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Post by maddogfagin on Jul 27, 2014 15:51:10 GMT
From Martin's web site:
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Post by steelmonkey on Jul 28, 2014 1:22:56 GMT
Next album ?
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Post by maddogfagin on Jul 28, 2014 9:10:32 GMT
According to Martin's home web page that's the title of a live album due for release soon and that's where the photo comes from, so . . . . .
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Post by steelmonkey on Jul 28, 2014 16:46:48 GMT
Saw that in the other thread seconds after I posted the question.
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Post by hardliner on Aug 9, 2014 0:16:02 GMT
Looking forward to this but would agree with some ,Mart and Dan would be nice for a new album of origonal songs
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Post by maddogfagin on Aug 11, 2014 13:17:22 GMT
theprogressiveaspect.net/Martin Barre new album updateArticle by: Bob Mulvey Published on 8th August 2014 Martin Barre has announced the release of a new album Order Of Play featuring studio versions of classic Tull songs performed by his live band. The album, in digipak format, is scheduled for release on 29th September 2014 on Edifying Records and through RSK. “In January 2013, we headlined a festival in Somerset, UK. We wanted a live CD to be a summary of the last two years of our work and this was the idea opportunity. Fans had kept asking for a CD version of the show, but rather than record an actual gig, thought we would do something better and record ‘live in a studio’, with all the energy of a show but with the best sound quality possible. So, with the band in one place, and a couple of “days off” – explains Martin. “We met at Middle Farm Studio the next morning, set the back-line up as we do onstage, with Dan in a booth, as he, rightly, felt that it was important to record all his vocals live. It was really important to keep the feel and continuity the same as a live gig. By the end of the day, we had all the songs finished.” Martin Barre is one of the most influential and respected guitarists in classic rock history. His sound was recognized as a major factor in Jethro Tull’s success, they went on to sell over 60 million albums worldwide. Martin has worked with many other artists including Paul McCartney, Phil Collins, Gary Moore, Joe Bonamassa and Chris Thompson and has shared a stage with such legends as Hendrix, Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin. Over the past two years, Barre has performed live, some of Jethro Tull’s most loved classics, winning praise from both critics and fans. Next to Barre, in charge of guitar and mandolin, we find an array of like-minded musicians including Dan Crisp on vocals, acoustic guitar and bouzouki, drummer George Lindsay, Richard Beesley on saxophone and clarinet who is one of London’s most versatile session players, having played with Michael Bublé, Mark Ronson, the Funk Brothers and The Supremes among others. Bassist Alan Thomson is also a long term member of John Martyn’s Band and an accomplished song writer, with credits including Robert Palmer, Rick Wakeman, and Bo Diddley. TRACK LISTING Martin Barre - Order Of Play 01. New Day Yesterday 02. Fatman 03. Watch Your Step 04. Crossroads 05. Minstrel In The Gallery 06. To Cry You A Song 07. Steal Your Heart Away 08. Thick As A Brick (Excerpt) 09. Sweet Dream 10. Song For Jeffrey 11. Rock Me Baby 12. Teacher 13. Still Loving You Tonight 14. Locomotive Breath MUSICIANS Martin Barre – Guitar & Mandolin Dan Crisp – Vocals, Acoustic Guitar & Bouzouki Richard Beesley – Saxophone & Clarinet Alan Thomson – Bass George Lindsay – Drums
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Post by maddogfagin on Aug 11, 2014 14:43:35 GMT
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Post by steelmonkey on Aug 11, 2014 21:10:54 GMT
Wouldn't it be great if this got a bit of attention and then caught fire ? ! Martin Barre deserves the kind of worldwide fan recognition that guys like Clapton and Satriani get for Guitar skills.
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Post by maddogfagin on Aug 12, 2014 8:46:34 GMT
Has anyone else noticed the possible subliminal reference in Martin's publicity picture for Order Of Play ? Change the 1A for IA . . . .
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Post by JTull 007 on Aug 12, 2014 14:21:12 GMT
Has anyone else noticed the possible subliminal reference in Martin's publicity picture for Order Of Play ? Change the 1A for IA . . . .
“There are no accidents... there is only some purpose that we haven't yet understood.” ― Deepak Chopra, The Return of Merlin
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Post by maddogfagin on Aug 27, 2014 13:10:29 GMT
"In January 2013, we headlined a festival in Somerset, UK. We wanted a live CD to be a summary of the last two years of our work. The fans had kept asking for a CD version of the show and this was the ideal opportunity, with the band in one place and a couple of days off."
"The festival was a great success and after a very late night,we met at Middle Farm Studio, about 50 miles away, the next morning. We set the back-line up, as we do on stage, with Dan in a booth, as he, rightly, felt that it was important to record all his vocals live. Every track was one take, except for Still Loving You Tonight. Dan and I did two versions, but used the first one anyway! It was really important to keep the feel and continuity the same as a live gig. By the end of the day, we had all the songs finished."
Martin Barre.
