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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2009 15:10:20 GMT -5
I was lucky I had older sister and an uncle who owned a record store, we got all the promos of the stuff that he did not want try and sell in that stack was This Was, and Stand Up. I first heard Stand Up at 10 and was hooked it was my favorite album ever since, I then remember having to sneak to the Gardens to see Tull for the first time in 75 and the again 76 but I have to thank my sister for turning me on to Tull . Stand to this day is still my favorite Tull album and Reasons For Waiting is my all time favorite song.
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Post by TM on Dec 20, 2009 15:25:20 GMT -5
I was about 14 and in the process of switching from AM to FM radio - which was tough because music on FM was totally different and I had no clue what I was listening to! SO...industrious person that I am, I used to keep a pad & pen by my radio and if I heard something I liked, I'd write it down. I was getting ready to join Columbia Record club and looked for the paper with my FM songs written on it. On one, I had Bouree (I am sure I mispelled it at the time) and "Stand-Up" written on it - so I ordered it and the rest as they say is history. Columbia House is how i got my start with Tull as well. Without knowing a lot of the music at the time, I saw that they offered a lot of Tull music. And since I knew Tull was a major band, I figured I couldn't go wrong by joining.
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Post by Bkasl on Dec 22, 2009 20:39:25 GMT -5
1971, sophomore in high school, my mom drove me downtown to the local record store 'Dirt Cheap' and purchased Aqualung album after buying a 45 two weeks earlier of Teacher and A Witches promise. I was hooked, remembered my mother saying, snot running down his nose? what are you listening to? Then it was downhill from their, 22 concerts later, all albums, cds, etc and great memories that I still listen to in the car today. I fondly remember from high school the local DJ's and critics always said, Tull is Dull, and never understodd why.
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Post by Nonfatman on Dec 23, 2009 11:23:42 GMT -5
1971, sophomore in high school, my mom drove me downtown to the local record store 'Dirt Cheap' and purchased Aqualung album after buying a 45 two weeks earlier of Teacher and A Witches promise. I was hooked, remembered my mother saying, snot running down his nose? what are you listening to? Then it was downhill from their, 22 concerts later, all albums, cds, etc and great memories that I still listen to in the car today. I fondly remember from high school the local DJ's and critics always said, Tull is Dull, and never understodd why. Great discovery story, Bkasl. What is it about Tull that had such an immediate and gripping appeal to high school boys? I think it has a lot to do with the rebellious and iconoclastic nature of the lyrics and cover art. Like the Aqualung character with the snot, the Brick girl who flashes her crotch on the cover, and the Ray Lomas character giving the Up Yours gesture. How could we resist? Tull dull? I don't think so. Jeff
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Post by Bogenbroom on Jan 21, 2010 11:01:49 GMT -5
When I entered the Army in 1994, I often cited Pink Floyd as being my favorite band. I was (still am) a very big fan.
Witch's Promise was the first Tull song I heard. Fresh out of basic training and AIT, driving around with my buddy in his Honda Accord on the streets of Hawaii...we were talking about music as we oft would and he mentioned Tull. Having never heard a song by them (or of them for that matter) I stated my ignorance and he popped out his "Original Masters" disc and said to check out track 9. I was blown away. Mesmerized. Hooked. We subsequently moved on to other items that night but I couldn't get that one song out of my head.
That week I went to the store see about acquiring some Tull. Since I was new to them and they had such a large back catalog (and I absolutely HAD to have Witch's Promise), the only disc I found to fit the bill was "The Best Of Jethro Tull", a 36 track compilation. Man what a fantastic way to become exposed to the different flavors of Tull. From there I devoured whatever I could find by them and started hitting the record shops.
Aqualung of course was the first full album I purchased. 25th Anniversary edition. Even though it's derided for its sound, I don't care what medium you hear it from - that album sounds FANTASTIC! My 18 year old brain couldn't get enough. I can't remember where I moved on from there as it all happened rather quickly...Heavy Horses perhaps as I was quite drawn to the rustic feel of that song on the compilation.
I don't recall when it happened, some 7 or so years ago, I noticed my Tull listening time (and catalog) outstripped every other band in my collection. I suppose that's when I realized Pink Floyd had been usurped.
