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🎼 I saw Jethro Tull back in November of 1970 during my senior year of high school. What a performance! Nobody, and I repeat, nobody, could out-perform Ian Anderson. He was a masterpiece frontman, young and full of it. Now he’s 76 years old, soon to be 77 next month on August 10.☮️
I saw Jethro Tull back in the mid 70s - yes he was quite a performer. Jump forward 50+ years and I just saw Ian Anderson and company live in Sheffield in May. He's a rare talent and this was one of the last chances to see a legend.
Great reaction. The bass player for Jethro Tull back then was Glenn Cornick. Another great bass line of his was their song, "Cross-Eyed Mary". I started learning the bass 3 years ago at the age of 67 and finally learned Cross-Eyed Mary. Thanks for another fabulous reaction.
Jethro Tull are a British progressive rock band formed in 1967. The group’s founder Ian Anderson plays flute & acoustic guitar & is the lead singer & quite a showman. They've had a lot of different members over the years. They had a lot of great songs such as "Thick As A Brick", "Aqualung", "Locomotive Breath", "Songs From The Wood", "A New Day Yesterday", "Cross-Eyed Mary", "Bungle In The Jungle", "Sweet Dream", "Life’s A Long Song" etc.
Yes, I grew up , listening to Jethro Tull, from their very beginning. Great stuff! Their iconic "Thick As A Brick" and "Passion Play" albums are not to be missed. So too, are the albums, "Heavy Horses," "Minstrel In The Gallery," "Songs From The Woods," as well as, "Living In The Past." I have always loved their minstrel-like, British Isles style of music. Ian Anderson's solo works are great, as well.
This is one of my all time favourite songs. I’ve watched it lots of time on UA-cam and I’m embarrassed to admit it’s the first time I’ve ever noticed the maraca player 🥴
Yes, I grew up listening to Tull. The Living in the Past album was the first one I bought. I own all of Tull's music and have seen them 4 times in concert. Always a fantastic show! Ian Anderson is one of the top lyricists in all of rock. Most of his songs are lyrically and musically beyond most other bands. Tull is in my top 5 bands of all time. You can pick any album and any track and have a great listening experience.
I saw Jethro Tull twice. Once at Pistoia Blues Festival in Italy. While before them Deep Purple played. Imagine that, a small central square in an Italian small town, medieval vibe, couple of thousand people, hearing smoke on the water and aqualung, while smoking the green and feeling you're in between medieval times and Woodstock. One if the best festivals I've been. Ben Harper and Patty Smith also played. ⭐💜✌️
Superb track, band & performance. I saw them many times over the Years, always changing beautifully, with style & musicians. This is one of my most played Tull songs, maybe "Witches Promise" is next.
Love Jethro Tull grew up from 14 listening and they are amazing musicians!! Please listen to Crossed Eyed Mary, Skating Away my personal favorite, A New Day Yesterday!! Enjoy! Great best band ever!!❤️
Jethro Tull is like no other and i grew up on them, you need to see ANY of the songs from their historic brodcast from Madison Square Garden 1978, my pic is for Thick as a brick
Love me some Tull, been a fan since the early 80's. Wanted to see them the last time they were in Australia, but Ian got sick and the tour was cancelled!
The first band I ever saw live! My Dad took me, he is responsible for my musical upbringing! I’m loving watching your reaction, I don’t remember my first time hearing any of these songs, I was a kid and surrounded by great music! I remember we were asked to bring in some albums for a party, at school when I was 5, I took The Logical Song by Super Tramp, everyone else had brought Winnie the Pooh or kids party songs! You should definitely give The Logical Song a listen! It’s amazing and still one of my favourites! 😁
It had to be 1980 and I was staying at my older sisters house. I was 13 and had just discovered rock and roll. ACDC Back in Black and I couldn't stop playing the album. I was going through her albums and I see this old man on the cover and Jethro Tull and Aqualung. I was like WTF is this. So I put it on and listened to it on repeat the whole day as I read the Dungeon Masters Guide. Jethro Tull is one of my all time favorite bands.
