Posted on 11/15/2024 1:33:01 PM PST by DallasBiff
"Locomotive Breath" was released on Jethro Tull's 1971 album Aqualung. An edit of the song was released in the US as a single in 1971, backed with "Wind-Up", though it did not chart. A 1976 single release of the song, backed with "Fat Man", was more successful, reaching number 59 on the Billboard charts. It is one of Jethro Tull's best-known songs and has be
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It's Friday, have fun and flame away.
Excellent!
I used to love playing that song on the guitar. Lots of fun!
There used to be a FReeper with a screen name of Jethro Tull. Did a quick search and found his last post was made on 07-11-2002.
Thick as a Brick. Covers Harris and Walz.
Tull is one of the greatest bands ever that should have been more famous than Zepplin or Deep Purple. Their lyrics are deep. Their music is both solid but also experimental in appropriate places. Is it all amazing? Nope. But there’s so much there that’s worth listening through their discography, and it’s sad that more people today don’t see them as one of the best and most creative rock bands of all time.
I saw them twice in Tuscaloosa. I believe Ian Anderson said at the beginning of the second time, it was the first performance of Thick as a Brick. Best 2 concerts I ever saw!
Yes you are right there. Jethro Tull is an amazing band lead by an extremely talented and creative composer/performer named Ian Anderson.
Martin and the others wrote their parts and deserve lots of credit as well. But they would have been nothing without Ian. Ian can write incredible pieces of music extremely fast and seemingly effortlessly. Just read how quickly Thick as a Brick was written and recorded to get a sense of it.
A forgotten gem of an LP is Benefit when the band was finding its way. One guy who ranks albums rated it his favorite FWIW. Not sure I agree with that but it was a great album.
First time I ever got intoxicated as a teenager, that was the song of the evening...:)
1972 Cornell - Barton Hall great show...
I’m so glad I was able to see them in 1977. I waited, in anticipation, for each new Tull album, during my younger days. My first exposure to them was 1970. An underground FM station in my hometown played several cuts from their Benefit album.
Weirdly, Ian Anderson looks like the twin brother separated at birth from Derek Dick (aka “Fish”) who was the frontman for Marillion but separated for a solo career and more creative endeavors. Although they look alike in their respective 60s, their discographies show similar artistic bents — amazing poetic lyrics, driving but complex melodies, and great showmanship.
For anyone reading this thread, go into the Ian Anderson discography on Spotify or your other streaming service and listen to it, with lyrics. You’ll be amazed.
Why do all prog singers go bald? (Jon Anderson being an exception)
Only concert I almost ended up in the city lockup up over. No, I won’t relay details, but it did not involve any violence. Nor a motor vehicle.
C. 1976, touring behind the Minstrel in the Gallery album.
Ah, the fun days of a mildly misspent youth!
Used to love Tull, one of my very favorite bands back in the early 70s. Now that I’m older, I really can’t even stand to listen to any of their stuff anymore.
Funny how musical tastes change over the years.
How many know that Sabbath’s Tommy Iommi was briefly with Tull, when they appeared on The Rolling Stones’ “Rock and Roll Circus”?
Also, allegedly, Marillion kicked Fish out after the incredible "Clutching at Straws (1987)" album because Marillion wanted to go mainstream. Similar to Anderson, Dick wasn't interested in mainstream. Their projects are all incredible, and Anderson should be acknowledged as one of the greatest musical talents of the past 60 years.
I’ll bet someone that hangs around the canteen would know. We are pals. We’ve bonded. Imo.
Fantastic album! As is "Misplaced Childhood".
Yeah, when my kids introduced me to Scandanavian symphonic death metal I was a little shocked at how my tastes had changed too. :-)
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