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Michael

So, I went to the Beacon Theater box office to see if I could find any decent (semi-affordable?) tickets for the Jethro Tull "70" concert in November.... Short version: No tickets left in-house, only VERY expensive 'platinum' tickets online... But he said that if I check the week before, some of the big block-buyers return what they can't use. I live nearby, so... We'll see.....

We'll see...

"Nothing is Easy!"

#JethroTull #Legends #Music #musica #musique #musik #ClassicRock

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Michael

A lunchtime diversion - late 60's/early 70's - FM Radio transitions and segues - A baker's 1/2 Dozen Faves 🎶

It began with the posting of a Fat Mattress (1969) song, which rang a bell. Fat Mattress has a tiny niche-of-honor in my memories and in music history. To me it was sort of a cross between early Jethro Tull (This Was) and Traffic, with the backbone of Noel Redding here.

The band - not coincidentally?! - also featured Chris Wood (Traffic) on the track "All Night Drinker", which makes perfect sense as another foggy memory is seeing Chris Wood fall off the stage, drunken... Oh, and Martin Barre (Tull) was in the band briefly, too.

This said, seeing the image of the album (which I have on vinyl, without the song which was posted - UK version) - set off many associations to the album and its context (1969).

And that brings me to an immediate short-list of tracks comprising 1/2 dozen of my most beloved songs for radio segues between or into/out of sets.

From the 1969 Fat Mattress album (in my 3rd hand as I type)...

"I saw a bird, flying in the sky... He looked at me, I wonder why..."

Pretty depressing actually, maybe reflecting Neil Redding's situation at the time, booted from Hendrix.
He doesn't even play the bass on this track (plays guitar).

"Context and Perspective!"

But before I forget, one more to add to this 'baker's 1/2 dozen' of 'easy listening' FM/LP fare, and favorite segues:

#music #ClassicRock #60s #70s #musica #musique #segues #JethroTull #JoeWalsh #BluesProject #SeaTrain #Beatles #FatMattress #BloodwynPig #musik #RockHistory

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Michael

As I look northward up NYS' Hudson Valley, with a wind tunnel 'direct to the Arctic' (it is said & felt on Manhattan's West Side).
This sprung to mind. "And so true"!

Cold Wind to Valhalla

It's been a while, and always a good time for Jethro Tull. Plus: "We're getting a bit short on heroes", and #ThrowbackTullDay

#Music #musica #musique #JethroTull #ColdWind #Valhalla #1975

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Drums, Percussion: Barrie Barlow
Violin: Bridget Procter
String Arranger: Dee Palmer
Conductor: Dee Palmer
Violin: Elizabeth Edwards
Flute: Ian Anderson
Acoustic Guitar: Ian Anderson
Producer: Ian Anderson
Lead Vocals: Ian Anderson
Backing Vocals: Ian Anderson
Bass Guitar: Jeffrey Hammond
Cello: Katharine Thulborn
Electric Guitar: Martin Barre
Violin: Patrick Halling
Violin: Rita Eddowes
Unknown: Robin Black
Writer: Ian Anderson

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Michael

Apropos, the hare and owl, kangaroo, & Jethro Tull too,
as narrated by Mr. Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond

JETHRO TULL´S "The Story Of The Hare Who Lost His Spectacles"

Maybe even a 'roo / "kangaroo word" or two too.

Definitely not Aqualung and a long way from Sossity or Thick as a Brick. But yet again, a story...
Whatever, all for need of a good optician. (or is it musician?)

🐰 👓 🦉 🦘🎶

It's a #fable #JethroTull #music #musica #musique #musik #story #HammondHammond #spectacles

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Michael

Because, (bla bla bla)... Just enjoy!

It's prime Jethro Tull, doing one of their greatest live songs.
It starts off quiet, acoustic and then blasted the audience out of our skins with the first power chord.
This here, a decent online sample of liveTull in the daze.... (and they're still cooking, with a new album out this week!)

Jethro Tull - My God (Live At The Isle Of Wight 1970)

#JethroTull #IanAnderson #IsleOfWight #1970 #ClassicConcert #music #musica #musique #musik

Jethro Tull - My God (Nothing Is Easy - Live At The Isle Of Wight 1970)
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Michael

Meanwhile, back in the year one...

