The best Jethro Tull tune the band never recorded

[Peegoo]

Every time I hear this I think "Tull," but after about five seconds I roll my eyeballs.

What a great band! All four members were monster players; Akkerman was shredding on guitar before it was even a word.

 

[MisterZ]

Focus rules! Focus 3 was the first of their albums I bought, even before I'd heard "Hocus Pocus".

 

[Chiogtr4x]

There was a song that got played in late '70's College radio station, by a band called HORSLIPS - that sounded just like Jethro Tull!
The progressive rock w/flute sound and the singer sounded like Ian Anderson

( never forgot that band name)

 

[Peegoo]

There was a song that got played in late '70's College radio station, by a band called HORSLIPS - that sounded just like Jethro Tull!
The progressive rock w/flute sound and the singer sounded like Ian Anderson

( never forgot that band name)

It was this!

 

[brookdalebill]

Focus rules! Focus 3 was the first of their albums I bought, even before I'd heard "Hocus Pocus".

Amen!
I loved those guys.
Jan Akkerman is astounding.
Smart, memorable stuff!

 

[brookdalebill]

Every time I hear this I think "Tull," but after about five seconds I roll my eyeballs.

What a great band! All four members were monster players; Akkerman was shredding on guitar before it was even a word.

Jan had a proto-man-bun, unless you count those Samurai cats.

 

[Chiogtr4x]

It was this!

Same band, I can tell, but it wasn't this song (.can't remember title, just the intro music...)

 

[Peegoo]

Akkerman is playing his Les Paul here, which he modified by sticking a Gretsch Filtertron in the neck position.

 

[Boreas]

There was a song that got played in late '70's College radio station, by a band called HORSLIPS - that sounded just like Jethro Tull!
The progressive rock w/flute sound and the singer sounded like Ian Anderson

( never forgot that band name)

I had two of their albums as I recall. Strawbs were another band from that era that I really liked.

 

[Chiogtr4x]

I had two of their albums as I recall. Strawbs were another band from that era that I really liked.

This '70's College station ( PAare, near Erie), also played some cool progressive music from a band called Crack the Sky , 'Safety in Numbers'
( kind of Pink Floyd or Alan Parsons, Yes style)

 

[dogmeat]

sorry... no. flute is not rock & roll

wheres the dancing leprechauns? a la this..

 

[BB]

This '70's College station ( PAare, near Erie), also played some cool progressive music from a band called Crack the Sky , 'Safety in Numbers'

I loved Crack The Sky back then! I had a Chapman Stick for a brief while ( a beautiful, but highly frustrating instrument) as my boss let me bring it home from the store. So, any band that used a Stick back then (Kittyhawk).

Back to Tull, I was a late arrival to the Tull love as they already had a few albums out...which I quickly bought.

Sometime in 1971.....just got my drivers license and was feeling free and ob top of the world! Got a call from a buddy down the road who said he had something I might like. So I stopped by and into his room we went...(which his retired, always at home parents would never dare enter....They had him later in life, so he was pretty much left to his own devices.) Anyway, after imbibing in a few hits of his select goodies, a few more friends came in (4-5 fellas in a small rambler bedroom filled with an odd odor!) and we were all yakking back and forth having a good time.

Rick handed me his headphones (which were very nice as he his parents really doted on him) and said "Man, you gotta hear this".

So on went the headphones and the room noise suddenly took quite a volume drop. Then, all of the sudden, out of nowhere some fella named Martin Barre is spitting out the most tasty, snarling, nasty riff and it changed my life at that moment.

50 + years ago and it's like yesterday.......Ba da da da dum dum.

 

[Flyboy]

Same band, I can tell, but it wasn't this song (.can't remember title, just the intro music...)

This one?

At one point the bassist had a shamrock-shaped bass, made by John Birch in the UK.

 

[Chiogtr4x]

This one?

At one point the bassist had a shamrock-shaped bass, made by John Birch in the UK.

Sorry it's not the song that I remember hearing although I'm hearing some pretty cool horse lips songs
The song I'm talking about started out with a flute intro and I think it might have been called pass the cup
Sorry driving right now

 

[ChicknPickn]

Every time I hear this I think "Tull," but after about five seconds I roll my eyeballs.

What a great band! All four members were monster players; Akkerman was shredding on guitar before it was even a word.

He violates one of the cardinal rules of modern shredding: he creates a melody.

Okay, I'm going back in my hole now.

 

[photondev]

There is nothing like the "real thing"