I don't he is claiming it is Tull. But to be honest with you, Ian's voice and the band he has now is pale and dire immitaion of the Jethro Tull I love.
Martin is a nice fellow. Time has taken its toll on all of them. Shame there is so much animosity between them. Ian is not ageing gracefully in terms of his attitude at all.
Dan Crisp, the vocalist in Barre's band, has a very similar vocal tone to early Anderson. In face, he sounds more like Ian than Ian does. Ian is using a stand in these days because his voice is in such rough shape.... I have seen Martin and his band 3 times and they have been much more enjoyable (to me) than the times I've seen Ian and his band.
@@macfinnh thing is they should all stop. Martin Barre and Ian Anderson are now shadows of themselves. Same with John Bon Jovi. They are now bloody bores. I’ve seen them all when they were young and dynamic dynamite. It’s gone that magic and they don’t even realise it. Going to see a Rammstien concert in Cardiff and I’m sure it will be 100 times better.
It is very cool to see how he thinks. In his interviews, I always have to change how I picture his personality, I have my mental "stage" image of Martin and my "real" Martin from the interviews.
I won’t use the word underrated as it is used way too much on you tube but Martin Barre is certainly under recognized. He is one of the great rock guitarists for sure
Let’s face most of the world’s finest guitarists are not household names ie apart from other players who would know Lawrence Huber Martin Taylor Jan Akkerman
We saw Martin’s band last summer in Victoria Vancouver Island and was the best live show I’d seen in years…Martin moved and performed like a man a third his age…and Clive Bunker sat in for the entirety of Aqualung as a bonus. As a 72 year old man who first saw The Beatles at 13 that’s saying a lot. Brilliant show!
I have nothing but immense respect for Martin. He is humble yet direct and always looking to develop his craft. I attended his concert in my hometown about three years ago and was utterly surprised to see he has lost none of his facility with the guitar. He had a great band and it was wonderful to see him up close after over forty years as a fan.
Lovely interview that Barry. Martin always comes across as a modest and charming bloke, whether on stage or talking music. His band are great live too. Really enjoyed that.
Stand Up is probably my all-time favourite rock album. The only possible competition may be Camel's Snow Goose. The atmosphere that those albums create is something else really. And an average listener like me doesn't give a **** about the music's naivety or imperfection. I know what I like.
I LOVED Stand Up ! Had it been the first Tull album, I think it would have received universal acclaim and approval. But because it was SO different from This Was, it was almost viewed as a kind of musical betrayal. I heard Stand Up BEFORE I heard This Was, so it just struck me how brilliant and unique it was. And, for me, still is.
In contrast to other opinions - Tull without Martin aint Tull. No doubt that IA was the driver behind the band, songwriter etc but the contribution that MB made to that band was immense and one of the most 'under the radar' guitarists ever. I notice that IA, having 'denounced' Tull has released a Tull album 'The Zealot Gene'. I have everything that Tull/I.A ever released but I didn't bother with that - I.A is writing the same song (with a shot voice) over and over again. the last few times I saw Tull (with Martin), it was obvious that they were coasting, the same 'safe' set and I note that Martin is visiting Tull stuff that they never did! More power to him.
Martin still plays with brilliance, fun, energy, and love for the music. He's great live and I'd rather see him than 95% of "current" bands. I don't care whether what he's doing compares with what Tull was doing in the 1970s.
Hats off to Martin for restraint and humility on the Grateful Dead, a band I really like and saw live a few times towards the end of their time with Garcia. This typifies why it appears he is so respected- because he gives respect to others in his interviews.
How thrilling to see you interview The Maestro! I've seen his solo shows and his band sounds more like JT than JT currently does! Not that it matters, Martin's wonderful solo material ("The Meeting," "Stage Left," etc. stands on its own! Thanks, Barry.
