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Post by wapfunz on Mar 19, 2011 0:13:19 GMT -5
Passion Play was first followed by Thick as a brick.
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Post by My God on Mar 19, 2011 9:22:40 GMT -5
My first Tull album was Aqualung. I was hooked forever after that. And you press on God's waiter your last dime as he hands you the bill.
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Post by Nonfatman on Mar 19, 2011 19:50:25 GMT -5
Passion Play was first followed by Thick as a brick. So you started with the lighter stuff, then? ;D Jeff
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Post by wapfunz on Mar 19, 2011 22:08:20 GMT -5
Yup I am a bugger for punishment. Recently been downloading the DVD-A of war Child and aqualung. Really impressed with the positioning of vocals and instruments and mixes of both, are not what you have on stereo. My actual last album was "Broadsword and the Beast".
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Post by wapfunz on Mar 19, 2011 22:10:11 GMT -5
Drats I fib. Last album vinyl (nothing like the black stuff) Songs from the wood.
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Post by jrpipik on Apr 9, 2011 20:50:25 GMT -5
Cleveland had some pretty good FM radio stations so when I first started listening to music Jethro Tull was a band that was always around. I remember borrowing LIVING IN THE PAST from the library repeatedly, about wearing out "Locomotive Breath." My sister bought MINISTREL IN THE GALLERY and gave me my first lesson on closely observed poetry with "One White Duck." At some point I realized that my older brother had left THICK AS A BRICK in the family collection when he left home. Later I bought my flautist girlfriend several JT albums. Somehow I inherited most of these albums when I married my girlfriend and left home myself around 1990, only to get a CD player and never play any of them again. Still down in the basement somewhere, I think.
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Post by Morthoron on Apr 10, 2011 10:44:21 GMT -5
I'm not entirely sure. I believe it was War Child. No, that can't be right, that came out in 1974, and I was listening to Tull previous to that. It had to be either Aqualung or Living in the Past.
Damn, I'm not sure. Cursed drug-induced 70s!
Ummm...what were we talking about again?
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Post by jethrogenerator on Jul 20, 2011 6:27:11 GMT -5
Well.....my first Tull purchase was Ring Out, Solstice Bells EP when it hit the UK charts back in 1976 (I think) I couldn't afford albums back then.....so my next buy was The Whistler single. By now, I was hooked...... Ands my sister bought me Songs from the Wood for my birthday...... Canny Lass! Started work a bit after that.......and......well.....went mental on all things Tull..... The good days! I need a new Tull studio album!!!!!! Dave
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Post by jethrogenerator on Jul 20, 2011 7:02:08 GMT -5
Well.....my first Tull purchase was Ring Out, Solstice Bells EP when it hit the UK charts back in 1976 (I think) I couldn't afford albums back then.....so my next buy was The Whistler single. By now, I was hooked...... Ands my sister bought me Songs from the Wood for my birthday...... Canny Lass! Started work a bit after that.......and......well.....went mental on all things Tull..... The good days! I need a new Tull studio album!!!!!! Dave
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Post by My God on Jul 20, 2011 13:06:58 GMT -5
My first Tull album was ''Aqualung''. After that I was hooked forever more, and never looked back then or now. That one day falls one day too soon.
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Post by The Chook on Jul 24, 2011 14:32:28 GMT -5
broadsword and the beast. I was totally unaware of which one i should get first in order to get to know to the band best (or something like that)... Basicly just freaked out on the artwork of broadsword so i purchased it first. second one was aqualung
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Post by Nonfatman on Jul 25, 2011 7:39:47 GMT -5
broadsword and the beast. I was totally unaware of which one i should get first in order to get to know to the band best (or something like that)... Basicly just freaked out on the artwork of broadsword so i purchased it first. second one was aqualung Julia, how did you like the show the other night? Didn't Tull just play there? Also, look in the announcements section....you've been voted as TJTB Member of the Month for June! Jeff
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Post by The Chook on Jul 25, 2011 14:13:00 GMT -5
broadsword and the beast. I was totally unaware of which one i should get first in order to get to know to the band best (or something like that)... Basicly just freaked out on the artwork of broadsword so i purchased it first. second one was aqualung Julia, how did you like the show the other night? Didn't Tull just play there? Also, look in the announcements section....you've been voted as TJTB Member of the Month for June! Jeff Oh the show was amazing as expected. I will most likely write a long ass ramble/review about it to my blog in few days (like i always do when i have attendet a concert) and im sure to let you all know when the story has been written. and wooot? thats just crazy....
