Dead-Duck
Prentice Jack
Guess who's on the cover of PROG Magazine? Ye Oldde Ian Anderson himself!! Great photo!
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Post by Dead-Duck on Feb 26, 2022 1:04:18 GMT
Hello Madogfagin, thank you for your reply. The THIS WAS anniversary deal is still in the plastic. I turn 52 next month, on that day I will bust open that one and another one still in plastic - BENEFIT (50th anniversary enhanced edition) !!!
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Post by jackinthegreen on Feb 26, 2022 1:49:12 GMT
I'm a huge fan of there 70s albums, I've never listened to THIS WAS cept for bits&pieces of it on youtube. I took the plunge and ordered the 50th Anniversary box set! Has all these extra CDs , even a DVD! Has anyone ever had this box set? It's an excellent box set of an alum I first bought back in 1968. Never fails to evoke pleasant memories of a time and place and friends, some of whom have passed away. The opening riff to My Sunday Feeling is pure magic. Agree on My Sunday Feeling.....I also love It's Breaking me Up and Beggars Farm........and Serenade...one of Ian's early flute pieces......fantastic album of the time....and this was Jethro Tull....
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Post by maddogfagin on Feb 26, 2022 6:47:04 GMT
It's an excellent box set of an alum I first bought back in 1968. Never fails to evoke pleasant memories of a time and place and friends, some of whom have passed away. The opening riff to My Sunday Feeling is pure magic. Agree on My Sunday Feeling.....I also love It's Breaking me Up and Beggars Farm........and Serenade...one of Ian's early flute pieces......fantastic album of the time....and this was Jethro Tull.... Of interest there was an Australian EP released in 1972 titled THIS IS. Quite expensive and difficult to find these days.
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Post by maddogfagin on Feb 27, 2022 15:42:11 GMT
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Post by orion12 on Mar 12, 2022 9:14:42 GMT
I think I never fully understood the album cover concept of this debut album. Yes the band is old on the album sleeve, but why? Is there anyone kind to explain it to me? Thanks.
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Post by Budding Stately Hero on Mar 12, 2022 12:38:43 GMT
Orion,
I do not have a correct answer, just my two-cents worth. And that is, it was just something creative to do. I never found anything in the lyrics to suggest a theme behind why they dressed up as old men with dogs or why on the back cover he is holding a fish bone, to suggest that he got it out of the rubbish (they were poor at the time?). Knowing Ian's sense of humor, I imagine him wanting to show a portrait of old men looking back on their first album. When we see the Benefit cover, it also has the same reversal, the band looking through the window seeing them play, and the listener looking through the window seeing the band, as if the listener and the band are one. Why the dogs? I'm at a complete loss for that one, because the appearance of the dogs leads me to believe they are all strays and homeless.
I always felt the song, A New Day Yesterday fit this photo well. "It was a new day yesterday, 'but by God', it's an old day now!"
I suppose it's time for me to actually read the anniversary book for this one to see if the question got addressed.
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 12, 2022 17:12:36 GMT
Orion, I do not have a correct answer, just my two-cents worth. And that is, it was just something creative to do. I never found anything in the lyrics to suggest a theme behind why they dressed up as old men with dogs or why on the back cover he is holding a fish bone, to suggest that he got it out of the rubbish (they were poor at the time?). Knowing Ian's sense of humor, I imagine him wanting to show a portrait of old men looking back on their first album. When we see the Benefit cover, it also has the same reversal, the band looking through the window seeing them play, and the listener looking through the window seeing the band, as if the listener and the band are one. Why the dogs? I'm at a complete loss for that one, because the appearance of the dogs leads me to believe they are all strays and homeless. I always felt the song, A New Day Yesterday fit this photo well. "It was a new day yesterday, 'but by God', it's an old day now!" I suppose it's time for me to actually read the anniversary book for this one to see if the question got addressed. All the above and it must have been increasingly difficult for Mick Abrahams as, it later turned out, he wanted Tull to continue playing the blues although Ian Anderson's songs were beginning to fill the group's set list. So for all of the musicians This Was marked in reality the end of a blues era after only one album. John Peel was indignant at Mick leaving the band as were a majority of the music press but life carries on and Ian's maturity as a composer and band leader proved any doubters wrong.
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 12, 2022 17:32:38 GMT
From His Music is Golden 50 Years of Jethro Tullwww.palmspringslife.com/jethro-tull/Ken Black: On This Was, there's a lot of blues influence because of Mick Abrahams. When he went on to Blodwyn Pig, did his leaving Jethro Tull free you creatively to stretch out toward more progressive rock and jazz?
Ian Anderson: Indeed it did, because in the summer of 1968 when we'd been together for about seven months I suppose, I began to write the music that would become the Stand Up album in ’69. Some of it I played to Mick, and we went through it a little bit. But it wasn't something that I think he found ... he readily ... could absorb. And then Mick began to withdraw a little bit from the band musically and in terms of reliability. [He went] back to work with some guys who he'd work with before like Jack Lancaster and they went on to form Blodwyn Pig. So, everything was fine. Blodwyn Pig was adopted by the Chrysalis Record Company and given a very good head start.
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Post by orion12 on Mar 12, 2022 18:26:15 GMT
Thanks a lot guys(maddogfagin & Budding Stately). Now it is much clearer to me why the album cover was made that way.
