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Post by Lordiffyboatrace on Dec 3, 2009 9:08:33 GMT -5
Going thru my dads vinyl LP collection as a youngish child (probably about the mid 1980s) , I stumbled upon one from a band who i thought had a strange name "Jethro Tull". Their album cover really appealed to me as when the gatefold sleeve was opened up the band members popped out or "stood up". This definitely stood out for me. but i don't remember actually being blown away by the musical contents of the album. On further investigation of his collection i discovered other albums by Tull. 2 of which really stand out for me. one was aqualung as i was rather frightened by the image of the tramp on the cover, and the medieval looking pictures of the band and fonts used for the lyrics etc. I thought the music on this album was really strong with the heavy riff of the title track and the medieval sounding songs like mother goose etc. I remember being very impressed by the wah wah guitar (i didn't know anything about wah wah at that time tho) on the track up to me and was amazed a guitar could sound this way. The other album that took my fancy was Living in the past again due to the expansive cover and the strange pics of the band members wearing silly hats etc inside the gatefold sleeve. At that time i was unaware it was a compilation album as I didn't know anything about the band. Another strange side story was that in those days if i really liked the Side 1 of an album i was really scared and reluctant to listen to Side 2 in case it wasn't as good! ha ha But in this case i really liked the first LP and was scared to hear the 2nd one. But a bout of illness confined me to my bed for a few days and with nothing else to do but lie there i decided to stick on the 2nd LP and just lying there listening away it really sank in and I still think some of those songs are some of Tull's best even tho some other fans may consider them to be slightly throwaway (Dr bogenbroom, nursie etc). And that was it from there on I started to pick up the back catalogue
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Post by Bwanabob on Dec 10, 2009 15:25:11 GMT -5
Fo me it was A Passion Play. My best friend had all the other albums at the time (which we both loved). He bought the 45 rpm extract single and decided he didn't like it. I was curious and sprung for the album.
It remains my favorite some 36 years later.
The aborted Chateau Sessions (had they come to fruition as a completed album) would have been my favorite.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2009 8:07:57 GMT -5
The first Tull album I heard was Stand Up, my uncle had a record store and dropped us off a pile of records, cool ones, Led zep 1 and2 , cream, but in the the stack was a masterpiece that has to this day stood the test of time' Stand Up my sister played and it caught my ten year old ear's and I been a devoted Fan ever since. If have one copy of Stand Up I have 50, I have guys popping out orange label,green label, blue label, white, label., you get the idea. This was the start of my road into Valkyrie and it has not stopped. It has slowed somewhat today, but in its heyday there whee packages coming once a week from far off place with new possessions of new Tull goodies, That got added to the collection that I so desperately want to show again. It saddens me so much to see it in boxes in stead of it rightful place.I have bought ever Tull album that has come out yes even the French best of and the news St Bride's, and tomorrow if they release the Best of the Best of the Best with only 3 songs I will buy that.
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Post by tootull on Dec 22, 2009 10:29:46 GMT -5
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Post by Journeyman on Jan 22, 2010 23:52:37 GMT -5
My first was Aqualung. I was 15. My brother brought the album home and I listened to it with headphones on my parents console stereo. Blew me away, never heard anything like it. It was so different, so damned English! I don' think I realized it at the time, but side two perfectly expressed my as yet unformed thinking on religion. And it ROCKED! I bought Benefit and loved it. Then TAAB came out and that was all she wrote. Saw them for the first time during the Passion Play tour. If I had a time machine and could only use it once, I would go back and watch that show again.
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Post by ash on Mar 4, 2010 14:16:08 GMT -5
The first album I heard was Aqualung on a very good Hi-fi system in 1971 around a friend of a friends house, but for some reason the first album I paid for was Stand UP!
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Post by Sharkdaniel on Apr 24, 2010 17:12:49 GMT -5
The Mintreeeel in the Gallee-ery-yy....
Shark
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Post by LJG on Apr 24, 2010 22:22:41 GMT -5
Aqualung.
Cliched... but true.
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Post by Bogenbroom on Apr 28, 2010 16:03:37 GMT -5
...(Why do my stories always seem to involve good looking girls?... Jeff Because you have low standards? Ha! I kid Great retelling Jeff. I'll keep mine short as I've told it in the similar "first tull experience" or some-such thread... First song I heard (and was immediately hooked) was Witch's Promise so I set out to find an album with that song posthaste! I wound up with the sublime "The Best Of Jethro Tull". Perhaps that name is a bit of a misnomer (c'mon, we all know you can't fit the BEST of Jethro Tull on a measly two CD's!) it is a fantastic way to sample the varied flavors of Tull and will only lead the chosen to devour the Tull catalog.
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Post by anesthetize on Jun 19, 2010 14:17:15 GMT -5
My very first JT album was Thick as a Brick, and I remember the first listen. What an experience!