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Post by tootull on Jan 21, 2010 11:36:59 GMT -5
Aqualung of course was the first full album I purchased. 25th Anniversary edition. Even though it's derided for its sound, I don't care what medium you hear it from - that album sounds FANTASTIC! My 18 year old brain couldn't get enough. I can't remember where I moved on from there as it all happened rather quickly...Heavy Horses perhaps as I was quite drawn to the rustic feel of that song on the compilation. Heavy Horses is my wife's fav. Speaking of Aqualung on CD, maybe what you were hearing wasn't all bad. Here's a couple of quotes that are positive about the remaster. I might agree with them on a good day. (keep it quiet) Plus the original Chrysalis CD UK CDP32 1044 of this is just fine. Thanks to .....Greg Smith (link below) "I've always been a big fan of Mother Goose, and it's one of the few spots where the original Chrysalis CD sounds pretty good. Compared with the previous three tracks, this one has better dynamics and a big fat kick drum. The bass on the 20th anniversary edition is even better, and actually edges out even the DCC version by my taste". "As we Wind Up the disc, we find (all join in) more quiet piano parts you can barely hear and fake guitar bodies. The 20th anniversary edition restores this music, it's quite nice. Surprisingly, the DCC release is still pretty noisy, and overall I actually prefer the anniversary version in both that area and how the guitars sound. Amazing, something to like about it just as we were nearing the end." www.soundstage.com/music/mus0997g.htm
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Post by Bogenbroom on Jan 21, 2010 12:05:02 GMT -5
Aqualung of course was the first full album I purchased. 25th Anniversary edition. Even though it's derided for its sound, I don't care what medium you hear it from - that album sounds FANTASTIC! My 18 year old brain couldn't get enough. I can't remember where I moved on from there as it all happened rather quickly...Heavy Horses perhaps as I was quite drawn to the rustic feel of that song on the compilation. Heavy Horses is my wife's fav. Speaking of Aqualung on CD, maybe what you were hearing wasn't all bad. Here's a couple of quotes that are positive about the remaster. I might agree with them on a good day. (keep it quiet) Need to know. I will read that. I wasn't aware that ANYONE liked the 25th Ann. edition! I already like your wife. She sounds like a wonderful gal.
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Post by griffis on Feb 28, 2010 13:19:18 GMT -5
I wish I had an engaging story to tell here. Truth is, I spent many years avoiding Jethro Tull.
I enjoyed some of their radio hits ("Locomotive Breath" and "Crosseyed Mary" always made me smile when they'd come on the radio, though I thought "Aqualung" and "Bungle in the Jungle" were overplayed)...
I would think "What an odd band of musical misfits...what are they up to?" but they already had so many releases I just never dove in. Also, I was into punk rock and "immediate gratification" music for most of my early teen-to-20s years, with some forays into more experimental and noisy music.
I would occasionally hear some Tull at a party and be intrigued and impressed...I recall one of my older sister's boyfriends bringing over Songs from the Wood (probably around the time of its initial release) and I looked at the cover for a long time while the strains of the vinyl grooves--along with the smell of an interesting kind of smoke--were emitted from behind my sister's bedroom door...so I had these brief encounters/associations with the band.
I think somewhere in my mind I knew I would be investigating Tull one day. I made a mental file to look more deeply into them. It just took me forever to get around to it. It's a pretty daunting catalog of work!
I don't know that there was a cathartic, epiphany-moment where something clicked and I said "Aha!" and started buying up their albums. It was just...time to do it. Finally time.
I will say, though, that sometime last year a person on a musicians forum I frequent posted a link to a performance of "One White Duck" from YouTube and I think that did have a lot to do with me getting around and down to business.
And now I'm a "lifer." I just can't get enough. I'm trying not to become filled with regret over all the years I could have--should have--spent as a big fan.
