Jethro Tull "Locomotive Breath" REACTION Video | first time hearing this song - AMAZING flute solo
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Ian Anderson is an ultimate genius. Truly a character. And oh yes, he was a dynamite on stage. He still is.
Ian Anderson is Andrew Lincoln's ( walking dead) father in law
Genius? Playing an instrument and being a singer is far and away from being a genius.
Todays pop culture is making the world a more and more mindless place.
But I do Like Jethro Tull, by the way.
@@markuse3472 He has the IQ of 160. That makes him a genius.
@@garyjohnson3081 So you have been gripped by pop culture dimwittedness and Tiktok edu, I see.
Grades don't identify genius, as many people have and do the same, so it is Not a standout nor exceptional.
Genius use to be saved for what others actually did that others didn't or hardly did. More recently genius is reserved for just about anyone in entertainment and actual intellect (wisdom, creativity, mastermind and masterclass and cleverness all or most of these combined [it's what they do with their accumulated knowledge]) as an okay thing. Lady Gaga was swinging on some cable in some event years ago, Snoop Dog quoted "I wish they could all be California Girls" at the end of Katy Perry's song, and many fans and some in the media called them both geniuses. The genius list in entertainment goes on and on, but according to what the term should actually mean these entertainers are are basic at best, in rock music they can be very good, but not genius.
I think you have to much time on your hands.You néed to get a grip.
Old guy here. I saw JT live circa '72 when they were touring "Aqualung" and "Thick as a Brick" One of the two greatest concerts I've ever seen. What you can't appreciate from the video is the energy, and the Hammond & Leslie filling the concert hall. They tore the place down! You really would enjoy listening/watching "Aqualung" live. It tells the story of a homeless man. In parts as he is seen by society, and then as he has to actually live his life. Very profound - addressing homelessness 50 years ago.
Great suggestion! Very lucky that you got to see them live ☺️
Yeah man. Me too, right around "72. Holy cow. I mean, what else am I going to say, unless you want a 1500 word treatise. And, that would be easy to do about this group.
Was that the @Wise Man Breaks Wind' tour?
Agreed, the Thick as a Brick tour was the best concert I've ever been to. They put on a show!
Traveling Troubadours - the Minstrels were doing an on stage rock parody of the medieval English performers- Jethro Tull were not to be missed live - you got it!
The band is Jethro Tull. The lead singer and flute player is Ian Anderson.
Jethro Tull is a legendary rock band. They were known to blend many different instruments into their songs.
There's so many Jethro Tull tracks to choose from. They started out in 1967 with more a blues beginning but quickly developed their own unique blend incorporating rock, folk, classical, medieval, and jazz styles, and they fell under the progressive rock category. Initially they found it hard to get gigs around London, it didn't help that their booking agent would make up a new name for the band every time they played, just in case they did a bad gig and word got around the circuit. They would turn up to a venue, scan the poster outside and assume the act they didn't recognise must be their own band name for the night. When eventually they had a great audience reaction they just so happened to be called Jethro Tull on that night, so that's the name they were stuck with (someone at their office was a history buff, and had used the obscure name of an 18th century agriculturist who had perfected a horse drawn device that spread seeds in neat rows). Ian Anderson has always been the focal point of the band and the main songwriter, as well as being the front man, singing and flute playing, he is an accomplished acoustic guitar player and you'll hear that in most of his songs (although he modestly doesn't rate himself highly). His eccentric stage antics and scruffy minstrel appearance made him always stand out. He has always adopted a slightly manic and comical persona on stage, whilst being a very well spoken and thoughtful man in interviews. Far from being a hedonistic rock star he has always frowned on the use of drugs and the other excesses of the rock business. The band has had many, many line-ups over the decades but Ian is still at the core and bringing out new albums and touring up to the present day. Check out 'My God', 'Living in the past', 'Thick as a brick'.
