JETHRO TULL
February 2, 1973
Frankfurt, Germany
Festhalle
The sound isn't great, but this is a musically unique recording.
See "The Performance" below for more details.
Going through my cassettes looking for something interesting to seed I stumbled on this.
Since I've had this tape for at least 15 years I naturally assumed that it was widely circulated amongst traders.
It probably is.
I checked at the Ministry-of-Information (http://www.ministry-of-information.co.uk/setlist/73.htm), and it's listed, but no set list.
It's not here on DIME.
Maybe it is not as common as I thought.
hmmmm...
Well, here it is for you.
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THE BAND:
Ian Anderson - flute, guitar, and sings
Martin Barre - guitars
John Evan - keyboards
Barrie Barlow - percussion
Jeffrey Hammond - bass, voice
??? - German speaker (may be a band member, may be someone else)
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THE SONGS
01 Applause and intro 1:08
02 Thick as a Brick Pt. 1 w/ ("Ian is Playing..." in German) 46:04
- - - includes the Flute Solo
- - - God Rest Ye Merry Gents
- - - Bouree
- - - and Quartet - which they actually play
03 News and Weather (auf Deutsch) 3:37
04 Drum Solo 15:09
05 Thick as a Brick Pt. 2 8:44
06 applause 1:23
07 talk 1:09
08 Cross-Eyed Mary 3:12
09 Left Right 3:34
10 Audition 2:47
11 Aqualung 7:26
12 applause 3:31
13 talk and band intros 2:05
14 Wind Up 12:49
15 No Rehearsal 1:49
16 Guitar Solo 6:26
17 Locomotive Breath 9:49
18 Wind Up 2:44
TOTAL TIME 2 hours, 13 minutes, 16 seconds
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THE SOUND:
Yet another, as if it were a surprise, GMR
thats's a
Genuine Monophonic Recording
It's centered
it's Mono-rific
An audience recording
Only OK sound.
There are much better ones and much worse ones out there.
LISTEN TO A SAMPLE BELOW
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THE LINEAGE:
audience > to me on cassette (unknown number of generations from Master) > Nakamichi BX-2 with azimuth adjustment done for playback > digitize with audacity > FLAC 8 via xAct
Not my usual "raw" transfer
Side 2 of the tape had a significantly lower volume than side 1.
I boosted it to get pretty close to that of side 1.
No noise reduction or EQ was done.
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THE PERFORMANCE:
This is a really interesting concert.
Back in the day Tull seemed to play more freely and take more chances in Germany than they did in the UK or the USA.
They just seem to be more willing to try new things with a German audience.
This is evident here and in the next several from Spring 1973 that I'll post later.
Many thanks to the good German people who taped these shows in Deutschland all those years ago.
And there must have been many people doing it because there are LOTS of tapes from LOTS of different German cities over the years. Thanks for taping all the Zappa shows too.
1 - The Flute solo in Thick as a Brick includes the rarely played Quartet.
This is, I think, the earliest played version of this I have.
They did continue to play it when they returned to Germany in March 1973.
It makes me wonder why Quartet was included as a bonus track on the WarChild CD and not on the Chateau D'isaster or Passion Play CDs as they were clearly playing it live in 1973 and NOT in 1974/75 during the WarChild tour. They did use a recorded version of it as intro music periodically during that tour.
2 - The "Ian is playing a rhythmic link sequence" is spoken in German
3 - The "News and Weather" is in German.
4 - No Rehearsal is in the middle of Wind Up
5 - The medley of Wind Up, No Rehearsal, Guitar Solo, and Locomotive Breath is INCREDIBLE.
Altogether it's about 33 minutes long!
Parts of it will be familiar, some are strikingly unfamiliar.
It is pretty unique in the live Tull I've heard
This was one of only two shows Tull performed in February of 1973, the other being in Zurich.
The band returned to Germany a month later when the real tour began.
Was this a warm-up gig, a one-off?
It sounds to me like they were trying out a bunch of new-ish stuff and how best to present it.
I don't know.
But here it is for your enjoyment.
By the way, the stuff spoken in German - Does anyone know who it is?
The only other time I know of the band speaking at any length in a language other than English was later next month (March 1973) on the Italian leg of the tour. Then, the News and Weather is in Italian.
Heck, when they returned to Germany in March they spoke only in English.
This makes me think the German speaker was NOT a band member, but maybe a German celebrity, or DJ, or something.
Does anyone know for sure?
Of course there may be other instances of other languages being spoken in concert.
Anybody know?
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HEY GANG:
I offer what I have, with ALL the information known to me.
If you've got a better version, seed it.
If you have more accurate information, please add it in a comment.
If anyone would like to attempt a remastering job, go right ahead.
Let's try and keep it positive and make DIME as good an experience for all as possible.
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thirduncle