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Post by TM on Sept 20, 2014 20:15:35 GMT -5
Is the ensemble you’re touring with a new configuration of collaborators?Only one of them is relatively new: our second vocalist, mime artist and theatrical performer Ryan O’Donnell. The guys who play the instruments have been with me for a number of years. They go back to about 2004. They’ve been with me as members of Jethro Tull and as a solo artist. They’re all very well-schooled in the Jethro Tull literature. Compared to the other 24 [previous] members of Jethro Tull, these guys have the most consummate knowledge of the repertoire. link
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Post by Pieter on Sept 21, 2014 11:08:01 GMT -5
Is the ensemble you’re touring with a new configuration of collaborators?Only one of them is relatively new: our second vocalist, mime artist and theatrical performer Ryan O’Donnell. The guys who play the instruments have been with me for a number of years. They go back to about 2004. They’ve been with me as members of Jethro Tull and as a solo artist. They’re all very well-schooled in the Jethro Tull literature. Compared to the other 24 [previous] members of Jethro Tull, these guys have the most consummate knowledge of the repertoire. link Sad. I am looking forward to Martin Barre in concert shortly. Pieter |
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Post by TM on Sept 21, 2014 19:10:01 GMT -5
Is the ensemble you’re touring with a new configuration of collaborators?Only one of them is relatively new: our second vocalist, mime artist and theatrical performer Ryan O’Donnell. The guys who play the instruments have been with me for a number of years. They go back to about 2004. They’ve been with me as members of Jethro Tull and as a solo artist. They’re all very well-schooled in the Jethro Tull literature. Compared to the other 24 [previous] members of Jethro Tull, these guys have the most consummate knowledge of the repertoire. link Sad. I am looking forward to Martin Barre in concert shortly. Pieter Enjoy the show Pieter. |
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Post by Biggles on Sept 22, 2014 23:02:55 GMT -5
Is the ensemble you’re touring with a new configuration of collaborators?Only one of them is relatively new: our second vocalist, mime artist and theatrical performer Ryan O’Donnell. The guys who play the instruments have been with me for a number of years. They go back to about 2004. They’ve been with me as members of Jethro Tull and as a solo artist. They’re all very well-schooled in the Jethro Tull literature. Compared to the other 24 [previous] members of Jethro Tull, these guys have the most consummate knowledge of the repertoire. link OMG!.. BS! |
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Post by Nonfatman on Sept 23, 2014 12:23:32 GMT -5
Is the ensemble you’re touring with a new configuration of collaborators?Only one of them is relatively new: our second vocalist, mime artist and theatrical performer Ryan O’Donnell. The guys who play the instruments have been with me for a number of years. They go back to about 2004. They’ve been with me as members of Jethro Tull and as a solo artist. They’re all very well-schooled in the Jethro Tull literature. Compared to the other 24 [previous] members of Jethro Tull, these guys have the most consummate knowledge of the repertoire. link OMG!.. BS! My sentiments exactly, Brian. Ian would have us believe that current members like Florian Ophale and Scott Hammond are more well-schooled and conversant in Tull music than guys like Martin, who was with Tull for forty plus years, and Doane, who was the drummer for nearly 30 years. Please. Jeff |
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Post by Biggles on Sept 23, 2014 23:15:01 GMT -5
My sentiments exactly, Brian. Ian would have us believe that current members like Florian Ophale and Scott Hammond are more well-schooled and conversant in Tull music than guys like Martin, who was with Tull for forty plus years, and Doane, who was the drummer for nearly 30 years. Please. Jeff Jeff, I decided not to review the Oakland, CA show after reading IA's quotes. I like Florian but Martin's absence leaves a BIG!, HUGE! hole. I can't knock John O'hara. Scott Hammond faired very well on the early Tull material. So that leaves David Goodier.. with whom I would agree with Ian is indeed "well-schooled" etc.. However, I thought it was odd that there was no tribute or honorable mention nor, song featuring a Glenn Cornick solo with such a "conversant in Tull music" group of guys. Thanks for letting me vent. |
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Post by TM on Sept 24, 2014 9:46:38 GMT -5
My sentiments exactly, Brian. Ian would have us believe that current members like Florian Ophale and Scott Hammond are more well-schooled and conversant in Tull music than guys like Martin, who was with Tull for forty plus years, and Doane, who was the drummer for nearly 30 years. Please. Jeff Jeff, I decided not to review the Oakland, CA show after reading IA's quotes. I like Florian but Martin's absence leaves a BIG!, HUGE! hole. I can't knock John O'hara. Scott Hammond faired very well on the early Tull material. So that leaves David Goodier.. with whom I would agree with Ian is indeed "well-schooled" etc.. However, I thought it was odd that there was no tribute or honorable mention nor, song featuring a Glenn Cornick solo with such a "conversant in Tull music" group of guys. Thanks for letting me vent. Wow, that's pretty sad to hear that Ian has no tribute to Glenn. He really missed the mark there. |
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Post by TM on Sept 24, 2014 9:52:31 GMT -5
My sentiments exactly, Brian. Ian would have us believe that current members like Florian Ophale and Scott Hammond are more well-schooled and conversant in Tull music than guys like Martin, who was with Tull for forty plus years, and Doane, who was the drummer for nearly 30 years. Please. Jeff Exactly, in the case of Florian and Scott, you have a couple of young guys covering the arrangements created by their predecessors. It just reeks of bull shit. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2014 14:58:58 GMT -5
Someone may have already pointed this out but I remember him mentioning not too long ago something along the lines that the current line-up has it the hardest because they need to remember all of the standards--but I'd like to see how well they could play the whole of "A"!
