Jethro Tull songs without the flute?

I really like the UK version of “Teacher”. I first heard that on the 20 Years of Tull box set.

 

Actually now that I listen, I'm hard pressed to hear any flute on "Up the pool"! (Agree, can definitely hear flute on Dr Bogenbroom.) On Up the pool, what sounds a bit like a flute maybe is actually violins.

 

One White Duck

 

I don´t think there´s a flute in Raising steam, the last track on Crest of a knave.

 

Benefit is one of my favourite Jethro Tull Albums, there's no flute on the following songs and I love them all:
To Cry You A Song
Nothing To Say
For Michael Collins, Jeffrey & Me

 

This is one case where I definitely prefer my Tull with the flute (the American version?). The UK version is fluteless, but they didn't replace it with anything... So during what one would expect to be a solo spot of some sorts, instead they just riff in the background and "nothing" happens...

 

This and Locomotive Breath!

 

All true. I could probably fill up a CD with my favorite unfluted Tull songs; the only tedious part would be having to listen too hard to all the candidates to double-check. (I love listening to music, but listening for something in particular can feel like homework.)

 

If Ian is reading this he should give it a thought for the theme of the next Very Best of the Greatest Tull... type of compilation: "The Unfluted Jethro Tull". It actually works as a hit collection! Requires to change the one-legged flute-playing IA logo though... Just for once...

 

hee hee. I was waiting for someone to catch that.

 

Does “Cat’s Squirrel” have flute? I never heard it when listening to the song a few minutes ago.

 

Life’s a Long Song

 

So this thread gets derailed on purpose now ?

 

No, it's just the trio of Abrahams-Bunker-Cornick on that piece.

 

Sure you were ...

 

Just rework it to show Ian snapping the flute in two over his knee.

I had forgotten about "Steel Monkey" - that's one of my favorite post-70s Tull tracks, particularly in the winnowed field of non-flute songs.

 

It appears at 2:10

 

Any excuse to listen to this song is welcomed.

 

Really great Jethro Tull song without the flute.


Taxi Grab (from Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die!, 1976)

 

I believe The Whistler has a tin whistle as opposed to a flute

 

No flute on "Son" either.

 

IIRC it's Ian playing the fiddle...

 

I believe Martin Barre said Nothing To Say is his favorite Tull song.

 

The Wilson Mix of the Chateau d'Isaster Tapes.
But the version with the flute is better (though worse sound quality - unfortunately ...)