Looks pretty tame in this video, I've seen them twice live, Ian Anderson was a wild man and mostly stood on one leg like a stork. Incredibly good live. I stood directly under him on stage, just a few feet above my head 1970, smalliish venue in Orlando. Back when there was no seating, they opened the door and you ran. I was a sprinter, ha! First row. I saw them some years later in Miami, on the Aqualung tour. Top notch.
Ian Anderson is a wacky genius! Incredible songwriter/musician/stage performer. He plays acoustic guitar and his flute playing is so original. Love this band...
I tell you what Polo he's pretty badass I never listened to him much younger but now that I'm older and my 50s I appreciate his music real well he was overlooked on so many damn good bands especially my number one Zeppelin that I completely boxed him out and yeah they don't take themselves seriously they're a hell of a band original music all the way
Ian Anderson is such a loon in the best sense of the word. Always loved Tull! Songs From The Wood is an incredible album, not as big as some of their others, but one of my long-standing favorites.
I remember WAY back when Ohio had bars for 18 year olds. (Mid 70's) Some of Tull's music was massively popular in the day. There was a fav. at that bar, namely Bungle in the Jungle. So that's a memory from when I was young and stupid.
Polo, you mentioned during your Don't Cry reaction that you are looking for road trip songs. Jethro Tull is a very good consideration, especially the earlier albums.
I remember playing a Tull tune on my FB page and a gal I knew said "holy shit that's my uncle". She was young and it was one of those odd family member stories.
Ian Anderson is a self taught flautist. Let that sink in. I always liked the stuff that got played on AM (mainstream) radio but it was the stuff on FM (more progressive, alt, indie, world) radio that REALLY opened my eyes to Jethro Tull. My favorite Albums are Songs From the Wood & Stormwatch. Both full of masterpieces beginning to end.
Thick as a brick (A masterpeice, the live version is shorter tham the original album), My God, Fat Man, Reason for Waiting, For Micheal Collins. Catch them from his amazing live performances
A maraca, sometimes called shaker or chac-chac, is a rattle which appears in many genres of Caribbean and Latin music. It is shaken by a handle and usually played as part of a pair. Wikipedia
I was going to suggest Jethro Tull a couple of weeks ago.... Heres a bit of trivia. Who was Jethro Tull? Not the band the person they are named after ... He was English and he invented the seed drill i think in the 16 hundreds maybe earlier. It absolutely revolutionised agriculture and started us down the road towards our current level of civilization. Which perhaps wasn't a good thing but none of us would be here otherwise.
Ian is a great showman as well as being a great musician. I think this was a "semi-live" performance, using pre-recorded backing tracks, so they weren't able to play up to the audience as much as normal. This is one of my favourite JT tracks, but I've always been a sucker for tracks in 5/4 time.
Ian Anderson is a bonafide musical genius. He's also Andrew Lincoln's father-in-law (Rick Grimes on "The Walking Dead"). Your next Tull song should be "Locomotive Breath". One of their best & most beloved. And it has to be the studio version to really appreciate it. Thanks, Polo. Much love from Kentucky. 🩵✨️🩵✨️🩵✨️🩵✨️🩵✨️🩵✨️🩵✨️🩵
Dude it's taking you some time, but you're getting around to all the Rock Royalty. I just saw Ian Anderson and company live in Sheffield in May. He's a rare talent and this was one of the last chances to see a legend. Enjoy!
The band was named after Jethro Tull (born 1674, Basildon, Berkshire, Eng. -died Feb. 21, 1741, Prosperous Farm, near Hungerford, Berkshire)who was an English agronomist, agriculturist, writer, and inventor whose ideas helped form the basis of modern British agriculture.