The great Martin Barre. Thanks for all your brilliant music I feel privileged to have seen you with Tull. Hope to see you with your new band in the UK. Cheers.🇬🇧
Benefit is the first Jethro Tull album I bought and To Cry You a Song was the piece that first caught my attention in 1970. I was totally unaware of Jethro Tull. When I first heard that song on the radio, I did not catch the name of the group. Something about it got me so curious about who the band was I searched until I found Jethro Tull and Benefit. Still my favorite Jethro Tull album. Still my favorite song by the group.
My first tull experience was when my cousin brought home stand up lp..who's tull?? Well since 1969.. stand up is to me the best and most quirky lp tull ever did..then I got to see them with gentle giant..the greatest concert ever seen..and Martin Barre the best guitarist I ever saw..thanks to mr.barre for the phenomenal music and what a great channel..Thanks for the music
Mr.Martin"Lancelot"Barre is the hero of my childhood and his guitar playing is outstanding and superb. Every Tull album he played on it is amazing and to me he gave Jethro Tull the right input. His solo albums are really great stuff too and i dig them all. He accompanied me almost my whole life. In everything he has always remained very humble, a great personality.
Hey HP don't forget Ian Anderson said "I wrote every note of every song "that's so much Bovine scatology it's unfriggin beleavable 😀😀Listen to the AQUALUNG solo ,there is no way.
@@Jermeister12 I asked because I've read interviews with Mr. Anderson where he freely credited other members of the band with contributing musical material to various Tull albums. And if you look at the liner notes for Under Wraps (for instance), various band members are credited with the music from track to track along with Ian.
@@c.a.t.732 Ok ,maybe I'm wrong I just know I still love the music but I just can't stand Ian Anderson. I'm 1000% behind Martin Barre .Ian just gets on my last nerve.
I seen Tull at the Alexandria Roller rink in March of 1969 and again in 1971 for the Aqualung album. Right after the release of Stand Up. I was floored by Martins playing. Being able to switch key and tone effortlessly. Today I can not recall the vocals. But the music plays clearly in my head. It was great seeing the band in a roller rink with a couple of thousand people. Where you knew most of them and the music was personal.
Martin's thoughts are very interesting, and they accord with my feelings about the old albums. Stand Up was great, and Benefit was even better. There was something magical about the guitar+bass sound of Martin and Glenn Cornick. Something was lost when Glenn left before Aqualung.
What a great interview ! You asked some really great questions, and you allowed Martin to answer, which is very rare by interviewers now days. they all seem to wanna talk over the interviewee, But your interview was really good. Of course there's always a question I would like to hear asked, but you know you can never get everything out there, but you did a really good job. I just want to say thank you for your knowledge of the band, and asking so many good questions...
I try to see Martin and his band every time they come through my area. I've met and spoken to him after a show. He is a super nice, approachable guy. Thank you for this interview I enjoyed it very much.
Really nice interview. I really wish, like a lot of people I suspect, that the Anderson, Barre, Bunker & Cornick line up had stayed together a bit longer. Benefit remains one of my absolute favourite Tull records. There are some odd sounds and effects on there but the songs are fantastic. Keep going Martin, love that you go back into the Tull catalogue and pick out long forgotten gems perhaps never played live.
Those odd sounds are fantastic too, particularly in 'With You There To Help Me'. Such a haunting, isolated sound. The message coming through the music is, "We don't care how unusual it is; we're going to make it work anyway!". Pure chutzpah and it works.
Martin is just the nicest, most modest, man imaginable - never utters a bad word about anyone - including about Ian, his life-partner for 45 years, who let him down very badly. Modest as a person, Martin has never had doubts or inhibitions on stage - and his input gave almost as much to Tull’s idiosyncratic creativity as Ian’s. OK, Ian did most of the “writing” but without Martins interpretations, arrangements and phrasing, much of the catalogue would not have worked nearly as well. (Thick as a Brick being a prime example.) I love Martin’s music, and although I mourn the passing of Tull, I think the split was actually (eventually) good for Martin’s creative soul. Every success for the future, fellow Brummie. You made my life just a little better.
