Good old Martin. Seems such a decent, humble bloke. Followed the twists and turns of Anderson's muse - joined a blues band, then found he had to turn his hand to all manner of things, which he did with great aplomb. A vital ingredient to Tull's success.

Martin was not the 'showboat' of JT..but he sure was the backbone. Such a fluid, tasteful guitar player. He deserves much more success with this topnotch solo band.

Martin Barre is one of the most underrated guitarist in rock history... He is the owner of countless recognizable riffs... Unique and his own man.

Today's January 14th 2020 22 I just saw the Martin bare band last night. It was really fantastic, like seeing early Jethro Tull, Maybe even better. If he even comes anywhere near where you are, and you can go see this band live, do not miss them. It will be a concert you will never forget I can't say enough to express how good this band is. you've just got to see them to believe it. KZread just doesn't even come close to doing them Justice.

Martin has lost nothing and Tull today is nothing more than Ian's solo band without him. I hope you're out there Martin for another five years at least. 👏

Martin such a master at using space between the notes.

@billfroberg245

6 жыл бұрын

Drumming Drummer Martin knows!

Great to See this genius coming out on his own with an excellent band!!! Jethro Tull is nothing without the great Martin Barre

@peterdevo-butler8939

Жыл бұрын

Totally agree 🎯

Always has been a Tone Monster on guitar..... Love his Tone...

Martin Rocks.. The Tone of Tull Love the Arrangements

Martin's vibrato ++ speed licks are intoxicating ⚡💥 True guitar hero🌟🌟🌟

The critical thing about the Martin Barre Band is it is not Jethro Tull, it is the Martin Barre Band, Martin and three excellent musicians having fun, doing what they want to do. If you want a Jethro Tull covers band, then go watch Tull, they even have a vocalist that sounds a bit like Ian Anderson.

Incredible rhythm player. Fantastic soloist.

It sure must be a treat to get to see a cutting edge Rock guitarist like Mr. Martin Barre perform

Barre is great, but the band and especially vocalist Crisp is also great!

Fantastic. Martin Barre was certainly the main part of the Tull sound and the main source of the harmonic content. His skill is completely undiminished, as great as it always was, totally natural, as though the guitar were part of his body. Wonderful to listen to and watch. Gives me chills. As a keyboard player, I think the one thing missing from this band is a good keyboard player. The organ always provided the counterpoint or backdrop to Martin's sound, like left and right hands. To me, it's conspicuously missing. If I were younger, I would volunteer. Hah.

Along with Danny Kirwan, THE 2 MOST underrated guitarists in Rock & Roll history. RIP Brother Danny !

Super cool rendition of Cross Road Blues!! Very original

Minstrel singer was fantastic.

Martin is the reason I bought a PRS guitar. Actually 2 . I love those guitars!!

@lfader

5 ай бұрын

Right off the shelf the most comfortable neck ergo guitar there is They can bite like a Les Paul or a super strat 👍 Edit: I've a PRS SE Custom 24 FR .... 🧨🧨🧨

Excellent... Martin Barre is pure class!

@Jermeister12

6 жыл бұрын

He is the reason I love J Tull so much

I just saw The Martin Barre Band live in Orlando at The Plaza Live and wow did they bring the fire !!! The band really rocks hard and the way they play the Tull material is phenomenal to say the least. I highly recommend seeing them live if at all possible!! The rapport that Martin has with the audience is fantastic !!

Wow, brilliant singing, totally did Minstrel justice, bravo. Martin also sounding great.

fantastic band... saw them 2 days ago at the great british rock and blues festival..... you have to put ian anderson out of your head and just listen... they'r great... wot can i say ... the more you listen...!!!

Just read that martin Barre was NOT invited to JT's 2017, 50th anniversary tour??? WTF? What a slap in the face to the man who was every bit as responsible for the JT sound as Anderson was. Without Martin Barre, JT would have been sentenced to obscurity and has been status. One just has to watch and listen to this piece and see the enormous talent Barre encompasses. IA, another icon with feet of clay......

