Jethro Tull's Live In Iceland 5.1

[Sal1950]

Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson Thick As A Brick Live In Iceland
An excellent 5.1 BluRay recording of a live small scale performance of both TAAB 1 and TAAB2.
BluRay sound is DTS-HD Master Audio 24/96 and the quality is excellent all around. Tastefull 5.1 mix
Also available on disc is a straight LPCM Stereo mix if you don't have a multich rig at hand.
Ian Anderson has always been a bit serious about his in-concert sound. I remember attending a 1972 concert in Chicago's old International Amphitheater, a big old barn of a building with horrible sound. At the beginning of the concert Ian came out and first apologized to the audience for the horrid sound quaility, promising never to return to Chicago till a better sounding venue could be found. (didn't sound too bad to me that night but I have no reccolection of what chemicals I may have consumed that evening.)
Anyway, a good live concert with very good sound and a enjoyable stage opera being performed thru-out. Recorded live 2012-2013
It's material like this that really let a nice multich rig shine.

 

[Eirikur]

Hi @Sal1950 , do you happen to have the "Thick as a Brick" remixes by Steve Wilson?
Some of the original DVD releases had glitches on the first track and this was rectified, however...

If you have it, can you hear glitches on "side" two? It starts about 27:37 into the total record, right into the "How's you're Granny?" lyrics. I hear some tones/beeps at around 8900Hz and also 9650Hz around that point that are really annoying, but I'd like to know if it's just my version or a generic problem.
It's present in the stereo and DTS mixes, but not on the flat transfer.

PS: only the right channel in the stereo mix, I didn't check the DTS location

 

[Sal1950]

Hi @Sal1950 , do you happen to have the "Thick as a Brick" remixes by Steve Wilson?
Some of the original DVD releases had glitches on the first track and this was rectified, however...

If you have it, can you hear glitches on "side" two? It starts about 27:37 into the total record, right into the "How's you're Granny?" lyrics. I hear some tones/beeps at around 8900Hz and also 9650Hz around that point that are really annoying, but I'd like to know if it's just my version or a generic problem.
It's present in the stereo and DTS mixes, but not on the flat transfer.

PS: only the right channel in the stereo mix, I didn't check the DTS location

I don't have any of the TAAB optical disc releases. I do have the Steve Wilson remastered 2015 24/96 Stereo download from HDTracks.
Listening closely on my Senn HD650 cans I don't hear any of the abnormalities you describe.

So you ride yourselves over the fields
and you make all your animal deals
and your wise men don't know how it feels
to be thick as a brick.

 

[RayDunzl]

I didn't expect a substitute vocalist...

 

[SIY]

I didn't expect a substitute vocalist...

I saw them play on the 50th anniversary tour. Anderson's voice was totally shot. That kid (don't know his name) sang Aqualung.

I was quite sad.

 

[Eirikur]

Listening closely on my Senn HD650 cans I don't hear any of the abnormalities you describe.

Interesting, thanks.

I "fixed" the stereo part using Audacity, rather unbelievable you can select a small blip out of the frequency cloud, attenuate it and gone is the problem without introducing (serious) new artifacts.

When you look at the waveform you can actually see the 9kHz and ~10kHz modulate in the right channel

In the end I've also shaved off one 8kHz tone, and this is the difference (look at the scale on the left):

Zoomed in it's more clear, all fairly non-musical:

 

[frogmeat69]

Thick as a Brick is such an amazing album, and I love Jethro Tull, but I hurt inside when I hear Ian sing nowadays, I can't watch or listen to any of the more recent stuff, makes me sad. Still one of the greatest front men ever in rock, such an amazing stage presence, can't take that away from him, Father Time.

 

[Sal1950]

I "fixed" the stereo part using Audacity, rather unbelievable you can select a small blip out of the frequency cloud, attenuate it and gone is the problem without introducing (serious) new artifacts.

Audacity's an amazing tool and free, open source to boot, awesome!

Thick as a Brick is such an amazing album, and I love Jethro Tull, but I hurt inside when I hear Ian sing nowadays, I can't watch or listen to any of the more recent stuff, makes me sad. Still one of the greatest front men ever in rock, such an amazing stage presence, can't take that away from him, Father Time.

Life's a bitch and then we get old.
I've seen Jethro Tull around 3 times in the 70-80's, always a top shelf performance (from what I can remember). LOL
But things could be worse for Ian, Father Time has no mercy, think of what's happened to poor Linda Ronstadt.

 

[Ron Party]

I saw them play on the 50th anniversary tour. Anderson's voice was totally shot. That kid (don't know his name) sang Aqualung.

I was quite sad.

Me too, at the Greek in Berkeley. Great show, great music, but as you say Ian's voice was.....

 

[Eirikur]

I saw them play on the 50th anniversary tour. Anderson's voice was totally shot. That kid (don't know his name) sang Aqualung.

Ryan O'Donnell (the kid is almost 37 btw...)

 

[Sal1950]

Ryan O'Donnell (the kid is almost 37 btw...)

I guess it's a matter of perspective. LOL

 

[Eirikur]

I guess it's a matter of perspective. LOL

They do grow up quick, don't they

 

[SIY]

Yeah, I’m almost as old as Sal. Almost.

Saw Tull the first time in 1969, opening for the Who and Led Zeppelin.

 

[Sal1950]

Saw Tull the first time in 1969, opening for the Who and Led Zeppelin.

Really! Talk about a super frickin show, OMG

 

[SIY]

Really! Talk about a super frickin show, OMG

It took me a week to get my hearing back.