The All Jethro Tull Thread

[esimms86]

I only know Tull via Aqualung, Thick as a Brick, and M.U. Best of. Any recommendations for going deeper? Prefer surround (of course). Gravitate towards hard rock. Thanks!

My preference would be to go for Stand Up and Benefit because I first saw them live when they were touring behind Stand Up(and subsequently saw them again after the release of Benefit). The caveat here is that Stand Up is now selling at usual websites for silly money.

 

[JohnN]

https://i95rock.com/jethro-tull-comes-to-ct-anderson-tells-i95-show-we-dont-belong-in-hall-of-fame/

 

[JohnN]

https://www.musicweek.com/media/rea...charting-the-history-of-island-records/088710What, in your mind, are the essential records from Island during the Volume 1 period?
“Quite a few, so far as I'm concerned. The Sue Story – all three volumes are absolutely indispensable and, more than many, demonstrate the quality of Guy Stevens' ears. Either of the Jimmy McGriff or the Billy Preston records; The Soul Sisters; Club Ska '67 (both volumes) are as good today as they first sounded over 50 years ago, and the same goes for Club Rock Steady '68. The Best Of The Spencer Davis Group and The Best Of Millie – both key acts whose 45s were, of course, licensed to Fontana; Traffic's Mr Fantasy (the real start of the 'pink label' era and Traffic 2. Then there would also be British Blue Eyed Soul – a very much overlooked compilation; both Simon Simopath and All of Us by Nirvana, because Pentecost Hotel and Rainbow Chaser still sound majestic. Jethro Tull's This Was brought Chrysalis to the label, while Fairport's What We Did on our Holidays saw the beginning of Joe Boyd's relationship with Island. The Skatalites and Heptones LPs on Studio One are two gems from the alliance with that label.”

 

[Electric Moo]

Spun "thick as a brick" the other day, what a great album!

 

[LuvMyQuad]

Spun "thick as a brick" the other day, what a great album!

Try this...

 

[JohnN]

https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/jethro-tull-appreciation-thread-part2.253041/page-59

Ahead of Boston show, Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson talks religion, wild cats and more

All of us will come to a time when our path will end ... what would you like people to remember and preserve about yours?

I managed to make a living by being unpopular. From the beginning, my musical heroes were esoteric, and not mainstream. I was never a fan of Elvis Presley ... and so, I supposed, we've had a crew crossover hits that just caught the fancy of people. I've managed to make a decent living out of music that wasn't mainstream, and not of the people of the masses. I have a great respect of people like Ed Sheeran, who can write a very successful pop song ... it's just not really my thing. I like being out on the edge, being out on the rim.

 

[Electric Moo]

I went to see Ian Anderson knowing that his voice was already shot: I just wanted to pay tribute to a musical genius & I'd never seen him or the band before.

Jethro Tull live in the 70's must have been gobsmacking! I envy anyone who got to see them back in the day.

 

[LuvMyQuad]

Jethro Tull live in the 70's must have been gobsmacking! I envy anyone who got to see them back in the day.

I saw Tull multiple times back in the day. In all I've been to 4 Tull shows, one less than Supertramp and a couple less than Roger Waters.. My fave was the Warchild tour. Hard to not be impressed by a guy playing a flute in tall boots and a codpiece.

 

[JohnN]

I saw Tull multiple times back in the day. I'm all I've been to 4 Tull shows, one less than Supertramp ans a couple less than Roger Waters.. My fave was the Warchild tour. Hard to not be impressed by a guy playing a flute in tall boots and a codpiece.

Best concert for me, I started with the Thick As A Brick tour. Niagara Falls NY and Toronto for the WarChild tour to cement the deal. I was just an innocent Beatles/Rolling Stones fan that was swayed for life.

Cheers all!

 

[LuvMyQuad]

Best concert for me, I started with the Thick As A Brick tour. Niagara Falls NY and Toronto for the WarChild tour to cement the deal. I was just an innocent Beatles/Rolling Stones fan that was swayed for life.

Cheers all!

Yeah that Brick show was in the Old convention center. Good times. Its a casino now

 

[JohnN]

Yeah that Brick show was in the Old convention center. Good times. Its a casino now

My Tull/Anderson tour history.
1972 June 04 Maple Leaf Gardens Toronto
1973 May 30 Maple Leaf Gardens
1975 Feb. 23 Niagara Falls Convention Center
1975 Oct. 07 Maple Leaf Gardens
1977 Mar. 24 Maple Leaf Gardens
1979 Oct. 05 Maple Leaf Gardens
1982 Sept. 23 Maple Leaf Gardens
1984 Oct. 23 Maple Leaf Gardens
1987 Nov. 19 Maple Leaf Gardens
1989 Oct. 26 Copps Coliseum Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
1992 Nov. 03 Massey Hall Toronto
1992 Nov. 04 Massey Hall
1995 June 03 Massey Hall (Ian Anderson Divinities)
1996 Aug. 19 Kingswood Music Theatre (Vaughan) Maple, Ontario
2000 July 27 Hamilton Place Hamilton, Canada (Apparently with the same jokes as 1992!)
2002 August 22 Molson Amphitheatre Toronto 90 min. set. Audience: ~10,000, Tull's biggest Canadian audience in a decade
2005 Oct. 04 Massey Hall
2013 Oct. 17 Hamilton Place Canada - Ian Anderson TaaB2

 

[srbjab]

The earliest Jethro Tull concert I remember attending was way back in 1970, they were touring the Benefit album. I was just 18, a freshman in college, and they played in the school gymnasium at the small upstate college I was attending in Plattsburgh, New York. As I recall, many in the audience had little idea who Jethro Tull even were and were also a bit shocked at Ian Andersons occasionally risqué antics on stage. It was a memorable show, with Ian prancing out front and Clive Bunker pounding manically on drums, and made me a lifelong fan.

