The 70s

TRP · Post by **TRP** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 7:19 pm

Here's another counter to the Viking invasion of the thread.

Ladies and gentlemen, from Los Angeles, CA ..,

Unparallelled. Still.

JCBoney · Post by **JCBoney** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 7:44 pm

Speaking of vikings...

JRMapes · Post by **JRMapes** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 8:39 pm

My oldschool rockfu must be weak today. I completely forgot BTO was Canadian. On that I will humbly admit that they and only RUSH

rank higher than April Wine.

I have loaded up my MP3 Player with
Rush 2112, Fly By night, Moving Pictures
BTO Best of, Not Fragile
April Wine Nature of the Beast
Cheap Trick Greatest Hits
Boston Boston, Don't Look Back
38 Special Special Forces
and some
BOC and Nuge just to round it out.

I think I can guarantee dreams filled with mullets and muscle cars tonight. Heh.

Stonegiant · Post by **Stonegiant** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 10:45 pm

Don't forget BOC either

JCBoney · Post by **JCBoney** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 11:44 pm

Let's not forget Manfred Mann and Gerry Rafferty.

T. Foster · Post by **T. Foster** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 12:21 am

I've decided Roxy Music may well have been the best band of the 70s.

Exhibit 1: Ladytron (stick with this one -- for the first half they're just miming to a tape, but in the second half Eno takes over and WOW!)

Exhibit 2: Do the Strand

EDIT: Exhibit 3: Remake/Remodel (can't believe I missed this one the first time around)

If you only know of this band from late-period shlock like "Love is the Drug" and "Avalon," you owe it to yourself to watch these two (EDIT: three) clips!

AxeMental · Post by **AxeMental** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 5:11 am

Lets not forget: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpW13OIcqFo (or were blokes off the table)

Wheggi · Post by **Wheggi** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 7:24 am

Excellent pull Axe! Love Tull, love Broadsword! Check out "Jack in the Green" as well.

- Wheggi

TRP · Post by **TRP** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 11:40 am

Broadsword & the Beast was an awesome tour. I was lucky enough to catch that one.

AxeMental · Post by **AxeMental** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 3:33 pm

W, just checked it out. Its the same year as the prev. clip, I bet its the same tour. TRP I actually "almost" went to that concert (it would have been my first). They came to Orlando (an hour away) but we couldn't find someone to drive (we were all too young). So, 25 years later I get to see a few bits and pieces.

Jethro Tull - Jack-In-The-Green and Pussy Willow - 1982

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJAqGHuaJAY

Hey, check out a young Phil Collins on the drums, and Ian Anderson's grade school music teacher on the synthesizer (or it could be his mum).

BTW, did you see the audiance at the end of the Broadsword video I linked to above, those are some hip senior citizens going to a rock concert.

TRP · Post by **TRP** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 6:49 pm

AxeMental wrote: BTW, did you see the audiance at the end of the Broadsword video I linked to above, those are some hip senior citizens going to a rock concert.

Don't forget that Tull had been around about 15 years by the time BatB was released, and what was to become the main lineup for Tull dated back nearly 20 years to the The Blades. Aqualung was released in '71.

For some of us 1982 was late Tull.

T. Foster · Post by **T. Foster** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 6:55 pm

For me, BatB definitely qualifies as very very late Tull. IMO they peaked with Benefit (1970).

Wheggi · Post by **Wheggi** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 7:55 pm

For me, Tull was amazing all the way through Heavy Horses, though there are sparkling moments scattered afterwards (parts of BatB, a couple of songs on Crest of the Knave). I will say though that I'm not a big fan of Warchild or Too Old to Rock n' Roll, Too Young to Die.

As for old Tull, I'd have to say I like Stand Up best, and for middle era Tull I'd have to chose Songs from the Wood: an all-time classic gamer album!

- Wheggi

T. Foster · Post by **T. Foster** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 8:14 pm

I love Minstrel in the Gallery and Heavy Horses, but I think most of Warchild and Too Old... and big chunks of (dare I say it) A Passion Play are damn near unlistenable. I've never been much of a fan of Songs from the Wood (perhaps because I got it after Heavy Horses which, IMO, does pretty much the same thing only better -- and I much prefer HH's strings over SftW's synths). All of the "extended 80s" albums (counting both Stormwatch (1979) and Catfish Rising (1991)) have 1 or 2 good songs apiece, but none of them is anywhere near consistent enough for me to actually declare it "a good album" -- Under Wraps probably comes closest for me (ironically, since it's the album most Tull fans hate most). The mid-90s stuff and beyond is all thoroughly rancid (Roots to Branches had maybe 1 listenable song, the album(s?) since didn't even have that). When it's down to brass tacks, though, Jethro Tull for me is and always will be primarily about these albums:

Stand Up
Benefit
Aqualung
Thick as a Brick
Living in the Past

No excuse me while I go slit my wrists with a broken Morrissey LP as penance for admitting to liking Jethro Tull

AxeMental · Post by **AxeMental** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 8:23 pm

This is great later Tull (I think mid to late 90s) about some hot chick in a bar in Budipest, as a patron of Hooters, you should like this one Wheggie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbZLkNwBkbs

Anyhow, 82' was late Tull, esp. as "rock".

PS be sure to listen to the entire thing, he jams near the end.

EDIT- W "For me, Tull was amazing all the way through Heavy Horses, though there are sparkling moments scattered afterwards (parts of BatB, a couple of songs on Crest of the Knave)."

Missed your post W, looks like your well aquanted with this. Still its kinda cool live.

PS PS "Songs from the Woods" and "North Sea Oil" are two of our groups favorite Christmas D&D albums.