Jethro Tull - Aqualung 40th Anniversary Special Edition (part2)

Credits from the book.

 

I'm loving my 2 CD collection. Has anybody noticed the rooftop photo with Ian and Jeffrey wearing the black patent leather boots is reversed? The hair parts of Martin, John and Clive are reversed.

 

"Muti track transfers"? Tsk tsk.

 

looks like this

 

another shot

 

Pretty.

 

The set that keeps on giving = enjoyed the quad.

Link to a great post about the quad reel +
http://www.quadraphonicquad.com/forums/showthread.php?14476-Jethro-Tull-5.1&p=136009#post136009

 

Ray Shulman, the bass and violin player for Gentle Giant, is making quite a name for himself in the DVD and Blu-Ray authoring world!

 

And Ray is in contact with Steven... I'll say no more.

 

I really like the early version of Wind up on disc 2. The song sounds so much better without that guitar riffing which is heard on the album version imo. His voice sounds better on the early version too imo. None of that growling that we hear on the album version. The early version is what the quad version was made from but the vocals on the quad version are a bit over the top. Finally I can enjoy Wind up on disc 2. As for Locomotive breath, the quad version is my fave. I haven't heard the quad version of My god yet, so at the moment I'm yet to hear a version of My god which I enjoy enough, so hopefully the quad version is the answer

 

I prefer it in part BECAUSE of that riffing! Now that I think about it, electric guitar riffing probably accounts for a lot of what this album is about. In this respect, it is to me much more in line with Black Sabbath - while the acoustic tracks sometimes seem to owe to Cat Stevens maybe a little bit, or perhaps also to James Taylor - than with prog rock, which is what that book/interview keeps linking it to. Tull really turned prog only with "Thick As A Brick". "Aqualung" is heavy rock (with some classical overtones) along with folk style interludes.

 

I succumbed but it is dreadfully overpriced. Disappointed with the artwork too. The inner gatefold is spoilt by the cut-outs for the discs. They seem to have lost the original artwork. Look at the back of the book. At first I thought they must have the original since it shows the back picture without any text. However, looking closely, I think this is an old album sleeve with the text carefully blotted out in Photoshop. The printing on my ILPS is much superior.

Tim

 

http://somethingelsereviews.com/201...hro-tull-locomotive-breath-1971-2011-reissue/

 

+1 from a child from the early seventies... i was 17 in 1971

 

+2 .....Not a fan of the remix but this is an exception that is exceptional. I'll also be watching for those others on the way.

 

Listened to the DVD yesterday and it sounded fantastic - clear, natural and punchy without the murky mids that characterized previous issues of Aqualung.

 

I gave up waiting for Import CD's to ship this and ordered from Amazon. Import CD's sent me an email yesterday saying they had no new updates on when these would ship.

 

Thank you for this input. I'm still waiting patiently...which really goes against my character.

 

I'm still waiting on them as well - and getting impatient. I saw 4 copies in my local Best Buy the other day...

 

Oh yeah, less than 5 miles from me sits at least one box (per website under availability), but it costs twice the price.

 

I just played the 5.1 off of the Blu Ray kind of loud as a tribute to Mike Licari; man this disc jams.

 

I have a $50 Best Buy gift card that even if used still wouldn't match ImportCD's price. indeed!

 

Once you get this set and play the blu-ray dts-hd master audio 5.1, the dollars you paid won't be the thing on your mind. It is stellar.

 

I'm sure you're right. Steven Wilson's work with the King Crimson catalog has been revelatory.

 

Understood, but if those dollars can buy gas, food, or pay a bill, it does make a difference. The only way some of us can afford these toys is by planning months in advance...chasing the lowest possible price, and then hoping you can hang on to the toys, and not have to sell them one day in the future, so you can buy gas, or food, or pay a bill.
My son...right now, at this very moment, is trying to sell a chunk of his collection, to a brick and mortar, stuff he bought here in the classifieds, just to get gas to get back and forth to work. They put him off, because there's so many others ahead of him, trying to sell their collections.