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Post by TM on Jun 4, 2010 8:12:08 GMT -5
Starts today! May the voice be with you!
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Post by Mix on Jun 4, 2010 8:57:23 GMT -5
Starts today! May the voice be with you! LOL
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Post by tootull on Jun 4, 2010 9:57:28 GMT -5
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Post by tootull on Jun 4, 2010 10:08:15 GMT -5
We need this link...and this would be the June 2010 Jethro Tull North American tour from my vantage point, eh. www.j-tull.com/tourdates/index.html#usaJUNE 4 Boca Raton, FL Mizner Park Amphitheater - tickets 6 Atlanta, GA Chastain Park Amphitheatre - tickets on sale March 27th 8 Vienna, VA The Filene Center - tickets 10 Ledyard, CT Foxwoods Resort Casino - tickets 11 Wantagh, NY Nikon at Jones Beach Music Theater - tickets 12 Atlantic City, NJ Caesar's Atlantic City - Circus Maximus - tickets 13 Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Arts Center - tickets 15 Boston, MA Bank of America Pavillion - tickets 17 Canandaigua, NY Constellation Brands Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center - tickets 18 Toronto, Canada Molson Amphitheatre - tickets 19 Windsor, Canada Caesars Windsor - The Colosseum - tickets 20 Highland Park, IL Ravinia Pavillon - tickets
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Post by TM on Jun 4, 2010 19:18:22 GMT -5
We need this link...and this would be the June 2010 Jethro Tull North American tour from my vantage point, eh. www.j-tull.com/tourdates/index.html#usaJUNE 4 Boca Raton, FL Mizner Park Amphitheater - tickets 6 Atlanta, GA Chastain Park Amphitheatre - tickets on sale March 27th 8 Vienna, VA The Filene Center - tickets 10 Ledyard, CT Foxwoods Resort Casino - tickets 11 Wantagh, NY Nikon at Jones Beach Music Theater - tickets 12 Atlantic City, NJ Caesar's Atlantic City - Circus Maximus - tickets 13 Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Arts Center - tickets 15 Boston, MA Bank of America Pavillion - tickets 17 Canandaigua, NY Constellation Brands Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center - tickets 18 Toronto, Canada Molson Amphitheatre - tickets 19 Windsor, Canada Caesars Windsor - The Colosseum - tickets 20 Highland Park, IL Ravinia Pavillon - tickets My bad. Apologies to you tt and all our friends to the north.
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Post by tootull on Jun 5, 2010 9:45:35 GMT -5
We need this link...and this would be the June 2010 Jethro Tull North American tour from my vantage point, eh. www.j-tull.com/tourdates/index.html#usaJUNE 4 Boca Raton, FL Mizner Park Amphitheater - tickets 6 Atlanta, GA Chastain Park Amphitheatre - tickets on sale March 27th 8 Vienna, VA The Filene Center - tickets 10 Ledyard, CT Foxwoods Resort Casino - tickets 11 Wantagh, NY Nikon at Jones Beach Music Theater - tickets 12 Atlantic City, NJ Caesar's Atlantic City - Circus Maximus - tickets 13 Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Arts Center - tickets 15 Boston, MA Bank of America Pavillion - tickets 17 Canandaigua, NY Constellation Brands Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center - tickets 18 Toronto, Canada Molson Amphitheatre - tickets 19 Windsor, Canada Caesars Windsor - The Colosseum - tickets 20 Highland Park, IL Ravinia Pavillon - tickets My bad. Apologies to you tt and all our friends to the north. Cool! Not a problem - you can get used to it around here. All is light, I like joking about it.
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Post by Stevie Ray on Jun 6, 2010 6:43:25 GMT -5
The show was wonderful....a beautiful outdoor venue and a few raindrops throughout the evening to keep us cool during the hot and humid night.
Ian came out at 8:00 and introduced Ian Hunter. Now I've seen him introduce opening acts before, but this time he was wearing shorts. LOL, he kidded that no one had ever seen him in shorts before...although I know I have. Ian Hunter was a good opener..starting out with Once Bitten, Twice Shy followed by newer stuff and ending with All The Way From Memphis.