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Post by maddogfagin on Sept 8, 2014 8:24:07 GMT
Album review: MARTIN BARRE – Order Of PlayPosted on August 25, 2014 by GRTR! HQ getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2014/08/album-review-martin-barre-order-of-play/www.getreadytorock.me.uk/audio/140825_mbarre_webedit1.mp3David Randall tries to help Martin Barre with his tour set-list. (7:12) On Sunday 28 September, the full version of this latest interview is repeated in the first hour of ‘Assume The Position’ (Get Ready to ROCK! Radio) followed by an hour of Martin Barre highlights – with Tull, solo, and including his band session last year for GRTR! Edifying Records [Release date 29.09.14] It may be that with his latest couple of albums Martin Barre is finally exorcising the ghost of Tull. It can’t be an easy process, distanced from one of rock’s great franchises and ploughing your own furrow. But this is where he is in 2014 and to be frank he’s making the most of it.
‘Order Of Play’ could be seen as the perfect partner to the previous ‘Away With Words’. This time, thankfully, the electric guitar quotient is increased although Barre is still playing in very much a supportive and band context.
The addition of Richard Beesley’s sax to old faithfuls like ‘Locomotive Breath’ and ‘Minstrel In The Gallery’ gives them a jazzier feel, and even the cynical will find that – overall – the new arrangements do the songs justice.
This isn’t just an album of Tull covers, though. Martin has seen fit to include ‘Steal Your Heart Away’, ‘Rock Me Baby’, and ‘Crossroads’ to provide balance to what is essentially a superior quality blues rock offering.
The album is very well recorded too, also contributing to the fresh feel: it was done live in the studio with no retakes. No doubt all has been carefully road-tested over the past 12 months or so. Dan Crisp doesn’t try to ape the original vocals either, which is also refreshing. This album needs to be assessed, therefore, on its own merits.
Personally, I long for some of the more frenetic/cerebral guitar wig-outs that Barre has played with Tull and also on his earlier solo albums and the word is that his next album will be wholly original. Hopefully it will mark a return to more guitar pyrotechnics and a higher quota of harder rock.
For the moment though, it’s time to luxuriate in a super guitarist for whom we have great affection and who is evidently really enjoying his freedom. It speaks volumes that days before the first gigs of his September tour he is rehearsing some new material and – like his albums – the live set-lists are varied and unpredictable. Go and give him your unqualified support. ****
Review by David Randall
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Post by steelmonkey on Sept 8, 2014 16:58:08 GMT
Very nice review...full of accurate statements and respectful support. Viva Martin Barre.
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Post by maddogfagin on Sept 16, 2014 8:33:42 GMT
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Post by onewhiteduck on Sept 16, 2014 9:41:28 GMT
The key for me was to remember not to compare this album to Jethro Tull and particulary Martin's versions of Tull classics.
With that in mind a few quiet evenings lying on the couch ( settee ) with the headphones on and after five/six listens I can highly recommended this album. It's really very good and Martin's sound is never better.
Well worth the purchase and a great to hear Martin letting it rip at last!!
Onechordduck
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Post by fjtull on Sept 16, 2014 14:39:35 GMT
The key for me was to remember not to compare this album to Jethro Tull and particulary Martin's versions of Tull classics. With that in mind a few quiet evenings lying on the couch ( settee ) with the headphones on and after five/six listens I can highly recommended this album. It's really very good and Martin's sound is never better. Well worth the purchase and a great to hear Martin letting it rip at last!! Onechordduck Would be the very first tour brochure from MArtin... could you telle us more? (how many pages? content?) many many thanks
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Post by onewhiteduck on Sept 16, 2014 17:14:38 GMT
Thanks fjtull.
Its a tour programme,full colour,42 pages and superb high gloss quality. Features include
Pics of all the band and crew along with their profiles. Feature on Martins equipment and gear. Interviews with Martin from last three years. Loads of great colour pictures of Martin in action! Tour itinery.
Excellent quality A5 size tour brouchure and it cost £3 - amazing.
Cheers
OWD
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Post by fjtull on Sept 16, 2014 19:51:47 GMT
Woah...! thanks for info and for your great review. One reason more to go to Martin concert in Italy in november since the brochure it is not on sell on his website...
