According to SW, yes. They have been putting this one off because there was already a deluxe edition by Peter Mew many years ago.
Please please please. Such a remarkable album. I'd love to sit in my music chair holding a book edition like the others. How Ian thinks "Stand Up" is a far better album attests to the reality of subjective experience coloring judgment, because "Benefit" is easily a superior album! haha
I think they're both indispensable. Stand Up had Ian stretching his songwriting muscles after the somewhat one-dimensional This Was; Benefit depicts a band that is much more confident in the studio and willing to cut loose.
I believe the vinyl release is identical to the CD version included with the 2010 Stand Up (I said 2001 but that was a typo, adding to the confusion because there was a 2001 reissue). When I did a Google Image Search to find the vinyl cover art, I spotted what appear to be bootlegs using that artwork. I suppose that means the 2010 edition is out of print, or that there are some particularly brazen pirates out there. The Carnegie show is great, but you also need Nothing Is Easy from the Isle of Wight show - the set list overlaps by about 75% but you get "Bouree" and a scorching version of "My Sunday Feeling," by a mile my go-to version of that song.
I hope not. I already bought the one that came out. I haven’t upgraded my 2 disc Aqualung either so I guess if you guys want a book Benefit, I approve. Btw. I really enjoy the Benefit set because of the original mixes of the singles I didn’t even know existed.
I had the mono "Sweet Dream" on 45, but I hadn't known that a stereo mix was prepared at the same time. Neither version has the double-tracked vocals all over the song like the more familiar mix does. Does anyone here know if the doubled vocal was there all along, but mixed out of the single, or if Ian overdubbed it in 1972 around the same time he overdubbed John Evan's Hammond organ onto "Living in the Past" (wiping a flute track in the process)?
Yes. I’d like to know stuff like this too. The Living in the Past album fascinates me. What was remixed, what was overdubbed etc. I’d buy a deluxe version of that album (with remixed versions of stuff I already bought) just for the book.
1972 was an insanely exciting year for North American Jethro Tull fans. Thick As A Brick, then in the summer this lush set LitP befalling upon us out of nowhere... I mean, at least, as a Canadian I hadn't been aware much up to that point of even the existence of most of these singles and odd tracks. (For some reason, our underground FM station played mainly album tracks, and Tull was nowhere to be heard on the other Montreal stations.) Plus I was just wild about that live side from 1970! I still find it an exciting listen, though I could live without Ian's banter.
I finally got this remix. I reckon Sweet dream should have been on the stand up remix. It was recorded the same month as Stand up was released and I’m sure Ian had the melody in his head during the album sessions. Stand up would have been awesome with Sweet dream and Living in the past. Driving song is a good one too. Benefit would have been awesome with Teacher and Witches promise
"Sweet Dream" was included in the 2001 Stand Up remaster, but it was actually recorded during the early Benefit sessions so its placement with the latter album makes sense.
How many book form boxes were there before the Benefit release? Why would they choose to do it that way? Was something missing that they thought might turn up down the road? Was this a marketing decision aimed at a future re-release or just Ian's lackluster reaction to the album?
Wonder if it was done in the book format if Wilson would have another go at it. His skills may have got better since
Love Teacher. I also like Alive and well which was replaced. Never been much of a fan of With you there to help. I’d swap that with teacher
Saw this on sale for $11.99 in an ad for insound.com I'm not familiar with them so if anyone is interested in checking them out here's a link: Benefit (Deluxe)(2CD/1DVD) - CDs
