How can you tour aqualung without Ian? Hmm. Like Martin but ain’t Tull without Ian

@classicalbum

2 жыл бұрын

I don't he is claiming it is Tull. But to be honest with you, Ian's voice and the band he has now is pale and dire immitaion of the Jethro Tull I love.

@aliengrey6052

2 жыл бұрын

Martin is a nice fellow. Time has taken its toll on all of them. Shame there is so much animosity between them. Ian is not ageing gracefully in terms of his attitude at all.

@revelry1969

2 жыл бұрын

Understand ages etc. But can’t tour aqualung without Ian flute and voice.

@macfinnh

2 жыл бұрын

Dan Crisp, the vocalist in Barre's band, has a very similar vocal tone to early Anderson. In face, he sounds more like Ian than Ian does. Ian is using a stand in these days because his voice is in such rough shape.... I have seen Martin and his band 3 times and they have been much more enjoyable (to me) than the times I've seen Ian and his band.

@aliengrey6052

2 жыл бұрын

@@macfinnh thing is they should all stop. Martin Barre and Ian Anderson are now shadows of themselves. Same with John Bon Jovi. They are now bloody bores. I’ve seen them all when they were young and dynamic dynamite. It’s gone that magic and they don’t even realise it. Going to see a Rammstien concert in Cardiff and I’m sure it will be 100 times better.

Stand Up and Benefit are still some of my favorite Tull albums

@classicalbum

2 жыл бұрын

Great albums

@scottbassoff5800

2 жыл бұрын

Same here

@downhillblur708

2 жыл бұрын

My two favorites.

@paulinwoburn9680

2 жыл бұрын

I also loved the This Was album with Mick Abrahams.

@christophermoebs5514

2 жыл бұрын

@@paulinwoburn9680 me too also I have the first and second Blodwyn Pig records 😎

Mr.Martin"Lancelot"Barre is the hero of my childhood and his guitar playing is outstanding and superb. Every Tull album he played on it is amazing and to me he gave Jethro Tull the right input. His solo albums are really great stuff too and i dig them all. He accompanied me almost my whole life. In everything he has always remained very humble, a great personality.

@Jermeister12

2 жыл бұрын

Hey HP don't forget Ian Anderson said "I wrote every note of every song "that's so much Bovine scatology it's unfriggin beleavable 😀😀Listen to the AQUALUNG solo ,there is no way.

@c.a.t.732

2 жыл бұрын

@@Jermeister12 When did Anderson say that?

@Jermeister12

2 жыл бұрын

@@c.a.t.732 To tell you the truth I don't remember.I just know he said it. Sorry but that's the TRUTH.

@c.a.t.732

2 жыл бұрын

@@Jermeister12 I asked because I've read interviews with Mr. Anderson where he freely credited other members of the band with contributing musical material to various Tull albums. And if you look at the liner notes for Under Wraps (for instance), various band members are credited with the music from track to track along with Ian.

@Jermeister12

2 жыл бұрын

@@c.a.t.732 Ok ,maybe I'm wrong I just know I still love the music but I just can't stand Ian Anderson. I'm 1000% behind Martin Barre .Ian just gets on my last nerve.

Love hearing Martin’s perspectives and opinions. He nicely expresses what he likes and doesn’t like.

@papadopp3870

Жыл бұрын

It is very cool to see how he thinks. In his interviews, I always have to change how I picture his personality, I have my mental "stage" image of Martin and my "real" Martin from the interviews.

What a humble guy, Martin is. With his legacy, he still strives forward.

I won’t use the word underrated as it is used way too much on you tube but Martin Barre is certainly under recognized. He is one of the great rock guitarists for sure

@stevenaustin8274

2 жыл бұрын

Let’s face most of the world’s finest guitarists are not household names ie apart from other players who would know Lawrence Huber Martin Taylor Jan Akkerman

We saw Martin’s band last summer in Victoria Vancouver Island and was the best live show I’d seen in years…Martin moved and performed like a man a third his age…and Clive Bunker sat in for the entirety of Aqualung as a bonus. As a 72 year old man who first saw The Beatles at 13 that’s saying a lot. Brilliant show!

