Ian Anderson is a true storytelling bard, a medieval minstrel

@dizastro5437

3 ай бұрын

Live shows are his natural ass. Lucky to see it

“Thick as a Brick” means “Stupid” or “dumb as dirt” The singer is Ian Anderson. The Band is called Jethro Tull not any of the members.

Ian Anderson is the Scottish storytelling bard. This was released a lot earlier than the song they won the grammy for.

It's not a cover. He made a joke about Led Zeppelin because in their early years they happened to tour together

Better than anything that Metallica ever even hoped they could do. As musicians, Metallica can’t even come close to this band. ✌🏼😎🇺🇸

He has been referred to as the Pied Piper of rock & roll so many times. This band has extreme talent & they are very intelligent. Thank you for sharing.

In 1967 Ian Anderson decided he was never going to be as good a guitarist as Jeff Beck or Eric Clapton or Jimmy Page so he traded his Strat at a pawn shop for a performance mic and with the left over change he selected a flute. He'd never played flute, messed with it some and set it aside for a few months. Picking it up again he managed to get a few notes out of it and more or less taught himself to play while doing gigs. So when Jethro Tull was signed to a record contract, he'd been playing flute for maybe 6 months. Fun fact, the guitar he traded in for his mic and flute had previously belonged to ... Lemmy. So, there you go, full circle metal legend.

@dogstar75

2 ай бұрын

Another fun fact: Ian re-learned the flute when his Daughter, who had trained as a Flautist, saw him play and noted that his finger positions were mostly incorrect. His Daughter is married to Andrew Lincoln, Rick Grimes in The Walking Dead.

This is just a small snippet of the amazing studio version, which is about a 44 minutes long in 2 parts. Also, this song came out in 1972. The album that beat Metallica came out in the late 80s, so you can't make comparisons with this song.

Ian was a great friend of Lemmi. Beating Metallica was none of Tull doing or caring. He's still playing and hes 75. He's loved because his music is so good!

"oh! its a cover !" That speaks volumes. Learn on my friends!. It's interesting that Ian and the boys are from Britain and chose their British roots to explore rather than seeking the american press approval by following the trend of the day, specifically black american blues and then hair / unisex rock then metal which they NEVER claimed to be. They dabbled in HARD Rock AKA Progressive rock. So good to see after your laughing died out and the ears opened up. For your homework do 3 shots and lissten to the full song on vinyl, all 42 minutes.

You simply can’t judge by this song how heavy Tull could be. Crosseyed Mary, My God, Locomotive Breath, all heavy as hell. Between Metallica and Tull, Tull definitely wins!

@thefunkybuddha69

2 ай бұрын

Tull wins with talent but not as a "metal" band. Sheer mis-categorization by the Grammys. That award belonged to Metallica.

@Rassskle

2 ай бұрын

​@@thefunkybuddha69 Many of Tulls live performances are extremely HEAVY and often utilise sections of metal style guitar etc. Just because a band is talented enough to play all styles of music from jazz, to classical, blues, rock, folk, middle eastern and sometimes METAL doesn't mean they should be barred from musical awards usually preserved for one style, one dimensional bands. If you want HEAVY and Metal then you should only listen to Tulls LIVE performances. If you want HEAVY flute then either LIVE My God, Locomotive Breath or Hymn 43 are the go...... best live versions are from about 1971 to about 1979, maybe early 80's. Before 1971 was not very good and after the early 1980's Ian's voice was shot, although he is still performing well musically but shocking vocals. lol

@thefunkybuddha69

2 ай бұрын

@@Rassskle Yes, I know and you are correct. I own a few if their albums, seen them live (for the actual tour when they won their Grammy) and have listened and watched many of their live performances via friends' VHS tapes and now here on KZread. The problem is in 1989 The Academy (Grammys) recognized hard rock music artists, which included Tull, for the first time along with the new category Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance Vocal or Instrumental, combining two of the most popular music genres of the 1980s. The combining of these categories caused the problem. Jethro Tull is primarily a "progressive rock band" and they should have been considered for a Grammy in a more appropriate category. Metallica is primarily a "metal" band and would likely have won Best Metal Performance if not for that mistake. The Academy is to blame for not understanding the nuances between the many genres of rock.

