Skip Songs and do Horses and Stormwatch! They NEED the update!
Ian Beabout
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Minstrel is Tull's most Canterbury album. Discuss...
Ha - whoops. I actually think there is less bass on 'Too Old'
I'm sure SW will jack the bass up a bit on 'Songs' but that has never bothered me. I will say that there is a discrepancy in the drum kit, specifically deeper kick drum (mixed hotter?) towards the end of "Velvet Green" as opposed to the beginning - I'm referring to track timings 0:32 vs 5:41.....yeah I'm a bit of a Tull nerd. Let's see if Stevie picks up on this little detail....
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Minstrel is my favorite Tull album. Just the title track is worth the price of admission. Yeah, Martin Barre plays out of his mind on that track. Killer, rocking prog.
There isn't a single JT album I don't like. And I can only say that about one other band - Cardiacs
A couple years ago I bought This Was and Broadsword. This Was kicked my ass. Killer. Broadsword disappointed me.
I'm fairly convinced there was a heavily bi-phased clav on that album but I'd have to listen to it to try and tell you where. It could be my memory is faulty...
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Forgot to mention one thing different about TOTR&R was somehow, someway Ian decided after jealously guarding the microphone all those years (the Jeffrey Hammond-John Evan vocal bits were pretty much novelty vox) allowed ex-Carmen bassist John Glascock full access to harmony vox, and I thought the combination was great, the second voice fleshed out some of the songs in a way unknown to Tull listeners up until that point. As much as I've always loved Ian's vox (especially in the 70's, of course) I always thought the use of a backing vocalist would have been a good idea, get a little different sound out of the band.
Unless I'm wrong.
Broadsword is a killer album.
Ian Beabout
Mixing and mastering engineer. See ya at ProgDay !
https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.co...m/bakers-dozen
https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.co...-and-holland-3
colouratura.bandcamp.com
The copy I have has a bunch of bonus tracks. Haven't played it in a few years so maybe with a fresh set of ears I might like it. It's just that when I bought this album along with "This Was" I was expecting to be underwhelmed by This Was. TW usually gets dismissed in Tull conversations as "an ok debut." Never gave it a serious thought to buy it, and boy was I shocked at how much I liked it immediately. Mick Abrahams had to leave that band, or Tull would never have developed into the Tull we know. But that was one hell of a start for that group. I'll take This Was over a bunch of other Tull albums.
Agreed, being an avid Tull fan I kind of lost interest in the band with both Stormwatch and A, it seemed that Ian had run out of steam (the early 80's production didn't help), but I was back in the front row for Broadsword, I thought Ian was back with a vengeance on that disc.
Not me, I still see that album as an embryonic blues band strutting their stuff with just a glimpse of what was to come from Ian moving forward. Have to admit the lack of keys didn't help as that's the instrument that I feel finally rounded out the Tull sound when JE joined the band...for their Benefit.
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