Zappa and Anderson did not do drugs and actually fired musicians who got too self-indulgent with the "lifestyle". I think that was one of the reasons Cornick was booted out, and i remember a doc where Anderson talked about how worried he was that John Glascock was burning the candle at both ends, and got serioulsy ill in 1979, eventually passing away. You can't be playing Zappa music or A Passion Play if you're not all there...
That's right. Fans often get all nostalgic talkin about how they got 'under the influence' and then listened to the albums or went to concerts. But as a musician you had/have to be extremely disciplined to pull of this music plus the deliberately "crazy" but carefully rehearsed stage performance of such music. Tull and Zappa are the best-known examples of a strict 'no drugs'-policy within the band.
I was lucky enough to see Tull three times, Portchester NY (which included some Aqua Lung songs although the album had not yet been released), and then later in NYC and Philly. What I remember, even after all these years, is that every performance was very strong, they never "phoned it in." You got the impression that they truly enjoyed performing, especially Ian who was/is an amazing showman.
@@artiewithers6980 It was a bit of great luck that fell into my lap. Four guys at college had tickets, one couldn't go at the last minute, and I happened to be there!
I haven't yet heard the name Ian Anderson uttered here while listening to Tull...This man may well be the most brilliant musician/composer in all of Progressive Rock (for starters). I love and have seen most of the groups (with ELP at the top of my list). But what single person has done more than Ian Anderson has done? Think about it: the songwriting, the singing and stage presence, the arranging, and playing both acoustic guitar and flute well. My God! Oh, yeah, he wrote that too.
I'm pretty sure that both the left and right guitar solos were played by their great guitarist Martin Barre. Did you also notice that other solo towards the end panned in the middle? It sounds like it was played through a phase shifter. That was cool technology for that time, and sounded good!
Now that is an F'in Rockin' Song! No better. Sweet jam and all musicians are epic here. When you get the time, separate out the different instruments it is awesome.
Thanks again Daniel for continuing on thenTull journey! Always been a favorite because of the dynamics of the two guitars solos commingled on each side! Cranked up on a great home sound system is just awesome!
Daniel, you dropped into this one within about 10 seconds. This song is a JT favorite and I could listen to this all day long. It has that Jethro Tull pull with the crunchy guitar and vocals.
Standout track on a brilliant album (the first I ever bought, when it was first released, as I’ve said before). Looking forward to your reaction to Sossity: You’re a Woman.
You are obviously hooked. Very happy for you. I’ve been listening to the expanded and remastered Heavy Horses lately. Good listen. By the way, you have the “listening to Tull face” down very well.
Really enjoying your album reaction Daniel. Jethro Tull released several excellent non album singles around this time also which are well worth doing. -Teacher, Sweet Dream and Witches Promise. Highly recommended as you love this album so much.
I hadn't listened to this album for many years. But hearing it now with you, I remember what a truly great album it is. And this song has always been one of my favorites of theirs (which I actually find surprising, since there's no flute in this one and the songs with flute have always resonated with me). Thanks for this review of Benefit. Actually, aren't a lot of the songs turning out to be songs about coming back home from the road...!
Look at Ian Anderson now. perform your own investigation. Then tell me IF he used drugs in his past. The definite answer would be NO. Take a look at his "recent" version of "Life Is a Long Song" with his son on drums with a woodwind combo. Absolutely beautiful! His wits are still present. This would not be possible with a person who used drugs heavily in the 70's. He would either be dead or have advanced dementia. Trust me on this. Ian Anderson is a rare gem to this world.
I love every song on Benefit. This being one of the best. Ian’s writing what he knows (being a passionate performer). For reference, compare it to Minstrel in the Gallery.
I have seen Tull 13 times in my life and the very first concert they played two of the verses in an encore back in 79. EPIC! Only time I have heard this song live in concert.
@Dave King, the video of the song you shared stops before the song is over. The video below is the rest of it, you may have seen it already if not, it's entertaining that's for sure. ua-cam.com/video/wd6u3hQ9bkQ/v-deo.html
Tull didn't perform this song live very often, if at all. However, Martin Barre plays this song live with his solo band a lot and it sounds just as good as the original. Maybe even better!