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Post by marcm on Jun 19, 2010 15:00:47 GMT -5
Actually, I bought 2 LP's on the same day, after listening a little bit to them in a record shop, so much I loved what I heard. I had been enticed to listen to JT by an article in a magazine, reviewing "Broadsword" and talking about other Tull albums of Tull. I wanted to listen to something connected with medieval times, things like that. It was in 82 and the 2 records were "Broadsword and the Beast", that had been just released and "Aqualung".... I preferred Broadsword. I still do even if I don't rate it as high now as I used to.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2010 13:05:42 GMT -5
My very first JT album was Thick as a Brick, and I remember the first listen. What an experience! I too remember my frist listen of Thick as a Brick--I knew I was going to love it to death, figuring that when Tull was given 45 minutes of (almost) nonstep of music, only wonders could be made.
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Post by Morthoron on Jun 20, 2010 15:02:59 GMT -5
I am not sure. It was probably either Aqualung or War Child. Or Living in the Past now that I think of it. Hell, I don't remember.
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Post by minstrel29 on Oct 27, 2010 11:52:37 GMT -5
Benefit was my first - I traded a Stephen Stills album for it.
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Post by Misteman 4 on Jan 8, 2011 18:33:10 GMT -5
The first Jethro Tull album I actually went out and purchased was "War Child". I had been to a party where I grew up in California and heard "Aqualung" and "Thick as a Brick". I was absolutely mezmerized by both, and upon leaving the event asked the new friend if I could borrow them. He was a new pal from High school and gave me exactly 2 days to have them back to him! Soon afterwards I realized I had indeed heard JT before on AM radio..the song being played quite a bit in the past year or 2 (Living in the Past). The rest is how they say "HISTORY". Later that year the same friend and I went to Oakland CA to see JT and for the next 30 years I've seen them about 16 times throughout the country. There's honestly been a couple of times they were not having fun and it showed in their performance. However one of the best shows of Tull I've ever seen was in Reno NV in 2000. They did'nt have the energy as say 1975-76 JT...but the show was so tight and sounded so polished it was even better!!!. Over the years there has not been any JT album that I did not like..some only have 2 or 3 songs that I listen to but each have at least a couple that are "masterpieces". Alot of folks don't care for "Under Wraps" but "Radio Free Moscow" and "Nobody's Car" are classics!!!
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Post by Olias on Jan 13, 2011 10:36:22 GMT -5
My first was the live compilation 'Living With the Past'. Was instantly hooked.
The first actual album I listened to was 'Benefit'. Was quite different from the Tull sound on LWTP, and took me some getting used to. But eventually I came to love it!
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Post by Dave Walsh on Jan 19, 2011 21:12:44 GMT -5
Thick as a Brick. My brother played it when I was playing with Lincoln Logs around 1984or5 or so. Seriously.
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Post by bongofury on Jan 20, 2011 6:31:21 GMT -5
My first Tull album was Passion Play. It was one of those bootleg 8-track tapes that they used to sell cheap in the 70's at gas stations flea markets, etc. It never really worked right unless you wedged a book of matches under the cartridge. I ended up buying the real album a couple of months later.
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Post by My God on Jan 20, 2011 14:02:33 GMT -5
Mine was ''Aqualung'' on vinyl. Sitting on the park bench.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2011 17:36:53 GMT -5
My first Tull album was Passion Play.. That was a great album to start with, I'd be interested to know if you preferred Tull's output before or after A Passion Play, once you got 'into' the band?
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Post by tootull on Jan 21, 2011 11:00:38 GMT -5
My first Tull album was Passion Play. It was one of those bootleg 8-track tapes that they used to sell cheap in the 70's at gas stations flea markets, etc. It never really worked right unless you wedged a book of matches under the cartridge. I ended up buying the real album a couple of months later. You are not alone: "It never really worked right unless you wedged a book of matches under the cartridge." Had to laugh at that memory. Show #167: Passionate Playing (Jethro Tull)www.upthedownstair.net/2008/07/show-167-passionate-playing-jethro-tull.html
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Post by janu on Jan 22, 2011 4:19:00 GMT -5
Thick As A Brick. I recall, at the age of 14 in 1978, spending good moments at reading the funny and interesting articles of the famous newspaper. Obviously the album wasn't mine, my elder brother brought home all these good musical masterpieces, ando so it was like from whom i began to learn to love Tull music. From here I Want to thank him for that wonderful musical learning.
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Post by bongofury on Jan 26, 2011 6:01:59 GMT -5
My first Tull album was Passion Play.. That was a great album to start with, I'd be interested to know if you preferred Tull's output before or after A Passion Play, once you got 'into' the band? At the time I didn't care for This Was. I felt it was too "normal" which it isn't and is a great album.
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Post by Blue on Jan 28, 2011 17:32:49 GMT -5
This Was was my first Tull album. At the time I heard it, it was the only Tull album. I am very old, you see. I am two years older than dirt. I am also five years younger than Ian Anderson. How's that for perspective?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2011 14:04:19 GMT -5
It would have been great if a lot of the other blues bands at the time took the example of what Tull explored in This Was. To get from Someday the sun wont shine for you, to serenade to a cuckoo, or Dharma for One, definitely shows a broad creative process of a blues band, who shows that the genre is only limited by our set ideas of it.
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