Saw Martin on tour a few months ago in Florida. Fantastic show! One of the best I've seen in the last decade. The band really seemed like they were having fun.
I would love it if they would do the entire minstrel in the gallery album, because I don't believe they ever performed Baker street muse live, and that's one of the best songs ever created by Jethro Tull. But Passion play would be phenomammal I would cross the country to hear That album
I thought it was so cool that after I got the album Aqualung ( ny first album), that I realized there were other albums, and that they were so different ... and then came TAAB ... WOW! What a group.
what a lovely interview, Martin always comes over very warm and friendly and a very intelligent musician, the perfect partner for Ian Andersons creative genius. Barry as always is great. thank you really enjoyed this one
Benefit is my favourite Tull album. As a kid, I listened to it over and over again. I’m just about to get my ancient Uni ravaged copy out to figure the bum notes!!
I agree with Martin about Benefit being a step-up from Stand Up because once they got John Evans to play keyboards and that seemed to allow Martin to play more melodic, as well as complex parts for songs such as To Cry You a Song, Nothing to Say, Alive and Well and Living In etc. It also allowed Ian and Martin to weave their parts together, whether Ian was playing acoustic or, as in To Cry You a Song, electric, along with the rich harmonic underpinning of Glenn's bass parts, which were so good.
Aqualung would have been a much better album if Tull/ Ian had kept Cornick on bass for that last effort. Could have moved on to Hammond and Barlow for TAAB, for the more Prog sound.
Saw Passion Play in 1977 or so . . . a performance par excellence . . . live in Iowa City and not in Hancher but the basketball sports hall . . . and listening to the CD, compelling, ethereal.
Martin live ain't Tull but on any given night he plays, I can't imagine a better place to be. The original material on his solo and MB Band albums is very strong. Very.
In a way it's like seeing a Jethro Tull Cover band but with an original member of Jethro Tull when I Saw Martin and his band in February of this year performing all of the Aqualung album. It was good seeing Martin again who to me is an underrated Guitar player.
Loved the interview! Really hope that Martin and the guys come back to Brazil next year and give a shot at playing APP live! And totally support Darby Todd re-recording the UW drums, maybe Ian hears of that haha
Very good analysis of the music at that time. I saw them every year in Brussels, after every new album they came out. Genesis was like that, for Yes I had to wait until 1978 to see them live. Jethro Tull was the best live band I've seen reproducing the sound of their records. They were always funny too. If you see how everything then evolved towards greeting record companies and more predictable music, such a shame.
One thing of Martin's I really liked was his instrumentals he played on Ian's breaks. Trio Instrumental. That and others is as good or better than any other rock guitarist out there living or dead. If he could do an album of that kind of stuff without the dreadful vocals I'd buy it in a heartbeat.
Benefit was Tulls sound that was my Cup of Tull Tea..Saw them play Benefit and Stand Up material in '70 Red Rocks amphitheater Colo.Glenn Cornick Clive Ian Martin and John Evan
Exciting to hear of all the future new and reconstituted material hopefully to be released in the near future - and great choices made by Martin. 'Under Wraps' played with 70's instruments would be interesting, I think Tull went a little too far with that one.
I can sing imitate Ian A. Always could sing along his songs but Benefit was my first Tull LP and always stayed my favorite over the years . Aqualung made this band visible as time rolled on .
You are getting some 'big hitters' in music these days Barry as a result of your channel's expanding and positive reputation...congratulations. Glad Martin rates Benefit to some extent as it is my favourite Tull album
So having listened to this excellent interview to the end, I'm now curious to see some of your wife's paintings. Does she have a website that showcases some of her work?
@@classicalbum Okay thanks. If she does in the future It would be great if you could share the link with your viewers. I'm sure I'm not the only one who is also a fan of the visual arts.