Next Album must be Living in the Past as it wraps up this phase in band career. The lyrics on this double album are incredible as you would surmise. There are about 3 songs that appeared before. I predict LIVING will be your favorite album. One minus is that side 3 is 2 songs performed live and they are dense and jazzy. I can't wait. All the best
Record production back in the 60's and 70's took full use of the stereo effect, which resulted in amazing sounding recordings. Studios today should make more of an effort to use the media in which they're recording, namely Stereo.
Don't know which version of the Benefit album you're listing to, but at least one version of it doesn't have *Teacher* on it, and I must say that *Teacher* was the first Jethro Tull song I heard on the radio that I _really liked_ and for a long time, it was my favorite Jethro Tull song. So if it isn't on the album you're reviewing now, please locate it and give it a listen! Keep up the good work, young man!
First, I adore this song, too... easily my favorite on the album, and actually among my top 10 Tull songs. It was a song I would sing to my ex-GF when I was deployed and was about to come home. It become our "theme song." I agree with you the "paper bag" line is a bit suspect. To me (and as we've discussed in the past, it's what a song means to the individual that matters), it's always been taking the book or magazine you bought at the airport and putting it away into its paper bag--the process of reading a good book is quite a bit like dreaming to me. Glad you enjoyed it, Daniel!
Not that it matters, but yes Rush did drugs, A Passage To Bangkok, now what could that possibly be about. Doing these Tull reactions is making me go back through music that I haven’t listened to for far too long, thanks for the much needed kick in the butt.
Im proud of you took months but you did TULL CRY YOU A SONG I told you it was worth the wait.that riff was. As SMOKE ON THE WATER or any other song in the 70s..IAN ANDERSON loves the midevil sonnets and Bach and other classical songs and incorporate it into his music. He does a w/o fearful BOUREE .rendition
Amazing track! My one complaint from early Tull ( and other bands of the era) is the tracks are too short, JT crammed so much brilliance into such a short space of time.
ohh i watch you since like summer , i dont think that i have seen you enjoy a song so much during a reaction, and i cant blame you , this album is great
Yeah, this song is just the bomb, as is this entire album. Definitely an engineering jump in recording quality. You were thinking of Wondering Aloud from Aqualung.
Was looking forward to that. The...erm, "hit" off this album. That guitar line/lick is pure quality. One criticism I have with this song only is that it's a bit stretched out, thus making it unusually repetitive for Jethro Tull. If they had shortened it by 30 secs to 1 minute, it would be perfect :-)
FYI to you Daniel and your subscribers, the Martin Barre Band has scheduled a mini US tour this coming March - May. I assume it is COVID dependent. I've seen Martin's band several times and it really rocks Tull songs plus originals. The website say it is the 50th anniversary of Aqualung and they will play it in its entirety (although not sure how they will cover the flute solo in "My God"). Not sure where you are located Daniel, but if they play anywhere nearby, this is your chance to catch even a little of the Tull magic live, before it is gone. Original Tull drummer Clive Bunker and later Tull keyboardist and arranger Dee Palmer is in the band too. I HIGHLY recommend going if you can - I will see them in Pennsylvania in April. BTW, Ian Anderson is touring as "Jethro Tull" but with a totally different band, and only in Europe in 2021 (from the Tull website).
Agree with you. Don't think closing his dream inside its paper-bag was threwing up but a more metaphoric image. This song paves the way for the forthcoming Jethro Tull style (from War Child to Minstrel in Gallery). At the times, Ian Anderson's way to sing was much more interesting than it became later.
I like how you do this. I bought that album when it was released, 1972 maybe? I would have been 20 then, about your age, I guess. Anyway, the old stuff is so much better than what they put out now. Glad a new generation appreciates it.
Another Tull gem, but just for a laugh, how many Brits can hear the strains of the seventies game show Sale of the Century's theme tune in Martin Barre's main guitar riff! This song was written first, so there were no shenanigans on Tull's behalf. Somebody needs to ask Nicolas Parsons!
I think that line is "inside this paperback", referring to reading on the plane. The copy of Benefit I have doesn't have the lyrics though. Anyone have an "official" source on this? Regarding Rush, Alex Lifeson is not shy about his indulging in pot at least: www.cygnus-x1.net/links/rush/hightimes-06.2012.php FWIW, Ian has always been emphatic about never using drugs, and I've never read anything to the contrary.
