Hey Jerome....

[CRAZY-HORSE]

just got re-released this week and thought it may interest you mate!



Amazon description of it:

Jethro Tull's Concept Album About An Aging Rocker Is Expanded for A 2CD/2DVD Set that Features Unreleased Music And Footage Recorded For A British TV Special.

Highlights from the set include:
An unreleased, alternate version of the album recorded for a British television special and remixed by Steven Wilson
Bonus tracks (18 previously unreleased), all mixed to 5.1 surround and stereo by Steven Wilson
Flat transfer of the original LP mix at 96/24
Commercial debut of footage from the television special
Presented in a case-bound DVD book that includes an 80-page booklet with an extensive history of the album, track-by-track annotations by Ian Anderson, plus rare and unseen photographs
Includes the gatefold cartoon from the original album drawn by renowned comic artist Dave Gibbons

you can find the full track listing here at amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Too-Old-Rock-Roll-...ethro+tull

is the album any good because I want to know if its worth getting(anyone????)

[Jerome]

Have to be quite honest CH - it's not one of my favourite Tull albums - thx for the heads-up anyway. My favourite Tull album will always be Heavy Horses. They have a number of brilliant albums but that's my favourite by a mile. Incidentally, also my late father's favourite in my collection of 'weird noises and nonsense'. Just as a matter of interest, Ian Anderson is/was a hard taskmaster - he did not tolerate any crap from band members. And it worked. The band has consistently produced excellent albums of the highest quality. And his lyrics are in a class of their own. And finally, most professional, famous drummers wish they had just an ounce of Barriemore Barlow's ambidextrous abilities. An absolute magician on the drumkit. Never mind the big fills and tom rolls and cymbal bashing - listen to the stuff he does in-between - extremely creative and very subtle. The legendary Bonzo once stated that he was the best drummer England had ever produced. As an example listen to the small fill between the lines from Heavy Horses 'like dew on a carpet lawn - an amazing fill - in these dark towns folk lie sleeping' - at around the 34:40 mark. - https://youtu.be/bvdZUzMjH7E

Finally, the new vesrion of HH features two additional tracks which should never have been left off the album.

[CRAZY-HORSE]

Heavy Horses and Songs From The Wood are my favourites from the four or five I own...
And it was you who recommended those two as a good starting point for me...

I think Thick As A Brick is overrated, prefer TAAB2 to that one.

I'm pretty sure they've remastered and reissued several other Tull albums in a similar way to the one posted above also....
maybe if you look around on the WWW you'll find them and maybe Heavy Horses is one of them mate.

[CRAZY-HORSE]

I have that about Anderson being a hard taskmaster and expected nothing less than perfection from his players and that
anyone who played on his albums can basically name their own price to play with other artists because of their perceived skills because they worked with Anderson.

[Jerome]

I have that about Anderson being a hard taskmaster and expected nothing less than perfection from his players and that
anyone who played on his albums can basically name their own price to play with other artists because of their perceived skills because they worked with Anderson.

100% correct.

[JeromeD]

Ian Anderson's solo albums are quite good as well. 'The Secret Language of Birds' & 'Rupi's Dance' are my favourites.

[CRAZY-HORSE]

^^
ths only Ian Anderson album i have is TAAB-2 which i prefer over TAAB