all his sins. Hedge funds, wraps and equities. Lackeys, aides in fierce attendance. Trusts and gilts, reserve currencies. Liquid gold in safe ascendance. Banker bets and banker wins, never missed yet, for all his sins. Treat myself to quality time, Test a porsche and snort a line, Eat Hermione for lunch. Set that glum PA a-jumping, Book front-row tickets for something after we munch. Fast-tracked futures, hard-nut traders. Feeding frenzy, pigs a-troughing. Fuelled by forecasts, and hot share options. Big fat bonus in the offing. Draconian calls for regulation Are drowned in latte with Starbucks muffin. Mortgage melt-down: non est mea culpa. Threatened exit, stage left, laughing.... Banker bets and banker wins, never missed yet, for all his sins. Banker bets, cheque's in the post: not worth the ink it's written in.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2014 14:45:50 GMT
Right on!
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Post by bassackwards on Sept 26, 2014 16:12:08 GMT
Dedicated to whomever decided to change the Set List on the 2014 U.S. Tour I hope Ian that your listtening to us. Myself and several friends will be in Atlanta and then on to Nashville to see upcoming shows. We certainly were expecting all of "Homo Erraticus". It sounds like it was a really good move to include A couple of the greatest hits songs in the first half of the show before the intermission. But why not just do that - lengthen the first half of the show and shorten the second half. Maybe take away one or two songs from H. E. If you feel the need but now it seems this great work will be butchered and incomplete. Your fans here on this forum want to hear this great piece of work if it all possible.
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Post by Equus on Sept 26, 2014 18:52:47 GMT
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Post by Equus on Sept 28, 2014 7:00:54 GMT
We all know The Jethro Tull Christmas album, and I personally have it in two versions... One of them featuring Jethro Tull Live, Christmas at ST Bride's 2008... and the original album, The Jethro Tull Christmas album... Reverent George Pitcher introduces the band on the track called: Introduction: Rev. George Pitcher/ Choir: What Cheer, and during this introduction reverent George Pitcher utters these words: "...and I hope that you're going to give till it hurts..." Now, I don't know if I am wrong on this one, but this just might be the very source, of the divine inspiration to the 2012 song, Give Till It Hurts... Take it away... Give Till It Hurts:Let us pray: Dear Beloved Father: We know it's tough to make ends meet through troubled times as economic woes grow, bad to worse. But call out to our family of treasured followers to make a pledge today, give 'til it hurts. Our coffers almost empty, but our flock stands faithful by as we set out to shave the needy and bereft. Together, we can fleece our willing congregation and I can live on any small change that's left. So, give 'til it hurts. Give 'til it hurts. Make a pledge and give 'til it hurts. That was today's speaker, the humble Reverend Gerald. Tune in to the National Godspend Channel next week. Praise be to Him and HALLELUJAH. Remember to keep those pledges coming in and - give 'til it hurts.
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Post by Equus on Sept 29, 2014 21:34:35 GMT
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Post by steelmonkey on Sept 29, 2014 22:19:29 GMT
Great song, the middle could have been at home in FOTF...extra points because it honors Maart's guest star turn with us !!!
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Post by Aqualung1989 on Sept 29, 2014 22:49:22 GMT
I can't understand how certain Tull songs were left out of their respective albums at first. Part of the Machine is one of them. By the way, I'm new here, so hello everyone!
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Post by steelmonkey on Sept 30, 2014 1:07:02 GMT
I don't think Part of the Machine got left off Crest...I think they popped in and recorded it while they were assembling the 20 year box....Martin Allcock is on it and he was not part of the Crest band....the style and sounds make it very likely it may have already been written at the time of Crest...or at least on the drawing board...but I'm pretty sure it was a sort of 'single' between Crest and Rock Island; Leaving 'Hardliner' off Rock island is more like 'why'? It was surely recorded at the same time and it SO fits in with the other songs...far more than 'Rattlesnake Trail' or 'Another Xmas Song' to my ears.
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Post by Equus on Sept 30, 2014 6:06:03 GMT
Welcome to the Jethro Tull Forum Aqualung1989!
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Post by Equus on Sept 30, 2014 8:22:56 GMT
I can't understand how certain Tull songs were left out of their respective albums at first. Part of the Machine is one of them. By the way, I'm new here, so hello everyone! It's incredible that so much good music were left out... In the 70'th it was partly due to the lack of recording space on the records. Thick As A Brick had to be divided into two parts when side one naturally came to an end... Maybe they would have divided it anyway? They could have turned many of these records into double records, but it would have been more expensive... Some of the songs were very different from the rest and were left out because of that... Great songs that are available now... and he keeps on pulling these "quality rabbits" out of his hat... Oh...yes... Where are you from Aqualung1989?
