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Dear Faithful Medford Readers,
As Medford Info Central begins the building of our paper edition (projected date, 1/8/16, David Bowie's birthday) we'll be bringing more film and music reviews to this site as well.
Here's a "first draft" preview of my article on last night's Tull show at the Wang Center.
Have pages and pages of notes to go through, but you- our long-time friends and foes - get a taste of last night's terrific show in advance ...before it goes to my regular outlets.
JV
JETHRO TULL: THE ROCK
OPERA
REVIEW BY JOE VIGLIONE
In the theater where we Bostonians caught
many a film, “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” in 1969, “Diamonds Are Forever”
after that, how appropriate that the
seminal seventies group, Jethro Tull, morphs into a three-pronged multi-media
event here at what is now the Wang Center.
The Rock Opera, is, of course, also a rock concert and an onscreen film
with an added fourth dimension, the original lead singer narrating and
performing alongside, inside and throughout the presentation. Always ahead of the curve Ian Anderson isn’t
content for a band to play with the holograms of Frank Sinatra, Jimi Hendrix,
Janis Joplin …with an idea that the Beatles will go from Cirque de Soleil to
the hologram circuit as well – Anderson presents a living, breathing human
being turning the tables on the hollow digital heading towards us like the big
old train on the screen in “Locomotive Breath.”
With Jethro Tull’s publicist on the phone before the show I noted “all these gray-haired people with Tull shirts on were probably at the half dozen or so Jethro Tull concerts I attended in the 1970s – Thick as a Brick, Passion Play, Bungle in the Jungle from War Child. Let’s call it a class reunion, of sorts, with the eloquent personality and his flute that we have followed for the better part of five decades.
My old pal Buddy
Guy was playing next door at the Wilbur Theater, Steve Miller Band performed in
Lynn, Massachusetts, a rather big night for classic rock in Massachusetts, in
Boston proper. And let’s be honest here, all three artists have their material
and their performance skills down pat, this is the fine wine presenting a new
episode of their artistry in the middle of the second decade of the new millennium.
THIS IS A FIRST DRAFT
FUN ADVANCE PREVIEW FOR OUR READERS
Set list of last night's show:
http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/ian-anderson/2015/citi-performing-arts-center-boston-ma-43f5c33b.html
THIS IS A FIRST DRAFT
FUN ADVANCE PREVIEW FOR OUR READERS
Set list of last night's show:
http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/ian-anderson/2015/citi-performing-arts-center-boston-ma-43f5c33b.html
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- Encore:
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(with Bourée snippet)
People filing out of Wang Center last night
"Sitting on the park bench...eyeing little girls with bad intent...oh ... (replace word "Aqualung") with
a former teacher's name...
Oh Jenna Tar....nahhh...that doesn't work...
Oh, Roy Belsa....naaahhh...that doesn't work either...
Oh Dxx GXXXXXXX.... hmmm....bingo...it works
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Aqualung
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1xY7Heaqg8
Sitting there at Medford High...
watching as the pretty panties run...
hey Aqualung...