Martin mentioned playing My God on stage, I wonder if he remembers Capetown South Africa in 2007 when the band walked off the stage during the intro to My God because Ian got upset by somebody whistling in the audience? I'm hoping Martin will come back with his band and finish it one day 🙂
Benefit to me was like the creative ‘through the looking glass’ for Tull after Stand Up’s mix of beautiful madrigal like acoustic and progressive blues based masterpieces. I’m talking myself into a greater appreciation than I started with. Benefit was always the one for me.
I prefer Benefit to Stand Up too. Glenn Cornick said it was a more comfortable album to make than Stand Up, which had a raw edginess about it. You can hear a more muted lead guitar tone in Benefit and a focus on melodic and psychedelic elements. Benefit was also sprinkled with Ian's alt-wisdom and Zen.
I would rate Benefit as a better overall album than Aqualung. I've always found Aqualung to be a bit uneven. Benefit might not have quite as many highs as Aqualung, but it is the more consistently solid record.
Having heard Martin himself say in a recent interview that some other members (including John Evans) had contributed lots of uncredited material to Jethro Tull, in particular for "Thick As A Brick" - so around the height of their creativity and popularity - I'd say no, Dee is wrong.
How can you tour aqualung without Ian? Hmm. Like Martin but ain’t Tull without Ian
I don't he is claiming it is Tull. But to be honest with you, Ian's voice and the band he has now is pale and dire immitaion of the Jethro Tull I love.
Martin is a nice fellow. Time has taken its toll on all of them. Shame there is so much animosity between them. Ian is not ageing gracefully in terms of his attitude at all.
Understand ages etc. But can’t tour aqualung without Ian flute and voice.
Dan Crisp, the vocalist in Barre's band, has a very similar vocal tone to early Anderson. In face, he sounds more like Ian than Ian does. Ian is using a stand in these days because his voice is in such rough shape.... I have seen Martin and his band 3 times and they have been much more enjoyable (to me) than the times I've seen Ian and his band.
@@macfinnh thing is they should all stop. Martin Barre and Ian Anderson are now shadows of themselves. Same with John Bon Jovi. They are now bloody bores.
I’ve seen them all when they were young and dynamic dynamite. It’s gone that magic and they don’t even realise it.
Going to see a Rammstien concert in Cardiff and I’m sure it will be 100 times better.
Stand Up and Benefit are still some of my favorite Tull albums
Great albums
Same here
My two favorites.
I also loved the This Was album with Mick Abrahams.
@@paulinwoburn9680 me too also I have the first and second Blodwyn Pig records 😎
Love hearing Martin’s perspectives and opinions. He nicely expresses what he likes and doesn’t like.
It is very cool to see how he thinks. In his interviews, I always have to change how I picture his personality, I have my mental "stage" image of Martin and my "real" Martin from the interviews.
What a humble guy, Martin is. With his legacy, he still strives forward.
I won’t use the word underrated as it is used way too much on you tube but Martin Barre is certainly under recognized. He is one of the great rock guitarists for sure
Let’s face most of the world’s finest guitarists are not household names ie apart from other players who would know Lawrence Huber Martin Taylor Jan Akkerman
Brilliant interview- Martin comes across as very honest, open and a warm personality.
We saw Martin’s band last summer in Victoria Vancouver Island and was the best live show I’d seen in years…Martin moved and performed like a man a third his age…and Clive Bunker sat in for the entirety of Aqualung as a bonus. As a 72 year old man who first saw The Beatles at 13 that’s saying a lot. Brilliant show!
I believe, A Passion Play made them all better Musicians.
I have nothing but immense respect for Martin. He is humble yet direct and always looking to develop his craft. I attended his concert in my hometown about three years ago and was utterly surprised to see he has lost none of his facility with the guitar. He had a great band and it was wonderful to see him up close after over forty years as a fan.
Lovely interview that Barry. Martin always comes across as a modest and charming bloke, whether on stage or talking music. His band are great live too. Really enjoyed that.
