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Post by bunkerfan on Nov 16, 2015 20:34:41 GMT
Check out these amazing photographs. Thanks to mstrsail for uploading TIP. Set it to HD and watch it on full screen.
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Post by JTull 007 on Nov 16, 2015 21:40:30 GMT
That's the way it's done! I'm on my way to Sunday School for sure with TULL underneath my arm
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Post by stevep on Nov 17, 2015 20:33:53 GMT
"After several incidents on tour I believe Ian is less available to fans in general"
My daughters boyfriend went to the concert in Newcastle. After the concert, he was walking over the bridge from the Sage theatre back to Newcastle when he saw IA next to him heading the same way. He talked with IA until other fans approached and asked for autographs, etc. He thought IA seemed a very nice guy especially as he autographed his programme for him.
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Post by JTull 007 on Nov 18, 2015 2:49:53 GMT
"After several incidents on tour I believe Ian is less available to fans in general" My daughters boyfriend went to the concert in Newcastle. After the concert, he was walking over the bridge from the Sage theatre back to Newcastle when he saw IA next to him heading the same way. He talked with IA until other fans approached and asked for autographs, etc. He thought IA seemed a very nice guy especially as he autographed his programme for him. That's good to hear. I've been fortunate to see him several times over the years.
He complained last year after the show in Buffalo, New York when he got stalked. I understand how he feels after a long night and some nights are more difficult to be outside. The 'Meet & Greet' sessions are limited and I guess you have to be lucky to get picked.
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 25, 2016 10:24:41 GMT
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Post by maddogfagin on Dec 29, 2016 8:49:54 GMT
hackaday.com/2016/12/26/automated-vacuum-lettuce-seed-placement/AUTOMATED VACUUM LETTUCE SEED PLACEMENTby: Jenny List December 26, 2016 [Jethro Tull] is a name you may well associate with a 1970s prog/folk rock band featuring a flautist, but the original [Tull] was an inventor whose work you benefit from every day. He was a British lawyer and landowner who lived over the turn of the 18th century, and who invented among other things the mechanical seed drill. Were [Tull] alive today he would no doubt be impressed by the work of [Akash Heimlich], who has created an exquisite vacuum seed placer for his rooftop hydroponic lettuce farm. Unlike the continuous rows of seed on the Berkshire earth of [Tull]’s farm, the lettuce seed must be placed in an even grid on a foam substrate for the hydroponic equivalent. This was an extremely tedious task when done by hand, so [Akash] set about automating the process with a vacuum seeder that is a thing of beauty. It uses a simple yet effective mechanism involving a row of pipettes connected to a vacuum line, that are rotated over a vibrating hopper of seeds from which each one collects a single seed, before being rotated back over the foam where the seeds are dropped in a neat row through 3D-printed funnels. The foam is advanced, and the process is repeated until there is a neat grid of seeds. In only four minutes it can deliver 150 seeds, reducing several hours work into under half an hour. The whole machine is controlled by an Arduino, with a couple of stepper motors to move foam and pipettes alongside the vibrator motor. You can see its operation in the video below the break. youtu.be/G_parwLRN8Q
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Post by atomicsynth on Jan 1, 2017 2:35:41 GMT
*sighs* Am I the only one who finds it absolutely painful to listen to Ian sing anything pre-1983? I get embarrassed for the man struggling. I think the only way I'll ever go see such an event is if some of the original band members return (or even Dave Pegg!); otherwise, it is not worth hearing Ian wheezing and groaning through Aqualung, and particularly with this latest band of his. I admire Ian's drive to keep going but I'm probably not going to his shows anymore. I skipped the Rock Opera by choice. He hasn't lost a thing on flute and acoustic guitar though.
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Post by stevep on Jan 1, 2017 10:22:31 GMT
Must admit that I made the same decision after seeing the Opera show in late 2015. He is still great on the flute and guitar but it is just too painful to watch him struggle with the vocals.
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Post by Equus on Jan 1, 2017 10:47:22 GMT
Must admit that I made the same decision after seeing the Opera show in late 2015. He is still great on the flute and guitar but it is just too painful to watch him struggle with the vocals. You are not alone! It's depressing!!
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Post by JTull 007 on Jan 1, 2017 12:17:03 GMT
I would go in a heartbeat of a ballerina laying on stage...
