anyone mention tull?

I've got the Chrysalis CD remasters of 'Thick as a Brick' and 'Aqualung.' 'TaaB' sounds wonderful, but 'Aqualung' sounds very dull and closed-in in comparison. (Luckily, I've still got them both on vinyl too, including a very sweet MoFi 'TaaB'.)

Davetherave, just to let you know, the title cut [Aqualung] & Hymn 43 were compressed on the master tape. During the AOR [album oriented radio] FM days, many record companies would compress the intended single releases, so that they would sound louder on the s**t car radios of the day.

FYI, I have a Gold DCC copy, and these songs are also horribly compressed.

Thanks for mentioning This Was. When it came out I listened and thought "I've never heard anything like this before". Ian Anderson really did it a bit differently. Anyone see them play on The Rolling Stone's Rock & Roll Circus? They should have played more, they were great. BTW, how about the Dirty Mac on that DVD? Eric Clapton, John Lennon, Keith Richards, and Mitch Mitchell! Absolutely amazing, until Yoko came out of her bag & ruined the whole thing!
-Brad in Palo Alto

The newly reissued vinyl of Aqualong on Classic Records is great. I have the UK, Japanese, USA, MFSL & DCC releases. IMHO, this is the best so far, the vinyl is so quiet. Aqualung finally sounds so clear and uncompreesed that you think they are in the room. Get it while you can, I purchased 2. I do not know how good thier CD release is but if it is anything close to the vinyl it to will sound awesome.

Hevac1, if Aqualung [and Hymn 43] sound open & uncompressed, then Classic Records must have electronically played with the remastering. See my earlier post.

It would be nice to finally hear these two songs with similar fidelity of the other songs on the album. I hope that there's no downside to their remastering...sometimes other things in the mix used to suffer, when engineers "monkeyed" with the sound. But with today's digital technology, it's a whole new ballgame!