Jethro Tull
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Guildedagain
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A Tull tale ;]
Tull in the 70's will always be my favorite band!
Guildedagain
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"See if you can recognize this one" ;[]
AcornHouse
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I was just watching the DVD of their German performances last night, including an early one of this line up. (Clive Bunker was my favorite of all their drummers.)
Ian has revealed, in interviews, why they settled on Jethro Tull. In the early days, with the original quartet, they went through a lot of names since they would play a club to less than critical success and, in order to get booked there again, they’d use a different name so the booking agents wouldn’t know it was the same band.
Jethro Tull was just the one that stuck when they were good enough to get a repeat booking.
Here’s their appearance from Beat Club in 1970. They tried to record another song, but Ian kept on getting muscle spasms from overwork. While they tried again, Beat Club overlayed their schedule for the previous 6 months where they only had 9 days off the entire time.
Ian has revealed, in interviews, why they settled on Jethro Tull. In the early days, with the original quartet, they went through a lot of names since they would play a club to less than critical success and, in order to get booked there again, they’d use a different name so the booking agents wouldn’t know it was the same band.
Jethro Tull was just the one that stuck when they were good enough to get a repeat booking.
Here’s their appearance from Beat Club in 1970. They tried to record another song, but Ian kept on getting muscle spasms from overwork. While they tried again, Beat Club overlayed their schedule for the previous 6 months where they only had 9 days off the entire time.
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AcornHouse
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A lot of that had to do with Ian and his whims. It really is his personnel toy. Nothing wrong with that since he’s the one writing the music. But when he convinced Martin Barre to leave, that was too much for me.
AcornHouse
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Here’s that Beat Club session where Ian has to end because of the pain and it lays out their grueling schedule.
I always really liked "Thick As A Brick". There's a lot going on in that song. I'm thinking of having that etched into my headstone.
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If you enjoyed Glen Cornick's bass playing in Tull and haven't already done so, check this out:
kitniyatran
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Just so happens that when Glen Cornick left was about the time I began finding Jethro Tull less and less interesting though I did enjoy Thick As A Brick at the time
JohnW63
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About bands changing a lot: