Show 17 - "Tull" Tales

[Rick and Roll]

A celebration of my favorite artist, Ian Anderson. All Tull all the time. 100% Tull. Tull in the saddle. Ridin' Tull. In Tull we trust.

OK let's get it started:

Beggar's Farm (This Was)
Back To The Family (Stand Up)
With You There To Help Me (Benefit)
Teacher (Benefit)
Mother Goose (Aqualung)
Witches' Promise (Living In The Past)
Hymn 43 (Living In The Past)
Up The 'Pool (Living In The Past)
Thick As A Brick (Side 1)
Paradise Steakhouse (Nightcap)
Bungle In The Jungle (War Child)
Two Fingers (War Child)
Minstrel in The Gallery (same)
Black Satin Dancer (Minstrel in The Gallery)
Salamander (Too Old To Rock and Roll: Too Young To Die!)
Quizz Kid (Too Old To Rock and Roll: Too Young To Die!)
Velvet Green (Songs From the Wood)
Cup Of Wonder (Songs From the Wood)
Acres Wild (Heavy Horses)
Rover (Heavy Horses)
Something's On the Move (Stormwatch)
Black Sunday (A)
The Pine Marten's Jig (A)
Slow Marching Band (Broadsword And The Beast)
Pussy Willow (Broadsword And The Beast)
Radio Free Moscow (Under Wraps)
Mountain Men (Crest Of A Knave)
Undressed To Kill (Rock Island)
Sparrow On The Schoolyard Wall (Catfish Rishing)
Thinking Round Corners (Catfish Rishing)
Dangerous Veils (Roots To Branches)
Hunt By Numbers (Dot Com)
Kelpie (20 Years of Jethro Tull)
Down At The End Of Your Road (20 Years of Jethro Tull)
Cheerio (Broadsword And The Beast)

No Passion Play (no time ) There's some great outtakes on Nightcap, but I played them on the first or second show. Tried to stay away from the hits, although Teacher and Bungle are well-known. May have to do this again sometime, there's so many to choose from!

An EXCELLENT choice of tracks Rickster.

I wouldn't mind sorting out the list for your next Tull epic. I reckon there would be a few surprises amongst them.

[Yesspaz]

So who's this Jethro guy?

[roger]

So who's this Jethro guy?

Beverly Hillbillies, right?

"let me tell you a story about a man named Jed..."

Originally posted by Yesspaz
So who's this Jethro guy?

He's a comic from the English West County of cornwall.
http://www.jethro.co.uk/
Dire!!!!!

[fonzy]

WOW! Rick you've done it again!.
Hell! As along time "tullie" (actually I'm getting the remasters at the moment) I'm very happy with the list. You are right, there are so many songs.....Baker st. muse, The third horah....The hare....nothing to say.....

Well done...gonna get a sixpack , my pipe, disconect the phone and realy realy groove.

"Take your time for instant pleasure/ Captain of the Cricket team.
Public speaking in all weathers/ Nighthood from the Queen!"......

[Rick and Roll]

Originally posted by fonzy
WOW! Rick you've done it again!.
Hell! As along time "tullie" (actually I'm getting the remasters at the moment) I'm very happy with the list. You are right, there are so many songs.....Baker st. muse, The third horah....The hare....nothing to say.....

Well done...gonna get a sixpack , my pipe, disconect the phone and realy realy groove.

"Take your time for instant pleasure/ Captain of the Cricket team.
Public speaking in all weathers/ Nighthood from the Queen!"......

Pontus you've mentioned 4 songs that are great. I wish I could play them all!

[lotus]

So an excellent choice, Rick, and I cannot hear it, not even the replay on Monday (travelling) .

Please, tell me, when you will replay it once more???

[Rick and Roll]

I've been archiving my shows....however this one I did not. I felt that most of the songs were on the Moon and I did not want to make duplicate files.

Since there are other Moonies who have suggested other and more Tull (Keith, Fonzy).....maybe I can do more Tull in a few weeks.

Let me know what you think.

[progdirjim(Admin)]

Originally posted by Rick and Roll
A celebration of my favorite artist, Ian Anderson. All Tull all the time. 100% Tull.
The Pine Marten's Jig (A)

When I saw Tull on the "A" tour (top ten concert of all time), when Ian introduced this song:

"You know, some of our music is kind of hard to play. A few songs are quite difficult. This next song is impossible. But we'll try it anyway..."

VERY fun to watch live - difficult indeed, but they pulled it off flawlessly. And I had excellent seats, considering I was in college and couldn't afford scalper prices - I camped out for tix at the Riverfront Colisseum Box Office in Cincinnati, even though I was going to school in Dayton at the time. Two road trips for one concert...