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Post by maddogfagin on Sept 30, 2014 8:41:00 GMT
I can't understand how certain Tull songs were left out of their respective albums at first. Part of the Machine is one of them. By the way, I'm new here, so hello everyone! Hello aqualung1989 and welcome to the JT Forum. I suppose in the days of vinyl records it was difficult for artists and musicians to decide what to include on a disc and what to leave off. In these days of digital downloads, nice shiny CDs. audio DVDs etc there's far more space to include items and for that we must be more than grateful as witness the recent re-releases and also the up and coming WarChild release. Have a good look look around the hallowed halls of the Forum and there's many things to see and much to participate in and I look forward to reading your posts and thoughts about all things Tull.
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Post by Aqualung1989 on Sept 30, 2014 8:57:09 GMT
maddogfagin, Equus, first of all, thanks for the warm welcome.
My comment wasn't really about including all songs in the records, which I understand was not possible at the time, but more about leaving some great songs out while including some relatively average ones. Of course, I understand it's a matter of taste and Ian and the band had their reasons, but I can't help being surprised when I see tracks such as Pan Dance, Warchild Waltz, Broadford Bazaar, Part of the Machine, Jack-A-Lynn, Coronach and a few others, that were included in remastered versions/rarity compilations.
Oh, and Equus, I'm from Spain, so I apologize in advance for the mistakes I may make.
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Post by rredmond on Sept 30, 2014 9:04:52 GMT
Interesting thoughts. Thanks for sharing and WELCOME aqualung1989! --Ron--
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Post by Equus on Sept 30, 2014 9:42:46 GMT
maddogfagin, Equus, first of all, thanks for the warm welcome. My comment wasn't really about including all songs in the records, which I understand was not possible at the time, but more about leaving some great songs out while including some relatively average ones. Of course, I understand it's a matter of taste and Ian and the band had their reasons, but I can't help being surprised when I see tracks such as Pan Dance, Warchild Waltz, Broadford Bazaar, Part of the Machine, Jack-A-Lynn, Coronach and a few others, that were included in remastered versions/rarity compilations. Oh, and Equus, I'm from Spain, so I apologize in advance for the mistakes I may make. Great that you have joined the forum! I hoped that someone from Spain would join the forum, because I really like to talk to people around the world... and other countries as well! So please head the call, and join the forum! Right now Ian Anderson and his strolling players are traveling the globe, with the Homo Erraticus, (... the somewhat amputated Homo Erraticus...) and "the best of" Jethro Tull show... but what is best? Songs that I don't like, may be a favorite of someone else... Why Ian decided to leave some of these great songs out, and other songs in... Well... maybe some of the other forum members know something about that? I'm from Denmark. Looking forward to reading your future posts! Equus/Michael A warm welcome to Spain!
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Post by Equus on Sept 30, 2014 10:41:16 GMT
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Post by Aqualung1989 on Sept 30, 2014 13:46:57 GMT
maddogfagin, Equus, first of all, thanks for the warm welcome. My comment wasn't really about including all songs in the records, which I understand was not possible at the time, but more about leaving some great songs out while including some relatively average ones. Of course, I understand it's a matter of taste and Ian and the band had their reasons, but I can't help being surprised when I see tracks such as Pan Dance, Warchild Waltz, Broadford Bazaar, Part of the Machine, Jack-A-Lynn, Coronach and a few others, that were included in remastered versions/rarity compilations. Oh, and Equus, I'm from Spain, so I apologize in advance for the mistakes I may make. Great that you have joined the forum! I hoped that someone from Spain would join the forum, because I really like to talk to people around the world... and other countries as well! So please head the call, and join the forum! Right now Ian Anderson and his strolling players are traveling the globe, with the Homo Erraticus, (... the somewhat amputated Homo Erraticus...) and "the best of" Jethro Tull show... but what is best? Songs that I don't like, may be a favorite of someone else... Why Ian decided to leave some of these great songs out, and other songs in... Well... maybe some of the other forum members know something about that? I'm from Denmark. Looking forward to reading your future posts! Equus/Michael A warm welcome to Spain!