One of the more natural songs in 5/4 time. So very often, odd meter pieces are done for effect, as a gimmick -- "Look! We're playing in 7" or such. You don't even really notice it with "Living in the Past" until you step back and go "oh yeah... It is 5, isn't it?"
How great would it have been if all these music showcase shows of the day had bands playing live instead of using the record track... there would be so many variations of songs (imperfect as they would be), more interesting...
Do you believe this Band is NOT in the RR Hall of Fame. Iam Anderson said he didn't think they would make it. I heard they thought they were too eclectic. Come on!!! All that talent. I love this song and especially the album Aqualung
I fell in love and lust with my first girlfriend to this when it first came out. The album was given to her by another male friend of hers, who on reflection was probably also trying to get into her pants. I saw him for a few years a while back; he had become a person of the streets and drifted in and out of psychosis (a fate I once feared was going to be mine, too). I fed him a lot of meals, but haven't seen him in a while. Hope he's ok
I heard an interview with Ian Anderson. He said they changed the name of the band several times because they were so bad nobody would book them twice. 😂
One of the things I love about Jethro Tull is they didn’t remain static. Watch this rocked up 1993 version of the same song ua-cam.com/video/HoE2DsgCdI8/v-deo.htmlsi=0La9rahNqQ_a9Qru
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@@poloreacts27 do you listen to long song ? In 1975 Jethro Tull record an album 1 song call Thick as a Brick 43 minutes song
The album Aqualung by this band is a classic. Every song is masterful
"Witches Promise" is also a great Tull tune
Aqualung my friend…
The song Aqualung from same band is a masterpiece
The whole Aqualung lp is great. No bad songs.
Tull is one of my favorite bands ❤
🎼 I saw Jethro Tull back in November of 1970 during my senior year of high school. What a performance! Nobody, and I repeat, nobody, could out-perform Ian Anderson. He was a masterpiece frontman, young and full of it. Now he’s 76 years old, soon to be 77 next month on August 10.☮️
I saw Jethro Tull back in the mid 70s - yes he was quite a performer. Jump forward 50+ years and I just saw Ian Anderson and company live in Sheffield in May. He's a rare talent and this was one of the last chances to see a legend.
Saw them in the noughties - blew me away. No loss of energy there.
@@chrisjenkins6120 I saw them in the 80’s fun concert!
Awesome 👍
Me too 70’s. Blew me away.
I’m glad you have been open minded to approach Jethro Tull. Skating away is one of my favorite songs. Give it a listen.
Skating Away is awesome.
second skating away
Ian Anderson is masterful! So beautiful
But he needs to stop, his voice is gone.
@@geofftottenperthcoys9944 sad but true
One of my fave Tull songs. Ian Anderson adds so much to every track. He’s a remarkable flautist.
Jethro Tull was my first rock concert. It was Thick as a Brick for 3 hours. Fantastic!
Nice! My first concert was Santana.
Not my first concert but the thick as a brick concert was amazing!!
The guy playing the maraccas is the keyboard player. Since, there aren't keyboards in the song, he's playing the maraccas.
tull uses a lot of weird instruments
Ian Anderson is always captivating! The guy playing the maracas reminded me of an excited little yippie dog.🤣
Great reaction. The bass player for Jethro Tull back then was Glenn Cornick. Another great bass line of his was their song, "Cross-Eyed Mary". I started learning the bass 3 years ago at the age of 67 and finally learned Cross-Eyed Mary. Thanks for another fabulous reaction.
Jethro Tull are a British progressive rock band formed in 1967. The group’s founder Ian Anderson plays flute & acoustic guitar & is the lead singer & quite a showman. They've had a lot of different members over the years. They had a lot of great songs such as "Thick As A Brick", "Aqualung", "Locomotive Breath", "Songs From The Wood", "A New Day Yesterday", "Cross-Eyed Mary", "Bungle In The Jungle", "Sweet Dream", "Life’s A Long Song" etc.
Inside is one of my Favs.