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Post by Gangsta Rabbi on Apr 22, 2010 20:15:27 GMT -5
it was the last week of 1971. the biggest station in NY at the time was WABC 77AM. there were doing their top 100 countdown for the year, playing songs randomly all week. they played #86-i wrote down by my prenumbered chart " 86 Jethro Tull-Aquallung" it was really 'Hymn 43' i thought to my self, this guy jethro is real angry-and he seems to be playing a sort of flute. the rest is history. the funny thing is that 'hymn 43' peaked out at #91 on the billboard chart but in NY it was 86 for the whole year
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2010 8:49:33 GMT -5
For me it was as a result of being given some singles as a present. I'd heard of Tull, but pretty much as an underground band, a mate liked them as well as Soft Machine, and having borrowed a Soft Machine album from him and hating it, I opted not to listen to Tull...bad decsion at the time. A girl I was going out with was a little bit older than me, and she gave me a load of singles that she no longer wanted amongst them were Living in the past, Love story and A Christmas Song [All pink island labels - Marion was a lovely girl ] I trawled through the couple of dozen records she had given me, but kept coming back to these three records. It's a wonder that they are still thick enough to play, I must have drove my parents mad with their repeated playing. So began my life long appreciation of Tull and Anderson. She gave up on the singles [which I suspect actually belonged to her older sister] because she had a fancy for David Cassidy....Thank God I never got lumbered with those cast-offs, who knows what sort of forum I'd be writing on now.
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Post by falstaff on Apr 23, 2010 9:17:44 GMT -5
It was the cover for Broadsword and the Beast. That cover immediately caught my 10 year old eye and I convinced my grandmother to buy it for me. I really awakened to music strongly at that age and discovered a whole bunch of bands/artists in a similar manner. Some might scoff at imbuing it with this sort of significance, but it was like I was meant to discover this music and it absolutely changed my life.
Man, those initial years of discovery were such a thrilling time for my imagination. As adults, most of us have to work much harder to find that feeling again.
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Post by Nonfatman on Apr 23, 2010 10:41:54 GMT -5
I am enjoying reading all these Tull-discovery stories, how we all came to love Tull in different and interesting ways.
Thanks to everyone for sharinig!
Jeff
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Post by falstaff on Apr 27, 2010 22:06:06 GMT -5
I am enjoying reading all these Tull-discovery stories, how we all came to love Tull in different and interesting ways. Thanks to everyone for sharinig! Jeff I feel blessed that I discovered them at such a formative age. I was a precocious kid. It's difficult to imagine that I've been a fan over 20 years now and, like many here I am sure, I have a deep sense of gratitude for how they've changed my life.
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Post by tulleroo on Apr 27, 2010 23:54:22 GMT -5
The first time i heard Tull was on a late night radio show in Sydney Australia and the song was Bungle in the jungle when I was about 13. This was amazing because Tull gets virtually no radio airplay in Australia. Despite this Tull sells out thier concerts every time they visit us here (which isn't often enough!).
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Post by TM on Apr 28, 2010 7:56:57 GMT -5
The first time i heard Tull was on a late night radio show in Sydney Australia and the song was Bungle in the jungle when I was about 13. This was amazing because Tull gets virtually no radio airplay in Australia. Despite this Tull sells out thier concerts every time they visit us here (which isn't often enough!). Welcome Tulleroo! Even here in the US Tull had a history of selling out their concerts despite little radio airplay. Imagine the fan base they might have had had they actually gotten radio play comparable to the Stones or Led Zep! Cheers, Paul
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Post by Marcie on Apr 30, 2010 12:25:17 GMT -5
Ahh, spin me back down the years to .... June of 1972. I was a pre-teen at the time. My brother David brought home a copy of Thick as a Brick he borrowed from a school chum. After hearing that record, I never listened to music the same way, ever again. It was a pivotal turning point for me. :-)
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Post by Nonfatman on May 1, 2010 23:23:12 GMT -5
Ahh, spin me back down the years to .... June of 1972. I was a pre-teen at the time. My brother David brought home a copy of Thick as a Brick he borrowed from a school chum. After hearing that record, I never listened to music the same way, ever again. It was a pivotal turning point for me. :-) Well said, Marcie, and so nice to hear from you! I think what you wrote perfectly captures how each of us felt after initially becoming hooked on Tull. After I heard the Aqualung album for the first time, in 1975, I scoured the radio that same night and was lucky enough to stumble upon a midnight rock block featuring the entire Minstrel album! Within a few weeks, I bought every album in the back catalogue, and then, a few months later, excitedly rode my bicycle to a nearby department store to pick up TOTRNR -- the first new release after I discovered them. How are you and Paul doing in Israel? Are you settled in and playing music? What is the mood of the country now? I can image there is a lot of mistrust of the Obama administration's policy objectives. And I know that a lot of Israelis don't like him. It seems that he holds Israel in low regard, the way he has treated the country and its supporters, and the way he has not even visited Israel yet. Really not surprising considering that Rev. Jeremiah Wright was his "spiritual mentor." Jeff
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Post by Marcie on May 2, 2010 9:43:59 GMT -5
Thanks, Jeff - and for all the different directions I've taken in life and in music, the music of JT will remain my prime influence in life on the whole.