Brilliant interview- Martin comes across as very honest, open and a warm personality.

I believe, A Passion Play made them all better Musicians.

In contrast to other opinions - Tull without Martin aint Tull. No doubt that IA was the driver behind the band, songwriter etc but the contribution that MB made to that band was immense and one of the most 'under the radar' guitarists ever. I notice that IA, having 'denounced' Tull has released a Tull album 'The Zealot Gene'. I have everything that Tull/I.A ever released but I didn't bother with that - I.A is writing the same song (with a shot voice) over and over again. the last few times I saw Tull (with Martin), it was obvious that they were coasting, the same 'safe' set and I note that Martin is visiting Tull stuff that they never did! More power to him.

Lovely interview that Barry. Martin always comes across as a modest and charming bloke, whether on stage or talking music. His band are great live too. Really enjoyed that.

@classicalbum

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for listening

Stand Up is probably my all-time favourite rock album. The only possible competition may be Camel's Snow Goose. The atmosphere that those albums create is something else really. And an average listener like me doesn't give a **** about the music's naivety or imperfection. I know what I like.

@gianfrancodefrancesco7117

9 ай бұрын

I do agree with you considering Stand Up as JT best album ever...👍👏👏👏

@mikegray8776

8 ай бұрын

I LOVED Stand Up ! Had it been the first Tull album, I think it would have received universal acclaim and approval. But because it was SO different from This Was, it was almost viewed as a kind of musical betrayal. I heard Stand Up BEFORE I heard This Was, so it just struck me how brilliant and unique it was. And, for me, still is.

@AcmePotatoPackingPocatello

6 ай бұрын

Yes. Agreed. Benefit for me was #1 with STAND UP a close 2nd . Both albums are in my top 10 of all time.

Passion Play is by far my favorite Tull album. Would love to see Martin play it live.

@robertwoodward9231

2 жыл бұрын

Yes. Wow! I saw them on the Passion Play tour and it totally blew my mind!

I have nothing but immense respect for Martin. He is humble yet direct and always looking to develop his craft. I attended his concert in my hometown about three years ago and was utterly surprised to see he has lost none of his facility with the guitar. He had a great band and it was wonderful to see him up close after over forty years as a fan.

Martin still plays with brilliance, fun, energy, and love for the music. He's great live and I'd rather see him than 95% of "current" bands. I don't care whether what he's doing compares with what Tull was doing in the 1970s.

His guitar on We Used to Know is awesome .

@tullfan2560

2 жыл бұрын

Agree - his guitar playing was pretty awesome on everything Tull did. That burst guitar he does in Minstrel in the Gallery and parts of Broadsword and the Beast is superb.

@derwahreguetige

Жыл бұрын

👍👍👍🎸🎸🎸❤️❤️❤️

Hats off to Martin for restraint and humility on the Grateful Dead, a band I really like and saw live a few times towards the end of their time with Garcia. This typifies why it appears he is so respected- because he gives respect to others in his interviews.

How thrilling to see you interview The Maestro! I've seen his solo shows and his band sounds more like JT than JT currently does! Not that it matters, Martin's wonderful solo material ("The Meeting," "Stage Left," etc. stands on its own! Thanks, Barry.

Woohoo, love Martin Barre. Thanks for bringing this to us!

@classicalbum

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

"I'm very opinionated, but only in my own home. And that's where it needs to stay." Wise words that many people could take to heart.

I been following Martin for many years I got my style of playing through him in my opinion there’s nobody better

Benefit is the first Jethro Tull album I bought and To Cry You a Song was the piece that first caught my attention in 1970. I was totally unaware of Jethro Tull. When I first heard that song on the radio, I did not catch the name of the group. Something about it got me so curious about who the band was I searched until I found Jethro Tull and Benefit. Still my favorite Jethro Tull album. Still my favorite song by the group.

Fascinating insight into how Martin thinks and makes me appreciate him even more . A true genius and always was a major part of the classic Tull sound

Thanks for bringing the fabulous Martin Barre to our homes, one of the most underrated guitarists in Rock's history. He is fantastic. God bless you Martin

I seen Tull at the Alexandria Roller rink in March of 1969 and again in 1971 for the Aqualung album. Right after the release of Stand Up. I was floored by Martins playing. Being able to switch key and tone effortlessly. Today I can not recall the vocals. But the music plays clearly in my head. It was great seeing the band in a roller rink with a couple of thousand people. Where you knew most of them and the music was personal.

