What a wonderful concept for an album. I look
forward to it.
--- In [email protected], Vaj <vajradhatu@...> wrote:
>
> http://www.j-tull.com/discography/taab2/iancomments.html
>
> "If someone had suggested that I might release a Prog concept album
> in the
> year 2012, I would have thought him seriously, dangerously even, off his
> trolley. But that is precisely what happened. A few years ago, Mike
> Andrews
> and Royston Eldridge, two ex-Chrysalis Records gents pressed me to
> consider
> a follow-up to Thick As A Brick. I gave it some dutiful deliberation
> - for
> a couple of minutes - and politely declined. Nice idea, nice chaps but,
> after reflection, no-oooooo.
>
> Then, in 2010, a re-acquaintance with seventies Prog Rock
> vocalist-turned-record exec Derek Shulman - yes, he of Gentle Giant
> fame -
> restarted the old refrain. Yes, but.... no, but, and finally - OK, I'll
> give it some more dutiful deliberation (four and a half minutes, this
> time)
> eventually produced, in February of 2011, the synopsis of the idea.
> Derek's
> enthusiasm and gauntlet-challenge plus two weeks of dedicated, fast and
> furious music and lyric writing combined to produce a flurry of
> material.
> And - blow me down with a Dodo's tail-feather - the whole thing was
> completed ready for scoring and arranging by the beginning of March.
> There
> were a couple of pieces prepared earlier which were bent into new
> shape and
> fitted into the scheme of things, so they too were popped into the
> bubbling
> saucepan."
>
> Wow! Derek encouraging Ian to revisit the past and come up with a
> sequel
> when he is so against it hisself!
>
> IAN ANDERSON's
> 'Thick As A Brick 2'
>
> Ian Anderson announces 40th anniversary sequel to the hugely successful,
> groundbreaking 1972 album.
> Following the recent announcement of a 19-date tour to commemorate
> the 40th
> anniversary of 'Thick As A Brick', on April 2nd Ian Anderson will
> release a
> sequel to the original album.
>
> In 1972, Ian Anderson wrote and recorded the Jethro Tull Progressive
> Rock
> classic album 'Thick As A Brick'. The lyrics were credited at the
> time to
> the fictitious child character, Gerald Bostock, whose parents supposedly
> lied about his age. The record instantly became a number one Billboard
> Chart album and enjoyed considerable success in many countries of the
> world.
>
> So, forty years on, what would Gerald Bostock - aged fifty in 2012 - be
> doing today? What might have befallen him? The anniversary "part two"
> album
> will examine the possible different paths that the precocious young
> schoolboy, Gerald Bostock, might have taken later in life through
> alter-ego
> characters with song-section identities illustrating the hugely varied
> potential twists and turns of fate and opportunity. Not just for
> Gerald but
> to echo how our own lives develop, change direction and ultimately
> conclude
> through chance encounters and interventions, however tiny and
> insignificant
> they might seem at the time.
>
> Ian Anderson says of the album, "As we baby-boomers look back on our own
> lives, we must often feel an occasional 'what-if' moment. Might we, like
> Gerald, have become instead preacher, soldier, down-and-out,
> shopkeeper or
> finance tycoon?," Adding, "and those of more tender years - the social
> media and internet generation - may choose to ponder well the myriad of
> chance possibilities ahead of them at every turn....."
>
> To coincide with this groundbreaking release, for the first time since
> 1972, Anderson and fellow musicians John O'Hara (keyboards), David
> Goodier
> (bass), Florian Opahle (guitar) and Scott Hammond (drums) - as well
> as some
> guest performers - will take to the road to perform the album in its
> entirety and, it can now exclusively be revealed that, in addition there
> will be a second part to the show where Anderson and the band will also
> perform the sequel.
>
> 'TAAB2' tracklist:
> 1 From A Pebble Thrown
> 2 Pebbles Instrumental
> 3 Might-have-beens
> 4 Upper Sixth Loan Shark
> 5 Banker Bets, Banker Wins
> 6 Swing It Far
> 7 Adrift And Dumfounded
> 8 Old School Song
> 9 Wootton Bassett Town
> 10 Power And Spirit
> 11 Give Till It Hurts
> 12 Cosy Corner
> 13 Shunt And Shuffle
> 14 A Change Of Horses
> 15 Confessional
> 16 Kismet In Suburbia
> 17 What-ifs, Maybes And Might-have-beens
>
> 'Thick As A Brick 2' will be released on the 2nd of April 2012 in three
> formats: a standard jewel case CD and digital download, and a Special
> Edition 2-disc format featuring the album plus a DVD containing a 5.1
> surround mix, a making of the album film, interviews with the band video
> and engineers and lyric reading video.
>
