History... Jethro Tull (baptised 30 March 1674 - 21 February 1741, New Style) was an English agriculturist from Berkshire who helped to bring about the British Agricultural Revolution of the 18th century. He perfected a horse-drawn seed drill in 1701 that economically sowed the seeds in neat rows, and later developed a horse-drawn hoe. Tull's methods were adopted by many landowners and helped to provide the basis for modern agriculture.
Jethro Tull (baptised 30 March 1674 - 21 February 1741, New Style) was an English agriculturist from Berkshire who helped to bring about the British Agricultural Revolution of the 18th century. He perfected a horse-drawn seed drill in 1701 that economically sowed the seeds in neat rows, and later developed a horse-drawn hoe. Tull's methods were adopted by many landowners and helped to provide the basis for modern agriculture.
Another expression you'll hear in England is "Thick as two short planks". Ironic really, 'cause in Ian Anderson's solo album "Rupies Dance" is his song "Two Short Planks".
Well, these are a couple Americans that I don’t think they have travelled that much or resourced groups such as Jethro Tull. Just think, Jethro Tull has 23 albums out and is still touring, and will be here in Italy in November November through sometime next year. And yes., I am going to see them if I have to crawl there.
He has been referred to as the Pied Piper of rock & roll so many times. This band has extreme talent & they are very intelligent. Thank you for sharing.
Boy, they were such a tightly trained unit full of talent - and still they knew how to have fun while playing. And (as I have mentioned somewhere before) Barrie Barlow - what a great drummer!
And unlike a lot of other rock / prog rock bands of the day, they didn't abuse alcohol or drugs. Band members who liked to party too much or abuse drugs or alcohol were usually let go.
This is just a small snippet of the amazing studio version, which is about a 44 minutes long in 2 parts. Also, this song came out in 1972. The album that beat Metallica came out in the late 80s, so you can't make comparisons with this song.
.. and the live performance of Thick As A Brick was nearly 2 hours. Plus another 1 hour to 1 1/2 hours for the rest of the show. The next year they did the same thing with A Passion Play.
I have to say Cliff Burton was a great musician; he listened to Jethro Tull and other prog bands; even bands like REM. Very open minded and innovative.
Ian was a great friend of Lemmi. Beating Metallica was none of Tull doing or caring. He's still playing and hes 75. He's loved because his music is so good!
The band is Jethro Tull. The name of the band was after an 18th century agriculturalist. The guy you called Jethro is Ian Anderson who has been performing since 1967. Please stop calling him Jethro 🙏
The backstory of the Grammy was that in the early days of prog, the chief editor of Rolling Stone, Jann Wenner (Rest in piss,) absolutely hated hated HATED prog and anything even closely related, and he had so much pull in the awards industry that prog bands were kept out of the Hall of Fame and none of them.ever got nominated for awards. Fast forward to 1989, they create a Grammy category for metal, and they nominate Tull for their new album, and as a kind of backhanded apology to Tull, they win the award. (Side note is Jann also hates metal, which is why Judas Priest only got in the RRHOF through the old sideman's award and Maiden still isn't in.) Also, this is a tiny medley of the song. The full song is 45 minutes! 45 really fantastic minutes too. It makes fun of all the prog rock bands and concept albums.
That makes too much sense :( every Rolling Stones best of list is just uneducated nonsense. It's just ridiculous. And some of the best bands of all time either got into the Hall of Fame way too late or didn't get into the Hall of Fame at all until now
In 1967 Ian Anderson decided he was never going to be as good a guitarist as Jeff Beck or Eric Clapton or Jimmy Page so he traded his Strat at a pawn shop for a performance mic and with the left over change he selected a flute. He'd never played flute, messed with it some and set it aside for a few months. Picking it up again he managed to get a few notes out of it and more or less taught himself to play while doing gigs. So when Jethro Tull was signed to a record contract, he'd been playing flute for maybe 6 months. Fun fact, the guitar he traded in for his mic and flute had previously belonged to ... Lemmy. So, there you go, full circle metal legend.
Another fun fact: Ian re-learned the flute when his Daughter, who had trained as a Flautist, saw him play and noted that his finger positions were mostly incorrect. His Daughter is married to Andrew Lincoln, Rick Grimes in The Walking Dead.
..and by doing that, Ian Anderson has become one of the greatest flautists, something he would probaby not have done beside the likes of Clapton, Beck and Hendricks.
I saw these guys in 1999, and I can say with no hyperbole that it was the best concert of my life. This was literally a bunch of old dudes, and they broke it off from start to stop. They played the crowd like that flute this old dude was dancing around with. Legends
You simply can’t judge by this song how heavy Tull could be. Crosseyed Mary, My God, Locomotive Breath, all heavy as hell. Between Metallica and Tull, Tull definitely wins!
@@thefunkybuddha69 Many of Tulls live performances are extremely HEAVY and often utilise sections of metal style guitar etc. Just because a band is talented enough to play all styles of music from jazz, to classical, blues, rock, folk, middle eastern and sometimes METAL doesn't mean they should be barred from musical awards usually preserved for one style, one dimensional bands. If you want HEAVY and Metal then you should only listen to Tulls LIVE performances. If you want HEAVY flute then either LIVE My God, Locomotive Breath or Hymn 43 are the go...... best live versions are from about 1971 to about 1979, maybe early 80's. Before 1971 was not very good and after the early 1980's Ian's voice was shot, although he is still performing well musically but shocking vocals. lol
@@Rassskle Yes, I know and you are correct. I own a few if their albums, seen them live (for the actual tour when they won their Grammy) and have listened and watched many of their live performances via friends' VHS tapes and now here on UA-cam. The problem is in 1989 The Academy (Grammys) recognized hard rock music artists, which included Tull, for the first time along with the new category Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance Vocal or Instrumental, combining two of the most popular music genres of the 1980s. The combining of these categories caused the problem. Jethro Tull is primarily a "progressive rock band" and they should have been considered for a Grammy in a more appropriate category. Metallica is primarily a "metal" band and would likely have won Best Metal Performance if not for that mistake. The Academy is to blame for not understanding the nuances between the many genres of rock.
1. The Grammy was not for metal, but for hard rock or metal. 2. Listen to Farm On The Freeway from the winning album and dare to tell me this is not hard rock. 3. In the hands of Ian Anderson, the flute absolutely can be a hard rock instrument, if you don't hear that, you are deaf. 4. Concerning talent, Tull wipe the floor with Metallica. 5. Had Tull not won, AC/DC should have won, who also wipe the floor with Metallica. 6. Conclusion: With a sane jury, Metallica had no chance whatsoever.
FYI when the song was written, "Thick as a brick" was a phrase meaning stubbornly dumb, as one's head is so thick that no new thoughts can enter it. Changes the meaning of the song.
Jethro Tull won 'best hard rock/metal performance' not just 'best metal', and you may have forgotten that the Metallica album they were up against DIDN'T HAVE ANY BASS.
Also, they won with their album Crest of a Knave, which came out roughly 10 years after this and had a very different sound than this (though not any more 'metal'.)
Crest of a Knave is the first "new"Tull album that came out as I discovered them. I think it's excellent album with some fantastic songs on it. Martin Barre's guitar work alone on it is worthy of the Grammy. Sorry Metallica, you did just fine for yourselves. Jethro Tull has gotten more disrespect for a lot longer. Undeservedly, imo.