My first tull experience was when my cousin brought home stand up lp..who's tull?? Well since 1969.. stand up is to me the best and most quirky lp tull ever did..then I got to see them with gentle giant..the greatest concert ever seen..and Martin Barre the best guitarist I ever saw..thanks to mr.barre for the phenomenal music and what a great channel..Thanks for the music

King of the Barre chords

The great Martin Barre. Thanks for all your brilliant music I feel privileged to have seen you with Tull. Hope to see you with your new band in the UK. Cheers.🇬🇧

Wow - Martin's putting out a 3 CD album!

There are 3 guitarists who have inspired my playing, in order, Pete Townshend, Martin Barre and Davey Johnstone. Martin and Davey don’t get the recognition (respect?) they deserve from the general public but without the music created by these 3 amazing musicians I might not have ever picked up a guitar or smiled from ear to ear laying on my back in a dimly lit room reading liner notes. Thanks for this!

Martin's thoughts are very interesting, and they accord with my feelings about the old albums. Stand Up was great, and Benefit was even better. There was something magical about the guitar+bass sound of Martin and Glenn Cornick. Something was lost when Glenn left before Aqualung.

Martin is just the nicest, most modest, man imaginable - never utters a bad word about anyone - including about Ian, his life-partner for 45 years, who let him down very badly. Modest as a person, Martin has never had doubts or inhibitions on stage - and his input gave almost as much to Tull’s idiosyncratic creativity as Ian’s. OK, Ian did most of the “writing” but without Martins interpretations, arrangements and phrasing, much of the catalogue would not have worked nearly as well. (Thick as a Brick being a prime example.) I love Martin’s music, and although I mourn the passing of Tull, I think the split was actually (eventually) good for Martin’s creative soul. Every success for the future, fellow Brummie. You made my life just a little better.

I try to see Martin and his band every time they come through my area. I've met and spoken to him after a show. He is a super nice, approachable guy. Thank you for this interview I enjoyed it very much.

@classicalbum

2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure. Do check out my other videos.

@macfinnh

2 жыл бұрын

I do... I really like your channel

Really nice interview. I really wish, like a lot of people I suspect, that the Anderson, Barre, Bunker & Cornick line up had stayed together a bit longer. Benefit remains one of my absolute favourite Tull records. There are some odd sounds and effects on there but the songs are fantastic. Keep going Martin, love that you go back into the Tull catalogue and pick out long forgotten gems perhaps never played live.

@danclark3377

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed that Martin Barre very under rated. As Tull guitarist. His sound his leads his rhythm all precise and emotional

@tullfan2560

2 жыл бұрын

@@danclark3377 He's a great combination of steady guitarist sprinkled with exactly the right amount of tone and flamboyance.

@tullfan2560

2 жыл бұрын

Those odd sounds are fantastic too, particularly in 'With You There To Help Me'. Such a haunting, isolated sound. The message coming through the music is, "We don't care how unusual it is; we're going to make it work anyway!". Pure chutzpah and it works.

What a great interview ! You asked some really great questions, and you allowed Martin to answer, which is very rare by interviewers now days. they all seem to wanna talk over the interviewee, But your interview was really good. Of course there's always a question I would like to hear asked, but you know you can never get everything out there, but you did a really good job. I just want to say thank you for your knowledge of the band, and asking so many good questions...

What a nice man - and a great guitarist

He is such an amazing original musician....!!!! And a real gentlemen..!

Thanks for this, Martin is one of the greats.

@classicalbum

2 жыл бұрын

Couldn't agree more!

Excellent musician. Pleasure to listen to the insights of this old pro.

Wonderful interview with sharp questions. And really awaiting now the 3 CD package, Martin. That idea is smashing.

Great interview. Martin was just perfect for Jethro Tull.

love this interview with Martin.His live in NY cd is fabulous.