Best front man ever!

@devonvergiels5185

5 күн бұрын

Anderson has been my absolute favorite front man for knocking on 50 years. There will never be the voice, the sound, the musicianship. Absolutely the best, Ian.

Band is jetro Tull lead singer is Ian Anderson

"Thick" means dense, stupid in this scenario. Ian is the Hendrix of the flute. Also one of the best voices in music, period.

The backstory of the Grammy was that in the early days of prog, the chief editor of Rolling Stone, Jann Wenner (Rest in piss,) absolutely hated hated HATED prog and anything even closely related, and he had so much pull in the awards industry that prog bands were kept out of the Hall of Fame and none of them.ever got nominated for awards. Fast forward to 1989, they create a Grammy category for metal, and they nominate Tull for their new album, and as a kind of backhanded apology to Tull, they win the award. (Side note is Jann also hates metal, which is why Judas Priest only got in the RRHOF through the old sideman's award and Maiden still isn't in.) Also, this is a tiny medley of the song. The full song is 45 minutes! 45 really fantastic minutes too. It makes fun of all the prog rock bands and concept albums.

@gingerbaker_toad696

3 ай бұрын

That makes too much sense :( every Rolling Stones best of list is just uneducated nonsense. It's just ridiculous. And some of the best bands of all time either got into the Hall of Fame way too late or didn't get into the Hall of Fame at all until now

This album was released in 1972 well before "thrash metal" was invented and was considered rock, the album that won the hard rock/metal category was released in the 80's. Jethro Tull started as a Blues band in the late 60's, moved into rock, then Progressive rock, their own version of folk, and just keeps changing to this present day.

Some Tull FYI: - The Grammys combined Heavy Metal / Hard Rock into one category that year. Technically Tull won under the Hard Rock vote for their "Crest of the Knave" album (1987). Ian Anderson stated they should not have won for Hard Rock, insisting they are a Progressive Rock Band. - The Led Zeppelin reference was a joke. The two bands toured together in the past. John Bonham, Drummer of Zeppelin, once stated that Tull's drummer Barriemore Barlow is THE BEST DRUMMER EVER from England. - "Thick as a Brick" was a 1972 album consisting of one long 44 minute song in two parts on vinyl. It pretty much means "thick headed like an idiot". - Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath was part of Jethro Tull for a couple of weeks. This includes a live performance on "the Rolling Stones Rock'n'Roll Circus". Iommi credited his time with Jethro Tull with teaching him the importance of hard work and dedication, as well as the value of writing one’s own material. Iommi also credits his experience with Jethro Tull influencing the development of Black Sabbath. He took the knowledge he gained to help influence the Sabbath sound. - The band Rush were huge Tull fans. Geddy Lee once stated if he could build his perfect dream band then Barriemore Barlow would be his drummer (not Neil Peart). - Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits grew up a huge fan of Tull's guitarist Martin Barre and modeled his own guitar style after Barre's. - The song “Hotel California” by the Eagles was influenced by Jethro Tull’s song “We Used to Know”. The similarity between the two songs is in their chord progression and structure. Ian Anderson, leader of Jethro Tull, mentioned the Eagles might have been subconsciously influenced without realizing it from when the two bands were touring together in the 1970s.

Jethro Tull was my favorite band for over a decade, right up until I discovered Tool. p.s. It was the "Crest of a Knave" album that beat out Metallica. "Thick as a Brick" was years before that. Ian Anderson is one of the all time great front men.

When I saw Tull eons ago, there was a stool with a phone on it in front of the band for the whole show. At the end, the phone rang. Ian Anderson picked it up, held it out to the crowd: "It's for you," he said. Brought the house down.

@richeaton5752

2 ай бұрын

The phone rang after around 40 or so minutes of A Passion Play. "It's for you." "Now, for our second tune, Thick As A Brick."

Please don't hold it against them for that award. It wasn't their fault they won it. They're a great band. A ton of great songs, and two masterpiece albums, Aqualung and Thick As A Brick!

I never thought I would see the day that you would both sit through this prog classic! Loved it, well done, and thank you.

As a young teenager, I stood right under Ian Anderson on the front row. Quite the presence, ha! But, he was an incredible musician as well. He was like an exotic tartan clad stork, balanced on one leg. Musically, this was a complex band, for sure.

