The All Jethro Tull Thread

[JohnN]

This might not be the appropriate place to ask and I'll understand if this is deleted.

Have any audience recordings from 1972 or 1973 (Brick and Passion Play tours) that have maybe above average fidelity been unearthed?

The band maybe has one board tape from 1973? (With one track released on 25 Years of JT set.)

Have any audience recordings from 1972 or 1973 (Brick and Passion Play tours) that have maybe above average fidelity been unearthed? I wish!

50 years ago today: most exciting rock show in my entire life, Jethro Tull’s “A Passion Play”

 

[JohnN]

Nostalgia Stories: Martin Barre of ‘Jethro Tull’ ​

 

[JohnN]

The Five Heaviest Prog Rock Bands of All Time

Jethro Tull, Thick as a Brick (1972)​

Obviously, Jethro Tull began their reign as the leading ambassadors of progressive folk/rock with 1971’s Aqualung (thanks to “Mother Goose,” “My God,” “Wond’ring Aloud” and course, “Aqualung”). It didn’t completely represent that designation, though, whereas follow-up Thick as a Brick did. By forgoing much of their prior hard/blues rock forcefulness in favor of delivering a majestic 44-minute tongue-in-cheek conceptual piece (broken into two halves), Thick as a Brick aided in popularizing more than a few key prog rock properties.

Created in part as a satire of the style’s extravagancies, Thick as a Brick’s fictional tale of a schoolboy who writes a newsworthy poem actually houses some profound insights about the journey from childhood to adulthood. Beyond that, both “Part One” and “Part Two” see frontman/mastermind Ian Anderson and company creating some of the most delightfully hypnotic and ambitious music and melodies in the genre’s history.

There are also a handful of recurring themes spread across its runtime, and if not for 1973’s divisive work of genius (A Passion Play), Thick as a Brick would absolutely be Jethro Tull’s magnum opus.

 

[JohnN]

Cleveland rocks: Jethro Tull's Martin Barre - A Brief History of Tull | Broward Center for the Performing Arts

 

[JohnN]

Jethro Tull : Thick As a Brick - A prog masterpiece | Treble

 

[Tres Discrete]

Cleveland rocks: Jethro Tull's Martin Barre - A Brief History of Tull | Broward Center for the Performing Arts

I’ve got tickets for the little delight:

https://avenelarts.com/shows/jethro-tulls-martin-barre-acoustic-delights/

 

[JohnN]

7 views Oct 28, 2024 Track #6 of the 2024 Pleasant Snare Remix version of Jethro Tull's album ‘Under Wraps’. While waiting for an official release enjoy this attempt to improve the overall sound of this great album. See • Jethro Tull - Under Wraps - 01 Lap Of...

 

[JulesRules]

The band maybe has one board tape from 1973? (With one track released on 25 Years of JT set.)

The Passion Play extract on the 25 Years box set isn't from 1973 - it's from the Paris 1975 show that was later released in full (well, almost since one of the reels was missing) on the Minstrel in the Gallery box set.