Thank you for that! Love learning information about the band and artist
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At 4:20 you say :"He plays the flute and sings, plays the flute and sings and it doesn't even seem like he catches a breath"
Well he's got "Locomotive Breath" because he's Aqua(lung), by the way "Aqualung" is a great song by them too but some of my favorites are "Cross-Eyed Mary", about a high school prostitute who likes old men, "My God", "Thick As A Brick" the whole song, "Dharma For One" the live version off "Living In The Past" and "Dark Ages" but really their catalog is so far beyond picking favorites they've got hundreds of great songs much like this one.
Yes that’s exactly what I was trying to see if there but you got it down 18th century harvesting device yeah you put it good thank you for clarifying that for everybody….
It DID help that he changed their name, otherwise they would not have gotten any gigs, he had to change the name because clubs didn't want them back.
@@generationgapreacts I suspect this song is based partly on "The Tunnel", a 1952 surreal short story by Swiss author, Friedrich Dürrenmatt. In the story the train hurtles to oblivion and the driver has already jumped taking the brake handle with him, one assumes. Anderson hasn't acknowledged this but his lyric about God stealing the handle is interesting. I also suspect Anderson came across the story in conversation with someone who knew the story and subconsciously logged the trope of the train to oblivion. Coincidentally jazz rock organist Brian Auger had a band called Oblivion Express and their first album also came out in 1971.
Ian Anderson is not only an incredible flautist, he taught himself how to play. Even better, if you listen closely, you can hear him 'singing' while he's playing. Even Classically trained flautists can take many years to learn to do that, yet he taught himself in only a short couple of years. His technique is near flawless and his flutter tongue is amazing. One of the greatest front men of the Rock era.
Jethro Tull.
Yet ANOTHER fantastic British band.
Must be something in the water.
One of my all time favorite bands. Incredible performers all, and super tight. And Ian Anderson (vocals and flute) is a superlative showman. Other suggestions I’d make for them include Songs From the Wood, Thick as a Brick (live version - the studio version is 40 minutes long), Aqualung, Baker Street Muse, My God, Minstrel in the Gallery - the list is endless!
+1 on Minstrel in the Gallery.
I saw Jethro tull in 2007, and Ian Anderson still has that energy today.
Saw Tull for the first time in 75 at Tampa Stadium. We didn’t even have a team but all the top rock bands came to play. What a great time to grow up!😎
My favorite band! Ian Anderson is a musical genius, a terrific showman and had great physical stamina. This is from the album “Aqualung” which is one of their most loved records. It’s great to see you react to this song! There are at least a dozen great album that almost nobody reacts to. Songs from the Wood, which I think is like strolling though a sun Renaissance Fair, or the Christmas album are excellent. Please keep exploring Jethro Tull. Great job!
Hey ladies ! .. I know you'll eventually be requested to do this other iconic song which features a flute ( if you haven't already been asked ), called "Hocus Pocus" by the group Focus .. Every reactor who sees it is both amazed and highly amused .. You must ensure it is their live performance from the Midnight Special in 1973 .. You will NOT be disappointed .. Cheers, Wayne
Great choice. Although the flute only gets a brief appearance in 'Hocus pocus' it's the closest to Ian Andersons' style of playing that I've experienced.
This song was probably my first exposure to Jethro Tull. It blew me away! Not only a great song and performance but it made playing the flute cool. Other bands that used the flute are Kansas (which also used a violin), and Marshall Tucker Band.
Kansas? Flute? No.
Genesis, King Crimson and Heart used flute, but not Kansas.
So back in 73 I was a senior in high school working security at concerts always stage duty...Ian made those crazy faces at me all concert long, such a trip...saw them again in Miami in 75, we had the best music in the seventies didn't we Mom...
Without any doubt what so ever.
seen these guys 5 times since 1980, and this concert you watched was the 1980 tour for their album "A". always a masterpiece in live performance, and comedy too
@Grin Host damn, forgot that Pegg and Vitesse were in that lineup too
I saw them in concert several times in the 70's, this was usually their encore song. This particular show Locomotive Breath was capped off with the Dambuster's March. They normally blended more than one song in their encore. Yes Ian Anderson, the flutist/singer/frontman has incredible energy. In the first show I saw of theirs they played for over four hours. It was the Thick as a Brick tour and they played the entire Thick as a Brick song/album as their first song, it took about an hour. After that Ian came back to the mic and announced "For our second selection we would like to do something off of our Aqualung album". It was an amazing show and I just don't know how anyone could perform like that.