Thanks for listening
Stand Up is probably my all-time favourite rock album. The only possible competition may be Camel's Snow Goose. The atmosphere that those albums create is something else really. And an average listener like me doesn't give a **** about the music's naivety or imperfection. I know what I like.
I do agree with you considering Stand Up as JT best album ever...👍👏👏👏
I LOVED Stand Up ! Had it been the first Tull album, I think it would have received universal acclaim and approval. But because it was SO different from This Was, it was almost viewed as a kind of musical betrayal.
I heard Stand Up BEFORE I heard This Was, so it just struck me how brilliant and unique it was. And, for me, still is.
Yes. Agreed. Benefit for me was #1 with STAND UP a close 2nd . Both albums are in my top 10 of all time.
In contrast to other opinions - Tull without Martin aint Tull. No doubt that IA was the driver behind the band, songwriter etc but the contribution that MB made to that band was immense and one of the most 'under the radar' guitarists ever. I notice that IA, having 'denounced' Tull has released a Tull album 'The Zealot Gene'. I have everything that Tull/I.A ever released but I didn't bother with that - I.A is writing the same song (with a shot voice) over and over again. the last few times I saw Tull (with Martin), it was obvious that they were coasting, the same 'safe' set and I note that Martin is visiting Tull stuff that they never did! More power to him.
Martin still plays with brilliance, fun, energy, and love for the music. He's great live and I'd rather see him than 95% of "current" bands. I don't care whether what he's doing compares with what Tull was doing in the 1970s.
Woohoo, love Martin Barre. Thanks for bringing this to us!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Hats off to Martin for restraint and humility on the Grateful Dead, a band I really like and saw live a few times towards the end of their time with Garcia. This typifies why it appears he is so respected- because he gives respect to others in his interviews.
How thrilling to see you interview The Maestro! I've seen his solo shows and his band sounds more like JT than JT currently does! Not that it matters, Martin's wonderful solo material ("The Meeting," "Stage Left," etc. stands on its own! Thanks, Barry.
The great Martin Barre. Thanks for all your brilliant music I feel privileged to have seen you with Tull. Hope to see you with your new band in the UK. Cheers.🇬🇧
"I'm very opinionated, but only in my own home. And that's where it needs to stay." Wise words that many people could take to heart.
Benefit is the first Jethro Tull album I bought and To Cry You a Song was the piece that first caught my attention in 1970. I was totally unaware of Jethro Tull. When I first heard that song on the radio, I did not catch the name of the group. Something about it got me so curious about who the band was I searched until I found Jethro Tull and Benefit. Still my favorite Jethro Tull album. Still my favorite song by the group.
My first tull experience was when my cousin brought home stand up lp..who's tull?? Well since 1969.. stand up is to me the best and most quirky lp tull ever did..then I got to see them with gentle giant..the greatest concert ever seen..and Martin Barre the best guitarist I ever saw..thanks to mr.barre for the phenomenal music and what a great channel..Thanks for the music
Mr.Martin"Lancelot"Barre is the hero of my childhood and his guitar playing is outstanding and superb. Every Tull album he played on it is amazing and to me he gave Jethro Tull the right input. His solo albums are really great stuff too and i dig them all. He accompanied me almost my whole life. In everything he has always remained very humble, a great personality.
Hey HP don't forget Ian Anderson said "I wrote every note of every song "that's so much Bovine scatology it's unfriggin beleavable 😀😀Listen to the AQUALUNG solo ,there is no way.
@@Jermeister12 When did Anderson say that?
@@c.a.t.732 To tell you the truth I don't remember.I just know he said it.
Sorry but that's the TRUTH.
@@Jermeister12 I asked because I've read interviews with Mr. Anderson where he freely credited other members of the band with contributing musical material to various Tull albums. And if you look at the liner notes for Under Wraps (for instance), various band members are credited with the music from track to track along with Ian.