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Post by maddogfagin on Jun 9, 2017 13:45:26 GMT
www.denverpost.com/2017/06/09/tools-of-the-trade-wheel-hoe/LIFESTYLEHOME & GARDEN Tools of the Trade: Why the old-fashioned wheel hoe is the new must-have toolTool with roots in Jethro Tull’s horse-drawn seed drill gets a revival By THE WASHINGTON POST June 9, 2017 at 12:01 am By Barbara Damrosch, The Washington Post It’s not often that a simple garden tool becomes a cult favorite, but such is the case for the wheel hoe. It’s easily the most time-saving, back-sparing tool in my shed, as it deals with the most taxing job: removing weeds, especially ones in compacted soil. Valley Oak Tool Company A wheel hoe easily cuts weeds and cultivates your garden. The tool is ideal for wedding close to delicate plant rows. This version is sold online by Valley Oak Tool Company. The tool can be traced to a seed drill invented by agricultural engineer Jethro Tull in 1701.Picture a stirrup hoe, which is shaped like a horse rider’s stirrup iron with a sharp horizontal blade at the bottom. Instead of chopping weeds, you draw the blade through the soil, cutting off weeds below the surface. In some versions, the blade is stationary, but in the case of the oscillating hoe (or “hula hoe”), the blade is hinged to produce a waggling, back-and-forth motion, so you can both push and pull the hoe, and with more force. A wheel hoe has a stirrup hoe mounted behind a wheel. The gardener grasps the tool’s two handles and rolls it forward with little effort. I can push mine down a weedy, well-trodden garden path at a walking pace, dislodging stubborn weeds to be raked up or allowed to shrivel in the sun. I also use it in garden beds and, in some cases, for creating a new growing area without tilling. Until fairly recently, wheel hoes were not easy to find because few companies made or sold them. Yard sales and eBay were the primary sources. But now catalogues such as Johnny’s Selected Seeds, Hoss Tools, Valley Oak Tool and Peaceful Valley Farm Supply carry them, with most prices ranging from $200 to $400 — more if you add attachments such as plows and seeders or want Johnny’s jumbo model, with two wheels that straddle a row of plants. (Mine has repaid its price many times over in work saved. I compare it not with a $30 regular hand hoe but with the $1,500 rototiller I might have bought instead.) It’s a purchase that could be shared with neighbors, family or members of a community garden. But why the cult status? Partly because of its long unavailability, to be sure. People became fanatical collectors of old versions, made during the long period of widespread use. They also turned up rich material about the tool’s history and how it came to be a symbol of a saner way to grow food. Its inventor was Jethro Tull — no, not the English rock group but the English agricultural engineer who developed the first mechanical, horse-drawn seed drill in 1701, of which the oscillating wheel hoe was a spinoff. In the United States, Tull’s hoes were quickly adopted, and in the late 19th century, a firm named Allen and Co. supplied farms and households with horse-drawn versions. As horses gave way to tractors, the company pioneered motorized versions, always favoring home gardeners and small farmers despite the pressure on farmers to go large scale. But hand-pushed, non-motorized versions were offered in their catalogue as well, and they became increasingly popular with gardeners and farmers alike. Many were ingenious. For example, a seeder was made that opened a furrow, dropped in seeds from a canister, covered the seeds with soil, tamped the soil and marked it for the next furrow. An era of increased suburbanization led to a growing interest in home food gardening, as did the pressure to grow food during both world wars and the Great Depression. Then, as in the times to follow, home gardening and small-scale farming persisted as a counter-trend to the mainstream push toward urbanization and the consolidation of the agricultural industry, even though it was almost invisible to mainstream farm education and research. At present, there are many Facebook pages where wheel hoe devotees share information. It’s a tool that does away with the need for herbicides or fossil fuels — and the expense, noise, fumes and environmental harm that accompany them. It’s well adapted to the layout of home gardens and small farms, with their intensively planted beds and space-saving narrow paths. It’s perfect in a greenhouse, where even a small rototiller might be impossible to use. As a great timesaver, it addresses the often-voiced dismissal of small-scale growing as too labor-intensive to be profitable. Currently, the wheel hoe cult seems too farm-centered. But in many ways, the home garden and the small farm have more in common than do small farms and their large, industrialized counterparts. Understandably, if your garden is a small and tidy collection of raised beds with gravel paths, a wheel hoe might not be an obvious necessity. But try one once, and it might lead you to consider a modest — and more easily managed — expansion.
