The Great Jethro Tull

Mad Mohab
Mad Mohab Posts: 310
edited September 2014 in Other Music
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.
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  • Wilds
    Wilds Posts: 4,329
    You could have just said this:


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNCT6pA5I9A
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,844
    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?" :lol:
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • jethrojam420
    jethrojam420 Foxborough MA Posts: 1,075
    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 ;)
    8/29/00*5/2/03*7/2/03*7/3/03*7/11/03*9/28/04*5/24/06*6/28/08*5/15/10*5/17/10* 10/16/13*10/25/13* 4/28/16*4/28/16*8/5/16*8/7/16 EV 6/15/11 Brad 10/27/02
  • pro
    pro Posts: 134
    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 :D
  • Cortez the Killer sent me
    Cortez the Killer sent me Posts: 381
    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!
    2010 - Boston
    2011 - Alpine 1 & 2 --- EV - Providence & Boston - Tres Mts - Boston
    2012 - Missoula
    2013 - Wrigley, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Worcester 1 & 2, Philly 1 & 2, Hartford
    2014 - Detroit, Moline, St. Paul, Milwaukee
    2016 - Greenville, Hampton, Columbia, New York City 1, Fenway 1 & 2, Wrigley 1
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,844
    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 :D

    :lol: Good story!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Mad Mohab
    Mad Mohab Posts: 310
    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
    Wilds Posts: 4,329
    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
    Mad Mohab Posts: 310
    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
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,844
    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
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Mad Mohab
    Mad Mohab Posts: 310
    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
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,844
    One of my favorite songs featuring Ian Anderson's marvelous guitar playing:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKlb0oinNnk
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,844
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    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • CAVSTARR313
    CAVSTARR313 Posts: 8,756
    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..
    None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe that they are free.
    Abrn Hlls '98 - Clarkston 2 '03 - Grd Rpds '06 - Abrn Hlls '06 - Clvd '10 - PJ20 - Berlin 1+2 '12 - Wrigley '13 - Pitt '13- buff '13- Philly 1+2 '13 - Seattle '13
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,844
    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..

    :lol: 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's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • CAVSTARR313
    CAVSTARR313 Posts: 8,756
    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..

    :lol: 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!
    None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe that they are free.
    Abrn Hlls '98 - Clarkston 2 '03 - Grd Rpds '06 - Abrn Hlls '06 - Clvd '10 - PJ20 - Berlin 1+2 '12 - Wrigley '13 - Pitt '13- buff '13- Philly 1+2 '13 - Seattle '13
  • Mad Mohab
    Mad Mohab Posts: 310
    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
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,844
    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! :D
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Mad Mohab
    Mad Mohab Posts: 310
    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
    Drowned Out Posts: 6,056
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeE6iTJmdjk
    :P

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