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Post by Budding Stately Hero on Mar 13, 2022 0:13:49 GMT
Thanks a lot guys(maddogfagin & Budding Stately). Now it is much clearer to me why the album cover was made that way. You're welcome, buddy. Album covers intrigue me. I was showing my daughter the front cover of ELO's "Eldorado", and was explaining that artists will often use other forms of media to enforce the idea they are trying to conceive with a subtext among most of the songs. Still, after all these years, I still cannot figure out why all those rock bands of the 70's kept using spaceships for their front covers, being that their music rarely ever had anything to do with other worlds. The only thing I can come up with is that the covers simply looked cool. I asked her to stare at Boston's first album cover until she figured out what she was really looking at (upside down, of course). I remember back in the early 90's, when Mark Knopfler was promoting On Every Street, he was talking about how he didn't feel the need to put his face on his album covers. But, he was criticizing a certain British artist used a blowup of his face for every album cover (but, he didn't go as far as saying who it was)....(Can you say, Sue-Sue-Sussudio?). Actually, I imagine it's Phil, but then again, it could have been Rod Stewart. Dunno.
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 13, 2022 6:39:50 GMT
Thanks a lot guys(maddogfagin & Budding Stately). Now it is much clearer to me why the album cover was made that way. Glad to be of service From memory, This Was is one of only a handful of albums issued in the UK with no title or artist name on the front cover. Overseas - title and artist were included.
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 14, 2022 6:48:41 GMT
Alternative cover image
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 22, 2022 7:01:00 GMT
THIS WAS - Is it a JETHRO TULL album 51 views March 20, 2022 SMELL THE VINYL
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Post by maddogfagin on May 17, 2022 5:30:31 GMT
Radio Spots for Jethro Tull "This Was" - 1968 - RARE Promo 7" Record 65 views May 15, 2022
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Post by JTull 007 on May 17, 2022 10:26:43 GMT
Radio Spots for Jethro Tull "This Was" - 1968 - RARE Promo 7" Record65 views May 15, 2022 Radio Wasteland 799 subscribers HOLY TULL PROMO !!!! Thank you Graham
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Post by JTull 007 on Nov 7, 2022 1:43:29 GMT
THIS WAS JETHRO TULL: IN THE BEGINNING | THE BROADSWORD FILE EPISODE #1 LONG TIME JETHRO TULL FANS, MIKE & MIKE EXAMINE THE JETHRO TULL ALBUM THIS WAS IN THIS OVERVIEW OF THE ALBUM AND THE EARLY YEARS OF TULL, THE LADS LOOK AT EACH SONG, AND DISCUSS THE MUSIC AND LYRICS AND ALBUM ART
SKIP THE GAB AND JUMP TO YOUR FAVORITE PARTS - If you have to === INDEX ====
01:00 - The Early Years / The Blades / John Evan Band / Marquee Club 04:40 - Arrival of Mick Abraham / Original line-up / Blues/Jazz 10:20 - Singles / Mandolin / Beginning of Tensions With Mick 14:15 - My Sunday Feeling 15:20 - Someday The Sun Won't Shine For You 17:20 - Beggars Farm 19:20 - Clive Bunker / Doane Perry Connection 22:55 - Move On Alone 26:05 - Dharma For On 27:50 - It's Breaking Me Up 28:45 - Cat's Squirrel 30:35 - A Song For Jeffrey 35:00 - How Jethro Tull Got Their Name 36:20 - Rolling Stones Rock 'n Roll Circus with Tony Iommi 37:20 - Album Wrap-Up
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JT_fan1994
Journeyman
I'll catch a ride on your violin ...
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Post by JT_fan1994 on Apr 14, 2024 3:19:37 GMT
I find it fitting that the album is called “This Was”, as in this WAS what the band sounded like.
I like the blues a lot, so as much as I enjoy that Tull changed their sound, as a blues fanatic I can't help but still like this album.
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Post by trainspotter on Apr 14, 2024 20:53:30 GMT
I find it fitting that the album is called “This Was”, as in this WAS what the band sounded like. I like the blues a lot, so as much as I enjoy that Tull changed their sound, as a blues fanatic I can't help but still like this album. "This was" my introduction to Jethro Tull, back in 1969. I was 11 years old then. I remember I struggled to like it, but it did grow over time. I was fascinated by the bands name. "Tull" means "nonsense" in Norwegian language.
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Post by jackinthegreen on Apr 14, 2024 23:46:29 GMT
I find it fitting that the album is called “This Was”, as in this WAS what the band sounded like. I like the blues a lot, so as much as I enjoy that Tull changed their sound, as a blues fanatic I can't help but still like this album. "This was" my introduction to Jethro Tull, back in 1969. I was 11 years old then. I remember I struggled to like it, but it did grow over time. I was fascinated by the bands name. "Tull" means "nonsense" in Norwegian language. Aqualung was the first Tull album I bought on it's release, I was 16
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Post by rredmond on Apr 15, 2024 18:47:34 GMT
Hello Madogfagin, thank you for your reply. The THIS WAS anniversary deal is still in the plastic. I turn 52 next month, on that day I will bust open that one and another one still in plastic - BENEFIT (50th anniversary enhanced edition) !!! Did we ever get an update here Dead-Duck ? And JT_fan1994 your posting rate is on fire! I think you like it here
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