And your wise men don't know how it feels to be Thick as a Brick... Your sperm's in the gutter your love's in the sink. Passion Play is really awesome too. Seen Tull many times from the front row back in the day when no security guards, walkway between me and Ian Anderson. So Theatrical he is. Good Times
@@jeffreyjernberg3650 Now that I have heard the new album Rölflöte about 10 times and my feeble brains makes the connections in it - it is another fantasic, amazing album. No sperm, no snot, no willie kissing ... it is beautiful.
@@jeffreyjernberg3650 Passion Play is awesome??!! It is a piece of blasphemous crap. Ian should have never released this embarrassing lump of boring shite. I love Jethro Tull but am horrified by Passion Play.
I have been fortunate to have seen Tull many times since the early 70s and would NOT miss a show. SOOOOOOO many good concerts and ALWAYS entertaining. Completely UNLIKE other bands and I love them for that. I have maybe 60hrs of Tull to listen to but fave is still Thick as a Brick. ALWAYS lifts me up when I am lagging.
The cigarette in the singing booth!!! LOL And he's got it between his fingers while playing the flute! You wouldn't see this in today's recording studios! Great flash back...
Wow! I was at the Hyde Park gig. Amazed to see Any footage. After that they got their Marquee residency. In those days I was spending more time in The Marquee than I was at home. Anderson was using a brown paper carrier bag to keep his stuff in. He would pull out a flask of coffee and a pack of cigarettes during 'Cats Squirell'. A routine which soon developed into Anderson passing cigarettes out to various people in the audience! On one occasion he didn't have any and asked if anyone had one? Instantly it was raining cigarettes!
Thick As a Brick wasn’t a joke or a parody album. Ian came up with all that stuff much later. He was very serious about the album if you see the early interviews regarding the Lp in 1972-75.
I am a huge longtime Tull fan, so this was very much appreciated and enjoyed. The footage all seems rare- I had not seen any if it before. Loved every minute of it, as well as your witty and humorous commentary!
My first gig was Tull, 1984 Under Wraps tour. Amazing! Saw them many times after. While I count myself as lucky in having seen so many great rock n'roll bands, I wish that I could have seen what the scene was like in '67, the year that I was born.
He's not groundbreaking, but he's just right for their music, always tasteful..."In Search of the Lost Chord" is an oft-overlooked masterpiece, "Legend of a Mind" is probably my favorite song of theirs
I laughed at my wife in 1979 ,she went to a Jethro Tull concert at maple leaf gardens in Toronto. She and her girlfriend dropped acid and were sitting in the seats to see numerous costumes of animals running around the stage. They thought they were having a bad trip and left . I still laugh about it at her expense.
Saw Jethro Tull in LA during the mid seventies at the prime of the bands career....... Words cannot describe how much ENERGY that concert produced 🤯🎧🎸🎹🎙️🎶🥁💯💯💯👍😁
Ian Anderson said in an interview back in around 2000 that thick as a brick was actually a parody on the music of ELP and the seriousness that they along with other progressive rock bands at the time took on their music😊
1979 or 80? Ish.. drove from Cody Wy to Billings Montana for Tull. The band played their hearts out for half a crowd in a smallish concert hall. Welcome to our little concert, Ian said. And proceeded to have a ball. Twas obvious they went off script many times which made it to me more fun. CHEERS
Anyway, here's a big mistake: one of the first songs played here, is not 'Back To The Family', but is 'To Be Sad is A Mad Way To Be', one of the great unreleased songs in their repertoire! That song, 'To Be Sad Is A Mad Way To Be' is a song that's been only played live.
I was expecting, "A Christmas Song, when you mentioned a quick Christmas single, "Once in Royal David's City Stood a lonely cattle shed Where a mother held her baby You'd do well to remember the things he later said When you're stuffing yourselves at the Christmas parties You'll just laugh when I tell you to take a running jump You're missing the point I'm sure does not need making That Christmas spirit is not what you drink...
I’ll still argue the thought that DOFP was the first “prog” album. It really didn’t define the basic elements of prog, it was just an album with orchestral interludes and two great songs by the Moody Blues that were based more on folk music and structures than European classical music. The arc of The Nice from ‘67- ‘70 is where prog was invented and defined.
I don't know. I remember going to a concert in Pittsburgh the Benedum theater and after the show their limousine was outside I don't do pot but I know what it smells like and this was the good stuff
I'm more likely to believe Ian Anderson, a man with a solid reputation for being an uptight control-freak, doesn't do pot than someone who "knows what the good stuff smells like"! Jethro Tull's music is pretty different from what everyone else was doing in the 70s, it makes sense that they were doing (or "not doing") something different than all the other bands.
