@ghostsofpompeii Had the good fortune of seeing Tull in concert in 70 at the Crater on the island of Oahu ( was stationed at Kaneohe Marine Corps Air Station at the time). Second row center! Ian looked like a crazy mad man when he played his flute; not when he sang, just when he played. Never forget the look in his eyes...😱
I managed to catch Jethro Tull during their "Passion Play" tour in Chicago, and the band was brilliant. Many, many years later I caught his show when he was promoting his album "Thick As A Brick Part II". The band played both parts one and two - and made an evening of it. Ian Anderson, realizing his voice was not what it had been early in his career, was aided by a second vocalist who sang tunes which were a bit out of his range.
But instrumentally speaking, Ian Anderson has lost none of his chops as a flute of guitarist. He is still as manic as in his youth - quite the showman. He incorporated the second vocalist much like a younger version of himself - dressed in similar garb. Which worked perfectly in the expanded "Thick As A Brick" story line. The tunes on his new album Part II were perfectly suited for his current vocal range, so the second part of the show was strictly Anderson singing, while the higher registry notes in the first album were handled by the additional vocalist as Anderson accompanied him on flute. And to be perfectly honest with you - it all came off without a hitch. This was a far better solution that having him struggle and tax his vocal chords to hit notes clearly out of his range.
@ghostsofpompeii Joe, Anderson was always a gret showman.....I justmissed them in Philly back in the day. I still love the "Aqualung" album, and actually consider it one of my favorite albums of the era......
A bit late on this, I try to get and listen to Xmas music that maybe isn’t so popular o r played a the time. A few examples, River by Linda Ronstadt, Oh Holy Night by The New Black Eagle Jazz Band, I Wish I Was Home For Christmas, Marvin Gaye, Driving Home For Christmas by Chris Rea, to name a few.
R.I.P. Neil Peart, drummer from popular Canadian group RUSH. The dude was an awesome drummer as well as lyricist for many of their greatest recordings. Peart Died at the age of 67 after a long battle with brain cancer.
Very very sad news guys. Raise a glass in his honor tonight. My thoughts and prayers are with his family and bandmates at this painful time. RIP brother.
Bought myself the re-mastered version of that great Spirit masterpiece "The Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus" and have listened to it a half dozen times since opening the package. An excellent album that now sounds even better.
@buflosab Every genre of music is better with a pipe be it rock, country, classical, opera, jazz, rhythm and blues or bluegrass. Same goes for watching movies or reading a book. A pipe adds another level of enjoyment to what-ever you're dong. Except sex. Never smoke a pipe while having sex. Women tend to become quite angry when hot embers land on their forehead.
I've on a movie soundtrack kick. Can't get enough of Bernard Herrmann. But I'm also listening to a bunch of other stuff as well.
There was recent close-out sale on out of print CDs at a place I frequent for filmscores - 'Screen Archive Entertainment'. There were several pricey titles way out of my league. But they also had a bunch of titles selling for as little as 95 cents. So I went a little nuts and even bought a few soundtracks of foreign films I'd never even seen before. One such title, "t Sombra Prohibita" (which translates to "The Shadow Prohibited") was a Spanish H.P. Lovecraft movie that caught my eye based solely on the cover art. And what a find it proved to be. The music is epic.
The composer is completely unknown to me but the guy knocked the ball right out of the park. On a scale with Jerry Goldsmith, James Bernard, James Horner, Howard Shore, and I dare say Bernard Herrmann and John Williams.
In the early to mid-70s' I was a keyboardist for the Indiana progressive rock band "Vesuvius" and at that time I was surrounded by banks of analog keyboards. My synthesizer of choice was the MiniMoog, which I seemed to gravitate to more than the other synth in my arsenal. I recently came across a video on YouTube from the artist Amin Bhatia featuring a track for his album "Interstellar Suite". I freaked-out when I saw all the MiniMoogs in his collection. When I returned to music in the 90s' for my Ghosts Of Pompeii project everything had pretty much transitioned from analog to digital equipment, and if you were lucky enough to find vintage analog keyboards like the MiniMoog in working condition they tended to cost more than the original price I paid for mine when it was brand new. I have the album "Interstellar Suite" and it's amazing. Thought I'd share this video for anyone interested in the sound of the old vintage gear - and hear what magic this guy was able to get from his equipment. And keep this in mind - the MiniMoog and a majority of the vintage keyboards used were mon-phonic ... meaning you cound only play one note at a time. It was mostly intended as a lead instrument. You couldn't play chords. So this tracks is loaded with overdubs to give it a fully orchestrated sound. Considerable time and effort was taken to create something like this.
I'm not sure how to post a link here to you tube, but the song "pipe and slippers man" by the Urban Voodoo Machine is a great tune to light up and kick back to.
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Second row center! Ian looked like a crazy mad man when he played his flute; not when he sang, just when he played. Never forget the look in his eyes...😱
Joe, Anderson was always a gret showman.....I justmissed them in Philly back in the day. I still love the "Aqualung" album, and actually consider it one of my favorite albums of the era......
r played a the time. A few examples, River by Linda Ronstadt, Oh Holy Night by The New Black Eagle Jazz Band, I Wish I Was Home For Christmas, Marvin Gaye, Driving Home For Christmas by Chris Rea, to name a few.
Raise a glass in his honor tonight. My thoughts and prayers are with his family and bandmates at this painful time.
RIP brother.
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Favorite tracks so far?, "In Love" "Connection" & "Line"...
There is a "This Pipe Life" 155 song playlist. Someone named xeburnout started it. Don't know who that was.