As for Tull, I thought Ian was in very good spirits. His singing was much better than I had expected, and I'm sure the massive number of vertical speakers on the sides of the stage really helped carry his voice. So did the fact that many songs nowadays are done in slightly lower keys. IA did the obligatory flute between his legs, but not Martin's. Was looking for a Martin solo, but the length of Ian Hunter's show cut it out of the list. Best of all, I got to sit next to 4 Tull virgins. That's always a treat for me to be with folks who've never seen Tull. My faves on the evening...Jack In The Green...simply because it still sounds good, and My God...because I always love hearing that live.
The extended Locomotive Breath (with just a few bars of instrumental Teacher that I picked up on) was the encore....balloons and all. One last thing...there must have been just as many people outside the venue sitting in the grass of the mall in folding chairs, than there were inside. It was a great evening for everyone.
For those who may want to keep track of music played, here's the set list.
Cross Eyed Mary - Beggar's Farm - Nothing Is Easy - A New Day Yesterday - Pastime in Good Company - Jack in the Green - Songs From The Wood - Bouree - The Hare in The Wine Cup - A Change of Horses - My God - Budapest - Aqualung - Locomotive Breath
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Post by Nonfatman on Jun 6, 2010 9:08:57 GMT -5
The show was wonderful....a beautiful outdoor venue and a few raindrops throughout the evening to keep us cool during the hot and humid night. Ian came out at 8:00 and introduced Ian Hunter. Now I've seen him introduce opening acts before, but this time he was wearing shorts. LOL, he kidded that no one had ever seen him in shorts before...although I know I have. Ian Hunter was a good opener..starting out with Once Bitten, Twice Shy followed by newer stuff and ending with All The Way From Memphis. As for Tull, I thought Ian was in very good spirits. His singing was much better than I had expected, and I'm sure the massive number of vertical speakers on the sides of the stage really helped carry his voice. So did the fact that many songs nowadays are done in slightly lower keys. IA did the obligatory flute between his legs, but not Martin's. Was looking for a Martin solo, but the length of Ian Hunter's show cut it out of the list. Best of all, I got to sit next to 4 Tull virgins. That's always a treat for me to be with folks who've never seen Tull. My faves on the evening...Jack In The Green...simply because it still sounds good, and My God...because I always love hearing that live. The extended Locomotive Breath (with just a few bars of instrumental Teacher that I picked up on) was the encore....balloons and all. One last thing...there must have been just as many people outside the venue sitting in the grass of the mall in folding chairs, than there were inside. It was a great evening for everyone. For those who may want to keep track of music played, here's the set list. Cross Eyed Mary - Beggar's Farm - Nothing Is Easy - A New Day Yesterday - Pastime in Good Company - Jack in the Green - Songs From The Wood - Bouree - The Hare in The Wine Cup - A Change of Horses - My God - Budapest - Aqualung - Locomotive Breath That's a pretty rocking set list of vintage Tull, and its nice to hear that Ian was in good spirits and good voice. Thanks for your review, Steve, and for your initial post on the board. We look forward to talking Tull with you here! Jeff
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2010 21:56:09 GMT -5
Youtube has Loco Breath from the opener in Florida.
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Post by tootull on Jun 7, 2010 8:45:56 GMT -5
Welcome, Stevie Ray Thanks for: "For those who may want to keep track of music played, here's the set list." "Cross Eyed Mary - Beggar's Farm - Nothing Is Easy - A New Day Yesterday - Pastime in Good Company - Jack in the Green - Songs From The Wood - Bouree - The Hare in The Wine Cup - A Change of Horses - My God - Budapest - Aqualung - Locomotive Breath" My stormy monday blues: No Dot Com! I'll reach for a DVD and enjoy most of this list. Tell Ian Anderson, DVD killed going to a live Tull show for a few people I know. Just like downloading might kill the next Tull album, eh. Without a complete yawn, I'm bored with this type of set list from Tull. For the new tunes, I must admit I'm not a lover of live rock albums/recordings, I would have preferred to hear studio versions of The Hare in The Wine Cup & A Change of Horses before hearing them live. Here's the everlasting rub: neither am I good or bad. I'd give up my halo for a horn and the horn for the hat I once had. I'm only breathing. There's life on my ceiling. The flies there are sleeping quietly. Twist my right arm in the dark. I would give two or three for... a completely different set list.