@@mattschwarz9285 Anderson an "uptight control freak"? I tried mushrooms because many people-fathers with kids-said the feeling's incredible. I have determined that I, like Ian, am an uptight control freak, and I want to keep it that way. I found mushrooms most unpleasant and pretty dull.
Neither did Zappa. You don't need drugs to be creative. It can slow you down and lmit you in the long run. Ian Anderson has been saying this for years,
If I had known in the early 70s that Jethro Tull didn't do drugs I would have burned my entire collection. The friend who originally turned me on to them worshipped Ian Anderson, and had taken every drug known to man hundreds of times including Bella Donna.
😮 I heard Ian was very strict about absolutely no drugs with his band mates. Hard to believe right? I saw them first in 1972 and had front row seats. The 70s were an amazing time for music. ❤️ I saw JT at least 6x. Sorry to hear he has COPD now but still performs although his voice is not the same. I've heard people were soo disappointed, they've walked out at intermission.
@@pdxyyz4327 interesting,I never knew Tull covered Roland Kirk although I'd seen photos of Anderson playing 2 at once, just hadn't made the connection. Cheers
I have just met (May 2023) Lancastrian chappie who went to school with Barry(more) Barlow and 'Zig' Wilkinson, one of the sax players for John Evan (and Ian).
pleasing and not to obvious shape. you are being ironic, Ian. your codpiece is pretty mild compared to many historical ones. same came with the whole package and also, check the bollocks knife.. middle ages were not prude, thats a myth.
He did not. Maybe he tried pot once but he has said that neither he nor the band used drugs, of course not including alcohol. Zappa smoked cigarettes but didnt take drugs nor did his band. STevie Winwood advocates against marijuana while admitting it was part of their habits fora couple of years.
@@granthurlburt4062 Speed was endemic in England the 1960's, particularly in music where bands were on touring circuits or driving all night for some gig. Not saying he was definitely using - like pot, I'd be surprised if he hadn't. Glenn Cornick partied. Glascock did as well. Napoleon Murphy Brock was thrown out of Zappa's band for weed. Obviously, not calling them a bunch of drug addicts and both Zappa and Anderson were outspoken about how they didn't do (illegal) drugs plus Zappa was my way or the highway when it came to (illegal) drugs
Isn't Anderson a sheep farmer these days? That's what some show said years ago. A nice farm with a studio in an old brick outbuilding and sheep grazing all around...! Sounds really like a really nice way to get away from it all!!!
Yeah this interview was a bummer. Part of the problem is they didn't interview Graham Edge who was kind of like Animal on the Muppet show , really funny. I always thought like they were kind of surprised by their success , rather than getting lost in it. They lost a step when Mike Pinder left ( he just didn't want the stress, plus had a family) but still did some great songs,esp long distance voyager.
When is Ian ever going to admit that "Aqualung" was a concept album? I think he does not want to do that because he was quoted as centering the album's theme around his ex-wife, Jennie Franks, photographic exhibit - and I think he is afraid he would be sued and lose money - because that is all really Ian seems to care about.
@@capcompass9298 LOL, that's a good question. I think because they always did that for a certain time with JT album covers. They worked Ian, and often the whole band into them. If Ian really wanted to honor his current band aside from letting them play as JethroTull, he should put them on the album cover of the next album.
@@capcompass9298 It's just never been an issue for me. The same guy making the music, and always exceptional musicians to back him up. Why do people have to whine over this?
I like listening to a rock musician who is actually intelligent and articulate.
The moody blues and Jethro Tull two of the greatest innovative bands ever
1:18 - I have to admit, I love the ancient prehistoric Jethro Tull with Clive and Glenn
yes, me too
Me also Benefit is one of my favorite albums by anyone.
And your wise men don't know how it feels to be Thick as a Brick... Your sperm's in the gutter your love's in the sink. Passion Play is really awesome too. Seen Tull many times from the front row back in the day when no security guards, walkway between me and Ian Anderson. So Theatrical he is. Good Times
@@jeffreyjernberg3650
Now that I have heard the new album Rölflöte about 10 times and my feeble brains makes the connections in it - it is another fantasic, amazing album. No sperm, no snot, no willie kissing ... it is beautiful.
@@jeffreyjernberg3650 Passion Play is awesome??!! It is a piece of blasphemous crap.
Ian should have never released this embarrassing lump of boring shite.
I love Jethro Tull but am horrified by Passion Play.
Tull best Rock band of all Times.