I thought it was so cool that after I got the album Aqualung ( ny first album), that I realized there were other albums, and that they were so different ... and then came TAAB ... WOW! What a group.

I bought 8 or 9 Tull albums from Stand Up on. ●Now at 70 years old I find BENEFIT and Stand up are my favorites. Especially BENEFIT ! Out of the thousand albums I've BOUGHT Benefit is in top 5. LIVING in the Past 3rd fav. I truly love the bassline....some of thee best eathy tone bass ever. Composition, structure, was superb by all other instruments. The songs had emotive balance of great beauty.

Saw Martin on tour a few months ago in Florida. Fantastic show! One of the best I've seen in the last decade. The band really seemed like they were having fun.

@classicalbum

2 жыл бұрын

Cool!

I would love it if they would do the entire minstrel in the gallery album, because I don't believe they ever performed Baker street muse live, and that's one of the best songs ever created by Jethro Tull. But Passion play would be phenomammal I would cross the country to hear That album

Yes was the first band I saw as a 15 year old in the summer of 1971. I thought they were amazing, but then the headliner Jethro Tull hit the stage and they were absolutely explosive opening with My God, made me a lifelong fan. One thing I always loved about Tull was that as powerful and virtuosic as they were, they came off as complete clowns onstage, unlike those slightly too precious bands like Yes who seemed almost overly sincere. The combination of Anderson, Barre, Evans, Hammon-Hammond and Evans was the best band I ever saw, and I attended all of their tours, they were magical. The 1972 Thick as a Brick concert was heads and tails above any other that I attended by any band.

@derwahreguetige

Жыл бұрын

Great Story ❤🎸 I'm Fan since 1970 in East-Berlin I anderstand your Emotions. Greetings from Berlin 👍

1. A Passion Play 2. Aqualang 3. Stand Up 4. Minstrel Gallery 5. Storm Watch

A living legend of a guitarist. Hoping to catch him in Ontario next month!

Attended a Tull concert 20 years. Martin was phenomenal.

I've been wishing that Martin would record some of his epic Tull instrumentals. happy to hear that it is happening

Excellent. I am so looking forward to seeing him in July. It is going to be great.

Thank you very much for the excellent interview.

So good to hear from Martin. Thanks for the joy you've brought with your art.

Exciting to see this. Thanks for the interview.

@classicalbum

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Great interview. Love the fact he referred to the "pandemic" as "Covid Shit."

Such a great interview. Thanks for this.

@classicalbum

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

I’ve seen JT three times the last show I saw at Red Rocks they had been touring relentlessly for months on end and they came out on stage being carried on gurneys. They kick my ass and everyone in the crowd as well… All three shows were different in what they played and the atmosphere of each show was amazing and exciting. Very good vibes throughout and they are so incredibly talented and creative and all the things… lol thank you, 🤓🎸🙏❤️🥓

Fantastic interview with an absolute legendary guitarist!

Benefit is my favourite Tull album. As a kid, I listened to it over and over again. I’m just about to get my ancient Uni ravaged copy out to figure the bum notes!!

The great Martin!. Loved the interview

Greetings from Venezuela! 🇻🇪

Yes and Tull. Wish I'd'a seen it. Two major faves.

Lovely to see, thanks Martin and Barry.

@classicalbum

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Martin what a great guitarist and a lovely man.

Great interview. Two lovely chaps.

We were enthralled with stand up and benefit!

Wonderful interview. Martin is such an integral part of the Jethro Tull sound.

what a lovely interview, Martin always comes over very warm and friendly and a very intelligent musician, the perfect partner for Ian Andersons creative genius. Barry as always is great. thank you really enjoyed this one

@classicalbum

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Loved the interview! Really hope that Martin and the guys come back to Brazil next year and give a shot at playing APP live! And totally support Darby Todd re-recording the UW drums, maybe Ian hears of that haha

Great to hear he wants to revisit his Tull instrumentals! Hidden gems.

God bless you, maestro !!!

Love Martin, could listen to him all day.