3/3- (Part 1 & 2 posted as one... this solo to allow for display of vid + lyrics easily.
An old fave, as we go slipping away down music lane...

Ian Anderson - Skating Away On The Thin Ice Of The New Day (Orchestral Jethro Tull)

Skating Away On The Thin Ice Of The New Day

Meanwhile back in the year one
When you belonged to no one
You didn't stand a chance, son
If your pants were undone

'Cause you were bred, for humanity
And sold to society
One day you'll wake up, in the present day
A million generations removed from expectations
Of being who you really want to be

Skating away, skating away, skating away
On the thin ice of the new day

So as you push off from the shore
Won't you turn your head once more
And make your peace with everyone
For those who choose to stay
Will live just one more day
To do the things they should've done
And as you cross the wilderness
Spinning in your emptiness
If you have to, pray
Looking for a sign, that the universal minds
Has written you into the passion play

Skating away, skating away, skating away
On the thin ice of the new day

And as you cross the circle line
Well, the ice wall creaks behind
You're a rabbit on the run
And the silver splinters fly
In the corner of your eye
Shining in the setting sun
Well, do you ever get the feeling
That the story's too damn real
And in the present tense?
Or that everybody's on the stage
And it seems like you're the only
Person sitting in the audience?

Skating away, skating away, skating away
On the thin ice of the new day

Skating away, skating away, skating away

#IanAnderson #JethroTull #SkatingAway #music #musica #musique #musika

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Michael

Here's a nice one for Jethro Tull / Ian Anderson - YouTube gods serving up a nice set! In orchestral (and recent) mode:

Ian Anderson - Calliandra Shade (Ian Anderson Plays The Orchestral Jethro Tull)

I sit in judgement on the market square
I have my favourite table and I have my chair
Natives are friendly and the sun flies high
All kinds of crazy waiters – they go drifting by

Come, sit with me and take decaf designer coffee
Come, laugh and listen as the ragamuffin children play
Lame dog and a black cat, now, they shuffle in the shadows
You got cappuccino lip on a short skirt day

Hours last forever in the Calliandra shade
Conversation going nowhere and yet, everywhere
Kick off those sad shoes and let the bare toes tingle
Slip off the shoulder strap: loosen the thick black hair
Electric afternoon and shrill cellphones are mating
Lame dog is dreaming, dreaming of a better life
Where bed is fluffy pillows, table scraps are filet mignon
Flicked indiscretely by the lazy waiter’s knife

#JethroTull #IanAnderson #CalliandraShade #music #musica #musique

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Michael

And in the end.... (nope, not the Beatles)...

All in all, when you tear down the wall... Trevor Noah is happy and anyway, "we're all just another brick in the wall".
Unless we're not.

Bricks can be toys, building blocks, or replacement for brains, per Tull. As some in power remain so clueless.
"Your wise men don't know how it feels ...To be thick as a brick."

Thick As A Brick

🎧 Definitely a "headphone album", or for good speakers & volume. And time to listen and take in sound and words. Masterpiece.

--

Thick As A Brick
Really don't mind if you sit this one out.
My words but a whisper your deafness a SHOUT.
I may make you feel but I can't make you think.
Your sperm's in the gutter your love's in the sink.
So you ride yourselves over the fields and
You make all your animal deals and
Your wise men don't know how it feels
To be thick as a brick.
And the sand-castle virtues are all swept away in
The tidal destruction
The moral melee.
The elastic retreat rings the close of play
As the last wave uncovers
The newfangled way.
But your new shoes are worn at the heels and
Your suntan does rapidly peel and
Your wise men don't know how it feels
To be thick as a brick.
And the love that I feel, is so far away
I'm a bad dream that I just had today and you
Shake your head and
Say it's a shame.
Spin me back down the years
and the days of my youth.
Draw the lace and black curtains
and shut out the whole truth.
Spin me down the long ages, let them sing the song.

#rockclassic #JethroTull #music #musica #musique #ThickAsABrick

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