| Jethro Tull
Posted: 9/8/2007 11:51:14 PM | They've been around since the late 60's and still rocking which makes them one of the longest constantly-producing rock bands yet they do not even have a thread here. I made several name searches. I saw Tull back during the Rock Island CD tour and as I type this I am listening to the 2003 live at montreaux dvd.
JT is kind of a strange group in some respects, they are not often well known beyond the song Aqualung(now another group's name) despite their extremely longlived presence in a field that tends to be very short in general.
If you're a fan what is your favorite? What is their most memorable works?
My alltime favorite song is from War Child -- Track six. Skating Away on the Thin Ice of a New Day
For me its a real inspiring, energetic song. I guess it gets some radio play. But maybe why they have never gotten tons of attention -- they're not a guitar based band and having a flute is even stranger. What other band has a flute that even has some popularity? The Moody Blues is really all I can think of offhand.
So they're kind of a flute and keyboard based band. Ian certainly has his own brand of offbeat English wit which might be likened to making them the Monty Pythons of the music world. | |
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Posted: 9/9/2007 7:05:57 AM | | Aqualung is my favorite Tull album. The whole album is great! | |
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Posted: 9/9/2007 9:28:00 AM | I saw them at the BBC when I was in London a while ago.
Ian Andersons stage presence could never come across on a studio album like it does live.
Remember 'Tullivision' on the 'Too old' tour from..1976 I think?
1st jumbotron used for a concert in Los Angeles. That was great too.
A great band. | |
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Posted: 9/9/2007 11:52:08 AM | ...have not been following them closely, but have a huge deal of respect for them and think they should have probably have a higher place in the rock hierarchy. I have a DVD of classic rock and Tull does "Witches Promise" on it....what a great and lunatic image they had back then!!!! They would have been awesome to see in those days and would still be great. I just had a DVD in my hand yesterday with JT playing Montreaux (I think it is new) and might have to pick it up.
This may be way off, but way back in the mid-seventies, when HEART started out, I felt they had some JT influence...I saw them Heart) live several times, but the first time (in 76)..Anne was playing flute on a few tunes and Nancy was doing that iconic leg/pose thing that Ian Anderson does when he plays. Unfortunately, have never seen Jethro Tull Live. Hopefully. | |
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Posted: 9/9/2007 12:22:08 PM | I saw them at the Broome County Arena and Ian Anderson was so cool. He actually walked out into the audience. That must have been in 1984 or 1985 when I was living up in Binghamton.
When I was back in NY closer to the city, I saw them again at MSG.
I can't say that I have a favorite Tull song or a favorite album. I love everything they do. Is it worth spending the $27 to get the dvd?
They are a great band to see live! Even if you are not a big Tull fan, if you have the opportunity to see them live, you should. | |
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Posted: 9/9/2007 1:25:13 PM | They're my favorite band - love them!
Saw them in concert back in high school - love the Aqualung album best, also Living in the Past and Teacher are great songs | |
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Posted: 9/9/2007 1:40:16 PM | jethro tull IS/are (lol) okay.whenever they are mentioned i always think of the time nearly everyone just about fell out of their chairs when they beat metallica for whatever award it was being given out at the time.think it was the AMAs (best album of the year) if i am not mistaken, was there watching that night and was floored/dumbfounded myself to say the least!!!
:2 THUMBSDOWN: !!!!! | |
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Posted: 9/9/2007 5:13:34 PM | I think you are refering the the heavy metal of the year award back in the late 80s. Crest of a Knave album. The first two songs were heavy metal and after that the rest of the album had a much different sound and tone to it... more melodic and relaxing.
I am glad they won that but yeah, it is very weird. I really enjoy the milder sometimes more erotic rest of the album more than the first couple of songs. The rest just flowed together very seemlessly... hot night in budapest!!
found it, from wikipedia, under "Crest of a Knave":
Tull went on to win a 1989 Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance, beating odds-on favorites Metallica with their album ... And Justice for All. The award was particularly controversial as many did not consider Jethro Tull hard rock, much less heavy metal (actually hard rock elements had always been present and often prominent in Tull's music). Given the fact that it was the first time a Grammy geared towards Metal was presented it was seen as a particularly hard blow and insult for Heavy Metal fans (after this, and perhaps because of this, separate Grammys were awarded for hard rock and heavy metal in the following years). Under advisement from their manager, no one from the band turned up to the award ceremony, as they were told that they had no chance of winning. In response to the criticism they received over the award, the band took out an advert in a British music periodical with the line, "The flute is a (heavy) metal instrument!" In 2007, the win was named one of the 10 biggest upsets in Grammy history by Entertainment Weekly.
HR Wild: I've been replaying it over and over again nonstop as I use the computer and it flows together nicely but I havent watched much of it. There is only like two new tracks so I have most of it already on other works. So if you're already a fan, unless you have money to burn, I'd say wait and buy his next solo album instead...coming out soon. But if you don't know of Tull and want a good 'best of' ...especially their mellower stuff then its great. This was from the Montreaux Jazz FestivalAs for me I'll be happy to return it to netflix and enjoy the older VHS tapes I have with some of the more harder rocking tull. They have more energy when they were younger, of course. I mean I like it but the glimpses I have seen of it visually there is nothing special ... no light show, no lasers, no jumbotron... just a quiet backroom sort of fluid jazz jam which is nice in its own right. There is nothing outstanding about it but it has been nice backdrop music. | |
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Posted: 9/9/2007 6:20:55 PM | thanks for posting that random entry, yep-- thats what i was talking about all right.
jethro tull has always had a certain (MAJOR!!!) cheese factor to them and are totally corny imo, cant really take them all that serious for some reason...they mainly (or HE, lol) just make me laugh is all really. | |
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Posted: 9/9/2007 6:24:16 PM | | I performed "Locomotive Breath" at karaoke night a few weeks back. DJ said it was a first for him, lol. The drunks in teh bar really got into it. | |
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Posted: 9/9/2007 8:38:30 PM | Good for you, OnceaSanta! That's one of their best songs
Ian Anderson is so cool - I love it when he plays his flute standing on one leg, and their bohemian style
When I saw them they set up their own instruments - they were wearing overcoats and I could tell it was them but the audience wasn't paying attention - when they saw it was them they gave a huge cheer | |
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Posted: 9/10/2007 6:54:58 AM | Jethro Tull are a great band. "Stand Up" is my favorite album, but "Witch's Promise" is an amazing song.
