Perhaps audience members are watching the guests on the video screen (understandable since Ryan and Unnur are young and attractive) rather than me standing in front singing and playing live but that’s what the guests are there for: to add to the entertainment value and sing in character as per the story. There are, of course, some of the Rock Opera songs where the lines sung by me are duets as opposed to solo but you get the drift. This show, has many more sung songs and much less instrumental music anyway. Remember that in Jethro Tull best-of shows there are usually at least two instrumentals plus songs with long instrumental passages, so I think it’s fair to point out that I am actually singing about the same amount as I usually do in the context of the big picture over the many years. That’s a lot more lines of lyrics than I sing during in a 1 hour festival set, singing the whole concert myself and about the same amount I would sing in a 1 hr 30 min festival best-of show. Just as I intended it to be from the initial concept. Without recits there are exactly 500 lines and I sing 364 or 73% of the lines of the actual songs.Īverage 70%.

With recits there are 589 lines of lyrics in the whole show and I sing in 395 of the lines in total or 67%.

I have done a count of all lines of lyrics, song by song, that I sing – both the total of the whole show and the actual songs minus the recitatives (the introductory short links between the actual songs). The show was constructed from the beginning to allow about a third of the performance to be the domain of the pre-recorded video guests – whether singing solo in-character lines or duets with me.

A brief message on the subject of the live showĪ few silly, unobservant people have concluded rashly that the new “Jethro Tull Rock Opera” show is either all prerecorded vocals or, at best, that I am singing only about 30% of the words.

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