@johncodling9805

4 жыл бұрын

Verbal diarrhoea

@rocksteady9115

4 жыл бұрын

IA is a genious musician but a complete twat of a human being

@javierllerena5756

3 жыл бұрын

Very disappointed on was what Ian Anderson as a person . The most genius musician ever existed my favorite band forever, but not to consider Martin even the old member as Perry , Giddings and Jonathan Noyce or D Pegg is a gesture of despise to the persons that gave Jethro Tull to be the best progressive rock band ever .

@Jermeister12

3 жыл бұрын

Well said !!! Bruce .You took the words right out of my finger.

@martinhayward4466

2 жыл бұрын

@@rocksteady9115 Megalomaniac even.

Oh I love Martin for his Playing!! The Blood flows through Tull...

Great version! Nice singer as well!

Superb! Nice vocal too. Sounds like Ian A of a decades ago but smoother. Thanks for the upload.

His guitar tone is to die for. He's still got those quirky little movements. I love watching him play.

Bloody fantastic

Martin is THE man!!!

Martin Barre band rocks the old Tull Playlist superbly. I wish the Ian Anderson band could do as well. (Just my opinion)

@justgivemethetruth

8 жыл бұрын

+Chris Hale When was the last time you saw IA? The only problem is the vocals ... but you have to remember Ian is almost 70 years old, so just think about how much energy it takes to play the flute and sing at the same time.

@vandoosel1535

8 жыл бұрын

+justgivemethetruth yep the vocals are only 1 of the many serious problems for Ians band. The songs are in keys now that dont even resemble the once great songs,checkout SFTW its a joke. Using a projector with guest singers filmed on it whilst the band waltz around on stage looking at the projector ,yep another joke. Using an actor (RO) to prance around the stage with a choirboys voice,yep another joke. A metal guitarist who is totally 'slaying' the songs once great solos,another joke. The list is endless. At least Martins band resemble a true band,the songs are played with conviction with no gimmicks

@justgivemethetruth

8 жыл бұрын

+van doosel The key of a song is nothing that makes any difference. Good musicians can change keys to fit the singing range of a singer, it just goes up and down ... I guess I am missing your point about the key not resembling the "once great songs" because when you change the key, the whole point is that is resembles the song perfectly, just higher or lower. Maybe you are talking about the arrangement? That is the one thing I still enjoy about seeing Tull/IA. The songs are often updated and re-arranged. Well, except the old standards that seem to be the same things played as far back as the 80's, such as Aqualing, TAAB, TOTRR, etc. I used to think it was fun to go to a concert and then be the first one to recognize the song. I just don't care for Martin's band's style, and the vocals. Jethro Tull music is not just a garage band, it is more of an orchestral counter-point with electric instruments, and Martin and band seem to miss that. That's why it is not as interesting, complex and layered as the original sound, plus the vocals are just hard to take. Martin ought to look up the guy on You-Tube that does the covers of Tull songs, Jack Hicko or something like that ... that guy can sing Ian's parts better than Ian.

@vandoosel1535

8 жыл бұрын

+justgivemethetruth hey dude scrape the thick mud out of your mutton ears man FFS. Some songs you can change the key and get away with it by maybe a semitone or you can tune down to Eb, Anymore and it becomes very noticeable and they are different songs. SFTW and Aqualung and Sweet dream as examples that have been dropped by more than a tone. Unfortunately they then dont sound anything like the origonals. Nothing to do with the musicians in the bands abilities,just the singer cant get anywhere near the origonal takes. Can you imagine Free playing All right now in a different key or DP playing Smoke on the water in a different key ,exactly dude,yeah you got it ,it would sound SHITE. Thats what we are up against here ,the songs dont even resemble what they once were like i stated. At least Martins band play the songs in the correct key, a massive PLUS Take another listen and you may get the difference.