When I saw Tull eons ago, there was a stool with a phone on it in front of the band for the whole show. At the end, the phone rang. Ian Anderson picked it up, held it out to the crowd: "It's for you," he said. Brought the house down.
Guys, I have never called you out before and I'm not even a Tull fan (Ian Anderson) but you are so wide of the mark with this reaction. I'll leave it to the other comments to explain why. Please just listen to the music for what it is, understand when it was made and don't jump to conclusions. 'Living in the past' is one of JT's best known songs. Scolding over! Still love you.
If they react to "Living In the Past" then they need to react to a live version or the version from the 20 years boxed set. Or as Ian's intro on the box set version goes "this is a song that we utterly loathed for 15 long years, but now its back in a slightly more tricky form"
Fun fact, for a 4 week period in 1969, Tony Iommi joined Jethro Tull as guitarist. At the time Jethro Tull were already a big band and Earth (Black Sabbath) hadn't broken out yet. Tony only lasted 4 weeks before he decided he wanted to go back to his own band, but what he learnt in that 4 week period shaped the way he led Black Sabbath. There's actually a filmed performance of Tony playing with Tull, from The Rolling Stones Circus film. Ian Anderson and Tony Iommi are still friends to this day.
@BromleyBoy2611 it was early Tull. In the short time he was there he only contributed to one song which I think was "Living is easy" (I think, but happy to be corrected). On some of the Sabbath documentaries available it does mention this. I recommend the Paranoid "Classic Albums" documentary where I believe it is mentioned.
As a young teenager, I stood right under Ian Anderson on the front row. Quite the presence, ha! But, he was an incredible musician as well. He was like an exotic tartan clad stork, balanced on one leg. Musically, this was a complex band, for sure.
In the late 80s, my younger brother was a teen working as an intern for the local rock station. On one Tull tour, my brother got his flute book (he played flute and idolized Ian Anderson, including playing a lot of flute on one leg) signed by the band and the next tour he actually got to meet Ian. It was a highlight for my brother!
This album was released in 1972 well before "thrash metal" was invented and was considered rock, the album that won the hard rock/metal category was released in the 80's. Jethro Tull started as a Blues band in the late 60's, moved into rock, then Progressive rock, their own version of folk, and just keeps changing to this present day.
Some Tull FYI: - The Grammys combined Heavy Metal / Hard Rock into one category that year. Technically Tull won under the Hard Rock vote for their "Crest of the Knave" album (1987). Ian Anderson stated they should not have won for Hard Rock, insisting they are a Progressive Rock Band. - The Led Zeppelin reference was a joke. The two bands toured together in the past. John Bonham, Drummer of Zeppelin, once stated that Tull's drummer Barriemore Barlow is THE BEST DRUMMER EVER from England. - "Thick as a Brick" was a 1972 album consisting of one long 44 minute song in two parts on vinyl. It pretty much means "thick headed like an idiot". - Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath was part of Jethro Tull for a couple of weeks. This includes a live performance on "the Rolling Stones Rock'n'Roll Circus". Iommi credited his time with Jethro Tull with teaching him the importance of hard work and dedication, as well as the value of writing one’s own material. Iommi also credits his experience with Jethro Tull influencing the development of Black Sabbath. He took the knowledge he gained to help influence the Sabbath sound. - The band Rush were huge Tull fans. Geddy Lee once stated if he could build his perfect dream band then Barriemore Barlow would be his drummer (not Neil Peart). - Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits grew up a huge fan of Tull's guitarist Martin Barre and modeled his own guitar style after Barre's. - The song “Hotel California” by the Eagles was influenced by Jethro Tull’s song “We Used to Know”. The similarity between the two songs is in their chord progression and structure. Ian Anderson, leader of Jethro Tull, mentioned the Eagles might have been subconsciously influenced without realizing it from when the two bands were touring together in the 1970s.
Jethro Tull was my favorite band for over a decade, right up until I discovered Tool. p.s. It was the "Crest of a Knave" album that beat out Metallica. "Thick as a Brick" was years before that. Ian Anderson is one of the all time great front men.
"oh! its a cover !" That speaks volumes. Learn on my friends!. It's interesting that Ian and the boys are from Britain and chose their British roots to explore rather than seeking the american press approval by following the trend of the day, specifically black american blues and then hair / unisex rock then metal which they NEVER claimed to be. They dabbled in HARD Rock AKA Progressive rock. So good to see after your laughing died out and the ears opened up. For your homework do 3 shots and lissten to the full song on vinyl, all 42 minutes.
this song is part of an album called "Thick As A Brick". which is only two songs long which are "Thick As A Brick Part 1 and 2" and both songs are 22 minutes long
@@mustangdebbie56 yes i know, but still anywhere you look at shows as two songs. and being honest part 1 is the one everybody listen to. a lot of people skip the second part
@@santiagoguevara8579 True. Most people miss the whole point of the song, that it is a sort of parody of progressive rock. It is a whole story and the second half drops in that completely unnecessary, but impressive, drum solo .
Please don't hold it against them for that award. It wasn't their fault they won it. They're a great band. A ton of great songs, and two masterpiece albums, Aqualung and Thick As A Brick!
Not to mention they’re still touring… Will be here in Italy in November through sometime next year and yes I am going ! They also have 23 LPs and counting. You’re correct all in the group, especially Ian Anderson, love music.
No, the ORIGINAL metal was "invented" by Deep Purple in 1967... The band Jethro Tull is very much deserving of their metal award! This was not their only song. Though they are not primarily a heavy metal band, they have released some seriously heavy tracks! Check out their album "Crest of a Knave" from 1987. The term "Thick As A Brick" is English in origin and means STUPID! For example - "Donald Trump is as thick as a brick!", meaning "he doesn't have two brain cells to rub together..."
Jethro Tull (the name of the band) released their first album in 1968. I saw them at their 50th anniversary tour in 2018 and Ian Anderson (the singer/flutist) was still jumping around like that, even at 70 years old. On one of the many times I've seen them live, Ian had blown out his knee and was in a wheel chair. He still was all over the stage while playing, using his good leg to propel him around. He's an amazing showman.
I think thick as a brick is a polite, UK way of saying, "you're stupid." Don't shit on the flute, AC/DC is still a kick ass rock n' roll band when they break out the bagpipes.
It's not just a UJ phrase. I've heard it in the US since I was a kid in the 60's. I think it's going out of use in the US though. So that could be why they aren't familiar with the term.
I’m sure it has been said but the full length of this song is actually two sides of an album and is just one song with many parts. This is the short version of the song
This is a great prog song. So many musical styles, melodies, and rhythms all in one song, and the studio version is much longer with more changes. As others have said, he's a real life medieval bard. He had this thing with lifting his one leg, I guess he played better that way. The two flautists most people know are Ian Anderson of JT and Peter Gabriel. You really should try something like "Firth of Fifth" or "The Musical Box" from early Genesis for more flute in rock music.
Anderson has been my absolute favorite front man for knocking on 50 years. There will never be the voice, the sound, the musicianship. Absolutely the best, Ian.
I love Jethro Tull. One of the prog rock founding fathers. Up there with Yes, Genesis and ELP. Thier rotating line-up of musicians over the decades were some of the best of the best out there as well. Grateful I got to see them in the 90's. One of the best shows I've ever seen. Ian hadn't lost any speed off his fastball either. He's not a frontman. He's a showman.
