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Post by Quizz Kid on Apr 17, 2014 17:21:35 GMT
Oh, that does 'spin me back down the years', thanks for that Darin, Having seen quite a few bands over the years and particulalry at that time, it makes me realise how good Tull were then. A band truly like no other, I was lucky and privaledged to have seen them at their peak over so many years.
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Post by Quizz Kid on Apr 17, 2014 11:58:04 GMT
Steven Wilson is busy man. A deluxe 4 CD box set collecting many Bass Communion rarities is released in May by Tonefloat. Bass Communion is Steven’s project dedicated to what can be referred to as drone or dark ambient music, usually based on manipulating recordings of live instruments. Included in the set are the Indicates Void album, Vajrayana single, Litany EP, Pacific Codex album, several remixes for other artists, and a recent piece that was used during the SW band live shows last year. Each of the 4 discs comes in its own mini LP sleeve, collectively housed in a hardback slipcase box, with a 60 page booklet, all designed by Carl Glover (Aleph Studio). The set contains over 4 hours of music in total. You can find more information and pre-order on the Headphone Dust site. You can also order directly from ToneFloat in the Netherlands. Please note that due to the limited nature of this release (2000 copies), it’s unlikely to be made available from other sources. stevenwilsonhq.com/sw/bass-communion-box-set-to-be-released-in-may/www.crazy-diamond.nl/tonefloat/If you're into drone or dark ambient music looks like the set for you. It caught my eye because of the cover.... Interestingly designed by Carl Glover of Aleph Studios, the same person who did HE. Just a presumption on my part, but I reckon it's possibly the same location as the shoot for HE, So saved a few bob on location finding and travel there then.
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Post by Quizz Kid on Apr 16, 2014 22:27:23 GMT
Yes, I've mostly alwasy enjoyed gigs there. It's an old cinema out towards west London, holds about 2500 I think. good venue if you get the right seats, upsatirs at the back are poor, but the stalls are pretty good. Parking is awful but public transport is good.
I've seen stacks of gigs there since the early-mid '70's other than Tull. I'd rate it as one of the better London venues of that size.
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Post by Quizz Kid on Apr 16, 2014 21:20:26 GMT
Despite having Doane on the tour, electronic drums still made the stage One of my pics from Hammersmith
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Post by Quizz Kid on Apr 16, 2014 21:04:34 GMT
The 'last post' listing on the front page seems to indicate not posts or replies were lost from my last visit.
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Post by Quizz Kid on Apr 16, 2014 15:48:17 GMT
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Post by Quizz Kid on Apr 15, 2014 17:16:29 GMT
You got the signed postcard Pat! Very nice! I didn't order in time for that. I was surprised, I seem to think people were informed by email that they had been successful, I never got that email, so was pleasently surprised
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Post by Quizz Kid on Apr 15, 2014 14:46:14 GMT
MIke, they are fantastic pieces. As Darin says, it's your tutor who was boring, they are outstanding pieces.
If you have more I'm sure everyone would enjoy seeing them
I had great art tutor at school, but sadly the school didn't promote the arts as much as it should have done. IN my year were several great artists, but from what I understand none went into the business and even fewer produce 'amateur' work now.
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Post by Quizz Kid on Apr 15, 2014 12:59:40 GMT
A quick trip down to the local Post Office to pick up my super, deluxe, set of HE. Luckily we have a week-end sandwiched bewteen two public holidays here in the UK this week. so a bit of time to give this a more considered listen.
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Post by Quizz Kid on Apr 15, 2014 10:01:29 GMT
For those of you who are still stalking your local mailman for your eagerly awaited copy of HE, and are in need of a fix, then tune into Ian Beabout's who takes over Progrock.com's 'New at Noon' show, rebranded as "Ian plays Ian", and which will be devoted to Ian's HE album "Ian plays Ian" goes out today on Progrock.com Radio starting at 12 noon CDT, 1 p.m. EDT, that's 17.00 GMT
The showcan be streamed live from www.streamlicensing.com/play/player.php?sid=1855&stream_id=3143
With a chat link available at www.progrock.com/chat.htm
More info and links available at:
[a href="http://us3.campaign-archive1.com/?u=3b4dd20dc092c3028820f3bcd&id=d9fbc16d98&e=[UNIQID"]http://us3.campaign-archive1.com/?u=3b4dd20dc092c3028820f3bcd&id=d9fbc16d98&e=[UNIQID[/a] We wish group memeber Ian good luck with the show.
