Jethro Tull Appreciation Thread

Hey, you talkin' about me. I'll get you back, I will.
When you are a teenaged Tull fan all is rosy, when you turn twenty and your favourite band calls their album Too Old...well, you get the 1976 picture.

 

Well, I must have an horrendous and off-putting style then because I have this cover framed and hung up in my office.

 

I like it too...

 

Nah. When i was younger i thought the cover was the best thing about the whole album. Nowadays i've learned to appreciate the music too.

See, i'm an old geezer now.

 

my 2 cents. the "too old to rock and roll too young to die" cover art has a great up yours attitude that i think visually represents the message of the song accurately. and on a side note "skating away on the thin ice of a new day" holds beautiful memories for me of being young, free, and looking through somewhat cynical but not bitter eyes on the future. the composition is brilliant and the lyrics hold much wisdom. it was one of my all time favorites to listen to while i was chemically enhanced.

 

The sound of TOTR&R is really very different from any other Tull album. Songs like "The Checkered Flag" and "From a Deadbeat to an old Greaser" don't have much in common with any other Tull, but I find them facinating and very well produced with a 70's smaltzy sheen. Originally the mellow songs on this album were my least favorite, but I have aged to and my tastes have changed.

 

Hoho, no. It was a jab at Ian. Self fufilling prophecy that album Darn, I missed my chance to pull a funny on tootull!

Ohhhh so you have *ahem* get on in your years before the sour vinegar that is TOTR&R turns to wine eh?

I like Salamander

 

Just bought and reconnected with Benefit a few weeks ago...one of the most atmospheric albums of them all. Absolutely love it.

 

Please add me to the list of JT appreciation. Benefit is another one of the reason's why.

 

How did you get this gem? Ian and Martin are prone to sneak out of alternate doors to escape the crowd after a show.

 

Wembley Stadium 1990

Got another gem from the UK Convention of that year which I'll attach. I used to be one of the organisers of the UK Conventions. Details here
http://jethrotull.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=general&thread=225&page=1
Scroll down to entry no. 6

http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh459/moggietull/k.jpg

 

Fun: Salamander good!
sour vinegar that is TOTR&R turns to wine eh... (I like this thought, eh.)
We used to know it all... (again)


missed my chance to pull a funny on tootull!

 

http://blog.syracuse.com/listenup/2010/02/jethro_tull_procol_harum_to_sh.html

 

Thanks for posting that, John. I was at the 1994 show at the Landmark Theater in Syracuse, a few days after (or before?) the show at the Buffalo show at the Shea Theater.

Perhaps it's time for me to take another Syracuse sojourn this year to see them there, and also in Rochester. I'm going to have to call my Tull-mate and fellow Tull traveler, Rob, about this. If Schenectady Dan goes, that will definitely increase the likelihood of me going, because he is great to hang out and get hammered with before and after the show!

Might be tough though, as I already have a three-for lined up for Jones Beach, Holmdale and (probably) A.C. as well, although casino shows are not my favorite.

Jeff

 

Me too, Todd. I love the album, and it holds a very special place in my heart as it was the first new Tull record that came out after I first heard Tull sometime in 1975, I believe, when I was 14.

The album has a lot of very unusual things about it, some truly unique aspects for a Tull record, as it includes in various places: harmonica, saxophone, slide guitar, backing female vocals and the pizzacato guitar plucking on Pied Piper. And so much of it is just Ian strumming on an acoustic guitar and singing. Some of these songs could be played by him alone in a coffeehouse.

The concept and packaging was brilliant, with the defiant Ray Lomas giving the up yours gesture on the cover, and the great cartoon storyboard inside, as well as the social satire and critique of the music industry and precient recognition of the changes that were starting to occur with the advent of puck rock, etc. and the coining of a phrase! Truly an interesting album.

The album also has, by far, the most vulgar lyrics of any Tull record, which adds to the fun, i.e., warm farts, wet dreams, tenners in skin tight jeans, etc, the list goes on, and it includes Ray checking out Sally's breasts, and Sally speculating on the size of Ray's package in the cartoon.

Plus there are some under-rated rockers, just basic good rock songs like Big Dipper, Quizz Kid, Crazed Institution and Taxi Grab. I love this album, always have preferred it over War Child, and I dare say, Minstrel as well, and do not understand why it's rated near the bottom of the Tull catalogue.

Jeff

 

Pied Piper is the standout track imo.

 

http://www.bexleytimes.co.uk/conten...tsonbmlyt&itemid=WeED18 Feb 2010 15:50:34:460

 

March 2010 Record Collector - Jethro Tull Fan Forum
http://jethrotull.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=852


http://www.j-tull.com/

 

Legendary British Recording Acts to Receive Global Digital Marketing and Distribution

The Orchard Signs Jethro Tull
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/th...d-jethro-tull-2010-02-24?reflink=MW_news_stmp

 

Does this mean new material is forthcoming? Hope, hope? Also, does this include digital distribution of their entire catalog, or does that still belong to EMI (through Roots to Branches, I mean)?

 

March 2010 Record Collector
http://jethrotull.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=general&thread=852&page=1
RC asked front-man lan Anderson about the band's upcoming tour.
"We'll do some obscure, older stuff we don't normally do and some new songs. A studio album is not something in the works, but we'll play them before they're finalised".

 

That kind of sucks, but I've read elsewhere that Ian feels the days of the physical product, and thus the necessity of albums has passed. Which begs the question, does he intend to release individual tracks through this distribution deal?

 

That's the thing, Ian is always so vague about future album plans. This has been going on for years now. Each year he hints, or sometimes directly states, that there will be a new album, and then there never is. Hardcore fans like us, who are eagerly awaiting new material, are disappointed year after year. Why can't he just tell the truth?

Jeff

 

Jethro Tull’s first gig has been marked with a special plaque from PRS for Music.
http://www.musicweek.com/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=1040201&c=1
Plaque marks Jethro Tull's Blackpool church gig
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/lancashire/8536951.stm

 

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