If you get the urge to do a cover comparison, there's Glenn Hughes' version. They wisely stuck close to Tull's version, but you know, he's Glenn Hughes. Both versions bring me great joy. - ua-cam.com/video/Z71_tbfanZs/v-deo.html
I agree, I don't think he's using dreams to mean puke! Concern about number of cigarettes (joints), and passing through customs does suggest drugs, and that could be what are the dreams in his paper bag.
Many legionaires mention the compilation album Living in the Past as a "must". I do not dispute that it contains great songs, but again, it also includes tracks from their first four albums which were used as filler to complete a bona fide double album - Song For Jeffrey, Bourée, Teacher, Hymn 43 + a lackluster (imo) live and mostly instrumental side. (You had to be there. None of their live albums even approach the excitement of attending a Tull concert.) But all of the good stuff and singles from LITP are included (with waaaaaayyyy improved sound) in the re-releases remixed by Steven Wilson. There's an extended version of Wond'Ring Again (titled Wond'ring Aloud, Again) that's even better than the LITP version. And all the songs are featured on albums recorded shortly before or after, so they sound like they're part of the same artistic period. THIS WAS features: Love Story, Christmas Song STAND UP features: Driving Song, Living in the Past, Singing All Day, with alternate versions and mixes. BENEFIT features: The Witche's Promises, Sweet Dream, 17 (not included on Living in the Past), the U.S. and U.K. mixes of Teacher, Alive & Well and Living In, and Singing all Day. AQUALUNG features an entire extra CD with all the LITP songs recorded with B. Barlow on drums + Just Trying To Be, and the previously mentionned extra tunes and early acoustic demos. I stop here, but A Passion Play, Warchild, Minstrel, Too Old to R&R, Songs From The Wood, Heavy Horses and Stormwatch all include treasure troves of songs as good as the ones that ended up being released on the original lp's. Any real fan HAS to get these!
"Teacher" was not available on the original UK version of 'Benefit', and thus LITP was the place to turn to for this great single. The live tracks are a question of taste. I think they're fantastic, showing a more 'arty' side of earlier Tull. Oh, and Bunker's solo made me lose my soul to drumming as a kid...(not that I could ever faintly reach his level).
@@murdockreviews I've always found it bizarre (with me to begin with) how some albums have a way of imprinting themselves so that the original sequence in which you heard them sticks. (I could never put on Dark Side of the Moon without listening to the first side as a whole, could NOT go straight to Time for instance.) I boarded the Tull boat with TAAB in 72, and bought the previous ones in a frenzy. When LITP came out that fall, i loved the lavish cover/book and all the goodies i didn't know, but was always frustrated by the inclusion of tracks i'd just bought, they broke the "flow" and I loved them in their original setting. As for the live tracks, it would be so great if somebody found lost, pristine footage of Tull concerts from 70-71-72-73 like the Isle of Wight. I'm sure i'd enjoy these a lot more as an actual concert experience.
@@benoitdesmarais2948 yes, I understand what you mean. I am probably extremely partial to LITP, as it was the very first Tull album I heard ( my parents had it), and as a kid I marveled at the booklet with those wild, bearded men sitting in tons, whirling on stages and rolling their eyes in a frightening manner. BTW, the whole Carnegie Hall concert the two live tracks were taken from was later on made available (I think in the 20 years of Jethro Tull box set)... But Isle of White would be pretty cool.
@@murdockreviews "as a kid I marveled at the booklet with those wild, bearded men sitting in tons, whirling on stages and rolling their eyes in a frightening manner": same here ;o) The great thing was that when i saw them live in 77 for the first time, having never seen them on TV, Anderson and the band were all i'd hoped for. I'm not sure i understood you: Tull at Isle of Wight is actually available as a concert film, released a few years ago.
@@benoitdesmarais2948 I didn't know about the Isle of Wight footage. Have to check that out. I only knew of the snippet from the (excellent) 'Message to Love'-film where they can be seen playing the beginning of "My God". So the song was around even before Aqualung was released...
Make sure you check it out live from the ISLE OF WIGHT. Concert..another thing this band unlike 9 INCH NAILS JANET JACKSON. are NOT in the ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME
kid,,,can you please play an actual lp,,,,,,like on a record player ,,,you would be the first to do so,,it is so much more tactile,,speaking for myself, would love that,ty for more tull
Heaviest number on the album. It stands out in that respect from the other tracks, and it really draws you in.
I was 15 in '70 saw Tull at Red Rocks. Mountain opened.unforgettable Summer Night of Classic greatness.. Both Bands
Love this song.