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Post by tootull on Jun 7, 2010 8:51:49 GMT -5
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Post by tootull on Jun 7, 2010 21:48:27 GMT -5
www.washingtonexaminer.com/lifestyle/Hey_-Aqualung_-Jethro-Tull-set-to-play-Wolf-Trap-show-95795849.htmlHey, Aqualung: Jethro Tull set to play Wolf Trap show By: Robert Fulton Special to the Washington Examiner June 8, 2010 A funny thing learned during a phone interview with Ian Anderson, the lead singer of Jethro Tull: If music had not worked out for him, he would have explored a job in the police force, forestry or as an actor. Jethro Tull with Procol Harum Where: Wolf Trap Filene Center When: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday Info: $45 in-house, $30 lawn; wolftrap.org Luckily for lovers of rock 'n' roll, the music thing worked out. Anderson and the rest of Jethro Tull perform at Wolf Trap on Tuesday. "You can hide yourself a bit in the music," Anderson said from England the day before departing for the band's current month-long North American East Coast tour. Anderson has always been interested in acting, but prefers the comfort of music. "You're in your own world. Being in a band gives you that illusion. You don't feel exposed in quite the same way. For periods of time, you're not aware of the audience. You have to concentrate on what you're doing." Anderson will keep busy this summer. After playing a number of Jethro Tull dates, he plans on some solo shows. While he enjoys the theatrics of a live rock show, Anderson prefers the more attentive, intimate settings of his solo performances. "It's a more listening audience," he said. "More of a sympathetic audience." Founded more than 40 years ago, the British group Jethro Tull is probably best known as that band with the flute player (Anderson). The music ranges anywhere from hard rock to folk, and hits include "Aqualung" and "Thick as a Brick." "My longevity is just perseverance," Anderson said of his long career. It's notable that Jethro Tull's last studio album of all original work came in 1999. "I think those days are not going to come back," Anderson said. "The world we live in, that doesn't happen any more. Those days are long gone. It's a different world we live in." Anderson doesn't see the opportunities for younger artists that he had at the peak of Jethro Tull's popularity, which includes five platinum albums and more than 60 millions records sold. Music is consumed and promoted in a different way than it was 20 or 30 years ago. "It doesn't worry me. I just have fun going out and playing shows," Anderson said. He's mostly concerned with younger artists getting a fair shake. "They won't have the opportunity to achieve the levels of success. People took it for granted. Those days we'll never have again." While recording ambitious full length albums may no longer be in Jethro Tull's future, there's always the live show, something Anderson relishes. "You can't digitize live entertainment," he said. "It doesn't work."
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Post by tootull on Jun 8, 2010 7:39:37 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2010 7:58:11 GMT -5
tt, Nice stuff, one problem though [other than the reuse of the 'logo'] is that if it is for this tour the photo of the band is the wrong one, unless Jon Noyce and Andy Giddings have rejoined. ;D
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Post by Nonfatman on Jun 8, 2010 10:07:11 GMT -5
tt, Nice stuff, one problem though [other than the reuse of the 'logo'] is that if it is for this tour the photo of the band is the wrong one, unless Jon Noyce and Andy Giddings have rejoined. ;D Not only is the logo unoriginal, Pat , but Ian's face is at the crotch, just as Paul imagined months ago with his "pant-ian" designer underwear! I knew he should have contacted Chester Hopkins with that idea! Jeff
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2010 10:15:00 GMT -5
tt, Nice stuff, one problem though [other than the reuse of the 'logo'] is that if it is for this tour the photo of the band is the wrong one, unless Jon Noyce and Andy Giddings have rejoined. ;D Not only is the logo unoriginal, Pat , but they've also stolen Paul's idea! Ian's face is at the crotch, just as Paul imagined months ago with his "pant-ian" designer underwear. I knew he should have contacted Chester Hopkins with that idea! Jeff Is that an idea for a Ian Codpiece! In 3-D it could almost be gargoyle-esque
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Post by Nonfatman on Jun 8, 2010 10:21:31 GMT -5
That's another great idea for tour mechandise. A 3-D Ian codpiece with Ian's bearded face at the crotch! That would sell like hotcakes, I'm sure. (Cue for Paul)
But, Pat, have you seen Paul's pantian creations? If not, it's probably too late. They were so shocking that Image Shack censored them, and each time Paul tried to put them back, they immediately deleted them again. It's almost as if Image Shack hired an employee specifically for the purpose of monitoring The Jethro Tull Board's pantian thread!