This video is taken from the 1982 tour supporting the Broadsword and the Beast album. The song at the end is an excerpt from Black Sunday off the 1980 album "A".
Saw them several times during the early 70's... one of the greatest shows!
Their sound is why that band is up in the top of my list )
Great reaction ladies.... Jethro Tull are an eccentric English band and their look is very "Old England". Some of their music is very folk orientated and you can hear the English charm in those tracks.... this is more rock influenced, they are a really original band and are great musicians, If you want to see another great live performance from them I would highly recommend "Thick as a brick" live from Madison Square garden in 1978.... it's an incredible performance and very special.
They are a British band Ian Anderson was born in Scotland to an English mother and Scottish father.
Ian Anderson is a character and plays the flute like a maniac! This whole album is a rock gem. Loved Jethro Tull from the late 60's!
Jethro Tull is still on tour… He will be here in Italy in a few months, and also next year. Yes, I am going to their concert and I am dragging Italian friend of mine and believe or not a priest. I think they need some culture.
He learned to play the flute while in the band. He managed to do so with only four working fingers on his right hand. This was my first live concert. The balloons were simply amazing. They were ejected out of the rear end of a pantomime zebra.
I saw Jethro Tull at the Boston Garden in the late seventies. Great show. When Ian Andersen wasn't singing or playing flute he was leaping around the stage like a ballet dancer, and told off-color jokes between songs.
I saw Jethro Tull in concert in 1969. amazing.
Seen them 4 times!
Oh thank you for linking me here, I just knew yall would love it, Ian is a wizard.
There's a youtube piece that's just him, Ian Andersen, in the middle of a concert in Tampa Bay long ago, doing a TWELVE minute solo...that is mind blowing.
I've been listening to Tull since 1971 even played some today. Never gets old
Went to a lot of concerts. Nothing better than Jethro Tull.
I fear I accidentally imparted a little of that manic energy into my son, when I named him after Ian Anderson while his mother was distracted. In his mid thirties and expecting a son of his own, now, he still takes some of that energy into the high school history classes that he teaches. Oh, and as long as we're on the subject of flute in rock & roll, how 'bout a little bit o' flute in some southern rock & roll, with The Marshall Tucker Band, I'd suggest the song "Can't You See?" or "Heard it in a Love Song,"
I’ve had the privilege of seeing Tull twice, and Ian Anderson’s energy on stage is difficult to match. He’s an incredibly talented multi instrumentalist, and his vocals are so distinctive. Love it. ♥️✌🏼😎
In concert, the band members dress according to the "theme" of the album. This clip is from a concert on their "Broadsword and the Beast" tour, which had a medieval theme to it.
Peter-John Vettese is the keyboard player.
At the end of the song, you notice a chance. They switch from Locomotive Breath released 1971 to part of a song, Black Monday, from the A album released in 1980.
The big balloons come out at the very last song of the night.
If you want to see some even BETTER flute playing, check out their 1978 performance of Thick as a brick at Madison Square Garden. He also plays the acoustic guitar on that.
First concert I ever went to was in San Bernardino I watch it was Jethro Tull in and Addison to see them live like that in an audience what is astounding he is you know he’s a mathematician and he’s a very intelligent guy
A throw back to traveling minstrels of the middle ages is the style Jethro Tull tried to invoke. The name Jethro Tull was borrowed from a 17th century agriculturalist.
Basically Jethro Tull walked straight out of the 13th century, plugged in to the nearest oak tree in the woods; and the rest is history, as they say.
