Jethro Tull - They Could Rock !

[Guilbert53]

Song from Jethro Tull second album Stand Up

Song "For a thousand mothers"

[douglas9401]

50th anniversary tour next year, Guilbert. :-)

[Guilbert53]

Nothing is Easy from the same Stand Up album which also rocks!

[Guilbert53]

However they also had a softer side, Song "Look in to the sun" from the same Stand Up album.

[melv16]

Are you Thick as a Brick, Guilbert? :-)

[fiction-factory]

I have tried to listen to Jethro Tull over the years as I know some love them but i'm afraid I have just not been able to get into them. I like most kinds of music including lots of rock from that era but not JT- Ian Anderson's vocals grate with me and the music was too chaotic with flutes and the foly element and whatever else was going on

[Guilbert53]

>>50th anniversary tour next year, Guilbert. :-)

Yes they are appearing in my local city in April next year.

http://jethrotull.com/tour-dates/

The TV channel Sky Arts show a number of programs about rock acts (many programs about rock acts actually) and the other day they showed a 90 minute history of Jethro Tull with interviews with many of the ex band members.

Program must be a few years old as Glenn Cornick was in it (who sadly died in 2014).

It was amazing to see the ups and down the band has had since 1967 / 68 when they first began to get together, with lots of band members coming and going, some members dying, many arguments, good albums and bad albums and so on.

And Ian Anderson has been there in the centre all the time, with Martin Barre with him for a lot of the time as well.

Amazed to see David Palmer, a past band member, who was married and had children, but has now changed his sex to Dee Palmer after his wife died and he/she had gender realignment.

I think if anyone has Sky they can download the programs from the Sky Arts web site.

There is also a 30 minute "overview" of the band on Sky Arts which rushes through their career, though the big mistake on that program was saying Aqualung was a double album. Tut tut !

[woofgang]

yes they can rock....but my favourite perhaps not so rocky

[douglas9401]

Not to worry FF, there are plenty of songs on the themes my baby left me, rhyming seven and heaven and the latest wheeze, including many oh oh oh oh ohohohoh bits to fill your ears. :)

[fiction-factory]

^ like Bungle rhyming with jungle, do you mean, douglas. Now who did that one?

I think I'd better warn ya i come from California

[fiction-factory]

>latest wheeze, including many oh oh oh oh ohohohoh

I think i know which one you mean. is it the chorus from this?

[douglas9401]

Strange, Everyone I Meet Is From California. :-D

[woofgang]

where of course it never rains

[andy-hughes]

I'm with fiction on this - they are a band I have never managed to connect with at all.

I have interviewed Ian Anderson, and charming and erudite man, but I am still unable to find any appeal in the music he and his band create.

[-Talbot-]

Preferred Jethro Tull when they dropped the Tull and started telling jokes.

[pixie374]

I went to school with his daughter. Didn't know she was married to Andrew Lincoln... lucky cow :-)