[lotus]

Originally posted by Rick and Roll
I've been archiving my shows....however this one I did not. I felt that most of the songs were on the Moon and I did not want to make duplicate files.

Since there are other Moonies who have suggested other and more Tull (Keith, Fonzy).....maybe I can do more Tull in a few weeks.

Let me know what you think.

Good idea Rick, I will wait for it....

[Rick and Roll]

Originally posted by progdirjim
When I saw Tull on the "A" tour (top ten concert of all time),

Seeing Tull is always a treat, although I've gotten somewhat disenchanted with them of late. Then after watching their "Living With The Past" DVD last night, I realized I needed some fine-tuning. Ian and Martin are headed towards 60, and they're still doing their thing. The band is still taut.

Besides the 1968 line-up back on a few tunes, the best and funniest part of the DVD is Ian intoducing "Thick As A Brick", stating how they were perceived as a blues band , then a blues rock band, then a rock band, then an art rock band, then a PROGESSIVE ROCK BAND! Making "concept albums" (then it flashes that in big letters)..I was ROFL. Then he says, for the next 8 minutes and 31 seconds we will be a progressive rock band, but for you it will seem like a bloody hour and a half!

BTW, the quote at the bottom of the post is from a Tull tune that will be on the show. Any guesses?

[lotus]

I guess it is "Thick as a brick"

[Rick and Roll]

Originally posted by lotus
I guess it is "Thick as a brick"

Nein.

That's one less song to choose from. Good guess though.....

It's from Quizz Kid.

And (Keithie gets into Spaz mode it should be "Splattered"

[Rick and Roll]

Originally posted by Keith Waye
It's from Quizz Kid.

And (Keithie gets into Spaz mode it should be "Splattered"

Correct! but my lyric sheet says "spattered". Sha do be shattered shattered

[fremder99]

I think I've mentioned this in another post... sorry to repeat myself, but maybe it's worth repeating... It's sorta typical of the concerts Tull put on...

The date, according to "The M of I" site was oct. 28, '72. The release of Living in the Past was only days away, and Jethro Tull came to the sports arena at LSU. The opening act was... Gentle Giant. If the Power and Glory album wasn't out yet, I think it came out soon after... They were really amazing! Not a loud band then; kinda understated, but musicianship oozing out all over the stage...

A long break before Tull. I walked around the concourse, to overlook the back of the stage. I could see the Minimoog (gearhead that I was even then...) and looked down behind the stage and saw a stack of folded gymnastics mats. On top was an gorilla suit... "Weird" I thought... musta been some "show" in here recently...

Soon enough the lights dimmed, and I could hear the acoustic guitar picking Thick As a Brick before Ian got on stage! "Holy sh*t!!" I says....

Well, quickly in the thunderous "riff" part, they stopped cold on a dime, and Ian stomped a foot switch, which caused a telephone sitting on a pedestal in the middle of the stage to ring. Ian pauses, walks over, picks it up.. "Yes.... yes... I see... I'll ask" He returns to the microphone, and says "There's a call for a Mr. K. Kong" and right back into the riff they dove, not missing a particle of a beat. While they "roared" on, a large gorilla comes gallumphing onto the stage, picks up the phone, and seems to carry on an animated converstation, and gallumphs back off statge...

The rest of "side one" carried on without interuption. It ended, cut to "tape" for the echoing end of side one, all house light went out. Only seconds later, a spot shoots down on a news desk, with a desk microphone, and a man began broadcasting news stories. They were right from the album cover. This included an interview of a 6-foot experimental "non-rabbit" and a bizarre "jam" involving each of the band members carrying a tiny cymbal on a stand and running around the stage while a strobe light (remember them??) froze their prancing in all sorts of stances and positions.

After 20 minutes (remember, side one was already 20 minutes long...) of these theatrics, the house lights blackened again, and the tape ran to introduce side two, which the band picked right up on cue. Side two was played straight through............

I, along with everyone else (~15000 seat venue) flew out of our seats for more than 10 minutes of standing O.... the band saoked it in, but there was no lull in the thunderous ovation. Finally, it began to taper off, and "quiet" was restored, as Ian approached the microphone.

"For our SECOND number..."

he announced, and was drowned out again by about 4-5 more minutes of standing O.... I barely remember much else about the show. A lot of Living in the Past was played, and This Was...

I left, a changed man!!

[roger]

thanks for that, frem! great story.

[fonzy]

Originally posted by Rick and Roll
Pontus you've mentioned 4 songs that are great. I wish I could play them all!

And you're playing 30+ great songs
Well..It only goes to show what great songwriter this Anderson guy is. Lovely show rick.