Seen them live in Melbourne Australia incredible
Congratulations on seein' 'n hearin' Jethro Tull 'n experiencin' Ian Anderson's amazin' prowess on the flute for the first time. Now...if you really wanna see his greatest live flute performance watch them play My God! in 1970 at the Isle Of Wight music festival. The song wasn't released until the next year so they blew everyone away with an unknown song. I saw them live in Austin in 1970-the best concert ever! My God! was the 2nd song.
Avoid the crowd pressure to listen to the live versions first. Always begin with the studio versions and then move to the live version.
Agreed! As soon as she said live version in my head I said no, no, no! There’s typically so much more subtlety in the studio versions that’s lost live. I also wish people would listen to the studio version of Dire Straits' Telegraph Road, too. Original studio recording first, THEN live.
One thing that always comes to my mind when I listen to Jethro Tull is that I try to imagine what would Mozart have done if he had an electric guitar and an amp available? The word awesome comes to mind.
master of everything you would want to see on stage at a live performance
Ian Anderson is a rock legend and innovator. I saw them 3 times in the early 70’s and they always were amazing on stage.❤️❤️❤️
Awesome song, wonderful performance 👍🙂🎼🎵🎵🎶🎶❤️
A hard rock Flute riff. Ian Anderson actually sang words at the same time playing the flute.
I bought this album when it came a out and saw them live in the subsequent tour. Genius stuff
Oh that is the best, thanks for sharing
The legendary Tony Iommi from Black Sabbath, guitarist of Jethro Tull for a short time in the late sixties, learned in that period to do hard labour sessions. It was just rehearsing for hours and hours until it sounded great. It brought him to a much higher level, he said.
I saw that show, 77 I think.
Ian kept up that energy through the whole show. This was the finale!
Ian Anderson is indeed a character and known by Jethro Tull's fans as "The Bard!" I've been a huge fan since first hearing them in the '70s. What drew me, as you said, they weren't afraid to introduce traditional classical instruments into progrerock music. The flute is the easy one, but who uses a glockenspiel in rock? Tull does! It was so great to see you enjoy.
I saw them live and it was amazing Ian Anderson often played standing on one leg
Welcome to the world of Ian Anderson and Jethro Tull...go ahead now and dive into this rabbit hole. You'll be even more amazed !
Jethro Tull was a 17th-century farmer and inventor who invented the seed drill. The band take their name from him and dress in that clothing style.
There is so much Tull to explore
You 2 play the best songs. I'm 73 been to most of the concerts. Some of them bring a little tear. Thanks for memories. Danced to the Righteous Brothers at our sock hope. Married the girl I danced with.
There song my god is another good song with the flute. Definitely watch the live version
Next, you need to check out their live version of Thick as a Brick. especially the one recorded at Madison Square Garden.
Ian Anderson actually took up the flute when he realized (in his mind, anyway), that he could never be as good a guitarist as Eric Clapton.
I think he gets his energy from the audience. The keyboardist, John Evan is quite a character as well, with his white suit, and matching polka dotted tie and handkerchief.
Ian Anderson introduces him as "Everybody's favorite Good Humor man".
Ian Anderson is one of the best flute players in the world. I saw them live several years ago. They are minstrels and entertainers.
Only about 400 songs that the great Ian Anderson has penned to go. He plays an excellent acoustic guitar as well as the flute. One of a kind.
This is, almost certainly, a part of the encore at the end of a two hour set. Seen them several times since 1969 and they were always great live.
I was there when this tour came through Dallas. Those great big balloons in the audience were fun.
They were all "Minstrels in the Gallery" as it were.
Saw them a little later during the War Child LP in mdi 70s. They put on a good show. Also they had a giant ball floating in the air in the crowd.
I saw Tull in concert....Bad Ass! . He is the best rock Flute player ever!! He likes to stand on 1 foot and play.....He's a trip!! F'in awesome.
I like this idea of the generational gap when it comes to musical tastes.
This reminds me of when my father sat down with one of his 4 children to listen to their music.
He, who was a classical music and opera listener, was particularly attracted to bands like Pink Floyd, Genesis, Led Zeppelin and others from the 70s.