Why won't you react to actual release (Crest of a Knave) that won Grammy and say if that's a metal or not. I'm not saying that it was and deserved beating Metallica, but to watch a record that was made 10 years before that and say, "is that metal that beat Metallica" sounds extremely dumb. And by the way, the award that year was called "Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance Vocal or Instrumental", so this reaction looks even more dumb
Sabbath was of the hard rock genre. One of the first. AC/DC was the epitome of hard rock. Bands like them paved the way for heavy metal. Believe it or not, Judas Priest was classified as hard rock at first, as was Maiden, before they moved on to the heavy metal genre. Jethro Tull kinda made their own unique subgenre of folk rock. They can rock your socks off AND tell a story, and make use of traditional folk instruments. The Songs From the Wood album, my favorite, is very folky, while Thick as a Brick was more rock with a folk twist.
Crest of a Knave was the 1989 album for which Tull won the Grammy for best Heavy Metal album. Thick as a Brick is the title song from their 1972 album. PS: The flute is a heavy metal instrument.
What everyone gets wrong is that the Grammy category was NOT for "Heavy Metal. It was for "Hard Hard or Heavy Metal". It's so confusing that the "Hard Rock" part is so conveniently forgotten. It's like a mass delusion. Heavy Metal? No. Hard Rock? Maybe. Listen to the album. 1987's "Crest of a Knave". Are you thinking that JT won the Grammy for their Thick as a Brick album from 1972? Yes, riding pants. This was the Heavy Horses tour. They always dressed to match the "them" of the album.
Tony Iommi, in fact, played in Jethro Tull for a short period of time. As I recall, he said Black Sabbath would have broken up had he not learned professionalism while he was playing in Tull. You can hear even musical influences of Jethro Tull in some early Black Sabbath songs, such as "Solitude" which has a flute and a folky melody. And just in general, Jethro Tull is one of the more influential bands in rock music, and then later metal. Already musicians like Ronnie James Dio were influenced by him in the early '70s and covered their songs. And even though they were around before "heavy metal" or even "heavy rock" were really a thing, you could argue we wouldn't have folk metal, symphonic metal or even power metal and many other genres without their initial influence. There are probably a lot of metal bands today who don't even realise their music was influenced by Tull through many other bands.
I saw them live on this “Bursting Out” tour in ‘78. It resulted in one of the great double live albums of all time. They were absolutely riveting live. BTW the album for which they won the first-ever heavy metal Grammy®️ award was “Crest of a Knave,” released in 1988. The band was surprised even to be nominated and didn’t attend the ceremony. Many believe the Grammy nod was more of a legacy award, acknowledging the group’s huge influence in pop, rock, folk-rock, progressive rock and metal since its forming in 1967. PS My son’s name is Ian.
Thick As A Brick is a prog rock masterpiece. I’ve seen it performed live several times. Ian Anderson, the singer is an eccentric Scotsman and is one of the greatest frontmen of all time. I know this really isn’t your style, but thanks for putting this out there and maybe raising some awareness of this great band.
The album that won the Grammy was called Crest of a Knave and it's fantastic, well written and beautifully engineered. It could definitely be debated whether it is "hard rock/metal" but, really, where would you place Jethro Tull? It has elements of rock, some hard rock, folk, blues, definitely some prog. Impossible to pigeon-hole them.
The album Thick as a Brick (meaning stupid) is one song that is split into two sides. It is nearly 44 minutes long. This is not the song/album that won the Best Metal award. That was the album Crest of a Knave (1987). This is from 1972 when Metallica were maybe 10 year kids. You can't criticize them.winning the award for albums that didn't win the award. You can criticize them for the album that did win. The lyrics on Thick as a Brick were credited to a fictional child. It was both prog rock and a parody of prog rock. This band could play their asses off. Tony Iommi was briefly in Jethro Tull in late 1968 before rejoining Earth, which became Black Sabbath. Ian Anderson was 30 years old in 1977 when this show was recorded. 25 when the song was recorded. They have dabbled in many genres, rock, hard rock, jazz rock, folk rock, folk, prog rock.
Jethro Tull was awarded the Grammy in the first year that metal was recognized. However, the category that first year was Best Hard Rock/Metal, i.e., not exclusive to metal. The JT album was "Crest of a Knave", one of their rockier albums. Were the Grammy's off base? Probably. But hey, the following year they awarded Best New Artist to Villi Manilli.
The grammy was for Hard Rock/Metal album. The other nominees were Janes Addiction, AC/DC, and Iggy Pop. The winning album was for the 1988 Crest of a Knave. Thick as a Brick was released in 1972. While Jethro Tull was not considered Hard Rock, they had a few hard rock songs and the grammy voters probably only listened to the first song on the album, Steel Monkey. The band didn't even bother to show up at the grammys because no one thought they would win.
@flowersnyams Ah, I've seen the video of Tony Iommi with Jethro Tull at the Rolling Stones RocknRoll Circus( if havent seen check it). I guess he played live only and never ended up recording. Will edit the comment.
Why are you so hung up on some BS award? It's not like they nominated themselves and voted themselves a win. None of that has F-all to do with the outstanding music. Ian Anderson is about as close as you get these days to an actual musical genius. BTW, Tony Iommi ( one of my favorites guitar players of all time) played with Jethro Tull before Black Sabbath, but dropped out because he couldn't hang
19 February, 1977, Sight And Sound, BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. Ian Anderson was thirty years old in that clip. For some folk rock musical context, check out Fairport Convention "Come All Ye" from 1969. Anderson calls out to that song in the middle passage medley.
It’s too bad you all got caught up in the metal award. Jethro Tull was a leading prog rock band starting in the late 60’s. Fantastic story tellers in both words and their music. The Thick as a Brick album was from the early 70s.
I think Jethro belongs squarely in Prog Rock. You should check out some Genesis from this same era. Early prog rock was really cool. Dance on a Volcano is a really great track.
Remember that Tony Iommi was very briefly a member of Jethro tull. You can see him performing with the band during Jethro Tull's segment on the Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus movie
3:10 Funny I would have thought you'd say thumb sucking. It's been a good long while since I've been to Mickey D's, at least a year I think. But whenever I'd go for breakfast, I gotta get 3 things: coffee(hot or iced), two sausage biscuits and couple cups of syrup. Dunk the sausage in the syrup, eat the biscuits dry🤌 Speaking of fast food, when's the reaction to ERB Ronald Mcdonald vs the Burger King coming?! Oh and as for my own worst habit, gotta be honest and say nose picking
The band name is Jethro Tull after an 18th century agriculturalist. His name is Ian Anderson. Jethro Tull is considered Progressive Rock. They were one of Rush's influences. As for the meaning of Thick as a Brick it means someone who is stupid. There is another saying meaning the same thing. He has a brick between his ears. It is an old English saying but being Canadian we were exposed more to English saying etc especially during the 60's and 70's. Hope I caught you guys up to speed.😉 Cheers
This was a BBC broadcast, so the crowd and the venue were a little more sedate than most of their shows at the time, they had been playing at baseball stadiums and other huge venues at the time. Tony Iommi briefly played in Jethro Tull in like 1968. It wasn't for him but he has remained a friend of Ian Anderson's to this day, and credits his time in Tull as helping him figure out what Black Sabbath needed to do to become successful. Dio did Jethro Tull covers, Iron Maiden did, Rush loved Jethro Tull ... they were very dark and moody and hard rock and were a big influence on lots of bands. The grammy they won was for 'hard rock/heavy metal performance'. They changed it the next year to be two separate awards. So, many people had no problem with Jethro Tull being considered to be hard rock. They were one of the most popular bands of the time. I had a professor who saw Tull open for Led Zeppelin in like 1970 and said 'people went in as Zeppelin fans and came out Tull fans', that was how dynamic and entertaining they were. Recently Kirk Hammett addressed the whole 'Grammy controversy' and said 'I'd just never really heard their music, but recently I've checked out their catalog and I'm a big fan'. So, it was a huge deal at the time because Metallica were the new media darlings, they performed at that Grammy ceremony, so everyone assumed they would win. Even Jethro Tull's manager and record company told them not to bother going to the ceremony because they thought there was no chance they would win. Thanks for the reaction, long live Jethro Tull.
