the green manalishi

I have this on my list. Very nice review!

@masmas: to say that after the first 5 Tull albums the rest is almost all forgettable seems like a colossal exaggeration to me! I completely disagree! @STIPE: even Minstrel In The Gallery is A MASTERPIECE...

It's a silly and funny little story, almost a fairytale for children. Many back then were searching for a hidden meaning (which isn't there) behind the words of this little theatrical piece. Others suspect an allegory, which has never been proven, to be honest. I tend to lean towards nonsense... but knowing Anderson and company, I wouldn't be so sure. The characters are: the hare (John Evans), the newt (Ian Anderson), the bee (Barriemore Barlow), the devil-narrator (Jeffrey Hammond Hammond), and the owl (Martin Barre). A curiosity: in Nightcap, from the Chateau D'Isaster tapes, Martin Barre recites: "Hello, this is law of the bungle part two. By the way I'm Martin Barre, but sometimes I'm an owl, and my feathers are really smooth, and I like to dress up in most romantic ways." Things that used to happen in records; unfortunately, times have changed!

Beautiful

Great are the Travelling! A Supergroup that few seem to appreciate...at least on Debaser!

The Travelling are magnificent! A Supergroup that few seem to appreciate... at least on Debaser!

The Travelling are magnificent! A Supergroup that few seem to appreciate... at least on Debaser!

To make the band's sound darker, the bass and guitar were tuned down a step and a half, reaching the tuning of C# major. Spectacular!

Unheard of that a chubby little runt like Chris Welch would harshly criticize this marvelous masterpiece. Ian Anderson had a strong rebuke towards the critics due to tirades from a bunch of inflated egos like the aforementioned Welch, who is somewhat the equivalent of various Luzzato Fegiz, Tonino Ruscitto, and Scaruffi in Italy. And for what, then? For 3 minutes of made-up nonsense by Hammond-Hammond and Evans? Should we throw the rest of the album down the toilet? Come on! 3 minutes out of 40-plus? I would have been angry too back in the day. If you don’t like The Story Of The Hare Who Lost his Spectacles, hit the FF button like I do, and that’s the end of it; then you get The Foot Of Our Stairs, one of the spine-tingling acoustic pieces. In Minstrel in the Gallery, Anderson will sing: "I have no time for fot Time Magazine or Rolling Stone." It's symptomatic! If we really want to find a flaw in this album, I would say that Ian uses the flute too little, which has been overshadowed by the sax, Anderson's secret passion for years. A Passion Play is beautiful, it even topped the charts in America. What a genius!

this should have ended up among the discarded nonsense!