@@c.a.t.732 Ok ,maybe I'm wrong I just know I still love the music but I just can't stand Ian Anderson.
I'm 1000% behind Martin Barre .Ian just gets on my last nerve.
I seen Tull at the Alexandria Roller rink in March of 1969 and again in 1971 for the Aqualung album. Right after the release of Stand Up. I was floored by Martins playing. Being able to switch key and tone effortlessly. Today I can not recall the vocals. But the music plays clearly in my head. It was great seeing the band in a roller rink with a couple of thousand people. Where you knew most of them and the music was personal.
Martin's thoughts are very interesting, and they accord with my feelings about the old albums. Stand Up was great, and Benefit was even better. There was something magical about the guitar+bass sound of Martin and Glenn Cornick. Something was lost when Glenn left before Aqualung.
Wonderful interview with sharp questions. And really awaiting now the 3 CD package, Martin. That idea is smashing.
What a great interview ! You asked some really great questions, and you allowed Martin to answer, which is very rare by interviewers now days. they all seem to wanna talk over the interviewee, But your interview was really good. Of course there's always a question I would like to hear asked, but you know you can never get everything out there, but you did a really good job. I just want to say thank you for your knowledge of the band, and asking so many good questions...
I try to see Martin and his band every time they come through my area. I've met and spoken to him after a show. He is a super nice, approachable guy. Thank you for this interview I enjoyed it very much.
My pleasure. Do check out my other videos.
I do... I really like your channel
Really nice interview. I really wish, like a lot of people I suspect, that the Anderson, Barre, Bunker & Cornick line up had stayed together a bit longer. Benefit remains one of my absolute favourite Tull records. There are some odd sounds and effects on there but the songs are fantastic. Keep going Martin, love that you go back into the Tull catalogue and pick out long forgotten gems perhaps never played live.
Agreed that Martin Barre very under rated. As Tull guitarist. His sound his leads his rhythm all precise and emotional
@@danclark3377 He's a great combination of steady guitarist sprinkled with exactly the right amount of tone and flamboyance.
Those odd sounds are fantastic too, particularly in 'With You There To Help Me'. Such a haunting, isolated sound. The message coming through the music is, "We don't care how unusual it is; we're going to make it work anyway!". Pure chutzpah and it works.
I been following Martin for many years I got my style of playing through him in my opinion there’s nobody better
Martin is just the nicest, most modest, man imaginable - never utters a bad word about anyone - including about Ian, his life-partner for 45 years, who let him down very badly.
Modest as a person, Martin has never had doubts or inhibitions on stage - and his input gave almost as much to Tull’s idiosyncratic creativity as Ian’s. OK, Ian did most of the “writing” but without Martins interpretations, arrangements and phrasing, much of the catalogue would not have worked nearly as well. (Thick as a Brick being a prime example.)
I love Martin’s music, and although I mourn the passing of Tull, I think the split was actually (eventually) good for Martin’s creative soul.
Every success for the future, fellow Brummie. You made my life just a little better.
Thanks for this, Martin is one of the greats.
Couldn't agree more!
He is such an amazing original musician....!!!!
And a real gentlemen..!
We were enthralled with stand up and benefit!
love this interview with Martin.His live in NY cd is fabulous.
King of the Barre chords
Excellent musician. Pleasure to listen to the insights of this old pro.
Exciting to see this. Thanks for the interview.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you very much for the excellent interview.
So good to hear from Martin. Thanks for the joy you've brought with your art.
Saw Martin on tour a few months ago in Florida. Fantastic show! One of the best I've seen in the last decade. The band really seemed like they were having fun.
Cool!
I would love it if they would do the entire minstrel in the gallery album, because I don't believe they ever performed Baker street muse live, and that's one of the best songs ever created by Jethro Tull. But Passion play would be phenomammal I would cross the country to hear That album
1. A Passion Play 2. Aqualang 3. Stand Up 4. Minstrel Gallery 5. Storm Watch
Excellent. I am so looking forward to seeing him in July. It is going to be great.