I have been fortunate to have seen Tull many times since the early 70s and would NOT miss a show. SOOOOOOO many good concerts and ALWAYS entertaining. Completely UNLIKE other bands and I love them for that. I have maybe 60hrs of Tull to listen to but fave is still Thick as a Brick. ALWAYS lifts me up when I am lagging.
The cigarette in the singing booth!!! LOL And he's got it between his fingers while playing the flute! You wouldn't see this in today's recording studios! Great flash back...
I got to see Jethro Tull in the late seventies, they played a very good set 👍💥🎸
Tull.... the Best ....!
Thick as a Brick went to #1 because it was a fantastic album.
The first I ever bought.
@@capcompass9298 Ha! Me too!
@@chrislong3938 Two months later, our new puppy scratched Side 2 to bits.
@@capcompass9298 Mine warped pretty badly but not so bad I could tape a nickel to the tone-arm to get it to play! ;-)
@@chrislong3938 A friend left his in the front seat of his car and it warped so much, he used it as an ash tray.
" Watch out the waiter's on acid" Hilarious!!!!!!!!
After the pub in the 70s back home only one time to chill and that was Jethro on the turntable real low and time to fill.
Tull...Great music and tongue in cheek! The Best! ❤
Wow! I was at the Hyde Park gig. Amazed to see Any footage. After that they got their Marquee residency. In those days I was spending more time in The Marquee than I was at home. Anderson was using a brown paper carrier bag to keep his stuff in. He would pull out a flask of coffee and a pack of cigarettes during 'Cats Squirell'. A routine which soon developed into Anderson passing cigarettes out to various people in the audience! On one occasion he didn't have any and asked if anyone had one? Instantly it was raining cigarettes!
Andy Thomas s
What an experience!!
Good name for a single.
@@wreckofthehesperas8323 As good as Jimi's.
Thick As a Brick wasn’t a joke or a parody album.
Ian came up with all that stuff much later.
He was very serious about the album if you see the early interviews regarding the Lp in 1972-75.
I am a huge longtime Tull fan, so this was very much appreciated and enjoyed. The footage all seems rare- I had not seen any if it before. Loved every minute of it, as well as your witty and humorous commentary!
Aye OK ''Aqualung'' you PERV ffs.
My first gig was Tull, 1984 Under Wraps tour. Amazing!
Saw them many times after. While I count myself as lucky in having seen so many great rock n'roll bands, I wish that I could have seen what the scene was like in '67, the year that I was born.
Minstrel in the gallery is one of my favourite albums
This is great video !
how cool that American astronauts listened to the Moody's in space.I can't think of a better fit for zooming around the Heavens!
Remy....I keep coming back to this one! Thanks again and again!
Must also give a shout of praise to John Lodge....yup.....another fantastic bass player!
He's not groundbreaking, but he's just right for their music, always tasteful..."In Search of the Lost Chord" is an oft-overlooked masterpiece, "Legend of a Mind" is probably my favorite song of theirs
These are another planet, ,,,,,,, I think that is wonderful grow up in your mind and guess unique sound !☆
I laughed at my wife in 1979 ,she went to a Jethro Tull concert at maple leaf gardens in Toronto. She and her girlfriend dropped acid and were sitting in the seats to see numerous costumes of animals running around the stage. They thought they were having a bad trip and left . I still laugh about it at her expense.
Saw Jethro Tull in LA during the mid seventies at the prime of the bands career....... Words cannot describe how much ENERGY that concert produced 🤯🎧🎸🎹🎙️🎶🥁💯💯💯👍😁
Funniest video i've seen all week ... Thanks! LONG LIVE JETHRO TULL !!!!
2:29 - LOL, hilarious ... "thank goodness for that"!
loved both bands. immensely
I love Scottish lax! I'll buy all I can get. Healthy AND delicious!
BTW: Must give a shout out of praise to Glen Cornick here. Fantastic bass player!!
Awesome
Great..Rock n roll..classic..
Good to see these guys looking really healthy
This got my like 👍 as soon as bill mentioned codpiece 😂👌
Loved Tull. Now Porcupine Tree / Steven Wilson.
Of the magical Moodies it could be said, "destined for inner space." Love their music, and that of Jethro Tull.
Ian Anderson said in an interview back in around 2000 that thick as a brick was actually a parody on the music of ELP and the seriousness that they along with other progressive rock bands at the time took on their music😊
I loved Ian’s Montesa riding days
When elves were elves and sleeves were gatefold.
1979 or 80? Ish.. drove from Cody Wy to Billings Montana for Tull. The band played their hearts out for half a crowd in a smallish concert hall.