NOW you're into it, brother...rock on..............
Zappa and Anderson did not do drugs and actually fired musicians who got too self-indulgent with the "lifestyle". I think that was one of the reasons Cornick was booted out, and i remember a doc where Anderson talked about how worried he was that John Glascock was burning the candle at both ends, and got serioulsy ill in 1979, eventually passing away. You can't be playing Zappa music or A Passion Play if you're not all there...
That's right. Fans often get all nostalgic talkin about how they got 'under the influence' and then listened to the albums or went to concerts.
But as a musician you had/have to be extremely disciplined to pull of this music plus the deliberately "crazy" but carefully rehearsed stage performance of such music.
Tull and Zappa are the best-known examples of a strict 'no drugs'-policy within the band.
The first Tull song I learned on an electric guitar. It felt friendly and simple, and I liked the lyrics. Love the leads
Love this song!
Ditto
My favorite Tull song ever. EPIC jam!
I believe the true line is "closing my dream inside this paperback"
I was lucky enough to see Tull three times, Portchester NY (which included some Aqua Lung songs although the album had not yet been released), and then later in NYC and Philly. What I remember, even after all these years, is that every performance was very strong, they never "phoned it in." You got the impression that they truly enjoyed performing, especially Ian who was/is an amazing showman.
Capital Theater? I saw Traffic there back in the day. Never saw Jethro Tull, nuts.
I have seen Tull 13 times over 4 decades and it was always EPIC!
@@artiewithers6980 It was a bit of great luck that fell into my lap. Four guys at college had tickets, one couldn't go at the last minute, and I happened to be there!
Caught them T the MSG like 3 times phenominal shows
One of Tull's heaviest sounding ones. It holds up well over the years.
I haven't yet heard the name Ian Anderson uttered here while listening to Tull...This man may well be the most brilliant musician/composer in all of Progressive Rock (for starters). I love and have seen most of the groups (with ELP at the top of my list). But what single person has done more than Ian Anderson has done? Think about it: the songwriting, the singing and stage presence, the arranging, and playing both acoustic guitar and flute well. My God! Oh, yeah, he wrote that too.
Kudos to whoever suggested this album to you and thanks for sharing your views with us. My vinyl is translucent from many spins at 33 rpm.
I'm pretty sure that both the left and right guitar solos were played by their great guitarist Martin Barre. Did you also notice that other solo towards the end panned in the middle? It sounds like it was played through a phase shifter. That was cool technology for that time, and sounded good!
That interlude where they went off in a tangent a bit was VERY Jazz inspired. Love it!
Now that is an F'in Rockin' Song! No better. Sweet jam and all musicians are epic here. When you get the time, separate out the different instruments it is awesome.
Thanks again Daniel for continuing on thenTull journey! Always been a favorite because of the dynamics of the two guitars solos commingled on each side! Cranked up on a great home sound system is just awesome!
Glad you liked this song sir, you were nodding your head in all the right places, hahaha 😀
Daniel, you dropped into this one within about 10 seconds. This song is a JT favorite and I could listen to this all day long. It has that Jethro Tull pull with the crunchy guitar and vocals.
Standout track on a brilliant album (the first I ever bought, when it was first released, as I’ve said before). Looking forward to your reaction to Sossity: You’re a Woman.
Dope track.
The rhythm section for this song is just rippin' it up. Epic bass and drums.
Still not in the Rock and roll hall of Fame. Criminal
One of my favorites from them, the guitar work is so good and so layered
Absolute Classic! The opening lyric is everything!
You are obviously hooked. Very happy for you. I’ve been listening to the expanded and remastered Heavy Horses lately. Good listen. By the way, you have the “listening to Tull face” down very well.
I love the "listening to Tull face". I have seen it many times. I have it many times because I can't get enough Tull!
Really enjoying your album reaction Daniel. Jethro Tull released several excellent non album singles around this time also which are well worth doing. -Teacher, Sweet Dream and Witches Promise. Highly recommended as you love this album so much.
We all knew you would like this album. This song is stellar. I seen Tull do this live and it was fantastic.🔥
I hadn't listened to this album for many years. But hearing it now with you, I remember what a truly great album it is. And this song has always been one of my favorites of theirs (which I actually find surprising, since there's no flute in this one and the songs with flute have always resonated with me). Thanks for this review of Benefit. Actually, aren't a lot of the songs turning out to be songs about coming back home from the road...!
