Aqualung was their only real standout album, the rest of their work is pretty mediocre. They also put on a really good live performance, even if Ian Anderson looks kind of [bleep] with his cod piece.
Nice semi-jazzy piano lead in to a good rock beat.
Take a vacation to Colorado, you'll understand them better...
Loco breath & Aqualung are among the best rock songs there are.
But will agree that some of Tull's other work reminds me of gay minstrels skipping along cobblestone streets in merry old England. Not what I'm after while listening to a rock or classic rock station.
I like Jethro Tull. This lyric reminds of many here. Oh, we won't give in, let's go living in the past Once I used to join in, every boy and girl was my friend Now there's revolution but they don't know what they're fighting Let us close our eyes, outside their lives go on much faster Oh, we won't give in, we'll keep living in the past Oh, we won't give in, let's go living in the past Oh no, no, we won't give in, let's go living in the past
Saw a Tull concert way back at the old Montreal forum. They did Passion Play and it was a great concert. That was just after the aqualung album came out. At the time I thought it was good.
take em or leave em. never bought an album. went to see them in the 70's and they were great but then again i was stoned as schit so who knows. i used to dig on locomotive breath and cross eyed mary but they sure got a lot of schit songs too. like so much of the "classic" rock, i don't care if i ever hear it again. fuggen skynyrd, seger, aerosmith, ac/dc blah blah fuggen blah. give me some good blues or 90's metal and i'm good.
Heard their early stuff? Not played on commercial radio much. They weren't too sure how far they'd go as a band either, what with calling their first album "This Was"
How can you not like this?:
If'n you dont like that one, for sure someday the sun won't shine for you. Maybe when you're trying to ogle the neighbor babe in her swimsuit, clouds will come and she'll wrap up.
take em or leave em. never bought an album. went to see them in the 70's and they were great but then again i was stoned as schit so who knows. i used to dig on locomotive breath and cross eyed mary but they sure got a lot of schit songs too. like so much of the "classic" rock, i don't care if i ever hear it again. fuggen skynyrd, seger, aerosmith, ac/dc blah blah fuggen blah. give me some good blues or 90's metal and i'm good.
Lol...... Iâm not old enough to have seen him/them in the 70s..... but I hear you.
Little trivia for those who donât know, Jethro isnât in the band. He was a farmer in like the 1500s. Just had a cool name for a band.
My uncle wanted to name his band Estel Huff back in the 70âs but he didnât know if old Estel would be mad or not and didnât have the balls to ask him.
Loco breath & Aqualung are among the best rock songs there are.
But will agree that some of Tull's other work reminds me of gay minstrels skipping along cobblestone streets in merry old England. Not what I'm after while listening to a rock or classic rock station.
Loco breath & Aqualung are among the best rock songs there are.
But will agree that some of Tull's other work reminds me of gay minstrels skipping along cobblestone streets in merry old England. Not what I'm after while listening to a rock or classic rock station.
Loco breath & Aqualung are among the best rock songs there are.
But will agree that some of Tull's other work reminds me of gay minstrels skipping along cobblestone streets in merry old England. Not what I'm after while listening to a rock or classic rock station.
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.
Actually, that was composer, arranger & keyboardist David Palmer from the Royal Academy of music, London England. He was born with âgenital ambiguity â and was said to suffer from gender dysphoria.
Actually, that was composer, arranger & keyboardist David Palmer from the Royal Academy of music, London England. He was born with âgenital ambiguity â and was said to suffer from gender dysphoria.
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.
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.
We listened to a lot of Jethro Tull when I was a soldier, especially in Germany. ( 72-73 over there) I like them but I can only take so much flute...Unless its Ron Burgundy with his "Jazz Flute" performance! Actually, I liked his Ricky Bobby "I am so paralyzed" steak knife in the thigh much, much better! lol
Unfortunately, I did, many times. In fact, experimented with 19 different drugs for a few years. Gave me an extra boost in the "Black Brothers gonna kill the Crackers" ( who can't do squat against them) PTSD. Terror comes in many ways, and "self inflicted" Terror ( Acid especially) is one you can't run from, at all. I am convinced the reason "Science" can't figure out exactly how it affects the brain, is because it taps into the Soulical Realm ( the Mind, Will, and Emotions) its a terrible place to intrude into... just listen to Kenny Rodgers, "What condition my condition was in...."almost funny"...unless one lived through something more horrifying. Of all my mis-spent Youth and Finances....I regret that the most. I can only now say "If YOU are OK, then I am OK"...ha
Saw them at the Frankfurt, Germany opera house in 91. Really good show. I saw the Scorpions and Tesla there too. Both bands were great. The most epic concert I attended was the Monsters of Rock at Mannheim: Whitesnake, Aerosmith, Poison, Dio and Vixen
I like them - I saw them a long time ago backing someone up.... They are just different, and I like to shake up the tunes a bit instead of listening to the same old over and over.
I've been to one concert in my entire life. Jethro Tull at the Palace in Auburn Hills back in the 90's. They put on a good show. ELO was the opening act iirc.
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