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qjbsS [Free read ebook] A Passion Play: The Story Of Ian Anderson And Jethro Tull Online [qjbsS.ebook] A Passion Play: The Story Of Ian Anderson And Jethro Tull Pdf Free Brian Rabey audiobook | *ebooks | Download PDF | ePub | DOC Download Now Free Download Here Download eBook #460100 in Books imusti 2013-12-01Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.25 x 1.50 x 7.50l, .95 #File Name: 0957144245288 pagesSoundcheck Books LLP | File size: 40.Mb Brian Rabey : A Passion Play: The Story Of Ian Anderson And Jethro Tull before purchasing it in order to gage whether or not it would be worth my time, and all praised A Passion Play: The Story Of Ian Anderson And Jethro Tull: 65 of 69 people found the following review helpful. Newer fans beware....By JTull0FanI was looking forward to this book, which was delayed many times over the last couple of years, that probably made it more imperative that I finally get it. Telling a Tull fan that something new is out there but they can't have it is a brutal torture.....When it finally arrived in early Oct. I dug right in. I was very happy with the amount of interviews the author was able to include. I do love reading (and listening) to the first hand accounts of The Blades and The John Evan Band and the early tales of Tull by ex-band members. That said, when the author began filling in the blanks between interviews I began recognizing his quoting (word for word) from "The Story of Jethro Tull" a radio show done with Ian Anderson and Terry Ellis in 1975. I have the very popular "underground" recording and started checking it against what I was reading. It was word for word. Apparently he thought it was done so long ago no one would notice. I'm not too concerned with the fact that he "borrowed" from this, un-acknowledged by-the-way, but I was very disappointed that I was not learning anything new!Once he started straying from the radio show many of the authors facts were just downright wrong. Once his "facts" were at direct opposition to something stated by a band member in interview on the same page. The author states that in 1969, while in LA, the band records Living in the Past. Then 2 paragraphs later Glenn Cornick, quoting from a diary, recounts recording Living In the Past in W. Orange, New Jersey, which in fact it was, and was very easy for him to have checked. At another point he informs the reader that John Goodier (Andersons current Bass Player) is the permanent replacement for Andy Giddings (Tulls former Keyboard player). John O'Hara (Current keyboards) replaced Jon Noyce (Tulls ex Bass player) these are just careless mistakes that any good read over would reveal.Another: Tull-A-Vision was the name of the big sceen used during the 1976 Stadium tours NOT the 1978 Madison Square Garden world wide satellite television broadcast.Confusion continued in the 5 pages covering the 3 (Some might say moderately important) albums Songs from the Wood77, Heavy Horses78 and Stormwatch79, not a 5 page period of time. During the Stormwatch tour, in 1979, Dave Pegg comes on board to play bass, his story is told one chapter later during the recording of A in 1980. If I didn't know better I would have a completely wrong idea as to what happened there.Mr. Rabey did not seem too interested in some of the 80s releases either, as say, the Broadsword and the Beast "review" was a scant six line paragraph. Why bother touching on the album at all? I thought there was some very notable things that happened with the band at that point in time......not mentioned at all. These are just a few of many more notable boners.His quoting from the "Story of Jethro Tull" radio show from 75, continued throughout the book. I was very happy to get into the Ian Anderson interview section (the second half of the book) and this was done in and around the time of the release of The Secret Language of Birds, and its then clear that Ian was not much interested in and did not participate in the telling of the early history of the band for this book.So over all I would say to those fans that have not read much of anything about Tull before "Stick to the interviews in this book" The rest is unreliable. 3 stars for the amount of interviews contained (Mainly John Evan, Glenn Cornick, Martin Barre and then later years with Ian Anderson) as they are the books' saving grace. After a second read I removed one star....JTULL0FAN1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Whether Thick as a Brick or Passion Play for better or worse he shouldered the blameBy RalfonsoIan Anderson is Jethro Tull.He wrote all the songs (well 99%) and it was his vision that was carried forward.Whether Thick as a Brick or PassionPlay for better or worse he shouldered the blame,credit.Many fine players went thru the ranks down the years and are given equal time toadvance the narrative.One is surprised by the fact that Anderson is pretty much lauded by his former bandmates and feels a responsibiltythat they share in distributions of royalties.Tull is on hiatus currently but Anderson has a touring group carrying on.Hopefully he will rejoin withMartin Barre his guitarist thru the years soon.5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. In-Depth Jethro TullBy thehimilerI have long been a fan of Jethro Tull, but knew very little about the band's background, members, etc. This is a good book and very informative. I read it very attentively. I did think that it got drier at the end when it was 'Ian Anderson's Thoughts', but overall a great source of info for the Tull fan. In the summer of 1972 Jethro Tull hit the dizzy heights of number one in the Billboard album charts, and thus could lay claim to being the world's biggest band at the time, with Thick As A Brick. They repeated the feat the next year with A Passion Play and have sold over 60 million albums to date.Considering just how big this group is (they are still going to this day, of course) there is surprisingly little written about them - only a couple of books, which is scandalous when you consider how many books have been written about their contemporaries .This book is a gem containing interviews with band members such as Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond, John Evans, Martin Barre and… of course Ian Anderson. In fact, this book may well contain the longest interview Anderson has ever given. Biographer Brian Rabey and Anderson really hit it off, possibly because Brian helped the latter recover his beloved harmonica which was stolen backstage - something Anderson never forgot.Brian was given access all areas and used this wisely. Via new interviews he traces the history of a band which started life as the Blades, briefly included Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi (his plastic finger tips grafted on after an accident didn't lend themselves to playing Tull's subtle music!), and went on to become Prog Rock royalty (or Elizabethan Rock as they were sometimes dubbed!), but constantly re-invented itself with new personnel and styles. Due to Brian's contact book there are also quotes from contemporaries such as Greg Lake and John Wetton, which really helps to put things in context. Another really appealing aspect of the book is that it looks at the landscape of the times - for example, the flat Tull lived in during the 1960s would be regarded as unfit for human habitation today. A final nice touch is that several band members have sent photographs from their personal collections making this a unique book. 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