Jethro Tull The Broadsword and the Beast SW remix and sessions coming in 2023

Hopefully we'll get more news in the next AND issue, but Rees hinself seems to be busy with mamy projects: Tallis, Water edge, the yearly festival, etc.

 

They will bring more beauty/bounty to the BEAST.


(stop me) I'm good for July.

 

I don't remember it at our show, but I wouldn't have known it so it's possible. Songs included in the tour programme that definitely didn't see action that night were:
Lap of Luxury
Bungle In the Jungle
Watching Me Watching You

And, I believe, Pus*y Willow (don't have the book handy, though).

 

Any chance they recorded one of those early shows with tunes like Too Many Too, Down At The End Of Your Road, etc.? That would be a great surprise.

 

Indeed. From Passaic, New Jersey, October 28, 1984:

 

Can dream...Too Many Too

'Broadsword' Tour, with Peter Vettese on keyboards and Gerry Conway on drums.
1/4/82 Drammenshallen Drammen, Norway

Set was almost the same as 2/4/82, including 'Reynard The Fox' (see below), plus 'Too Many Too' and, uniquely, 'Down At The End Of Your Road'.
2/4/82 Isstadion Stockholm, Sweden
On Ice or Stockholm '82
Clasp, Fallen On Hard Times, Hunting Girl, ***** Willow, Broadsword, Seal Driver, Heavy Horses, Weathercock, Fire At Midnight, Sweet Dream, Flying Colours, Songs From The Wood, Watching You Watching Me, Reynard the Fox, Pibroch/Black Satin Dancer (inst.), Beastie, Cross-Eyed Mary, Aqualung, Too Old To Rock'N'Roll..., Minstrel In The Gallery, Locomotive Breath
Note: 'Reynard...' is a traditional English folk song, not an unreleased Anderson composition!

Set lists of Jethro Tull live concerts in 1982, at the Ministry Of Information

 

I’m dreaming! Still holding out hope for a surprise TAAB 50th bookset!

And live tapes from 1961, 1972 and 1973 to turn up…

 

Ian singing "Love Hurts"?

 

Stupid phone fingers!

 

Yesterday (May 22) at a "Prog Years" show in Gothenburg, IA said, when introducing "The Clasp", that the reissue is due to come out "next year" and that it's "almost worth waiting for". Not more specific than that, but still.

 

Bittersweet news

 

I had a feeling that the focus this year would be promoting The Zealot Gene

 

And yet they kept the almost same setlist from The Prog Years tour only adding like three songs out of the new album.

 

Yeah, the tour is the Prog Years, but they started it with only The Zealot Gene and later they've also added two more songs from the new album.

 

3 songs from a new album is fairly standard inclusion for a more established act to add into the set amongst the "warhorses".

 

I know but I still find it sad. Especially because I think this is the best stuff he did since when he parted ways with Martin.

 

High praise!

 

I think that the songs are rather hard to sing, with Ians vocal limitations.

 

All the songs seem rather hard to sing with Ian's vocal limitations!

 

Another Broadsword, another year older. mayhem in the high degree

 

So that will mean shorter wait for Under Wraps

 

Still say Thick As A Brick with that studio run through Wilson wanted to include but Ian vetoed would make the wait much more tolerable…

 

Rockpop gig will be up online for 24 hours only.

 

Of course, but "Broadsword" is way harder to sing than "A new day yesterday", to name one.