Welcome to our little concert, Ian said. And proceeded to have a ball. Twas obvious they went off script many times which made it to me more fun. CHEERS
They played in a pub in Wanganui, NZ for a one-off.
The quest for the magical codpice
Though they made many great albums, Stand Up is still my favorite.
Jethro Tull may have had so many members. But Martin Barre will always be the only guitarist. He was brilliant and i am sure he still is.
Nah, Love Martin as much as anybody but "This Was" is classic Tull with Mick Abrahams on guitar, so no, not the only guitarist.
@@DonMacGillivray : Barre was the sound of Tull. Mick i liked in Blodwyn Pig.
@@Glenrsi You can’t rewrite history to your preferences. Mick was the sound of Tull till he wasn’t.
@@DonMacGillivray : For one album, then forgotten.
@@Glenrsi Hmmmm, seems myself and a lot of other Tull fans I know, remember……
10:20 ... 10:41 - How a restrained Englishman cuts loose.
Anyway, here's a big mistake: one of the first songs played here, is not 'Back To The Family', but is 'To Be Sad is A Mad Way To Be', one of the great unreleased songs in their repertoire! That song, 'To Be Sad Is A Mad Way To Be' is a song that's been only played live.
Luca Canetti: Actually To Be Mad Is A Sad Way To Be has been released!
I think it was on their 45th or 50th Box Set, or was it in their 20th?
I was expecting, "A Christmas Song, when you mentioned a quick Christmas single,
"Once in Royal David's City
Stood a lonely cattle shed
Where a mother held her baby
You'd do well to remember the things he later said
When you're stuffing yourselves at the Christmas parties
You'll just laugh when I tell you to take a running jump
You're missing the point I'm sure does not need making
That Christmas spirit is not what you drink...
"Hey, Santa, pass us that bottle willya?"
I had a Pitbull that had a Cod piece it did look the Nuts
♥️🙏♥️
How is Tull not in the Rock Hall ? Disgusting
It's a cool kids club best ignored, like those lists of 50 greatest guitarists that don't mention John Mclaughlin.
When it come to the R&R HoF, Eddie Trunk speaks for me.
Supported the Pink Floyd!
Jethro Tull the black bull folk club can't remember if it was Finchley or Whetstone 5 shillings entry. Great days ✌️
Ian is Rick Grimes father in law. He's have been great in Walking Dead.
"... play two flutes at once". I think not.
Intro was funny
Bill Bailey usually is.
I’ll still argue the thought that DOFP was the first “prog” album. It really didn’t define the basic elements of prog, it was just an album with orchestral interludes and two great songs by the Moody Blues that were based more on folk music and structures than European classical music. The arc of The Nice from ‘67- ‘70 is where prog was invented and defined.
Ride my seesaw!
Concept Album? WTAF?
I don't know. I remember going to a concert in Pittsburgh the Benedum theater and after the show their limousine was outside I don't do pot but I know what it smells like and this was the good stuff
I'm more likely to believe Ian Anderson, a man with a solid reputation for being an uptight control-freak, doesn't do pot than someone who "knows what the good stuff smells like"! Jethro Tull's music is pretty different from what everyone else was doing in the 70s, it makes sense that they were doing (or "not doing") something different than all the other bands.
@@mattschwarz9285 Anderson an "uptight control freak"?
I tried mushrooms because many people-fathers with kids-said the feeling's incredible.
I have determined that I, like Ian, am an uptight control freak, and I want to keep it that way. I found mushrooms most unpleasant and pretty dull.
It was for the roadies? 🤭🤭
"Wonders of a lifetime,
Right there before your eyes ..."
Salmon oil.
Lsd influenced a lot of folks
£sd
Moody Blues ... sad that Ray Thomas just died ... and there was his flute part at 7:08
KILLER..
I can't believe Ian Anderson never did drugs? Just like Ted Nugent.🤣🤣🤣🤣
Alcohol and nicotine.
Neither did Zappa. You don't need drugs to be creative. It can slow you down and lmit you in the long run. Ian Anderson has been saying this for years,
@@granthurlburt4062 What about all the great drug induced music from the psychedelic 60's.
If I had known in the early 70s that Jethro Tull didn't do drugs I would have burned my entire collection. The friend who originally turned me on to them worshipped Ian Anderson, and had taken every drug known to man hundreds of times including Bella Donna.
Queen were in a "belladonic haze".
😮 I heard Ian was very strict about absolutely no drugs with his band mates. Hard to believe right? I saw them first in 1972 and had front row seats. The 70s were an amazing time for music. ❤️ I saw JT at least 6x. Sorry to hear he has COPD now but still performs although his voice is not the same. I've heard people were soo disappointed, they've walked out at intermission.