@RemyTena

8 жыл бұрын

+van doosel You have not understood the meaning of "Rock Opera", generally in USA no one has understood that Rock Opera is not the same as a rock concert, in Europe it has happened something similar but at a lower level, in Barcelona where I was lucky enough to see the Rock Opera, tickets were sold 5 months before the concert, and the audience gave a round of applause for 5 min all standing at the end of the concert.

Nice Take on Vocals..Martin legendary

excellent ... Martin is phenomenal

Great band! Great everything, including drums.

muy bueno, excelente. me encantó

Great tone on that PRS guitar....both of them!

Great collusion there, Marty! We Tull fans love it all!

Thanks Remy this is brilliant! Your the best.Must be great to have Martin tour repeatedly in your country. Here he is coming to the U.S. Will have to travel thousands of miles to see him. Will give it my best to see him again. Who knows might be my last chance at seeing what I think is the greatest rock guitarist ever. Always dreamed of Martin in his own band since I saw him at 15. The brick tour. Thanks again for giving us all who follow you such gifts like this. Your the King of music!

@RemyTena

8 жыл бұрын

+Richard Brice You are going to enjoy a lot with Martin!

@slotcars9648

8 жыл бұрын

Nice cover of old Tull songs but Ian Andersen's vocal were far superior at his peak when Tull first recorded these songs. Martin Barre guitar work is as good as ever.

@vladimirkushnarev2093

7 жыл бұрын

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my first show ever was JT boston 78 , this Friday I will see MB in Oakland CA. 2019 ....love it !!

Acabo de ver un gran concierto..gracias Martin Barre..excelente banda

This is wicked good.

Wow! Great band! LoveTullAndBarre.

Dear Martín, what a great guitar player and what underrated !!! After 50 years it is clear the priceless contribution that has made to the music of Jethro Tull

Sounds great.

I say how absolutely spiffing !

Loved JT sence the word go & are my favourite band ..martin carries a large part of the soul of that band with his band..the band are great and improving..stay young Martin and band!..all the best

Martin's ever the improviser on the guitar, particularly on TAAB. I always quite like to listen to the slight changes in the riffs over time. It keeps the listening experience interesting.

Watching this again, and just want to say thank you Remy! For all the great music you provide me and the rest of the world. You were so kind to send me CDs of Tull when I was sick with cancer, thanks again! Your friend from San Francisco.

@bobbyhilda5880

2 жыл бұрын

Remy is great! I hope you had a successful recovery!

good gig caught martin in kinross a few weeks back,an awesome show,great guy signed everybody's no problem i'm only 20mins from san javier but never there when the festival is on maybe next year

Grandioso.

I absolutely love this! Martin Barre has always been one of favorite guitarists.

Just saw them in a small venue here in Virginia. Maybe 200 people. They still put on an awesome show

Martin Barre 2015-07-10 @ Jazz San Javier, Auditorio Municipal, San Javier, Murcia, Spain 01 Minstrel in the Gallery 0:00:50 02 To Cry You a Song 0:05:14 03 Eleanor Rigby 0:10:50 04 Thick as a Brick 0:14:45 05 Sweet Dream 0:24:14 06 A Song for Jeffrey 0:28:17 07 Smokestack Lightning 0:32:00 08 Back to Steal 0:36:54 09 Cross Road Blues 0:41:28 10 Rock Me Baby 0:45:42 11 Teacher 0:50:43 12 Fatman 0:55:45 13 A New Day Yesterday 0:59:57 14 Locomotive Breath 1:07:07 o Martin Barre - guitars, bass and mandolin o Dan Crisp - vocals, guitars and bouzouki o Alan Thomson - bass o George Lyndsay - drums

@emilioveronese

4 жыл бұрын

👍👍👍👍great!!!😉

What a joy!!!!!!!!!!! Y saw Tull in my teens and loved it. Brilliant stuff and so fresh in a world of over produced rock. Martin's playing is great. Thank you for posting this. Great and solid playing and singing too. Can't say enough good things..