@johnwriter8234

3 ай бұрын

Saw his concert in Detroit, 1976 .. WOW!!

@metheus108

3 ай бұрын

In the late 80s, my younger brother was a teen working as an intern for the local rock station. On one Tull tour, my brother got his flute book (he played flute and idolized Ian Anderson, including playing a lot of flute on one leg) signed by the band and the next tour he actually got to meet Ian. It was a highlight for my brother!

Fun fact, for a 4 week period in 1969, Tony Iommi joined Jethro Tull as guitarist. At the time Jethro Tull were already a big band and Earth (Black Sabbath) hadn't broken out yet. Tony only lasted 4 weeks before he decided he wanted to go back to his own band, but what he learnt in that 4 week period shaped the way he led Black Sabbath. There's actually a filmed performance of Tony playing with Tull, from The Rolling Stones Circus film. Ian Anderson and Tony Iommi are still friends to this day.

@BromleyBoy2611

3 ай бұрын

Wow man I'm a huge Black Sabbath fans and I enjoy Jethro Tull as well. But I never knew that is wild what kind of music was that sounding like😮

@circulation69

3 ай бұрын

@BromleyBoy2611 it was early Tull. In the short time he was there he only contributed to one song which I think was "Living is easy" (I think, but happy to be corrected). On some of the Sabbath documentaries available it does mention this. I recommend the Paranoid "Classic Albums" documentary where I believe it is mentioned.

@broothan

3 ай бұрын

@@BromleyBoy2611 google for help bruh ))

Guys, I have never called you out before and I'm not even a Tull fan (Ian Anderson) but you are so wide of the mark with this reaction. I'll leave it to the other comments to explain why. Please just listen to the music for what it is, understand when it was made and don't jump to conclusions. 'Living in the past' is one of JT's best known songs. Scolding over! Still love you.

@metheus108

3 ай бұрын

If they react to "Living In the Past" then they need to react to a live version or the version from the 20 years boxed set. Or as Ian's intro on the box set version goes "this is a song that we utterly loathed for 15 long years, but now its back in a slightly more tricky form"

FYI when the song was written, "Thick as a brick" was a phrase meaning stubbornly dumb, as one's head is so thick that no new thoughts can enter it. Changes the meaning of the song.

No, the ORIGINAL metal was "invented" by Deep Purple in 1967... The band Jethro Tull is very much deserving of their metal award! This was not their only song. Though they are not primarily a heavy metal band, they have released some seriously heavy tracks! Check out their album "Crest of a Knave" from 1987. The term "Thick As A Brick" is English in origin and means STUPID! For example - "Donald Trump is as thick as a brick!", meaning "he doesn't have two brain cells to rub together..."

@rokkkrinn2793

3 ай бұрын

Seems like Biden doesn't either.

I’m sure it has been said but the full length of this song is actually two sides of an album and is just one song with many parts. This is the short version of the song

I first heard them aged 12 at a friends house, very different from what I listened to at the time, ELO, The Sweet and Supertramp!

I love Jethro Tull. One of the prog rock founding fathers. Up there with Yes, Genesis and ELP. Thier rotating line-up of musicians over the decades were some of the best of the best out there as well. Grateful I got to see them in the 90's. One of the best shows I've ever seen. Ian hadn't lost any speed off his fastball either. He's not a frontman. He's a showman.

I think thick as a brick is a polite, UK way of saying, "you're stupid." Don't shit on the flute, AC/DC is still a kick ass rock n' roll band when they break out the bagpipes.

@craigplatel813

2 ай бұрын

It's not just a UJ phrase. I've heard it in the US since I was a kid in the 60's. I think it's going out of use in the US though. So that could be why they aren't familiar with the term.

Sabbath was of the hard rock genre. One of the first. AC/DC was the epitome of hard rock. Bands like them paved the way for heavy metal. Believe it or not, Judas Priest was classified as hard rock at first, as was Maiden, before they moved on to the heavy metal genre. Jethro Tull kinda made their own unique subgenre of folk rock. They can rock your socks off AND tell a story, and make use of traditional folk instruments. The Songs From the Wood album, my favorite, is very folky, while Thick as a Brick was more rock with a folk twist.

