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| funkyalfonso (Vancouver Island) | Posted: Jul 24, 2012 - 15:56 rabbi_phil wrote: Don't despair my brutha. join us at Zappa.com>Zappa radio for all things music and Zappa. Amneezra Kadabra and goodnight. I'm on my way. Not far from the Parish of St. Alfonzo. Sim-sala-bin. |
| kurtster (Back in Ohiya, for now ...) | Posted: Apr 16, 2012 - 05:00 anotherlistener wrote: Tull still rocks! Great stuff! And here's another request for Allman Bro's. "Blue Sky". It was played about an hour ago ! |
| buddy | Posted: Mar 15, 2012 - 13:29 fatcatjb wrote: this was my first Jethro Tull song...and I'll never forget it. 12 years old and very impressed with such an interesting sound Same here, about maybe 15. Classic, old school, back in the day.....whatever, still awesome! A friend of mine has a sign that reads....."I may be old, but I got to see all the cool bands!" JT was one of my first 2-3 concerts, Aqualung tour. |
| fatcatjb (Sunny Sacramento) | Posted: Feb 12, 2012 - 18:55 this was my first Jethro Tull song...and I'll never forget it. 12 years old and very impressed with such an interesting sound |
| DD rabbi_phil (beach) | Posted: Feb 12, 2012 - 18:51 FRANK!!.........sh****t.......caught me off guard again |
| oppositelock (On the road) | Posted: Nov 09, 2011 - 12:03 Just bought the Aqualung (40th Anniversary Special Edition), out a couple days ago. Completely remastered from the original multi track master. The instruments just stand out way more then I remember. AWESOME! http://musictap.net/2011/11/08/review-jethro-tull-aqualung-40th-anniversary-special-edition/  |
| parttime (Kona Hawaii) | Posted: Nov 09, 2011 - 12:02 NicJohn wrote: Love this song and album! Great memories of high school years. Same here.. I had the 8track.. |
| Propayne (Richmond VA) | Posted: Sep 07, 2011 - 13:24 9 from me. Love it. |
| window (Richmond, VA) | Posted: Sep 07, 2011 - 13:23 bam23 wrote: I come neither to diss nor praise Jethro Tull. However, much as I really liked some of their work in their best period, not everything stands the test of time. I recently checked a Best of CD out of the local library. When I listened, it was hard to understand what was best about any of it. It was plodding and supremely uninspired. When I checked the actual CD, it was another Jethro Tull album I had never heard, or heard of, erroneously placed in the wrong case. And was it ever turgid! The interplay between guitar and bass noted by another poster here was not evident. However, they were churning through the notes with a steady trudge. Some bands really have creative peaks and deep troughs. This particular piece is one from their high period. Sure reads like a diss to me. |
| Aud (lost in lakecity) | Posted: Jun 05, 2011 - 04:01 NicJohn wrote: Love this song and album! Great memories of high school years. This has not aged well... |
| NicJohn (Northern Michigan) | Posted: May 04, 2011 - 14:03 Love this song and album! Great memories of high school years. |
| DD rabbi_phil (beach) | Posted: Apr 02, 2011 - 22:17 boatbyrd wrote: I keep expecting to hear some Frank Zappa style lyrics when I hear that riff, only to be disappointed. Don't despair my brutha. join us at Zappa.com>Zappa radio for all things music and Zappa. Amneezra Kadabra and goodnight. |
| boatbyrd (South Carolina) | Posted: Mar 02, 2011 - 11:13 I keep expecting to hear some Frank Zappa style lyrics when I hear that riff, only to be disappointed. |
| spij (Helsinki, Finland) | Posted: Jan 30, 2011 - 03:53 Albums "Songs from the woods" and "Heavy horses" are definitely worth listening! |
| oenyaw | Posted: Oct 27, 2010 - 11:22 I haven't heard this song on the radio since 1971! |
| bam23 (Berkeley) | Posted: Aug 24, 2010 - 19:09 I come neither to diss nor praise Jethro Tull. However, much as I really liked some of their work in their best period, not everything stands the test of time. I recently checked a Best of CD out of the local library. When I listened, it was hard to understand what was best about any of it. It was plodding and supremely uninspired. When I checked the actual CD, it was another Jethro Tull album I had never heard, or heard of, erroneously placed in the wrong case. And was it ever turgid! The interplay between guitar and bass noted by another poster here was not evident. However, they were churning through the notes with a steady trudge. Some bands really have creative peaks and deep troughs. This particular piece is one from their high period. |