Edit: I spoke too soon. Ofc WOWOW only started broadcasting in 1991, way after this concert. So it's just some kind of rerun. Are you sure about the BBC broadcast? At the beginning of the video you can see the logo of WOWOW, a Japanese pay-tv channel. (Hence the Japanese subtitles)
The definition of "metal" has changed over the years. In it's day, this was metal. Many of the bands called "metal" back then would be called "hard rock" now.
Love some Jethro Tull, pure talent right there😎 Every time you guys refer to the audience as old-time clappy first of all it cracks me up but then it reminds me that you guys have to see this video...2Cellos cover Thunderstruck it's awesome!🤘🖤 Can't believe I'm admitting this especially in this day and age but my worst habit is that I'm still a cigarette smoker, picked them up at 12 years old after my dad died and haven't been able to put them down 😔
The phrase "heavy metal" comes from the lyrics of Steppenwolf's Born to be Wild. It refers to the sound of a motorcycle; the song was used in the 1969 film Easy Rider
I had tickets to see Jethro Tull in Ottawa Canada in the early eighties. The night before the concert Ian Anderson collapsed on the stage in Montreal with the flu. The Ottawa date got canceled and in compensation we chose Peter Gabriel tickets. I absolutely loved the Gabriel concert but I never got to see a Tull concert. 😢
Amusing. This was them back in 1972, playing a 13 minute edit of a 44 minute song, a song so long it wouldn't fit on one side of an album, but took up both sides. But they won the Grammy for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance in 1989 for their 1987 album CREST OF A KNAVE. Try the tracks "Steel Monkey","Jump Start", and "Raising Steam" from that album. The Grammy award was controversial as many did not consider the album or Jethro Tull to be hard rock, much less heavy metal. Under advisement from their manager, no one from the band turned up to the award ceremony, as they were told that they had no chance of winning. In response to the controversy, the band's record label Chrysalis took out an advert in a British music periodical with the line, "The flute is a heavy, metal instrument!"
The award, in case you all didn't catch it correctly, was for hard rock/heavy metal they're hard rock.They do a little metal here and there, but primarily they're hard rock, and folk rock.
Ian Anderson the singer is phenomenal musician show man and one of the coolest people , the band Jethro Tull is full of talented musicians , btw you ever seen the walking dead TV series , Rick the main character is married to Ian's daughter in real life
When you said Ian reminded you of a medieval minstrel, it brought to mind Tull's 1975 LP "Minstrel In the Gallery". Its title track is baroque heavy metal; most of the other cuts are also hard, dense, and lustrous.
I I will preface this by mentioning that Tony Iommi was a member of Jethro Tull for about 6 weeks . The other "metal" thruline I feel a connection with...nnterestingly, is when I hear this now I can very much hear its influence on young Steve Harris When he was starting to write for his brand new band Iron Maiden. I hear the galloping riffs. I hear the multiple time changes. The power cords in the middle right before the first flute solo could have been right on the first Maiden album for sure. Very very cool
You guys were extremely fair & complimentary! So great to see cross genre appreciation! Great job guys! Tull never claimed ro be metal! That was the academy who brought that forward. Ian and the band didn't even show up but sent drummer Drone Perry to accept.
Ian Anderson is a true storytelling bard, a medieval minstrel
Live shows are his natural ass. Lucky to see it
History...
Jethro Tull (baptised 30 March 1674 - 21 February 1741, New Style) was an English agriculturist from Berkshire who helped to bring about the British Agricultural Revolution of the 18th century. He perfected a horse-drawn seed drill in 1701 that economically sowed the seeds in neat rows, and later developed a horse-drawn hoe. Tull's methods were adopted by many landowners and helped to provide the basis for modern agriculture.
@@bettyrose959at last, someone who knows their history 😊❤
Medieval minstrel. I like that. True!
It's not a cover. He made a joke about Led Zeppelin because in their early years they happened to tour together
Ian Anderson is the Scottish storytelling bard. This was released a lot earlier than the song they won the grammy for.
Yeah, about 16 years!
“Thick as a Brick” means “Stupid” or “dumb as dirt”
The singer is Ian Anderson. The Band is called Jethro Tull not any of the members.
Instead of calling this incredibly accomplished musician Flute Boy, and Jethro Tull, why don't you clowns call him by his real name: Ian Anderson.
Jethro Tull (baptised 30 March 1674 - 21 February 1741, New Style) was an English agriculturist from Berkshire who helped to bring about the British Agricultural Revolution of the 18th century. He perfected a horse-drawn seed drill in 1701 that economically sowed the seeds in neat rows, and later developed a horse-drawn hoe. Tull's methods were adopted by many landowners and helped to provide the basis for modern agriculture.
Another expression you'll hear in England is "Thick as two short planks". Ironic really, 'cause in Ian Anderson's solo album "Rupies Dance" is his song "Two Short Planks".
Well, these are a couple Americans that I don’t think they have travelled that much or resourced groups such as Jethro Tull. Just think, Jethro Tull has 23 albums out and is still touring, and will be here in Italy in November November through sometime next year. And yes., I am going to see them if I have to crawl there.
@@johnstark254 I was going to write the same thing. These bloody so-called rappers, haven’t a clue. I love the flute though I don’t play it.
He has been referred to as the Pied Piper of rock & roll so many times. This band has extreme talent & they are very intelligent. Thank you for sharing.
Boy, they were such a tightly trained unit full of talent - and still they knew how to have fun while playing.
And (as I have mentioned somewhere before) Barrie Barlow - what a great drummer!
And unlike a lot of other rock / prog rock bands of the day, they didn't abuse alcohol or drugs. Band members who liked to party too much or abuse drugs or alcohol were usually let go.
I never thought I would see the day that you would both sit through this prog classic! Loved it, well done, and thank you.
This is just a small snippet of the amazing studio version, which is about a 44 minutes long in 2 parts.
Also, this song came out in 1972. The album that beat Metallica came out in the late 80s, so you can't make comparisons with this song.
.. and the live performance of Thick As A Brick was nearly 2 hours. Plus another 1 hour to 1 1/2 hours for the rest of the show. The next year they did the same thing with A Passion Play.