Jeff
P.S. I am sure Paul can email the picture to you.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2010 11:40:07 GMT -5
That's another great idea for tour mechandise. A 3-D Ian codpiece with Ian's bearded face at the crotch! That would sell like hotcakes, I'm sure. (Cue for Paul) But, Pat, have you seen Paul's pantian creations? If not, it's probably too late. They were so shocking that Image Shack censored them, and each time Paul tried to put them back, they immediately deleted them again. It's almost as if Image Shack hired an employee specifically for the purpose of monitoring The Jethro Tull Board's pantian thread! Jeff P.S. I am sure Paul can email the picture to you. Jeff, I have seen them and have ripped the idea off for a variety of products and have a band of travelling salesmen selling them door to door. I have to admit that they are not the top seller, currently that place is taken by the Tony Haywood toilet paper.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2010 19:50:31 GMT -5
I didn't realize the current tour is not selling well. Lo and behold, I checked Ticketmaster this afternoon and could have bought a smoking seat for tonight's show. Well I am home right now, so what does that tell you.
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Post by tootull on Jun 8, 2010 21:50:23 GMT -5
Ian Anderson of the British rock group Jethro Tull, shown performing in Switzerland in 2008, calls the dwindling revenue from albums “something of a tragedy,” especially for young artists. AP / URS FLUEELER www.projo.com/music/content/wk-pop10_06-10-10_2SIOG34_v11.51bb1cb.htmlThursday, June 10, 2010 With more than 40 years of songs to pick from, how the heck does Jethro Tull put together a set list that doesn’t stretch out for six hours? Frontman-flautist Ian Anderson says it takes research. The band keeps a record of what they play in which venues, and he searches the files to see what they played the last time they were in a certain country (sometimes even a certain city) and varying it. “Even between now and tonight,” he says over the phone from a tour stop, “I’ll have to go back and see what it is I played last time I was in Boca Raton and make sure there are not too many conflicts with most of the songs we intend to play on most of the tour.” Along with the usual standards such as “Aqualung,” “Locomotive Breath” and more, the show always includes “repertoire pieces from the deep catalog . . . making sure that it’s at least 60 percent, maybe 80 percent, different material to the previous occasion” along with at least a couple of new, unrecorded songs — all without making radical night-to-night changes that would be too hard an adjustment for the sound and light crews. And for the foreseeable future, the concerts are the best place to hear new Tull music. Asked whether any new recordings are in the works (the last new studio record was 2003’s Christmas album), Anderson is blunt: “We won’t get paid, so it’s a pretty low priority.” Musicians’ incomes from recording are about 5 percent of what they were before the digital age, Anderson estimates, and recording costs are high, especially for a band like Tull, whose members live in different parts of the world. It’s “a constant whittling away” of income, Anderson says. “It’s something of a tragedy — not really for an old face like me, who’s made a ton of money back when; it’s a tragedy for young artists who have to struggle.” He sees the new model as “a new song every couple of months that [fans] can download.” But until he gets that together, the stage is the place where the creativity happens. “That’s one of the key things about most of our career: we’ve always presented one or two things in a show that people can’t possibly have heard. It’s not to be confounding them or worrying them or presenting them with a pee break; it’s presenting them with the kind of challenge that we face, to renew our sense of energy and intellectual inquiry in making new music.” And while it’s often considered confusing to confront people with music they haven’t heard before in a live situation, Anderson thinks quite the opposite. “Certainly it’s better than sitting and listening to it with your iPod on a bus journey or the commuter train or your car with all the traffic noise and wind noise. . . . The ease with which you can have it with you at all times means that you’re hearing music a lot. But listening to it? Hardly at all.” Jethro Tull plays at the MGM Grand at Foxwoods Thursday night at 8. For tickets, call (866) 646-0609 or go to www.mgmatfoxwoods.com.
