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Syd’s Bob Dylan Blues is really funny..cos I’m a poet, don’cha know it, and the wind you can blow it…they don’t write them like that any more!
Yes pushed back the boundaries of what was possible. They also didn’t particularly care whether the audience liked the music or not – just as long as the audience appreciated the virtuosity.
To be fair, I was no fan of Yes, but they were interesting, brilliant musicians, their album covers were often unbelievable to just stare at and Anderson sure played a mean tambourine.
Anyone like Tull?
Maxilon 5 wrote
Anyone like Tull?
Yes, Max, I’ve long been a fan. Ian Anderson – another master of perceptive, whimsical observation of the way we lived in the seventies and after. Their Christmas gigs were always a joy to watch. I think that they improved as the years went by and I particularly enjoyed Minstrel In The Gallery and Heavy Horses.
Aye, lot of time for Jethro Tull who were innovative and pleasingly strange visually. Fond of their singles Witch’s Promise and Sweet Dream which were unusual chart fodder. Benefit and Aqualung were good LPs too, but it went downhill with that dreaded thing: the ‘concept’ album, in their case Thick as a Brick.
Not heard much of their later stuff
Anyone like Tull?
I’m more than tolerant of them, yes!
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Jethro Tull were a real Marmite group – you loved them or hated them, but you cannot deny that the musical hybrid the group created was unique – and I’m still not sure the sound has ever been replicated since. “Aqualung” was my favourite, Moe.
You have to forgive me; I’m not a great follower of music any more (horses and kids have put paid to that), but how many of these prog bands are still going? Are the Tull? Yes? Alan Parsons? I saw a gig advert for second division rockers Uriah Heep the other day. I mean, Mick Box must be approaching his late sixties…
probably an association problem with Aqualung; I’d just hitched back from Cornwall [it was safe in those days] and had a lift in a transit with some bloke from Stafford..he then picked me up from my mum’s the next day and I stayed in a wierd house for a few days with him and his student friends..all I can remember about those few days was the fact that someone was playing Aqualung a lot and the cover of it looked a bit creepy; perhaps I’d better give it another go nearly forty years later [that many???!!!]
Aqualung is worth a listen, I reckon.
Sound’s an interesting trip Moe. Hitchhiking is worth a thread all on it’s own – a rites of passage just as extinct as progressive rock.
nope..tried it out on utube..too much talk about snot for my liking!!! oh yes; could probably write a book about hitching lifts….once hitched all the way to London to see a free Pink Floyd concert; slept all the way through it and hitched all the way back!
Went to see Genesis at Old Trafford last year. Last saw them at Knebworth in 1975 or 76 I think. They were fantastic but I have never seen so many fat balding people in old demin far to tight for them now. And that was just the women
Saw Genisis once, around the early 70’s, it was one of those penny concerts held at lunchtime in London. I think John Peel organised them but I’m not sure. I remember enjoying it but thats about all now. Peter Gabriel told a lot of stories before the songs. It was at the Lyceam theatre.
but how many of these prog bands are still going? Are the Tull? Yes? Alan Parsons? .
It appears (Wikipedia) that Jethro Tull are still going strong with original members Anderson and Barre. I notice ex-Fairports, Daves Pegg and Mattacks, have been members at times. Always thought JT were more folky than progressive; hence why I liked them
I dread to think how many other paunchy 70s relics are still out there bashing their moogs and twin-necked guitars, and its not a subject I intend to research.
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Jethro Tull ( in essence, The Ian Anderson band ) are another group I saw in concert during the 70s. Bought all their early albums. Love them.
Anderson is one of the most eloquent rock/pop communicators, and a great showman to boot.
They did change their musical style round about the Aqualung album ( my favourite), becoming less blues orientated and more inclined to towards a more folkier/rock sound. Songs From The Wood is a good example of their folkiness. as it were.
Oh, and I must just say that Thick As A Brick is a superb album.
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thanks for cheering me up over the past few days, guys; I’m off to Edinburgh tomorrow for a funeral; an internet chum who was one of the most amazing people I ever ‘knew’..he was called Alan Lear and he wrote a few things for Dr Who…wallowing around in a bit of nostalgia has really kept my pecker up! most grateful I am…..
Yep, an enjoyable stroll down Loonpants Lane
All the best Moe. Dunno how long you’re up in Auld Reekie but personally I find it a revitalising city, from the moment you hit Waverley Steps at the railway station
my people were fair and had sky in their hair…but now they’re content to wear stars on their brows
Not quite prog I know, but was anyone into that seriously reviled musical genre…Jazz Rock? If anything, with the exception of the completely self absorbed Yes, this was amongst the most experimental music ever.
Mahavishnu? Colliseum? That kind of thing. Groovy…
Best of luck in the far North, Moe.
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