 

[Mirsset]

My Tull/Anderson tour history.
1972 June 04 Maple Leaf Gardens Toronto
1973 May 30 Maple Leaf Gardens
1975 Feb. 23 Niagara Falls Convention Center
1975 Oct. 07 Maple Leaf Gardens
1977 Mar. 24 Maple Leaf Gardens
1979 Oct. 05 Maple Leaf Gardens
1982 Sept. 23 Maple Leaf Gardens
1984 Oct. 23 Maple Leaf Gardens
1987 Nov. 19 Maple Leaf Gardens
1989 Oct. 26 Copps Coliseum Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
1992 Nov. 03 Massey Hall Toronto
1992 Nov. 04 Massey Hall
1995 June 03 Massey Hall (Ian Anderson Divinities)
1996 Aug. 19 Kingswood Music Theatre (Vaughan) Maple, Ontario
2000 July 27 Hamilton Place Hamilton, Canada (Apparently with the same jokes as 1992!)
2002 August 22 Molson Amphitheatre Toronto 90 min. set. Audience: ~10,000, Tull's biggest Canadian audience in a decade
2005 Oct. 04 Massey Hall
2013 Oct. 17 Hamilton Place Canada - Ian Anderson TaaB2

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2000 July 27 Hamilton Place Hamilton, Canada (Apparently with the same jokes as 1992!)

 

[JohnN]

Matthew WilkeningPublished: November 3, 2023

9. Jethro Tull 'The Jethro Tull Christmas Album' (2003)​

In what appears to be the last-ever studio release from Jethro Tull, Ian Anderson and long-time collaborator Martin Barre mix traditional songs with new season-appropriate material. Among the highlights are their reworking of "Greensleeves," Barre's original "A Winter Snowscape" and "Holly Herald," an Anderson-arranged instrumental medley.

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[scooob]

Rocket 88 Books, who publish specialty books about musicians, have two Jethro Tull books on sale at 40% off through end-of-day November 5. I have the hardcover of The Ballad Of Jethro Tull and it's a really good retrospective history of the band made up of recollections by many of the various band members, and Ian Anderson of course. The version on sale now is a paperback but I'm sure it's a well-made, quality version. I don't have the other book, Silent Singing, which is the complete collected lyrics of all Jethro Tull and Ian Anderson songs, up to the time the book was published a few years back, reviewed by Ian with many corrections made to the versions previously printed in album notes, along with photos of some of Ian's scribbled lyric notes used during the recordings, and other scenes relevant to the songs, plus written reminiscences by Ian on the origin of selected songs. I'm about to order that one now that it's $30 plus shipping for the hardcover version.
https://jethrotullbook.com

 

[Clement]

Matthew WilkeningPublished: November 3, 2023

9. Jethro Tull 'The Jethro Tull Christmas Album' (2003)​

In what appears to be the last-ever studio release from Jethro Tull, Ian Anderson and long-time collaborator Martin Barre mix traditional songs with new season-appropriate material. Among the highlights are their reworking of "Greensleeves," Barre's original "A Winter Snowscape" and "Holly Herald," an Anderson-arranged instrumental medley.

Read More: 20 Christmas Songs Everyone Should Play Instead of Mariah Carey | 20 Christmas Songs Everyone Should Play Instead of Mariah Carey

My all-time favo(u)rite Christmas album. LOVE it so much, it made it onto my top 5 Tull releases! How about a Steven Wilson multichannel mix for Christmas?

 

[watsontr]

This was one of the times I saw them

 

[humprof]

Yeah, I saw that listing when it was first posted here, but my question remains: if there really is going to be a reissue, why is the German JPC site the only one that has it available to pre-order? Why is there no mention of it on Tull's official website, or anywhere else you can Google for that matter? Late November is only a month away, after all.

Again, I hope it's true and that your order comes through... but I'll hold off until someone reports holding a new copy in their hot little hands. Or big hands.

Late to the party here; surprised this hasn't generated more buzz on the forum. Odd indeed that no one but jpc.de has said anything about a possible re-press, although they jumped the gun on the Camel set, too, and that eventually happened. Does anyone remember how much advance notice we had about TAAB?

 

[scooob]

Late to the party here; surprised this hasn't generated more buzz on the forum. Odd indeed that no one but jpc.de has said anything about a possible re-press, although they jumped the gun on the Camel set, too, and that eventually happened. Does anyone remember how much advance notice we had about TAAB?

A quick web search indicates there was an official announcement from Ian Anderson on social media and jethrotull.com of both a 50th Anniversary TAAB vinyl reissue and the CD/DVD "Special Collector's Edition" reissue on June 21, 2022; this QQ thread started discussion of it here after Amazon listed it for pre-order. Originally the CD/DVD reissue was supposed to be available in October '22 but it ended up shipping in January. So, quite a bit of advance notice, and plenty of pre-release publicity. Granted, Minstrel is not quite as high-profile an album as Brick (although it ranks right up there with their finest albums for me personally), but still you would expect a bit of fanfare ahead of re-release, and it should be listed for pre-order on burningshed.com, which is pretty much the official web store for all things Tull.

Yet again, let me be clear that I really hope this does actually happen sooner or later, so all those who missed out on it the first time around can get a copy at a fair price, and if it's under $35 I'll snatch up another one myself to replace mine, which arrived with a gouge out of the front cover.

 

[JohnN]

And above you there's no other