Reinder Dijkhuis Does ArtMay 15

The Under Wraps "book set" is here and boy is it showing the writers at UltimateClassicRock and the likes to be cloth-eared dullards. "Didn't have the songs", "Guitarist nowhere to be heard", my ass. This album is just banger after banger.

The new mix is a big improvement, staying in the spirit of the original version while adding back some bottom end, clarity and a better balance. MIDI-fying and then re-skinning the original drum parts was a bold move.

#JethroTull #UnderWraps

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I'm really glad that Bruce Soord was mixing this and not Steven Wilson, who shut down the few daring ideas that Ian Anderson was willing to suggest on albums like A Passion Play,
There's always the risk that whatever they did to the drum machine sounds would end up making it sound more like a conventional Tull album. Nope, it sounds like Under Wraps, but better.
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It does go on a bit though.
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On to disks 3 and 4: Ian Anderson's solo album Walk Into Light, and instead of playing it on a hardware player I'm importing it to my desktop because I have stuff I'm doing at the same time.
Disk 3 appears to be mis-tagged on GraceNote. It returned the info for Disk 4.
There are three possible explanations for this:
1. Someone screwed up entering the tracks;
2. The disks have the exact same running order and track lengths so the auto-hashing returned the wrong entry; or
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… or there's been a manufacturing error and both disks are exactly the same. Let's listen and find out.
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I *think* the snare drums on disk 4 are more reverby and a bit thinner? That's also not how I remember them sounding in the original mix, but I know Soord took a bunch of effects off for the 'mix with the original drums'.
Kicks have a little more presence and toms sound more natural on disk 3. It's not a huge difference, but for now I think the tracks aren't the same on both disks.
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So… I don't know for a fact that Gracenote works by hashing the track number, track length and album length, but the few times I got a dramatically wrong result from it, that seemed to be the logical explanation. It happens more with short EPs than with full albums, but I've had a Lais album mistaken for Songs From The Wood before, and those were both full length albums.
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The Blu-Ray disc, on the other hand, may well be defective. But I'll need to try it on a known-good Blu-Ray player to confirm, which Spouse's Xbox Whatever really, really is not. Absolute dogshit of a way to play Blu-Ray discs, defective or not.
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In a heroic effort to avoid or at least dela putting a Blu-Ray player on my 'to buy' list like I'm made of money, I did the unthinkable and went to

* clouds gather on the horizon and move in at near the speed of sound*
* a squall sets in*
* lightning flashes*
* thunder roars*
* in the distance, a voice old as dust cackles maniacally*
THE STEVE HOFFMAN FORUMS
orums orums rums ums.

And yes, one of the very boring people in there also had the same problem with the disc.

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Naturally, I left as quickly as I could, but not before one of the faster moving energy vampires hit me with a "This is not my Tull, I bought this, but this will be gatheriing dust".

I will recover.

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I told a little lie there; I stayed around long enough to find a speculation thread about a future Crest of a Knave book set, and read it.
In that thread, I learned that the 20-minute version of the song 'Budapest' is still extant and can be found on YouTube. So that's one potential thing to look forward to.

#JethroTull #CrestOfAKnave