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Post by Robin on Jun 4, 2012 10:57:52 GMT -5
Morthoron, the words that you use are hilarious. I stopped talking like that when I was 12. You probably write like that intentionally to provoke me. Well, I stopped doing somethng like that when I was 12, too. Rock on.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2012 16:21:43 GMT -5
Wow, crazy pictures jim! They really do look high... Ian Anderson demonstrates his second favorite use of the flute:  |
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Post by jtul07 on Jun 4, 2012 17:01:45 GMT -5
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Post by Morthoron on Jun 4, 2012 20:04:39 GMT -5
Morthoron, the words that you use are hilarious. I stopped talking like that when I was 12. You probably write like that intentionally to provoke me. Well, I stopped doing somethng like that when I was 12, too. Rock on. You must have been quite literate at age 12. What happened? Stroke? Loss of motor function? Alien anal probes?  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2012 23:20:21 GMT -5
Morthoron, the words that you use are hilarious. I stopped talking like that when I was 12. You probably write like that intentionally to provoke me. Well, I stopped doing somethng like that when I was 12, too. Rock on. You must have been quite literate at age 12. What happened? Stroke? Loss of motor function? Alien anal probes? Maybe one too many hits out of Ian's flute-pipe.  Careful though, two out of three of those guesses could have actually happened (and not affected literacy at all) and you might feel bad about joking around about it. |
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Post by jtul07 on Jun 5, 2012 5:56:38 GMT -5
Morthoron, the words that you use are hilarious. I stopped talking like that when I was 12. You probably write like that intentionally to provoke me. Well, I stopped doing somethng like that when I was 12, too. Rock on. You must have been quite literate at age 12. What happened? Stroke? Loss of motor function? Alien anal probes?
Everything said earlier shows that both opinions are valid.
Either you like the new TAAB 2 or don't.
Greg has made an extraordinary attempt to analyze this album
in a way he feels is honest and complete.
Robin has shown a different but direct approach as well.
At some point things got a little too personal and I hoped
the Humor of Ian and his Pipe would settle things down.
For some reason this did not work.
We all need to take a breath or toke to realize how unnecessary this insult laden silliness is.
Strong opinions can occasionally be too personal. Let's try being more creative and not angry.
In the spirit of Rock and Roll, let's Party! ;D  ;D With Class.   |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2012 0:01:18 GMT -5
I agree Jim! On with the classy party!!  We really did have a field day with that pipe stuff (to no avail). We should resurrect this joke sometime in the future, when it is least expected (and when we know Ian isn't looking). I'm half considering putting the sandwich eating Ian in my signature. |
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Post by Robin on Jun 6, 2012 18:25:51 GMT -5
Do I really need a stroke in order to avoid using silly insults and provocative attempts? I agree with Jim that it's time to stay classy. Indeed, that's been my point all the time. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2012 20:00:26 GMT -5
Sooo, you know Jim this makes me think, one of the possible "what-if"s or "Might-have-beens" Ian could have written for Gerald was that of a Lazy couch potato pothead. I'm sure he'd have one or two things to say on the subject |
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Post by jtul07 on Jun 6, 2012 20:14:27 GMT -5
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Post by jtul07 on Jun 6, 2012 20:39:38 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2012 23:04:14 GMT -5
A Very interesting Idea.  The Banker snorts a line by the way. Setting: High class 1980s Manhattan party. Music: Huey Lewis and The News |
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Post by jtul07 on Jun 7, 2012 7:29:05 GMT -5
Setting: High class 1980s Manhattan party. Music: Huey Lewis and The News  |
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Post by TM on Jun 28, 2012 9:00:51 GMT -5
Here's new review of TAAB2. Tull’s ‘Thick As a Brick’ Sequel a Worthy Follow-up to Rock ClassicJune 26, 2012 By S. T. Karnick Some forty years after the release of the best-selling and highly influential rock music album Thick As a Brick, Ian Anderson and his band, Jethro Tull, are back at it with a sequel. Although Anderson has subsequently referred to the album as a parody of progressive rock, certainly in musical terms Thick As a Brick and its follow-up, A Passion Play, are progressive rock. And they’re very good prog rock indeed. Read more... stkarnick.com/culture/2012/06/26/tulls-thick-as-a-brick-sequel-a-worthy-follow-up-to-rock-classic/#comment-17627 |
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Post by jtul07 on Jun 28, 2012 9:29:46 GMT -5
Here's new review of TAAB2.
Tull’s ‘Thick As a Brick’ Sequel a Worthy Follow-up to Rock Classic
June 26, 2012
By S. T. Karnick
Some forty years after the release of the best-selling and highly influential rock music
album Thick As a Brick, Ian Anderson and his band, Jethro Tull, are back at it with a sequel.
