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Post by Nonfatman on Jun 26, 2014 11:40:22 GMT -5
Over the past 10-12 years, long before the release of TAAB2 and H.E., I gave a lot of thought to what sort of album Ian might make if he ever got back to it, and as it turned out, I came pretty close to predicting what he might do!
For example, walking around New York, seeing a resurgence of the homeless population, the Aqualung-like characters living on the streets, and how the problem remains so prevalent, it occurred to me that it might be a great idea for Ian to revisit the issue by doing a sequel to Aqualung, such as Aqualung Revisited, or Aqualung 2012. That is something I was thinking of for many years before TAAB2 came out. Alright, so I had the particular album wrong, but I was pretty close in envisioning a sequel, and if you look at Adrift and Dumbfounded, it does have that echo of Aqualung in it where the lyrics discuss Gerald the Homeless, and where the Aqualung riff is subtly played in the background at one point during the song.
The other thing I had been thinking for a long period of time, was how Ian had done albums set in medieval times (BATB), Elizabethan times (SFTW), Victorian times (Heavy Horses), modern times (Stormwatch) and the future (A), but he had not yet delved back even further, into ancient Roman times, and so I had an idea that he might try something like that, as foreshadowed by two threads I created here three or four years ago, entitled TogaTull (where I proposed an idea for an album with an ancient Roman motif) and Odes of Catullus (where I drew parallels between Ian and the ancient Roman poet Catullus, parallels that go way beyond the coincidental similarity in name between Ca-Tull-us and Jethro Tull). So now Ian comes out with Homo Erraticus which contains several references to Roman history and a number of phrases and song titles in Latin!
Okay, so maybe as teenagers my friend Arthur and I were all wrong in predicting, a few months before Heavy Horses was released, that Tull's new album would be called "Kicking Ass", but my track record more recently has been pretty damn good! That's what gave me the idea for this thread, in which we try to envision or predict what kind of album Ian might do next.
I am guessing that, with prog cravings and grandiose album sequels out of the way, Ian might return to a more simple form of songwriting and music. I think we might get a quieter album that is mostly piano and keyboard based, with healthy amounts of acoustic guitar, but little if any electric guitar, and only a sparing amount of flute. Ian is likely, I think, to include on such an album some love songs, break-up songs, father-son or grandfather-grandchild songs, songs reflecting on life and death, maybe some moody, personal and introspective stuff, with a mix of optimism and pessimism. Not heavy synths or anything like Walk into Light, but a lot of John O'Hara on the piano, organ and a little tasteful synthesizer, and Florian providing nice acoustic guitar accompaniements througout, and simple, heartfelt lyrics that are a return to Ian's normally poetic self, as opposed to H.E., where I felt the lyrics were long-winded, awkward and for the most part, decidedly non-poetic. I was going to say strings as well, but I don't think so because he's already satisfied that itch fully with Lucia, Ann-Marie Calhoun, Anna Phoebe and others. I'm thinking he might do the kind of album that REM did in the late nineties, called Up, which I was just listening to recently and really like a lot.
So, does anyone have any predictions or guesses about what a new Ian Anderson album will be like? Now's the time for this, because Ian did say in a recent interview that he plans to start working on yet another record on January 1, 2015!
