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Exciting Tull/Prog News

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Posted by Travis Bickle on 1 February 2012 - 10:07am.

I'm excited by this. From the Tull website:

Thick As A Brick sequel
to be released April 2nd

TAAB2 - Whatever Happened To 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.
The 2012 tours feature the performance of Thick As A Brick One AND Two in most of the concerts.

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IA on Planet Rock tonight

http://www.planetrock.com/news/rock-news/exclusive-ian-anderson-intervie...

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James Blast | 1 February 2012 - 1:37pm

Saw Ian Anderson last year

He did a tour of acoustic shows, and we caught him in Exeter and he was really good - I'm not the greatest Tull fan in the world, but he is a great character and raconteur. He mentioned TAAB - but one thing he was insistant on was that Tull were NEVER PROG!! Made me feel OK to be there - phew!!

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NigelT | 1 February 2012 - 1:47pm

You sure that release date

isn't April 1st?

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Vulpes Vulpes | 1 February 2012 - 3:18pm

Steven Wilson has just posted

I recently had the pleasure of mixing the new Ian Anderson / Jethro Tull album, which is a follow up to the classic Thick as a Brick album from 1972. TAAB2 is very much in the tradition of the first album, a continuous 54 minute concept piece with a similar musical palette and style. It's just been officially announced for release in April as a CD/DVD (including a 5.1 mix and stereo in high res), more details on the Tull website. I also completed mixes for a 40th anniversary surround sound edition of the original Thick as a Brick, though not sure when that is coming out.

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Fraser M | 1 February 2012 - 3:24pm

Hmmm [raises eyebrow]

I suspect that this is one of Mr Anderson's japes, publicising the 40th Anniversary re-release of Thick as a Brick.

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Lando Cakes | 1 February 2012 - 5:59pm

well the

http://www.stcleve.com/index.html exists

"No non-rabbits were injured in site production".

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James Blast | 1 February 2012 - 6:52pm

This just in

TAAB2 trailer

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Beany | 4 February 2012 - 11:45am
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