The Great Jethro Tull

Mad Mohab

Benefit/Stand Up/Aqualung/Songs From the Wood/Heavy Horses/Stormwatch/Too Old to Rock and Roll, Too Young to Die/Minstrels in the Gallery/Passion Play/Thick as a Brick/Roots to Branches and Ian Anderson Secret Language of Birds are works of genius in my world.

Salamander/Nothing is Easy/We Used to Know/Dun Ringill/Up the Pool/Witches Promise/Wonder Aloud/COld Wind to Valhalla/Cup of Wonder/Velvet Green/Rover/Mouse Police/Montserrat/Circular Breathing/the Whistler/With you there to Help Me/For Michael Collins, Jeffrey and Me/The Clasp/Chequered Flag/Pied Piper and at least 50 more songs are as good as it gets in terms of brilliant songs, not to mention Thick as a Brick itself.

If you have yet to hear these songs and are a fan of extremely high quality rock and roll, please, invest some time, you might be pleasantly surprised.

Wilds

You could have just said this:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNCT6pA5I9A

brianlux

I'm glad I saw Tull around the time of Thick as a Brick. Awesome show!

Ian Anderson is best know for his flute and singing but oh my, what a marvelous acoustic guitarist as well!

Ian to Barriemore Barlow after the drummer had to step out for a brief break:
"Did you give it a good shake did you now?"

jethrojam420

I have waited many moons for this thread to appear. I haven't been listening to them as much as I should anymore but certainly I love them enough to name myself after them

pro

My uncle loves this band and he has many of their records, CDS and DVDS. There was a day, going back many and many years ago he asked me to put this LP on to CD for which I agreed to do. Well I had to because my turntable was fucked and I ended up on borrowing his. Don’t ask me what record it was but I know I taped it to the computer and worked around with the tracking and removing the annoying clicks… must had been an old record though. Anyway after a few hours finally done and listened to the CDR, I was happy with the end result and it sounded great.

He collected his LP and CDR a few days later and I can tell he was into the mood to listen to it because it seems like it’s his favourite album by them. About 20 minutes later I get a phone call from him and he was pissed off at me. Saying shit like I was a fucking prick, this and that. I was confused by this and I asked what I have done wrong. He said I put the wrong music onto the CDR. I was like huh? So I said fuck it… Let me check this CDR out because I was so fucking lost… good thing he was ten minutes walk from my house.

Finally arrived at his house and I bumped into his wife in the hallway and I said to her has he calmed down? She responds don’t ask… So while he was sitting on his chair watching TV and his stereo system was next to the chair… I ask him…. Turn on the system and play that CDR for me. So he did… I am couldn’t keep the laugh him because I never heard that music before. So I said to him open the fucking CD drive and let me have a look. So he did pressed the button to open it. I told him lift up the Jethro Tull CDR and he did. Then I said to him see the other CD that was underneath it? It would have worked if you had taken out that CD at first… he was all embarrassed towards me…. I responded… the older you get the thicker you become… He told me to get lost, go and talk to the wife because he wanted to hear the CDR.

I still have his turntable to this day… memories of Jethro Tull for me

Cortez the Killer sent me

My first concert!!!
Saw them in high school back in 98(I think) on Ian Anderson's 50th birthday during the Roots to Branches tour. My buddies and I made a huge "Happy 50th Birthday" sign and Ian acknowledged it with a wave and a thank you. As much as I was into Tull at the time, I wish we saw PJ on the Yield tour instead. None the less, I'm glad we saw them that year before we all dispersed off into college. I think I'm the only one of us still going to shows!

brianlux

pro wrote:

My uncle loves this band and he has many of their records, CDS and DVDS. There was a day, going back many and many years ago he asked me to put this LP on to CD for which I agreed to do. Well I had to because my turntable was fucked and I ended up on borrowing his. Don’t ask me what record it was but I know I taped it to the computer and worked around with the tracking and removing the annoying clicks… must had been an old record though. Anyway after a few hours finally done and listened to the CDR, I was happy with the end result and it sounded great.

He collected his LP and CDR a few days later and I can tell he was into the mood to listen to it because it seems like it’s his favourite album by them. About 20 minutes later I get a phone call from him and he was pissed off at me. Saying shit like I was a fucking prick, this and that. I was confused by this and I asked what I have done wrong. He said I put the wrong music onto the CDR. I was like huh? So I said fuck it… Let me check this CDR out because I was so fucking lost… good thing he was ten minutes walk from my house.

