About Jethro Tull

My love for Tull has changed over the years -- I appreciate their art much more today than I did 20 years ago. I used to be a die-hard "only the pre-WarChild" stuff is worth posterity. But now my favorites include "The Flying Dutchman" from Stormwatch and "The Pine Marten's Jig" from 'A', which makes me stop what I'm doing to listen every time it plays.

I reckon if I took my fave 5 songs from every remaster, I think 2 or 3 songs from each cd would be bonus tracks, this is assuming the following songs were also included on the remasters to give us even more bonus tracks

Edited by PROGMONSTER2008 - February 14 2009 at 16:22

Slartibartfast wrote: I have a theory about the Jethro Tull and here is the theory as is it is:  Jethro Tull was thin at the beginning, much much more interesting the beginning of the middle and much less interesting after that.  That is the theory that I have and is as such that it is. On a more seriouser note, "A" kind of marked the period after which I got much less interested.

^don't you like Catfish Rising? I find it to be in the style of those 2, of course you should know that too. It's my favorite of the 3...

cacho wrote: ^don't you like Catfish Rising? I find it to be in the style of those 2, of course you should know that too. It's my favorite of the 3...

Actually haven't tried that one yet.  Shame on me.

Around these parts some folks practice noodling wherein they catch catfish by getting them to go after their bare hand and yank them out of the water without a hook.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noodling

I was pondering how this practice could have got started and I can only imagine someone dropped something in the creek and while trying to retrieve it, got their hand engulfed by a catfish, yanked it out, and said, "hey, free food".

Probably fried it up real good.


Edited by Slartibartfast - February 16 2009 at 15:26

30761760 wrote: You definatly can't beat early tull. ... The only blip was passion play. I brought it, lisened to it once and reilised why it was sl*gged off. it has a couple of good tracks but 'The hare who lost his specticals' encompaces all that can go wrong in prog.

Edited by Borris - February 15 2009 at 23:51

Borris wrote: 30761760 wrote: You definatly can't beat early tull. ... The only blip was passion play. I brought it, lisened to it once and reilised why it was sl*gged off. it has a couple of good tracks but 'The hare who lost his specticals' encompaces all that can go wrong in prog.   I disagree, the video of "the hare who lost his spectacles" is my favourite Tull video and one of my all time favourite rock videos. It is fabulously pagan, warped and crazy theatricality par excellence.

A "couple" of good tracks?  Two out of three?
I like it, including the silly bit.

The hair who lost his testicles or whatever that was...


Edited by Slartibartfast - February 16 2009 at 15:25

Regarding Barlow, apparently after leaving Tull (where I agree he was a mainstay of their "classic" lineup) he was asked to join Camel, but just could not play at the level required and was not accepted. And then, he left music for good and went into the consturction trade, I heard. Too bad.

Drummerboy wrote: Regarding Barlow, apparently after leaving Tull (where I agree he was a mainstay of their "classic" lineup) he was asked to join Camel, but just could not play at the level required and was not accepted. And then, he left music for good and went into the consturction trade, I heard. Too bad.

  Barlow left Tull because saddened by the death of bassist John Glascock he informed Anderson that he just couldn`t carry on although he stuck it out till the end of the Stormwatch tour. Don`t know where the freak you got the Camel story. Barlow as far as I`m concerned surpassed anything Camel ever did. Just listen to his solo on Conundrum on Bursting Out. The construction story is pure bunk. Get your facts sraight man! After leaving Tull he formed a short lived band called Tandoori Cassette. After that he was a very in demand session player and played on albums byGeorge Harrison, Jimmy page, Robert Plant, and believe it or not Ywinge Malmsteen and if you don`t believe me check the credits on Malmsteen`s Rising Force LP. He also had a band of his own although they never released an album. He has his own recording stdio called The Doghouse in addition to managing a folk rock band called the Repertiores. More recently he played on a track on a punk rock album the name of the band which escapes me at the moment. At present he remains very active in music most recently rejoining Jethro Tull in `08 for their 40th anniversary.

Construction trade??????????????? Camel??????????????????????????????????????????????


Edited by Vibrationbaby - February 17 2009 at 10:40

Hey I`m not getting angry just trying to set the record straight. Think about it though. Why would one of the most the talented  drummers in rock give up music to become a construction worker? Painter, botanist, monk maybe but construction worker? Just trying to set the record straight. Not angry.