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Post by steelmonkey on Jun 9, 2017 16:28:09 GMT
And I always thought a wheel hoe was a prostitute with a car.
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Post by maddogfagin on Feb 20, 2018 8:48:54 GMT
OK, so let's talk tillage 5 SOIL FACTSWHAT’S BEHIND HAZY DAYS AND OTHER SOIL FACTORS.By Gil Gullickson 2/19/2018 Jethro Tull isn’t just a 1960s and 1970s rock band. An English agriculturalist by the same name lived in the 1600s and 1700s. He loved to till the soil. And till. And till some more. “He believed the more you tilled, the better the soil,” says Aaron Daigh, a North Dakota State University (NDSU) soil scientist. Tull reasoned that the tiny soil particles caused by tillage pulverizing the soil would be easier for plants to suck up as they grew. Fortunately, farmers and soil scientists have come a long way since those days in understanding soils. Still, there are some soil facts that often fly under the radar. Here are a few to keep in mind from Daigh and Jodi DeJong-Hughes, University of Minnesota (U of M) Extension crops educator. www.agriculture.com/crops/5-soil-facts
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Post by JTull 007 on Aug 5, 2020 23:55:27 GMT
@tocaaipodcast 1 day ago LINK Ok, we talked about the Band Jethro Tull in the 6th episode. But do you know who the historical character Jethro Tull was? Born on March 30, 1674 at Basildon in England. He was a farmer and a pioneer in the area. He helped to foment the agricultural revolution in the country by creating the mechanical seeder, which already placed the seeds perfectly aligned and at the appropriate depth. Later, he helped to perfect the horse-drawn plow. Because of a lung disease, he traveled to Europe for treatment, taking the opportunity to observe the agricultural techniques of other countries. It was this mixture of knowledge that made him stand out at the time and be a precursor to the approach of agriculture as a science. The choice of name by the band has nothing interesting. At first, they were just a group of musicians and the names of the bands at the time were given by the guys who booked shows at clubs and pubs. One of them, was very fond of history and decided to pay tribute to the inventor when Ian Anderson's band went to play there. As they were invited to return to play another day, they ended up adopting the name definitively. . . . . .
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Post by maddogfagin on Dec 21, 2020 7:05:07 GMT
www.independent.com/Jethro Tull: A Rock Opera with a ConsciousnessSinger Ian Anderson Talks Bringing Topical Subjects Into Greatest-Hits Set at Arlington Theatre Thu Oct 13, 2016 | 12:00amHundreds of years ago, a man named Jethro Tull was born in Berkshire, England, growing up to reform agriculture with the invention of the seed drill and the horse-drawn hoe. On Wednesday, October 19, Ian Anderson, leader of the late ’60s band that took the name of that English agriculturalist and quickly became one of the most respected progressive rock acts of all time, will come to the Arlington Theatre with band in tow to present Jethro Tull: The Rock Opera, a spectacular greatest-hits set that reimagines the band’s catalog through the character of the historical Tull with a narrative performance involving contemporary themes of climate change, overpopulation, and new technologies. Anderson said he doesn’t necessarily find the man Jethro Tull to be especially compelling and indeed hardly knew who Tull was when the band’s agent decided upon the name in 1968. It wasn’t until recently, in 2014, that Anderson felt inspired to read up on Tull and his professional achievements. “It was an interesting surprise to find that Jethro Tull’s life just embodied lots of little elements that suggested to me an immediate relationship with songs I had written over the years, most of which were of the very well-known in the Jethro Tull repertoire,” Anderson said in a recent interview with The Santa Barbara Independent. The idea of a narrative performance, with songs slightly amended and rearranged to address pressing modern themes, came to Anderson over the course of a two-hour car journey through the rolling hills of Northern Italy. This is no history lesson, though — fans can expect a rocking performance of the legendary band’s songs, with topical detail coming secondarily. “I’m there to entertain, not educate; issues of climate change, population growth, immigration, feeding a hungry planet — I’m bringing these topics into an entertainment form, and maybe will get people scratching their heads and thinking a bit, or thinking about the groceries they buy,” he said. Sure, the subjects are rather dark, but Anderson and his band have never been ones to stray from the serious stuff: Look to songs such as “Aqualung,” which addressed homelessness “and our ability — or inability — to deal with the moral circumstances when confronting people who are much worse off than we are,” he said, and “Locomotive Breath,” with its notions of the consequences of runaway population growth. Nor is this political proselytizing; it is music as an imaginative mirror, a refraction of reality through which the real can be seen. Certainly, Jethro Tull the band’s reputation has been built around the thoughtfulness and intelligence of the lyrics — the resistance