If you don't think Tull can sound this good live, you need to watch a performance of 'Thick As A Brick'.

Jethro Tull are a British progressive rock band formed in 1967. The group’s founder Ian Anderson plays flute & acoustic guitar & is the lead singer & quite a showman. They've had a lot of different members over the years. They had a lot of great songs such as "Thick As A Brick", "Aqualung", "Locomotive Breath", "Songs From The Wood", "A New Day Yesterday", "Cross-Eyed Mary", "Bungle In The Jungle", "Sweet Dream", "Life’s A Long Song" etc.",

If this is from Top of the Pops, it will be lip synched because no one was allowed to play live on that show. They had to mime to their own records, but I have seen this band live in the early seventies and they were magnificent. Ian Anderson's voice sounds like that live. He taught himself to play flute and one day (years later) his daughter came home from school and told him his finger positions on the flute were wrong. He has a damaged finger and just played the flute the way he could, the way it felt comfortable. There are no genres of folk music. It's all just folk music. Folk music players throughout history were not pretentious enough to have 'genres'. It's a style of music that has historically come from the common people, that's all. Jethro Tull does have some jazz influences in their style of music though. He also does a jazz style of classic by Bach called 'Bouree'.

@carolwolf9614

9 ай бұрын

Perfect comment my dude. Just perfect. Music of the common folk.

The Flutist is Ian Anderson, self taught, and the lead singer.

@fridaylong2812

Жыл бұрын

There was no autotune until the 90's. This IS Ian Anderson's real voice. I heard it in person in the late 70's. This song came out in 1972.

It’s got that exotic sound because the time signature is 5/4. Not many rock songs that have 5 beats.

JT, HUGE discography, the best in music, best in vocals, please visit all of their music!!! Folk, prog rock, just plain amazing music.

Jethro Tull is generally categorized as a progressive rock band, which draws on many genres to push musical boundaries and create what I consider the most interesting genre. You have not yet listened to much progressive rock, which in its prime lasted from about 1969 through 1980, but if you like prog rock, you will find many, many deep rabbit holes with warrens running in all directions. Some progressive bands you should check out include (in order of my favorites): Genesis, Yes, King Crimson, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd and Rush. The members of all these bands, except Rush, also have deep solo catalogs that are excellent. You recently listened to Peter Gabriel's 'Sledgehammer" and liked it, so I recommend you continue with him if you want to go down the prog path. His live version of "In Your Eyes" from 1993 may change your life. Peter was the original singer for Genesis who left in 1975, at which point drummer Phil Collins took over lead vocals. If you like "In Your Eyes," I suggest you go back to Peter's Genesis days and listen to "Firth of Fifth" from the 1973 album Selling England by the Pound, which has incredible drumming from Phil Collins. btw, Pink Floyd will blow you away. I will leave it to others to suggest Floyd tunes and other progressive bands. (King Crimson reaction videos are often blocked.) I think you might love prog. Enjoy!

Here is a real live song: "The Minstrel in the gallery" live Paris 1975. Ian Anderson both playing flute and guitar. As a bonus some guitar with Martin Barre also...

Thanks for checking out Tull! Ian never quit his game, he’s still plugging along but this was their era.

This is a live performance from the British TV Show "Supersonic" in March 1976. It is def not the studio version. Now it may have been worked on after performance but its not the original and its not lip sync. Like everyone is saying, this band deserves a deeper look. Try Cross Eyed Mary or Hymn 43, epic rock tunes with flute solos! Thanks for the reaction!!

I am a child of the 60's and 70's and these guys started as blues band (English)..he is madman on stage! Try Aqualung. It's English Folk. Trust your perceptions, your doing great. I have seen him in the rain. He can sound like that live. Thanks for playing this!

Tull are one of the best live bands.

dont forget that the video games drew their sound tracks from the back catalogs of pop music - so really, the game sounds like the band, not the other way around - but right, J Tull took British folk music as their model for a lot of the prog rock compositions

That solo at the end was beautiful

More Tull! Ian is undoubtably one of Rocks best frontmen and singer/songwriters! He’s not tired, watch this clip to blow your mind, “Thick As A Brick” MSG 1978 and “My God” Isle of White 1970. Saw Tull live and Ian is amazing!