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Post by tootull on Jun 9, 2010 23:23:06 GMT -5
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Post by Nonfatman on Jun 10, 2010 10:09:09 GMT -5
(Very) interesting to hear Ian comment about album art a week or two after we started the Tull Album Cover Art thread right here. What is even more interesting is the following excerpt from the interview, which contains another dubious (actually downright false) claim by Ian that he did all of Tull's album cover art aside from Stand Up, Aqualung and Benefit. "Q. Can you name any other bands that spent as much time thinking about their album art as Jethro Tull?
A. Well, I think many did, and there were those album-artwork artists. I forget the names, the guy who did … oh, Roger Dean, he did a lot album [covers], but is probably best known for his album artwork for the albums of Yes. They used Roger Dean’s work and Roger Dean did a kind of slightly sci-fi, slightly hippie thing that lent itself well to posters and reproductions and he was the “Yes” man. And then there were other guys.....
.....So, yeah, there were these guys who were known as the wiz kids coming up with innovative album artwork, but in the case of the Jethro Tull stuff, it was a little bit more in house. It tended to be. I suppose most of them were my work, but notable exceptions were the Stand Up album, the Aqualung album and the Benefit album. Those were the three that our manager Terry Ellis kind of put together in conjunction with different artists. But then when we got to Thick As a Brick and onwards it tended to be [me]." I think that the various artists who actually did draw or paint the covers to Minstrel, Too Old, Broadsword, Crest of a Knave, Rock Island, Catfish Rising, A Little Light Music, Roots to Branches and The Christmas Album, and who designed the recent logo, would be quite surprised to learn that it was actually Ian, rather than they themselves, who did those covers. I'll except Dot Com from that list because that is one (and I think it might be the only one) that Ian actually did do the artwork for. Stay tuned to the Tull Album Cover Art thread because I intend to feature all of those Tull album cover artists as I develop that thread. I just had an amusing thought, though. Perhaps it is possible that Ian did in fact do all those album covers, using different aliases for each one. Hmmm.....very interesting! ;D Jeff
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Post by Blue on Jun 10, 2010 10:58:39 GMT -5
"I have to admit that they are not the top seller, currently that place is taken by the Tony Haywood toilet paper. " I'll take a case, please.
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Post by whistlingcatfish on Jun 10, 2010 15:11:15 GMT -5
(Very) interesting to hear Ian comment about album art a week or two after we started the Tull Album Cover Art thread right here. What is even more interesting is the following excerpt from the interview, which contains another dubious (actually downright false) claim by Ian that he did all of Tull's album cover art aside from Stand Up, Aqualung and Benefit. "Q. Can you name any other bands that spent as much time thinking about their album art as Jethro Tull?
A. Well, I think many did, and there were those album-artwork artists. I forget the names, the guy who did … oh, Roger Dean, he did a lot album [covers], but is probably best known for his album artwork for the albums of Yes. They used Roger Dean’s work and Roger Dean did a kind of slightly sci-fi, slightly hippie thing that lent itself well to posters and reproductions and he was the “Yes” man. And then there were other guys.....
.....So, yeah, there were these guys who were known as the wiz kids coming up with innovative album artwork, but in the case of the Jethro Tull stuff, it was a little bit more in house. It tended to be. I suppose most of them were my work, but notable exceptions were the Stand Up album, the Aqualung album and the Benefit album. Those were the three that our manager Terry Ellis kind of put together in conjunction with different artists. But then when we got to Thick As a Brick and onwards it tended to be [me]." I think that the various artists who actually did draw or paint the covers to Minstrel, Too Old, Broadsword, Crest of a Knave, Rock Island, Catfish Rising, A Little Light Music, Roots to Branches and The Christmas Album, and who designed the recent logo, would be quite surprised to learn that it was actually Ian, rather than they themselves, who did those covers. I'll except Dot Com from that list because that is one (and I think it might be the only one) that Ian actually did do the artwork for. Stay tuned to the Tull Album Cover Art thread because I intend to feature all of those Tull album cover artists as I develop that thread. I just had an amusing thought, though. Perhaps it is possible that Ian did in fact do all those album covers, using different aliases for each one. Hmmm.....very interesting! ;D Jeff He is referring to cover concepts....... btw.: Hi to everybody! Cheers, J.
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Post by tootull on Jun 10, 2010 16:15:38 GMT -5
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