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Post by Biggles on Sept 24, 2014 20:18:15 GMT -5
Someone may have already pointed this out but I remember him mentioning not too long ago something along the lines that the current line-up has it the hardest because they need to remember all of the standards--but I'd like to see how well they could play the whole of "A"! Well I imagine they could play the "A" whole quite easily since they've been playing him for MONTHS! "A"= Anderson solo. Thank you, I'll be here all week! BB |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2014 20:20:53 GMT -5
Someone may have already pointed this out but I remember him mentioning not too long ago something along the lines that the current line-up has it the hardest because they need to remember all of the standards--but I'd like to see how well they could play the whole of "A"! Well I imagine they could play the "A" whole quite easily since they've been playing him for MONTHS! "A"= Anderson solo. Thank you, I'll be here all week! BB Not sure I actually get what you are saying.. yes I know that "A" was originally meant to be an Anderson solo album, but the compositions are much more complicated than the watered down "best of"s that you hear them playing today. |
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Post by Biggles on Sept 24, 2014 20:35:39 GMT -5
Well I imagine they could play the "A" whole quite easily since they've been playing him for MONTHS! "A"= Anderson solo. Thank you, I'll be here all week! BB Not sure I actually get what you are saying.. yes I know that "A" was originally meant to be an Anderson solo album, but the compositions are much more complicated than the watered down "best of"s that you hear them playing today. It was an ass-hole joke, nevermind. Some of us longtime die-hard fans are a little miffed and perhaps a tad cynical. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2014 20:41:02 GMT -5
Not sure I actually get what you are saying.. yes I know that "A" was originally meant to be an Anderson solo album, but the compositions are much more complicated than the watered down "best of"s that you hear them playing today. It was an ass-hole joke, nevermind. Some of us longtime die-hard fans are a little miffed and perhaps a tad cynical. Understood Biggles, I've been a die-hard Tull fan for as long as my young age has let me--going on 10 years next year. Can't say I've been through the runs of most baby-boomer Tull fans but I understand the resentment. Tull means a lot to us and that means we love em and we hate em. At least we've had an extra 30 years of material and tours than those poor die-hard Zeppelin and Pink Floyd fans. |
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Post by Biggles on Sept 24, 2014 20:55:37 GMT -5
It was an ass-hole joke, nevermind. Some of us longtime die-hard fans are a little miffed and perhaps a tad cynical. Understood Biggles, I've been a die-hard Tull fan for as long as my young age has let me--going on 10 years next year. Can't say I've been through the runs of most baby-boomer Tull fans but I understand the resentment. Tull means a lot to us and that means we love em and we hate em. At least we've had an extra 30 years of material and tours than those poor die-hard Zeppelin and Pink Floyd fans. Thanks Kai, I feel better already! |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2014 21:02:38 GMT -5
Understood Biggles, I've been a die-hard Tull fan for as long as my young age has let me--going on 10 years next year. Can't say I've been through the runs of most baby-boomer Tull fans but I understand the resentment. Tull means a lot to us and that means we love em and we hate em. At least we've had an extra 30 years of material and tours than those poor die-hard Zeppelin and Pink Floyd fans. Thanks Kai, I feel better already! :-) We have each other too--and we all love some good old Tull!! |
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Post by Nonfatman on Sept 25, 2014 1:25:11 GMT -5
It was an ass-hole joke, nevermind. Some of us longtime die-hard fans are a little miffed and perhaps a tad cynical. Understood Biggles, I've been a die-hard Tull fan for as long as my young age has let me--going on 10 years next year. Can't say I've been through the runs of most baby-boomer Tull fans but I understand the resentment. Tull means a lot to us and that means we love em and we hate em. At least we've had an extra 30 years of material and tours than those poor die-hard Zeppelin and Pink Floyd fans. I hate and I love. Odi et amo, as the great Latin lyric poet, Catullus, the ancient Roman forerunner of Ian Anderson, wrote in his ode to Lesbia. See Odes of Catullus thread, for a fascinating comparison, here: thejethrotullboard.proboards.com/post/3302/threadInteresting that you put it that way, Kai, because I have long