Das Gras wird immer höher, hoffentlich wird's nicht gemäht:
http://www.futuro.cl/2013/02/01/ian-and ... s-a-brick/
Übersetzung:
The musician ahead of his show Wednesday, March 6 at the Teatro Caupolicán upcoming reissues of this classic band.
By Hector Munoz
Tell us a little of what the show with the two parts of "Thick As A Brick" ...
Complete show the 2 parts of "Thick As A Brick", the two discs.
The first, in 1972, touched as we launched at that time, and its sequel, which launched last year.
There will be 20 minutes of intermediate where they can go to the bathroom, buy a drink or a shirt.
Basically the hearing may, apart from enjoying intense music, see guys having fun playing.
We like to tour with all the support we have in audiovisual scene. It is a show of good production,
with many things going on, lots of energy and enthusiasm.
We hope you enjoy the full experience of "Thick As A Brick".
Why did you want to do the sequel to "Thick As A Brick"?
I always wondered when would a sequel, but it actually took me 39 years to find a good reason to do it.
Finally I came in late 2010, and in January 2011 I started writing. In four weeks, he had a hard compound.
It's nice to have had everything ready in such a short time, even though we could not record until November
of that year's tour took us busy throughout 2011.
Anyway, we had the album ready in late December. And here I am, in February 2013,
writing letters that will record a new album in November 2014 and that throw, repeating the process a bit.
In the latter period, I tried to have a disc ready every two years.
Can you tell the new material?
I could, but I will not ... I have yet to change many things.
It's a conceptual piece that can follow the process on my blog page, in a sort of diary that I update.
Jethro Tull or solo?
Do not know yet. It is important to me because it is my name that is printed on the ticket of every show.
In the end, I write the music, and the singing and play.
What was the original inspiration of "Thick As A Brick" in 1972?
It was actually inspired by the fact that music critics believed that "Aqualung" was a concept album,
when in truth was a collection of songs.
I thought when they were saying, so I decided that the next album would be one conceptual yes.
It would give them what they thought they had heard the previous year, and decided I had to be
as exaggerated as possible, do a kind of satire on the idea of a concept album in the progressive.
I decided to go a little further than Genesis and Yes, and make the record that was
"the mother of all concept albums", a bit surreal, and also a parody of the same. He was half joking and half serious.
A couple of years ago, reissued "Aqualung" with Steven Wilson remix. What else have you worked with him?
He was also responsible for the remix of "Thick As A Brick" original and the sequel mixed.
Last year we were doing the remixes "Benefit", "A Passion Play" and tapes "Chateau d'Isaster",
the original recordings of that album we did not finish in 1973, never completed.
We intend to launch these reissues this year, with remixes in 5.1. It was fun to review that material.
How about Wilson's work?
He's younger than me, and his ear is in better condition than mine couple make a more balanced judgment about quality.
It is very true to the original spirit of the production and mixing. It concentrates on clean records,
giving more sparkle, more definition and clarity. It has a lot of respect for these works, and is good at this job.
So highly regarded is because he knows having the right approach to this type of work.
How is playing orchestra and turn in this format by showing the world the classic Jethro Tull?
It's very difficult because, if you work with an orchestra, coordinating testing costs and sound checks.
They often work with different orchestras to travel to different countries, you have to rehearse
the night before and the morning before the show. Okay do 2 or 3 weeks,
but if I did every day of the year, would be dead.
It's challenging, it's exciting, it's a different way of presenting your music, examining
the different sounds and textures that take your songs. On that side, it's exciting, but it depends
on how good and involved an orchestra work. There are better than others.
When I played with Chile, was a great experience, totally committed and did an impeccable job.
But I have played shows in that simply did not work. I will not say which countries was, but it happens.
Why did you choose the flute as your main instrument in putting live?
When I started playing in 1967, had many guitar heroes, many types being made known, as Eric Clapton,
Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck and Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac knew he would never be as good as them,
so I decided to find an instrument to play, one that someone like Eric Clapton could not play.
The flute seemed a good choice. In any rock band playing flute, so I took it to me
and I saw it was a great opportunity.
I learned to play it. And in February 1968, Jethro Tull was formed as a small blues band,
and was different from the others because it had a flute.
That made us special and different to the rest, and the flute became a rock instrument.
Although I am the most identified with a flute, I am not alone, just the best known.
And all these years, I think I still am. The flute is not an instrument you usually hear in rock.
Maybe it was a good choice to promote us, made us different from the rest.
We know you have a salmon farming.
Have you had a presence in the Chilean market?
I have no business whatsoever in Chilean salmon.
Coincidentally, Atlantic Salmon Company began applying some of its technology beyond culture,
replicating what they did from Scotland to Norway.
It was an opportunity to engage in the new territory as Chile, but for me it was too.
I could not keep a business thousands of miles away from where I live, I prefer to keep my growing nearby.
However, the process learned by watching them.
It was a challenge to develop these crops in Scotland without bothering to go to Chile to do.
I followed with interest the process, but I was tempted to get involved beyond,
was far away and I found it difficult logistics.
Read more:
http://jethrotull.proboards.com/index.c ... z2KscqXR8H
Also: Aufnahmen für neues Album im November 2014 (tatsächlich wohl das erwähnte Thema im Bostock-Blog, von mir aus könnte es auch Nov.13 sein) und Wilson Remixe von "Benefit" und "A Passion Play" noch dieses Jahr!
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