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Post by Biggles on Jun 26, 2014 21:22:34 GMT -5
Over the past 10-12 years, long before the release of TAAB2 and H.E., I gave a lot of thought to what sort of album Ian might make if he ever got back to it, and as it turned out, I came pretty close to predicting what he might do! For example, walking around New York, seeing a resurgence of the homeless population, the Aqualung-like characters living on the streets, and how the problem remains so prevalent, it occurred to me that it might be a great idea for Ian to revisit the issue by doing a sequel to Aqualung, such as Aqualung Revisited, or Aqualung 2012. That is something I was thinking of for many years before TAAB2 came out. Alright, so I had the particular album wrong, but I was pretty close in envisioning a sequel, and if you look at Adrift and Dumbfounded, it does have that echo of Aqualung in it where the lyrics discuss Gerald the Homeless, and where the Aqualung riff is subtly played in the background at one point during the song. The other thing I had been thinking for a long period of time, was how Ian had done albums set in medieval times (BATB), Elizabethan times (SFTW), Victorian times (Heavy Horses), modern times (Stormwatch) and the future (A), but he had not yet delved back even further, into ancient Roman times, and so I had an idea that he might try something like that, as foreshadowed by two threads I created here three or four years ago, entitled TogaTull (where I proposed an idea for an album with an ancient Roman motif) and Odes of Catullus (where I drew parallels between Ian and the ancient Roman poet Catullus, parallels that go way beyond the coincidental similarity in name between Ca-Tull-us and Jethro Tull). So now Ian comes out with Homo Erraticus which contains several references to Roman history and a number of phrases and song titles in Latin! Okay, so maybe as teenagers my friend Arthur and I were all wrong in predicting, a few months before Heavy Horses was released, that Tull's new album would be called "Kicking Ass", but my track record more recently has been pretty damn good! That's what gave me the idea for this thread, in which we try to envision or predict what kind of album Ian might do next. I am guessing that, with prog cravings and grandiose album sequels out of the way, Ian might return to a more simple form of songwriting and music. I think we might get a quieter album that is mostly piano and keyboard based, with healthy amounts of acoustic guitar, but little if any electric guitar, and only a sparing amount of flute. Ian is likely, I think, to include on such an album some love songs, break-up songs, father-son or grandfather-grandchild songs, songs reflecting on life and death, maybe some moody, personal and introspective stuff, with a mix of optimism and pessimism. Not heavy synths or anything like Walk into Light, but a lot of John O'Hara on the piano, organ and a little tasteful synthesizer, and Florian providing nice acoustic guitar accompaniements througout, and simple, heartfelt lyrics that are a return to Ian's normally poetic self, as opposed to H.E., where I felt the lyrics were long-winded, awkward and for the most part, decidedly non-poetic. I was going to say strings as well, but I don't think so because he's already satisfied that itch fully with Lucia, Ann-Marie Calhoun, Anna Phoebe and others. I'm thinking he might do the kind of album that REM did in the late nineties, called Up, which I was just listening to recently and really like a lot. So, does anyone have any predictions or guesses about what a new Ian Anderson album will be like? Now's the time for this, because Ian did say in a recent interview that he plans to start working on yet another record on January 1, 2015! Jeff Perhaps a "Duets" album with Eddie Vedder, Paul Forrest, Alice Cooper, Elton John and Robert Zimmerman (aka, The Bob Dylan band) ..no? Sorry for being cynical Jeff but, I'd be happy to hear Ian and Martin sit down in the studio and hash out an acoustics album. Two weeks ago I binged on Tull's back catalog while road tripping along Hwy 1 on the the west coast of California from Santa Cruz to Bonnie Doon, then back to my homestead in Los Gatos. I went through Aqualung (Steve Wilson's re-mix), HH, TOTRR, Rock Island, Dot Com and RTB. The latter two that I used to consider lesser Tull efforts growled through my automobiles sound system (my favorite audio system), they both sounded so powerful. I was stunned as I realized the shear drop-off of dynamics that has occurred since Tull became one (Ian solo). When I was a young man I used to draw. When I drew freehand without a topic or image in mind, I was usually satisfied with the results. One day I thought I would sit down at such and such a time, I would incorporate some aids i.e. tools, like stencils, straight edges, etc. I was sure I would get a better result, a more commercial result. When I unveiled my new found technique to a close friend, he said "no, it looks forced, you were doing fine with freehand". He was right Ian's new found creative spurt has left me cold. Yeah, yeah, there are moments. But maybe this.. start at this time, end at by this date approach isn't working. At least not for me. Ian, don't go HomoE again, find your way back home. |