to the usual pop-format subjects of “I love you, you love me, or you no longer love me because you’ve buggered off with the neighbor,” Anderson said. “Our job is to paint pictures for people and let them figure it out; we offer them a different viewpoint, a different spectacle, perhaps in a way they didn’t view it before,” he continued. “We’re not supposed to be politicians, activists, and agitators; there are those who do, and they often end up with an egg on their face, like Mr. Sting with his rainforest and Bono with his do-gooding and vast wealth hidden in tax-avoidance schemes across the world.” Offstage, Anderson is still feeding his “endless passion for learning,” whether it be studying the religious demographics of the countries the band visits or reading “rather more philosophical stuff … about the more mysterious and imaginative side of who we as a species are,” he said. The fast and vast knowledge trove of the Internet has replaced the “dusty, dreary library” of his youth, and he is very grateful for the bottomless amounts of information available. So if you, too, enjoy your music with a side of philosophy and social commentary, this Rock Opera will be the one for you: Your feet will be happy from tapping and your brain happy for the food-thought. link
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Post by maddogfagin on May 18, 2021 6:33:01 GMT
Still wonder if the Opera will officially see the light of day, till then the evil bootleggers will have their day . . . .
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Post by JTull 007 on Jun 13, 2021 14:29:27 GMT
ON THE TRAIL OF JETHRO TULL by Nick Brazil This is a brief history of 18th Century agricultural pioneer Jethro Tull with live video directions to all the important places in Jethro Tull's life in Berkshire. It is intended for anyone who is interested in agricultural history especially the many visitor's from overseas interested in visiting the important areas of Tull's life.
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Post by JTull 007 on Jun 15, 2021 10:42:50 GMT
Here's something you may not have known about early agricultural pioneer, Jethro Tull.
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Post by maddogfagin on Jun 17, 2021 6:14:57 GMT
www.spokesman.com/stories/2016/oct/27/jethro-tull-the-band-meets-jethro-tull-the-man-in-/Jethro Tull the band meets Jethro Tull the man in stage showThursday, October 27, 2016It turns out that the British prog rock band Jethro Tull and the 18th-century agriculturalist Jethro Tull have more in common than just a name. Ian Anderson, the group’s longtime frontman, says he didn’t know much about Tull when his band was formed (the name was actually suggested by a booking agent in the late ’60s). And while those similarities are relatively minor, there are quite a few of them. For instance, Tull had musical ambitions when he was young, but his parents made him attend law school. The song “Wind-Up,” which closes Jethro Tull’s 1971 album “Aqualung,” begins with the lyrics, “When I was young and they packed me off to school.” Here’s another: Anderson says Tull suffered from bronchitis as a teenager, which is unintentionally echoed in the band’s signature song, “Aqualung.” And Anderson has frequently explored themes of agriculture and farming in songs like “Farm on the Freeway” and “Heavy Horses,” which obviously lines up with Tull’s work. “In many cases, it’s a little uncanny,” Anderson said during a recent phone interview. “It seemed like a good opportunity to come up with a theme for a live concert that would embrace the use of modern technology with videos and special guests, make it more of a theatrical event.” Anderson’s research into the life of Jethro Tull inspired the musician’s current stage show, which he’s bringing to Northern Quest this weekend. The set list features some of the best-known tunes in Jethro Tull’s catalog, but those songs are structured and paced in a way that serves as a musical biography of the real Jethro Tull. “It’s essentially a best of Jethro Tull show, the mainstream Jethro Tull repertoire that most of our fans will recognize,” Anderson said. “I’m really telling (Tull’s) story through the songs I’ve written over the years.” Anderson has written a handful of new songs specifically for the live show, many of which serve as transitions in the story. They also touch on 21st-century political, religious and sociological issues, especially GMOs and corporate agribusiness. While much of Jethro Tull’s music was concerned with such socially relevant themes, Anderson is clear that he’s not out to lecture anybody. “I think the trick is you’ve always got to give them a popular appeal,” Anderson said. “There’s no point in using (songs) to hector an unwilling audience. You’ve got to make it musically entertaining. If you can’t get people tapping their feet and nodding their heads in time to the music, you’re not going to seduce them into paying attention to the subtlety of lyrics.” Jethro Tull went through numerous lineup changes over the years, officially calling it quits in 2012. Anderson has a full schedule outside of touring as a solo act: He’s finalizing an album of string quartet arrangements of Jethro Tull songs, and he plans to start work on a new studio album soon. “It’s nice to keep busy at my age,” he said. “You don’t want to fall off the