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Jethro Tull Live at the Capital Centre 1977, Martin Barre w/ 1959 Les Paul Standard

123sg

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When I listen to Tull, I am aware that many of Jethro Tull songs and recordings incorporate unusual time-signatures and key changes within a particular number. They don't seem to heavily rely on the the standard 4/4 or half-time, like many rock bands of the period. So to play like Martin Barre, you have to move away from the standard 4/4 and reach out to the unusual time signatures. In a way it's somewhat related to Jazz music with intricate and difficult passages being the norm.
 

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Saw them in Frankfurt in 73. Anderson leapt from the side of the stage, landed on one foot and put his flute right on the tip of Barre's nose. They were outstanding.
 

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Always like the tone and timbre of Ian Anderson acoustic sound during the 70's Tull era. What affordable guitars could replicate this today?
 

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Agree, I picked up a J 45 and I guitar store eight years ago and regret to this day not buying it Gibson nice crisp sound 2400 American. I think a lot of it is done in the studio leave it to the experts?
 

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Agree, I picked up a J 45 and I guitar store eight years ago and regret to this day not buying it Gibson nice crisp sound 2400 American. I think a lot of it is done in the studio leave it to the experts?
 

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Here's one for you Brits out there, in your own backyard this time.

Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick Live At The London Hippodrome, 1977​


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Just watch the post video by Marshall 87 looks like a classical guitar strong with steel strings also seeing interview with Ian Anderson He would stop the cab so to speak and runninthe pawnshops tobuyguitars
 

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Just watch the post video by Marshall 87 looks like a classical guitar strong with steel strings also seeing interview with Ian Anderson He would stop the cab so to speak and runninthe pawnshops tobuyguitars
 

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Now I know where Jeff Beck out that idea for a scatterbrain May I be so bold
 

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The Outro jam right at the end I think it’s a brick sounds very much like Jeff Becks Scatterbrain
 

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Martin Barre used a 1959 Les Paul from Benefit up till the Bursting Out live album (I believe he did away with this one, but he may own a few more LP's somewhere)...
He has also played a Gibson mandolin, a Gibson ES 335, a Telecaster, a Strat and various Paul Reed Smith guitars...
Jethro Tull is one of my favorite rock bands. Their best albums, I believe, are Stand Up, Aqualung, Living in the Past, Songs From The Wood and Too Old To Rock N Roll: Too Young To Die! I really liked the album Too Old To Rock & Roll, and its storyline about an aging rock star named Ray Lomas, who gets in an accident and subsequently becomes popular again.
John Glascock was an excellent bass player for JT, and he sadly died in 1979 at age 28 after undergoing open heart surgery. He also played a Fender Precision Bass, a Music Man Stingray, and a Gibson EB bass.
Ian Anderson is an amazing flute player and guitarist. How he is able to stand on one leg and play the flute at the same time is a mystery to me. My parents are huge Jethro Tull fans, so that explains why little 20 year old me knows about the group. I also received the album Heavy Horses as a Christmas present, and also recently bought the live 2 record set Bursting Out. Great set of albums.
Their original bassist, Glenn Cornick, was also pretty good at his job, and was a hippie who had a headband and glasses. His bass playing on Bouree is very good. He died in 2014, and after he left Jethro Tull in 1970, formed a hard rock group called Paris with Bob Welch of Fleetwood Mac. Their 2 albums, Paris and Big Towne 2061 are both incredible. I highly recommend them.
I always enjoyed their songs Aqualung, Locomotive Breath and Bungle In The Jungle. Ian Anderson is actually the father in law of Andrew Lincoln from The Walking Dead.
Ian Anderson also had one of the biggest permed hairstyles back in the 70s!
 
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