Ian’s Diary: June 1999 It has been almost a month of transition from studio work to preparing for concert touring again. The final mix having been completed with the added vocals of Najma Akhtar, I took the masters down to Chop ‘em Out – a London production mastering studio – where the edited and compiled production master reference CD was … Read More
News Update: May 1999 Jethro Tull are back on the road after four months of work in the studio writing, rehearsing and recording the new Tull album, named after this web site, j-tull Dot Com. The release date is to be August 24th. The record companies are Fuel 2000 in the USA and Canada, (distributed, sold and marketed by the … Read More
Ian’s Diary: May 1999 A rough month, in the sense of having to work some pretty long hours on the vocal and flute overdubs, together with mixing the 24 tracks to digital stereo. Not a day off since I came back from the brief Caribbean cruise. Anybody feeling sorry for me yet? No, I didn’t think so. The design and … Read More
News Update: April 1999 Hard on the heels of the last recording sessions for the Tull album, I am now ensconced in the studio mixing down the 24 track masters to two track stereo. Mixing is a pleasure/pain exercise. Pleasurable, because the fun of hearing tracks again after a few days, or even weeks, is invigorating in itself but also … Read More
News Update: March 1999 Recording: More and more work has been carried out on the Tull album with a period of some 10 days late in February being devoted to drum, bass and keyboard overdubs, as well as the recording of two more backing tracks. Martin was on holiday, skiing in the Austrian Alps and almost failed to return in … Read More
Ian’s Diary: March 1999 We holidayed (vacationed) with lots of rich Americans on board the MS Lucky Windstar, cruising to the most exotic destinations in the Caribbean. Tobago, Grenadines, Martinique, Barbados and St. Lucia came and went and so did rather a lot of our money, it being a luxury cruise, you understand. The good Captain and the Chief Officer … Read More
News Update: February 1999 Well, here we are at the mid-point of a second month of working intermittently on the new Tull album. We tend to do a period of three days rehearsal and arranging of, maybe, two new pieces, followed by a couple of recording days to record the master backing tracks. The next day is for overdubs and … Read More
News Update: January 1999 Well, what can I say? The web-site took a little longer than anticipated to get up and cyberspatially running. This was because web-meister Andrew Giddings was incapacitated over the Christmas and new year period with a bad case of the wretched flu near-epidemic which reduced all Brits of delicate constitution to quivering, pain-wracked, bed-and-floor-ridden, incontinent, dribbling … Read More
News Update: November 1998 Boy, it’s been a busy little summer, with three tours in the USA as well as dates in Switzerland and the delightful Liechtenstein. The record-breaking heat-waves in Texas and elsewhere proved most timely to stretch the endurance and resolve of even such sun-loving stalwarts as A. Giddings of the golden epidermis, and M. Barre of the … Read More
Jeffrey’s Journal – February 1970 Hallo, Look, I don’t know much about this Fan Club thing, but Ian explained that I was the only person that he could really trust to tell you what’s going on with the group. Now it is a bit embarrassing to have to start with an apology, but I know everyone has got very impatient … Read More