Finally arrived at his house and I bumped into his wife in the hallway and I said to her has he calmed down? She responds don’t ask… So while he was sitting on his chair watching TV and his stereo system was next to the chair… I ask him…. Turn on the system and play that CDR for me. So he did… I am couldn’t keep the laugh him because I never heard that music before. So I said to him open the fucking CD drive and let me have a look. So he did pressed the button to open it. I told him lift up the Jethro Tull CDR and he did. Then I said to him see the other CD that was underneath it? It would have worked if you had taken out that CD at first… he was all embarrassed towards me…. I responded… the older you get the thicker you become… He told me to get lost, go and talk to the wife because he wanted to hear the CDR.

I still have his turntable to this day… memories of Jethro Tull for me

Good story!

Mad Mohab

I'm going to keep going in suggesting that Moths/Serenade to a Cuckoo/Quizz Kid/Sossity, Your a Woman/Living in the Past/North Sea Oil/Orion/Locomotive Breath (seconding that!)/Magus Perde/Summer Day Sands/ Aqualung/Beltane/On the Move/Pine Martin Jig/Leicester Square/Black Sunday/Seal Driver/Spiral/Flying Dutchman/Wondering Again/Pavane and the long song at the end of Minstrels in the Gallery are some good ones.

Anderson is a fine guitarist, partly why Salamander is my favourite song from them.

I saw them on that Roots tour, and PJ that year, my first two concerts. I'll never forget it!!

Wilds

My one and only show!!!


Venue: Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom, Hampton Beach, NH, USA
Tour: Dot.Com Tour 1999

SETLIST:

Steel Monkey
For a Thousand Mothers
Serenade to a Cuckoo (Rahsaan Roland Kirk cover)
Spiral
Witches Promise
Jeffrey Goes to Leicester Square
Fat Man
AWOL
Dot Com
A New Day Yesterday (incl. Kelpie)
Hot Mango Flush
Hunting Girl
Nothing Is Easy
This Is Not Love
Flying Dutchman (Intro only)
My God (with flute solo)
Passion Jig
Locomotive Breath
Aquadiddley
Aqualung
Living in the Past
Dogs in the Midwinter (instrumental)
The Dambusters March
Cheerio

Mad Mohab

Nice set list, Kelpie, Cheerio, Dutchman and Dogs in the Midwinter are all songs I'd love to hear live. Hot Mango is a rare one, nice!

brianlux

Mad Mohab wrote:

I'm going to keep going in suggesting that Moths/Serenade to a Cuckoo/Quizz Kid/Sossity, Your a Woman/Living in the Past/North Sea Oil/Orion/Locomotive Breath (seconding that!)/Magus Perde/Summer Day Sands/ Aqualung/Beltane/On the Move/Pine Martin Jig/Leicester Square/Black Sunday/Seal Driver/Spiral/Flying Dutchman/Wondering Again/Pavane and the long song at the end of Minstrels in the Gallery are some good ones.

Anderson is a fine guitarist, partly why Salamander is my favourite song from them.

I saw them on that Roots tour, and PJ that year, my first two concerts. I'll never forget it!!

Some good picks there, Mad Mohad!

Some others that are my favorites include:

Jeffrey Goes to Leicester Square
Back to the Family
With You to Help Me
Nothing to Say
Inside
Cross-eyed Mary
Hymn 43
Just Trying to Be
(most of) Thick as a Brick
Back-door Angels
Only Solitaire
Minstrel in the Gallery
From a Dead Beat to an Old Greaser
Jack-in-the-Green
Pibroch (Cap in Hand)
...and the Mouse Police Never Sleeps
No Lullaby
Farm on the Freeway

Mad Mohab

Brianlux, your list is so good, I thought of every thing I could and still missed all those A List songs, talk about a prolific group.


