Quick Update

Just a quick update everyone:

According to the folks over at The Jethro Tull Board, Ian Anderson has stated in a recent interview with A New Day Magazine that he has begun writing songs for yet another sequel to Thick as a Brick, which makes this Thick as a Brick 3!

Him and his current band plan to start recording November of this year, and the album is due to come out early 2014–but who knows, delays seem to plague these sort of things.

Better content to come 😉

Motor Tull

Very sorry for the extreme lack of posts here at the blog. I have moved to a new town recently, and am still settling in.

As most of you know Ian Anderson is an off-road motorcycling enthusiast, here are a few pictures of him in his element.

I will provide more substantial posts in the future, until then–browse the archives!! Lots of good stuff there 😉

A Metal State of Mind

I consider myself a decently sized Jethro Tull fan.  Beyond the copious amounts of flute in their music, everything else surrounding the band is more oft than not, sublime.  Catchy, progressive, engaging, yadda yadda yadda.  And beyond their blockbuster records like Thick as a Brick and Aqualung, they have a ton of other albums that never received the spotlight like their earlier albums.  One era of the band that many people slam was when they took a journey down a more synthesizer heavy route adding many electronic elements to their music.  Personally, I think that the concept of adding non-folk instruments to a band heavily rooted in folk music rubbed many in the wrong way and the handful of albums released on this path never got the attention they deserved.  One of those albums released during that period quickly found its way to becoming a personal favorite Tull album for…

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Brains Splattered on the Keyboard

One hardly ever hears Jethro Tull anymore, or even hears them talked about. But the band was one of the best to come out of the British “art rock” movement of the 1970s, right up there with Genesis. And listening again shows that the music hasn’t lost a sixteenth-note of power, elegance, and grace.

The art-rock tag isn’t exactly fair. Tull was, like many of the best bands, not very classifiable. Built on a bluesy broth, its  musical stew thickened and took on layers of flavor year by year. Founder Ian Anderson had a fascination for medieval tunes and rhythms, but never overplayed them. He also never ignored virtuosity, fronting with rock’s best-known flute but also slinging a very well-played acoustic guitar. Martin Barre, the grit-chord guitarist with the edgy sound on lead, looked at various times like a mentally tilted character from Monty Python, but raised roof after…

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Jethro Tull Comic Art

Fluteeeee by 3 Chord Dorks (click for more)

Aqualung cover (Tune Of The Day blog)

Ian Anderson and David Palmer 1977 TV Show photos Part 2

My computer has agreed to work (mostly) for now, so let’s have another round of some rare Ian Anderson and David Palmer photos. You can find the first part by clicking here. Enjoy!

Click on the images to see them larger.

Until next time.

Martin Barre: Unwrapped!

Pictures are from Jethro Tull’s 1984 “Under Wraps” tour.

Ian Anderson and David Palmer 1977 TV Show photos

Remy Tena posted these great rare photos of Ian Anderson and David Palmer playing on the set of a Philadelphia television station in the 1970s. I will post more in a second part, simply because my computer refuses to work correctly.

Very unique photos. Kudos to Remy for delivering once again.Remy’s youtube channel is a great place to find Tull gems.

It is also worth mentioning that the Aqualung-MyGod blog (which also can be seen in the links section) has a wide variety of entertainments that would most likely appeal to you.

More content to come, glad to have you here!

And great short interview where Ian shares his thoughts on religion and the possibilities of music played in the church. Very good read–thought I’d reblog. 🙂

Click here if the above link does not work.

Update

First, thank you for the continued support, Rhythm in Gold is going strong!

I have tried to install a translation tool on the menu but I have had no luck with getting it to work. I know a large portion of visitors are from non-English countries–if you are one of them I hope you can read this: I’m sorry.

I have uploaded several miscellaneous Jethro Tull pictures and uploaded them to the blog in the format of a gallery. You can click the “Photo Gallery” link above the header, or you can just click here 🙂 I plan to be adding more to the gallery as time goes by.

I’ve also added more links to the links section, if you have Jethro Tull related content and would like me to link to it and/or post it, please leave me a comment to Let you know.

Cup of Wonder is a classic Jethro Tull website, Heavy with solid content. There the meanings of Jethro Tull songs and lyrics are studied and theorized by veteran fans of the band, very extensive, well designed–it is a great place to be for a Tull fan.

Tull Press is another classic Tull site which contains articles and pictures of Jethro Tull which have been published throughout the years. Tons of interesting gems to be found on this website from nearly all of Tull’s eras.

I have added a link to Remy’s (Jethro Tull Board username Tull50) youtube channel. Remy provides Rhythm in Gold readers with many full Tull concerts video uploads, so it makes sense to connect the fans directly to the source. His channel is not exclusively Jethro Tull, but you won’t miss them.

I have little new content to post as of the moment but I will deliver when the moment is more opportune.

Best wishes