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for some reason I’ve never listened to much else.
if I get a chance on Thursday I’ll see if he remembers it as well as I do….
I suspect it's also the reason Mick Abrahams left.
Fun Fact: Tony Iommi was in JT between Mick Abrahams and Martin Barre!
Sometimes however, some peoples level of ability/genius is so phenomenal, that demanding conformity to a team approach hinders rather than helps. “He’s not a team player“ is something that has been used to destroy the spirit of many a truly wonderful musician/surgeon/fill in whatever you wish…
Having said that, the level of sheer musicianship in Jethro Tull in the mid 70s with Barriemore Barlow, John Evan, David Palmer, and John Glascock was breathtaking. (And Martin Barre obviously)
there again were their compositional skills as good as their performance skills?
I think the strength of Tull was being their own thing. I don't think they were really prog rock or folk rock or even heavy rock ( didn't they win a Grammy for Metal?). All credit to them that they had a vision and pursued it.
Further surprised to realise it was 50 years ago I saw Jethro Tull @ the Sunderland Empire (March 71)
There's things I've had, there's things I wanna have"
Ian Anderson is such a great showman, and great musician of course.
That was probably what they were aiming for.
It was a time when rock musicians were really pushing the boundaries of (something that might have been trying to be) art, and failed as often as they succeeded - but at least they made the attempt, and it was risky and not entirely predictable.
Sorry, I have been at the gin again.
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