An awesome album for sure
Better than anything that Metallica ever even hoped they could do. As musicians, Metallica can’t even come close to this band. ✌🏼😎🇺🇸
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I have to say Cliff Burton was a great musician; he listened to Jethro Tull and other prog bands; even bands like REM. Very open minded and innovative.
Ian was a great friend of Lemmi. Beating Metallica was none of Tull doing or caring. He's still playing and hes 75. He's loved because his music is so good!
The band is Jethro Tull. The name of the band was after an 18th century agriculturalist. The guy you called Jethro is Ian Anderson who has been performing since 1967. Please stop calling him Jethro 🙏
Since you brought it up, I wonder how Pink Floyd is doing lately. Haven’t heard much from that guy lately.😎
he's been performing since like 1963 or 64, '67 is when Tull started.
@@nadionmediagroup Actually, Pink has been performing regularly (I'll let myself out now....)
@@nadionmediagroup By the way which one's pink
Stick to hip/rap and leave geniuses like Ian alone please
The backstory of the Grammy was that in the early days of prog, the chief editor of Rolling Stone, Jann Wenner (Rest in piss,) absolutely hated hated HATED prog and anything even closely related, and he had so much pull in the awards industry that prog bands were kept out of the Hall of Fame and none of them.ever got nominated for awards.
Fast forward to 1989, they create a Grammy category for metal, and they nominate Tull for their new album, and as a kind of backhanded apology to Tull, they win the award. (Side note is Jann also hates metal, which is why Judas Priest only got in the RRHOF through the old sideman's award and Maiden still isn't in.)
Also, this is a tiny medley of the song. The full song is 45 minutes! 45 really fantastic minutes too. It makes fun of all the prog rock bands and concept albums.
That makes too much sense :( every Rolling Stones best of list is just uneducated nonsense. It's just ridiculous. And some of the best bands of all time either got into the Hall of Fame way too late or didn't get into the Hall of Fame at all until now
In 1967 Ian Anderson decided he was never going to be as good a guitarist as Jeff Beck or Eric Clapton or Jimmy Page so he traded his Strat at a pawn shop for a performance mic and with the left over change he selected a flute. He'd never played flute, messed with it some and set it aside for a few months. Picking it up again he managed to get a few notes out of it and more or less taught himself to play while doing gigs. So when Jethro Tull was signed to a record contract, he'd been playing flute for maybe 6 months.
Fun fact, the guitar he traded in for his mic and flute had previously belonged to ... Lemmy. So, there you go, full circle metal legend.
Another fun fact: Ian re-learned the flute when his Daughter, who had trained as a Flautist, saw him play and noted that his finger positions were mostly incorrect. His Daughter is married to Andrew Lincoln, Rick Grimes in The Walking Dead.
..and by doing that, Ian Anderson has become one of the greatest flautists, something he would probaby not have done beside the likes of Clapton, Beck and Hendricks.
I saw these guys in 1999, and I can say with no hyperbole that it was the best concert of my life. This was literally a bunch of old dudes, and they broke it off from start to stop. They played the crowd like that flute this old dude was dancing around with. Legends
You simply can’t judge by this song how heavy Tull could be. Crosseyed Mary, My God, Locomotive Breath, all heavy as hell. Between Metallica and Tull, Tull definitely wins!
Tull wins with talent but not as a "metal" band. Sheer mis-categorization by the Grammys. That award belonged to Metallica.
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Many of Tulls live performances are extremely HEAVY and often utilise sections of metal style guitar etc.
Just because a band is talented enough to play all styles of music from jazz, to classical, blues, rock, folk, middle eastern and sometimes METAL doesn't mean they should be barred from musical awards usually preserved for one style, one dimensional bands.
If you want HEAVY and Metal then you should only listen to Tulls LIVE performances.
If you want HEAVY flute then either LIVE My God, Locomotive Breath or Hymn 43 are the go...... best live versions are from about 1971 to about 1979, maybe early 80's.
Before 1971 was not very good and after the early 1980's Ian's voice was shot, although he is still performing well musically but shocking vocals. lol
@@Rassskle Yes, I know and you are correct. I own a few if their albums, seen them live (for the actual tour when they won their Grammy) and have listened and watched many of their live performances via friends' VHS tapes and now here on UA-cam. The problem is in 1989 The Academy (Grammys) recognized hard rock music artists, which included Tull, for the first time along with the new category Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance Vocal or Instrumental, combining two of the most popular music genres of the 1980s. The combining of these categories caused the problem. Jethro Tull is primarily a "progressive rock band" and they should have been considered for a Grammy in a more appropriate category. Metallica is primarily a "metal" band and would likely have won Best Metal Performance if not for that mistake. The Academy is to blame for not understanding the nuances between the many genres of rock.
@@thefunkybuddha69i feel they were given that award because they wanted to give them an award but couldn’t figure out what category to put them in.
1. The Grammy was not for metal, but for hard rock or metal. 2. Listen to Farm On The Freeway from the winning album and dare to tell me this is not hard rock. 3. In the hands of Ian Anderson, the flute absolutely can be a hard rock instrument, if you don't hear that, you are deaf. 4. Concerning talent, Tull wipe the floor with Metallica. 5. Had Tull not won, AC/DC should have won, who also wipe the floor with Metallica. 6. Conclusion: With a sane jury, Metallica had no chance whatsoever.
FYI when the song was written, "Thick as a brick" was a phrase meaning stubbornly dumb, as one's head is so thick that no new thoughts can enter it.
Changes the meaning of the song.
Jethro Tull won 'best hard rock/metal performance' not just 'best metal', and you may have forgotten that the Metallica album they were up against DIDN'T HAVE ANY BASS.
Also, they won with their album Crest of a Knave, which came out roughly 10 years after this and had a very different sound than this (though not any more 'metal'.)
I say the album deserved the award.
Crest of a Knave is the first "new"Tull album that came out as I discovered them. I think it's excellent album with some fantastic songs on it. Martin Barre's guitar work alone on it is worthy of the Grammy. Sorry Metallica, you did just fine for yourselves. Jethro Tull has gotten more disrespect for a lot longer. Undeservedly, imo.
Well, as their record label advertised after they won it - the flute is a heavy, metal instrument.
When I saw Tull eons ago, there was a stool with a phone on it in front of the band for the whole show. At the end, the phone rang. Ian Anderson picked it up, held it out to the crowd: "It's for you," he said. Brought the house down.
The phone rang after around 40 or so minutes of A Passion Play.
"It's for you."
"Now, for our second tune, Thick As A Brick."
One of my fav groups of all time! Cheers for this!
Guys, I have never called you out before and I'm not even a Tull fan (Ian Anderson) but you are so wide of the mark with this reaction. I'll leave it to the other comments to explain why. Please just listen to the music for what it is, understand when it was made and don't jump to conclusions. 'Living in the past' is one of JT's best known songs. Scolding over! Still love you.
If they react to "Living In the Past" then they need to react to a live version or the version from the 20 years boxed set. Or as Ian's intro on the box set version goes "this is a song that we utterly loathed for 15 long years, but now its back in a slightly more tricky form"
Fun fact, for a 4 week period in 1969, Tony Iommi joined Jethro Tull as guitarist. At the time Jethro Tull were already a big band and Earth (Black Sabbath) hadn't broken out yet. Tony only lasted 4 weeks before he decided he wanted to go back to his own band, but what he learnt in that 4 week period shaped the way he led Black Sabbath. There's actually a filmed performance of Tony playing with Tull, from The Rolling Stones Circus film.
