Jethro Tull: Classic or Dud?

Wilson, supposedly (the Benefit is definitely him since it's been released in non-book format before)

Super amped for the shows that will presumably come with A and Broadsword. That band was spectacular.

(I realize there were changes between those two tours)

It seems the Broadsword era has a wealth of bonus tracks, but I've been spending a lot of time with 'A' this year so I'm kinda jazzed to see what that one will turn up (and as you note, the early 80s lineup was a fantastic one!)

One more, not as sweet as the '77 one but pretty solid nonetheless -

https://we.tl/t-z65mc72nmA

Jethro Tull 1980 10 6 Civic Center Hartford CT USA
101 Min. Aud. A-

Lineage: Sony D-6 Nak 300 / master tape > Sony TC-KE600S > Audigy2 > soundforge 8 > CD Architect 5.2 > Traders Little Helper

Black Sunday,
Crossfire,
Songs From The Wood,
Hunting Girl,
Jams O'Donnell's Jigs,
Working John Working Joe,
Fylingdale Flyer,
The Pine Marten's Jig,
Heavy Horses,
Skating Away... /solos .
Batteries Not Included,
Uniform,
Protect And Survive,
Aqualung,
Locomotive Breath/ Black Sunday (reprise)

Interesting to compare this set to Watchers on the Storm from March 1980... only seven months later they've erased every song from Stormwatch from their set!

After six months of no haircut nor shaving, I think this might be the year to be 1970s Ian Anderson for Halloween.

As I feared -

https://www.superdeluxeedition.com/news/jethro-tull-a-la-mode-40th-anniversary-deluxe-edition

great! keep 'em coming!

I was hoping they'd loop back around for Benefit, Broadsword excepted, I think I'm off the bus after this one.

I think the Benefit reissue in book format is going to happen later this year

A is great and that show they are including slays

Gone up today on D1me, I know we have some nice ones from '77 but it's ace, so I thought I'd share.

PRRP 054
Jethro Tull
Apollo Theatre
Manchester, England
February 5th 1977

Sound Board Recording

Lineage: SB/TDK Cro/NAD6050C/SB Audigy 2/Audacity>WAV/CDRCue/MediaCoder>FLAC Level 8

Disc 1
01 Wondr'ing Aloud 2:29
02 Skating Away 4:53
03 Jack-In-The-Green 3:43
04 Thick As A Brick 14:28
05 Songs From The Wood 5:07
06 Instrumental-Drum Solo 2:59
07 To Cry You A Song 2:33
08 A New Day Yesterday 2:49
09 Flute Solo 7:18
10 Living In The Past 1:37
11 A New Day Yesterday (reprise) 2:49
12 Velvet Green 6:57
Total Time 57:42

Disc 2
01 Hunting Girl 6:33
02 Too Old To Rock'N'Roll 4:01
03 Beethoven's Ninth Symphony 3:13
04 Minstrel In The Gallery 5:22
05 Aqualung 9:16
06 Guitar Solo 3:05
07 Wind-Up 4:41
08 Back Door Angels 4:56
09 Wind-Up (repise) 2:28
10 Locomotive Breath 5:46
11 Land Of Hope and Glory 2:24
12 Back Door Angels (reprise) 1:34
Total Time: 53:19

Personnel:
Ian Anderson - vocals, flute, guitar
Martin Barre - guitar
John Glascock - bass guitar
Barriemore Barlow - drums
John Evan - keyboards
David Palmer - keyboards, saxophone

Notes:
Acquired this from one of the Tull road crew several years ago & then promptly forgot I had it. Does not seem to have
surfaced anywhere, so this should help fill in the missing gaps at The Ministry of Information. The very first
track on the tape is the instrumental Quartet, played over the PA in the theatre, and which can be found on the
Nightcap album (highly recommended). The first instrumental is also incomplete - otherwise the this is the concert
in its entirety.

https://www.fromsmash.com/Ps6VeW.AHT-bt

nice, thanks

here's an oldie that we've utterly loathed for 16 long years, but now it's resurrected, in a slightly more trickier form that's a little more fun to play -- this one is CALLED . . . living . . . in the PAST

Thanks for the link, I really appreciate these shows you’ve been hooking us up with

Was talking upthread about Tull-related band Carmen, the debut album Fandangos In Space is seriously fucking amazing. Don't let it slip past you. The way they incorporated dancing into the music is so cool.

I'm placing them alongside Comus and Jacula as a great 70s band that never got very big at all. They were very well liked by some of the biggest bands of the time and toured with or were slotted to tour with them and everything could have went great if not for a series of shit events that destroyed them.

Still, there's 4 albums and I think Visconti produced them all?