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Post by TM on Jun 27, 2014 9:11:05 GMT -5
Perhaps a "Duets" album with Eddie Vedder, Paul Forrest, Alice Cooper, Elton John and Robert Zimmerman, (aka, The Bob Dylan aand) ..no? Sorry for being cynical Jeff but, I'd be happy to hear Ian and Martin sit down in the studio and hash out an acoustics album. Two weeks ago I binged on Tull's back catalog while road tripping along Hwy 1 on the the west coast of California from Santa Cruz to Bonnie Doon, then back to my homestead in Los Gatos. I went through Aqualung (Steve Wilson's re-mix), HH, TOTRR, Rock Island, Dot Com and RTB. The latter two that I used to consider lesser Tull efforts growled through my automobiles sound system (my favorite audio system), they both sounded so powerful. I was stunned as I realized the shear drop-off of dynamics that has occurred since Tull became one (Ian solo). When I was a young man I used to draw. When I drew freehand without a topic or image in mind, I was usually satisfied with the results. One day I thought I would sit down at such and such a time, I would incorporate some aids i.e. tools, like stencils, straight edges, etc. I was sure I would get a better result, a more commercial result. When I unveiled my new found technique to a close friend, he said "no, it looks forced, you were doing fine with freehand". He was right Ian's new found creative spurt has left me cold. Yeah, yeah, there are moments. But maybe this.. start at this time, end at by this date approach isn't working. At least not for me. Ian, don't go HomoE again, find your way back home. ^ This. But this is "home" for him now, so I don't envision anything different. Like Bigs said there are moments, but the truth is playing a Tull record with Martin or Mick sounds so damn good these days. I'm happy with that. |
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Post by Biggles on Jun 27, 2014 12:12:48 GMT -5
Perhaps a "Duets" album with Eddie Vedder, Paul Forrest, Alice Cooper, Elton John and Robert Zimmerman, (aka, The Bob Dylan aand) ..no? Sorry for being cynical Jeff but, I'd be happy to hear Ian and Martin sit down in the studio and hash out an acoustics album. Two weeks ago I binged on Tull's back catalog while road tripping along Hwy 1 on the the west coast of California from Santa Cruz to Bonnie Doon, then back to my homestead in Los Gatos. I went through Aqualung (Steve Wilson's re-mix), HH, TOTRR, Rock Island, Dot Com and RTB. The latter two that I used to consider lesser Tull efforts growled through my automobiles sound system (my favorite audio system), they both sounded so powerful. I was stunned as I realized the shear drop-off of dynamics that has occurred since Tull became one (Ian solo). When I was a young man I used to draw. When I drew freehand without a topic or image in mind, I was usually satisfied with the results. One day I thought I would sit down at such and such a time, I would incorporate some aids i.e. tools, like stencils, straight edges, etc. I was sure I would get a better result, a more commercial result. When I unveiled my new found technique to a close friend, he said "no, it looks forced, you were doing fine with freehand". He was right Ian's new found creative spurt has left me cold. Yeah, yeah, there are moments. But maybe this.. start at this time, end at by this date approach isn't working. At least not for me. Ian, don't go HomoE again, find your way back home. ^ This. But this is "home" for him now, so I don't envision anything different. Like Bigs said there are moments, but the truth is playing a Tull record with Martin or Mick sounds so damn good these days. I'm happy with that. Perhaps its taking me longer than usual to accept his current output. I'm just thinking out loud here. But there are some real duds amongst these last two efforts. All these shoulder shrug, sing song rhythms bother me. I am still a loyal IA/Tull fan (Imagine how Dylan fans must feel). I heard a story years ago about Carlos Santana of Santana, who later himself became Santana, huh! shrug. He visited the early members of his band and apologized for being such an asshole to them after Santana made the bigtime. They later did a couple gigs together. One guy was homeless and Carlos is taking care of him now. My point is after the original Santana broke up, the creativity suffered. You have to involve the musicians that surround you. |
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Post by Tullabye on Jun 29, 2014 15:51:22 GMT -5
Ian has said on more than one occasion that it will just be him and his acoustic guitar. Very stripped down. I'd still have to imagine there will be plenty of flute though I hope that it will be just him and guitar.
