Jethro Tull - This Was and Mr. Steven Wilson *

Did anyone actually hear "Love Story" and "A Christmas Song" in 5.1 Surround Sound Mix? I can't find them on my copy of the DVD

 

Yes in the main menu go to "The Steven Wilson Remixes" then "Associated Recordings", and there they are. Click Play and change the audio track to either DTS or Dolby.

 

Lee Speaks About Music… #111
Lee’s overall Complete Package Value Rating…
The Packaging Rating Score. 10/10
The Price Point Rating Score. 10/10
The Bonus Material Rating Score. 7/10
The 4.1 Mix Rating Score. 10/10
The Original Album Rating Score. 7/10

 

The flute-overdubbed Chateau tracks are worth getting (Nightcap should be available cheap).

 

It’s a pity that the original tapes of all the extras weren’t found

 

Gotta say, Ian loses some points for me with his comments about John Mayall... and with three mixes of the same album on CD, this is definitely one of the weaker parts of the series. And I say that as somebody who has not owned this album before (and who prefers the sound of Ian's harmonica to Ian's flute most of the time!!) - but maybe it's also just because, as Ian himself admits, This Was just isn't up to the standard of other blues (rock) albums of the era. Mick Abrahams' comments that this is the best album ever released under the Tull name... well, he's entitled to his opinion, of course, but I just can't help shaking my head...

Some of the vinyl rips ("Cuckoo" in particular) sound pretty bad compared to the other tracks. I don't really see the need for a vinyl rip anyway, given that most of the mixes simply seem to be reversed? All but two songs could have easily been re-created from the later stereo mix.

Also, does anybody know why Ian does not play on Cat's Squirrel? The Cream version had Jack Bruce on harmonica...

 

$26.26 at Amazon now + it says 10% coupon. Too Old is the same price also.

 

I also was not blown away by the S/T TYA album at first. As a young kid coming from A Space in Time, it sounded prehistoric, and not in a good way. Then it clicks later, and the psych element is so subtle it takes time to even hear that undercurrent. Jazz / Blues / Psych classic! And Tull's "This Was" is one as well in very much the same way.

It's recorded so well that the sound quality can be striking once one is open to it. It's thrilling for me to go back to these exceptionally well done albums, and hear them in a new way. That is one sign of a classic.

So anyway, thanks for commenting, appreciated.

 

So is it too early to start looking forward to 2019's Stormwatch box?

 

Nope. There's already a thread on that.

 

It is, however, too early to complain about what they left off the Stormwatch box.

 

Stormwatch will close the classic era remix series in style. No reason to be worried, we will even get some live material too
Merry Xmas and Happy new year Tull fans

 

How nice! Except Stormwatch is not a part of the real classic era.

 

I was on the fence about this until a poster linked the amazingly low price that I got this for $26.26. I was this way because I thought Peter Mew had done such a good job on the 2008 Remaster of This Was.

I even made a comment to a poster.................about how much better could this Steven Wilson mix possibly be?.......... . Funny, because I have all of the others and love them. Let me apologize to Old Zorki II.

Well, I will wholeheartedly and adamantly admit I am glad I was wrong. I would like to say to the poster I was wrong. The only word I can come up with is depth. It is hard to explain except for that term. My goodness is this DVD spectacular and that is something considering his work in the Tull catalog. I cranked this sucker pretty good and the bass work on Beggar's Day.........wow!. I can also say I have really not been a fan of Dharma For One. That goes back to the first time I heard it on Living In The Past. I know I might be the crazy one for saying this. But here I really gave it a listen and I was floored.

So, in the end, Mr. Wilson, I again bow to your skills..........

 

I would agree begrudgingly. But that also could be in the mind of the beholder. For me, everything to Broadsword falls into that category until 1982, except for A. That is when it really ended for me.

 

1969-82 is classic era

 

Love A

 

+1. Every single note of if.

 

Nonsense. At least include 1968 in there and the This Was album. It's definitely better than either A or Broadsword and the Beast.

 

I don't care, it's a great album. I'll take it over Passion Play, Heavy Horses, and Too Old...

 

Not sure about Heavy Horses........but the other two a definite yes.

 

I'm sure there are lots of ways to define the classic era, but to my mind, the classic era ended in mid-1980 when Ian cut the last ties with Tull's precursor bands. By this understanding, Stormwatch was the last classic-era album. That doesn't dismiss Tull's output in the 1980s and beyond, but the departures of Evans and Barlow marked a fundamental and permanent change in the sound, style, and dynamic of the group.

 

I disagree. It was the last album with drummer Barriemore Barlow, who is definitely part of the classic era, of course along with Clive Bunker. After he quit, JT was never the same IMHO. So for me, Stormwatch, which is also the last JT album of the 70's, is without a doubt, indeed the end of the classic era. 1968-1979.

 

Received mine form Amazon US yesterday - 3 corners creased in like nobody's business - 2 hours on chat to resolve a replacement and that I'm not sending it back halfway around the world at my expense for their lousy packaging (bubble envelope)

 

And also, if I might add from Wikipedia:
"Stormwatch was notably the last Tull album to feature the "classic" line-up of the 1970s, as drummer Barriemore Barlow and keyboardists John Evan and David Palmer left the band the following year after the end of the Stormwatch tour, while bassist John Glascock died from heart complications during the tour".
Okay, I'll stop!!