Make sure to include the bonus cuts: Witch's Promise and Teacher especially.
Wondrin aloud is the song you were quoting-one of my very favorites
I don't know if anyone has mentioned the fact, but Ian didn't do drugs. People who've seen his performances always think he's stoned, LOL!
When you say he didn't do "drugs", are you including alcohol, which is the most abused & harmful of all mood-altering drugs? Just saying...
@@JJ8KK I'm pretty sure he drank, but his real downfall was heavy smoking, probably ruined his voice.
@@dandurant4845 I'm pretty sure he drank. Watch The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus.
Look at Ian Anderson now. perform your own investigation. Then tell me IF he used drugs in his past. The definite answer would be NO. Take a look at his "recent" version of "Life Is a Long Song" with his son on drums with a woodwind combo. Absolutely beautiful! His wits are still present. This would not be possible with a person who used drugs heavily in the 70's. He would either be dead or have advanced dementia. Trust me on this. Ian Anderson is a rare gem to this world.
I love every song on Benefit. This being one of the best. Ian’s writing what he knows (being a passionate performer). For reference, compare it to Minstrel in the Gallery.
Sossity...the best song on the album.
You should see the live version of this song someday. It is mind blowing.
I just watch. You are correct. Thanks.
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I have seen Tull 13 times in my life and the very first concert they played two of the verses in an encore back in 79. EPIC! Only time I have heard this song live in concert.
@Dave King, the video of the song you shared stops before the song is over. The video below is the rest of it, you may have seen it already if not, it's entertaining that's for sure.
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Tull didn't perform this song live very often, if at all. However, Martin Barre plays this song live with his solo band a lot and it sounds just as good as the original. Maybe even better!
Hard to find the words for how good this song is! Someone below said they could listen to it all day. That comes pretty close.
Such a good song )
Next Album must be Living in the Past as it wraps up this phase in band career. The lyrics on this double album are incredible as you would surmise. There are about 3 songs that appeared before. I predict LIVING will be your favorite album. One minus is that side 3 is 2 songs performed live and they are dense and jazzy. I can't wait. All the best
Record production back in the 60's and 70's took full use of the stereo effect, which resulted in amazing sounding recordings. Studios today should make more of an effort to use the media in which they're recording, namely Stereo.
Don't know which version of the Benefit album you're listing to, but at least one version of it doesn't have *Teacher* on it, and I must say that *Teacher* was the first Jethro Tull song I heard on the radio that I _really liked_ and for a long time, it was my favorite Jethro Tull song. So if it isn't on the album you're reviewing now, please locate it and give it a listen! Keep up the good work, young man!
I love their poetry.
First, I adore this song, too... easily my favorite on the album, and actually among my top 10 Tull songs. It was a song I would sing to my ex-GF when I was deployed and was about to come home. It become our "theme song."
I agree with you the "paper bag" line is a bit suspect. To me (and as we've discussed in the past, it's what a song means to the individual that matters), it's always been taking the book or magazine you bought at the airport and putting it away into its paper bag--the process of reading a good book is quite a bit like dreaming to me.
Glad you enjoyed it, Daniel!
Such an overlooked song.
also , bout jethro tull , no drugs , unique among rockstars , and you should respect them for this
Thanks for doing your part to educate us.
Not that it matters, but yes Rush did drugs, A Passage To Bangkok, now what could that possibly be about. Doing these Tull reactions is making me go back through music that I haven’t listened to for far too long, thanks for the much needed kick in the butt.
Gran trabajo de Clive Búnker, extraordinario baterista!!
Im proud of you took months but you did TULL CRY YOU A SONG I told you it was worth the wait.that riff was. As SMOKE ON THE WATER or any other song in the 70s..IAN ANDERSON loves the midevil sonnets and Bach and other classical songs and incorporate it into his music. He does a w/o fearful BOUREE .rendition
Amazing track! My one complaint from early Tull ( and other bands of the era) is the tracks are too short, JT crammed so much brilliance into such a short space of time.
ohh i watch you since like summer , i dont think that i have seen you enjoy a song so much during a reaction, and i cant blame you , this album is great
No in this case it's true Ian Anderson was sober af, he smoked that's about it. He was also very frugal took every penny he earned and saved it.