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Post by housebrick on Jun 29, 2014 16:56:51 GMT -5
^ This. But this is "home" for him now, so I don't envision anything different. Like Bigs said there are moments, but the truth is playing a Tull record with Martin or Mick sounds so damn good these days. I'm happy with that. Perhaps its taking me longer than usual to accept his current output. I'm just thinking out loud here. But there are some real duds amongst these last two efforts. All these shoulder shrug, sing song rhythms bother me. I am still a loyal IA/Tull fan (Imagine how Dylan fans must feel). I heard a story years ago about Carlos Santana of Santana, who later himself became Santana, huh! shrug. He visited the early members of his band and apologized for being such an asshole to them after Santana made the bigtime. They later did a couple gigs together. One guy was homeless and Carlos is taking care of him now. My point is after the original Santana broke up, the creativity suffered. You have to involve the musicians that surround you. I see the situation in a very similar light. Ive listened to HE many times and find only 3 tracks of any value ,the cheesy stuff really annoys me and theres plenty of it. The stuff with Martin is just SO much Stronger than the last 2 Ian's duds. Ive got a feeling Ian will do 1 more album with this lot and call it a day. |
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Post by TM on Jun 29, 2014 19:46:46 GMT -5
Ian has said on more than one occasion that it will just be him and his acoustic guitar. Very stripped down. I'd still have to imagine there will be plenty of flute though I hope that it will be just him and guitar. Agreed. Ian and an acoustic would be great. |
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Post by Nonfatman on Jun 29, 2014 19:55:40 GMT -5
Perhaps its taking me longer than usual to accept his current output. I'm just thinking out loud here. But there are some real duds amongst these last two efforts. All these shoulder shrug, sing song rhythms bother me. I am still a loyal IA/Tull fan (Imagine how Dylan fans must feel). I heard a story years ago about Carlos Santana of Santana, who later himself became Santana, huh! shrug. He visited the early members of his band and apologized for being such an asshole to them after Santana made the bigtime. They later did a couple gigs together. One guy was homeless and Carlos is taking care of him now. My point is after the original Santana broke up, the creativity suffered. You have to involve the musicians that surround you. I see the situation in a very similar light. Ive listened to HE many times and find only 3 tracks of any value ,the cheesy stuff really annoys me and theres plenty of it. The stuff with Martin is just SO much Stronger than the last 2 Ian's duds. Ive got a feeling Ian will do 1 more album with this lot and call it a day. I like HE better than SLOB, I give it a B, but that is down from a B+ because it is not holding up that well to repeated listenings. Doggerland is great, Puer Ferox Adventus a stunning, epic masterpiece, The Engineer is very, very good, and Cold Dead Recogning is good too, so is the instrumental. So I count four tracks that are very good, one that is great, and the rest a mixed bag. Enter the Uninvited could have been good, but the rap-Latin ruins it for me. At the very bottom of the list for me is The Browning of the Green and After These Wars, because I just cannot stand the lyrics and the way they are phrased in both of those songs. Same goes for New Blood, Old Veins.....a nice piece of music marred by awful lyrics. I don't mind Meliora Sequamur that much, though, I think the lyrics are okay and I understand why it is included in this set. It kind of works thematically, coming right after Puer, so it's okay. I don't even mind the spoken word piece on this album, although it goes on too long, it's positioning near the end of the album, and as a lead in to Cold Dead Recogning makes it much less of a distraction than the various spoken word passages and poetry readings on TAAB2. I also like the way Ian sings the line Per Errationes..., etc. in the middle. I think that, other than three or four songs, one of my main problems with the album is that you really cannot remember the words....you can't sing along with this record, except for a few songs including Doggerland, because the words are just so.....wordy. Tootull put it nicely over at the forum when he said that he "cannot connect with the sung lyrics" and I agree with that. Jeff |
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Post by Nonfatman on Jun 30, 2014 11:20:29 GMT -5
The one thing I would add to my comments below, is that I wish Ian had gone full-throttle with his idea of making a prog record. I know he was being a bit tongue-in-cheek with calling H.E. prog, but wouldn't it have been great if H.E. were truly a prog album? Ian had a great concept for it, but too much of history is passed over in the single album format, and there is just not enough instrumental passages for it to be called prog.
