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Post by steelmonkey on Dec 11, 2010 2:03:14 GMT
One thing i remember...from my first few concerts (73 thru 76) and the handful of boots available, on vinyl, during those years...was my private, intense belief, during concerts, that the little riff ( or should it be called a figure, or melody?) that is repeated over and over again on 'Quartet'...but was played once every gig, usually buried toward the end of the flute solo...itself bruied in brick or My God...was the deepest, finest, most beautiful, Tullest moment of the night...and during those few notes and counterpoint...I was, no matter who i was with or what else was going on....in pure, pure, blissful Tull-land...happy to be exactly 'in the moment' and aware that those few moments...a sort of touching bottom in the ocean of Tull...I was in harmony with life and the universe and absolutely sure i was at my assigned spot in the cosmos...consuming those sounds and wallowing in Tull. Ya know what I mean?
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Post by maddogfagin on Dec 11, 2010 9:03:59 GMT
One thing i remember...from my first few concerts (73 thru 76) and the handful of boots available, on vinyl, during those years...was my private, intense belief, during concerts, that the little riff ( or should it be called a figure, or melody?) that is repeated over and over again on 'Quartet'...but was played once every gig, usually buried toward the end of the flute solo...itself bruied in brick or My God...was the deepest, finest, most beautiful, Tullest moment of the night...and during those few notes and counterpoint...I was, no matter who i was with or what else was going on....in pure, pure, blissful Tull-land...happy to be exactly 'in the moment' and aware that those few moments...a sort of touching bottom in the ocean of Tull...I was in harmony with life and the universe and absolutely sure i was at my assigned spot in the cosmos...consuming those sounds and wallowing in Tull. Ya know what I mean? And that's what singles out the music of Jethro Tull from all the others. Those little "riffs" or "figures" that you hear and realise why you are a fan of the band. There is really no other music quite like the compositions of IA whatever anyone else may say.
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Post by nonrabbit on Dec 11, 2010 9:23:13 GMT
One thing i remember...from my first few concerts (73 thru 76) and the handful of boots available, on vinyl, during those years...was my private, intense belief, during concerts, that the little riff ( or should it be called a figure, or melody?) that is repeated over and over again on 'Quartet'...but was played once every gig, usually buried toward the end of the flute solo...itself bruied in brick or My God...was the deepest, finest, most beautiful, Tullest moment of the night...and during those few notes and counterpoint...I was, no matter who i was with or what else was going on....in pure, pure, blissful Tull-land...happy to be exactly 'in the moment' and aware that those few moments...a sort of touching bottom in the ocean of Tull...I was in harmony with life and the universe and absolutely sure i was at my assigned spot in the cosmos...consuming those sounds and wallowing in Tull. Ya know what I mean? And that's what singles out the music of Jethro Tull from all the others. Those little "riffs" or "figures" that you hear and realise why you are a fan of the band. There is really no other music quite like the compositions of IA whatever anyone else may say. The lists things are interesting and all that but I find it nigh impossible to distinguish most songs or albums from the other in terms of liking them better. Even when I say that Benefit and To Cry You a Song is my favourite part of that is due to what I was feeling personally at the time and not because I rate the album higher than SFTW HH or Broadsword etc Tull for me is a spiders web of beauty spun with creativity and mastership - little diamonds of music spread out on the web glistening and sparkling interlinked and unique. ;D
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Post by steelmonkey on Dec 11, 2010 18:08:49 GMT
My top 100, excuse me,, my CORRECT top 100, didn't include a single instrumental only title...but the heart of Tull moments for me are almost all instrumental: the last part of the Velvet Green interlude ( you know-the male orgasm set to music), the last part of the Pibroch instrumental part, the two martin slashes throughout Acres Wild, the counterpoint in Budapest, the instrumental in Lost in Crowds, the drum intro to Clasp and countless bits of brick and play too hard to describe without a You Tube clock....The vocals on Overseer/Overture are serious 'heart of Tull'.
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Post by futureshock on Dec 12, 2010 19:59:10 GMT
My top 100, excuse me,, my CORRECT top 100, didn't include a single instrumental only title...but the heart of Tull moments for me are almost all instrumental: the last part of the Velvet Green interlude ( you know-the male orgasm set to music), the last part of the Pibroch instrumental part, the two martin slashes throughout Acres Wild, the counterpoint in Budapest, the instrumental in Lost in Crowds, the drum intro to Clasp and countless bits of brick and play too hard to describe without a You Tube clock....The vocals on Overseer/Overture are serious 'heart of Tull'. If there is one band I'd see live exclusively to see how they work things out live instead of as originally recorded, it's Tull. Fortunately, many Tull songs played live feel longer than perhaps they are, because some interesting musical enhancement has been added, and it perks up the evening as soon as you know you're not watching a cookie cutter production from Henry Ford Music. Folk rock music with a jazz attitude and classical discipline.
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