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Post by Nonfatman on Aug 13, 2011 20:17:30 GMT -5
Well.....my first Tull purchase was Ring Out, Solstice Bells EP when it hit the UK charts back in 1976 (I think) I couldn't afford albums back then.....so my next buy was The Whistler single. By now, I was hooked...... Ands my sister bought me Songs from the Wood for my birthday...... Canny Lass! Started work a bit after that.......and......well.....went mental on all things Tull..... The good days! I need a new Tull studio album!!!!!! Dave Hi, Dave and a belated welcome to The Jethro Tull Board! I first heard Tull maybe a year or so earlier.... TOTRNR was the first new Tull album that was released after I had discovered them sometime in 1975 or early 1976 when I was 14. I remember that Solstice Bells EP very well. I bought it at a Sam Goody's store in a shopping mall. Tull were huge at the time, and the EP was prominetly displayed right by the cashier, with promotional posters, etc. Songs From the Wood was the first Tull show that I saw in 1977, so it was a memorable album for me too. This time I am quite sure we will be getting a new Tull album, or if my hunch is correct two new albums (one Tull, one solo), next year. Jeff
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Post by Warchild Tsunami on Aug 13, 2011 21:19:20 GMT -5
Warchild of course,was a staple on am radio,would always hear Bungle along with Killer Queen and other staples of the era.Would listen with my mom as she took me to library,was a avid reader as a kid(still am),taught to read at very young(too young?)age.About two years ago finally figured out what Warchild is, the soundtrack for Lewises Chronicles Of Narnia of which I had the collection of all seven,refuse to see the movies!I have beaten that album to death,still have album,listened as a teen many times whilst enjoying,hmmm...lets just say bits of paper!First rock album ever bought was the Houses Of The Holy.First heard minstrel on 8 track in friends brothers Roadrunner,we "borrowed it"while his brother away for weekend,real pain to cue back to were it was when we parked car,man we really were idiots at 13!
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Post by jrpipik on Aug 14, 2011 11:36:57 GMT -5
I've belatedly realized that MU was probably my first Tull and LITP was second. At any rate I borrowed both from the public library around the same time. I think I got Too Old to Rock and Roll, too, but it didn't grab me.
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Post by egrorian on Jan 23, 2012 14:24:01 GMT -5
I was actually turned on to Tull by All About Eve's cover of The Witch's Promise. I loved that I heard Tull's version on one of these Reader's Digest box sets my Dad had lying around. From there I bought Original Masters in 1991 when I was 21 - and actually half-expected it to be rubbish! Aside from The Witch's Promise, it was Thick as a Brick (edit), Skating Away and Life is a Long Song that struck me immediately. I recall I wasn't too keen at first on Songs from the Wood or Minstrel but they soon became favourites and the rest of the Tull catalogue - apart from This Was - was snapped up over the following year or so.
