>On Fri, 30 May 2008 18:41:24 -0700 (PDT), progea wrote:
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>> http://blog.myspace.com/tonylortiz - May 30th entry

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>"They started with My Sunday Feeling, the opening track from the group's
>first album, This Was, which has just been reissued in a special
>"collectors' edition". The performance was perfect ¡V eerily so ¡V with
>Anderson's wiry vocal boosted so high in the mix that it sounded more
>like a gerbil under an auto tyre than the a human.
>
>But there was something incongruous about hearing a band who once beat
>Metallica to win the Grammy for Best Hard Rock/Metal performance
>sounding about as loud and rugged as a cruise ship act. And other
>numbers from the rock end of their catalogue, such as New Day Yesterday,
>sounded even more deracinated. In short, Tull sux antelope nuts.
>
>Greg Lake of Emerson Lake & Palmer fame performed his song Lucky Man as
>a guest turn, and one of the departed drummers, Barriemore Barlow,
>stepped in as the group waded deep into the more convoluted,
>progressive-rock epics Heavy Horses and Thick as a Brick for which they
>are still best reviled.
>
>Anderson cracked many appalling jokes, some of them quite funny, he had
>best be a comedian, Tull's show is a wanking joke. But no amount of
>levity could disguise the fact that this was a grand celebration by and
>of a band which has seen better days. Living in the past indeed. They
>need to stay there."