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This will be the only Tull box set I'm going to pass on as I can't stand anything about Christmas.

(well, OK, I'll gladly tuck into a traditional British Christmas fruit cake.)

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"Can you stop saying nice things about me?" Robert Fripp wasn't pleased when Jakko Jakszyk ruined his reputation as a tough boss
Jakko has also worked with Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson, who shares a similarly authoritarian reputation. Anderson gave an example of this himself when he recently revealed to Guitar Player that he could only rely on himself to fix "Locomotive Breath" when recording Tull's classic Aqualung record. But here again, Jakko says, his experience differs from the perception.
 
It's been an amazing run of catalog reissues, so far, so why stop now? At least 2 more in release order would make me really happy, but I'd buy 'em all if they do 'em.
 
Yet still no Living in the Past? That would have been my preference before the rest
You have it in the bonus tracks save for the 4 songs with missing multitrack. Carnegie Hall (previous Benefit CD/DVD edition bonus) isn't a Wilson mix though.
 
Nice? But when are we getting Aqualung in Atmos?
Oh you betcha, it's a must have.
Atmos mixing by Bruce Soord, who is more than capable and imo on a similar ability level to Steve Wilson
I’m sure the Atmos will be fine but I assume we can kiss goodbye to Tull with a good dynamic range in stereo, as this is not something Soord is known for.

The same thing happened when Steve Wilson stepped away from the Marillion box sets, the stereo sound got crushed.
 
To my knowledge Bruce Soord has never released anything dynamically crushed since 2016 onwards. Not in his band/solo albums and neither in the other albums he has mixed. His latest brickwalled album was Magnolia (2014), and he has expressed his desire to re-release it with a more dynamic master in the near future.

DR 9-10, which is the usual range for his stereo mixes, is fine with me. They sound great to these ears, I'd even describe them as something close to "audiophile rock" if you ask me. Steven Wilson's stereo mixes of his own music are consistenly around DR 10 too, check out the numbers yourself.
 
SURE!#2 :LOL:

4 of the Most Controversial Moments in Rock History

2. Jethro Tull Beats Metallica in Grammy Race​


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It was the win that shocked the world. Jethro Tull very surprisingly beat Metallica to win the newly-added Best Hard Rock or Heavy Metal Performance award at the Grammys in 1989. Even non-fans of metal were outraged. Though, it is worth noting that the snub didn’t affect Metallica all that much. They went on to have a very long and successful career and scored nine Grammy awards later on.
 
This might not be the appropriate place to ask and I'll understand if this is deleted.

Have any audience recordings from 1972 or 1973 (Brick and Passion Play tours) that have maybe above average fidelity been unearthed?

The band maybe has one board tape from 1973? (With one track released on 25 Years of JT set.)
 
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