1258 Jethro Tull - By Kind Permission Of I've had this track on my mind, so I figured it would be a nice Friday pick. This is essentially a 10-minute John Evans' keyboard solo with a bit of Ian's flute; it was recorded live at Carnegie Hall in late 1970 and later appeared on their compilation album: Living in the Past . It was one of two songs on the album that were recorded live, the other being Dharma for On e ; both of these songs together took up an entire side of one of the two records. Apparently the song got its title, ( By Kind Permission Of ), from John Evans borrowing sections for the song from some famous classical pieces and for obvious reasons could not procure permission to use them from the original authors. The pieces he used were, I do believe: Claude Debussy's Golliwog's Cakewalk , Rachmaninov's Prelude in G Sharp Minor , and Beethoven's Sonate #8: Pathétique . Hear By Kind Permission Of on YouTube. My song pick a year ago
What a coincidence, I listened yesterday to this song for the first time. I am reading Necromancer by Gordon R. Dickson and thought there was another novel by the title, looking that up on wikipedia I discovered there was a Rush song. I believe Caress Of Steel is the only Rush album I never listened to.
ReplyDelete"Caress of Steel" is not a popular album, even among Rush fans, but it is far from a bad record in my opinion, just not their best. It definitely has a certain charm about it; I listen to it every now and then.
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