Ah yes. The lovely Martin Barre. I am thrilled to hear that he likes some of the material from Under Wraps. I agree that if the album could be remixed without the electronic drums it might make it even greater than it is. Count me in to get the box set or whatever set up he is working on. That sounds intriguing. Great interview Barry

That Martin Barre is a great bloke.

thanks Barry, as ever, a great interview with such a modest brilliant guitar player. Thanks Martin for your insights 👍🏻

@classicalbum

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Fantastic interview thoroughly enjoyed watching 👍

I played Stand Up and This Was repeatedly as I read Lord of the ring circa 1969. Brilliant match of music and literature.

Benefit is one of my favorite Tull albums, the overall sound of it, Martin's playing and sound, that album had a kind of dark baroque sound to it which I love.

Great interview. Jethro Tull are one of my favorite bands. I saw them most recently a couple of years ago and it wasn't the same without Martin Barre.

Love Tull and Martin Barre!!!! 😎

Great interview Barry!

Martin live ain't Tull but on any given night he plays, I can't imagine a better place to be. The original material on his solo and MB Band albums is very strong. Very.

Great interview...excellent interviewer!

In a way it's like seeing a Jethro Tull Cover band but with an original member of Jethro Tull when I Saw Martin and his band in February of this year performing all of the Aqualung album. It was good seeing Martin again who to me is an underrated Guitar player.

Take my money - I want that 3-CD set!

Saw Passion Play in 1977 or so . . . a performance par excellence . . . live in Iowa City and not in Hancher but the basketball sports hall . . . and listening to the CD, compelling, ethereal.

Mate, you are very cool to get these musicians on camera and interview. Good for you. Wow, how do you do this besides your impeccable reputation. I truly enjoyed this.

@classicalbum

2 жыл бұрын

I don't know, my channel has reach I guess.

@SwisstedChef2018

2 жыл бұрын

Great Guitarist

@SwisstedChef2018

2 жыл бұрын

@@classicalbum You bet , I love your show, your dialogue I am a music buff first class with an amazing collection never just go one style. (exception Rap, never interested me) my father was a crooner very famous in central Europe 50ties - 80ties. sold over 7. million records and did 17 movies, I grew up with music. I met so many, especially David Bowie. (RIP) your show is the BEST. Thanks for loving the music and bring all this to us. Wish I could have a pint with you , Music discussions never end. Great Music and good food keep us together.

@classicalbum

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, if you ever feel you want to join, the upper tier of my patreon get togther once a month for a zoom chat.

Benefit is such a great album.

Very good analysis of the music at that time. I saw them every year in Brussels, after every new album they came out. Genesis was like that, for Yes I had to wait until 1978 to see them live. Jethro Tull was the best live band I've seen reproducing the sound of their records. They were always funny too. If you see how everything then evolved towards greeting record companies and more predictable music, such a shame.

I wish Martin would play "Play In Time". AND actually figure out how to pull off the wacked out guitar break live. It would be otherworldly.

One thing of Martin's I really liked was his instrumentals he played on Ian's breaks. Trio Instrumental. That and others is as good or better than any other rock guitarist out there living or dead. If he could do an album of that kind of stuff without the dreadful vocals I'd buy it in a heartbeat.

Interesting point about SFTW, HH and Stormwatch - I've always grouped them in my mind as having a similar sound and similar themes.

Exciting to hear of all the future new and reconstituted material hopefully to be released in the near future - and great choices made by Martin. 'Under Wraps' played with 70's instruments would be interesting, I think Tull went a little too far with that one.

I agree with Martin about Benefit being a step-up from Stand Up because once they got John Evans to play keyboards and that seemed to allow Martin to play more melodic, as well as complex parts for songs such as To Cry You a Song, Nothing to Say, Alive and Well and Living In etc. It also allowed Ian and Martin to weave their parts together, whether Ian was playing acoustic or, as in To Cry You a Song, electric, along with the rich harmonic underpinning of Glenn's bass parts, which were so good.

Thank you

One big reason "Benefit" is better than "Stand Up" (though I love them both), John Evan

The "GREAT" Martin Barre!

Benefit was Tulls sound that was my Cup of Tull Tea..Saw them play Benefit and Stand Up material in '70 Red Rocks amphitheater Colo.Glenn Cornick Clive Ian Martin and John Evan

Martin's work on under wraps an A is about the best he did with the band