Ian Anderson and Tony Iommi are still friends to this day.
Wow man I'm a huge Black Sabbath fans and I enjoy Jethro Tull as well. But I never knew that is wild what kind of music was that sounding like😮
@BromleyBoy2611 it was early Tull. In the short time he was there he only contributed to one song which I think was "Living is easy" (I think, but happy to be corrected). On some of the Sabbath documentaries available it does mention this. I recommend the Paranoid "Classic Albums" documentary where I believe it is mentioned.
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As a young teenager, I stood right under Ian Anderson on the front row. Quite the presence, ha! But, he was an incredible musician as well. He was like an exotic tartan clad stork, balanced on one leg. Musically, this was a complex band, for sure.
Saw his concert in Detroit, 1976 .. WOW!!
In the late 80s, my younger brother was a teen working as an intern for the local rock station. On one Tull tour, my brother got his flute book (he played flute and idolized Ian Anderson, including playing a lot of flute on one leg) signed by the band and the next tour he actually got to meet Ian. It was a highlight for my brother!
This album was released in 1972 well before "thrash metal" was invented and was considered rock, the album that won the hard rock/metal category was released in the 80's. Jethro Tull started as a Blues band in the late 60's, moved into rock, then Progressive rock, their own version of folk, and just keeps changing to this present day.
"Thick" means dense, stupid in this scenario. Ian is the Hendrix of the flute. Also one of the best voices in music, period.
Band is jetro Tull lead singer is Ian Anderson
Some Tull FYI:
- The Grammys combined Heavy Metal / Hard Rock into one category that year. Technically Tull won under the Hard Rock vote for their "Crest of the Knave" album (1987). Ian Anderson stated they should not have won for Hard Rock, insisting they are a Progressive Rock Band.
- The Led Zeppelin reference was a joke. The two bands toured together in the past. John Bonham, Drummer of Zeppelin, once stated that Tull's drummer Barriemore Barlow is THE BEST DRUMMER EVER from England.
- "Thick as a Brick" was a 1972 album consisting of one long 44 minute song in two parts on vinyl. It pretty much means "thick headed like an idiot".
- Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath was part of Jethro Tull for a couple of weeks. This includes a live performance on "the Rolling Stones Rock'n'Roll Circus". Iommi credited his time with Jethro Tull with teaching him the importance of hard work and dedication, as well as the value of writing one’s own material. Iommi also credits his experience with Jethro Tull influencing the development of Black Sabbath. He took the knowledge he gained to help influence the Sabbath sound.
- The band Rush were huge Tull fans. Geddy Lee once stated if he could build his perfect dream band then Barriemore Barlow would be his drummer (not Neil Peart).
- Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits grew up a huge fan of Tull's guitarist Martin Barre and modeled his own guitar style after Barre's.
- The song “Hotel California” by the Eagles was influenced by Jethro Tull’s song “We Used to Know”. The similarity between the two songs is in their chord progression and structure. Ian Anderson, leader of Jethro Tull, mentioned the Eagles might have been subconsciously influenced without realizing it from when the two bands were touring together in the 1970s.
Jethro Tull was my favorite band for over a decade, right up until I discovered Tool. p.s. It was the "Crest of a Knave" album that beat out Metallica. "Thick as a Brick" was years before that. Ian Anderson is one of the all time great front men.
"oh! its a cover !" That speaks volumes. Learn on my friends!. It's interesting that Ian and the boys are from Britain and chose their British roots to explore rather than seeking the american press approval by following the trend of the day, specifically black american blues and then hair / unisex rock then metal which they NEVER claimed to be. They dabbled in HARD Rock AKA Progressive rock.
So good to see after your laughing died out and the ears opened up. For your homework do 3 shots and lissten to the full song on vinyl, all 42 minutes.
One of my favorite sayings is, "I'll procrastinate tomorrow." Some can the humor.
this song is part of an album called "Thick As A Brick". which is only two songs long which are "Thick As A Brick Part 1 and 2" and both songs are 22 minutes long
It's actually all one song. It had to be in 2 parts because it was on vinyl.
@@mustangdebbie56 yes i know, but still anywhere you look at shows as two songs. and being honest part 1 is the one everybody listen to. a lot of people skip the second part
@@santiagoguevara8579 True. Most people miss the whole point of the song, that it is a sort of parody of progressive rock. It is a whole story and the second half drops in that completely unnecessary, but impressive, drum solo .
I first heard them aged 12 at a friends house, very different from what I listened to at the time, ELO, The Sweet and Supertramp!
Please don't hold it against them for that award. It wasn't their fault they won it. They're a great band. A ton of great songs, and two masterpiece albums, Aqualung and Thick As A Brick!
Not to mention they’re still touring… Will be here in Italy in November through sometime next year and yes I am going ! They also have 23 LPs and counting. You’re correct all in the group, especially Ian Anderson, love music.
Sorry, I'd have to put Songs from the Wood and Heavy Horses up there as "masterpiece albums" as well. Probably Living in the Past as well...
No, the ORIGINAL metal was "invented" by Deep Purple in 1967...
The band Jethro Tull is very much deserving of their metal award! This was not their only song. Though they are not primarily a heavy metal band, they have released some seriously heavy tracks! Check out their album "Crest of a Knave" from 1987.
The term "Thick As A Brick" is English in origin and means STUPID! For example - "Donald Trump is as thick as a brick!", meaning "he doesn't have two brain cells to rub together..."
Seems like Biden doesn't either.
Jethro Tull (the name of the band) released their first album in 1968. I saw them at their 50th anniversary tour in 2018 and Ian Anderson (the singer/flutist) was still jumping around like that, even at 70 years old.
On one of the many times I've seen them live, Ian had blown out his knee and was in a wheel chair. He still was all over the stage while playing, using his good leg to propel him around. He's an amazing showman.
I think thick as a brick is a polite, UK way of saying, "you're stupid." Don't shit on the flute, AC/DC is still a kick ass rock n' roll band when they break out the bagpipes.
It's not just a UJ phrase. I've heard it in the US since I was a kid in the 60's. I think it's going out of use in the US though. So that could be why they aren't familiar with the term.
"Your Sp*rm's In The Gutter, Your Deafness A Shout .."
( I saw JT concert Detroit, 1976 ..AWESOME !!)
I’m sure it has been said but the full length of this song is actually two sides of an album and is just one song with many parts. This is the short version of the song
This is a great prog song. So many musical styles, melodies, and rhythms all in one song, and the studio version is much longer with more changes. As others have said, he's a real life medieval bard. He had this thing with lifting his one leg, I guess he played better that way. The two flautists most people know are Ian Anderson of JT and Peter Gabriel. You really should try something like "Firth of Fifth" or "The Musical Box" from early Genesis for more flute in rock music.
Best front man ever!
Anderson has been my absolute favorite front man for knocking on 50 years. There will never be the voice, the sound, the musicianship.
Absolutely the best, Ian.
I love Jethro Tull. One of the prog rock founding fathers. Up there with Yes, Genesis and ELP.
Thier rotating line-up of musicians over the decades were some of the best of the best out there as well. Grateful I got to see them in the 90's. One of the best shows I've ever seen. Ian hadn't lost any speed off his fastball either. He's not a frontman. He's a showman.