bicycle, best to keep pedaling. The danger is if you fall off the bicycle you won’t be able to get back on and pedal off into the sunset, which, of course, I’d like to do.” Anderson’s stage persona remains the same as it was back at Jethro Tull’s creative peak: He bounds about the stage, often with his flute, and tears into the songs with a crazed zeal. Although he’s the only member to remain with Jethro Tull during its entire four-decade career, Anderson says he doesn’t think of the band as his own. “There have been 26 different members of Jethro Tull over the years, and I think that’s, in a way, part of our strength,” Anderson said. “I tend not to think about Jethro Tull as a band identity, because you can’t encapsulate all 26 members in your head. It’s like this big extended family. “It’s rather like your favorite football team. The people who are kicking the ball about and whatever they do in American football, which I can never understand, they’re not the same guys who were there 20 years ago. So it’s an ever-changing rotation of talent, and that’s the way I think of Jethro Tull.”
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 1, 2021 7:03:03 GMT
Which begs the question - does anyone think we'll get an official concert recording of the opera anytime ?
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Post by steelmonkey on Nov 9, 2021 22:48:16 GMT
With only one, not so wonderful, boot of the Rock Opera, I cant say I have been fully able to digest and assess the five new songs. I think I like them and cleaner versions, whether studio or best takes live would be promptly bought. I do not feel impoverished without the customized opera version of the older songs but I do think the solo Requiem encore was brilliant. The Icelandic sing along woman was a bit too soon after loss of Ryan, whom I liked a lot, so maybe I need to revisit.
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Post by maddogfagin on Feb 16, 2022 6:45:55 GMT
maximumvolumemusic.com/ian-anderson-jethro-tull-the-rock-opera-symphony-hall-birmingham-11915/IAN ANDERSON: JETHRO TULL- THE ROCK OPERA @symphony HALL, BIRMINGHAM 11/9/15BY ANDY THORLEY - SEPTEMBER 11, 2015 Modern day Jethro brought to life in a night at the opera The very phrase probably would have sent MVM running for the hills a few years ago. The idea of a “rock opera” would have been unthinkable a decade back. Bloody hell, even now, writing this, it still conjures up dreadful long repressed memories of musicals watched as a kid and – worse still – family holidays filled with Queen’s Greatest Hits Volume One (and isn’t it staggering that they managed to milk a volume two out of their godawful output?) being the only tape allowed in the car. The point is, though, that times change and so do tastes. And when its Jethro Tull The Rock Opera, then ok, we’ll give it a go. To understand this, it’s best to know that the real Jethro Tull was a 17th century agricultural pioneer and for this, the mastermind behind the band of the same name, Ian Anderson has decided to move Jethro (the man) into the present day. So things begin with apocalyptic news broadcasts of food shortages and climate change. Then, amid a “live broadcast” of riots in London because rationing has been brought in its go time. Got that? Good. Because this is not a conventional gig. In any way, shape, or form. Rather it’s a dazzling and at times bewildering assault on the senses including films, spoken word bits, a killer light show and some stunningly brilliant pomposity – and that’s just part one. Part one (which you suppose should be called Act One given this is all highbrow and cultural and that) luckily includes some magnificent new versions of magnificent songs. “Aqualung” is a song that you couldn’t get wrong however you play it, and the guitar solo in “Farm On The Freeway” is worth the admission price alone. Things are augmented throughout by a clutch of new tracks, written specifically with this in mind. Oddly, they aren’t all sung live, but rather by the “virtual” Jethro and Susannah Tull on the big screen. Good songs these – the early “Fruits Of Frankenfield” is particularly impressive – and the production is brilliantly clever, but it isn’t visceral. But then, the counter argument would run that isn’t supposed to be. Act two is very similar, a smattering of re-worked Tull classics – “A New Day Yesterday” and a phenomenal “Living In The Past” real highlights here – some new songs, “Stick, Twist, Bust” adds to the Anderson canon in the best way, and a kind of loose thread hanging them all together. Here Tull junior is a scientist, estranged from his dying father, while the set-ending “Locomotive Breath” sees everything back to normal on The Strand, so it seems crisis has been averted. The story, it should be said, rather lost this reviewer before the close. There’s an encore of a gorgeous new track, “Requiem And Fugue” and the players run on for introductions and that’s largely that. Despite everything else surrounding the evening, this is unmistakably an Ian Anderson gig. He’s still a frontman of considerable skill and he’s got a brilliant band around him. He – and they – are unique, because no one else would play air guitar with a flute while hopping about. And no one else would have attempted this. You certainly wouldn’t want every gig to be like it. You are pretty glad that this one was.