Dan Crisp is fantastic just saw them in Florida, Barre's a genius great to keep the Tull going strong to a new audience .

Amazing guiraris mr martin

Top show, first class playing, great arrangements, immaculate drumming.....and on a "traps" kit. Look forward to seeing this band in the UK next year? Heavy up "Songs From The Wood" perhaps?....Maybe.......

this must tour the states- i gotta see this

Well tasty band Martin has here and what a super show. Equally as good as what Anderson is doing himself these days and very entertaining and enjoyable stuff. Super post chap and I will certainly be looking into Mr. Barres stuff for sure. This totally Rocked.

I had a recording I think from Capital Radio sometime in the 1990s when Ian and Martin were interviewed on a live phone in show to which I called. Ian said that he would not be able to go on if he were without Martin. Turns out even Martin was disposable but what we get now is dross.

Ian eterno!!!!

Wow.

Martin made Tulls sound Epically Original.and I know wasn't recognized for his collaboration with Ian getting all writing credit..as well as Glenn Cornick via intros and solos in Bouree arrangement and Living in the Past..it O.k....its obvious to the Fan's..

@leonarddaneman810

3 жыл бұрын

Didn't Barre win 'Guitar Riff of the Year' once? And, 'barre,' . . . perfect name for a guitarist.

You have to put Martin Barre up there with the best Guitar players!! His sound is amazing!! Ian anderson would have been nothing without Him. Period. He brings that "old england" flavor with Raunchy. riffs and down and "dirty sound.

@justgivemethetruth

3 жыл бұрын

> Ian anderson would have been nothing without Him. Oh really?

@javierllerena5756

3 жыл бұрын

Completely agree with you . Jethro Tull is over, the prof is Ian Anderson band is nothing now , the Martin Barre band sounds more Jethro Tull style than Ian band . Jethro Tull was Ian Anderson, Martin Barre , Andrew Giddings, Doan Perry and Jonathan Noyce , Dave Pegg . Without any of these member there is no Jethro Tull.

@RemyTena

3 жыл бұрын

@@javierllerena5756 Glascock, Palmer, Evan, Cornick, Bunker, Barlow, Allcock, etc etc They are all part of Tull history, but without Ian there would be no J.T

@Jermeister12

3 жыл бұрын

Really!!!

@tabathastaples7884

2 жыл бұрын

Shepherd's Chapel Network !!!!!!! Chapter by Chapter / Verse by Verse !!!!!!!

Wow

veri good !!

Hey Ian..look who kicks Ass...Ol Marty

Looking forward to MB on Cruise to the Edge.

Dan Crisp has an amazing voice!

Mr.Barre, is 1 of best never got Recognized by mainstream media n music industry! Tull fans know Better! I.A. personal angst by himself! Not Tull no Mo! R.W.396

I have a Jethro Tull T shirt. Look for me at Moe's Alley on Sept.3 , 2017. Santa Cruz, California. Flutist Jan.

This is the shit........glad to know our old bands keep the flame lit........😶.......A PLUS.

kiitos teve H.A

Martins Singer has a Cat Stevens tone to his voice.. Work's

Marty's PRS sounds very nice.

Thanks Remy! Kudos! They are coming to my town! 1mile from my home! Awesome! 4/22/16

For a moment there I thought that was Andy Kaufman on vocals!

@MyVeryHappyDay

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like Tiny Tim.

Ya... Ian anderson is a fantastic talent, But Martin barre was the icing on the cake!!

Nice to see Martin finally got a haircut, doesn't look like Krusty the Clown any more.

This says everything I need to know about Paul Reed Smith guitars....................😶

@robinreiley1828

3 жыл бұрын

I played a '76 Les Paul Deluxe for decades, but when my old drummer let me play his PRS MvCartey model in 2005, I was blown away by the tonal range and the action!

