https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/m2ub0m/i_am_ian_anderson_founder_musician_singer_and/
Q&A with Ian Anderson from a couple days ago, not a lot there but some good (and funny) answers to various questions
― so tonight that I might ramona quimby (f. hazel), Sunday, 14 March 2021 02:36 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpH_WkjC_Yk
50th Anniversary special about Aqualung... Ian breaks down each song and then it plays in full, very nice.
― so tonight that I might ramona quimby (f. hazel), Saturday, 20 March 2021 04:21 (three years ago) link
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/484A9Ju4F8g/maxresdefault.jpg
― mookieproof, Saturday, 20 March 2021 04:50 (three years ago) link
Forgot about that
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 March 2021 11:39 (three years ago) link
I don't know Carmen at all, but the wiki features some nutty stuff:
David Clark Allen continued to pursue a music career after Carmen disbanded. He played guitar on Michelle Phillip's solo album produced by Jack Nitzsche and was managed by Herb Cohen during the late 70s. He wrote two songs (Shame and Stay) for Agnetha's solo album, Wrap Your Arms Around Me - produced by Mike Chapman and a single release by Swedish band Katz - Heart Beats Stronger. David was diagnosed with thyroid/throat cancer in the early 80s. After a successful operation and radioactive therapy, he changed his name to Housk Randall - and became a sexual anthropologist/photographer. As Housk he had 5 books published in 4 languages: Revelations, Rituals of Love, The Customised Body, Piercing, Radical Desire and Bizarre Rubber - a photographic fantasy catalogue for fetish designers DeMask. In 1996 he married, changed his name to David Randall-Goddard and established a successful family photographic studio Family Portraits.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 20 March 2021 13:28 (three years ago) link
As probably mentioned upthread, I've never spent much time with Tull beyond whatever's come on the radio, but yesterday I heard "Hymn 43" for the first time in decades and it kicked ass.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 20 March 2021 13:30 (three years ago) link
David Clark Allen was a really stylish looking guy. He often posts about new flamenco fusion bands on his blog.
I feel averse to posting whole albums but their so obscure at this point I don't think it could hurt too much.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nIP_WlCdtM
Quite pleased to find this
"It's amazing," Opeth frontman Mikael Akerfeldt told Metal Hammer in 2012. "It's a crazy flamenco prog-rock folk record! They had tap dancing on the record and castanets too! Everyone I've played it to has been blown away by it."
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 20 March 2021 18:54 (three years ago) link
For some reason the most popular version of the album on youtube cuts off half of the first song, so I chosen another one for the link above.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 20 March 2021 18:55 (three years ago) link
Benefit getting the book treatment now - https://superdeluxeedition.com/news/jethro-tull-benefit-50th-anniversary-reissue
― Maresn3st, Wednesday, 29 September 2021 12:03 (two years ago) link
I will buy this mainly for shelf consistency, since the previous deluxe edition isn't book-sized.
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 15:04 (two years ago) link
Me too, although good quality live recordings for that era are always interesting.
― Maresn3st, Wednesday, 29 September 2021 15:32 (two years ago) link
actually wow, they are including two live sets from 1970, including one on video! that's going above and beyond. especially since these cost around $40-50 and not $100+.
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 15:34 (two years ago) link
This and Stand Up are my two favourite Tull records, or at least the ones I return to all the time, then having Singing All Day, 17 and Teacher at the back end, so great!
― Maresn3st, Wednesday, 29 September 2021 21:41 (two years ago) link
I’ll be getting this tho would love to find a good indie retailer in the States instead of paying £17 shipping 😳. Still hoping they may do a run of earlier ones at some point. War Child, Minstrel, and Passion in particular.
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 8 October 2021 20:48 (two years ago) link
I found (to my shock) that I have a spare copy of the A Passion Play box, so I had a look at the Discogs price jfc!
― Maresn3st, Friday, 8 October 2021 22:14 (two years ago) link
Lmk if you turn up a spare copy of SftW
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Friday, 8 October 2021 22:33 (two years ago) link
Bull Moose out of Maine is pretty good with these, if you pre-order you're reasonably sure to get one.
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Friday, 8 October 2021 22:37 (two years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 8 October 2021 23:12 (two years ago) link
I think I have two copies because my wife was tangentially involved in the reissue process so every time one came out, I would ask her to bring home a copy for me and one for my mate and I think I must not have given him this one for some reason? So, I'm going to message him first.
― Maresn3st, Saturday, 9 October 2021 08:26 (two years ago) link
That seems eminently fair and sensible!
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 9 October 2021 17:24 (two years ago) link
As would you selling it for the price of a kidney on Discogs, should you so choose.
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 9 October 2021 17:25 (two years ago) link
My mate can have it for £350 :)
― Maresn3st, Saturday, 9 October 2021 18:47 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPTeqsBd1Ik
― Maresn3st, Sunday, 7 November 2021 16:51 (two years ago) link
Not bad, but that riff is pretty monotonous. I get the feeling these older progressive musicians have made their recent music simpler not in the hope of getting played on the radio, but because even their casual fans won't listen twice if there isn't an obvious hook in a new song.I'm wondering now who has done worse harm to the vocal cords, Ian Anderson or Roger Waters.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 8 November 2021 00:00 (two years ago) link
Snagged the Benefit box from Amazon for about $50. Still would prefer the mid-70s records but I can’t let these things slip away. The books and mixes are just too well done.