Moody Blues progressive ?
Ian Anderson and his cod piece. Bahahaha. Lift and separate.
I liked them until they went Renaissance Fair, wood fairy, Robin Hood on us.
😉
Must be difficult thinking you are smarter than everyone
0:19 - Two flutes at once? I must have missed that.
I'm gonna give you the truth; that - like just about EVERYTHING else Ian Anderson/Jethro Tull - was a joke, son.
It was a take on Roland Kirk who would play 2 saxaphones at once, and whose song Serenade to a Cuckoo they played on This Was.
@@pdxyyz4327 interesting,I never knew Tull covered Roland Kirk although I'd seen photos of Anderson playing 2 at once, just hadn't made the connection. Cheers
@@gardenphoto Nah, one up each nostril.
I have just met (May 2023) Lancastrian chappie who went to school with Barry(more) Barlow and 'Zig' Wilkinson, one of the sax players for John Evan (and Ian).
Anti-drugs?
He likes alcohol and nicotine...
Imagine Ian on a bit of weed.
He wasnt interested. And you know what he means.
pleasing and not to obvious shape. you are being ironic, Ian. your codpiece is pretty mild compared to many historical ones. same came with the whole package and also, check the bollocks knife.. middle ages were not prude, thats a myth.
Look at Blackadder's.
I would be very surprised if Anderson never ate speed or tried pot. Definitely alcohol and cigarettes like most people of the era.
He did not. Maybe he tried pot once but he has said that neither he nor the band used drugs, of course not including alcohol. Zappa smoked cigarettes but didnt take drugs nor did his band. STevie Winwood advocates against marijuana while admitting it was part of their habits fora couple of years.
@@granthurlburt4062 Speed was endemic in England the 1960's, particularly in music where bands were on touring circuits or driving all night for some gig. Not saying he was definitely using - like pot, I'd be surprised if he hadn't. Glenn Cornick partied. Glascock did as well. Napoleon Murphy Brock was thrown out of Zappa's band for weed. Obviously, not calling them a bunch of drug addicts and both Zappa and Anderson were outspoken about how they didn't do (illegal) drugs plus Zappa was my way or the highway when it came to (illegal) drugs
What is "taking the mickey out of" something mean?
making fun of
Extracting the Michael...
Justgivemethetruth ,it can be meen but it can also be affectionate
Taking the piss!
@@portcullis5622
Sometimes those clever British sayings are not so clever.
Isn't Anderson a sheep farmer these days?
That's what some show said years ago.
A nice farm with a studio in an old brick outbuilding and sheep grazing all around...!
Sounds really like a really nice way to get away from it all!!!
Moo dies in space
XD XD XD XD XD XD XD XD XD XD XD XD XD XD
The Moodlings aren't very funny are they?
Yeah this interview was a bummer. Part of the problem is they didn't interview Graham Edge who was kind of like Animal on the Muppet show , really funny. I always thought like they were kind of surprised by their success , rather than getting lost in it. They lost a step when Mike Pinder left ( he just didn't want the stress, plus had a family) but still did some great songs,esp long distance voyager.
6:16 - Ian the wanker
A musical Genius
When is Ian ever going to admit that "Aqualung" was a concept album? I think he does not want to do that because he was quoted as centering the album's theme around his ex-wife, Jennie Franks, photographic exhibit - and I think he is afraid he would be sued and lose money - because that is all really Ian seems to care about.
Oh piss off
"Too Old..." was also not an autobiographical concept album, so why do a "Strip Cartoon" where Ray looks so much like Ian?
@@capcompass9298
LOL, that's a good question. I think because they always did that for a certain time with JT album covers. They worked Ian, and often the whole band into them. If Ian really wanted to honor his current band aside from letting them play as JethroTull, he should put them on the album cover of the next album.
@@justgivemethetruth He also looks like Aqualung (or vice versa).
I regard anything Ian did after 2003 as solo albums, not JT.
@@capcompass9298
It's just never been an issue for me. The same guy making the music, and always exceptional musicians to back him up. Why do people have to whine over this?
The one torture song "Too Old To Rock and Roll, Too Young To Die" ... I always thought that! Tull's only really dreadful song!
"Mango Crush".
This man needs a haircut!
And a Dentist! Life on the road was hard in those days!
you need an enema!
@@vervoid73 With friends like that, who needs enemas?
Are you talking about Bill Bailey or Ian Anderson?
Progressive? Nah. Each year Tull lost a step.
Moody Blues is a BS name for that band, as they're neither moody, nor is their music blues!
ENGLISH TV. Britain and England ARE NOT synonyms.