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It's been probably 5+ years since I spun this one. Musically I have always preferred it to the more popular "Thick as a Brick".This is the first time I realized how outstanding the sonics this album actually are. It's right up there with the best of the best in dynamics with a nice full and dense sound. Pretty damned awesome!
Happy Weekend!!!
Me, I'm just a lawnmower, you can tell me by the way I walk....
-Ray
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I have an original Reprise label issue. I always enjoy the music so much, I can't, without replaying it now, specifically recall the quality of the sound, but it must be OK. Might be a good one to play later today.
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Saw them in Frankfurt in 72, Amazing Show!!I still have fond memories of the concert and just adored the one legged hopping around madman Ian Anderson flute histronics.
Their stuff stands the test of time and holds up amazingly well. I spun Stand Up and Living in the Past recently and their is not a bad track on the albums.
Mine is the original Canadian one. Its sonics never hit me before as being enticing. But if you say so I will spin again pretty soon.
Most of the Tull albums I have are excellent sonically - Warchild in particular on the original green Chrysalis label, although Aqualung and TAAB are good, too. Check out "Only Solitaire" on side 2 of Warchild!
I remember in the early 70's going to a concert to see Jethro Tull. They started out the concert with all the lights off and it was real dark. There was a Huge white screen and a white dot would blink on the screen just big enough to see and a loud low frequency sound like a ping started out real slowly. Then the dot started getting bigger and faster and the low frequency ping got louder. This lasted for 10 to 15 minutes, probably only 5 minutes but it seemed like 10 to 15 minutes. When the dot got really big a ballerina that was curled into a ball started dancing and the band started playing Passion Play all the way through and then they went right into Aqua Lung. It was a fantastic concert.
so your experience sounds like one of those shows (I don't believe they have ever used this on-screen ballerina intro for any other tour). OTOH, I believe in those gigs you have had the chance to hear more yet unissued material (and it was fantastic too!) from the Château d'Hérouville sessions from the summer of '72 (later to appear on a few CD reissues or collections).On June 2, 1973, in Montreal, they opened with one of the first performances of the full aPP piece, and it was one of the most terrific rock concert experiences ever for me! You are right that the intro lasted, at least, 15 minutes. The gag was that it deliberately started with the house lights still on and everyone looking around for their seats and everything, and thinking this was just a test. And all the while a few smart alecks actually realized this was part of the show and started to hush people around them. Legend has it that Ian Anderson's kick was to stand in the wings and watch this in amusement...
A guy - a SAINT for the generations we should probably say - managed to edit together this whole aPP live performance (USA tour), including the intro, from various amateur films and bootleg recordings, then put this on Youtube for our Tull wonderment and nostalgia. It isn't always in sync and admittedly the performance bits don't not always match the sound source. But it is close enough. As ramshackle as this might look and sound, this just might be the best we will ever get from that, given that the cheaps that ran their record company apparently never did a single proshot of that historical stage event...
My toe favorites:The lead-in group (I don't recall who they were) were done, had taken their instruments off the stage, time passes and no Tull. More time passed and no Tull. Some grips carried gear onto the stage and still no Tull. Everyone started to yell, rhythmically and in unison, "Where's Tull, Where's Tull" Throughout this quiet time, there were some guys in coveralls sweeping the steps of the arena. Two guys passed where I was seated, sweeping past our feet...and still no Tull!
You probably have guessed where this is going...suddenly, the guys drop their brooms, run up on the stage and began to play...it was great!
Another concert, Anderson got on stage and said..."Well, we can't beat that" and started to play. Steeleye Span had opened for them and they had been on stage standing like obelisks, vertical black and white rather shapeless masses. Maddie Prior was singing something in Gaelic and suddenly the entire band...the obelisks, started a reel all over the stage, causing those black and white stripes to fly out...it was a visual "scream!" I was so impressed with them and so pumped that when Tull got on stage I, and I think everyone there, was READY for the show to get even better...we all knew Tull put on quite a show!
As I wrote this I began to think whether I'm confusing two shows...that Tull did the worker-sweeper thing after Steeleye Span's lead in. No matter, I loved Tull's music...at least until AFTER "Minstrel in the Gallery" which was, perhaps, my favorite Tull LP.
"Too Old to Rock n' Roll, Too Young to Die" was a disappointment...or maybe I had already become a stodgy old man...I could never get into Tull as I had before.
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If I had more money I'd soon be broke...but I'd have more LPs!
You should get their 2004 Christmas Album CD. It also has a DVD where Ian Anderson did a little solo in a parlor playing his flute.
I bought that one just for its interesting cover. It is macabre in an artsy sort of way...the dance of death, I suppose.
We're all in the play!
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If I had more money I'd soon be broke...but I'd have more LPs!
Some of us are extras in the movie, and some of us are coming back. If you don't believe me, ask Shirley MacLaine. ;)
...it was that kind of week.
Me, I'm just a lawnmower, you can tell me by the way I walk....
-Ray
It was a full moon on the world's oldest holiday, no bonfires were lit, and no children danced around the Maypole to appease the gods.
What did you expect?
Seemed like a good morning to rock out. Was there any better music in the 70's to accompany one into "outer space"? There wasn't for me.
I'm glad I took that "trip" ..................but I ain't going back. It would scare me to death now.
Life has lots of trials and lots of music to help us through them.
So what's that on the cover? I looked at once again just now...a ceramic pitcher? A surrealistic painting of a bridge?A "pichur" of a pitcher?
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If I had more money I'd soon be broke...but I'd have more LPs!
Never even thought to look at YouTube for that. I always thought his guitar sounded etherial. One of the greats IMO. Thanks
Life has lots of trials and lots of music to help us through them.
If you like it here it is, I have it
it's great!
- http://www.amazon.com/Robin-Trower-Living-Time-Live/dp/B000BPK2MA/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-4846037-8856832?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1178455446&sr=1-1 (Open in New Window)
Two minutes ago, the first side of Thick as a Brick finished on my TT. What are the chances of that? I don't have A Passion Play, so my Saturday afternoon jaunt will be to some used record stores to try to snag a copy and do my own comaprison.BTW, I still think thick as a brick sounds great 30 some odd years later....
I agree, TAAB has excellent sound as well.I just prefer Passion Play musically. I know it's not a popular opinion with JT fans, but for some reason it just clicked with me since the first time I heard it....
Me, I'm just a lawnmower, you can tell me by the way I walk....
-Ray
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