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Post by Quizz Kid on Apr 14, 2014 22:46:51 GMT
Hi Lucas
I found the section running on from The Engineer through to New Blood to be the most coherent on first listen, I heard Doggerland a while back and enjoy that along with Heavy Metals although there are glimpses of songs past that echo in there and I find that distracting as it's almost like playing a game of 'guess that tune'. Although it was similar I didn't object to that on TaaB 2 as I expected that TaaB 2 would reference older works.
In some respects I expected that from this mainly from the Prog/Folk/Metal tag Ian has ascribed to it earlier, but it isn;t any of those in my book, but the musical references back to older songs me have no direct lineage in terms of extending the themes of previous songs. There are other outtsanding pieces of music here which on first listening entice me to go back and keep on giving it a go, which I'm happy to do, it's worth the effort I think.
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Post by Quizz Kid on Apr 14, 2014 21:09:06 GMT
Well, I think I will add a short review to get it moving along. To be honest I haven't given it enough of a hearing to probably do it justice so I reserve the right to come back and review my review. In fact it would be unfair to class this as a review, it's just immediate thoughts based on a couple of interrupted listenings.
I have for sometime now not been desperate to get my grubby little hands on the latest release copy to listen to it on day 1. I passed that stage sometime ago and prefer to find the right time to try to lsiten to it and enjoy it. I don't know why that change occured exactly, but I do know when. It was the release of Rupi's Dance, which I found to be a wholy disappointing album, but I blame this on the fact that I rushed my listening pleasure to write a review of it. Since then I've been loathe to jump to conclusions as rushing to listen to that album and write that review tarnished that album for me for a long, long time.
I also think it's a phase I have grown out of, it doesn't make me any less a Tull fan, but it does mean I don't soil my pants when the postman walks up the garden path.
Anyway, a couple of days ago the postman dumped, quite unceremoniously, a couple of parcels from Burning Shed in my porch. two large ones and a small one, despite getting past the stage of wetting my drawers over such deliveries, the only reaction I had on opening them was quelling the disappointment for the completist in me that the super duper, deluxe, all singing, all dancing 4 CD/DVD set hadn't arrived. Even more disappointing to discover later that the postie had decided to leave that one for collection at a local post office. Still that's a job for later.
Anyway, it would be unfair to call this a review as I haven't had an opportunity to give it the complete attention that it probably deserves and to be fair, I think any Ian Anderson or Tull piece of work really needs more than one listen to fully appreciate it. You can pick out the stand out tracks immediately, but to fully appreciate it all takes time and a little effort.
However, my very quick and sketchy opinion so far is that in places this is like listening to elements of past work, picking up musical phrases and intonation in singing styles I have heard elsewhere in the IA and Tull catlogues. But at the same time I feel there are some radical departures from what you might expect, some good, some not so good on first litening, but intersting enough nevertheless. It pains me to say it but this possibly isn't a flawless album, there are some 'odd' tracks here and there, but there are moments of sheer listening pleasure, the latter on a couple of interrupted listens, definetely outweigh the former. Some of the instrumental elements are real stand out pieces.
An album that for me will take a few more listens to form a proper opinion on, and I intend to immerse myself in it, in all it's forms, over the Easter week-end and hopefully add a more robust and focussed review after that.
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Post by Quizz Kid on Apr 14, 2014 17:11:38 GMT
I love Under Wraps, I can never understand the outright hatred some people have for it. I agree the drums aspect is, for me, the biggest downer on the album and if there was any chance of Ian revisiting this on any remaster in the future I'd be up near the the front of the queue to buy it.
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Post by Quizz Kid on Apr 14, 2014 17:08:19 GMT
Hi David
I think we nmet briefly in Boston, my apologies if I'm wrong but my head was spinning at meeting so many great people in such a short space of time.
Welcome here, looking forward to your contributions.
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Post by Quizz Kid on Apr 14, 2014 17:06:14 GMT
Not that we have that many major record stores left in the UK, but that's a far healthier number of Anderson CD's than I've seen in a major store for many a year. That's German efficiency for you. Vorsprung Dur Homo Erraticus.
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Post by Quizz Kid on Apr 13, 2014 19:53:50 GMT
Thanks guys! So I am the first non-staff poster? That's nice! I'm sure it will be fun! Hi Lucas, yes, you're the first member to post, looking forward to reading more of your posts welcome aboard.
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Post by Quizz Kid on Apr 13, 2014 15:40:25 GMT
As they finish rehersals for the upcoming tour, Ian and the band kindly put this together for us to share with fans as we launch the new sites and chat group.
We'd like to thank Ian, James, Scott, Florian, David, John and Ryan for their time just before their week-end!
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Post by Quizz Kid on Apr 11, 2014 22:13:59 GMT
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