Imagine instead a double album, with a couple of epic-length pieces, with more historical ground covered, and where the musicians are given ample leeway, especially John O'Hara, maybe bring in a few prog heavyweights to supplement the band as guests, perhaps Eddie Jobson on electric violin and additional keyboards, and if Martin was not going to be a part of it, then maybe a prog guitarist like Steve Hackett and let him and Florian do some nice acoustic or classical passages to go along with the searing electric guitar. The whole thing could have been built around Ian's stunning new masterpiece, Puer Ferox Adventus, and I dare say it could have been another Passion Play! Well, maybe that's a little extreme, but it could have been something along those lines.
So, in that sense, I think maybe H.E. is a bit of a missed opportunity. Not really missed, because he had a very good idea for a prog record, but that idea could have been more fully explored in the context of a double album.
Jeff
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Post by Pieter on Jun 30, 2014 13:27:17 GMT -5
The gelling of words and music -or the lack of it- isn't that one of the big problems of HE?
I feel that in quite a few songs it seems that the singing doesn't go well with the music, sometimes it seems like there are too many words, sometimes it even seems like Ian has trouble pronouncing them.
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Post by Nonfatman on Jun 30, 2014 14:38:46 GMT -5
The gelling of words and music -or the lack of it- isn't that one of the big problems of HE? I feel that in quite a few songs it seems that the singing doesn't go well with the music, sometimes it seems like there are too many words, sometimes it even seems like Ian has trouble pronouncing them. Pieter I agree, Pieter, and he very often accents the wrong syl-LA-ble (as my high school Latin teacher Mr. Gravino used to say). For instance, in After These Wars, he pronounces the words public in the phrase 'public opinion' as puh-BLICK instead of the correct enunciation which is PUH-blic. Same thing for the word tolerated in that same song, which should be pronounced TOL-er-ated, but Ian sings it as tol-er-RATED. It's funny because Ian never did that in the past, it's only the last ten, fifteen years, going back to around the time of Rupi's Dance which has a few examples of that (the Capuccino Song comes to mind), and there may be one or two instances on SLOB and Dot Com as well. Jeff |
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Post by Michael Crowe on Jun 30, 2014 17:01:34 GMT -5
The gelling of words and music -or the lack of it- isn't that one of the big problems of HE? I feel that in quite a few songs it seems that the singing doesn't go well with the music, sometimes it seems like there are too many words, sometimes it even seems like Ian has trouble pronouncing them. Pieter I agree, Pieter, and he very often accents the wrong syl-LA-ble (as my high school Latin teacher Mr. Gravino used to say). For instance, in After These Wars, he pronounces the words public in the phrase 'public opinion' as puh-BLICK instead of the correct enunciation which is PUH-blic. Same thing for the word tolerated in that same song, which should be pronounced TOL-er-ated, but Ian sings it as tol-er-RATED. It's funny because Ian never did that in the past, it's only the last ten, fifteen years, going back to around the time of Rupi's Dance which has a few examples of that (the Capuccino Song comes to mind), and there may be one or two instances on SLOB and Dot Com as well. Jeff Just dawned on me. I don't think you would find a post like this at a Howling Wolf board chatroom. Just a thought. |
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Post by TM on Jul 1, 2014 9:27:38 GMT -5
Funny thing I just read Ian talking about how difficult it is to sing the new stuff live and how important it is to pronounce everything correctly.
