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Post by falstaff on Mar 9, 2009 8:28:32 GMT
Does anyone else think "Strange Avenues" was a somewhat odd choice to open these shows? Though I love it, it's a sad, melancholy song that I don't see as the typical opener.
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 9, 2009 9:25:56 GMT
Does anyone else think "Strange Avenues" was a somewhat odd choice to open these shows? Though I love it, it's a sad, melancholy song that I don't see as the typical opener. Agreed but it was a great counterpoint to the second number in the set Steel Monkey. I expect the temptation was to open with Steel but you know IA/Tull, never expect the obvious
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Post by tullistray on Mar 9, 2009 12:25:38 GMT
Does anyone else think "Strange Avenues" was a somewhat odd choice to open these shows? Though I love it, it's a sad, melancholy song that I don't see as the typical opener. Agreed but it was a great counterpoint to the second number in the set Steel Monkey. I expect the temptation was to open with Steel but you know IA/Tull, never expect the obvious You may have seen the Hamilton 89 thing on You Tube and probably here, (as good a boot video of Tull as I have seen) and I believe that goes some distance towards explaining why, for better or worse. Ian has often talked about the "muse" (even once saying that he keeps a tape recorder with him on flights in case the muse is on the same one) and that bit at the beginning (in my estimation)in silhouette with the lady is intended to be him responding to this wonderful person, or muse, before bringing her wrath down upon us. Just my take.
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Post by falstaff on Mar 9, 2009 17:27:13 GMT
It's just another example of the band's willingness to defy expectations and to do things in their own individual way. I actually haven't seen the Hamilton 89 footage, but I'll go looking for it now. Thank you very much.
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Post by steelmonkey on Mar 9, 2009 22:57:42 GMT
Strange Avenues, as an opening number, was brilliant...a great song in a surprising concert slot, announcing that Tull meant bizness that year, after the excusable nostalgia set of the 20 year tour in 88.....that was the last amazing, surprising opener...since then they have been predictable and/or repetitious...even when it was a new song (Roots to Branches) it was predictable: title cut, first song on the CD.
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Post by fatman on Mar 9, 2009 23:50:47 GMT
Strange Avenues, as an opening number, was brilliant...a great song in a surprising concert slot, announcing that Tull meant bizness that year, after the excusable nostalgia set of the 20 year tour in 88.....that was the last amazing, surprising opener...since then they have been predictable and/or repetitious...even when it was a new song (Roots to Branches) it was predictable: title cut, first song on the CD. What was so great about 1989 was the set list, 70% of which was Crest of a Knave and Rock Island, and also the Pegg/Allcock numbers and didn't they also play Requiem? Jeff
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Post by TM on Mar 10, 2009 1:01:34 GMT
Strange Avenues, as an opening number, was brilliant...a great song in a surprising concert slot, announcing that Tull meant bizness that year, after the excusable nostalgia set of the 20 year tour in 88.....that was the last amazing, surprising opener...since then they have been predictable and/or repetitious...even when it was a new song (Roots to Branches) it was predictable: title cut, first song on the CD. What was so great about 1989 was the set list, 70% of which was Crest of a Knave and Rock Island, and also the Pegg/Allcock numbers and didn't they also play Requiem? Jeff Yes, an instrumental version by Martin which was great. they also did Jack-A-Lynn which was the highlight of the night for me. I was lucky enough to be sitting 1st row center at the Meadowlands for this show. And of course Eddie Jobson was NOT there. ;D
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Post by falstaff on Mar 10, 2009 3:07:40 GMT
As well, there was the instrumental version of "Sea Lion" which is a highlight from every 1989 show that I've heard.
They really pushed the new material on that tour and it deserved every bit of that effort. Did "Ears of Tin", "Heavy Water", or "The Rattlesnake Trail" ever get a live airing?
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 10, 2009 18:42:31 GMT
They really pushed the new material on that tour and it deserved every bit of that effort. Did "Ears of Tin", "Heavy Water", or "The Rattlesnake Trail" ever get a live airing? Not sure about those 3 songs. Have a look at the Ministry of Information site www.ministry-of-information.co.uk/setlist/index.htm and I'll check some boots of the tour when I have a moment. At this rate around September - of 2012
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Post by steelmonkey on Mar 10, 2009 23:13:15 GMT
MDF: quit bragging about your leisure time...I dream of a few spare seconds in 2012! ( Python skit...remember? 'luxury, we dreamt of cardboard'?)
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 11, 2009 8:48:35 GMT
MDF: quit bragging about your leisure time...I dream of a few spare seconds in 2012! ( Python skit...remember? 'luxury, we dreamt of cardboard'?) You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt. Think a Python thread is in order.
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Post by steelmonkey on Mar 11, 2009 23:08:34 GMT
Speaking of Classic Python Riffs...without his voice, his knees for dancing like he used to and now, his finger,,,pretty soon Ian is gonna be like that knight, amputated at all limbs, demanding his foe come back and fight ( it's only a flesh wound)....come back here and buy a ticket to my gig...I can still push a tambourine around with my skull....
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