Jethro Tull ~ Locomotive Breath (1971)

Jethro Tull ^ | 1971 | Jethro Tull

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

Thick as a Brick. Covers Harris and Walz.

Then Biden would be Aqualung, I assume...

[Dr.Deth]

Makes sense being a couple of Scots (more or less... Ian being half-a-kilt). Ian Anderson - The Laird Of Strathaird.

[BigFreakinToad]

aint that the truth

[Dr.Deth]

Sleepy Joe stole the handle

Stealing it. Pithy yet incisive and multilayered. We'll soon know if there's no way to slow down.

I do like the story of Aqualung being recorded in the same studio where Led Zeppelin was holed up making IV/Zoso/whatever, but being big huge rock stars they never saw the Zeps - except the one time Jimmy Page popped into the booth to wave "hi" while Martin Barre was cutting the solo on Aqualung in one take.

Moral of the story, if you're going to lay down one of the all-time iconic guitar solos, on a song with one of the all-time iconic guitar riffs, doing it in front of a guitar god levels it up.

[BlackbirdSST]

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.

Well, that only leaves drugs or running around nekkid.

[Salamander]

I’m really more into the lesser known albums, like Catfish Rising, Roots To Branches, Crest Of A Knave, Broadsword and the tragically under-appreciated -A-

You’d think Tull only ever did two songs.

/hey Jack the Ripper, won’t you come on over, hook me up to the power line of your love?

[Salamander]

Crest Of A Knave album.

[Salamander]

No it wasn’t.

He was raging against the bloody church of England who had transformed God into a mere dispenser of “forgiveness for profit”.

You need to study the history and then read the lyrics.

[Salamander]

One of my Dobermans was registered Wiking’s Cold Wind To Valhalla.

[Salamander]

He once owned the infamous Dun Ringill on Skye but sold the whole property to the John Muir Society.

[null and void]

I love 🄰!

[Adder]

What a song, right?

[FateAmenableToChange]

I’ve never seen that film before. That’s absolutely incredible history.

[Salamander]

We could use a few heroes, these days…..

[Salamander]

There’s nothing for it but to sit and wait, ‘til the hard men get me out.

[null and void]

I’m just a soul with an innocent face a regular boy dressed in blue...

[null and void]

I remember Ian Anderson in concert introducing that song comparing it to our hostage crisis and saying ‘we got ours back’, to cheers from the audience.

About 1980, Coliseum in LA.

[Salamander]

I’ve always thought this was an extremely elegant line

“Like spiders down ropes to free-fall”

The song is a true story, oddly enough.

[Salamander]

Vintage Ian was rather a badass.

Then the UK thugs came along and removed all the firing pins from his wonderful gun collection.

Next thing you know, he’s putting out The Secret Language of Birds and Rupi’s Dance, gone bald and started obsessing over cats.

Divinities: Twelve Dances With God had its moments but I still think feeling that boot heel on his throat during the firing pin confiscation changed him.

It’s sad to watch your favorite lyric satyr get tamed.

I do listen to Divinities now and then and always support the band by buying their latest album.

But TSLOB, Rupi’s Dance and the WTF was he thinking?!? J-Tull Dot Com albums were played once, maybe twice.

His solo albums Under Wraps and Walk Into Light were good and they get played.

It’s hard to get old alongside your musical heroes.

(But The Chateau d’Isaster Tapes
cuts were epic)

[null and void]

I’ve always thought this was an extremely elegant line

Me too, it paints a vivid mental picture.