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Aqualung 40 Year Remix? « Thread Started on May 21, 2011, 9:56pm »
I got this info over at the ProgArchives.com site:
Originally posted by Steven Wilson on his Facebook page
Since Ian Anderson has been talking about this, I guess it's now official. I recently completed a brand new mix of Jethro Tull's "Aqualung" for a 40th anniversary edition. As always the remix is super faithful to the original, but with much improved sonic clarity (something that just can't be achieved with remastering). Also remixed for inclusion were many other studio tracks from the 1970-71 period (several previously unreleased), and a 5.1 mix. It should be out on EMI in September.
Has this been discussed here and I missed it? I did a cursory search of the forum, but as I am being uniquely lazy today, I might have skipped over it.
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Re: Aqualung 40 Year Remix? « Reply #1 on May 21, 2011, 10:17pm »
This is still new news here since the last couple days thanks to kenny. This is big news to me! Newly found unrealesed songs from 70/71 and the SW 5.1 treatment of Aqualung.
And your little sister's immaculate virginity wings away on the bony shoulders of a young horse named George, who stole surreptitiously into her geography revision...
Sorry, I didn't equate "124 Days Till A Big Surprise" to be the same thing as an Aqualung remix.
I agree, Greg, and I don't think the "big surprise" can be anything that's already been made public, otherwise it would not be a surprise. Therefore, neither the Aqualung remix, nor the full-Brick tour that Ian's mentioned in several interviews, nor the new Tull album that Ian has publicly stated will be released next April, or anything else that's already been announced can be the big surprise.
I think the Big Surprise may consist of all those things collectively, plus something big that will not be revealed publicly until that time. I am guessing maybe a double album of new material, or more likely, two new albums, one new Tull album and one new solo album, to be released together or within a few months of each other. That's been the pattern for the last 15 years, so I can see it happening again, especially because it's been so long since any new release.
I recently read that music CD sales have substantially increased this past year, with a corresponding slight decrease in the popularity of downloads, so that is encouraging news which my augur well for my prediction.
Sorry, I didn't equate "124 Days Till A Big Surprise" to be the same thing as an Aqualung remix.
I agree, Greg, and I don't think the "big surprise" can be anything that's already been made public, otherwise it would not be a surprise. Therefore, neither the Aqualung remix, nor the full-Brick tour that Ian's mentioned in several interviews, nor the new Tull album that Ian has publicly stated will be released next April, or anything else that's already been announced can be the big surprise.
I think the Big Surprise may consist of all those things collectively, plus something big that will not be revealed publicly until that time. I am guessing maybe a double album of new material, or more likely, two new albums, one new Tull album and one new solo album, to be released together or within a few months of each other. That's been the pattern for the last 15 years, so I can see it happening again, especially because it's been so long since any new release.
I recently read that music CD sales have substantially increased this past year, with a corresponding slight decrease in the popularity of downloads, so that is encouraging news which my augur well for my prediction.
Jeff
What would be nice is if crotchety Ian kissed and made up with several old bandmates from the classic years. Personally, I haven't thought much of the bass/keyboard duos of Noyce/Giddings or Goodier/O'Hara, or the drumming of Doane Perry for that matter. Give me Barrie Barlow, John Evan, Dave Peg or Glenn Cornick anyday. Hell, even seeing Hammond-Hammond again would be a blast (although unlikely as he hasn't played bass in decades).
On the Tull video Living With the Past, Ian is in a bar with Mick Abrahams, Cornick and Clive Bunker. It was just magic from a bunch of old geezers. I'd like to relive the 70s once again before I shuffle off this mortal coil (and before any of those folk do, as they are older than me).
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Re: Aqualung 40 Year Remix? « Reply #7 on May 22, 2011, 8:47pm »
Please! Big surprise, certainly not. I don't mind that the Aqualung 5.1 news was posted here. I like that fact. I posted on the other thread to help TM with his boredom.
ummmmmmmmmmm I was responding to "Has this been discussed here and I missed it?"
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Re: Aqualung 40 Year Remix? « Reply #11 on May 23, 2011, 1:47am »
I agree the surprise will not be the Aqualung remix. Tull have done this kind of thing all along and while it's great for those of us who care about such things it's not enough to warrant this kind of hype. Even if everyone didn't already know about it. It could be the surprise release of the new Tull album. Personally I hope it's the announcement of the entire Brick 40th tour with Barriemore, Evans and the crew! It's now or never.
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Re: Aqualung 40 Year Remix? « Reply #14 on May 23, 2011, 6:01pm »
This sounds really good. I think they should know that there is enough of a Jethro Tull following to actually make it worth it to produce and distribute the unearthed and unreleased tracks. I've always found the quality on Aqualung to be the least controlled of any Jethro Tull album, so I look foreward to attempts to better it.
I know, poor boy. No such problem here. Let it fly in the breeze And get caught in the trees Give a home to the fleas in my hair A home for fleas A hive for bees A nest for birds There ain't no words For the beauty, the splendor, the wonder Of my...
Was in Abbey Road recently and popped into Studio 3 to hear a beautiful alternate version of 'Cheap Day Return' with a lovely oboe part (I think?). Don't know if that'll appear but it just so happened that the engineer was going through 'Aqualung' on that day. If he'd had 'Benefit' up on the system I'd have RUN out with everything!!
