There's a fair few bands in the world that I have listened to for several years that I do not really expect to ever see live. Jethro Tull was in that category for the longest time, until last Friday
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Damn, I would have loved to have seen that show. I've heard some of their newer stuff (though don't own any albums newer than War Child), and like you said, Ian Anderson is a still a mad mutherfucka on his flute.
But I was a HUGE Tull fan in my early college days, and I mean, we're not talking, I-like-Aqualung kind of fan. We're talking knows-all-the-lyrics-and-melodies-on-both-sides-of-Thick As a Brick and Passion Play kind of fan. I loved those albums so much that think I very nearly wore out the grooves on my old LPs. And I have a special "unreleased takes/songs" CD (Nightcap) that has a bunch of material that never made it onto the Passion Play or War Child albums.
Anyway, it's good to hear they've still got the touch, even if the fans were chimps.
The live versions make the album ones seem just So bland. I listened to them mostly in my late high-school years, and early college. It was when I was more of a gaming nerd and less of everything else.
Thanks to this, I got into a phase where listening to Tull was a little too 'zomg lol Friday night RuneQuest session' for me, and have only slowly been recovering from it. It has really been the more rock'n'roll stuff that I have listened to now, like Catfish, Rock Island or Under Wraps.
War Child and Broadsword & the Beast remain my two faves though, pretty much.
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But I was a HUGE Tull fan in my early college days, and I mean, we're not talking, I-like-Aqualung kind of fan. We're talking knows-all-the-lyrics-and-melodies-on-both-sides-of-Thick As a Brick and Passion Play kind of fan. I loved those albums so much that think I very nearly wore out the grooves on my old LPs. And I have a special "unreleased takes/songs" CD (Nightcap) that has a bunch of material that never made it onto the Passion Play or War Child albums.
Anyway, it's good to hear they've still got the touch, even if the fans were chimps.
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Thanks to this, I got into a phase where listening to Tull was a little too 'zomg lol Friday night RuneQuest session' for me, and have only slowly been recovering from it. It has really been the more rock'n'roll stuff that I have listened to now, like Catfish, Rock Island or Under Wraps.
War Child and Broadsword & the Beast remain my two faves though, pretty much.
Need to get those live DVDs though, Need To.
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