Jethro Tull didn't quite translate through the generations

I think you have it backwards. You are a young guy under 30 on a music forum with many young people on it and think you are a spokesperson for the young
people which you are not! That's real life.

 

Things might have been different if in Breaking Bad Jake Pinkman had played some Tull for Jesse on his piccolo.

 

One thing not mentioned is that because Anderson is a flautist, they do pick up young listeners through the band geek network. Not a lot, but probably similar in numbers to the younger people who discover Zappa.

Heck, I remember learning about Chase when I was in band, and he'd been dead for over a decade, and never had mainstream popularity beyond his one minor hit.

 

OK. You win. Jethro Tull is beloved by all generations, by all people, for all of time. /thread

 

Yes they are beloved by all generations. Why the sarcasm it's only a music forum not real life.

 

Who cares? I'll be dead and I don't equate what "young people" like with the greatness of a band anyway, if anything its a negative correlation. I suppose based on your rationale that Bach is disposable as well ? If he is, then again, who cares? I'll be listening to Tull and Bach till I die, thats all that matters.

 

That's exactly what I'm saying. People around here are so dead set on "their bands" living on forever in the minds of future generations they don't realize the bands have already died. But who cares? Everything goes away in the end.

 

JT is a band which I have tried to find out what made people like them, but so far I still can't figure it out. And I have very, VERY wide tastes. Perhaps someday they will finally click for me like Opera did for the first time in my life during in this past year (which I NEVER though would happen).

 

Yeah, it's weird for me, too. But, I'm committed to change!

 

Agreed brother...

 

Who is she? Every time I see your avatar I can't remember what thread I'm in. This is the Black Sabbath ABA thread, correct?!

 

hip?

 

It's funny, when I was a kid I actually hated Jethro Tull ( well didn't hate, I liked Aqualung a little) but in recent years I've really come to appreciate them and love them.

 

Yeah but Tull only covered one Bach tune. Ooops, you said Tull and Bach. Sorry.

 

Check out my avatar

 

You are the inspiration for the change, Mr. Collins. I figure if you can do it, so can I.

 

I can take 20 minutes from almost every tull year from 1969-82 which out class probably every post 1980 bands best 20 minutes of music. I'd say 50% of tulls best 100 songs are outtakes and singles. These are songs which didn't even make albums.

 

Sorry but no.

 

Slice of reality: I was at my local record store about an hour ago, and while I was doing some crate-digging I listened in on a trio of early-20somethings as they were going through the display racks of new vinyls. They seemed particularly interested in the new Floyd and Bowie. I told them they should get with the program and check out some Minstrel In The Gallery instead, and this girl in horn-rimmed glasses punched me in the nose. This last bit may be a fabrication.

 

She actually kicked ya in the nads , right ?
Hope you were wearing your codpiece.

 

Yes it is so damn hard to figure out why people like them. If you can't figure it out you never will.

 

The blues/rock band up to and including Benefit is great - still love listening to this period. I quite like Aqualung, however, by Thick As A Brick they had run their creative course.
A Passion Play is a corny mess and marks their decline for me. Not certain what period of Tull would appeal to today's youth - probably none at all.

 

I grew up in the 80's and was/is a huge Tull fan. But other than the wannabe musicians and prog rock fans, nobody around me listened to them even back then.

 

Remember how in the 60's , listening to The Rolling Stones and other blues-based British artists and bands led many Americans to "discover" Muddy Waters ,Howlin 'Wolf and others-- going all the way back to Robert Johnson? Even in the '70's it was likely that many fans of hard rock and heavy metal had at least some familiarity with the blues musicians who helped inspire those genres. But think about it, by the 80's that was no longer the case--heavy metal fans of that decade had little knowledge of the African-American bluesmen--but they knew and appreciated Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple. My point is that the "originators" fade from view as the musical styles they sparked evolve further and further away from the source. Rolling Stones fans knew Muddy Waters, but did KISS fans? No, but they knew The Stones. Later, the "hair metal" bands were even further away from Muddy --and even from the Stones--but they appreciated KISS. That's the reality. Yes there are still some young people who are interested in history and will seek out the old Chess blues--just as there are some young people who might be checking out books about George Washington and The American Revolution, their interested sparked by exposure to Assassin's Creed.... (but I digress)
What does this have to do with Jethro Tull? What bands did they inspire? What bands followed in their wake that played a progressive/blues/ classical/English-folk hybrid?
I believe that if it wasn't for anomaly of 1970's AOR-radio ready Aqualung, we wouldn't even be talking about Tull in 2014....