Opening Night: U.S. Roots to Branches tour
Jethro Tull
Ian Anderson: flute and vocals
Martin Barre: guitar and mandolin
Andrew Giddings: keyboards
David Pegg: bass
Doane Perry: drums
Orpheum, Boston, Mass.
November 10, 1995 (1st of 2 nights in Boston)
(this may have been mistakenly posted as Oct. 11, 1995 in Boston,
if so that date is wrong, as they were still in Europe then.)
Performance quality: A (All a very nice show, especially the Roots set)
recording quality: B (at least. It's clean. 5th row of balcony)
source: master audience tape
lineage: Sony one-point mike (not sure which but a good one) >
Sony WMD-6 cassette deck (dolby off) > Maxell XLII-S cass. >
soundforge 4.5 > flac > torrent. It's Tull in Boston so this one
HAS to be a 3 step torrent from me to you and 3 for you (and it is!):
1: download 2: flac to WAV 3: burn CD's. No audio editing is needed.
first posted in 2008. the 2009 reposting had one change done to the flac
files : a flac > wav > flac (sb's aligned) re-conversion to remove the sbe's.
if there was a CD in this lineage that would not work, but there isn't one,
so it does.
runtime: 134:29 (minutes/seconds)
setlist:
disc 1 62:19
(first set, mostly Roots to Branches material)
1: Ian introduces his own show with recorded music > 3:42
2: protect and survive (instrumental excerpt) > 1:46
3: roots to branches 6:15
4: band introductions 1:17
5: rare and precious chain > 3:48
6: out of the noise 3:58
7: valley 6:41
8: in the grip of stronger stuff 3:35
9: at last, forever 8:50
10: dangerous veils 5:27
11: beside myself 6:42
12: aqualung 10:13

disc 2: 72:10
(2nd set and encore, the "older classics set")
13: nothing is easy 5:28
14: Ian talks about the Eagles and we used to know > 5:40
15: in the money lender's temple 3:51
16: my god 8:06
17: misiere 5:15
18: fat man 4:10
19: Budapest 14:46
20: Ian talks about vegetarian sausages and
wounded old and treacherous 9:35
21: locomotive breath 7:10
22: encore: jumpstart > thick as a brick reprise 8:05
a this and that tullnut production.
Do not sell this recording.
Trade freely and losslessly
(and gaplessly! That's essential with this kind of music!)
a glasnostrd19 original masters off rock series recording.
comments:
It's not a Boston Garden Tull show, which may be a nice thing,
definitely nice to see this tour in a smaller venue than that. The
Orpheum has been host to a few Tull shows, this was the only one I
saw there and it was a very good show, some odd moments, Ian goes
into talk about the Eagles (when they toured with JT many years
earlier) and vegetarian sausages, I was in the 5th row of the balcony
for this show, still got a pretty decent recording out of it. My
biggest complaint about the recording is that this was a fairly major
ICPVR (individual clap peak volume reduction) candidate tape, and now
it sounds alot better. Most of the clapping was not during the music,
so the music is unaltered. I have done some ICPVR where Ian or another
performer is speaking so the claps don't drown out his words. I thought
Roots to Branches was a very good CD- I bought it days after its initial
release to stores. I thought this thing's gonna make a wonderful live
tour, the best Jethro Tull has had in years, and that's what this is.
They play almost the entire Roots album in the 1st set, then whip out
the oldies for the second set (one admission for both sets- NOT 2 shows)
just like old times before I ever saw Tull, to hear 2 sets like this.
(note: the Little Light Music 92 tour was also quite good, w/2 sets)
Ian had a cold this night, it was a cool dank raw night, a night when
many other bands might have a weak show, and some would just postpone
or cancel out (like Rod Stewart! Ian made a crack about that in a show
a few years before this one) but time and time again Tull's come to
Boston or Worcester at a real bad time and not only played the show,
but played very well. Ian's singing sounded pretty good for a guy with
a cold, how anyone can sing with a cold and not sound like crap I don't
know but Ian pulled it off. Martin Barre's never had less than an A
performance in Boston or Worcester (that I've seen). Roots to Braches
is chalk full of ways to show off his excellence. So if you want the
Full Monty Roots to Branches show, this may be a good choice, if you're
one of the people who lost interest in Tull when Barriemore bolted, I
suggest listening to some of this. Your mind could get changed. I loved
the performance, and it running almost 2 and a half hours didn't hurt
at all. The crowd was very pleased too, so it's not just because this is
a TULLNUT production, that I think it was a great show (even though my
favorite Tull was BEFORE Barriemore!). Several must have agreed, because
the second night of RTB was the next night, also at the Orpheum. If anyone
has that one I'd like to hear it. Some bands don't sound that good in the
Orpheum, but Jethro Tull does. After this long, it's no wonder they're
right up there now with the Who, the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin as
one of the most collected bands in the world (as in live archive concert
recordings). We heard Ian poking jabs at Rod Stewart in my 91 Tull post,
here he talks about an early Eagles tour. Tull did play a second night,
despite Ian having a cold, it was anything but a cold concert (even for
Anderson) and I'd like to hear the second night of this (Nov. 11), same
place as this was, if anyone has it, I'm sure I'm not the only one.
they played the Palace Theater in New Haven, Ct on Nov. 12 and on
Nov. 14 they were in N.Y.C. at the Beacon Theater.
(ten days later they were in Los Angeles).