Jethro Tull to Release TaaB2
 

I saw this on PE. I don't know what to think about this since it is only 2nd album without Barre, and this took me by complete surprise. Well here is the announcement:

TAAB2 - Whatever Happened To Gerald Bostock? - is a full length Progressive Rock "concept" album worthy of its predecessor. Boy to man and beyond, it looks at what might have befallen the child poet Gerald Bostock in later life. Or, perhaps, any of us. To be released in two formats: the simple jewel case CD with 8-page booklet and the Special Edition with CD, audio-visual DVD and 16-page booklet. The DVD contains 5.1 surround mixes, 24-bit stereo mix, videos covering the making of the album, interviews with the musicians and the lyric reading where ian Anderson reads the lyrics in various settings. Also on the DVD are the pages of StCleve.com, the online update of the St Cleve Chronicle, fabled newspaper of the original album, and the multilingual lyric translations in Italian, German, Spanish, Czech, Polish and Russian.

This is released as Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson. I think the official date of release of April 2nd was picked otherwise everyone would think of it as an April Fool's joke :D

Edited to provide the link: http://www.jethrotull.com/

Re: Jethro Tull to Release TaaB2
 

Money grab.

Didn't Ian Anderson say that he meant Thick as a Brick to be an anti-concept album? That he was making fun of them by going overboard only to have it be taken seriously? Yes. Yes he did.

Now he's revisiting it to... blah, blah, blah.

Tubular Bells X will probably be next.

Re: Jethro Tull to Release TaaB2
 

I was beginning to think that this may be a hoax. However, it is apparently real. This is an excerpt from Steven Wilson's FB page:

"I recently had the pleasure of mixing the new Ian Anderson / Jethro Tull album, which is a follow up to the classic Thick as a Brick album from 1972. TAAB2 is very much in the tradition of the first album, a continuous 54 minute concept piece with a similar musical palette and style. It's just been officially announced for release in April as a CD/DVD (including a 5.1 mix and stereo in high res), more details on the Tull website. I also completed mixes for a 40th anniversary surround sound edition of the original Thick as a Brick, though not sure when that is coming out."

Re: Jethro Tull to Release TaaB2
 

Here is the trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7jZM...layer_embedded