Finally I got to listen TAAB2 in my car on a nearly two hours long journey. Utterly different from listening it on my headphones at home. Freedom to turn volume up you wish up to shattering my ears, with pleasure of course, and to be able to figure what the hell of good out we have to relish again from IA. The whole is perfectly acted. Banker bets Banker wins, in the very beginning the album, soon raises your temperature and makes you the first goosebumps and so the same all along this materpiece. I can honestly say that yesterday I touched Heaven again, I felt one more time in my life under an ecstasy mood as I'd never got so after a long time ago. Highly recommended. Thanks also to this Board that I could learn how to get my TAAB2 order by online way, and much more appreciated because this release isn't on sale at stores in my city yet. I'm feeling the most fortunate man in town for this. THANKS CHICOS
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Re: TAAB2 « Reply #404 on Apr 18, 2012, 12:41pm »
My dad was in Dublin today and he got TAAB2. I immediately threw it in the 'ol cd player and blasted it out of the speakers, for the whole family to enjoy. I really enjoyed it. It was far better than SLOB and Rupi's. Kismet in Suburbia was damn good. So, was Adrift and Dumbfounded and A Change of Horses. I was kinda' expecting the ending, but I did chuckle when Ian said "..two." I cringed however when in Swing it Far Ian shouted "RIGHT UP YOURS!" Not his best song writing. All and all it's the best thing he's put out this decade and I'm happy. Florian Ophale is an amazing guitarist aswell.
I cringed however when in Swing it Far Ian shouted "RIGHT UP YOURS!"
With me it was "serves the bugger flippin' right". Just seemed a bit inappropriate for Ian, even though he's playing a character. Does anyone really speak like this? Yes, I know they do, but not in serious context, typically.
Finally I got to listen TAAB2 in my car on a nearly two hours long journey. Utterly different from listening it on my headphones at home. Freedom to turn volume up you wish up to shattering my ears, with pleasure of course, and to be able to figure what the hell of good out we have to relish again from IA. The whole is perfectly acted. Banker bets Banker wins, in the very beginning the album, soon raises your temperature and makes you the first goosebumps and so the same all along this materpiece. I can honestly say that yesterday I touched Heaven again, I felt one more time in my life under an ecstasy mood as I'd never got so after a long time ago. Highly recommended. Thanks also to this Board that I could learn how to get my TAAB2 order by online way, and much more appreciated because this release isn't on sale at stores in my city yet. I'm feeling the most fortunate man in town for this. THANKS CHICOS
Serge goes Cruising with TAAB 2 !
LOL!! UNFORGETTABLE DAY, IT WAS REALLY LIKE YOU DISPLAYED
I recommend everyone to do Jim's proposal, travel a short ride by car listening TAAB2 and then expose here her or his experience. It will be certainly a treat for Soul
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Re: TAAB2 « Reply #410 on Apr 23, 2012, 11:08am »
Ian Anderson Launches Brick Widget Peter Hodgson 04.23.2012
Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson has made available a special web widget containing musical selections from his new Thick as a Brick 2 album, as well as interview footage.
The widget is available now courtesy of EMI Records and North American syndicated rock radio show In The Studio: The Stories Behind History’s Greatest Rock Bands.
Anderson and host Redbeard discussed the 40-year gap between the two bodies of work, including how the themes of the new record were taken from today’s headlines, such as bullying, gay marriage and religious and cultural intolerance, as well as personal discoveries Anderson has made about his own life in revisiting his past artistic work.
“We snack on music these days,” Anderson says. “We don’t sit down to a banquet and take two hours of it, we tend to snack and so I think it’s a change in culture that I have to recognize. It’s gonna have about a 50 percent chance of getting approval, and that, in this day and age, is just fine by me. If I can please half of the people, all of the time, I’d be a happy man.”
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Re: TAAB2 « Reply #411 on Apr 24, 2012, 11:12am »
Hey guys. New here. Love TAAB 2 as much as part one. Quick question: There is a guest singer credited in the liner notes; where is he heard? I can hear him in the last fast part of "Swing it Far", but I wondered if he's also in the slow section, when the lyrics go "overnight he did a runner" or "on the streets of rude survival". It sounds a bit different, but still kinda like Ian.
Hey guys. New here. Love TAAB 2 as much as part one. Quick question: There is a guest singer credited in the liner notes; where is he heard? I can hear him in the last fast part of "Swing it Far", but I wondered if he's also in the slow section, when the lyrics go "overnight he did a runner" or "on the streets of rude survival". It sounds a bit different, but still kinda like Ian.
Yes, that him. Ian repeats the line "endless melee", which tricks you into believing it may be him, but it is Ryan.
Hey guys. New here. Love TAAB 2 as much as part one. Quick question: There is a guest singer credited in the liner notes; where is he heard? I can hear him in the last fast part of "Swing it Far", but I wondered if he's also in the slow section, when the lyrics go "overnight he did a runner" or "on the streets of rude survival". It sounds a bit different, but still kinda like Ian.
Yes, that him. Ian repeats the line "endless melee", which tricks you into believing it may be him, but it is Ryan.