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Post by flutestobranches on Jan 24, 2012 15:02:22 GMT -5
Passion Play was first followed by Thick as a brick. So you started with the lighter stuff, then? ;D Jeff I almost fell off my chair laughing at that, Jeff! Very witty! I am enjoying reading about everyone's first exposure to Tull. I heard "Songs from the Wood" at a friend's house. I was hooked from the start, and there was no going back from there! David
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2012 2:37:29 GMT -5
I'm assuming this is first one bought. Because I first heard Tull at a friends house, he was a was drummer in a band and they were learning this wild cool and funny song called "Dharma For One" and they were doing a great job with it, they were doing the song because Mike was a very talented drummer. While they played, I sat there checking out the cover with the crazy looking guy tempting us with a fish skeleton..very cool! I was in Jr.High and the 9th grade dance featured some great new and exciting, music brought along by one of the leading "heads" of the school, Cream, Canned Heat, Mountain were all titles I saw while leafing through the pile of albums there. One that stuck out was the brand new album by that guy with the fish! The album cover featured something I'd been attempting in art class...a woodcut! Loved it. The crazy guy with the fish on this cover also had extra fingers!! Not everybody noticed this and was to become clear to me later.... I was into Cream, Zeppelin, James Gang, Crosby Stills and Nash I went out later that week and picked up a couple of albums, Stand-Up among them, I was totally taken! A New Day Yesterday was so heavy, yet it had ....a flute! (?) weird, but cool weird. Reading the credits I found that this crazy looking guy sang, played flute, mouth organ, guitar, organ and piano!!! and he wrote all the songs!!! HE NEEDED ALL THOSE FINGERS man o man the crazy guy was a musical genius! It had everything, funny songs, hard rock songs, soft love songs, it even had a song that had a blasting jam to the end......and then, they came back blazing away...I liked this album alot... I still hadn't been totally immersed though, as I had yet to see them live, concerts were a new thing for me. Talk was that Tull was great live, but then everyone said that about bands they liked..... and I had no idea what I was in for.............My God live (with all those fingers and eyeballs) would seal the deal! I have many favorite Tull albums for a myriad of different reasons, TAAB probably my all around fav, each album has its own special character, but for a sheer straight solid and totally inventive "rock" album Stand-Up remains my favorite and my first.
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Post by Oldghost on Feb 5, 2012 19:38:15 GMT -5
Heavy Horses ! I decided on that fatal purchase after watching the now legendary Madison Square Garden 1978 via satellite, which ofcourse blew me away. Funny enough, I didn`t even know which band I was watching on the telly, but I found out next day in the TV magazine that this was Jethro Tull, the band whose name was familiar to me only by listening Bungle In The Jungle on the radio couple of years earlier, which I strongly disliked. So till 1978 Jethro Tull was just a lousy band in my perception, judging it solely by few listens of that Bungle thingy. I couldn`t have imagined at that time that I was to become a completely crazy fan only 3 or 4 years later. (funny how things turn around completely). And so the first listen of my new Heavy Horses album only confirmed the fact I wasn`t drunk or druged while watching Madison Square Garden gig, but I suddenly found myself in the grip of magic of a great band ever since. After all these years HH is still among my top 5 Tull works.
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Post by rockislander on Feb 13, 2012 20:10:32 GMT -5
The Very Best of Jethro Tull. I thought that with that compilation I would have all the Tull I needed - I was wrong. I was hooked and have been buying more and more ever since.
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Post by Jethro Tull FTW on Feb 19, 2012 8:09:45 GMT -5
I can't quite remember. My dad showed me alot of them when I was younger like Broadsword, but I was a bit young to understand. Later on he showed me War Child and I remember trying to work out with how each picture linked with each song. I still wasn't hooked though. I later listened to Lap Of Luxury and didn't like it much. (Still not too fond of that song) Though when I listened to Conundrum on Bursting Out, I just thought "Wow!" and the next summer I listened to pretty much every Tull album, as my dad had basically all of them, and now I'm a huge fan.
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Post by Preston Platform on Feb 19, 2012 19:15:00 GMT -5
First bought album Aqualung closely followed by TAAB this was early 1973 and both releases were of course already out
First bought album on release date Passion Play
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Post by awol on Feb 19, 2012 22:48:10 GMT -5
Benefit! My friend was actually the owner and it played all night when I slept over because we left the stack arm over to the side on his player which put the particular model on repeat. I liked the peaceful flute intro to With you... and I sure slept good that night! Its close to being my favorite album today and I still havent worn it out so to speak. Sometimes I'll go to it needing a "fix" of a certain song.
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Post by My God on Feb 20, 2012 14:41:12 GMT -5
Benefit! My friend was actually the owner and it played all night when I slept over because we left the stack arm over to the side on his player which put the particular model on repeat. I liked the peaceful flute intro to With you... and I sure slept good that night! Its close to being my favorite album today and I still havent worn it out so to speak. Sometimes I'll go to it needing a "fix" of a certain song. Mine was Aqualung and I've never looked back! Wondring Aloud/Again.
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