Jethro Tull (Official Thread)

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Velvetclown said:

Shame on you Jeffrey, not talkin about that tune

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Many apologies for forgetting "Hare In The Wine Cup". May I make amends for my lapse of brain power with a scan of the Milton Keynes concert poster of 1986 and just say I had my wrong head on yesterday.

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Well it does not matter how much we love Tull, we have to look reality in the face-------------It was a new day yesterday.................You will understand

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All things must pass Velvie, including our favorite bands it is a fact of life.

I'll have the last studio album up later today, been busy and I keep forgetting then Jeffrey will be in charge.

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I very much like Dot.com! With the nice mixing of styles, influences and songwriting it pretty quickly became a favorite, and also receives frequent rotations on my stereo! I do agree with your observations about Ian Anderson's voice aging, with so many years of singing and performing that's bound to take a noticeable toll, and not just with Ian Anderson but with quite a number of singers that have performed over a few decades, imo!

LG has posted one of my favorite songs from Dot.com, and here's another...



There are many songs that I like on Dot.com that are great to listen to and enjoy!

I've noticed that you've used the anatomically gifted cover art for Dot.com, LG!

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^^Jeffrey explained the whole history about the cover and where it came from...and yes I feel Ian Anderson would not approve of anything but the original cover art...

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:d

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^^What are you trying to say Velvet?? Go ahead spit it out, Share your inner most thoughts with us instead of using smilies all the time...

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Lord Grendel said:

Time for the last Jethro Tull studio recording in my collection, 1999's "J - Tull Dot Com". After stepping out and incorporating all kinds of new sounds and mixing them with their own unique flavor on Roots and Branches, the follow up is not as experimental. All the essential elements are here, Martin's guitar, Ian's Flute but his voice is really starting to show it's age more than ever before. That is not so much a criticism as just the reality of 40 years of making music nothing last forever unfortunately. Still there are some really good tracks on this one, and the title itself shows that Ian has fully embraced the Internet and is a clever way to advertise the bands website. He was always one of the smartest men in rock in my opinion. I am not sure if they are releasing anymore studio CD's of new material or not . . . .

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Think your review sums up Dot Com well LG. For myself I thought it heralded a new age for Tull but the lack of a follow-up rather scuppered that idea.

As for a new album, well I think there's a enough new or newish material since 2007 to achieve that. I read in a newpaper article that the Ian Anderson band had rehearsed six new songs for the current solo tour in the States but only two have surfaced as yet. A rather fine song called "Adrift and Dumbfounded" and an instrumental which, depending on what concert you saw or subsequently heard, went by the title of "Clint" or "That Bloody Song"

Set list from November 19th 2010, Warner Theater,Torrington CT

Life Is A Long Song,
Up to Me,
Nursie
In The Grip of Stronger Stuff,
Set Aside,
Hare In The Wine Cup,
Wondering Again,
Andantino,
Adrift and Dumbfounded
The Hare Who Lost His Spectacles,
Bach's prelude in C Major,
Bourée,
Clint/That Bloody song
Thick as A Brick,
Bach's Toccata & Fugue in D minor,
A Change Of Horses,
Budapest,
Aqualung,
Locomotive Breath