Teach Him To Play Monopoly And How To SIng In The Rain...

[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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[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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