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That's just a preview of the things you're gonna get.
Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: LONDON Posts: 2 About the Aqualung remix, this was all done at 96K and in particular the new stereo mix is something that I'm very proud of, since the recording was not done under the best circumstances (though what's on tape is better than the original mix would suggest). Having failed to get EMI to go Blu-Ray on this (which is the high res audio format I'm moving to for a forthcoming solo record), I'm still urging them to at least do a DVDA. The problem with the major labels is that although there are genuine music lovers still in these companies, they are beholden to the accountants who run things. This was not an issue with Crimson reissues because Robert owns all the copyrights, so we could do what we wanted with them. I'm going to pursue the idea of somehow trying to make the high res formats available if the companies won't do it, but don't hold your breath - there's a lot of bureaucracy involved.
At least the success of the Crimson reissues has led a to more and more artists from this era coming to the conclusion that a sympathetic remix (by which I mean one that is super faithful to the original mix in every respect, using the same balance, EQ, stereo placement, plate reverbs..etc..), can do what no amount of remastering the original mixes can do in bringing out sonic clarity. So in terms of the model of deluxe editions with the original mix, a new stereo mix, 5.1 mix, and mixes of previously unheard out-takes found on the reels, there are more of these kind of projects on the way, though I can't say more at present. I just hope that more often that not we can incorporate a high res format into these editions. Watch this space I guess...
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"Guys - I've had confirmation from EMI that they are going with a regular DVD for my 5.1 mix. On the plus side the original 70's quad mix will also be included, and both the old and new stereo mixes at 96/24." SW - Steven Wilson
When you discuss “Aqualung” with Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson, you quickly realize that the 63-year-old Scot is still miffed about the way the iconic 1971 album turned out.
The London recording studio the band used was a converted church that was “big, echoey, daunting and rather dark,” according to Anderson.
“It had all the ghosts of its past, and plenty of technical problems,” says the singer/flutist. “At the end of the sessions, I wasn’t sure what we’d got. It’s a bit like an old photograph; you know it’s in the camera, but you don’t know what the picture is until it’s developed. There’s the feeling you might just have a bit of black film.”
Despite Anderson’s reservations, “Aqualung” went on to become the group’s signature work, selling more than 7 million copies worldwide. In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine ranked it 337th on its list of the best 500 albums of all time, ahead of the Doors’s “L.A. Woman” and Bruce Springsteen’s “Greetings From Asbury Park.”
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of ``Aqualung,'' the band is launching a 15-city North American tour tomorrow at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado. Longtime members Anderson and Martin Barre, the lead guitarist who joined in 1969, will be accompanied by more recent members Doane Perry (drums), David Goodier (bass) and John O’Hara (keyboards). The entire album will be played at each venue. Remixed CD
An “Aqualung” collectors CD is also being released, in remixed form.
“It wasn’t a great sounding album,” Anderson told me recently by phone from his home in England. “A few weeks ago, I heard some of the tracks digitally remixed from the original masters by somebody with a fresh pair of ears. He kept the feeling of the original, but gave it a lot more weight, made it sound more solid and clear.”
In 1971, “Aqualung” was a big departure from mainstream pop -- and from Jethro Tull’s previous blues-oriented releases such as “Stand Up” and “Benefit.”
“Aqualung” combined elements of jazz, classical, hard rock and blues. Critics dubbed it a concept album because many songs were related thematically and musically, as in The Who’s rock opera “Tommy.” The plight of the underprivileged was explored in the songs “Aqualung,” “Cross-Eyed Mary” and “Up To Me,” while “Hymn 43” and “My God” were critical of organized religion. Rowdy Fans
Anderson, who had scraggly shoulder-length hair in his heyday, is now bald with a neatly trimmed goatee. But he’s still very opinionated. For instance, he rejects the “concept” label for “Aqualung.”
“It’s an album of contrast, full of brave dynamic variations across the board -- from big electric guitar riffs to sensitive little acoustic guitar and vocal passages with a string quartet,” he says. “Lyrically it varies from being angry socially to whimsical, slightly surreal moments like in ‘Mother Goose.’”
Anderson has little patience with critics or rowdy fans.
“It’s particularly disheartening when I’m trying to play the intro to ‘My God’ and someone is hooting over something that is, to me, a very important part of the song,” he says. “It’s not a football match. And if that sounds a bit snobbish, then tough.”
Though Jethro Tull has sold over 50 million albums since 1968 and still performs more than 100 concerts a year, the band isn’t in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
“I’ve always thought it is primarily to celebrate American music,” Anderson says of the Hall. “There are a lot more deserving American artists who should be in before British bands. I want to see Captain Beefheart there before Jethro Tull.”
The band may not be in the Hall of Fame, but one of Anderson’s outfits is.
“A mannequin with my stage clothes is standing next to one of Rod Stewart,” he says. “I remember thinking, ‘Either we had a very bad dry cleaner or the Hall of Fame has a bad one, because the stuff looks impossibly small.’”
(James M. Clash writes on adventure for Muse, the arts and leisure section of Bloomberg News. The opinions expressed are his own.
To contact the writer on the story: James M. Clash at jclash@explorers.org
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Manuela Hoelterhoff at mhoelterhoff@bloomberg.net.
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