Tull Music Book
Posted on Sunday, February 29th, 2004 at 5:43 pm
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It Might Get Loud [Blu-ray] $8.45 Three generations of rock guitarists come together for It Might Get Loud, a 2009 documentary directed by Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth). These are not just your garden-variety guitar gods: Jimmy Page, in his mid-’60s at the time of the film, founded Led Zeppelin, who dominated the 1970s following the breakup of the Beatles. As a member of U2, 48-year-old David Evans, better known as the … |
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Aqualung $5.34 After veering sharply from the blues inluences of their debut, This Was, Jethro Tull’s sound quickly coalesced around jazz-tinged English folk influences and the antics of frontman/flautist Ian Anderson. But it was guitarist Martin Barre’s swaggering riff off the title track of the band’s fourth album that would become Tull’s indelibly clichéd trademark–and the band’s entrée into a long reign a… |
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Benefit $5.33 This is in very good shape, one of the best Tull albums of all time -… |
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Almost Famous $4.77 Former rock critic Cameron Crowe delves into his past with this affectionate story centering on high school student Patrick Fugit, who aspires to cover the rock scene in the early 1970s. He bluffs his way into an assignment for Rolling Stone magazine, and is soon covering the band Stillwater–and their drug-induced offstage antics–on tour. Billy Crudup, Kate Hudson, Frances McDormand, Jason Lee, … |
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The Rolling Stones – Rock and Roll Circus $13.15 Unavailable at all for nearly three decades, then issued in a VHS edition in 1996, the Rolling Stones’ legendary Rock and Roll Circus finally gets the full treatment with this DVD release documenting the 1968 event. The Stones were reportedly unhappy with their performance (hence the long delay), and it isn’t their finest moment; performing “Jumping Jack Flash” and a variety of songs from their th… |
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Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock’N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock ‘N’Roll $8.24 Vintage presents the paperback edition of the wild and brilliant writings of Lester Bangs–the most outrageous and popular rock critic of the 1970s–edited and with an introduction by the reigning dean of rack critics, Greil Marcus. Advertising in Rolling Stone and other major publications…. |
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Jethro Tull: A History of the Band, 1968-2001 $37.28 Originally formed by singer-songwriter Ian Anderson in psychedelic 1968, the band Jethro Tull has been recording its own kind of rock and roll and touring the globe for more than three decades. This is a history of the band through the present, written by an acquaintance of several of its members. The book includes a chronology of all of the band’s recordings and information on all accompanying to… |