Just got the second Carmen double pack, you can get all 4 albums in 2 double packs, first one is slightly scarcer. Trying to think why prog fans haven't embraced them more because there is enough of that in them.

I'm interested

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/m2ub0m/i_am_ian_anderson_founder_musician_singer_and/

Q&A with Ian Anderson from a couple days ago, not a lot there but some good (and funny) answers to various questions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpH_WkjC_Yk

50th Anniversary special about Aqualung... Ian breaks down each song and then it plays in full, very nice.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/484A9Ju4F8g/maxresdefault.jpg

Forgot about that

I don't know Carmen at all, but the wiki features some nutty stuff:

David Clark Allen continued to pursue a music career after Carmen disbanded. He played guitar on Michelle Phillip's solo album produced by Jack Nitzsche and was managed by Herb Cohen during the late 70s. He wrote two songs (Shame and Stay) for Agnetha's solo album, Wrap Your Arms Around Me - produced by Mike Chapman and a single release by Swedish band Katz - Heart Beats Stronger. David was diagnosed with thyroid/throat cancer in the early 80s. After a successful operation and radioactive therapy, he changed his name to Housk Randall - and became a sexual anthropologist/photographer. As Housk he had 5 books published in 4 languages: Revelations, Rituals of Love, The Customised Body, Piercing, Radical Desire and Bizarre Rubber - a photographic fantasy catalogue for fetish designers DeMask. In 1996 he married, changed his name to David Randall-Goddard and established a successful family photographic studio Family Portraits.

As probably mentioned upthread, I've never spent much time with Tull beyond whatever's come on the radio, but yesterday I heard "Hymn 43" for the first time in decades and it kicked ass.

David Clark Allen was a really stylish looking guy. He often posts about new flamenco fusion bands on his blog.

I feel averse to posting whole albums but their so obscure at this point I don't think it could hurt too much.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nIP_WlCdtM

Quite pleased to find this

"It's amazing," Opeth frontman Mikael Akerfeldt told Metal Hammer in 2012. "It's a crazy flamenco prog-rock folk record! They had tap dancing on the record and castanets too! Everyone I've played it to has been blown away by it."

For some reason the most popular version of the album on youtube cuts off half of the first song, so I chosen another one for the link above.

Benefit getting the book treatment now - https://superdeluxeedition.com/news/jethro-tull-benefit-50th-anniversary-reissue

I will buy this mainly for shelf consistency, since the previous deluxe edition isn't book-sized.

Me too, although good quality live recordings for that era are always interesting.

actually wow, they are including two live sets from 1970, including one on video! that's going above and beyond. especially since these cost around $40-50 and not $100+.

This and Stand Up are my two favourite Tull records, or at least the ones I return to all the time, then having Singing All Day, 17 and Teacher at the back end, so great!

I’ll be getting this tho would love to find a good indie retailer in the States instead of paying £17 shipping 😳.

Still hoping they may do a run of earlier ones at some point. War Child, Minstrel, and Passion in particular.

I found (to my shock) that I have a spare copy of the A Passion Play box, so I had a look at the Discogs price jfc!

Lmk if you turn up a spare copy of SftW

Bull Moose out of Maine is pretty good with these, if you pre-order you're reasonably sure to get one.

I found (to my shock) that I have a spare copy of the A Passion Play box, so I had a look at the Discogs price jfc!

I think I have two copies because my wife was tangentially involved in the reissue process so every time one came out, I would ask her to bring home a copy for me and one for my mate and I think I must not have given him this one for some reason? So, I'm going to message him first.

That seems eminently fair and sensible!

As would you selling it for the price of a kidney on Discogs, should you so choose.

My mate can have it for £350 :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPTeqsBd1Ik

Not bad, but that riff is pretty monotonous. I get the feeling these older progressive musicians have made their recent music simpler not in the hope of getting played on the radio, but because even their casual fans won't listen twice if there isn't an obvious hook in a new song.
I'm wondering now who has done worse harm to the vocal cords, Ian Anderson or Roger Waters.

Snagged the Benefit box from Amazon for about $50. Still would prefer the mid-70s records but I can’t let these things slip away. The books and mixes are just too well done.

Hey all, this appeared on D1m3 the other day, it's a good one - 1979-10-15 Providence Civic Center Providence RI

https://www.fromsmash.com/tPy.t_yl1y-bt

Grabbing it, thanks! Been feeling a tull fest coming on.

Beastie next, I guess? The Benefit box was great to have though.

Beast tour is great, I’ll be excited to hear what they put together for the live bit of that box. Assuming it is coming.

found a good copy of Stand Up recently, what a cool record that is