THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “A live extravaganza from the ’70s Jethro Tull, this was recorded over several nights in different venues on a portable eight-track tape recorder and transferred to 2” multitrack when I got home after the tours,” says bandleader Ian Anderson of Bursting Out, the group’s 1978 double-live album, which has now been expanded and upgraded in a new Inflated Edition.
“I had to listen all through to many shows and pick the best live versions. But much of it was, at least, from the concert in Bern, Switzerland, where dear Claude Nobs came to introduce the band in his inimitable style. Also featuring on this box set collection is the live concert from Madison Square Garden recorded a few months later and shown live on BBC TV in the U.K.. A scary experience for the band as it was, we were told, the first time a live rock concert had been the subject of a live satellite broadcast.
“The band lineup at this time was a fine-tuned machine and, although missing the unwell John Glascock for the MSG show, it serves as a fine testimony for the many wonderful shows we did in the ’70s before general touring fatigue and burn-out began a year or so later. Enjoy vintage Tull at its ’70s best!”
Bursting Out, Tull’s first live album, was recorded at various locations during the European Heavy Horses tour in May and June 1978. Now, the album will be reissued in an expanded three-CD / three-DVD format, remixed by the legendary Steven Wilson with an array of extras:
● CD 1: Bursting Out (Part 1) — A Wilson stereo remix, including soundcheck recordings. Eight tracks previously unreleased.
● CD 2: Bursting Out (Part 2) — A Wilson stereo remix, including soundcheck recordings. Three tracks previously unreleased
● CD 3: An edited version of the 1978 Madison Square Garden show which was issued in 2009, now mixed by Wilson.
● DVDs 1 & 2: Remixed tracks in 96/24 stereo and 5.1 surround, plus the flat transfers of the original album at 96/24 stereo.
● DVD 3: The full 93-minute MSG show, including 50+ minutes of video which was part of a transatlantic broadcast with BBC and Radio 1. The audio is 48/24 stereo and 5.1 surround.
When it was first reissued on CD in 1990, Bursting Out was available as a double-disc CD in the U.K. and the rest of Europe, but as a single CD release in the U.S., with three tracks (Quatrain, Sweet Dream and Conundrum) omitted to fit the 80 minutes CD length, while the double-disc 1990 CD version in the U.K. (and Europe) incorporated the first track for both discs (Introductions) in the song that follows. In 2004, the complete album was released worldwide as a two-disc set with Introductions as a separate track.”