I own 1 Metallica album and 4 jethro Tull albums. JT just hits harder emotionally
Would love to see y’all reaction to the studio version of Cross Eyed Mary by Jethro Tull… absolute banger by any standard 🔥
Why won't you react to actual release (Crest of a Knave) that won Grammy and say if that's a metal or not. I'm not saying that it was and deserved beating Metallica, but to watch a record that was made 10 years before that and say, "is that metal that beat Metallica" sounds extremely dumb. And by the way, the award that year was called "Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance Vocal or Instrumental", so this reaction looks even more dumb
Made nearly 20 years before.
@@Wilss I would suggest 'em react to Metallica's Low Man's Lyric and also question, is this metal? lol
Sabbath was of the hard rock genre. One of the first. AC/DC was the epitome of hard rock. Bands like them paved the way for heavy metal. Believe it or not, Judas Priest was classified as hard rock at first, as was Maiden, before they moved on to the heavy metal genre. Jethro Tull kinda made their own unique subgenre of folk rock. They can rock your socks off AND tell a story, and make use of traditional folk instruments. The Songs From the Wood album, my favorite, is very folky, while Thick as a Brick was more rock with a folk twist.
Crest of a Knave was the 1989 album for which Tull won the Grammy for best Heavy Metal album. Thick as a Brick is the title song from their 1972 album. PS: The flute is a heavy metal instrument.
What everyone gets wrong is that the Grammy category was NOT for "Heavy Metal. It was for "Hard Hard or Heavy Metal". It's so confusing that the "Hard Rock" part is so conveniently forgotten. It's like a mass delusion. Heavy Metal? No. Hard Rock? Maybe. Listen to the album. 1987's "Crest of a Knave". Are you thinking that JT won the Grammy for their Thick as a Brick album from 1972?
Yes, riding pants. This was the Heavy Horses tour. They always dressed to match the "them" of the album.
Bungle in the jungle is great song.
Tony Iommi, in fact, played in Jethro Tull for a short period of time. As I recall, he said Black Sabbath would have broken up had he not learned professionalism while he was playing in Tull. You can hear even musical influences of Jethro Tull in some early Black Sabbath songs, such as "Solitude" which has a flute and a folky melody. And just in general, Jethro Tull is one of the more influential bands in rock music, and then later metal. Already musicians like Ronnie James Dio were influenced by him in the early '70s and covered their songs. And even though they were around before "heavy metal" or even "heavy rock" were really a thing, you could argue we wouldn't have folk metal, symphonic metal or even power metal and many other genres without their initial influence. There are probably a lot of metal bands today who don't even realise their music was influenced by Tull through many other bands.
Saw Tull in concert many moons ago, was great fun like going to a Broadway show when a great rock band shows up to play the parts.
Love Ian Anderson. He is 78 and still performs. I was 12 when I heard Jethro Tull. I am 64 and 50 years later, I still love it!!!!!!!
I saw them live on this “Bursting Out” tour in ‘78. It resulted in one of the great double live albums of all time.
They were absolutely riveting live.
BTW the album for which they won the first-ever heavy metal Grammy®️ award was “Crest of a Knave,” released in 1988. The band was surprised even to be nominated and didn’t attend the ceremony. Many believe the Grammy nod was more of a legacy award, acknowledging the group’s huge influence in pop, rock, folk-rock, progressive rock and metal since its forming in 1967.
PS My son’s name is Ian.
I was at the Jethro Tull Gig In London Two days ago.. Fab time.
When I was a boy, he was known as the "Toscannini on speed"
Thick As A Brick is a prog rock masterpiece. I’ve seen it performed live several times. Ian Anderson, the singer is an eccentric Scotsman and is one of the greatest frontmen of all time. I know this really isn’t your style, but thanks for putting this out there and maybe raising some awareness of this great band.
The album that won the Grammy was called Crest of a Knave and it's fantastic, well written and beautifully engineered. It could definitely be debated whether it is "hard rock/metal" but, really, where would you place Jethro Tull? It has elements of rock, some hard rock, folk, blues, definitely some prog. Impossible to pigeon-hole them.
The album Thick as a Brick (meaning stupid) is one song that is split into two sides. It is nearly 44 minutes long.
This is not the song/album that won the Best Metal award. That was the album Crest of a Knave (1987). This is from 1972 when Metallica were maybe 10 year kids. You can't criticize them.winning the award for albums that didn't win the award. You can criticize them for the album that did win.
The lyrics on Thick as a Brick were credited to a fictional child. It was both prog rock and a parody of prog rock.
This band could play their asses off.
Tony Iommi was briefly in Jethro Tull in late 1968 before rejoining Earth, which became Black Sabbath.
Ian Anderson was 30 years old in 1977 when this show was recorded. 25 when the song was recorded. They have dabbled in many genres, rock, hard rock, jazz rock, folk rock, folk, prog rock.
Trash Talkers, This made me laugh so hard, thanks for sharing!
Jethro Tull was awarded the Grammy in the first year that metal was recognized. However, the category that first year was Best Hard Rock/Metal, i.e., not exclusive to metal. The JT album was "Crest of a Knave", one of their rockier albums.
Were the Grammy's off base? Probably. But hey, the following year they awarded Best New Artist to Villi Manilli.
This had Renaissance feel
The grammy was for Hard Rock/Metal album. The other nominees were Janes Addiction, AC/DC, and Iggy Pop. The winning album was for the 1988 Crest of a Knave. Thick as a Brick was released in 1972. While Jethro Tull was not considered Hard Rock, they had a few hard rock songs and the grammy voters probably only listened to the first song on the album, Steel Monkey.
The band didn't even bother to show up at the grammys because no one thought they would win.
His live performance of this track at Madison Square Garden in 1978 is incredible and worthy of another viewing (when you've got the time)🌻
Tony Iommi actually played with Jethro Tull for 4 weeks. Check a live performance at "the Rolling Stones RocknRoll Circus".
1st album 'This Was'(1968/69) guitarist was the wonderful Mick Abrahams( who went on to form the equally wonderful Blodwyn Pig)
@flowersnyams Ah, I've seen the video of Tony Iommi with Jethro Tull at the Rolling Stones RocknRoll Circus( if havent seen check it). I guess he played live only and never ended up recording. Will edit the comment.
Why are you so hung up on some BS award? It's not like they nominated themselves and voted themselves a win.
None of that has F-all to do with the outstanding music. Ian Anderson is about as close as you get these days to an actual musical genius.
BTW, Tony Iommi ( one of my favorites guitar players of all time) played with Jethro Tull before Black Sabbath, but dropped out because he couldn't hang
Way more talented frontman then James from Metallica....
19 February, 1977, Sight And Sound, BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. Ian Anderson was thirty years old in that clip. For some folk rock musical context, check out Fairport Convention "Come All Ye" from 1969. Anderson calls out to that song in the middle passage medley.
This was before the award.
Greetings from the Great White North 🇨🇦 The album Thick as a Brick was released 17 yrs prior to the band winning the Grammy for the Rock Island album.
It’s too bad you all got caught up in the metal award. Jethro Tull was a leading prog rock band starting in the late 60’s. Fantastic story tellers in both words and their music.
The Thick as a Brick album was from the early 70s.
