RARE 25th Anniversary JETHRO TULL Boxed Set - 4 discs + booklet

	£		46
	$		61

JETHRO TULL 25th ANNIVERSARY 4 CD BOX SET with BOOKLET
The CDS have never been played and are in MINT condition. The Booklet is also in MINT condition. The seal on the box lid has been opened but is still in one piece. There are a couple of minor cracks on the edges of the box. The inner black card (housing the 4 CDs is in MINT condition). This is a promotional set given to me in 1993.

Detailed item information

Album Features UPC: 094632600424 Artist: Jethro Tull Format: CD Release Year: 1993 Record Label: Chrysalis Records Genre: Art Rock, Rock & Pop Number Of Discs: 4
Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. My Sunday Feeling
2. Song For Jeffrey, A
3. Living in the Past
4. Teacher
5. Sweet Dream
6. Cross-Eyed Mary
7. Witch's Promise, The
8. Life Is a Long Song
9. Bungle in the Jungle
10. Minstrel in the Gallery
11. Cold Wind to Valhalla
12. Too Old to Rock 'N Roll, Too Young to Die
13. Songs From the Wood
14. Heavy Horses
15. Black Sunday
16. Broadsword

DISC 2:
1. Nothing Is Easy
2. My God
3. With You There to Help Me
4. Song For Jeffrey, A
5. To Cry You a Song
6. Sossity; You're a Woman
7. Reasons For Waiting
8. We Used to Know
9. Guitar Solo
10. For a Thousand Mothers

DISC 3:
1. So Much Trouble
2. My Sunday Feeling
3. Someday the Sun Won't Shine For You
4. Living in the Past
5. Bouree
6. With You There to Help Me
7. Thick as a Brick
8. Cheerio
9. New Day Yesterday, A
10. Protect and Survive
11. Jack-a-Lynn
12. Whistler, The
13. My God
14. Aqualung

DISC 4:
1. To Be Sad Is a Mad Way to Be
2. Back to the Family
3. Passion Play Extract
4. Live Medley: Wind-Up / Locomotive Breath / Land Of Hope And Glory
5. Seal Driver
6. Nobody's Car
7. Pussy Willow
8. Budapest
9. Nothing Is Easy
10. Kissing Willie
11. Still Loving You Tonight
12. Beggar's Farm
13. Passion Jig
14. Song For Jeffrey, A
15. Living in the Past

Details Distributor: EMI Music Distribution Recording Type: Mixed Recording Mode: Stereo SPAR Code: n/a
Album Notes
This limited edition box set comes packaged in a cigar box and consists of remixes, new recordings, the complete concert from Carnegie Hall recorded in 1970, and previously unreleased live material. The set also includes a 48-page color booklet with rare photos and a biography of Ian Anderson.The 4 CDs are titled as follows: 1st CD - "Remixed Classic Songs," 2nd CD - "Carnegie Hall, NYC: Recorded Live In 1970," 3rd CD - "The Beacons Bottoms Tapes" (new re-recordings specifically for the box set), 4th CD - "Potpourri: Live Across The World & Through The Years."Where the first Jethro Tull box five years earlier, 20 Years of Jethro Tull, mostly traded on radio broadcast performances and rarities, a few outtakes, and a remastered collection of key songs, 25th Anniversary Boxed Set benefits from a more thorough raid on the vaults that has yielded up one essential addition to any Jethro Tull collection. Disc two is the centerpiece of the set, containing an additional hour of the group's November 4, 1970 concert at Carnegie Hall in New York (two pieces were previously issued on Living in the Past). Preserved on a 16-track master tape, this benefit show for the drug rehabilitation program Phoenix House was the group's most prominent American gig up to that time. It's a good representation of what the band sounded like in its second incarnation, when they were still establishing themselves outside of England. The group had still not reached -- or even approached -- its progressive rock period, and the sound is very stripped down, a pounding mix of hard rock, acoustic folk music, jazz elements, and Ian Anderson's vocals, alternately sage-like and fierce; some of the flute acrobatics don't translate too well to tape, even in Carnegie Hall, but the transition from "Sossity, You're a Woman" into "Reasons for Waiting" -- featuring exquisite organ playing by John Evan -- is beautiful enough as to make up for the flaws elsewhere, as well as reminding listeners of one of the more hauntingly beautiful songs in the group's early repertory; they also unveil a song that was still, by Anderson's own account, a work-in-progress, entitled "My God." Disc one is comprised of 16 songs from across the group's history, from their single "My Sunday Feeling" in 1968 to "Broadsword" in 1982, all in remixed versions with some fresh nips and tucks by the engineers who generally make the music sound hotter and push the percussion and the guitar solos further into the foreground; those are interesting listening, but an audiophile hits collection of the original mixes would have been preferred. Disc three features the then-current lineup of the group in a live performance from 1992, documenting their latest approach to songs ranging across 24 years of their history -- they're professional and polished (and loud), but not as interesting as the original versions. Finally, Disc four is this set's companion to the 20th anniversary set's disc of radio performances, drawing from various additional radio appearances and other live venues -- opening with the loud, bluesy "To Be Sad Is a Mad Way to Be" (which is a definite throwback to the This Was album), the music advances across the decades, crossing the 1970s with a three-minute excerpt from A Passion Play into a medley of Aqualung material and on to their various 1980s incarnations and repertory, by which time Martin Barre is pretty much sharing the spotlight with (if not outright stealing it from) Anderson -- the most interesting moment is the "Passion Jig," an instrumental piece salvaged and adapted from part of A Passion Play, which is a clever way of reviving music from a concept album whose complete presence was no longer required. The entire package comes in a container designed to resemble a cigar box, with a profusely illustrated and annotated 46-page booklet. The only problem is that the box doesn't really stay shut with the catch that's installed on it, and the internal pockets holding the CDs are ..