23:40: First I thought he might be talking about Ian (yikes!!)--but it must be Terry Ellis he's referring to...if indeed he is referring to a specific individual...

Martin's Band kicks Ian's folk band...still Rock's NOW

Dan Crisp? Just wait a minute... This guy can sing anything nicely!

@Jermeister12

6 жыл бұрын

With all due respect to Mr.Anderson. Dan Crisp makes Ian sound like he has strep throat.

@MyVeryHappyDay

4 жыл бұрын

jerry hardage not in Ian’s prime. This guy is average.

Lord-they found a guy who sounds much like Ian Anderson.

@MyVeryHappyDay

3 жыл бұрын

Are you freakin kidding. Tiny Tim is terrible!!!

@MrDino1953

2 жыл бұрын

He sounds nothing like Ian, more like Peter Gabriel. I don't find his singing voice nice to listen to.

John Cleese on vocals :)

great tallents should create thier own sound

Miss the sound of the Hammer or the Les Paul... not as beefy... thinner sounding... could just be the mix. Damn nice to see Martin the original still owning these songs though :-)

PS practice off the original vynals still have them .lol

Dan Crisp on vocals

Ian Anderson, in interview, once said that "without Martin, there would be no Jethro Tull" How true -now that Ian's voice has gone, he would have been wise to "keep" Martin, at all costs because Martin is just as much the sound of Tull as Ian is - as this set shows, VERY CLEARLY. This vocalist doesn't sound like Ian - because he isn't Ian - but he does a bloody good job, on the Tull numbers and sings them better than Ian can NOW. The thing is Ian just doesn't sound like like Ian anymore! EAT HUMBLE PIE IAN - YOU NEED THE OLD BAND - BUT YOU "REALLY" NEED MARTIN!!!!

Not feeling the singer - no I'm loathing the singer. That's just my own grumpiness. But Martin is Martin. He is a beast on guitar. Anything with him playing on it is worth hearing.

I think it is sad to oppose Martin and Ian, more that they want (not my busimess anyway, don't have to choose one side or the other in a "marriage" that worked for so long...). I like them both, and the re-interpretation of JT they make...

Where did he find that "singer "?

@qdaveq6597

3 жыл бұрын

Devon.

This ain't half bad...

I last saw IA during the last swing of what was called Jethro Tull: IA, MB, Perry, Goodier, O'Hara in Springfield IL. I could barely make out his failing voice. His flute playing was fine with an occasional one legged stand. I was struck by how many songs had to be transposed into a singable (?) key. Martin Barre was phenomenal and brought the house down on Locomotive Breath. Perry was tight and precise on drums. The new boys O"Hara and Goodier were adequate replacements but boring compared to Jonathan Noyce and Andrew Giddings. After purchasing TAAB2 I was not impressed to spend $70 to see the TAAB1 and TAAB2 tour. HE was so bad I didn't even purchase it. I appreciate that Ian still has energy to record what he wants and perform with whomever he wants. His flute is still a rock n roll instrument. But the interplay between IA and Martin Barre is sorely missed.

