Date: 1975-07-25
Location: Seattle, WA
Venue: Seattle Center Coliseum
Source: Audience
Lineage: Master Reels @ full track mono>Tandberg Model 11>Wavelab 96/24 1ch mono>wav 44.1/16 2ch mono>flac
Taping Gear: Tandberg Model 11 R2R deck, Sony ECM-22P mic
Taped and Transferred By: JEMS
Band Members:
Ian Anderson - vocals, flute
Martin Barre - guitar
Jeffrey Hammond - bass
John Evan - keyboards
Barriemore Barlow - drums
Disc 1
01 Introduction 0:52
02 Wind-Up-Passion Play 7:56
03 Thick As A Brick 15:05
04 Wond'ring Aloud 4:18
05 My God (with flute solo) 12:29
06 Sealion 2:52
07 Skating Away (with band introductions) 8:09
Total Time 51:41
01 Ladies (with drum solo) 10:52
02 War Child 4:14
03 War Child Suite 5:19
04 Cross-Eyed Mary 5:13
05 Bungle In The Jungle 2:11
06 The Hare Who Lost His Spectacles 1:14
07 Aqualung 8:22
08 Guitar Solo 3:35
09 Back-Door Angels 5:48
10 Minstrel In The Gallery 1:40
11 Locomotive Breath 5:32
12 Hard-Headed English General 4:25
13 Back-Door Angels Reprise 1:54
Total Time 60:19
flute solo includes God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Bourée & Living In The Past
Notes: JEMS master recording. This is an excellent sounding recording. This show captures Jethro Tull touring in support of their War Child album. This recording has circulated for years but this is the first time the master reels have ever been properly digitized (April 2010). This is an excellent show and performance with an early taste of an excerpt of Minstrel In The Gallery which would not be released until later in 75. Ian's in between song banter at this show is as entertaining if not more entertaining than music. Also of note this show took place on the 25th of July not the 27th as some other sources have speculated in the past.
Remaster
1. Create stereo image.
2. Adjust Tonality/EQ.
3. Adjust dynamics.
4. Adjust speed.
5. Repair tape change/flip.
6. Re-track.
Back to the Drawing Board
Despite live performances which were well received, many music critics were un-impressed with Tull's A Passion Play. Ian Anderson's disagreed with the criticism but knew that a different approach was needed for the next album. Warchild was recorded at Morgan Studios in London during the spring of 1974 and was named after a Roy Harper song called Little Lady in which the term was used. The album was eventually released in October of that year, reaching number 2 on the US charts and number 14 in Britain. Many fans have been critical of the album through the years but songs from the album such as Skating Away, Back Door Angels and Sealion have been included in many set lists since they were originally recorded. Tours in Japan and Australia initially presented the new material during the fall and winter of 1974.
This seemed appropriate since a picture of Melbourne, Australia was used to produce the Warchild album cover. The year ended with a brief tour of Europe. During these tours, a small segment of unrecorded material was played as part of a medley which later became the song Minstrel in the Gallery. Apparently encouraged that Warchild was not meeting the same scathing rebuke as the prior album, Ian Anderson decided to rent a house in Montreux, Switzerland to enjoy the 1974 Christmas holiday and write his next album, Minstrel in the Gallery. A tour of Europe during April of 1975 consisted of 15 shows and had set lists which were still dominated by Warchild and older album material. The tour was briefly interrupted when Ian Anderson suffered a sprained ankle during a performance in Germany. Once on the mend, the band was back on the road to complete the tour. The Minstrel album was recorded during the next few months in Monte Carlo, Monaco before starting a summer tour. Six more shows in Europe and then on to the United States.
The second show of the North American tour was in Seattle, Washington on July 25th, 1975. There has been some confusion regarding the date of this show as many people had originally believed that it had been on July 27th. However, the taper of this show and quoted newspaper advertisements both confirm July 25th to be the correct date. The set list was similar to shows over the past 6 months. There were seven songs from the Warchild album (Warchild, Warchild suite, Ladies, Back-Door Angels, Bungle in the Jungle, Sealion and Skating Away) with the rest of the set taken from the previous albums. The short segment of the Minstrel song was still included but despite completing and recording this new album, no other parts of Minstrel were played.
In the face of all the criticism of A Passion Play, parts of that album were still included in the show.
The Critique Oblique segment was played after an excerpt of Wind-up, almost as if Anderson was hoping that no one would notice that it was Passion Play material. In a more obvious attempt to include -but not really include- Passion Play segments, The Hare Who Lost His Spectacles begins after a segment of Bungle in the Jungle but is quickly morphed into an introduction for Aqualung rather than a legitimate segment of the much-maligned album. Of course, there were other highlights of the show as well. The omnipresent flute solo was incorporated into My God and included parts from God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Bourée and Living In The Past. Jeffery Hammond-Hammond was featured as both the subject of the introduction story for Bungle in the Jungle and as a solo performer, demonstrating his skills as a juggler of unusual items. The items turned out to be black and white tennis balls that came out of the back side of a pantomime zebra which would join him on stage at that point. Given that Mr. Hammond was dressed in his usual black and white striped outfit, it must have been a spectacle to behold. Later in the show Mr. Anderson informs the audience that the song Skating Away was the only song salvaged from the 1973 recording sessions at Château d'Hérouville studios in France. The rest of the material was akin to Mr. Hammond's juggling material, by his own estimation. A string quartet was also part of the band at the time and was featured prominently during the Warchild suite.
These shows were considered a success by critics and fans alike. Chris Charlesworth of Melody Maker wrote at the time, "Jethro Tull are back once again playing the kind of music that won them their hard earned reputation as brilliant showmen and inventive instrumentalists....." We hope that you agree.
PRRP Staff
Notes from the Re-Master
This project began with a lossless FLAC copy of the torrented Master tape made available in the spring of 2010. The taper, JEMS is well known in trading groups as an avid fan who consistently obtained high quality recordings. According to the taper, the show was recorded using a Tandberg Model 11 R2R reel-to-reel deck and a Sony ECM-22P microphone. Pictures of this massive equipment (by today's standards) were included with the original release. Using this setup, only one break in the recording for a tape change was needed. This "tape flip" has been repaired and hopefully is now, unnoticeable.
The reel-to-reel tape setup was also very accurate for tape speed. Only minor speed adjustments were made during the remastering process. The recording was made in mono so one of the first tasks was to create a stereo image for the sound. The EQ was then adjusted to re-balance the sound and correct the clear excesses that were present.
Because this was a mono recording, channel balance was not an issue but dynamics were adjusted to enhance the recording. The show was then re-tracked and split for the CD format along a segment of applause so no music was interrupted.
PRRP Staff
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