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 3 December 2021 04:09 (two years ago) link
Hey all, this appeared on D1m3 the other day, it's a good one - 1979-10-15 Providence Civic Center Providence RI
https://www.fromsmash.com/tPy.t_yl1y-bt
― Maresn3st, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 18:37 (two years ago) link
Grabbing it, thanks! Been feeling a tull fest coming on.
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 6 January 2022 17:23 (two years ago) link
Beastie next, I guess? The Benefit box was great to have though.
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 6 January 2022 17:46 (two years ago) link
Beast tour is great, I’ll be excited to hear what they put together for the live bit of that box. Assuming it is coming.
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Friday, 7 January 2022 02:59 (two years ago) link
found a good copy of Stand Up recently, what a cool record that is
― frogbs, Friday, 7 January 2022 03:43 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqJpTQv9yH0
― Maresn3st, Monday, 17 January 2022 23:01 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH1L0ix6_bg
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 14:54 (two years ago) link
Thought the revive would be about the new album.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Wednesday, 23 February 2022 15:05 (two years ago) link
yeah I'm oddly curious about it, though I'm kind of dreading what Anderson sounds like now, and can't get past the cover reminding me of Breaking Bad
― frogbs, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 15:14 (two years ago) link
Barre-aking Bad
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 18:23 (two years ago) link
I got the Tull dvd in the Classic Artists documentary series after enjoying the Yes and Moody Blues ones so much years ago. It's from 2008 and disappointingly it seems a great deal shorter than the others, it's a bit under two hours long. I was surprised by just how many lineup changes there was and the main controversy in their history seems to be Ian letting go of some members without a face to face meeting. Quite a few of the members who were let go seemed ready to go anyway but it's left mostly unknown why they were getting tired of the band. A lot of the albums are left unmentioned (the Yes doc spends a fair amount of time on each album).
Ian regrets letting the label persuade him to put the Jethro Tull name on the A album, I think he wanted it to be a solo album. I've seen this with American Music Club and as small a band as Lycia. I'm not sure whose idea it was with Yes/Cinema but I imagine there was a commercial incentive.
There's about an hour of bonus interviews and Ian says aside from an odd Elvis song and The Animals, he didn't have much interest in the big rock bands that preceded him.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 24 March 2023 20:24 (one year ago) link
Quite a few of the members who were let go seemed ready to go anyway but it's left mostly unknown why they were getting tired of the band.
I saw an interview with Dave Pegg describing how, at the start of his tenure with the band, Anderson told him the reasons each of the other members of the band had for hating him (Anderson). By all accounts, he's an autocrat in band affairs; and, in a way, despite its eclecticism, Tull's music (particularly by the late 70s) had a certain narrowness about it that the others may have found stifling.
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 26 March 2023 15:47 (one year ago) link
One of things that was made clear in the doc was that Anderson was in control by the second album
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 26 March 2023 23:18 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKjNilF7WFE
― MaresNest, Friday, 7 April 2023 10:41 (one year ago) link
I heard "Fylingdale Flyer" recently and it got me listening to the deluxe edition of A and I was a bit dismayed by how different the song sounded. Steven Wilson said the pitch shifting effect is really hard to preserve and he couldn't quite get it right; he also said that Bowie's Low and Heroes used this effect, but did the remasters of those albums sound so different?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 19:02 (one year ago) link
Beastie!
https://superdeluxeedition.com/news/jethro-tull-the-broadsword-and-the-beast
― MaresNest, Thursday, 6 July 2023 13:02 (nine months ago) link
I learned this week that they actually had a brand new album, RökFlöte, come out in April.It seems that Tull and Yes are in a race to see which of the big-name prog acts can keep putting out records the longest.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 6 July 2023 15:05 (nine months ago) link
wow they finally announced a release date for the Broadsword book!
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Thursday, 6 July 2023 15:09 (nine months ago) link
I’m not sure I’d buy the box of it but there was a special place in my heart for Broadsword as a teenager. The dramatic Peter John Vettese synth orchestrations on songs like “Clasp” and “Seal Driver” are sort of unprecedented in Tull history but 16 year-old me kind of loved them. The hilariously awesome sleeve. And, while the songs weren’t top shelf Tull, it’s probably the last time they aren’t completely boring and/or terrible. Worth noting: they reissued the Thick as a Brick book box last year and it’s terrific. Wilson’s mix is just outstanding.
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 13:03 (nine months ago) link
Dear budding fiction writers, now's your chance to express your Tull love in print!
https://www.alphamercs.com/open-calls/stories-in-the-key-of-tull
― abandoned luncheonmeat (Matt #2), Friday, 29 September 2023 11:31 (six months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gCLHLNmGAE
― MaresNest, Sunday, 4 February 2024 23:58 (two months ago) link
Man, I have been a massive Tull bender of late having picked up a bunch of the box reissues (Aqualung, Minstrel, SftW). Not sure I’ve listened to these guys as much or as deeply since I was 16.
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 23 February 2024 05:40 (two months ago) link
#tullbender
― mookieproof, Friday, 23 February 2024 05:53 (two months ago) link
Yeah, I get those once a year.
― TheNuNuNu, Friday, 23 February 2024 07:40 (two months ago) link
All the way from from This Was to Broadsword, with only a few missteps, it's ridiculous really.
― Maresn3st, Friday, 23 February 2024 11:25 (two months ago) link