I therefore propose to you to react to a live performance which was seen by more than 5.5 million spectators in 68 cities around the world.
Considered by millions to be the best rock performance of all time both visually and musically.
So I suggest: Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb - pulse concert performance 1994.
The only regret you will have is not having attended this memorable performance in person.
I was fortunate enough see Jethro Tull twice in the 1970s. It was like going to a Renaissance Fair, if they had electric guitars in Medieval times.
For a better example of the band at their peak check out the live version of "Thick as a Brick" at Madison Square Gardens, circe 1978 (?)
Ian first played harmonica , you may like ' My God' an awesome performance by Ian .
There are flutists who gasp when they see how he treats his flute.
I hope you check out the studio track as well. Personally I prefer it, but to each their own. The studio track has a more interesting, multi-instrumental, slow build into the song that I absolutely love. Jethro Tull is an amazing band and I pull out my double greatest hits CD whenever I can.
Ian Anderson has said that he tried to play the flute in the same way that Jimi Hendrix played guitar.
Knew you two would dig it!
Yes we do!
Great reaction as usual! It might be a good idea if you’re going to do a live reaction, try to do the original studio version as well.
Barriemore Barlow is drumming here. I love his offbeat drumming at the end.
Having been to see Jethro Tull on four separate occasions, I can tell you that you'll never see a greater showman....lead singer/flute player Ian Anderson is an unequalled stage presence, in his day he was simply awesome! Original, funny, incredibly talented, unbelievably entertaining and utterly unique........you ladies really do need to see more of him.....!!
It's great to see such a young woman enjoying this music, and introducing her daughter to it as well.
Most Flute players are classically trained. Ian Anderson is self taught & all the better for it. Unique band.
At 4:20 she says :"He plays the flute and sings, plays the flute and sings and it doesn't even seem like he catches a breath"
Well he's got "Locomotive Breath" because he's Aqua(lung), by the way "Aqualung" is a great song by them too but some my favorites are "Cross-Eyed Mary", "My God",
"Thick As A Brick" the whole song, "Dharma For One" the live version off "Living In The Past" and "Dark Ages" but really their catalog is so far beyond picking favorites they've got hundreds of great songs much like this one.
Jethro Tull has always been one of the most technically sound progressive rock bands of all time, they are master class and in my top three bands of all time.
JETHRO TULL, "LOCOMOTIVE BREATH". saw this band in 1997. Ian Anderson great entertaining vocalist, Flutist, and acoustic guitar on occasion. more. "THICK AS A BRICK", "CROSSED EYED MARY", "LIVING IN THE PAST "... "AQUALUNG"...
One of the best concerts I ever saw was Jethro Tull and Emerson Lake and Palmer, In Cleveland Ohio. At the end both bands jam together for 45 minutes and had nonstop standing ovations.
Thick as a Brick. Live at Madison Square Garden. Next stop!
Ian Anderson was really keen to join the Moody Blues when their flautist sadly passed away. They'd engaged a young lady a few days earlier so there was no room for him, but hey, this guy as a Moody Blue? Would have been an interesting mix!
I had the experience of seeing Jethro Tull in concert during this tour (cuz I’m almost 70 & seen a lot of classic rock bands of the 70s) & Aqualung the album is one of my top 10 albums of all time. Thanks for the memory!
My first Jethro Tull show was in 1970 and I've seen them many times since. Asking about their "costumes" ... Ian Anderson (singer/flautist) wore an old plaid robe, I read once that it was a robe of his father. He wore it for several years and finally started changing costumes. They're a band of characters, so they all wear different stuff, and some of it is quite amusing. In the early days, Ian used to stand on one leg while he played the flute, often kicking the other leg out in rhythm as he played. He is self-taught, and about twenty-five or thirty years in, being recognized as one of the greatest flautists in music, his daughter pointed out he was playing it incorrectly. He learned how to play properly at her suggestion. If you'd like to hear him play more "classically" - check out the album "Divinities." It's a solo album, so it would be by Ian Anderson. A softer version of his flute playing in the rock area is "The Secret Language of Birds" )also by Ian Anderson) - they the song "Sanctuary" on that album ... gorgeous, as he plays flute with a violin and guitar accompaniment. These days, his voice is shot in concert, but he has the most distinctive voice in the history of rock music! They have a long catalog of music, and yoou can't go wrong with a Jethro Tull song. (BTW - there is no Jethro Tull ... the band was named after an 18th century agriculturalist who invented a seed drill and it stuck.)