| DaveInVA (In a hovel in effluent Damnville, VA) | Posted: Aug 24, 2010 - 19:02 Love it - saw them live in the early 70's  |
| That_SOB (The Dark Side of the Tune) | Posted: Jul 23, 2010 - 19:32 ubastard wrote: I saw this dude live many moons ago. Good evening but his manic flute playing got a bit much. Well, look at it this way, Anderson could have played "cow bell" ....("manically")  |
| ubastard (Comox, BC) | Posted: Jan 14, 2010 - 18:17 I saw this dude live many moons ago. Good evening but his manic flute playing got a bit much. |
| kaybee (Lost in the Wilds of Toronto) | Posted: Dec 14, 2009 - 14:56 felix_the_man wrote: This rocks !! But to each their own. The musicianship in this is fantastic. I learned to play the bass listening to Glenn Cornick !! You had an excellent mentor!  Cornick is one of my alltime favourite bassists. I really liked the way he and Martin Barre played counterpoint off each other. |
| westslope (BC coast) | Posted: Dec 14, 2009 - 08:18 Haven't heard this in years! Love the production values! -lol-
One of my favourite bands in the day and I still love to hear JT.
BTW, does anybody know if Ian Anderson is still farming Atlantic salmon? |
| felix_the_man (Puget Sound) | Posted: Oct 12, 2009 - 10:48 Papernapkin wrote: This really sucks. I turn off RP whenever JT is played. It's the second worse music ever. This rocks !! But to each their own. The musicianship in this is fantastic. I learned to play the bass listening to Glenn Cornick !! |
| Jazbo (Beautiful Valparaiso IN.) | Posted: Oct 12, 2009 - 10:44 romeotuma wrote: O.K. Romeotuma,.... who do you have in that hotel room with you? |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Sep 10, 2009 - 22:20 romeotuma wrote: Jethro Tull - To Cry You a Song This album was really amazing— it was surprising how rock solid fantastic the music was, and how it was so original... high energy, virtuoso talent, and brilliant originality... profound importance because of qurik, meaning and dilatant dabbling unique and organic counterposts rife with meaning and melody... fresh as a sophisticated singing fish offering fins of direction with purpose... codes which mass meaning to the initiated.... I intuitively feel such secrets transmit profound meaning... stirs the best in the chest to follow etiquette... a complicated dance like the moments fo a true play... ride this moment through infinity... the meaning is individual... put no limitations on yourself... everybody is so beautiful... so alive.... allow the image to carry happiness.... |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Sep 10, 2009 - 22:12 Jethro Tull - To Cry You a Song This album was really amazing— it was surprising how rock solid fantastic the music was, and how it was so original... high energy, virtuoso talent, and brilliant originality... profound importance because of qurik, meaning and dilatant dabbling unique and organic counterposts rife with meaning and melody... fresh as a sophisticated singing fish offering fins of direction with purpose... codes which mass meaning to the initiated.... I intuitively feel such secrets transmit profound meaning... stirs the best in the chest to follow etiquette... a complicated dance like the moments fo a true play... ride this moment through infinity... the meaning is individual... put no limitations on yourself... everybody is so beutiful... so alive.... allow the image to carry happiness.... |
| kaybee (Lost in the Wilds of Toronto) | Posted: Aug 10, 2009 - 18:02  Thank you, thank you, thank you, Bill (Becky?) for the great segue from Pearl Jam's Black to this, one of my favourite songs off of possibly my favourite Tull album. |
| HazzeSwede (Vinyl Land) | Posted: Aug 10, 2009 - 10:02 Timely played Bill,thanks ! |
| anotherlistener | Posted: Aug 10, 2009 - 09:46 Tull still rocks! Great stuff! And here's another request for Allman Bro's. "Blue Sky". |