Thanks for this reaction. I haven't this song since the 70s. Shame on me!
OK....now you did it! I need to download this album to my iPhone for the....like 500th time! Thanks Daniel!
You're right, it's not about throwing up in a paper bag, especially with angels in the next line.
Yeah, this song is just the bomb, as is this entire album. Definitely an engineering jump in recording quality. You were thinking of Wondering Aloud from Aqualung.
That riff is also used by Gong with their pixies from outa space songs....
Tull has a huge back catalog of tasty music -- Martin Barre does some great guitar work
Great lead guitar work by Martin Barre on this one.
Was looking forward to that.
The...erm, "hit" off this album.
That guitar line/lick is pure quality.
One criticism I have with this song only is that it's a bit stretched out, thus making it unusually repetitive for Jethro Tull. If they had shortened it by 30 secs to 1 minute, it would be perfect :-)
@@williamhinshaw6838 you're right. It gives Martin more space to shine.
Awesome song, very bluesy rock.
FYI to you Daniel and your subscribers, the Martin Barre Band has scheduled a mini US tour this coming March - May. I assume it is COVID dependent. I've seen Martin's band several times and it really rocks Tull songs plus originals. The website say it is the 50th anniversary of Aqualung and they will play it in its entirety (although not sure how they will cover the flute solo in "My God"). Not sure where you are located Daniel, but if they play anywhere nearby, this is your chance to catch even a little of the Tull magic live, before it is gone. Original Tull drummer Clive Bunker and later Tull keyboardist and arranger Dee Palmer is in the band too. I HIGHLY recommend going if you can - I will see them in Pennsylvania in April. BTW, Ian Anderson is touring as "Jethro Tull" but with a totally different band, and only in Europe in 2021 (from the Tull website).
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Great song. Knew you would like!
Skating away on the thin ice of a new day.
Agree with you. Don't think closing his dream inside its paper-bag was threwing up but a more metaphoric image. This song paves the way for the forthcoming Jethro Tull style (from War Child to Minstrel in Gallery). At the times, Ian Anderson's way to sing was much more interesting than it became later.
Hey question. What is "We are Legion" in reference to ? Enjoyed the reaction. Jethro Tull is awsome.
Martin Barre's lead guitar tone reminds me of Clapton's "woman tone" which he used in Cream (distortion up + treble down).
I like how you do this. I bought that album when it was released, 1972 maybe? I would have been 20 then, about your age, I guess. Anyway, the old stuff is so much better than what they put out now. Glad a new generation appreciates it.
Another Tull gem, but just for a laugh, how many Brits can hear the strains of the seventies game show Sale of the Century's theme tune in Martin Barre's main guitar riff! This song was written first, so there were no shenanigans on Tull's behalf. Somebody needs to ask Nicolas Parsons!
I always thought he was saying "closing my dreams inside this paperback" Maybe someone with the lyrics book can chime in?
awesome guitar in this one.
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Can anyone say whether Martin's last intro was actually on an electric sitar rather than an electric guitar?
Curious about Teacher- that was on the original Benefit, no?
Not on the original U.K. release, though it was on the US version.
U.S. version yes.
@@johnclibbens6803 Yes, which means we have to have both versions!
Surely needs to be part of this reaction series.
He is doing the US version. The UK version of Teacher has no flute.
I think that line is "inside this paperback", referring to reading on the plane. The copy of Benefit I have doesn't have the lyrics though. Anyone have an "official" source on this?
Regarding Rush, Alex Lifeson is not shy about his indulging in pot at least: www.cygnus-x1.net/links/rush/hightimes-06.2012.php
FWIW, Ian has always been emphatic about never using drugs, and I've never read anything to the contrary.
some of Martin Barre’s finest moments
Wot no flute! One of the very few. Great song though
You must have missed it. Check out the live version.
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Some of the best guitar work they've done, you hardly notice it isn't there
Side 1 of Benefit is fantastic. Side 2 is better.
bingo! Give that man a star.
My favorite album still have a copy wore out the original
If you get the urge to do a cover comparison, there's Glenn Hughes' version. They wisely stuck close to Tull's version, but you know, he's Glenn Hughes. Both versions bring me great joy. - ua-cam.com/video/Z71_tbfanZs/v-deo.html
I agree, I don't think he's using dreams to mean puke! Concern about number of cigarettes (joints), and passing through customs does suggest drugs, and that could be what are the dreams in his paper bag.