Attended a Tull concert 20 years. Martin was phenomenal.
What a nice man - and a great guitarist
I thought it was so cool that after I got the album Aqualung ( ny first album), that I realized there were other albums, and that they were so different ... and then came TAAB ... WOW! What a group.
The great Martin!. Loved the interview
what a lovely interview, Martin always comes over very warm and friendly and a very intelligent musician, the perfect partner for Ian Andersons creative genius. Barry as always is great. thank you really enjoyed this one
Glad you enjoyed it
Such a great interview. Thanks for this.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Fantastic interview with an absolute legendary guitarist!
I've been wishing that Martin would record some of his epic Tull instrumentals. happy to hear that it is happening
Love Martin, could listen to him all day.
Yes and Tull. Wish I'd'a seen it. Two major faves.
Martin what a great guitarist and a lovely man.
Benefit is my favourite Tull album. As a kid, I listened to it over and over again. I’m just about to get my ancient Uni ravaged copy out to figure the bum notes!!
Lovely to see, thanks Martin and Barry.
Glad you enjoyed it
Great interview. Two lovely chaps.
Greetings from Venezuela! 🇻🇪
Wonderful interview. Martin is such an integral part of the Jethro Tull sound.
I agree with Martin about Benefit being a step-up from Stand Up because once they got John Evans to play keyboards and that seemed to allow Martin to play more melodic, as well as complex parts for songs such as To Cry You a Song, Nothing to Say, Alive and Well and Living In etc. It also allowed Ian and Martin to weave their parts together, whether Ian was playing acoustic or, as in To Cry You a Song, electric, along with the rich harmonic underpinning of Glenn's bass parts, which were so good.
Aqualung would have been a much better album if Tull/ Ian had kept Cornick on bass for that last effort.
Could have moved on to Hammond and Barlow for TAAB, for the more Prog sound.
I played Stand Up and This Was repeatedly as I read Lord of the ring circa 1969. Brilliant match of music and literature.
Saw Passion Play in 1977 or so . . . a performance par excellence . . . live in Iowa City and not in Hancher but the basketball sports hall . . . and listening to the CD, compelling, ethereal.
Great interview. Jethro Tull are one of my favorite bands. I saw them most recently a couple of years ago and it wasn't the same without Martin Barre.
Love Tull and Martin Barre!!!! 😎
Great interview. Love the fact he referred to the "pandemic" as "Covid Shit."
thanks Barry, as ever, a great interview with such a modest brilliant guitar player. Thanks Martin for your insights 👍🏻
Glad you enjoyed it
Fantastic interview thoroughly enjoyed watching 👍
Martin live ain't Tull but on any given night he plays, I can't imagine a better place to be. The original material on his solo and MB Band albums is very strong. Very.
Interesting point about SFTW, HH and Stormwatch - I've always grouped them in my mind as having a similar sound and similar themes.
I wish Martin would play "Play In Time". AND actually figure out how to pull off the wacked out guitar break live. It would be otherworldly.
In a way it's like seeing a Jethro Tull Cover band but with an original member of Jethro Tull when I Saw Martin and his band in February of this year performing all of the Aqualung album. It was good seeing Martin again who to me is an underrated Guitar player.
Loved the interview! Really hope that Martin and the guys come back to Brazil next year and give a shot at playing APP live! And totally support Darby Todd re-recording the UW drums, maybe Ian hears of that haha
Thank you
Brilliant player,never mentioned as a guitar hero, but he is one.
That Martin Barre is a great bloke.
Take my money - I want that 3-CD set!
Very good analysis of the music at that time. I saw them every year in Brussels, after every new album they came out. Genesis was like that, for Yes I had to wait until 1978 to see them live. Jethro Tull was the best live band I've seen reproducing the sound of their records. They were always funny too. If you see how everything then evolved towards greeting record companies and more predictable music, such a shame.
