Maybe someone knows the name of the keyboard player with Tull who is now female having gone through a sex change operation. It must have been hell when he was going through his hormonal injections when they were on the road. I know he was with the band over twenty years.
Jethro Tull
Ian Anderson has been making music for over a quarter of a century. The band he went into the studio with was Jethro Tull but the personal was either different from album to album or something on a personal level was going on with bandmates from album to album that he had to take over their playing duties. Name your top 5 Jetro Tull albums.
1)Aqualung
2)Crest of a Knave
3)Benifit
4)Songs from the Woods
5)Stormwatch
I have been buying the 24 bit remasters which sound great but also the updated liner notes by Ian tell you what "Trauma" the band was going through with each recording.
1)Aqualung
2)Crest of a Knave
3)Benifit
4)Songs from the Woods
5)Stormwatch
I have been buying the 24 bit remasters which sound great but also the updated liner notes by Ian tell you what "Trauma" the band was going through with each recording.
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Qdrone: That would be David (now Dee) Palmer. The transformation happened in 2004. I doubt s/he was on the road. |
I am a big Jethro Tull fan, and have to say there seems to be a fair amount of misinformation being posted here. I understand some of it can be interpretation (i.e. Glen Cornick, and the occurance of his leaving), but others, such as why Ian Anderson played certain instruments for certain LPs are less ambiguous. During the recording of Minstrel in the Gallery, the entire band was on a tax exile (to avoid robbery by the British government - imagine people so jaded they actually want to keep what they earn...) and having trouble with being away from home. With the number of 'distractions' some of the boys were having a hard time showing up at the studio. In a sense Minstrel was Ians first 'almost' solo LP. On Stormwatch Ian played bass for John Glascock who had extreme health problems, which shortly and sadly resulted in his death of congestive heart failure. Several members were not asked to return after breaks, when one form or another of the band went back to the studio. "A" was supposed to be a solo LP, with friends playing, but the studio liked it so much they convinced IA to release it as Tull, to the surprise and consternation of some former band members... Since 'This Was' Tull has been Ians band, but it is still a band with a lot of colaboration. They have IMO put out some great music, as well as some awful failures (like: Aqualung, the most glaring example of a concept LP gone wrong), some of my favorites are: 1) Crest of a Knave - I love the flute in Budapest! 2) Songs From the Wood, Heavy Horses and Bursting Out which I consider one Dbl LP with a subsequent documentery. 3) 25th Anniversary boxset for some rare gems that really are rare gems! 4) Broadsword and the Beast 5) Roots to Branches - which I didn't like that much till I heard it on vinyl I'm not sure about the question of the quality of the recordings. I have some originals from the 70's that still sound good... WDIK... :o |
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