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March 10, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
R.I.P. Keith Olsen
Reports are coming in just now that record producer and sound engineer Keith Olsen has died. There’s a chance that you have several records he had a hand in as part of your record collection. Put another way, there’s almost no chance his fingerprints aren’t all over the albums you know and love. He’s perhaps […]Archive
September 22, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Five Songs For Friday: 19 – Album-Length ‘Songs’
It’s been a while – and since the big news for a lot of people this week was the announcement that Sleep will be playing NZ shows next year (for the first time ever) I thought, in honour of the album Dopesmoker we could look at four single-track albums; album-length songs. So here goes…Archive
April 5, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Jethro Tull: The String Quartets
Jethro Tull The String Quartets BMG Rights UK Symphonic Rock. Two pretty rotten words when pushed together like that. You’d have to go to ‘Kiddie’ and ‘Fiddler’ to get much worse. Well, the fiddler in Jethro Tull is no kiddie by any stretch – but he’s still stretching the definition of Jethro Tull as he […]Archive
March 30, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 56 – Paul McLaney
Welcome to episode 56 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, L’affare and Yeastie Boys. This one is a chat with musician Paul McLaney. This conversation was recorded over a year ago – it was to be one of the earliest podcast episodes, and then I lost it, then I […]Archive
September 12, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson: Thick As A Brick – Live in Iceland
Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson Thick As A Brick: Live In Iceland Eagle Rock Entertainment/Shock Here Ian Anderson – he of Jethro Tull! (we’re reminded on every “solo” release/tour and associated branding) – takes the old Thick As A Brick (and his 2012 sequel) on the road, both albums, all the material, the full (true) story […]Archive
April 17, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1527
Jethro Tull, Aqualung (1971) Reading this book so that takes me to the album again, obviously. I like Jethro Tull but I am not what you’d call a huge fan – I’m happy just checking in now and again. There’s always enough to keep me for the duration of an album though – you […]Archive
January 4, 2012 by Simon Sweetman