Classic Reactions - Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick

One of the great live rock bands.

Putting a flute in rock … priceless.

They have a very wide variety of songs and changed a bit over the course of their career. Songs like Bungle in the Jungle were very different from the later songs.

I told you deep lyrics right. Their songs are really deep and Ian is a master lyricist

I saw Jethro Tull back in 1979, the stage was dressed to look like the deck of a Pirate Ship... Ian Anderson put on a very theatrical performance!!! #THG

Ian Anderson is an absolute treasure. The amazing part is that he was self taught on playing the flute and throughout the 70's he was playing it incorrectly (about half the notes should be played using a key you activate using the 5th finger on your left hand and if you look he never uses it)--when professional flute players watch him play they can't believe how he is able to play the notes without using the pinky key. Ian tells an amazing story that in the 80's his daughter began playing flute in her school band and when he went to help her with one of her lessons she pointed out to him he was playing it wrong, so he went and got an instruction book and re-taught himself how to play the flute correctly after doing it for over a decade the "wrong" way. To UMa's point about Ian twirling the flute around--he usually would glue or solder the joints together to keep the flute from flying apart (in some videos I also see white tape on the head joint as well), but he admitted that there was the occasional "accident' during shows so he kept a spare flute on tour just in case...

I know, you guys say "You talking to much" what is not my opinion, but I think to overlay your comment at the end with music is the wrong Idea :-) So I have no idea what you talking about since minute 23:00 but I suppose it was a positive comment. As I told before in my request "Thick As A Brick" is a song written to mock the critics and also some bands with their concept albums (what is not a fair exposure, I think) But Ian Anderson was everytime a person with a lovely but strange charakter and not easy to handle. And a result of this is a song nearly 45 minutes long to say I don't like it but I can do it. Their life performances are focused at his stage presence and as everybody can see, he loves it and mastered it perfectly. I saw a reaction of a flute player and she got nearly a heart attack when she saw what he is doing with the flute (whirl it around and throwing it in the air) and she explainf, that this flute has 3 parts and they are not strongly fixated but rather loose. And she is waiting the whole time that one of this parts are flying away, what means a catastrophy. But I'm sure Ian has prevented this case. Anyway, thanks again that you followed my request and take part of my musicaly puberty. While I thought about what I have heard in my youth there are a lot of Popular Bands. You must realy insert Queen and Pink Floyd in your classics. Some names that I remember very well are Nathareth, Boston, Alan Parsons Project, 10CC, Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel and of course Genesis. But as always I am also exited to hear something new or better to say unheard. 🦊🦊🦊 For The Fox-God 🦊🦊🦊

Oh and James gang and Ted nugent

I saw them 4 times, one of my generations favorites! I think they were a favorite of mine sort of tied with pink floyd, Alice cooper and mountain