Yes, I grew up , listening to Jethro Tull, from their very beginning. Great stuff! Their iconic "Thick As A Brick" and "Passion Play" albums are not to be missed. So too, are the albums, "Heavy Horses," "Minstrel In The Gallery," "Songs From The Woods," as well as, "Living In The Past." I have always loved their minstrel-like, British Isles style of music. Ian Anderson's solo works are great, as well.
Love Jethro Tull. I got to see them in concert in the 80s. Yep, grew up listening to them. They are amazing musicians.
Listening to Jethro Tull for my entire life. Seen them perform many times. Such a great live show ❤
This is one of my all time favourite songs. I’ve watched it lots of time on UA-cam and I’m embarrassed to admit it’s the first time I’ve ever noticed the maraca player 🥴
Yes, I grew up listening to Tull. The Living in the Past album was the first one I bought. I own all of Tull's music and have seen them 4 times in concert. Always a fantastic show! Ian Anderson is one of the top lyricists in all of rock. Most of his songs are lyrically and musically beyond most other bands. Tull is in my top 5 bands of all time. You can pick any album and any track and have a great listening experience.
Excellent choice. Loved it. Check Songs from the Wood, the song and the album. Really good
I love this song my fav of jethro Tull
Now we back to some '70s bangers, notice the 4-4 time
Living in the past has always been my favorite Jethro Tull song.
I started listening to Tull while I was in Vietnam as well as Emerson Lake and Palmer, Leon Russell with Joe Cocker as well as many others.
Beautiful! 🥳
Love it - my favourite band for well over 50 years.
I saw Jethro Tull twice. Once at Pistoia Blues Festival in Italy. While before them Deep Purple played. Imagine that, a small central square in an Italian small town, medieval vibe, couple of thousand people, hearing smoke on the water and aqualung, while smoking the green and feeling you're in between medieval times and Woodstock.
One if the best festivals I've been. Ben Harper and Patty Smith also played.
⭐💜✌️
One of the best progrock bands ever. The album Aqualung is a good album to start with😊
Superb track, band & performance. I saw them many times over the Years, always changing beautifully, with style & musicians. This is one of my most played Tull songs, maybe "Witches Promise" is next.
Love Jethro Tull grew up from 14 listening and they are amazing musicians!! Please listen to Crossed Eyed Mary, Skating Away my personal favorite, A New Day Yesterday!! Enjoy! Great best band ever!!❤️
Saw them in concert
Great show.
Jethro Tull, always uninhibited fun
Their live album 'Bursting Out' is fantastic. Bangers front to back.
Saw Tull twice. Just amazing. Great reaction.
Saw them many moons ago in an underground bar in Denver. Awesome!
Always loved them from when I was 15 - Most unique band
Saw them a few times, always great!
Hymn 43 is a great song from Jethro Tull!!!
Jethro Tull is like no other and i grew up on them, you need to see ANY of the songs from their historic brodcast from Madison Square Garden 1978, my pic is for Thick as a brick
Love me some Tull, been a fan since the early 80's.
Wanted to see them the last time they were in Australia, but Ian got sick and the tour was cancelled!
The whole living in the past album is amazing. This is its iconic song, but there are some other greats in there too.
Classic Tull!!!!!
One of many great British Prog Rock bands from the 70s. Top class. Thanks for playing it and it brought a smile to my face too.
The first band I ever saw live! My Dad took me, he is responsible for my musical upbringing! I’m loving watching your reaction, I don’t remember my first time hearing any of these songs, I was a kid and surrounded by great music! I remember we were asked to bring in some albums for a party, at school when I was 5, I took The Logical Song by Super Tramp, everyone else had brought Winnie the Pooh or kids party songs!
You should definitely give The Logical Song a listen! It’s amazing and still one of my favourites! 😁
Great choice this morning! Jethro Tull was a standard in our neighborhood. Influenced me to pick up the flute! Could listen all day...think I will.