Went to see them for the first time when I was fourteen and have been to see them 5 times scents then. I would go again if they came to Houston, sadly I don't think the tour they are on will make it to the states. Would love for you to do more. Enjoy

This performance is not lip-synched. All the effects are built live into the performance.

Oh that was so totally live! Listen to the LP track, then listen to this. It's subtle, but it's live.

" Living in the Past" was going to a hippie holiday week festival of primitive living...Ian`s rich voice has no tricks, those machines were far in the future at this time SO feel free to check out some more of their live act from Madison Square Garden...keep on rockin, Mugnify there`s a lot of our 70s bands who will rock your soul

👍 A giant long whistle...lmfao

Watch them do My God live and then see the stage performance. And yes this is live as can be. Jim

Magnify Tull stills tours heavily go check them if u got chance u won't be disappointed also u mentioned the flute sounds like a whistle try "The Whistler " of Tull album Songs From the Woods u will like

You nailed it. This is a mixture of old English folk and progressive jazz.

Genra is progressive rock, which was innovative, experimental and above all surprised you. it melded every music genre together from folk, Jaz, Blues Classical, along with western Music Asian, Middle Eastern, African Native American, styles. check out Genisis, Yes, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Jethro Tull, it was one of the most innovative times in music history.

They always played this one live differently "to make it more interesting to play." They evidently didn't like it that much but it was popular and made them a lot of money...

There was some kind of live music show on late at night, maybe on the weekends. This looks like it might have been one if those. Midnight Special, I think,

You might be right about the reverb. Jethro Tull, by the way is just a band name. J. Tull was the inventor of a piece of agricultural equipment, the Seed Drill.

Yes! There are vocal effects, but a pro live engineering crew can do that for a live recording.

Mate, you're working through the list of names and you're doing it right :)

The flange effect is from the song being digitally compressed.

They're not playing live, they're miming to the studio recording as was usually the case on 1970s music shows. More to do with logistics than the musical prowess of the band. Tull were a very good live band by 1976!

You're watching the Piped Piper of Rock... This guy's Pre-Auto-Tune... When TRUE TALENT was AUTHENTIC.

Was a telly show, he SMH over his vocals due to Unions really!

They were considered to be 70s "progressive rock" and the lead singer Ian Anderson is a musical genius

Live 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊yep😊😊😊😊

You’re correct. It was lip-synched. They weren’t playing live.

☮️💙💙💙🔥🔥you are right!! Ian hated lip sync!!!

A bit of India ....an exotic sound. It was popular back then. Similar to Cat Steven's. Do you hear the tonal cadence of the East Indian language?

This is live just a Reverb effect

I don't know what caused it but listening to this song here on this video made these cheap earbuds sound like a six thousand dollar stereo. Never had THAT happen before. Good reaction as always.

They didn't have layering of vocals in 76

Lad there are only two types of music Good and Bad ! This is obviously Good!!..

Living in the Past may well be the most ordinary Jethro Tull song ever: ordinary flute riff; ordinary vocal; ordinary lyrics. But Ian Andersen is anything but ordinary. I couldn't even begin to tell you where to start...well, maybe almost anything on the Aqualung album.... Or the live video of Thick as a Brick from London 1977.

Live for certain.Listen to the original studio version from a few years previous which is better in my opinion.

I guess they "lip synched" his flute playing as well.🙄😅

So many songs were a bit dark and "New Age " like back then.

About the time of the "death of Elvis?" Think about this: Elvis "died" on August 16, 1977. Voyager 2 launched on August 20, 1977. Coincidence? When V'ger comes back, it'll be asking about them blue suede shoes... (Caution: this is sarcasm. Not to be confused with any other alien/Elvis hybrid conspiracy coming to Earth to destroy its imperfect inhabitants.)

You are to much focused on who is doing lip sync dude. That is how music videos are done my friend.

@heliotropezzz333

Жыл бұрын

This is not a music video. They did not exist in the 1970s. This is probably taken from a TV show (such as Top of the Pops) which did not allow bands to play live music and insisted that bands mimed to their records on the show.

This isn't the best representation of Tull, they incorporate many different types of music and lyrically are one of the best

Jethro Tull...really hard to pin them down to one genre.... but really, the best of the best, however, I switched of when you focused on lip-synched, I am disappointed in your reaction to this masterful band.

lol lip synch