Jethro Tull (the name of the band) released their first album in 1968. I saw them at their 50th anniversary tour in 2018 and Ian Anderson (the singer/flutist) was still jumping around like that, even at 70 years old. On one of the many times I've seen them live, Ian had blown out his knee and was in a wheel chair. He still was all over the stage while playing, using his good leg to propel him around. He's an amazing showman.

This is a great prog song. So many musical styles, melodies, and rhythms all in one song, and the studio version is much longer with more changes. As others have said, he's a real life medieval bard. He had this thing with lifting his one leg, I guess he played better that way. The two flautists most people know are Ian Anderson of JT and Peter Gabriel. You really should try something like "Firth of Fifth" or "The Musical Box" from early Genesis for more flute in rock music.

I own 1 Metallica album and 4 jethro Tull albums. JT just hits harder emotionally

One of my favorite sayings is, "I'll procrastinate tomorrow." Some can the humor.

One of my fav groups of all time! Cheers for this!

this song is part of an album called "Thick As A Brick". which is only two songs long which are "Thick As A Brick Part 1 and 2" and both songs are 22 minutes long

@mustangdebbie56

3 ай бұрын

It's actually all one song. It had to be in 2 parts because it was on vinyl.

@santiagoguevara8579

3 ай бұрын

@@mustangdebbie56 yes i know, but still anywhere you look at shows as two songs. and being honest part 1 is the one everybody listen to. a lot of people skip the second part

@mustangdebbie56

3 ай бұрын

@@santiagoguevara8579 True. Most people miss the whole point of the song, that it is a sort of parody of progressive rock. It is a whole story and the second half drops in that completely unnecessary, but impressive, drum solo .

"Your Sp*rm's In The Gutter, Your Deafness A Shout .." ( I saw JT concert Detroit, 1976 ..AWESOME !!)

Would love to see y’all reaction to the studio version of Cross Eyed Mary by Jethro Tull… absolute banger by any standard 🔥

Bungle in the jungle is great song.

This had Renaissance feel

Jethro Tull won 'best hard rock/metal performance' not just 'best metal', and you may have forgotten that the Metallica album they were up against DIDN'T HAVE ANY BASS.

@AdamConus

3 ай бұрын

Also, they won with their album Crest of a Knave, which came out roughly 10 years after this and had a very different sound than this (though not any more 'metal'.)

@jgsrhythm100

3 ай бұрын

I say the album deserved the award.

@greenfalcon11

2 ай бұрын

Crest of a Knave is the first "new"Tull album that came out as I discovered them. I think it's excellent album with some fantastic songs on it. Martin Barre's guitar work alone on it is worthy of the Grammy. Sorry Metallica, you did just fine for yourselves. Jethro Tull has gotten more disrespect for a lot longer. Undeservedly, imo.

@kardy12

2 ай бұрын

Well, as their record label advertised after they won it - the flute is a heavy, metal instrument.

The band is Jethro Tull. The name of the band was after an 18th century agriculturalist. The guy you called Jethro is Ian Anderson who has been performing since 1967. Please stop calling him Jethro 🙏

@nadionmediagroup

3 ай бұрын

Since you brought it up, I wonder how Pink Floyd is doing lately. Haven’t heard much from that guy lately.😎

@Ferretbomber

3 ай бұрын

he's been performing since like 1963 or 64, '67 is when Tull started.

@alanfoster6589

3 ай бұрын

@@nadionmediagroup Actually, Pink has been performing regularly (I'll let myself out now....)

@willyroussel3563

3 ай бұрын

@@nadionmediagroup By the way which one's pink

@jimmorris67

3 ай бұрын

Stick to hip/rap and leave geniuses like Ian alone please

Way more talented frontman then James from Metallica....

Ian and his flute, a classic, a perfect tandem!

I saw them live on this “Bursting Out” tour in ‘78. It resulted in one of the great double live albums of all time. They were absolutely riveting live. BTW the album for which they won the first-ever heavy metal Grammy®️ award was “Crest of a Knave,” released in 1988. The band was surprised even to be nominated and didn’t attend the ceremony. Many believe the Grammy nod was more of a legacy award, acknowledging the group’s huge influence in pop, rock, folk-rock, progressive rock and metal since its forming in 1967. PS My son’s name is Ian.