I'm going to dig deep for

Old Ghosts/A Time For Everything/17/Dr. Bogenbroom/Jump Start/We Five Kings/Winter Snowscape/Sealion/Water Carrier/Dot-Com/Tundra/Skating Away on the thin ICe of a New Day/Grace/Black Satin Dancer/Crazed Institution/Fire at Midnight/Ring Out Solstice Bells/Look into the Sun/Acres Wild/Slow Marching Band/Jack-a-Lynn/Jack Frost and the Hooded Crow/Astronomy/Life is a Long Song/Slipstream

brianlux

One of my favorite songs featuring Ian Anderson's marvelous guitar playing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKlb0oinNnk

brianlux

CAVSTARR313

I dig these guys..

but,

It is just SO damn hard to look cool/tough/serious playing a flute! Props to him for even trying.. It takes some serious plums to get out there with a flute in your hand..

brianlux

Caveeze wrote:

I dig these guys..

but,

It is just SO damn hard to look cool/tough/serious playing a flute! Props to him for even trying.. It takes some serious plums to get out there with a flute in your hand..

Yeah for sure. After Ian Anderson, unless they could play standing on their head, I think anybody else trying it would be an embarrassment.

I saw Jethro Tull around the time "Thick as a Brick" came out and Anderson was nobody's fool. He and the whole band looked and sounded very, very good and very, very cool!

CAVSTARR313

brianlux wrote:

Caveeze wrote:

I dig these guys..

but,

It is just SO damn hard to look cool/tough/serious playing a flute! Props to him for even trying.. It takes some serious plums to get out there with a flute in your hand..

Yeah for sure. After Ian Anderson, unless they could play standing on their head, I think anybody else trying it would be an embarrassment.

I saw Jethro Tull around the time "Thick as a Brick" came out and Anderson was nobody's fool. He and the whole band looked and sounded very, very good and very, very cool!

It is almost as if nobody can even touch that instrument as a front man in the rock world anymore.. They would either be called a "rip-off of Tull" or just a big pussy.. both of which, Jethro Tull are exempt from..

And they got some great tunes ta boot!

Mad Mohab

The Tull Christmas album is incredible, it is up their with their best and it was released forty years into their career! I am really impressed by the instrumentals especially and songs like Christmas Song 1 and 2, Jack Frost and the Hooded Crow and Last Man at the Party. My favourites are We Five Kings, Winter Snowscape and Pavane.

Looks like Ian Anderson/Tull have a new album coming out in April featuring songs about an unpublished manuscript from the 1800's written by some one who has visions of past lives in ancient times and revelations about the future. Looks like songs about many different historical periods which should be interesting. It's called 'Homo Eraticus'.

Can't wait! They are touring playing the whole thing live in the first half of the show.

brianlux

Mad Mohab wrote:

The Tull Christmas album is incredible, it is up their with their best and it was released forty years into their career! I am really impressed by the instrumentals especially and songs like Christmas Song 1 and 2, Jack Frost and the Hooded Crow and Last Man at the Party. My favourites are We Five Kings, Winter Snowscape and Pavane.

Looks like Ian Anderson/Tull have a new album coming out in April featuring songs about an unpublished manuscript from the 1800's written by some one who has visions of past lives in ancient times and revelations about the future. Looks like songs about many different historical periods which should be interesting. It's called 'Homo Eraticus'.

Can't wait! They are touring playing the whole thing live in the first half of the show.

Oh for sure! Christmas song is my favorite Christmas song!

Thanks for the heads up regarding the new Tull album. Will watch for it!

Mad Mohab

The new Lp is out on vinyl, its pretty complex but Im working my way through it. Its great!

Also out now is a PAssion Play boxset of sorts. The album itself is unique in that in has some of their most incredible moments (Magus Perde near the end of side 2 for example is cerebral and awesome) but also some of their most jarring (parts of side one).

Whats really cool about it is the Chateau sessions, basically a whole different album from the band in their prime. Scenario is Tull at their absolute highest level and Sailor is a great summer B Side for life at sea. Good stuff!

Drowned Out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeE6iTJmdjk

:P

Mad Mohab

I read a great article recently about Ed approaching Ian Anderson in Seattle and telling him he listens to Stand Up before every PJ show!

P.S. Tull has SONGS that blow the entire QOTSA catalogue out of the water. They simply don't compare in my opinion.

Drowned Out

Mad Mohab said:

P.S. Tull has SONGS that blow the entire QOTSA catalogue out of the water. They simply don't compare in my opinion.

Just having some fun man...I honestly have never checked them out. Just remember being blown away that they beat Metallica at the Grammys...I thought of JT as dinosaur rock....in 1990....and I grew up on classic rock...so I found this bourdain/homme bit hilarious when I watched it.
I love the queens and all of Josh's projects so I have my doubts id prefer JT....but I think I should def check out more of their stuff before judging them.