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Post by My God on Jul 1, 2014 15:22:10 GMT -5
A new real Tull album?  ?...Thanx Jeff, for the input.... smileyvault-worthy |
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Post by Mix on Jul 2, 2014 7:55:01 GMT -5
Over the past 10-12 years, long before the release of TAAB2 and H.E., I gave a lot of thought to what sort of album Ian might make if he ever got back to it, and as it turned out, I came pretty close to predicting what he might do! Ian's new found creative spurt has left me cold. Yeah, yeah, there are moments. But maybe this.. start at this time, end at by this date approach isn't working. At least not for me. Ian, don't go HomoE again, find your way back home. I doubt Ian's gonna take any notice of you. HE was his best UK charting album since Songs From The Wood and I suspect TAAB2 outsold all his albums in the last ten years and the tour was his most profitable in a decade or more. |
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Post by Mix on Jul 2, 2014 7:57:37 GMT -5
The gelling of words and music -or the lack of it- isn't that one of the big problems of HE? I feel that in quite a few songs it seems that the singing doesn't go well with the music, sometimes it seems like there are too many words, sometimes it even seems like Ian has trouble pronouncing them. Pieter I Wars, he pronounces the words public in the phrase 'public opinion' as puh-BLICK instead of the correct enunciation which is PUH-blic. Same thing for the word tolerated in that same song, which should be pronounced TOL-er-ated, but Ian sings it as tol-er-RATED. Jeff Jeff, I've seen you make several comments about the vocals on HE since it came out. Personally I really struggle to understand what you're saying. Tol-er-rated is exactly as I would say it. Perhaps the issue here is the clash of British/American English? |
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Post by Nonfatman on Jul 2, 2014 11:52:36 GMT -5
I Wars, he pronounces the words public in the phrase 'public opinion' as puh-BLICK instead of the correct enunciation which is PUH-blic. Same thing for the word tolerated in that same song, which should be pronounced TOL-er-ated, but Ian sings it as tol-er-RATED. Jeff Jeff, I've seen you make several comments about the vocals on HE since it came out. Personally I really struggle to understand what you're saying. Tol-er-rated is exactly as I would say it. Perhaps the issue here is the clash of British/American English? As I've explained, I do like the album overall, and there are four or five songs that are terrific (let me emphasize again, I think that Puer Ferox Adventus ranks with Ian's all-time masterpieces), but on many of the songs I feel the lyrics are awkward in that they do not match the meter of the music, are far too wordy, with too many syllables jammed into the music resulting in an awkward delivery, plus there are a lot of awful, clumsy rhymes and phrases throughout (e.g., coroner rhymed with foreigner and "imbecile fecundity" are just two of many examples I can cite), and are very often non-poetic. I've also said that the lyrics are just so verbose that you can't really commit them to memory or sing along to a lot of the songs, or connect to the lyrics as you can with simpler lyrics, which is something I've usually been able to do with most of Ian's work. On the whole, I would say that, with four or five exceptions, this is not one of Ian's most memorable albums in terms of lyric-writing, and certain things like the bad, multisyllabic rhymes are very out-of-character for him. There are a number of songs which I feel are quite good musically, but the lyrics and/or the way they are phrased turn me off completely, notably New Blood, Old Veins, After These Wars and The Browning of the Green. The songs which in my opinion work in terms of both the music and lyrics both being excellent are Doggerland, Puer Ferox Adventus, Cold Dead Recogning and The Engineer (somewhat cluttered lyrics, but such a great song otherwise that I can overlook it in that instance), and as I said I also like the instrumental, and Meliora Sequamur (because it is almost necessary thematically to include a song like that on this album, and it is so well-placed coming right after the stunning Puer), and I even like the spoken piece (except for it being a little too long) because it kinds of fits on this album, and it is well-positioned as the lead-in to Cold Dead Recogning. I think that Ian's next album is going to be radically different with a stripped down, keyboard-based approach (there are already some hints of that on H.E.), supplemented by a lot of acoustic guitar passages and some tasteful electric guitar and flute, but much less of both than what is on the current album. I also think Ian will depart from grandiose, Bostock-based themes and return to a simpler form of songwriting. I am envisioning an album of songs along the lines of some of the better pieces on Rupi's Dance such as A Hand of Thumbs, except the whole thing is going to be more keyboard-based with lots of John O'hara on piano. Jeff |
