All Wrapped Up in Wormtown
Jethro Tull
Ian Anderson- flute and vocals
Martin Barre- guitar
Peter John Vettese -keyboards
David Pegg- bass
Doane Perry- drums
Centrum
Worcester, Mass. U.S.A.
October 29, 1984
performance quality: mostly A, inspired and energetic show
recording quality: B to B+
source: master audience tape
runtime: 107:45
setlist:
disc 1 51:59
1: under wraps intro music 2:28 (recorded version, but not the officially released version).
2: locomotive breath intro > hunting girl 6:42
3: under wraps 5:13
4: later that same evening 4:18
5: nobody's car 5:00
6: fly by night 4:09
7: thick as a brick 8:38
8: skating away 2:05
9: the clasp > 4:11
10: living in the past (spliced) 3:28
11: serenade to a cuckoo 5:03
disc 2 56:25
12: band introductions 2:42
13: fat man 6:18
14: keyboard and drum solos 8:10
15: black Sunday 6:34
16: a slice of the song from the wood 1:54
17: minstrel tease > my Sunday feeling slice 4:46
18: aqualung 7:39
19: locomotive breath 7:12
20: encore break with commentary 1:38
21: too old to rock and roll with a very
short Thick as a Brick reprise 9:28
lineage: Philmore mini- mikes >
Sony D-6 cassette deck (dolby off) >
Maxell XLII-S cassettes > played on Naka. 125 into
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reseeded in 2010 with a spelling correction and a
flac > wav > flac (sb's aligned) reconversion to remove the sbe's.
A tullnut production.
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comments:
What, he has mikes even cheesier than Realistic mini-mikes? Don't let that put
you off to this, the Philmores are pretty comparable to the Realistic mini mikes,
and close I'd say to Sony 310's built in mikes. Not fabulously high-end by any
means, but good enough to handle a Tull show rather well. These were my 1st
"mini-mikes" and their performance led me to get Realistic ones, when one of them
became defective. This was before that, and one of my favorite Tull shows. The
4 current songs (2 from Ian Anderson's solo album "Fly by Night") were my favorites
in this whole show, my only complaint about this tour was they tried to condense
too many good songs so they could play Loco breath and Aqualung for the 18,000th
time in their full splendor. I pity Jethro Tull's setlist arranger (probably Ian
Anderson), because it would take about 24 hours to play all the good songs they had
by this time. I used to like Aqualung as much as many others do, but they wore it
to death just as Zeppelin did with Stairway to Heaven and Deep Purple with Smoke
on the Water, Tull has one of the 4 most overplayed songs in the history of rock
radio. I don't think they have ever played a concert without Aqualung in it (and
consider that these guys have played about 2000 more concerts than Led Zeppelin has
in their almost ancient history). I don't like the reader's digest versions in general,
but this is one band with a basket far too large to fit into 1 concert. 2 songs from
the current album is the least they've ever done here, but they always seem to play
the best songs from their new album whenever they played Boston or Worcester. I have 5
Tull shows to offer from Worcester, this one is the second, sequentially. The whole 1st
disc is quite good, most of the show is too. There are 2 flip cuts, the 1st is in
the very beginning of Living in the Past, the second missed a second or 2 (not much more)
of the beginning of Songs from the Wood, after Black Sunday ended so that's complete.
Both cuts don't sound too abrupt, the 1st one is hardly noticable. This was the Under
Wraps tour, which like many Tull 80's tours has some songs they haven't played in
the 24 years since (at least here in Mass.). The 1st Tull Centrum concert in 82 had a
very loud and rowdy crowd, and I would be very surprised if anyone got a tape of that
without alot of crowd in it. This one has very little crowd in it, the enthusiasm was
back but the crowd was not rowdy at all. Loud at times, but mostly between songs.
As Tull cities go for performances, I would have to put both Boston and Worcester
well above the average. We love our annual Tull concerts, and Tull seems happy to
play here because the response is always very good. In the 70's and 80's Tull shows
in both Boston (up to 1980) and then Worcester after that, were always very good shows.
This one included. I find the quality to be pretty nice, there is some bass/midrange
saturation, not due to the Philmores, but the same kind I've heard from Naka. mike
recordings in hockey rinks. As these places go, the Centrum is one of the better sounding
ones, but it's still a hockey rink with concrete walls, and concrete was not made for
acoustic quality. Its sole purpose is to keep the building standing, and it does that.
Hard to believe, what is now called the D.C.U. Center (exact same building as was
just called the Centrum) turns 26 this year. Happy birthday, Centrum! (That comes
sometime in the early fall or maybe late summer). When Tull does their 50th anniversary tour
(and knowing them they will probably do one when the time comes in 2018) the Centrum
may very well be where we see it (or the Comcast Center), if they can maintain the Lou Gehrig-
like pace of great new music almost every year. That's ALOT to ask, and the newer stuff doesn't
sound quite as interesting the last few years. But from 1968 up through 1995, Jethro Tull's
consistency of great music year after year may wery well be unparalleled in the history of
rock music, where greatness often doesn't last very long, and over 40 years time, Tull is
still my choice as the Yankees/Celtics(Montreal Canadiens) of rock concerts, and Martin
Barre the most underrated guitarist in any rock band ever. Tull rules live, and they love Tull
in Boston and Worcester. Tull must like it in Worcester too, because they've always played a fine
show in the Centrum which sounds alot better than the old Boston Garden, and this is one of
them. the crowd at the 1st one in 82 was the worst crowd ever at a Tull show, but all the ones
that followed starting with this show, the crowd was very considerate, as is more the usual
for Tull shows...