TAAB2 - Whatever Happened To Gerald Bostock? - is a full length Progressive Rock "concept" album worthy of its predecessor. Boy to man and beyond, it looks at what might have befallen the child poet Gerald Bostock in later life. Or, perhaps, any of us.

To be released in two formats: the simple jewel case CD with 8-page booklet and the Special Edition with CD, audio-visual DVD and 16-page booklet. The DVD contains 5.1 surround mixes, 24-bit stereo mix, videos covering the making of the album, interviews with the musicians and the lyric reading where Ian Anderson reads the lyrics in various settings.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7jZMCBE ... hut7v6oB4=

Having seen Jethro Tull a few times including TAAB1, Passion Play and War Child, I'm looking forward to this one even if Martin Barre isn't on it. (I would REALLY prefer that he was, but that's just the way it rolls...)

Some more soundclips and 'stuff' here:
http://jethrotull.com/

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From wiki :

"Gerald Bostock is the fictional author of the poem used as the lyrics for the 1972 Jethro Tull album Thick as a Brick. The album cover is designed to look like a small village newspaper, the St. Cleve Chronicle & Linwell Advertiser. The front-page story describes how eight-year-old Gerald, nicknamed "Little Milton", received an award for his poem, but the award was revoked after he used the word "g__r" during a television broadcast. The paper also presents "Bostock's" poem in its entirety and notes that Jethro Tull has decided to use the poem as the centerpiece of their new album (also reviewed in the paper).

On the inside cover of the LP (Page 1 of the newspaper) there is an article entitled 'Little Milton in Schoolgirl Pregnancy Row', which talks about a 14-year-old girl named Julia Fealey (pictured on the front cover to Gerald's left), who blames her pregnancy on Gerald Bostock. The report continues stating that her doctor claims that the girl "was obviously lying to protect the real father."

Both Gerald Bostock and the poem were purely the inventions of Ian Anderson and the band.

The child model who portrayed Gerald Bostock was André C. Le Breton from the Elizabeth Smith Agency; he also appeared in European TV commercials in the early 1970s, and modeled for Freemans clothing catalogues and Russelda knitwear amongst others. Currently he is a music producer and has directed films for bands such as Crass Agenda under the Le Chaos Factory moniker."

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The current edition of Guitar World has a very good article/interview on this very project.

Bought it the other day - Has some very good bits, but Barre is sorely missed. Ian's current guitarist just bumbles along trying to do a really average Martin Barre impression, I think I would have preferred it if he had just tried to sound like himself.

I shall see how it sounds live in a few weeks, as my tickets came through on Friday.