[atlantaprog] Tull, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum

1. Saw Tull last Saturday night--not bad. Ian Anderson's voice is still not so great (too bad--I'd hoped it was improving. Must be those Controlled Studio Conditions), and now they've started transposing things downward. They did *all* of *Aqualung*, except for a few cuts in "Wind-Up" (part of the encore, along with "Locomotive Breath") and "Cross-Eyed Mary" (where they cut out the third verse and chorus, since they're identical to the second). Really neat hearing "Mother Goose" and "Cheap Day-Return" live after all these years--I thought it'd never happen. Instead of an opening act, they had a guest violinist, a 22-year-old Julliard grad named Lucia Micarelli, who apparently has her own crossover CD, some of which Tull backed her on (including instrumental covers of "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "Kashmir"!) during their set, as well as getting her to join in on some of the Tull material.

Not much pre-*Aqualung*, except for "Beggar's Farm" and "Life Is A Long Song", the latter of which I missed somehow (I should've been close enough to the venue to hear it, but the band occasionaly employed a small-scale setup, with drummer Doane Perry playing a mini-kit at the front of the stage). "Weathercock", from *Heavy Horses*, also made it, as well as "Skating Away (On The Thin Ice Of The New Day)", "In The Grip Of Stronger Stuff", from Anderson's instrumental solo CD *Divinities*, and "Budapest", from *Crest Of A Knave*, which I understand is one of the songs of which Anderson's proudest. Most of the war horses were also absent--lots of albums went completely unrepresented (though keyboardist Andrew Giddings slipped the intro to "Flying Dutchman", from *Stormwatch*, into the intro to (I think) "Wind-Up". Add Lucia Micarelli's stuff and that's pretty much the whole set.

2. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum at the Earl tomorrow night (third time this year--not bad for a band from the Bay Area). Come and be Cruelly Slain <tm>! Eight bucks at the door.

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