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Post by maddogfagin on May 5, 2022 15:12:35 GMT
www.newjerseystage.com/articles/2015/10/21/ian-anderson-on-jethro-tull-the-rock-opera/Ian Anderson On Jethro Tull, The Rock OperaBy Danny ColemanOriginally published: 10/21/2015Ian Anderson On Jethro Tull, The Rock Opera“Our agent at the time was a history graduate, we were dithering about searching for band names and he suggested it and I was sort of like; yeah, well, OK. Then it dawned on me; we’re named after a dead guy,” explained founding member and music icon Ian Anderson with a laugh on how legendary rock band Jethro Tull got their name from an English agricultural pioneer that helped bring about the British Agricultural Revolution. “So let that be a lesson to you children; pay attention in history class!” The year was 1968 and Jethro Tull was on itsway to becoming an emerging force to be reckoned with in what was becoming the post Beatles era of rock music. Album oriented rock and roll had begun to dominate radio airwaves and harder, more heavy concept records were lining record store shelves. Every band was unique in its own way; from the album packaging and art to on and off stage gimmicks or antics. Music was changing and Jethro Tull was an integral part of it. Anderson, the front man and face of the band is widely credited with introducing the flute into rock music. Helping to launch an entire trend into the genre, Anderson blazed a trail with his use of this wind instrument. Now more than four decades later, 30 studio and live albums and more than 60 million records sold worldwide, Anderson is bringing his first “quasi rock opera” to the masses. Tickets are now on sale for “Jethro Tull, The Rock Opera,” which premieres at the Chicago Theater in Chicago,IL on November 1 and ends in Newark, NJ on November 11 at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC). “All these years later, I wanted to find something about him. I discovered that whether by fate or accident, many songs that I’ve written coincide with his life or career. I didn’t know at the time I wrote it that a song such as ‘Aqualung’ could actually relate to his bronchial disorder but it is all quite similar and there are quite a few of the songs that are like this. So I assembled them all together into this sort of an opera style show,” explained Anderson. The rock opera named after Jethro Tull reimagines the man in the near future with the story illustrated via songs from the band’s repertoire. “Heavy Horses,” “Farm On The Freeway,” “Songs From The Wood,” “Aqualung,” “Living In The Past,” “Wind-Up,” “A New Day Yesterday,” “The Witch’s Promise,” “Locomotive Breath” and many other classic songs from the Tull collection will be part of this undertaking; some modified a bit to “fit the bill,” he explained. “What I did was bring them up to speed to reflect a modern day chemist who is trying to feed the planet; a very hungry planet. Other than obvious cosmetic changes and a few pronoun changes; I’ve done very little in the way of changing the material. Those who come to the show are going to hear approximately 20 songs from the best of the Jethro Tull repertoire and they’ll all be relevant to the show and what I am trying to do; so obviously there will be no ‘Bungle In the Jungle,’ Anderson said with a slight laugh. Also included in this presentation will be some new material and some “virtual guests” as well. “I’m using the original lyrics for the most part and incorporating them in a theatrical, multi-media event. The virtual guests will be on a large screen and will interject at precise moments to help tell the story.” This series of eight shows in November are just the start of something much bigger to prepare the band for touring in 2016. “We are scheduling more in 2016 after Easter. In September we will take it to the west coast of the U.S. and shows in Europe as well.” Anderson once said, ”A band to me is whomever is in the room at the time.” Well, this tour features a new band, a new show and a few history lessons as well . . . . . . .