| iscoot4peace | Posted: Aug 10, 2009 - 09:45 philinnz wrote: unmistakable - JT from the moment it started I fyou mean tired, and very dated...I completely agree with you! |
| philinnz (Wellington, New Zealand) | Posted: Jun 07, 2009 - 23:02 unmistakable - JT from the moment it started |
| rhiannonstone (Berkeley, CA) | Posted: Jun 07, 2009 - 23:00 Oh HELL yeah. Benefit is my favorite Tull album, and this is one of my favorite songs from it. |
| xkolibuul (Chuckanut sandstone) | Posted: Jun 07, 2009 - 23:00 Better than taking it up here. Move along. Wizzuvv_oz wrote: strong aversion to JT. have to take it up with my therapist. |
| redstorm (East Coast!........ Lou!) | Posted: May 07, 2009 - 06:28 Jungle_Jim wrote: Great drumming - is it Barrimore Barlow? That noted engineer, and dog boarder, Clive Bunker.....  |
| redstorm (East Coast!........ Lou!) | Posted: May 07, 2009 - 05:58 Papernapkin wrote: This really sucks. I turn off RP whenever JT is played. It's the second worse music ever. Hey sweething, do you really think ANYONE (besides a close circle of friends) really care what you or I or anyone on here thinks? But, especially YOU! plus this shit Rocks!!! shoulda seen them tearing up the Garden!!!  |
| Wizzuvvoz (Land of Nod. East of Eden on Route 66.) | Posted: May 07, 2009 - 05:56 strong aversion to JT. have to take it up with my therapist. |
| jonahboo | Posted: May 07, 2009 - 05:55 I LOVE IT arrrgggghhhhh |
| pope183 (Vinyamar) | Posted: Apr 05, 2009 - 16:31 Papernapkin wrote: This really sucks. I turn off RP whenever JT is played. It's the second worse music ever. see ya later then ... |
| Papernapkin (Mountain View, CA) | Posted: Apr 05, 2009 - 16:26 This really sucks. I turn off RP whenever JT is played. It's the second worse music ever. |
| yavamoni | Posted: Mar 05, 2009 - 04:42 What a pity this was on air just before I started listening! |
| TanteJensen (one step ahead from my shoe shine, two steps away from the county line) | Posted: Mar 05, 2009 - 03:53 fourwindsbar wrote: Dude- when this came out radio was making us listen to "Close To You" by the Carpenters- get a freaking clue, please. Tull stretched so many boundaries- sublime! Ah well, that's really sweet of them, a little stretching is always welcome, especially after a nice nap on the couch. Still like the Carpenters better, though. I'm a harmonies guy. |
| Jungle_Jim (Brighton UK) | Posted: Feb 01, 2009 - 14:22 Great drumming - is it Barrimore Barlow? |
| AaronOfMackenzie (Canada) | Posted: Nov 30, 2008 - 08:41 This is great, although it does sort of remind me of cheech & chong.... da da da da da da Da Da Da! I'm laughing! Thanks RP!  |
| forge (Boynton Beach, FL) | Posted: Nov 30, 2008 - 08:39 sirrus wrote: If so, then we're all dead. (Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata circa 1801 is ranked #1 on RP) Dead, or immortal? Hmmmmmmmmm mwah ah ah ahhhhh |
| forge (Boynton Beach, FL) | Posted: Nov 30, 2008 - 08:38 Woop!!! First CD I ever owned. Woulda had it on vinyl too but that never happened. Tull is always great, and thank GOD this isn't commercial radio 'cuz he'd have been FORCED to play Locomotive Breath, hurk. |
| Brooky (Albany, NY - Home of Not Sure What) | Posted: Aug 27, 2008 - 13:44 Digitally Remastered With Bonus Tracks —-Aren't we all??/ Good stuff Bill —- |
| Shesdifferent (Just visiting this planet waiting for the ticket home) | Posted: Aug 27, 2008 - 13:44 I don't care what you say, this is just rocks! Thanks for the replay! |
| govna (beantown) | Posted: Aug 27, 2008 - 13:43 fucking genius. JTFTW. |
| Kristi (Athens, GA) | Posted: Aug 27, 2008 - 13:42 sirrus wrote: If so, then we're all dead. (Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata circa 1801 is ranked #1 on RP) ROFL!! Thanks for the laugh!  |
| thewiseking (New York, New York) | Posted: Jun 25, 2008 - 08:56 Papernapkin wrote: You've got to be kidding. SpinalTap does better. the Tap had dancing dwarves. I'll give you that! |
| fourwindsbar | Posted: Jun 25, 2008 - 08:49 JohnBauer wrote: Wretched noise. Dude- when this came out radio was making us listen to "Close To You" by the Carpenters- get a freaking clue, please. Tull stretched so many boundaries- sublime! |