Hope all is well with you. We're doing great thanks.. gearing up to perform two sets this weekend at a well known festival in Israel called Jacob's Ladder. We're going to launch our new CD under our new moniker "FOOTSTEPS" there as well. If it's OK, I'll post more info on it (including the title ;-)) when it will be available for purchase, in the appropriate section on the board.
To be honest, I'm quite cut off from stuff that's going on around me, as I've been very busy settling in and we don't own a TV by choice, so I don't listen to the news much. We do keep tabs via the internet, but that's about it. My family and friends don't really feel any tension (yet).
I'm also not a very political person. All I know is what I see and experience. I've been through two wars here, and have drawn my own conclusions. Not sure if I should say what they are up here though - lol.
Marcie
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Post by Nonfatman on May 2, 2010 15:05:44 GMT -5
Thanks, Jeff - and for all the different directions I've taken in life and in music, the music of JT will remain my prime influence in life on the whole. Hope all is well with you. We're doing great thanks.. gearing up to perform two sets this weekend at a well known festival in Israel called Jacob's Ladder. We're going to launch our new CD under our new moniker "FOOTSTEPS" there as well. If it's OK, I'll post more info on it (including the title ;-)) when it will be available for purchase, in the appropriate section on the board. To be honest, I'm quite cut off from stuff that's going on around me, as I've been very busy settling in and we don't own a TV by choice, so I don't listen to the news much. We do keep tabs via the internet, but that's about it. My family and friends don't really feel any tension (yet). I'm also not a very political person. All I know is what I see and experience. I've been through two wars here, and have drawn my own conclusions. Not sure if I should say what they are up here though - lol. Marcie Well, if you are so inclined to discuss your conclusions, feel free, but I understand you might be reluctant to discuss politics. Still, we do have an open forum for people to express any opinions they wish, so there's nothing to fear. Glad to see you are settling in and getting ready to perform soon. By all means, Marcie, please post any and all information concerning your band FOOTSTEPS and your new CD in our member's sites department, including purchase info. I would like to order it. (I still have to get myself a copy of Andrea Versaci's album, Mad Fallen Leaf, as well.) Jeff
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Post by Marcie on May 4, 2010 10:13:41 GMT -5
Thanks Jeff.. well... I agree with a lot of what you said about Obama, but that being said, I am secretly in the hopes that he and Netanyahu are just putting on a show so as to "placate" the masses for the time being. You never know. Right now I have an uneasy feeling, but that's really how I feel about all politicians, which is what Obama is and people shouldn't lose sight of that.
Thanks for the go ahead on the CD, etc, as well as wanting to purchase a copy - much appreciated! I'll post info in due course.
All the best, Marcie
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Post by Yes Songs on Jun 2, 2010 10:31:27 GMT -5
It was in 1976.........A friend had the MU.best of JT....I did listen,and I believe the songs that did it for me were Witches promise and Mother Goose!!!!!
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Post by anesthetize on Jun 19, 2010 14:32:30 GMT -5
I read an article on the internet about how Metallica lost to a band called Jethro Tull for Best Heavy Metal Album. I then read that one of the members of the band played the flute and I felt that this Jethro Tull band was something I had to check out. So I went and downloaded (yes, I used to download music but not anymore! ) Aqualung, Locomotive Breath and Cross-Eyed Mary and I couldn't believe how amazing it was. The rest is history!
