When you belonged to no one. You didn't stand a chance, son.
Jethro Tull is poised to release a Sequel to their 1972 album-and motto of GOP politics these days-Thick as a Brick.
TAAB2 – Whatever HappenedTo Gerald Bostock? – is a full length Progressive Rock "concept" album worthy of its predecessor. Boy to man and beyond, it looks at what might have befallen the child poet Gerald Bostock in later life. Or, perhaps, any of us. To be released in two formats: the simple jewel case CD with 8-page booklet and the Special Edition with CD, audio-visual DVD and 16-page booklet. The DVD contains 5.1 surround mixes, 24-bit stereo mix, videos covering the making of the album, interviews with the musicians and the lyric reading where ian Anderson reads the lyrics in various settings. Also on the DVD are the pages of StCleve.com, the online update of the St Cleve Chronicle, fabled newspaper of the original album, and the multilingual lyric translations in Italian, German, Spanish, Czech, Polish and Russian.
Aqualung has its 40th anniversary this year-and as an avid Jethro Tull fan, I was excited to get the anniversary edition. ( Have just about every collection of JT ever made). The band did two full length "songs": Thick as a Brick and Passion Play. Of the two I have always been more partial to Passion Play-but I have also been known to throw more than a few coins in a juke box to hear the parts of the other. ( Juke box-antiquated musical playing device that gave you something to listen to while drinking in a bar).
Here is the trailer for the new album:
The tour comes to Stuttgart in May-guess I'll have to buy tickets-probably for myself. The S.O. is not a JT fan. She doesn't even know who they are.
Speaking of Passion Play-here is a rare clip from a 1975 tour in Australia-my favorite part of the "song" begins at the 1:26 mark.