felt, and have previously said on the board that when you follow an artist as closely and as long as most of us here have, it's only natural, except if you are a worshipper or total fanatic, to develop conflicting feelings about the artist. So I can say on the one hand that I have witnessed Ian treat fans very shabbily on occasion -- including telling them within the context of an interview that they can go fuck off and shoot themselves if they don't like the fact that Martin is no longer in the band, or stopping mid-way through a song to publicly and very unprofessionally humiliate and curse out a fan who had the nerve to commit the crime of talking during a rock concert, but then at the same time I have also seen him be very gracious to fans, including myself, on four out of the five occasions that I have met him. It's a little like a marriage, you piss each other off with your annoying habits, you fight, but deep down you know that you love each other and always will. Except for some of us, it's starting to feel more like the beginning of a divorce, like a struggle to keep it going, or a feeling that maybe after all these years it has run its course, and the reason for that is simple: Martin is gone. Jeff |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2014 5:36:20 GMT -5
Understood Biggles, I've been a die-hard Tull fan for as long as my young age has let me--going on 10 years next year. Can't say I've been through the runs of most baby-boomer Tull fans but I understand the resentment. Tull means a lot to us and that means we love em and we hate em. At least we've had an extra 30 years of material and tours than those poor die-hard Zeppelin and Pink Floyd fans. I hate and I love. Odi et amo, as the great Latin lyric poet, Catullus, the ancient Roman forerunner of Ian Anderson, wrote in his ode to Lesbia. See Odes of Catullus thread, for a fascinating comparison, here: thejethrotullboard.proboards.com/post/3302/threadInteresting that you put it that way, Kai, because I have long felt, and have previously said on the board that when you follow an artist as closely and as long as most of us here have, it's only natural, except if you are a worshipper or total fanatic, to develop conflicting feelings about the artist. So I can say on the one hand that I have witnessed Ian treat fans very shabbily on occasion -- including telling them within the context of an interview that they can go fuck off and shoot themselves if they don't like the fact that Martin is no longer in the band, or stopping mid-way through a song to publicly and very unprofessionally humiliate and curse out a fan who had the nerve to commit the crime of talking during a rock concert, but then at the same time I have also seen him be very gracious to fans, including myself, on four out of the five occasions that I have met him. It's a little like a marriage, you piss each other off with your annoying habits, you fight, but deep down you know that you love each other and always will. Except for some of us, it's starting to feel more like the beginning of a divorce, like a struggle to keep it going, or a feeling that maybe after all these years it has run its course, and the reason for that is simple: Martin is gone. Jeff LOL, that's something else. I know it's pretty different but it reminds me of this tablet that was uncovered by archaeologists recently. The writing was apparently thousands of years old and it was full of dirty insults to family members. Stuff like "You are so economically downtrodden, I sit on your sister" Good way of putting it with the marriage. Whoever us kids go with, I hope Martin and Ian are fair with each other in terms of visitation rights. |
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Post by housebrick on Oct 17, 2014 18:54:17 GMT -5
Its a shame when people get old they develope alzheimer's disease ,looks like poor Ians got it now reading this kind of crap.
I remember him saying james Duncan was the best drummer he'd played with about 10 years ago also.
hey poor Ian Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
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Post by eepie on Dec 25, 2014 17:11:47 GMT -5
to be fair... what is ian supposed to say about his current band members? of course he is going to back them with praise, whatever the real or perceived truth may be, as well he should.
think of it this way: how would you feel if your current spouse, partner, or even friend or boss, said that, well, you are just fine now, but you just can't measure up to your predecessor?
it's called diplomacy, people!
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Post by eepie on Dec 25, 2014 17:15:26 GMT -5
ps: parting ways with martin is a TREMENDOUS loss. i also feel that having lost glenn and clive were huge losses as well.
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