The thing with Ian Anderson, that most people don't get, is that the delivery is as important as the melody. The sneers, laughs, and grunts are part of the lyric.
Modern admirers: Eddie Vedder- "Clearly I remember, picking on the boy..." Very Anderson-like melody and lyric.
If any of you don't already have it, the "25" box set is great. The set is worth it's entire price for the live in NYC in '71 disc.
Great thread | |
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Posted: 9/10/2007 7:23:50 AM | i saw ian anderson, martin barre and company as one of my very first rock concerts around 1971 in cleveland. throughout the show a lighted telephone would ring and they would stop playing to look at it. at the end ofthe concert ian picked up the phone, said hello and looked at us and said, "it's for you!" i loved it.
thick as a brick is one of my faves. but every single song on the aqualung album shines. | |
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Posted: 9/10/2007 4:46:58 PM | | bungle in the jungle ftw | |
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Posted: 9/11/2007 12:57:00 AM | Tull were the first band I saw in concert, back in 2002 on the Living With the Past tour, and the show was basically my introduction to them, aside from having heard the hits from Aqualung on the radio. It was an excellent show— even the newer material really shone, with Hunt By Numbers being one of the highlights of their set.
I definitely consider Thick As a Brick their masterpiece, though Aqualung, Passion Play, and Songs From the Wood are all excellent as well. Next to Thick as a Brick, my favorite song of theirs is probably The Whistler, off Songs From the Wood. Or, at least, it's what finds its way into my playlists most often. | |
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Posted: 9/11/2007 8:38:08 AM | | Let me bring you Songs from the Wood.....my favorite ! | |
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Posted: 9/11/2007 11:27:53 AM | I saw them once, with a girlfriend who was really into Tull. I was never really a fan until I saw them live. I have to admit, they put on a great show.
A few tours before, when they had come to Montreal to play at the Forum, she told me about how the show opened.
The light went down , as the show started. 20,000 people or so in total darkness . In total silence, one spotlight came on.
On an old style rotary dial black telephone, sitting on a stool.
As people are sitting there all looking at this phone, there's total silence for perhaps a minute. Then.....
It's starts ringing.......
One ring, two rings, three rings.......
You can imagine the reaction, one of slight confusion over what exactly everyone's seeing.
Then, suddenly Anderson walks out on stage, picks up the phone, says "Hello", and listens for a second. At which point he holds the phone out to the audience, and says :
"It's for you...."
I had to admit, that was a quite creative way to start a show. | |
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Posted: 9/11/2007 11:38:59 AM | | Reply to Message #7. I remember the complete silence that fell over the crowd, but I love them now. | |
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Posted: 9/11/2007 7:47:41 PM | | Try YouTube, can watch some live performances | |
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Posted: 9/12/2007 7:19:54 AM | "i love it when he plays his flute standing on one leg"
LMAO on that one, lol
I REST MY CASE.
oh and now that i know eddie vedder approves of "him" well, that certainly sheds new light on the whole matter.
:/ hahaha
but i will admit, i have been known to crank it up a time or 2 when one of "his" songs comes on the radio --so all is not a lost cause w/jethro tull as far as i am concerned ;P
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Posted: 9/12/2007 7:53:11 PM | THICK AS A BRICK!!!!!  BENEFIT!!!   yeah! i have been a 'tull' fan since *gasp* 1974, they got played olong on the (very young) 95.5 KLOS.. i got to see them in Irvine... FLUTE ON!!! awesome music...timeless audio story-telling at its best.. | |
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Posted: 9/12/2007 8:36:05 PM | awww...look what you guys did....(lol)...you made me go out and buy some Jethro Tull CDs!!!  | |
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Posted: 9/13/2007 5:33:00 AM | Thick As A Brick. I also like Too Old to Rock N' Roll and The Broadsword & the Beast.
I haven't listened to Aqualung for years. At the time I wasn't particularly impressed, but maybe it's time to give it another go. | |
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Posted: 10/7/2007 2:29:19 AM | I love these guys. Ian Anderson and the many Tull members past & present have provided many hours of musical amusement for me over the years. My favorite 10 Tull albums are "Thick As A Brick", "Minstrel In The Gallery", "Bursting Out", "Heavy Horses", "Aqualung", "Benefit" and "Catfish Rising".
Saw them on the "Broadsword And The Beast" tour (New Haven CT), the "Under Wraps" tour (New Haven CT), and at a show with ELP at the Meadows in Hartford CT, possibly in 1997.
Saw Ian at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall in Troy NY on his "Rubbing Elbows With Ian Anderson" tour.
Always a great time. | |
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Posted: 10/25/2007 11:04:43 PM | I saw Jethro Tull twice in one year back in the late 70s. They were great! Thee must have enjoyed play to the Seattle crowd to come back for a second concert that year.
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