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Tiresias 
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 Topic: Jethro Tull
Posted: August 30 2005 at 21:15 |
Has anyone every noticed that we never get many discussions about them?
Usually its "Yes is this, Genesis is that, DT sucks my sweaty whatever"
These guys have an album rated third in the top 100 and I think they are sorely underrated.
They stand up to the likes of ELP with their arrangements, out-folk Gentle Giant, and have as much tongue-in-cheek material as the Sex Pistols!!
FREE JETHRO!!!!!
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Wh'ghal ng'fth mglw'y Ry'leh, Cthulhu fhtagn...
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Yanns
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Posted: August 30 2005 at 21:16 |
Hey, you're preaching to the preacher here. 
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Tiresias
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Posted: August 30 2005 at 21:19 |
Your move, holy man...
(Dane Cook)
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alan_pfeifer
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Posted: August 30 2005 at 21:22 |
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I love Dane Cook.
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Tiresias
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Posted: August 30 2005 at 21:25 |
I work down at the BK Lounge.
"Can we get in?"
Not without coups..
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Yanns
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Posted: August 30 2005 at 21:37 |
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What I meant is that I love Tull. I think TAAB is probably the best song ever written.
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transend
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Posted: August 30 2005 at 21:37 |
'Passion play' is one of my faves albums of all time.....
Maybe they dont get covered because they have simply been fairly consistent!
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Intruder
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Posted: August 30 2005 at 21:52 |
Short memory spans....there've been a number of gushing Tull threads over the past few months. I, too, love the Tull, but only as far as Heavy Horses. Very little excites me after that, especially after seeing the band on its 2000 tour.....just going thru the motions and milking the machine (actually praises from that tour, everyone in the group I went with were a bit angrier....after all, we paid over $45 to see a shabby show.....and tix will be as high as $80 on their upcoming 2005 US tour!).
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I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there.....
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Arsillus
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Posted: August 30 2005 at 22:05 |
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stonebeard
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Posted: August 30 2005 at 22:22 |
 alan_pfeifer wrote:
I love Dane Cook. |
you keep that to yourself
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Ray Lomas
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Posted: August 31 2005 at 01:32 |
Intruder wrote:
Short memory spans....there've been a number of
gushing Tull threads over the past few months. I, too, love the
Tull, but only as far as Heavy Horses. Very little excites me
after that, especially after seeing the band on its 2000 tour.....just
going thru the motions and milking the machine (actually praises from
that tour, everyone in the group I went with were a bit
angrier....after all, we paid over $45 to see a shabby show.....and tix
will be as high as $80 on their upcoming 2005 US tour!). |
I saw them in consert here in Finland in 2001. It was quite nice show.
I was in the front row. They played a lot of their classic materal from
the 70s and late 60s, Aqualung, Thick As A Brick, Bouree... 
The bass solo in Bouree by mr Jonathan Noyce was great!
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Gianthogweed
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Posted: August 31 2005 at 03:36 |
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I was watchin the VH1 countdown to worst metal moments, and Tull winning the heavy metal grammy was one of them. All they did was make fun of the fact that Ian played the flute. Got me a little pissed off. Tull may not be metal, but they're more talented than all of the bands up for the grammy put together.
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BiGi
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Posted: August 31 2005 at 03:58 |
I saw them in June 2003 in Turin, Italy.
They performed a great set of tracks spanning their whole career, but they DID NOT PLAY the Bourée...I wonder why!
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A flower?
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Bob Greece
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Posted: August 31 2005 at 04:38 |
One great thing about Jethro Tull is the variety. They play all sorts of things: blues, prog, folk rock, electronic rock and heavy rock. As it says in the Q/Mojo magazine, their music has a very English sound to it.
They are great musicians and play really well live. I have seen them live 5 times (4 times in the UK and once in Greece). The Greek concert was the best as it was outdoors during the summer.
I love the way Ian plays the flute. I know there are many prog bands with flutes in them but for me, they were the first one I heard and Ian Anderson plays the flute with great feeling.
Ian Anderson has a great sense of humour. He's always making jokes in the concerts.
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Eetu Pellonpaa
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Posted: August 31 2005 at 05:08 |
I like "Aqualung" and their 60's albums and liveperformances.  I'm not so much into their epics, somehow YES did them better IMHO.
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Blacksword
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Posted: August 31 2005 at 05:29 |
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I like Tull. Thick as a Brick is their best IMO, Songs from the Wood and Broadsword & the Beast are also great albums, rarely discussed...
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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The Hemulen
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Posted: August 31 2005 at 05:33 |
Seconded. Thick as a Brick was just a warm-up! 
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Bob Greece
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Posted: August 31 2005 at 05:34 |
Blacksword wrote:
I like Tull. Thick as a Brick is their best IMO, Songs from the Wood and Broadsword & the Beast are also great albums, rarely discussed... |
I saw Songs from the Wood in the prog archives top 100 recently. Broadsword is excellent although probably not interesting for traditional proggers. My favourite is Crest of a Knave.
With Thick as a Brick, I am wondering were Tull the first prog band to put one song on a whole album or did some other band get the idea first?
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pero
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Posted: August 31 2005 at 05:47 |
I love JT.
I was twice on their concerts 1975 and 1998
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Losendos
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Posted: August 31 2005 at 06:51 |
Outstanding solo effort from Ian Anderson who was up against many bands with multiple composers. Their albums up to heavy horses are consistently good so anyone not familiar with their work should do themsleves a favor and get a few
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How wonderful to be so profound
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