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Jethro Tull

Ian Anderson has been making music for over a quarter of a century. The band he went into the studio with was Jethro Tull but the personal was either different from album to album or something on a personal level was going on with bandmates from album to album that he had to take over their playing duties. Name your top 5 Jetro Tull albums.
1)Aqualung
2)Crest of a Knave
3)Benifit
4)Songs from the Woods
5)Stormwatch
I have been buying the 24 bit remasters which sound great but also the updated liner notes by Ian tell you what "Trauma" the band was going through with each recording.
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maril555
618 posts
 
My favorite band, I can listen to it anytime. Been at a live shows many times, and managed to see Ian playing with symphonic orchestra 3 times this year- absolutely outstanding.
My favorites are:
Living in the Past
Benefit
Aqualung
Heavy Horses
Christmas Album
and "Bursting Out" as a live recording.
qdrone OP
889 posts
 
I picked up Catfish Rising last weekend on 24 bit remaster and it has replaced Stormwatch on my favorite list. It also has as a bonus cut a killer live version of Jumpstart where Ian Anderson pokes fun at the grammies. The song Jumpstart is from Crest of a Knave the album that won for Best Heavy Medal Album over Metalica. At the closing rondo of this song everyone comes in and just before, Ian says jokingly "O.K. we have to get our Heavy Medal band up on stage to take this song home so please hold on."
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viridian
4,184 posts
 
No, no, don't take Stormwatch out of rotation. Tull is, priarily a visual band; the Stormwatch tour was teriffic. Saw them at Springfield Civic, they had an actual ship as a stage piece, with wind and rain and.....well you get the idea. It wasn't as good as the Thick As A Brick or Benefit tour, but still fabulous.
martykl
3,563 posts
 
Qdrone,

You get all-time obscure music stud for "Wild Turkey". I actually laughed out loud when I saw your post. If I recall correctly (highly doubtful) it was a pretty decent Tull knock off. I certainly never thought I'd ever even TRY to recall that one correctly!

FWIW, my five:

See Feil - same 5, same order.
rwwear
2,692 posts
 
Wild Turkey is original Tull bassist Glenn Cornick's band. They have recently gotten back together with ex-Tull drummer Clive Bunker to play a few gigs. Cornick was actually fired from Tull for no apparent reason.
www.j-tull.com/musicians/pastmembers/glenncornick.html
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