Thick as a Brick Sequel soon to be released

From Jtull.com:

Thick As A Brick sequel
to be released April 2nd

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.
The 2012 tours feature the performance of Thick As A Brick One AND Two in most of the concerts.

Coming Soon


I got a bad feeling about this...it isn't Tull, it is billed as Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull.

No Martin, a shot voice, and the inability to bring in a new vocalist will probably equal a big disappointment. Hope I'm wrong.

 

Might be interesting.

 

At first, this sounded like a whimsical hoax aimed at promoting the reissue, especially given the release date, but this does appear to be on the up and up. I honestly don't know what to make of it. Strangely, Gerald Bostock doesn't really figure on the album itself, just the accompanying newspaper, so it will be interesting to see how this connects with the original.

Let's just hope that this doesn't spark a new wave of concept album sequels. What's next? Tommy II: Electric Guru?

 

It's not April 1st is it?

 

Yikes...

Maybe it is a calculated tie-in to the up-coming release of the Deluxe Thick as a Brick that is in the works. The question remains...why?

 

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