Mad Mohab

Heh, hope I didn't sound testy, check out Tull, they are great! Queens get a lot of respect, I should take your lead and open up to something I'd kind of written off without hearing much. Take care!

Drowned Out

Mad Mohab said:

Heh, hope I didn't sound testy, check out Tull, they are great! Queens get a lot of respect, I should take your lead and open up to something I'd kind of written off without hearing much. Take care!

No no, not testy at all
I was already watching some Tull on Youtube. Think I might prefer to just listen ). In fairness...most bands of that era had pretty cringe-worthy outfits and antics haha
As for queens...their latest record is def their most accessible...took me a while to really 'get' them...was a casual fan of kyuss ages ago and followed queens for years before they really 'clicked'...now I totally love prob 95% of their catalogue.

hedonist

I'm so glad I happened upon this thread.

I can't even call myself a true fan of Tull but Skating Away has my heart.

Also, to the flutist (floutist?) comment above, Ian's flouting about reminds me very much of the dude from Men Without Hats.

Safety Dance!

brianlux

Mad Mohab said:

I read a great article recently about Ed approaching Ian Anderson in Seattle and telling him he listens to Stand Up before every PJ show!

P.S. Tull has SONGS that blow the entire QOTSA catalogue out of the water. They simply don't compare in my opinion.

OH MAN! That SO freaking awesome! "Stand Up" is such a great album! I still have my original LP- the one I bought when it came out- with that great pop-up center illustration/photo. I'm going to go put that baby on right npw. It's got a bit of surface noise after all these years but that sucker has such great fat grooves (both physically and sonically) so much that it will never wear out.

There's that opening bass line... da da da da da...da ...and away we go!

Mad Mohab

brianlux said:

Mad Mohab said:

I read a great article recently about Ed approaching Ian Anderson in Seattle and telling him he listens to Stand Up before every PJ show!

P.S. Tull has SONGS that blow the entire QOTSA catalogue out of the water. They simply don't compare in my opinion.

OH MAN! That SO freaking awesome! "Stand Up" is such a great album! I still have my original LP- the one I bought when it came out- with that great pop-up center illustration/photo. I'm going to go put that baby on right npw. It's got a bit of surface noise after all these years but that sucker has such great fat grooves (both physically and sonically) so much that it will never wear out.

There's that opening bass line... da da da da da...da ...and away we go!

Stand up is amazing, and pretty heavy in spots considering. Do you notice any similarities in the themes Ed has dealt with lyrically? I thought maybe so.

brianlux

Mad Mohab said:

brianlux said:

Mad Mohab said:

I read a great article recently about Ed approaching Ian Anderson in Seattle and telling him he listens to Stand Up before every PJ show!

P.S. Tull has SONGS that blow the entire QOTSA catalogue out of the water. They simply don't compare in my opinion.

OH MAN! That SO freaking awesome! "Stand Up" is such a great album! I still have my original LP- the one I bought when it came out- with that great pop-up center illustration/photo. I'm going to go put that baby on right npw. It's got a bit of surface noise after all these years but that sucker has such great fat grooves (both physically and sonically) so much that it will never wear out.

There's that opening bass line... da da da da da...da ...and away we go!

Stand up is amazing, and pretty heavy in spots considering. Do you notice any similarities in the themes Ed has dealt with lyrically? I thought maybe so.

Yeah, for sure. Something I appreciate about both as writers is that they both have some major stuff on their minds. They're definitely both men of the woods (trees, specially) and oceans (one more arctic, one surf's up). I've always thought they were both a bit unrecognized for there guitar playing, especially Ian's because Ed's is more prominent- but both guys are great players in their own right.

Oh, and the dichotomy of "Back the Family" is really cool:
Overwhelmed/Fuck-it-Retreat/Bored/Reimmersion /What-the-hell-was-I-thinking/Retreat/-Etc.
Haha! Great stuff.

hmmm- who wrote "In Hiding" Ed, right?

Others similarities?

Mad Mohab

For a Thousand Mothers.

brianlux

Mad Mohab said:

For a Thousand Mothers.

Great ending song- love that coda at the end of it! Martin Barre shines on this one and as much as Mick Abrahams did fine work, what a great move to bring Barre on board with Tull.