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Post by marcm on Jun 24, 2010 14:56:56 GMT -5
I read an article on the internet about how Metallica lost to a band called Jethro Tull for Best Heavy Metal Album. I then read that one of the members of the band played the flute and I felt that this Jethro Tull band was something I had to check out. So I went and downloaded (yes, I used to download music but not anymore! ) Aqualung, Locomotive Breath and Cross-Eyed Mary and I couldn't believe how amazing it was. The rest is history! That was a nice one Anesthetize ! When I read that story about the music Award, I couldn't believe it... and the fact they chose to put JT in the Heavy Metal section ! What is funny is that I think James Hetfield once acknowledged he liked JT pretty much. I think it is not so surprising when you hear the melodic central part of "Master of Puppets", "Orion", "One" or "To Live is To Die", actually. On topic, as for me, my first contact was in 1982. I had a magazine with a review of "Broadsword and the Beast". Actually, it featured a short interview with Ian Anderson (who said he was 34 at the time, while he looked already much older). The review was by a good journalist who loved some progressive rock. Thanks to him, I discovered Yes as well, the same year. Anyway, the review and little interview talked about how JT's music was influenced by English folk and Renaissance music mixed with rock. He described the arrangements, including the flute and sharp guitars and some modern synthesizers in the case of "Broadword" and "A". I thought that could be really interesting. What was nice is that the guy and Ian were talking about older albums in Tull's career. So I went to a shop where we could listen to excerpts of LP's... (those were good times) and picked up "Broadsword" and "Aqualung". I wasn't long to buy the two, actually. I was really delighted ! That was exactly the type of music I wanted to hear ! I had always liked the ancent music we could hear in movies taking place in Renaissance or Middle-Age eras. I found something not so far from that in some of the Tull repertoire. I soon bought most of Tull's catalogue. I was more fond of the folky material right from the start, by the way - and as always with those great older bands who were so versatile, I evolved with their albums. Marc
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Post by Max Quad on Jun 26, 2010 12:17:04 GMT -5
Here is my story. I'm 15 years of age in the summer of 1971. I owned NO LPs, 8-tracks, singles, NOTHING. I would listen to my sister(s) records, AM radio. Pretty basic stuff. One sister had a friend who worked at Harmony Hut in the Willowbrook Mall. I asked him to recommend an LP for my first purchase. He suggested Aqualung. I'd never really heard of the band. Within a couple of months I owned the first 3 LP's and so began my life as a train spotter. Additionally it was confusing (to me) why there where different band members on each LP and I wasn't really sure who was who. They all kinda looked the same (to me) with the long hair, beards, etc. Who plays what, everybody plays a flute, what is a balalaika, who is this Jeffrey bloke? Why does this guy on the cover of Stand Up have eleven fingers. OI!! I can't believe I'm responding to my own post!! TAAB was the first LP issued after my Tull discovery. It remains my favorite Tull. I bought it the day it came out. On Friday afternoons, DJ Scott Muni from WNEW used to play "things from England". It was my favorite radio program. He played the entire TAAB shortly before it's initial release.
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Post by TM on Jun 26, 2010 14:31:34 GMT -5
Here is my story. I'm 15 years of age in the summer of 1971. I owned NO LPs, 8-tracks, singles, NOTHING. I would listen to my sister(s) records, AM radio. Pretty basic stuff. One sister had a friend who worked at Harmony Hut in the Willowbrook Mall. I asked him to recommend an LP for my first purchase. He suggested Aqualung. I'd never really heard of the band. Within a couple of months I owned the first 3 LP's and so began my life as a train spotter. Additionally it was confusing (to me) why there where different band members on each LP and I wasn't really sure who was who. They all kinda looked the same (to me) with the long hair, beards, etc. Who plays what, everybody plays a flute, what is a balalaika, who is this Jeffrey bloke? Why does this guy on the cover of Stand Up have eleven fingers. OI!! I can't believe I'm responding to my own post!! TAAB was the first LP issued after my Tull discovery. It remains my favorite Tull. I bought it the day it came out. On Friday afternoons, DJ Scott Muni from WNEW used to play "things from England". It was my favorite radio program. He played the entire TAAB shortly before it's initial release. I can't believe I'm responding to a double response. Cool story. Forgot about Things From England.
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