I love Ian Anderson.. such an animated and passionate performer!!
There's SO much great flute work in the Jethro Tull catalogue; it's not a flourish, it's an integral part of the sound. Everything from "Teacher" to "Skating Away" and so many more; Ian Anderson built the group around his flute. You will have so much more to enjoy.
Enjoyed watching JT with you!
Welcome to the Weird n Wonderful World of British progressive rock Ladies! My mates and i were weend on this stuff!
You should listen to him REALLY going wild with the flute from a concert in Tampa 😁
One of my first albums was "Thick as a Brick" by Jethro Tull, I played the LP so much and still do 50 years later,
Watch the live version, it's an experience you'll never forget.
One of the most original.bands ever.
They combine old English folk , social comment, poetry, and rock
I saw the in concert in Tampa stadium it was fantastic!
the concert was 300,000 people in GERMANY that sold out in 3 minutes !!!
This is his encore after a couple hours of mind blowing music. Back in the 70s it was so hard to get tickets for his concerts. They always sold out fast. I had this in 8 track and would listen to it on my way to school in my rambler in the early 70s
Enjoy true music.
another good song by them with a lengthy flute intro is a song called, living in the past. check it out its a good song
Jethro Tull was second concert I saw, back in the ‘70’s….BTW.. He just put out an album in January of this year!
Ian Anderson is self taught.
Jethro Tull are what you get if a medieval bard fronts a rock band
For more freaky flute check out Jrthro Tull
Hello again Girls - The Swedish ABBA fan here again ... Iḿ so glad that You've discovered Jethro Tull, one of my ABSOLUTE favourite British groups! I saw them live twice in Stockholm 1976 and 1977 - and WOW! No words can describe their musicianships AND their Stage Presence. The flutist/singer Ian Anderson is a Scotsman and selftaught flutist who also plays some wonderful acoustic guitar on many other songs - while just oozing his charisma over the stage, a Musical Genius. I rmust ecommend their Live version from 1976 or -77 of "Thick as a Brick" - a composite version of their whole LP Album with the same name. I think You ladies will be mighty impressed. I actually played the flute myself in a Jethro Tull cover group in the 70:s, totally inspired by JT.
Loved your reactions to Jethro Tull. You mirrored my reaction the first concert I ever attended. Every member of the band were talented muscians. Ian Anderson wrote incredible lyrics and compositions. He was a true performer that always gave everything he had. Thank you for this.
Taxi Grab by them rocks !!!!
Basically even most classical flutists listen to Jethro Tull for the first time and say to themselves "holy crap! How does he do that".
Epic! One would not think that the flute could be played to this extent. Ian Anderson is to the flute what Kenny G is to the saxophone.
Tull had a ton of great songs, you have missed out if you have not explored them. Yeah Ian A. incorporated the flute seamlessly into rock, showed it belonged there... and it's amazing how well he did that over and over again.
But they went way beyond that, he could play acoustic guitar wonderfully as well, and was a creative, original composer who blazed his own path through rock music... listen to side one of Thick as a Brick for a taste of his composing genius. Great dynamics and instrumentation throughout, it's a treat for the ears. And if you listen to the album Aqualung, it varies from hard rock to pretty little acoustic guitar ditties, the variety and quality of the songs was fantastic. And Martin Barre was one of the unsung electric guitar heroes of the time, his solo on the title cut of Aqualung still stands as one of the most tastefully conceived and beautifully phrased high distortion hard driving electric guitar solos in all of rock music.
I have always admired Ian Anderson on the flute and it’s even more impressive when you realize he’s self taught on the flute.