Yeah, I felt tricked on first listen. the vocal mix is well done. IMO
Hey guys. New here. Love TAAB 2 as much as part one. Quick question: There is a guest singer credited in the liner notes; where is he heard? I can hear him in the last fast part of "Swing it Far", but I wondered if he's also in the slow section, when the lyrics go "overnight he did a runner" or "on the streets of rude survival". It sounds a bit different, but still kinda like Ian.
Yes, that him. Ian repeats the line "endless melee", which tricks you into believing it may be him, but it is Ryan.
Okay, thanks. A very good trick indeed. Such a shame that Ian's had all those problems with his voice. He used to be such an amazing singer. I still like his vocals a lot, but when you listen to the old stuff - incredible how much soul he was able to put into his voice.
Does anyone know if that's the only song Mr. O'Donnell is on?
(Reuters) - One thing that never really dies is a truly progressive rock album. A case in point is Jethro Tull's "Thick As A Brick," originally released in 1972, before disco, punk and rap.
Back then, "Brick" was significant for its 44-minute song created around the idea it was an epic poem written by a boy. Now, Jethro Tull's singer, flautist and frontman Ian Anderson is commemorating the album's 40th anniversary with a followup to the original, "Thick As a Brick 2," and a tour.
As a sign that "Brick" still continues to lure fans, the new record recently entered U.S. charts at No.55, Anderson's highest debut in 25 years. The Jethro Tull frontman, now 64-years-old, recently spoke with Reuters about his new album, tour and the ever-changing music scene.
Q: Is it true you were asked many times to do a follow-up to "Thick As A Brick" but always avoided it?
A: "Yes, my attitude has always been unwaveringly ‘no,' as I don't want to go back in some nostalgic way to rekindle the music. But last year I started to think about what might have become of the fictitious child poet, Gerald Bostock, who wrote the lyrics for the original album, and what might have happened to the St. Cleve Chronicle, the 16-page newspaper which formed the packaging. And that inspired this whole idea of what might have happened to Gerald 40 years later. So I wrote down a number of possibilities, and saw that instead of just exploring one, it gave me a chance to examine a number of those life-changing moments that happen to us all."
Q: How personal are the lyrics?
A: "It always contains elements of personal experience and some elements of other people's experiences. So, it's bringing together a number of issues that aren't just about looking back, but are also relevant to younger people who're going to have to start making decisions in their own lives."
Q: Musically and stylistically the new album really picks up where "Thick As A Brick" left off. Did you feel any pressure to go for a more contemporary sound?
A: "No, in terms of instrumentation I deliberately wanted to stay with the instruments that were then, and are now, the archetypal ones of rock - the Les Paul guitar, which is like a Stradivarius, the Fender Jazz bass, the Hammond organ, the flute. These are the tools of my trade, so I wanted to keep the same sonic palette I had on the original album and stay away from conspicuous synthesizers and digital instruments. And artistically and musically it's fun to make a few references - a nod and a wink - to earlier musical ideas and motifs. Beethoven and Mozart did it for a living, and so do I. It gives context and continuity."
Q: How's the new tour going so far?
A: "Great. We're doing the UK first, and we're doing 'Brick' 1 and 2 played live, with a 20-minute intermission, for the first time ever."
Q: What's been the biggest surprise?
A: (Laughs) "That we can all actually remember it. If we were reading it from a score with a conductor to prompt and help you like classical musicians, it'd be far easier. But we have to memorize and play it all and virtually no one has more than a few bars where they're not playing. So it's very intense. But enjoyably intense. It's certainly not Tantric sex. It's full-on and it seems like the show's over in a flash."
Q: You've never stopped touring, either with Tull or by yourself. You must love it?
A: "I met an American astronaut recently who was about to return to a five-month mission on the International Space Station, and she responded the way I feel about touring - 'I don't want to come back,' she said.
"It's the same thing. You've trained all your life to do it, and she knew this was her last mission, and she was filled with a profound sense of sadness and loss. And that's how I feel as I get into my last years of being a touring musician."
Q: "The music industry's changed so much since you began in the ‘60s. What's your take on it today?"
A: "It's much more competitive and over-subscribed in terms of participants and wannabe-participants. But we also have a lot more choice and it fits the age. We eat fast food and snack, and it's the same with music. I don't think we sit down and listen to music the way we used to. We tend to snack on it while we're multi-tasking and on the move. So we hear more music than ever before. I'm not sure that we actually listen to it. But the access is unparalleled in terms of ease and cheapness."
(Reporting by Iain Blair; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte) Music
Yes, that him. Ian repeats the line "endless melee", which tricks you into believing it may be him, but it is Ryan.
Okay, thanks. A very good trick indeed. Such a shame that Ian's had all those problems with his voice. He used to be such an amazing singer. I still like his vocals a lot, but when you listen to the old stuff - incredible how much soul he was able to put into his voice.
Does anyone know if that's the only song Mr. O'Donnell is on?
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Love TAAB 2 as much as part one. Quick question: There is a guest singer credited in the liner notes; where is he heard? I can hear him in the last fast part of "Swing it Far", but I wondered if he's also in the slow section, when the lyrics go "overnight he did a runner" or "on the streets of rude survival". It sounds a bit different, but still kinda like Ian.