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[hantsbear]

Re-discovering my past; downloaded a couple of albums long lost - Jethro Tull's "Thick As A Brick" and "A Passion Play".  I suppose you could call them concept albums, as both are one complete work, much as I suppose the infamous "Chateau D'Isastre" tapes might have been.  What led to this?  Standing at a bus stop watching the people and trying to work them into a forty-five minute magnum opus.  Ah, the frustrated prog-rocker within is trying to escape again...

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[grimmbear.livejournal.com]

Ah Tull. One of my favorite bands.
I play 'Songs from the Woods' every chance I get.

Ian Anderson was one of my big crushes growing up.

[beartech420.livejournal.com]

I think aqualung was one of my first albums I bought.
I always enjoyed thick as a brick. Radio stations always had a hard time playing their songs because there was no gaps.

"Your sperm is in the gutter!"
"Your love is in the sink!"

[progbear.livejournal.com]

I had an early affinity for them, and I can’t help but wonder how much of it was the actual music, and how much of it was budding hormones reacting to Messrs. Anderson and Barre. No, because my first experience with them was hearing them on the radio, some new track (can’t remember which offhand) from their then-new album Stormwatch.

If you want to hear the Chateau d'Isaster Tapes, what’s left of them is available on the double CD Nightcap*. Some of it did get integrated into A Passion Play, so it’s interesting to hear it in embryonic form.

I have heard some people who read the fake newspaper that came with the original Thick As A Brick, and they really did think that some bespectacled ten-year-old wrote the lyrics, and got into a lot of trouble for it!

*though most of what’s there is now more easily available as bonus tracks on the inexpensive remastered CD editions

[hantsbear.livejournal.com]

Somewhere I have Nightcap. Unfortunately, I think it's in store in Portsmouth...

[sskroeder.livejournal.com]

Ahh yes... Tull, my first introduction to prog...

I came across Tull by accident. I was supposed to practice "A Salty Dog" by Procol Harum for a choir festival - but played the wrong side of the cassette, and was therefore exposed to the opening riff of Aqualung instead...

The next day I bought Aqualung, Thick as a Brick and Broadsword and the Beast (the last one due only to the album cover *LOL*)...

Now I own 24 CDs of Tull... I must admit that I like A Passion Play better than TaaB, but they are both great albums - among their finest...

I still hear Jethro Tull occasionally although (regarding prog) it's more Genesis and Gentle Giant that appear in the play list these days...

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