Martin Barre severely underrated
Many legionaires mention the compilation album Living in the Past as a "must". I do not dispute that it contains great songs, but again, it also includes tracks from their first four albums which were used as filler to complete a bona fide double album - Song For Jeffrey, Bourée, Teacher, Hymn 43 + a lackluster (imo) live and mostly instrumental side. (You had to be there. None of their live albums even approach the excitement of attending a Tull concert.) But all of the good stuff and singles from LITP are included (with waaaaaayyyy improved sound) in the re-releases remixed by Steven Wilson. There's an extended version of Wond'Ring Again (titled Wond'ring Aloud, Again) that's even better than the LITP version. And all the songs are featured on albums recorded shortly before or after, so they sound like they're part of the same artistic period.
THIS WAS features: Love Story, Christmas Song
STAND UP features: Driving Song, Living in the Past, Singing All Day, with alternate versions and mixes.
BENEFIT features: The Witche's Promises, Sweet Dream, 17 (not included on Living in the Past), the U.S. and U.K. mixes of Teacher, Alive & Well and Living In, and Singing all Day.
AQUALUNG features an entire extra CD with all the LITP songs recorded with B. Barlow on drums + Just Trying To Be, and the previously mentionned extra tunes and early acoustic demos. I stop here, but A Passion Play, Warchild, Minstrel, Too Old to R&R, Songs From The Wood, Heavy Horses and Stormwatch all include treasure troves of songs as good as the ones that ended up being released on the original lp's. Any real fan HAS to get these!
"Teacher" was not available on the original UK version of 'Benefit', and thus LITP was the place to turn to for this great single.
The live tracks are a question of taste. I think they're fantastic, showing a more 'arty' side of earlier Tull. Oh, and Bunker's solo made me lose my soul to drumming as a kid...(not that I could ever faintly reach his level).
@@murdockreviews I've always found it bizarre (with me to begin with) how some albums have a way of imprinting themselves so that the original sequence in which you heard them sticks. (I could never put on Dark Side of the Moon without listening to the first side as a whole, could NOT go straight to Time for instance.) I boarded the Tull boat with TAAB in 72, and bought the previous ones in a frenzy. When LITP came out that fall, i loved the lavish cover/book and all the goodies i didn't know, but was always frustrated by the inclusion of tracks i'd just bought, they broke the "flow" and I loved them in their original setting. As for the live tracks, it would be so great if somebody found lost, pristine footage of Tull concerts from 70-71-72-73 like the Isle of Wight. I'm sure i'd enjoy these a lot more as an actual concert experience.
@@benoitdesmarais2948 yes, I understand what you mean. I am probably extremely partial to LITP, as it was the very first Tull album I heard ( my parents had it), and as a kid I marveled at the booklet with those wild, bearded men sitting in tons, whirling on stages and rolling their eyes in a frightening manner.
BTW, the whole Carnegie Hall concert the two live tracks were taken from was later on made available (I think in the 20 years of Jethro Tull box set)...
But Isle of White would be pretty cool.
@@murdockreviews "as a kid I marveled at the booklet with those wild, bearded men sitting in tons, whirling on stages and rolling their eyes in a frightening manner": same here ;o) The great thing was that when i saw them live in 77 for the first time, having never seen them on TV, Anderson and the band were all i'd hoped for. I'm not sure i understood you: Tull at Isle of Wight is actually available as a concert film, released a few years ago.
@@benoitdesmarais2948 I didn't know about the Isle of Wight footage. Have to check that out. I only knew of the snippet from the (excellent) 'Message to Love'-film where they can be seen playing the beginning of "My God".
So the song was around even before Aqualung was released...
The sound quality wasn't as good then. It was my youth. Got me hooked on Tull
Make sure you check it out live from the ISLE OF WIGHT. Concert..another thing this band unlike 9 INCH NAILS JANET JACKSON. are NOT in the ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME
Good Lord, wait 'til you get to the likes of Passion Play, Minstrel In The Gallery, Songs From The Wood, Stormwatch....
ya wow lol
Wait until someone mentions Frank Zappa to you...
kid,,,can you please play an actual lp,,,,,,like on a record player ,,,you would be the first to do so,,it is so much more tactile,,speaking for myself, would love that,ty for more tull
Hope he brushed teeth before reuniting with girl.