Product Description
Brand New — Sealed! Rare — Now Very Hard To Find! Limited Edition Deluxe 2LP Box Set Pressed Of The Jethro Tull Masterpiece (& Follow-Up) On 180 Gram Super Audiophile Vinyl. Includes Fantastic Book Packaging!
‘Thick as a Brick’ (2012 Steven Wilson mix) & ‘Thick as a Brick 2’ combined in a double 180gm vinyl set with accompanying 80-page 12” x 12” hardback book.
The Book contains:
Original TAAB 1 newspaper rebuilt for the 12 x 12 format on 16 pages of newspaper style paper.
2012 TAAB 2 newspaper printed on gloss paper.
Article by Classic Rock’s Dom Lawson about TAAB 1.
Ian Anderson interview conducted by Reverend George Pitcher covering both albums, & 2012 TAAB tour.
Many rare 1972/73 photos from photographers Didi Zill & Robert Ellis.
Photos by Martin Webb.
Memories of the recording from engineer Robin Black.
Recording & touring memories from Martin Barre, Ian Anderson & Jeffrey Hammond.
Q & A with tour manager Eric Brooks with tour memorabilia & the full 1972 itinerary.
Side 1:
Thick As A Brick (Part 1) (2012 Steven Wilson Remix)
Side 2:
Thick As A Brick (Part 2) (2012 Steven Wilson Remix)
Side 3:
From A Pebble Thrown
Pebbles Instrumental
Might-Have-Beens
Upper Sixth Loan Shark
Banker Bets, Banker Wins
Swing It Far
Adrift And Dumfounded
Old School Song
Wootton Bassett Town
Side 4:
Power And Spirit
Give Till It Hurts
Cosy Corner
Shunt And Shuffle
A Change Of Horses
Confessional
Kismet In Suburbia
What-Ifs, Maybes, Might-Have-Beens
AMG –
Jethro Tull's first LP-length epic is a masterpiece in the annals of progressive rock, and one of the few works of its kind that still holds up decades later. Mixing hard rock and English folk music with classical influences, set to stream-of-consciousness lyrics so dense with imagery that one might spend weeks pondering their meaning -- assuming one feels the need to do so -- the group created a dazzling tour de force, at once playful, profound, and challenging, without overwhelming the listener. The original LP was the best-sounding, best-engineered record Tull had ever released, easily capturing the shifting dynamics between the soft all-acoustic passages and the electric rock crescendos surrounding them. Some 40 years after the release of Jethro Tull's prog landmark Thick as a Brick, chief Tull Ian Anderson crafts a sequel. Sensibly titled Thick as a Brick 2, this 2012 set brings us up to speed with the life of Gerald Bostock, who was a mere lad of 10 at the time of TAAB but is now an adult shouldering a myriad of responsibilities. His disappointments and mild triumphs make him a different man than he was, yet underneath it all he's still that recognizable child, and the same can be said for Anderson's music: it's cleaner and streamlined, not as indulgent or idealistic as his younger work, boasting a more sensible structure, yet it still bears all of his signatures from the flute to rambling folk-rock.
Geoff –
This is superb Deluxe Vinyl Edition of Ian Anderson's masterwork & companion follow-up LP. Steven Wilson's mix of ‘Thick as a Brick’ is astounding -- you have got to hear this! The entire package is absolutely brilliant! Reissue of the century!