I am stoked that Ian Anderson found his inspiration to record again. I will absorb the albums while it lasts.
I am stoked that Ian Anderson found his inspiration to record again. I will absorb the albums while it lasts.
I'll probably give this a shot. I was pleasantly surprised by TAAB2. I hope this time out he gives the rhythm section a bit more to do, but melodically I thought TAAB2 was the best he's done since CoaK, and the most "Tull-like" since that album as well, imo. I agree, his voice has problems, but he works within what he can do on the newer stuff and it sounds OK to me on the album, and sounded OK live too. On the older stuff he struggled live, but Mini Me helped out.
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... anyone heard anything yet about special editions or the like? It's a bit early yet for it to be listed at amazon... I'm just curious.
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Thanks for posting the teaser. As a die-hard Tull fanboy, I must say I thought the snippet of music there sounded a bit "meh." But maybe they intentionally chose a part with not too much happening knowing that Anderson was going to be talking over most of it.
Yes. I enjoyed the little bit I heard. Enough to get me interested in its release.
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^^ Roots to Branches is one of my favorite Tull records! If the new one is even close, I'll be ecstatic!
RtB is my favorite of anything post Under Wraps (which I like, thank you ) But Ian has been moving toward a hideously sterile production style for decades that undermines whatever might be going on composition-wise for me. And the current band- I'm not feeling the fire. But, we'll see.
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PART ONE: CHRONICLES
1 Doggerland
2 Heavy Metals
3 Enter The Uninvited
4 Puer Ferox Adventus
5 Meliora Sequamur
6 The Turnpike Inn
7 The Engineer
8 The Pax Britannica
PART TWO: PROPHECIES
9 Tripudium Ad Bellum
10 After These Wars
11 New Blood, Old Veins
PART THREE: REVELATIONS
12 In For A Pound
13 The Browning of the Green
14 Per Errationes Ad Astra
15 Cold Dead Reckoning"
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Details on the various formats, from the Kscope website (note that pre-orders qualifying for signed postcard have sold out):
https://www.burningshed.com/store/ks...ollection/520/
I'll be patiently waiting for the US release. When you add up the dollar/pound discrepancy and dub in shipping it's the same as a down-payment on a small house.
I was gonna go for that 4-disc deluxe version but by the time the shipping was factored in, I was looking at £45.19, or about 83 bucks! I just can't justify that price. So I ordered the 2-disc version for a total of £14.49,or $26.64. Much more reasonable, and it still has the 5.1 mix included.
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It's kind of annoying that for the two disk release they decided to include the DVD with the 5.1 mix, instead of the 2nd CD which actually has all those demos. IMO hearing those demos is more important than hearing a 5.1 mix. Why not a 2CD/DVD release in a digibook/digipak. Then the only thing you'd miss out on if skipping the deluxe would be the giant book?
The 5.1 mix is more important to me personally. I shelled out for a really nice surround system and these modern releases make it worthwhile. I'd like to hear the demos too, but I doubt I'd listen to them more than once or twice, barring the rare occasion when I actually prefer a demo track to the finished product - sounds like a thread idea!
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He's playing Pittsburgh this year.
Looks like I'll finally be able to see him again (last time was 2007).
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I've heard the new album [advance review copy], and I would say Ian is in better voice than he's been in a while, and musically this is as strong, and possibly better (as it isn't dragged by being the sequel to an older album) than "TAAB2". This shouldn't disappoint JT fans.
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