Alice ... I actually have not be able to track down Pretties and Easy Action on CD ... and I don't have Muscle Of Love yet. So it's the big 4 (IMNSHO) Love It To Death, Killer, School's Out and BBD (I need the reissue with the live disc). Most of the stuff after that I don't have much time for.
I first saw Tull on the War Child tour at the Rainbow Theatre in North London in 74. Saw them about 10 times after.
I wandered into a show in the local barn here in Des Moines in the mid 70s and saw this nutcase careening across the stage wearing two guitars. I was an instant CT fan. Still am.
Somehow managed to hear CT's cover of Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace, immediately went for the LP, and proceeded to drive my Foghat-loving friends nuts, all the way up to the One on One album.
You can't go wrong with the AC Big Four, but I'd include WTMN and GTH, specifically for the Hunter/Wagner guitar stuff.
Ian's playing with an orchestra. He's also covering Kashmir - if he fucks it up (like say...Daltrey did), I just might throw something.
I saw Foghat at an Iowa Jam ... stoopid in all the right ways ... they were a blast.
I just don't get the whole Hunter/Wagner thing, never did. They beat that Lou Reed live record to death. WTMN lost what made the original band good, the mystery, the creepiness, the crawliness. I come on, this is the guy who had a band who wrote the music that became Black JuJu ... somewhere he just became a very ordinary heavy metal guy.
Boogie is not without occasional charm. I saw Foghat the first time in '76, sandwiched between Nugent and Aerosmith. Foghat's still touring, believe it or not, but their last live CD was abysmal, and now that Peverett and Rod Price have both passed on - I guess that somehow, seeing Roger Earl in the flesh holds little charm for me.
You're absolutely right - the live Reed thing was overkill, and it wasn't called for. However, Aerosmith's Get Your Wings LP (also Hunter & Wagner, uncredited) had the same overkill, and was called for in every way. I'd flirted with picking up a guitar before hearing GYW, but afterward - it was a done deal. But imagine my continued disappointment every time I went to see Aerosmith live, because Train Kept a'Rollin' never even remotely sounded like the record. When I found out that it was really Hunter & Wagner, it all made perfect sense.
Shine on you crazy diamond. Syd's loss today was sad, even though he hasn't been musically productive (at least, not that we've heard) in over 30 years.
Doesn't it depend on where you want to go, emotionally, doesn't it? I'd start out with Syd but move on to one of the others: early Costello for angst, Cheap Trick for the volume and basics, Madness to get moving and perk up a bit.
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Date: 2006-07-11 09:17 pm (UTC)Last weekend, I watched the DVDs of Alice at Montreux (2005),Good to See You Again, Alice Cooper (1973), *and* CT's Music for Hangovers (1998).
Choices, choices...
Going to see Ian Anderson in a couple of weeks, too.
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Date: 2006-07-11 09:21 pm (UTC)I first saw Tull on the War Child tour at the Rainbow Theatre in North London in 74. Saw them about 10 times after.
I wandered into a show in the local barn here in Des Moines in the mid 70s and saw this nutcase careening across the stage wearing two guitars. I was an instant CT fan. Still am.
Oingo has gotten the most votes though ...
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Date: 2006-07-11 09:26 pm (UTC)You can't go wrong with the AC Big Four, but I'd include WTMN and GTH, specifically for the Hunter/Wagner guitar stuff.
Ian's playing with an orchestra. He's also covering Kashmir - if he fucks it up (like say...Daltrey did), I just might throw something.
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Date: 2006-07-11 09:30 pm (UTC)I just don't get the whole Hunter/Wagner thing, never did. They beat that Lou Reed live record to death. WTMN lost what made the original band good, the mystery, the creepiness, the crawliness. I come on, this is the guy who had a band who wrote the music that became Black JuJu ... somewhere he just became a very ordinary heavy metal guy.
I've never seen Ian solo, someday ...
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Date: 2006-07-11 09:45 pm (UTC)You're absolutely right - the live Reed thing was overkill, and it wasn't called for. However, Aerosmith's Get Your Wings LP (also Hunter & Wagner, uncredited) had the same overkill, and was called for in every way. I'd flirted with picking up a guitar before hearing GYW, but afterward - it was a done deal. But imagine my continued disappointment every time I went to see Aerosmith live, because Train Kept a'Rollin' never even remotely sounded like the record. When I found out that it was really Hunter & Wagner, it all made perfect sense.
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Date: 2006-07-11 10:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-11 11:34 pm (UTC)The way he sings "SWING a little more, a little more next to me" always stikes me as sounding a lot like "Do not go gentle into that good night."
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Date: 2006-07-12 04:20 pm (UTC)