His live performance of this track at Madison Square Garden in 1978 is incredible and worthy of another viewing (when you've got the time)🌻

The album that won the Grammy was called Crest of a Knave and it's fantastic, well written and beautifully engineered. It could definitely be debated whether it is "hard rock/metal" but, really, where would you place Jethro Tull? It has elements of rock, some hard rock, folk, blues, definitely some prog. Impossible to pigeon-hole them.

Tony Iommi, in fact, played in Jethro Tull for a short period of time. As I recall, he said Black Sabbath would have broken up had he not learned professionalism while he was playing in Tull. You can hear even musical influences of Jethro Tull in some early Black Sabbath songs, such as "Solitude" which has a flute and a folky melody. And just in general, Jethro Tull is one of the more influential bands in rock music, and then later metal. Already musicians like Ronnie James Dio were influenced by him in the early '70s and covered their songs. And even though they were around before "heavy metal" or even "heavy rock" were really a thing, you could argue we wouldn't have folk metal, symphonic metal or even power metal and many other genres without their initial influence. There are probably a lot of metal bands today who don't even realise their music was influenced by Tull through many other bands.

Thick As A Brick is a prog rock masterpiece. I’ve seen it performed live several times. Ian Anderson, the singer is an eccentric Scotsman and is one of the greatest frontmen of all time. I know this really isn’t your style, but thanks for putting this out there and maybe raising some awareness of this great band.

I was at the Jethro Tull Gig In London Two days ago.. Fab time.

When I was a boy, he was known as the "Toscannini on speed"

Greetings from the Great White North 🇨🇦 The album Thick as a Brick was released 17 yrs prior to the band winning the Grammy for the Rock Island album.

Wow can't believe i guessed the Bowie. Knew he did that song but didn't know he wrote it for Elvis.😅 Interesting.

Tony Iommi actually played with Jethro Tull for 4 weeks. Check a live performance at "the Rolling Stones RocknRoll Circus".

@flowersnyams

3 ай бұрын

1st album 'This Was'(1968/69) guitarist was the wonderful Mick Abrahams( who went on to form the equally wonderful Blodwyn Pig)

@jgsrhythm100

3 ай бұрын

@flowersnyams Ah, I've seen the video of Tony Iommi with Jethro Tull at the Rolling Stones RocknRoll Circus( if havent seen check it). I guess he played live only and never ended up recording. Will edit the comment.

Saw Tull in concert many moons ago, was great fun like going to a Broadway show when a great rock band shows up to play the parts.

The grammy was for Hard Rock/Metal album. The other nominees were Janes Addiction, AC/DC, and Iggy Pop. The winning album was for the 1988 Crest of a Knave. Thick as a Brick was released in 1972. While Jethro Tull was not considered Hard Rock, they had a few hard rock songs and the grammy voters probably only listened to the first song on the album, Steel Monkey. The band didn't even bother to show up at the grammys because no one thought they would win.

Crest of a Knave was the 1989 album for which Tull won the Grammy for best Heavy Metal album. Thick as a Brick is the title song from their 1972 album. PS: The flute is a heavy metal instrument.

ya'll need to check out there song Cross eyed Mary

This was before the award.

Why are you so hung up on some BS award? It's not like they nominated themselves and voted themselves a win. None of that has F-all to do with the outstanding music. Ian Anderson is about as close as you get these days to an actual musical genius. BTW, Tony Iommi ( one of my favorites guitar players of all time) played with Jethro Tull before Black Sabbath, but dropped out because he couldn't hang

The album Thick as a Brick (meaning stupid) is one song that is split into two sides. It is nearly 44 minutes long. This is not the song/album that won the Best Metal award. That was the album Crest of a Knave (1987). This is from 1972 when Metallica were maybe 10 year kids. You can't criticize them.winning the award for albums that didn't win the award. You can criticize them for the album that did win. The lyrics on Thick as a Brick were credited to a fictional child. It was both prog rock and a parody of prog rock. This band could play their asses off. Tony Iommi was briefly in Jethro Tull in late 1968 before rejoining Earth, which became Black Sabbath. Ian Anderson was 30 years old in 1977 when this show was recorded. 25 when the song was recorded. They have dabbled in many genres, rock, hard rock, jazz rock, folk rock, folk, prog rock.