I was the first male at my school to play the flute. He is my inspiration!
Great times...in the Past! 🎶
Awesome. Idid grow up with this music Thankfully ❤
It had to be 1980 and I was staying at my older sisters house. I was 13 and had just discovered rock and roll. ACDC Back in Black and I couldn't stop playing the album. I was going through her albums and I see this old man on the cover and Jethro Tull and Aqualung. I was like WTF is this. So I put it on and listened to it on repeat the whole day as I read the Dungeon Masters Guide. Jethro Tull is one of my all time favorite bands.
Jethro Tull chewing gum playing the flute and singing pure perfection.
Thank you so so very much for reacting to this song for my personal benefit.❤
Looks pretty tame in this video, I've seen them twice live, Ian Anderson was a wild man and mostly stood on one leg like a stork. Incredibly good live. I stood directly under him on stage, just a few feet above my head 1970, smalliish venue in Orlando. Back when there was no seating, they opened the door and you ran. I was a sprinter, ha! First row. I saw them some years later in Miami, on the Aqualung tour. Top notch.
I was lucky enough to see them in concert in the late '80's. Never thought a flute would kill it in a rock concert but, Ian Anderson was masterful
Great band with lots of good stuff for you to listen to. They also put on a great show live!
I love Jethro Tull! Awesome reaction Polo.
Ian Anderson is a wacky genius! Incredible songwriter/musician/stage performer. He plays acoustic guitar and his
flute playing is so original. Love this band...
Wonderful track, especially (as you noted) the bass line.
I think you would also appreciate "Locomotive Breath " , the storyline is thought provoking and dramatic.
I tell you what Polo he's pretty badass I never listened to him much younger but now that I'm older and my 50s I appreciate his music real well he was overlooked on so many damn good bands especially my number one Zeppelin that I completely boxed him out and yeah they don't take themselves seriously they're a hell of a band original music all the way
Record Company exec: you’re a rock band,you can’t have a flute
Ian Anderson: hold my beer.
not many flute players in a rock band! love them!❤
Ian Anderson is such a loon in the best sense of the word. Always loved Tull! Songs From The Wood is an incredible album, not as big as some of their others, but one of my long-standing favorites.
I remember WAY back when Ohio had bars for 18 year olds. (Mid 70's) Some of Tull's music was massively popular in the day. There was a fav. at that bar, namely Bungle in the Jungle. So that's a memory from when I was young and stupid.
Yes I did grow up with this and it is still as awesome now as was then 😊❤️🔥🪈🎤🎼🎸
Chill vibezz to a chill classic. Takes me back...(cue rim shot). Thnx Polo ☘️
I don't normally like this band, but this song is a masterpiece!
Nice job man you are spot on
Polo, you mentioned during your Don't Cry reaction that you are looking for road trip songs.
Jethro Tull is a very good consideration, especially the earlier albums.
I switched playing the clarinet to flute after a concert in 1970.
☮️💙💙💙🔥🔥😎Ian is genius! He detested lip sync!!
This is good, sounds like visual added to the album music.
Their album Stand Up is also amazing. The song "We Used to Know" is just incredible. Check it out.
I remember playing a Tull tune on my FB page and a gal I knew said "holy shit that's my uncle". She was young and it was one of those odd family member stories.
Guitarist Martin Barre is better heard on other tracks, much underrated.
Ian Anderson is a self taught flautist. Let that sink in.
I always liked the stuff that got played on AM (mainstream) radio but it was the stuff on FM (more progressive, alt, indie, world) radio that REALLY opened my eyes to Jethro Tull. My favorite Albums are Songs From the Wood & Stormwatch. Both full of masterpieces beginning to end.
It's because of Tull that I love the flute
Check out Locomotive Breath, Aqualung, Bouree, To Cry you a Song, Thick as a Brick... so many great tunes by Jethro Tull!!