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Post by maddogfagin on May 6, 2022 5:38:20 GMT
Ian Anderson Live in São Paulo, Brazil 2015 - HEAVY HORSES (Jethro Tull: The Rock Opera) 1,536 views July 1, 2017
246 subscribers Ian Anderson Live at Teatro Bradesco, São Paulo, Brazil 07/10/2015
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Post by maddogfagin on May 10, 2022 5:34:42 GMT
www.independent.com/2016/10/13/jethro-tull-rock-opera-consciousness/Jethro Tull: A Rock Opera with a ConsciousnessSinger Ian Anderson Talks Bringing Topical Subjects Into Greatest-Hits Set at Arlington Theatre By Indy Staff Hundreds of years ago, a man named Jethro Tull was born in Berkshire, England, growing up to reform agriculture with the invention of the seed drill and the horse-drawn hoe. On Wednesday, October 19, Ian Anderson, leader of the late ’60s band that took the name of that English agriculturalist and quickly became one of the most respected progressive rock acts of all time, will come to the Arlington Theatre with band in tow to present Jethro Tull: The Rock Opera, a spectacular greatest-hits set that reimagines the band’s catalog through the character of the historical Tull with a narrative performance involving contemporary themes of climate change, overpopulation, and new technologies. Anderson said he doesn’t necessarily find the man Jethro Tull to be especially compelling and indeed hardly knew who Tull was when the band’s agent decided upon the name in 1968. It wasn’t until recently, in 2014, that Anderson felt inspired to read up on Tull and his professional achievements. “It was an interesting surprise to find that Jethro Tull’s life just embodied lots of little elements that suggested to me an immediate relationship with songs I had written over the years, most of which were of the very well-known in the Jethro Tull repertoire,” Anderson said in a recent interview with The Santa Barbara Independent. The idea of a narrative performance, with songs slightly amended and rearranged to address pressing modern themes, came to Anderson over the course of a two-hour car journey through the rolling hills of Northern Italy. This is no history lesson, though — fans can expect a rocking performance of the legendary band’s songs, with topical detail coming secondarily. “I’m there to entertain, not educate; issues of climate change, population growth, immigration, feeding a hungry planet — I’m bringing these topics into an entertainment form, and maybe will get people scratching their heads and thinking a bit, or thinking about the groceries they buy,” he said. Sure, the subjects are rather dark, but Anderson and his band have never been ones to stray from the serious stuff: Look to songs such as “Aqualung,” which addressed homelessness “and our ability — or inability — to deal with the moral circumstances when confronting people who are much worse off than we are,” he said, and “Locomotive Breath,” with its notions of the consequences of runaway population growth. Nor is this political proselytizing; it is music as an imaginative mirror, a refraction of reality through which the real can be seen. Certainly, Jethro Tull the band’s reputation has been built around the thoughtfulness and intelligence of the lyrics — the resistance to the usual pop-format subjects of “I love you, you love me, or you no longer love me because you’ve buggered off with the neighbor,” Anderson said. “Our job is to paint pictures for people and let them figure it out; we offer them a different viewpoint, a different spectacle, perhaps in a way they didn’t view it before,” he continued. “We’re not supposed to be politicians, activists, and agitators; there are those who do, and they often end up with an egg on their face, like Mr. Sting with his rainforest and Bono with his do-gooding and vast wealth hidden in tax-avoidance schemes across the world.” Offstage, Anderson is still feeding his “endless passion for learning,” whether it be studying the religious demographics of the countries the band visits or reading “rather more philosophical stuff … about the more mysterious and imaginative side of who we as a species are,” he said. The fast and vast knowledge trove of the Internet has replaced the “dusty, dreary library” of his youth, and he is very grateful for the bottomless amounts of information available. So if you, too, enjoy your music with a side of philosophy and social commentary, this Rock Opera will be the one for you: Your feet will be happy from tapping and your brain happy for the food-thought.
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Post by samatcn on Mar 18, 2023 18:42:00 GMT
So Ian seems to have stopped talking about a live album of this. Tell me off at once if this question is not socially acceptable here, but I don’t suppose someone has a decent bootleg lying around? I remember having a recording of the whole show, but I lost it somehow… would like to jog my memory of this.
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Post by steelmonkey on Mar 18, 2023 21:26:20 GMT
Definitely worth pursuing as there are no less than 5 songs not otherwise released or replayed since. I have a CD copy of the new songs, captured live from an audience, not great but good enough to know its a shame those 5 songs appear to be forgotten and neglected by Ian....and its not like any of them turned up in altered or anywhere close form since...we'll see if Rokflote reveals some use of them.
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