Yeah talking to people from other places helps opening your mind Cheers to Denmark! I have a couple of friends from there. By the way, Martin Barre and his band play in Madrid the 25th of November and I may be lucky enough to be there. I saw Ian Anderson performing Thick as a Brick I and II a couple of years ago, but Martin wasn't there, and while I have nothing against Florian, I would have loved to see Barre. Has anyone here been to a Martin Barre concert? And if so, how was it? Aqualung1989/Juan (as we're properly introducing ourselves)
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Post by maddogfagin on Sept 30, 2014 14:05:30 GMT
maddogfagin, Equus, first of all, thanks for the warm welcome. My comment wasn't really about including all songs in the records, which I understand was not possible at the time, but more about leaving some great songs out while including some relatively average ones. Of course, I understand it's a matter of taste and Ian and the band had their reasons, but I can't help being surprised when I see tracks such as Pan Dance, Warchild Waltz, Broadford Bazaar, Part of the Machine, Jack-A-Lynn, Coronach and a few others, that were included in remastered versions/rarity compilations. Oh, and Equus, I'm from Spain, so I apologize in advance for the mistakes I may make. I suppose songs get recorded which, when the sessions finally finish for an album, just don't fit in with the others. Some of the early ones which didn't make the final cut (Too Many Too and Sailor as examples) were deemed as surplus to requirements or just not good enough but, as was seen from the Nightcap album, were in many cases and with the passage of time, rather good by the fans. It's going to be interesting to hear the extras on the WarChild Anniversary edition
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Post by Equus on Sept 30, 2014 20:13:08 GMT
Great that you have joined the forum! I hoped that someone from Spain would join the forum, because I really like to talk to people around the world... and other countries as well! So please head the call, and join the forum! Right now Ian Anderson and his strolling players are traveling the globe, with the Homo Erraticus, (... the somewhat amputated Homo Erraticus...) and "the best of" Jethro Tull show... but what is best? Songs that I don't like, may be a favorite of someone else... Why Ian decided to leave some of these great songs out, and other songs in... Well... maybe some of the other forum members know something about that? I'm from Denmark. Looking forward to reading your future posts! Equus/Michael A warm welcome to Spain!
Yeah talking to people from other places helps opening your mind Cheers to Denmark! I have a couple of friends from there. By the way, Martin Barre and his band play in Madrid the 25th of November and I may be lucky enough to be there. I saw Ian Anderson performing Thick as a Brick I and II a couple of years ago, but Martin wasn't there, and while I have nothing against Florian, I would have loved to see Barre. Has anyone here been to a Martin Barre concert? And if so, how was it? Aqualung1989/Juan (as we're properly introducing ourselves) I have a ticket to Martin Barre Band in Copenhagen the 30th October. I haven't seen the band live before, but I have heard that it usually is a very good experience. Martin never talked when he was playing in Jethro Tull, on stage that is... Not to my knowledge... Ian did that. Now he's joking around, and of course, playing a magnificent guitar... I hope that it's going to be a great concert. You are not alone in wanting to see Martin rather than Florian... I actually think that the split is a good thing. Martin seems happy, and Ian is on a roll... Maybe Ian would have written all of this new music anyhow, but I think that they just may have been stuck in each other's company... Maybe not. I like Florian just as much as I like Martin. They are different guitarists, but I like them both. Cheers Juan! How come that you have friends in Denmark?
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Post by Equus on Oct 1, 2014 8:00:42 GMT
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Post by Aqualung1989 on Oct 1, 2014 8:24:39 GMT
I won't quote you, Equus, so this doesn't get unnecessarily big, also I'll try to shorten the story as much as I can as it's totally unrelated... six years ago, I was travelling around Europe with some friends. At a train station in Paris, we met two cousins (one of them who were going to start travelling but didn't know where to go. We told them to join us and strangely enough they did (we were four guys, they were two girls... nothing to fear from us though!). We still keep in touch after all this time!
Concerning Martin and Florian, both are great, it's just that I'm still rather young and had never seen Tull before, so I was really hoping to see Martin and not only Ian. Still, the concert was amazing, a dream come true. Anyway I'll ask you how the concert was in a month, it'll be nice to see Martin taking the spotlight for once!
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Post by Equus on Oct 1, 2014 19:22:24 GMT
The first time I bought Jethro Tull's: with kitchen prose, gutter rymes and divers Songs from the Wood... I consider that to be the whole title... I bought it as a record... One of the really great things about records is that the cover is so much bigger than the cover on a CD... I just loved that "picture"... Well, I actually thought that the front cover was a picture, but many, many years later I discovered that it was... yes... a painting... and painted by Jay L. Lee. The back cover was created by Shirt Sleeve Studio, and wood-cutter was Keith Howard... Let's not forget the wood-cutter... If any of this information is wrong... please correct me... or you can also just join the chorus, if you have additional information on this subject...
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