Best commenters of any page i have seen
Thick as a brick (A masterpeice, the live version is shorter tham the original album), My God, Fat Man, Reason for Waiting, For Micheal Collins. Catch them from his amazing live performances
There is a longer instrumental live version of this song on the live album "A little light music" from 1992 you might like,
That bass he is playing is the legendary Gibson Thunderbird
Edit: the shakers are Marraccas
A maraca, sometimes called shaker or chac-chac, is a rattle which appears in many genres of Caribbean and Latin music. It is shaken by a handle and usually played as part of a pair. Wikipedia
@@TheCheffer76 my favorite was John Glascock sadly he died young
I was going to suggest Jethro Tull a couple of weeks ago.... Heres a bit of trivia. Who was Jethro Tull? Not the band the person they are named after ... He was English and he invented the seed drill i think in the 16 hundreds maybe earlier. It absolutely revolutionised agriculture and started us down the road towards our current level of civilization. Which perhaps wasn't a good thing but none of us would be here otherwise.
Ian is a great showman as well as being a great musician. I think this was a "semi-live" performance, using pre-recorded backing tracks, so they weren't able to play up to the audience as much as normal. This is one of my favourite JT tracks, but I've always been a sucker for tracks in 5/4 time.
I listen to in the locker room putting on my football helmet we go out kick ass and take names. 😂
Ian Anderson is a bonafide musical genius. He's also Andrew Lincoln's father-in-law (Rick Grimes on "The Walking Dead").
Your next Tull song should be "Locomotive Breath". One of their best & most beloved. And it has to be the studio version to really appreciate it.
Thanks, Polo. Much love from Kentucky.
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5/4!
Dude it's taking you some time, but you're getting around to all the Rock Royalty. I just saw Ian Anderson and company live in Sheffield in May. He's a rare talent and this was one of the last chances to see a legend. Enjoy!
❤
The band was named after Jethro Tull (born 1674, Basildon, Berkshire, Eng. -died Feb. 21, 1741, Prosperous Farm, near Hungerford, Berkshire)who was an English agronomist, agriculturist, writer, and inventor whose ideas helped form the basis of modern British agriculture.
The rock band that made the flute cool 😂
One of the more natural songs in 5/4 time. So very often, odd meter pieces are done for effect, as a gimmick -- "Look! We're playing in 7" or such. You don't even really notice it with "Living in the Past" until you step back and go "oh yeah... It is 5, isn't it?"
Next is ‘Locomotive Breath’ (studio version first!)
Polo, I suggest listening to “My God” by Tull. It hits different.👍
The Top of the Pops wasn't always live. He is miming here I think
How great would it have been if all these music showcase shows of the day had bands playing live instead of using the record track... there would be so many variations of songs (imperfect as they would be), more interesting...
The dude on the maracas getting a workout!
Do you believe this Band is NOT in the RR Hall of Fame. Iam Anderson said he didn't think they would make it. I heard they thought they were too eclectic. Come on!!! All that talent. I love this song and especially the album Aqualung
I fell in love and lust with my first girlfriend to this when it first came out. The album was given to her by another male friend of hers, who on reflection was probably also trying to get into her pants. I saw him for a few years a while back; he had become a person of the streets and drifted in and out of psychosis (a fate I once feared was going to be mine, too). I fed him a lot of meals, but haven't seen him in a while. Hope he's ok
Jethro Tull - Locomotive Breath, Aqualung, Thick as a Brick
I heard an interview with Ian Anderson. He said they changed the name of the band several times because they were so bad nobody would book them twice. 😂
Check out the album Songs from the woods. It’ll make the 4 Runner!
One of the things I love about Jethro Tull is they didn’t remain static. Watch this rocked up 1993 version of the same song
ua-cam.com/video/HoE2DsgCdI8/v-deo.htmlsi=0La9rahNqQ_a9Qru
Shaking my booty🎉 to this one 🤩 easy grandma ❤✌️ Polo...
Master flutist so many great tracks, try, Songs from the woods