Jethro Tull - Live at Montreux 2003
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Free Music Notes for Live at Montreux 2003
Free Music Review: My 2nd favorite live Tull
Hit: 4 Stars
I like this almost as much as "Nothing Is Easy:Isle of Wight". Ian Anderson's voice here is much more forceful than on "Light Music", and the sound is clearly better than on "Bursting Out". My personal favorite is a powerful rendition of "Hunting Girl", and I consider the Aqualung tracks to be much better than the performances on the 1978 live album. My only complaint is that the keyboards get a bit too twiddly at times for my taste.Free Music Review: New material please!
Hit: 3 Stars
The recording is great and sounds wonderful, the playing is great, the band is great, in fact, it is a great CD. So, why three starts? Because there is really nothing all that new on the CD.
I love Tull, and have been a huge fan since the early 80's when I was in grade school. So, I hate to give any Tull release, especially a live release, such a bad review. But, here goes...
Ian Anderson doesn't seem to trust his audience enough. He seems to release CD's for people for know Tull from the radio, not the long time fans. Yes, he has opened the vaults with the twenty and twenty-five year box sets, and with "Night Cap" and the "Live at the Isle of Wight" CD, but the recent "Living with the Past" has pretty much the same set list as this CD. Which makes sense, as they were recorded less than two years apart. So I don't understand the need to release two live CD's that were recorded so close together. Both sound pretty much identical; little difference in the arrangements, playing, sound, etc. How many live versions of "Living in the Past," "Aqualung," "Locomotive Breath," etc., do we need?
If you own "Living with the Past" and "A Little Night Music" this CD is pretty redundent as nearly every song on this CD appears on one of those two CD's. And, in some cases, appear on both. I would rather see a CD recorded on the current tour, as the set list has at least changed somewhat, though not that much. Or another CD from an older tour.
Free Music Review: So-So
Hit: 2 Stars
Ian Anderson's flute playing is probably at an all-time peak right now. Why the two stars? I still feel he's lost a TON vocally. On "Nothing Is Easy" he sounds winded and wheezy, chopping off his phrases and clearly having trouble holding longer vocal tones. Maybe it's me, but GIVE me "Bursting Out" or "Isle Of Wight" instead. In the studio, Ian can still cut it vocally, but live? Maybe it was an off night or maybe I'm off.
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