u/EricBiesel

After my old man passed away, I don't really have anyone to listen to Tull's music with and just chat about it with, and I miss it. Would anyone be interested in doing a weekly listening party, possibly on Discord, Zoom, or Google Meet? I've done this with other bands in the past, and it's been a lot of fun. I think that it would be fun to listen to one album a week at a prearranged time, and go in Chronological order from the very beginning to the end; people could dip in and out of chat as they wanted to or just listen and not directly participate. If there's any interest, I can coordinate it.

I noticed something odd going through some of the remastered/rereleased live albums. In the 2008 live album (Baloise Session), Anderson's vocals are legitimately painful to listen to. I know that his voice had been lacking in power/expressive vibrato live since the 90s (at least) but this was about as rough as I had ever heard it; in this recording, he was struggling to even hit the right pitches for large parts of entire songs, and it was really, just, unmusical.

What surprised me was checking out some videos from the 2024-2025 concert tours; he still has the same issue of lack of power/struggling to get the words out in the correct timing, but he sounds light years better. Does anyone know what happened? Like, why was he struggling so hard in 2008 but sounds better almost 20 years later? It doesn't seem like it's just from transposing the tunes into more manageable keys; he seems to have a lot more control. It just struck me as strange.