They must have mixed up the winning envelopes of "Best Metal Band" with "Best Medieval Band" !
I think Jethro belongs squarely in Prog Rock. You should check out some Genesis from this same era. Early prog rock was really cool. Dance on a Volcano is a really great track.
Whole 40 Minute Album is this (1) Song. Best Album they made, Top 5 for Best Studio Recording EVER by Stereophile Magazine.
Remember that Tony Iommi was very briefly a member of Jethro tull. You can see him performing with the band during Jethro Tull's segment on the Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus movie
Ian and his flute, a classic, a perfect tandem!
Jethro Tull is a real historical character he perfected a horse-drawn seed drill in 1701, which revolutionised agriculture.
3:10 Funny I would have thought you'd say thumb sucking. It's been a good long while since I've been to Mickey D's, at least a year I think. But whenever I'd go for breakfast, I gotta get 3 things: coffee(hot or iced), two sausage biscuits and couple cups of syrup. Dunk the sausage in the syrup, eat the biscuits dry🤌
Speaking of fast food, when's the reaction to ERB Ronald Mcdonald vs the Burger King coming?!
Oh and as for my own worst habit, gotta be honest and say nose picking
The band name is Jethro Tull after an 18th century agriculturalist. His name is Ian Anderson.
Jethro Tull is considered Progressive Rock. They were one of Rush's influences.
As for the meaning of Thick as a Brick it means someone who is stupid. There is another saying meaning the same thing. He has a brick between his ears. It is an old English saying but being Canadian we were exposed more to English saying etc especially during the 60's and 70's. Hope I caught you guys up to speed.😉
Cheers
This was a BBC broadcast, so the crowd and the venue were a little more sedate than most of their shows at the time, they had been playing at baseball stadiums and other huge venues at the time.
Tony Iommi briefly played in Jethro Tull in like 1968. It wasn't for him but he has remained a friend of Ian Anderson's to this day, and credits his time in Tull as helping him figure out what Black Sabbath needed to do to become successful. Dio did Jethro Tull covers, Iron Maiden did, Rush loved Jethro Tull ... they were very dark and moody and hard rock and were a big influence on lots of bands. The grammy they won was for 'hard rock/heavy metal performance'. They changed it the next year to be two separate awards. So, many people had no problem with Jethro Tull being considered to be hard rock. They were one of the most popular bands of the time. I had a professor who saw Tull open for Led Zeppelin in like 1970 and said 'people went in as Zeppelin fans and came out Tull fans', that was how dynamic and entertaining they were.
Recently Kirk Hammett addressed the whole 'Grammy controversy' and said 'I'd just never really heard their music, but recently I've checked out their catalog and I'm a big fan'. So, it was a huge deal at the time because Metallica were the new media darlings, they performed at that Grammy ceremony, so everyone assumed they would win. Even Jethro Tull's manager and record company told them not to bother going to the ceremony because they thought there was no chance they would win.
Thanks for the reaction, long live Jethro Tull.
Edit: I spoke too soon.
Ofc WOWOW only started broadcasting in 1991, way after this concert. So it's just some kind of rerun.
Are you sure about the BBC broadcast? At the beginning of the video you can see the logo of WOWOW, a Japanese pay-tv channel. (Hence the Japanese subtitles)
@@bunyip-ni6ch yes I'm sure
this came out twenty some years before the album that won the metal grammy. this is an excellent album. don't be snobs.
Wow can't believe i guessed the Bowie. Knew he did that song but didn't know he wrote it for Elvis.😅 Interesting.
The definition of "metal" has changed over the years. In it's day, this was metal. Many of the bands called "metal" back then would be called "hard rock" now.
All the time I ever eat at McDonald's is at 3 in the morning when I'm high and hungry.😂🍔
Love some Jethro Tull, pure talent right there😎
Every time you guys refer to the audience as old-time clappy first of all it cracks me up but then it reminds me that you guys have to see this video...2Cellos cover Thunderstruck it's awesome!🤘🖤
Can't believe I'm admitting this especially in this day and age but my worst habit is that I'm still a cigarette smoker, picked them up at 12 years old after my dad died and haven't been able to put them down 😔
The phrase "heavy metal" comes from the lyrics of Steppenwolf's Born to be Wild. It refers to the sound of a motorcycle; the song was used in the 1969 film Easy Rider
They did not have a category for Tull?
ya'll need to check out there song Cross eyed Mary
Do genesis ‘ the musical box ‘ live on Belgium tv
I had tickets to see Jethro Tull in Ottawa Canada in the early eighties. The night before the concert Ian Anderson collapsed on the stage in Montreal with the flu. The Ottawa date got canceled and in compensation we chose Peter Gabriel tickets. I absolutely loved the Gabriel concert but I never got to see a Tull concert. 😢
Why do I not hear people talking about this guy ..and especially the guitars!!
Amusing. This was them back in 1972, playing a 13 minute edit of a 44 minute song, a song so long it wouldn't fit on one side of an album, but took up both sides.
But they won the Grammy for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance in 1989 for their 1987 album CREST OF A KNAVE. Try the tracks "Steel Monkey","Jump Start", and "Raising Steam" from that album.
The Grammy award was controversial as many did not consider the album or Jethro Tull to be hard rock, much less heavy metal. Under advisement from their manager, no one from the band turned up to the award ceremony, as they were told that they had no chance of winning.
In response to the controversy, the band's record label Chrysalis took out an advert in a British music periodical with the line, "The flute is a heavy, metal instrument!"
The award, in case you all didn't catch it correctly, was for hard rock/heavy metal they're hard rock.They do a little metal here and there, but primarily they're hard rock, and folk rock.
Pied Piper is a perfect description ! My mom called him a leaping gnome😂❤
I also love the fact that Ian Anderson's son in law is Rick from The Walking Dead!
Whoa! TIL
Ian Anderson the singer is phenomenal musician show man and one of the coolest people , the band Jethro Tull is full of talented musicians , btw you ever seen the walking dead TV series , Rick the main character is married to Ian's daughter in real life
Ian Anderson paved the way for metal to have creativity, not necessarily Jethro Tull being characteristically metal themselves
One of the historys best rockband ever PERIOD. Totaly unique,intilligent prog rock.
Morning guys! He definitely can be entertaining. I like some Jethro tull. He sure does tell a story! 🤓
I hear so much Tull influence in Opeth!
When you said Ian reminded you of a medieval minstrel, it brought to mind Tull's 1975 LP "Minstrel In the Gallery".
Its title track is baroque heavy metal; most of the other cuts are also hard, dense, and lustrous.
I I will preface this by mentioning that Tony Iommi was a member of Jethro Tull for about 6 weeks .
The other "metal" thruline I feel a connection with...nnterestingly, is when I hear this now I can very much hear its influence on young Steve Harris When he was starting to write for his brand new band Iron Maiden. I hear the galloping riffs. I hear the multiple time changes. The power cords in the middle right before the first flute solo could have been right on the first Maiden album for sure. Very very cool
You guys were extremely fair & complimentary! So great to see cross genre appreciation! Great job guys! Tull never claimed ro be metal! That was the academy who brought that forward. Ian and the band didn't even show up but sent drummer Drone Perry to accept.
Heavy Metal started in the 80s Jethor tull is from the Classic Rock and HardRock era