@justgivemethetruth

8 жыл бұрын

+Chris Hale Do you have perfect pitch or something ... who cares about what key a song is it, the relationship between the notes are the same. The only reason to care about key is if you are going to play along with an instrument that is tuned to a key that makes it hard to play in a given song, then you transpose it. I agree with you that the albums are still very good. I am recently relistening to TAAB2, and I find I really like it much more than I did when it came out. It is really a great album. Originally I thought it was kind of clumsy and derivative from his other stuff ... with snippets of TAAB. I saw the Homo Erraticus tour last year, and it was pretty good, with the normal comments. Florian is like half of a Martin Barre ... what he can't play he just kind of guitar-mumbles through. The arrangements have been simplified ... but it is hard to blame the players, as other musicians have said, Jethro Tull is complex music and it is hard to know every song of the hundreds that IA has composed. Doane was a superb drummer. I remember seeing the Divinities concert, and there was never a better concert musically, they got every single note right, and Doane's drumming was just perfect. To me at least Martin still looks very healthy, but Ian is overweight and appears kind of sickly. Someone posted something somewhere who said he knew someone who traveled with the band and that Ian is a really sickly person - that he got sick or was sick through practically every tour. Ian should take up vegetarianism and get some exercise, I really hope he is around for a very long time. I don't think I could knowing that there would be no more Tull or IA. For the albums, I don't think it matters who plays, because I think it is all arranged by Ian with Ian's perfectionistic tastefulness, but in the interpretations of older songs in concert, it is a jumble that I don't particularly care for any longer, but I occasionally see because it's fun to hear the new pieces, or slight rearrangements of old songs.

@qdaveq6597

3 жыл бұрын

@@justgivemethetruth Different keys can have a significant effect on the character of a song.

@justgivemethetruth

3 жыл бұрын

@@qdaveq6597 Key means the basic root frequency, I think you are talking about scale, such as major, minor, and different modes. Key simply means playing everything some number of half steps or whole steps up or down.

@qdaveq6597

3 жыл бұрын

@@justgivemethetruth I understand your point, but I am referring to key. A tone or semitone may not be particularly noticeable especially in a live setting, but beyond that key can make a big difference. This could be to do with the timbre of the instruments, or that certain songs just seem to suit particular keys. As an example, to accommodate a singer's range, I used to play Disco Inferno (I know...) in G rather than C - the whole character of the song changed. There are some interesting theories about the inherent character of particular keys - for example, some say that E major is particularly bright and lively, whereas D major is more solid and stern. A little abstract perhaps, but I think there's something in it.

@justgivemethetruth

3 жыл бұрын

@@qdaveq6597 >> As an example, to accommodate a singer's range, I used to play Disco Inferno (I know...) in G rather than C - the whole character of the song changed. I think that is your subjective illusion.

Top band! They blow away fake tull with no Martin and no Doane

@andershafsmo5007

8 жыл бұрын

Hmmm- The significance with Anderson is that you never get his stuff out of your head- weather it´s new or old material- Keep´s on popping up in the head all the time; and can´t stop it- Nevertheless, Doane deserves a lot of credit, and Martin is the greatest :0)

@AK99581

5 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately Ian comes off as the "bad guy" during this whole debacle. Ian's been ditching musicians his whole career when they don't serve his purposes anymore...he did it to Glenn Cornick, he did it to John Evan, he did it to John Glascock, and finally he did it to Martin Barre and Doane Perry. Don't get me wrong, Ian is one of my favorite musicians of all time and I am grateful for all of his great music over the years, but he kind of comes off as a bit prickish and egotistical, like he always has to pull rank and prove that Tull is his band and he can do whatever he wants with it. Maybe he can, but it makes him look bad.

Martin is just as great as ever. Drums are thin. Vocalist hits the notes with a bit of spirit but nothing even close to Ian - the phrasing for one thing - and the natural impishness that is so unique to Anderson for another. And I miss that flute - not the same without. Yeah I know, music is re-invented over the course of time. Still. Flute. Just saying. The Moody Blues aren't the same without Ray either. Debating on going to see the band in Denver on 9/9/17...probably won't...I have such grand memories of dozens of their shows in their golden age...I think I'd rather keep those close to my heart and unspoiled. All the same, glad Martin is playing and playing so well.

Superb performance from a superb 'real' band,Ian's band are crap in comparison

Martin and Ian must be together. Sad when original members are longer together. Somehow there's a missing link and is never complete. Just saying.

@martinhayward4466

2 жыл бұрын

Ian called it off in 2011. Quite like Martin's interpretation of his Tull songs now. The magic of Jethro Tull will live on with their musical legacy. We had plenty of good years.

Not keen on the vocalist but doing a better job than Ian at the mo.