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Post by Nonfatman on Jul 2, 2014 12:04:29 GMT -5
Ian's new found creative spurt has left me cold. Yeah, yeah, there are moments. But maybe this.. start at this time, end at by this date approach isn't working. At least not for me. Ian, don't go HomoE again, find your way back home. I doubt Ian's gonna take any notice of you. HE was his best UK charting album since Songs From The Wood and I suspect TAAB2 outsold all his albums in the last ten years and the tour was his most profitable in a decade or more. That is true, and Ian did a fabulous job of using social media to market the two albums. That doesn't mean that everyone is going to like the new stuff, though. Ian also did a fabulous job of conceiving the stage shows (on TAAB2 and, from what I've read, on H.E. as well) around the two albums. These were albums that were written very much with the show and accompanying theatrics in mind. I have no doubts that the H.E. show will also be great, despite my concerns about Ian's ability to sing these very difficult and complicated lyrics, many of which sound like they may be beyond his current range. I hope not, though. Jeff |
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Post by Nonfatman on Jul 2, 2014 12:06:25 GMT -5
A new real Tull album? ?...Thanx Jeff, for the input.... smileyvault-worthy As you know, William, I would like nothing better than the next offering to be a true Jethro Tull album with Martin and Doane back in the fold. Unfortunately, I doubt that's going to happen. But you never know. Jeff |
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Post by Biggles on Jul 2, 2014 19:07:27 GMT -5
Ian's new found creative spurt has left me cold. Yeah, yeah, there are moments. But maybe this.. start at this time, end at by this date approach isn't working. At least not for me. Ian, don't go HomoE again, find your way back home. I doubt Ian's gonna take any notice of you. HE was his best UK charting album since Songs From The Wood and I suspect TAAB2 outsold all his albums in the last ten years and the tour was his most profitable in a decade or more. It was a rhetorical request. |
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Post by Lucas on Jul 6, 2014 15:31:16 GMT -5
I think he's not backing away from prog, or what he calls prog. Not just yet. I think he probably heard people talking about how wordy the songs are. In fact, I imagine he gives atention to what fans think, more than we can imagine.
My guess is a new album, prog, proggier than the last ones, lyrics that fit the music better. I mean, think about this, look at one of the masterpiece that is Bakerstreet Muse, it got plenty of lyrics, but the music fits it perfectly. I think he will work more on that.
He'll do a better prog album, more instrumental passages and great lyrics, continuing to be vernacular and verbose, but attempting to get closer to what he did in the past.
And the band is getting tighter. He might just do it and suprise us all.
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Post by LJG on Jul 6, 2014 15:32:52 GMT -5
I'm very surprised his albums have actually featured more as opposed to less lyrics. I would have thought he'd try to gear things more to his 'current' strengths...
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Post by TM on Jul 7, 2014 18:55:47 GMT -5
I think he's not backing away from prog, or what he calls prog. Not just yet. I think he probably heard people talking about how wordy the songs are. In fact, I imagine he gives atention to what fans think, more than we can imagine. My guess is a new album, prog, proggier than the last ones, lyrics that fit the music better. I mean, think about this, look at one of the masterpiece that is Bakerstreet Muse, it got plenty of lyrics, but the music fits it perfectly. I think he will work more on that. He'll do a better prog album, more instrumental passages and great lyrics, continuing to be vernacular and verbose, but attempting to get closer to what he did in the past. And the band is getting tighter. He might just do it and suprise us all. Hey Lucas, good to see you again. |
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Post by TM on Jul 7, 2014 18:57:01 GMT -5
Ian's hinted that he'd like to remake A Passion Play or the subject matter so nothing would surprise me.
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Post by StanDup on Jul 21, 2014 20:39:17 GMT -5
Ian has said on more than one occasion that it will just be him and his acoustic guitar. Very stripped down. I'd still have to imagine there will be plenty of flute though I hope that it will be just him and guitar. An entire album with just vocals and the acoustic would be a very welcome approach. There is always going to be that demand for his flute, so along with the vocals/guitar tracks he could offer up some instrumental compositions with just flute and piano. But please, no accordion. |
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?...Thanx Jeff, for the input.... smileyvault-worthy
