Post by griffis on Feb 18, 2010 3:01:45 GMT
Wonderful to have found this place. I've been catching up on reading many of the past threads before deciding to jump in.
I'm 41 and write from Portland, Oregon, USA. I have lived all over the US and have had the good fortune to travel to Canada, Mexico and parts of Europe (I'm a big anglophile and my wife and I have been convinced our whole lives we should have been born in Britain.)
I play guitar, bass, drums and a bit of tenor banjo, mandolin and harmonica (aside from bass, I am afraid I don't play any of these instruments with much skill.)
I must confess I am a fairly new convert to Jethro Tull. Being a lifelong music freak, I of course have always known OF the band, but while I have pretty far-reaching tastes, I have primarily been immersed in early rock and roll/rockabilly, garage rock, punk rock and some experimental/noisy sorts of things.
I have always liked the idea of Jethro Tull, but it's only been in recent months that I've truly delved into their catalog, outside of hearing their Big Radio Hits and hearing snippets from some albums at various parties in my youth, etc.
In short, I am just floored. The breadth and depth of the talent involved and the range of the music itself is astonishing. I feel as though I have wasted years not investigating every note and poring over the finer points of the lyrics and songs and albums.
I am attempting to enjoin the catalog of recordings chronologically. I have acquired all the studio albums up through Song of the Woods with the exceptions of Warchild and Too Old To Rock and Roll... which I plan to pick up this week.
I also purchased the "Classic Artists: Jethro Tull" DVD and read S.A. Nollen's history of the band.
It's odd...I tend to prefer my rock-oriented music more raw and basic. I typically think of things like concept albums, extended solos and suites, poetic aspirations, the mixing in of classical instruments as pretentious. But in Tull all of this is done so masterfully and with such art and often with such a wry, intelligent sense of humor, it cannot be denied.
Just phenomenal.
I feel honored to count myself as a fan, albeit a mere tadpole yet.
I'm 41 and write from Portland, Oregon, USA. I have lived all over the US and have had the good fortune to travel to Canada, Mexico and parts of Europe (I'm a big anglophile and my wife and I have been convinced our whole lives we should have been born in Britain.)
I play guitar, bass, drums and a bit of tenor banjo, mandolin and harmonica (aside from bass, I am afraid I don't play any of these instruments with much skill.)
I must confess I am a fairly new convert to Jethro Tull. Being a lifelong music freak, I of course have always known OF the band, but while I have pretty far-reaching tastes, I have primarily been immersed in early rock and roll/rockabilly, garage rock, punk rock and some experimental/noisy sorts of things.
I have always liked the idea of Jethro Tull, but it's only been in recent months that I've truly delved into their catalog, outside of hearing their Big Radio Hits and hearing snippets from some albums at various parties in my youth, etc.
In short, I am just floored. The breadth and depth of the talent involved and the range of the music itself is astonishing. I feel as though I have wasted years not investigating every note and poring over the finer points of the lyrics and songs and albums.
I am attempting to enjoin the catalog of recordings chronologically. I have acquired all the studio albums up through Song of the Woods with the exceptions of Warchild and Too Old To Rock and Roll... which I plan to pick up this week.
I also purchased the "Classic Artists: Jethro Tull" DVD and read S.A. Nollen's history of the band.
It's odd...I tend to prefer my rock-oriented music more raw and basic. I typically think of things like concept albums, extended solos and suites, poetic aspirations, the mixing in of classical instruments as pretentious. But in Tull all of this is done so masterfully and with such art and often with such a wry, intelligent sense of humor, it cannot be denied.
Just phenomenal.
I feel honored to count myself as a fan, albeit a mere tadpole yet.