Why won't you react to actual release (Crest of a Knave) that won Grammy and say if that's a metal or not. I'm not saying that it was and deserved beating Metallica, but to watch a record that was made 10 years before that and say, "is that metal that beat Metallica" sounds extremely dumb. And by the way, the award that year was called "Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance Vocal or Instrumental", so this reaction looks even more dumb

@Wilss

3 ай бұрын

Made nearly 20 years before.

@broothan

3 ай бұрын

@@Wilss I would suggest 'em react to Metallica's Low Man's Lyric and also question, is this metal? lol

this came out twenty some years before the album that won the metal grammy. this is an excellent album. don't be snobs.

You guys were extremely fair & complimentary! So great to see cross genre appreciation! Great job guys! Tull never claimed ro be metal! That was the academy who brought that forward. Ian and the band didn't even show up but sent drummer Drone Perry to accept.

The band name is Jethro Tull after an 18th century agriculturalist. His name is Ian Anderson. Jethro Tull is considered Progressive Rock. They were one of Rush's influences. As for the meaning of Thick as a Brick it means someone who is stupid. There is another saying meaning the same thing. He has a brick between his ears. It is an old English saying but being Canadian we were exposed more to English saying etc especially during the 60's and 70's. Hope I caught you guys up to speed.😉 Cheers

Love some Jethro Tull, pure talent right there😎 Every time you guys refer to the audience as old-time clappy first of all it cracks me up but then it reminds me that you guys have to see this video...2Cellos cover Thunderstruck it's awesome!🤘🖤 Can't believe I'm admitting this especially in this day and age but my worst habit is that I'm still a cigarette smoker, picked them up at 12 years old after my dad died and haven't been able to put them down 😔

Trash Talkers, This made me laugh so hard, thanks for sharing!

They must have mixed up the winning envelopes of "Best Metal Band" with "Best Medieval Band" !

I also love the fact that Ian Anderson's son in law is Rick from The Walking Dead!

@5tran9eMCMLXXII

2 ай бұрын

Whoa! TIL

Morning guys! He definitely can be entertaining. I like some Jethro tull. He sure does tell a story! 🤓

Ian Anderson paved the way for metal to have creativity, not necessarily Jethro Tull being characteristically metal themselves

Whole 40 Minute Album is this (1) Song. Best Album they made, Top 5 for Best Studio Recording EVER by Stereophile Magazine.

It’s too bad you all got caught up in the metal award. Jethro Tull was a leading prog rock band starting in the late 60’s. Fantastic story tellers in both words and their music. The Thick as a Brick album was from the early 70s.

Just a talented bunch of musicians

This was a BBC broadcast, so the crowd and the venue were a little more sedate than most of their shows at the time, they had been playing at baseball stadiums and other huge venues at the time. Tony Iommi briefly played in Jethro Tull in like 1968. It wasn't for him but he has remained a friend of Ian Anderson's to this day, and credits his time in Tull as helping him figure out what Black Sabbath needed to do to become successful. Dio did Jethro Tull covers, Iron Maiden did, Rush loved Jethro Tull ... they were very dark and moody and hard rock and were a big influence on lots of bands. The grammy they won was for 'hard rock/heavy metal performance'. They changed it the next year to be two separate awards. So, many people had no problem with Jethro Tull being considered to be hard rock. They were one of the most popular bands of the time. I had a professor who saw Tull open for Led Zeppelin in like 1970 and said 'people went in as Zeppelin fans and came out Tull fans', that was how dynamic and entertaining they were. Recently Kirk Hammett addressed the whole 'Grammy controversy' and said 'I'd just never really heard their music, but recently I've checked out their catalog and I'm a big fan'. So, it was a huge deal at the time because Metallica were the new media darlings, they performed at that Grammy ceremony, so everyone assumed they would win. Even Jethro Tull's manager and record company told them not to bother going to the ceremony because they thought there was no chance they would win. Thanks for the reaction, long live Jethro Tull.