Just kidding... would not miss it for any reason at all! :-)
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2014 14:44:00 GMT
Album review Martin Barre Order of Play added: 20 Sep 2014 // release date: 29 Sep 2014 // label: Edifying reviewer: Andy Snipper www.music-news.com/showreview.asp?H=Martin-Barre&nReviewID=10534It takes a pair of brass balls to play a set of Jethro Tull numbers and not be a ‘tribute act’ featuring a posturing lead singer who stands on one leg. Martin Barre has a step up on the tribute acts as he was the lead guitarist with Tull for 43 years (!). The story behind this album is that, during the current ‘hiatus’ of Tull, Barre decided to take to the road with a band to play some of the classics. This was so well received that they were being hounded for a live album from the shows. Barre “The festival (in Somerset) was a great success and after a very late night, we met at Middle Farm Studio, about 50 miles away, the next morning. We set the back-line up, as we do onstage, with Dan in a booth, as he, rightly, felt that it was important to record all his vocals live. Every track was one take, except for ‘Still Loving You Tonight’. Dan and I did two versions, but used the first one anyway! It was really important to keep the feel and continuity the same as a live gig. By the end of the day, we had all the songs finished”. An album of Jethro Tull classics that don’t feature Ian Anderson sounds a little strange but Dan Crisp does an excellent job on vocals (plus acoustic and Bouzouki) and the rest of the band – George Lindsay (drums), Richard Beesley (Sax & clarinet) plus Barre on guitars and Alan Thompson on bass are quite wonderful. They do miss Anderson’s flute on occasion but this is all part of looking at the songs anew. Bottom line is that this is a brilliant album, full of good songs and some superb playing. The most familiar numbers such as ‘Minstrel in the Gallery’ or ‘Thick As A Brick’ take on a new lease of life with the new arrangements (not a million miles from the original but different enough) and ‘Sweet Dream’ becomes a song for the 21st Century – losing much of the overt sexuality of the original and gaining urgency and subtlety. ‘Crossroads’ is as far as you can get from Robert Johnson and using the Bouzouki somehow pulls it away from the usual Blues but keeps a sense of the original. Other favourites like ‘Song For Jeffrey’ or ‘Fat Man’ don’t stray too far from the originals but still benefit from Crisp’s vocal and the power of the band. No Tull based album would be complete without ‘Locomotive Breath’ but taking Ian Anderson’s stylised folksy vocal out and putting all the pressure on Crisp’s vocals is genius – the song has a totally different feel and sound to the original but as a closer it is an absolute showstopper. I have been a fan of Jethro Tull for many, many years and the thought of this album feels like it should be sacrilege but Barre has all the right to do this and his approach is to add to the music not copy it. A superb set.
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Post by maddogfagin on Sept 22, 2014 15:25:04 GMT
Martin Barre – Order Of PlaySep 21, 2014 www.themidlandsrocks.com/martin-barre-order-of-play/The sound of a bunch of consummate musicians playing very well. Review by Gary Cordwell Release date: 29 September 2014 Hot on the heels of Ian Anderson’s live Thick As A Brick CD comes this double live offering from Tull’s other lifer, guitarist Martin Barre. The reasons behind Tull’s fracture appear quite vague which makes it an interesting proposition to listen to these two albums, to scrutinise the differing interpretations of their back catalogue, hunting for clues. The Jethro Tull guitarist of 43 years was keen to respond to fans requests for a document of his live shows and so he and his band went into the studio, set up their live back line, stood in the same room as each other and played their live set list. And hey presto! One perfectly recorded document – signed, sealed and delivered. The band kick off with the first track from Barre’s first Tull album (‘New Day Yesterday’) and he immediately sets out his stall – namely, da blooze! Barre’s guitar (excuse the bad poetry) is front and centre and the track is given a surprisingly heavy, Joe Bonamassa-style makeover. Stripped back simplicity seems to be the game plan here and, for the most part, it works. Much of this album rocks! ‘Fat Man’ gets re-tooled as a Thin Lizzy blues rocker while the swampy slide guitar of ‘Song For Jeffrey’ is less folk blues and more early Zep. There are also a handful of deftly executed blues standards – after being wrong footed by its mandolin intro, their take on ‘Crossroads’ turns into a much rockier affair than Cream’s and Bobby Parker’s ‘Watch Your Step’ gives the band members an opportunity to step forward and shine. When it works it really works! ‘Teacher’ transposes folk to blues beautifully and shows that their roots lie in a very similar soil. ‘Still Loving You Tonight’ is, for me, the albums high point. It’s spare and emotive, its acoustic rhythm and delicate electric lead weave gorgeously in and out of each other, recalling Richard Thompson at his best. However, there are misfires. Richard Beesley’s sax solos sail worryingly close to 80′s AOR at times while Dan Crisp’s vocals also seem more comfortable in the AOR zone than when he’s trying to fill Mr. Anderson’s pointy shoes. His melodic yet somewhat generic voice often struggling to interpret the Tull vocalists odder lyrical journeys. Classics ‘Minstrel In The Gallery’ and ‘Thick As A Brick’ suffer…they need a dose of quirk, intricacy and madness that this band simply cannot supply. This is the sound of a bunch of consummate musicians playing very well… if a tad safely. They swing with a slick expertise, changing gears and evoking emotions with a flawless fluidity. However, Tull were Tull for very distinct reasons, Barre needed Anderson’s humour, showmanship and eccentricity as much as Anderson needed Barre’s virtuosity and grounding influence and perhaps this album should have been recorded live – an enthusiastic audience to feed off may have just given the performance that slight edge it needed. 7.5 out of 10 Track listing: Disc One: New Day Yesterday Fatman Watch Your Step Crossroads Minstrel In The Gallery To Cry You A Song Steal Your Heart Away Thick As A Brick (Excerpt) Disc Two: Sweet Dream Song For Jeffrey Rock Me Baby Teacher Still loving You Tonight Locomotive Breath
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Post by maddogfagin on Oct 3, 2014 16:17:22 GMT
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 13, 2015 10:33:17 GMT
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