Jethro Tull 5.1 (“Bursting Out” box set with Steven Wilson 5.1 mixes out in June 2024!)

[gorman]

I'm fully in my "why were the better albums done in 5.1, I'll never hear them in Atmos in my lifetime" period.

 

[esimms86]

Living In The Past-Blu-Ray dance. Was my first Tull album with Thick As A Brick.

So you came to Tull relatively late. I guess you’re younger than I am.

 

[JohnN]

So you came to Tull relatively late. I guess you’re younger than I am.

At 16, free tickets for some hippie band. My first and favourite Tull concert. June 4, 1972

Maple Leaf Gardens Toronto, Canada
Thick As A Brick Pt.1/ Flute Solo (incl. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Bourée (fragment))/ Thick As A Brick Pt.1 contd./ News & Weather/ Thick As A Brick Pt.2/ Drum Solo/ '218 Babies'/ Thick As A Brick Pt.2 contd., Cross-Eyed Mary, A New Day Yesterday, Aqualung, Wind-Up/Guitar Solo/Locomotive Breath/Hard-Headed English General, Wind-Up (reprise)
Set lists of Jethro Tull live concerts in 1972, at the Ministry Of Information

 

[esimms86]

At 16, free tickets for some hippie band. My first and favourite Tull concert. June 4, 1972

Maple Leaf Gardens Toronto, Canada
Thick As A Brick Pt.1/ Flute Solo (incl. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Bourée (fragment))/ Thick As A Brick Pt.1 contd./ News & Weather/ Thick As A Brick Pt.2/ Drum Solo/ '218 Babies'/ Thick As A Brick Pt.2 contd., Cross-Eyed Mary, A New Day Yesterday, Aqualung, Wind-Up/Guitar Solo/Locomotive Breath/Hard-Headed English General, Wind-Up (reprise)
Set lists of Jethro Tull live concerts in 1972, at the Ministry Of Information

So you were 16 when I was 21.

The irony, which you are clearly aware of, is that Ian hated the hippie drug culture and didn’t count himself as one of them.

 

[JohnN]

So you were 16 when I was 21.

The irony, which you are clearly aware of, is that Ian hated the hippie drug culture and didn’t count himself as one of them.

Parents first description. +Looked like hippies stormed the stage for Thick As A Brick. I was almost put off by the Jethro Tull name. Heard some Aqualung tracks on FM radio before the concert sold me.

 

[esimms86]

Parents first description. +Looked like hippies stormed the stage for Thick As A Brick. I was almost put off by the Jethro Tull name. Heard some Aqualung tracks on FM radio before the concert sold me.

Of course, all (or most) of their fans back then thought that they were hippies.

 

[JohnN]

Of course, all (or most) of their fans back then thought that they were hippies.

Now & then just weirdos.
Ian Anderson discusses the problems of looking like a weirdo
ARTICLE ABOUT Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) FROM New Musical Express, November 1, 1969

 

[Bill B]

Of course, all (or most) of their fans back then thought that they were hippies.

And then in 1989 "everyone" decided that they were a heavy metal band and not a hippy band after all... for some reason.

 

[esimms86]

Now & then just weirdos.
Ian Anderson discusses the problems of looking like a weirdo
ARTICLE ABOUT Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) FROM New Musical Express, November 1, 1969

Thanks for the article and I totally get it but I do find him to be, perhaps, just so slightly ingenuous. That is to say that he and the band(the late Glenn Cornick aside) presented themselves visually as hippie outsiders, played hippie venues and, therefore, ended up making a very nice living via the patronage of those very same hippies. In other words, they knew exactly how they were presenting and they knew exactly why these particular people were coming to see them, being on the same bill as, say, Led Zeppelin and such. Some folks put on a suit to go to work and Ian, alternatively, dresses like Aqualung. As is his right.

But really though, it’s all about being in show business, isn’t it? Ask KISS or ABBA or the Motown guy or girl groups or Alice Cooper or Arthur Brown(as in The Crazy World Of). I have no substantive issues with Ian Anderson and I enjoy his music and I never for even a minute believed that the guy onstage was who he really was. OTOH, my communal feelings towards being part of that young, weed smoking audience are another thing entirely.