@bunyip-ni6ch

3 ай бұрын

Edit: I spoke too soon. Ofc WOWOW only started broadcasting in 1991, way after this concert. So it's just some kind of rerun. Are you sure about the BBC broadcast? At the beginning of the video you can see the logo of WOWOW, a Japanese pay-tv channel. (Hence the Japanese subtitles)

@Ferretbomber

3 ай бұрын

@@bunyip-ni6ch yes I'm sure

Always inspiring to see this !!!!!!

Nice some old school prog...my dad's favorite band!!! P.s. Pain of Salvation - On a Tuesday ❤

Tull is an absolutely unique band. Their entire discography is worth listening to. Sort of metal, sort of prog, sort of English folk/baroque. 11 gold albums and 5 platinum ones. You should listen to the studio version of this song - it is an entire 42 minute album.

These guys can play their ass off, such a great band

Do genesis ‘ the musical box ‘ live on Belgium tv

for me, this is more prog that metal; however you define it, it's one hell of a piece of music !!!

Pied Piper is a perfect description ! My mom called him a leaping gnome😂❤

Definitely energetic performance

I hear so much Tull influence in Opeth!

All the time I ever eat at McDonald's is at 3 in the morning when I'm high and hungry.😂🍔

Ian Anderson the singer is phenomenal musician show man and one of the coolest people , the band Jethro Tull is full of talented musicians , btw you ever seen the walking dead TV series , Rick the main character is married to Ian's daughter in real life

Jethro Tull was awarded the Grammy in the first year that metal was recognized. However, the category that first year was Best Hard Rock/Metal, i.e., not exclusive to metal. The JT album was "Crest of a Knave", one of their rockier albums. Were the Grammy's off base? Probably. But hey, the following year they awarded Best New Artist to Villi Manilli.

Hay brothers this Dud is the reason why I fail in to rock . 1960's this Bro was many of the best bands ever . Lots of fun loving fans alsome people no matter what color they were. Everybody had love for everyone ❤️ thumbs up for a great video.

When you said Ian reminded you of a medieval minstrel, it brought to mind Tull's 1975 LP "Minstrel In the Gallery". Its title track is baroque heavy metal; most of the other cuts are also hard, dense, and lustrous.

Ian Anderson the leader of the band Jethro Tull actually owned a Stratocaster guitar that he bought from Lemmy- then he sold that guitar to buy a flute and a microphone.

Iain Anderson is the first big rock star from my home City in Scotland, Dunfermline. After him came a long line of Dunfermline Rock stars, Nazareth , who were good mates with my parents, punk stars The Skids and The Rezillos, my own personal heroes idols and friends Big Country and folk music and West End stage star Barbara Dickson and we even had our own one hit wonder Aneka. Not bad for a wee Scottish City of around 70k folk. Would absolutely love you guys to check out my mates Big Country starting with Fields Of Fire and for ma folks Nazareth with the song Razamanaz which will surprise anyone watching who happens to know the girl group Girls Aloud.

They were the only band in history to release back to back number one albums with only one song on it stretching both sides.

I had tickets to see Jethro Tull in Ottawa Canada in the early eighties. The night before the concert Ian Anderson collapsed on the stage in Montreal with the flu. The Ottawa date got canceled and in compensation we chose Peter Gabriel tickets. I absolutely loved the Gabriel concert but I never got to see a Tull concert. 😢

This song was recorded maybe ten years before they won the best metal artist award.

I have loved JT since their album Stand Up. ❤😊

Tony Iommi joined them briefly. He remarked how much they practiced, treating it like a real job and he brought some of that into Black Sabbath. It's cool seeing the live performances but their studio productions are much clearer and you can you pick just one instrument to listen to and still be impressed. Bursting Out was recorded live but produced for record release and Is amazing. Wikipedia doesn’t list them as a metal band.

Highly entertaining ❤

No member of Jeffro Tull even showed up for the Grammy's. The next day there was a full page add in the Rolling Stone that said "The flute is a heavy metal instrument".

You guys should check out some of their other stuff too. Songs From The Wood, Broadsword from Broadsword And The Beast, Heavy Horses, Aqualung, as well as the album that got them the only Grammy they ever won- Crest Of A Knave. Many of us Tull fans were overjoyed that they beat out Metallica, as they had been completely ignored by the Grammys until then.