Martin is a Hell of a guitarist!!!!
Benefit is such a great album.
One thing of Martin's I really liked was his instrumentals he played on Ian's breaks. Trio Instrumental. That and others is as good or better than any other rock guitarist out there living or dead. If he could do an album of that kind of stuff without the dreadful vocals I'd buy it in a heartbeat.
Benefit was Tulls sound that was my Cup of Tull Tea..Saw them play Benefit and Stand Up material in '70 Red Rocks amphitheater Colo.Glenn Cornick Clive Ian Martin and John Evan
The "GREAT" Martin Barre!
Exciting to hear of all the future new and reconstituted material hopefully to be released in the near future - and great choices made by Martin. 'Under Wraps' played with 70's instruments would be interesting, I think Tull went a little too far with that one.
See you at the end the end of June!!! 🙂👍🎸
One big reason "Benefit" is better than "Stand Up" (though I love them both),
John Evan
I'd have loved to have seen some of the shows that Tull and Gentle Giant did together. A perfect pair-up!
I can sing imitate Ian A. Always could sing along his songs but Benefit was my first Tull LP and always stayed my favorite over the years . Aqualung made this band visible as time rolled on .
You are getting some 'big hitters' in music these days Barry as a result of your channel's expanding and positive reputation...congratulations. Glad Martin rates Benefit to some extent as it is my favourite Tull album
indeed...
I always thought Martin was a blues guitarist. 1 for my top 5 recording bands and best live band.
Martin's work on under wraps an A is about the best he did with the band
.......,,,,,,, All things TULL...... I'm in,,,,,,,,,.........turn back time,and hear the greatness...............,,,,,,way back!!!..😯😯
So having listened to this excellent interview to the end, I'm now curious to see some of your wife's paintings. Does she have a website that showcases some of her work?
She doesn't unfortunately, but she should do
@@classicalbum Okay thanks. If she does in the future It would be great if you could share the link with your viewers. I'm sure I'm not the only one who is also a fan of the visual arts.
fantastic musician and for me the bedst guitarplayer ever.
Martin mentioned playing My God on stage, I wonder if he remembers Capetown South Africa in 2007 when the band walked off the stage during the intro to My God because Ian got upset by somebody whistling in the audience? I'm hoping Martin will come back with his band and finish it one day 🙂
Benefit to me was like the creative ‘through the looking glass’ for Tull after Stand Up’s mix of beautiful madrigal like acoustic and progressive blues based masterpieces. I’m talking myself into a greater appreciation than I started with. Benefit was always the one for me.
I prefer Benefit to Stand Up too. Glenn Cornick said it was a more comfortable album to make than Stand Up, which had a raw edginess about it. You can hear a more muted lead guitar tone in Benefit and a focus on melodic and psychedelic elements. Benefit was also sprinkled with Ian's alt-wisdom and Zen.
I'm from Venezuela. Curious Who is this Guy
I must have been around 10 or 12 when i first heard A Passion Play. It blew my mind cpmpletely
It's Martin Barre from Jethro Tull :-)
The Master!!!
Martin's not bad either 😁
I would rate Benefit as a better overall album than Aqualung. I've always found Aqualung to be a bit uneven. Benefit might not have quite as many highs as Aqualung, but it is the more consistently solid record.
It's not Tull without the maestro Ian Anderson but Barre is also a great guitarist. Too Old to Rock & Roll but Too Young to die.😂🎸
Ian Anderson is fortunate that MB tolerated so many flute solos instead of insisting on more guitar.
''Ian Anderson IS Jethro Tull'' Dee (née David) Palmer
Having heard Martin himself say in a recent interview that some other members (including John Evans) had contributed lots of uncredited material to Jethro Tull, in particular for "Thick As A Brick" - so around the height of their creativity and popularity - I'd say no, Dee is wrong.