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Next you''l be telling us there's no Pink Floyd!

Or maybe he was a psychiatric patient from the 1800's, fits their lyrics.

I was thinking 'What is there not to like?', but then I thought the question might be 'What is there to hate?'.

jethro tull

I am 68 now, I was a teen ager with a guitar then

Jethro Tull still sounds good.

Not rock! Then what the hell are they?

close,keyboards,,,,,

I think some of their songs are a wee bit deeper than people think.

Enlighten me please.

Ain’t you the regional director of Taylor Swift’s fan club?


Jethro ain’t got nothing to worry about. Lol.

So so hard rock, and a crazed lefty.

I had a friend that turned me onto Tull after Thick as a Brick came out. It was lifechanging. As I worked myself back through the discography, I found a blues/jazz group slowly working its way towards Prog Rock. Martin Barre, the lead guitarist is one of the greatest of the age at least according to his peers. I was especially enamoured of Jeffrey Hammonds work on keyboards. Thick as a Brick has some of the most innovative voicings ever heard on a rock album-- all done with non-synthesizer instruments. Thick as a Brick has some of the quirkiest time signatures of any in the rock canon. It was wickedly good fun to play back in the day when I was a young aspiring keyboardist.

Somewhere between Thick as a Brick and Passion Play, they had a bunch of sessions pursuant to an album that never was. They were collectively called the Chateau D'Isaster tapes, and didn't surface until the late 80's. Bits and pieces became Passion Play and Warchild. However, the original work was supposed to be a Ian Anderson's grand statement on God, The Universe, and Everything. It's a stunning bit of philosophy if not good rock music. It's a shame that album never got produced. However, if you dig around, you can pretty much assemble it from the bits and pieces that ended up on other albums. There's a guide out on the web.






Jethro Tull - The Chateau D'Isaster Tapes lyrics
a) Scenario
In long years of ancient time, stood alone a friend of mine.
Reflected by the ever-burning sigh of a god who happened by.
And in the dawn, there came the song of some sweet lady singing in his ear.
Your god has gone, and from now on, you'll have to learn to hate
the things you fear.
We want to know, are we inside the womb
of passion plays, and by righteousness consumed?
Or just in lush contentment of our souls?
And so began the age of man.
They left his body in the sand.
Their glasses raised to a god on high
who smiled upon them from the sky.
So take the stage. Spin down the ages. Loose the passion.
Spill the rage upon your son who holds the gun up to your head
the play's begun.
b) Audition
Then God, the director, smells a rat.
Pulls another rabbit from His hat.
Sniffs the air and He says, ``Well, that's that - I'm going.''
The actors milling helplessly - the script is blowing out to sea.
But what the hell, we didn't even pass an audition.
The lines you'll have to improvise. The words are written in
the eyes of politicians who despise their fathers.
And so the play necessitates that all you boys participate
in fierce competition to eliminate each other.
And groupies, on their way to war,
get to write the next film score.
But the rock and roll star knows his glory is really nothing.
Men of religion, on the make,
pledge an oath they undertake to
make you white for God's own sake, and none other.
While ladies get their bedding done
to win themselves a bouncing son
but bad girls do it for the fun of just being.
And me, I'm here to sing along,
and I'm not concerned with the righting wrongs,
just asking questions that belong without an answer.
The God is laughing up his sleeve
as He pours himself another cup of tea,
and He waves goodbye to you and me,
at least for now.
c) No Rehearsal
Did you learn your lines today? Well, there is no rehearsal.
The tickets have all been sold for tomorrow's matinee.
There's a telegram from the writer,
but there is no rehearsal.
The electrician has been told to make the spotlights brighter.
There's one seat in the circle - five hundred million in the stalls.
Simply everyone will be there, but the safety curtain falls when
the bomb that's in the dressing room
blows the windows from their frames.
And the prompter in his corner is sorry that he came.
Did you learn your lines today? Well there is no rehearsal.
The interval will last until the ice-cream lady melts away.
The twelve piece orchestra are here, but there is no rehearsal.
The first violinist's hands are chilled - he's gone deaf in both ears.
Well, the scenery is colourful, but the paint is so damn thin.
You see the wall behind is crumbling,
and the stage door is bricked-in.
But the audience keep arriving
`till they're standing in the wings.
And we take the final curtain call, and the ceiling crashes in.

Jethro Tull sucks

Some of ya are wound really up tight about this and expounding on the deep meaning of it all.


Congrats slumlord!!!!
You got some of em at each others throats almost.
Better than a religous thread.

LOL!!!

I'll drink to that.
Well, actually I'm drinking to Mortiis " Perfectly defect" (Trooper Ale).
Fuggem.
It's past noon someplace.

Actually, that was composer, arranger & keyboardist David Palmer from the Royal Academy of music, London England. He was born with ”genital ambiguity “ and was said to suffer from gender dysphoria.

Sounds like Michelle Obama

HA!

I knew it, all that stuff he posted pics of the other day was for HIM! Not his daughter or granddaughter as he was trying to pass it off as.

We can all look at slummy in a whole new light now! Doesn't get Jethro Tull, seems to like Taylor Swift.................


Dude probably has a giants stash, every song ever recorded, in multiple languages of Celine Dion.

Maybe a collection of Yani too.

Geno

Jethro got nothin’ on Zamfir...

Good points, especially about Martin Barre. Unlike the narcissists who pass for "lead guitarist" in most modern bands (especially the so-called "country" groups), he was not only a virtuoso on his instrument but a brilliant arranger. As you say, the Jethro Tull discography is broad and deep. There is a LOT of good music in there.

I expect a lot of the people who disparage Tull have 1) minimal exposure to the band's corpus of work, and 2) very narrow exposure to music, mostly limited to top 40 radio and (worse) modern "country" radio. As the late great Tom Petty said, "Most country music these days is just bad rock music played on a different radio station."

Waylon and Johnny would roll over in their graves if they could hear the pap that passes for music on country stations nowadays.

Just doing what Rick asked me to do. $$&

I haven't read anything passed the 2nd page,
it served its purpose