Although Anderson has subsequently referred to the album as a parody of progressive rock,
certainly in musical terms Thick As a Brick and its follow-up, A Passion Play, are progressive rock.
And they’re very good prog rock indeed.
Read more...
stkarnick.com/culture/2012/06/26/tulls-thick-as-a-brick-sequel-a-worthy-follow-up-to-rock-classic/#comment-17627 ;D  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2012 8:38:10 GMT -5
Pretty good review, all in all, though I would have rather read more of what they think of the album as a whole...
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Post by Misteman 4 on Jul 13, 2012 19:55:32 GMT -5
over the years i also have been an avid tull/anderson fan since 1974. that year during the "warchild" tour, was the first of about 28 live shows. Jethro Tull changed completely in 1979 at the end of the "Stormwatch" tour. actually the 1977..78..and 79 tours all the band members looked very "overworked". actually right afterwards Ian fired Palmer, Barlow, Evan. right afterwards he recruited 3 others and called the band "Jethro Tull". But the band was never the same, and over the years its really just been about Ian Anderson. So though I like the TAAB2 effort-- like Greg stated the album could"be called anything"as a solo effort. I'm not overly fond of "Rupi's Dance"...and did not hear TAAB2 sounding simular to it at all. "A Change of Horses", "Wooton Bassett Town", "Banker bets Banker wins" are the 3 standouts n my opinion...peace
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Post by Misteman 4 on Jul 14, 2012 11:41:41 GMT -5
with all due respect to S.T. Karnick who reviewed the TAAB2 album as well. The band that recorded TAAB2 is not "Jethro Tull". If Ian Anderson wanted it to be called that he would have said as much, and he many very well do that in future. Ian Anderson for many years has called the shots in the band as he writes all the music and produces it. So in essence as much as most of us would not like it to be a reality...Jethro Tull may be over as a band. Those things happen...whatever the case I'd like to see Ian and every one involved to just be happy. Martin sounds a bit "put out" as he's entitled to feel. But hey...if Ian Anderson did'nt do for him the best thing in life by asking him to join Tull in 1968 then I don't understand!! He and all the others should appreciate who Ian is and what he did for them as musicians and friends....okay...what's next?  |
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Post by homoDUNC78 on Feb 9, 2013 10:04:17 GMT -5
I loveTAAB2! It's a shame MB is not on it, but I always had a feeling we'd see FO on the next JT/IA project.
Naming it ' Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson ' I think was the correct thing to do, the only problem was where to put it with my other CD's in my collection; with the other IA cds, or JT?....... After much deliberation, I decided to merge the two together. IA is now under J, placed in the relevant chronological order.
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Post by tomasio on Oct 19, 2013 17:28:39 GMT -5
this review definitely hits the point of my feelings towards this album. Could be good as a solo work, but is in _no_ way a dignified follow-up of TAAB.
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Post by TM on Oct 29, 2014 14:23:15 GMT -5
I have to say that yesterday I put on TAAB2 from Old School Song on, and I really enjoyed it. The only song I couldn't get into was A Change of Horses which is strange because I loved that song when I first saw it performed live. Kismet is great track as is Confessional and the last track. I think Steve Wilson made a mistake however by over-doing all the vocal effects. I think Ian's natural voice would have made this album even better. But look on the bright side, in 40 years we'll get a new version! |
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Post by tomasio on Apr 7, 2021 2:21:17 GMT -5
I was trying to listen to the whole TAAB2 about three times since it came out and always stopped somewhere inbetween – it is just not worth the listening time. Update: Just managed to hear through the whole 13 tracks. Opposed to Jethro Tull Classics like TAAB 1, Benefit etc. the songs seem worse each time listening to them: Uninspired and unnecessary repetitive lyrics, guitar solos and riffs that are crying for Martin Barre and the total abscence of the beautiful strings of the original TAAB are rendering its lame successor to what it really is: A last try to make money out of a myth and thus just staining its remaining glory. This should never have been put out at all, at least not as TAAB2. “
What-ifs, maybes and might-have-beens” would have been a fare more appropriate title for this mediocre piece.
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Post by tomasio on Apr 10, 2021 5:50:28 GMT -5
I managed to read this rant between morthoron and the others about the album – well actually it was not about the album, but about condemning opinions and tastes. In the end it was really getting ugly and downward primitive, good that Pied Pieper put an end to it. In the meanwhile I gave the album a fourth try, but it is just not my type of music. The Guitar Solos of the new lead guitarist show to me that he is a skilled guitar player, but lacks imo in what makes a good guitar solo.Just fiddling along the scales is simply not enough, one must develop a distinct melody that enrichens the song. Just my 5cents as passionate guitar player. And finally – sorry if I woke the dead with my last two comments |
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Amazing what a flute can do ! 
;D With Class. 
