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You know who deserves more critical respect?
Jethro Tull, that’s who!
Ever since the band won a Grammy in 1989 for Best Hard Rock Album over Metallica (and okay, maybe before that as well), Jethro Tull have been the butt of too many jokes among music fans, when in fact, they are an awesome flute-led folk-rock force of nature that deserve your hosannas.
If bands like Rush can be the secret stars of I Love You Man, and Emerson, Lake, and Palmer can mull a comeback, it’s high time for a little love to be thrown in the Tull’s direction.
Hopefully, the upcoming Jethro Tull: Live At Madison Square Garden 1978 will help bring the balance back. Culled from the band’s “Heavy Horses” tour, the live album/DVD features the band roaring through legitimate rock classics like “Aqualung,” “Locomotive Breath,” and “Thick As A Brick.” The DVD
In October, band leader Ian Anderson will embark on a two month U.S. solo tour.
Check out the tour dates, as well as the Live At Madison Square Garden 1978 track list, below.
Jethro Tull: Live At Madison Square Garden 1978 (DVD/CD)
DVD
1. Sweet Dream
2. One Brown Mouse
3. Heavy Horses
4. Opening
5. Thick As A Brick
6. No Lullaby (including flute solo from God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen)
7. Songs From The Wood
8. Band Intro
9. Quatrain
10. Aqualung
11. Locomotive Breath (including Dambusters March)
12. Too Old To Rock ‘N’ Roll: Too Young To Die
13. My God/Cross Eyed Mary
14. Locomotive Breath (Encore) (including Dambusters March)
CD
1. Sweet Dream
2. One Brown Mouse
3. Heavy Horses
4. Thick As A Brick
5. No Lullaby (including flute solo from God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen)
6. Songs From The Wood
7. Quatrain
8. Aqualung
9. Locomotive Breath (including Dambusters March)
10. Too Old To Rock ‘N’ Roll: Too Young To Die
11. My God/Cross Eyed Mary
Jethro Tull: Live At Madison Square Garden 1978 (digital audio)
1. Sweet Dream
2. One Brown Mouse
3. Heavy Horses
4. Thick As A Brick
5. No Lullaby (including flute solo from God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen)
6. Songs From The Wood
7. Quatrain
8. Aqualung
9. Locomotive Breath (including Dambusters March)
10. Too Old To Rock ‘N’ Roll: Too Young To Die
11. My God/Cross Eyed Mary
Ian Anderson U.S. tour dates
OCTOBER
6 Milwaukee, WI Pabst Theater
7 Chicago, IL Vic Theatre
9 Schenectady, NY Proctor’s Theatre
10 Worcester, MA Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts
11 Ledyard, CT Foxwoods Resort – MGM Grand
13 New York, NY Beacon Theatre
15 Baltimore, MD Lyric Opera House
16 Glenside, PA Keswick Theater
17 Red Bank, NJ Count Basie Theatre
18 Wallingford, CT Chevrolet Theatre
NOVEMBER
3 Phoenix, AZ Dodge Theatre
5 Anaheim, CA The Grove of Anaheim
6 Los Angeles, CA The Wiltern
7 San Luis Obispo, CA Christopher Cohan Performing Arts Center – Harmon Hall
8 Modesto, CA Gallo Center for the Arts – Mary Stuart Rogers
9 San Francisco, CA The Warfield Theatre
10 Santa Rosa, CA Wells Fargo Center for the Arts
13 Portland, OR Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
14 Seattle, WA Moore Theatre
15 Spokane, WA Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox
Why is Houston not on the tour AGAIN Ian?
No Pittsburgh date? C’mon Ian – Petrol’s expensive brother, help us out!
One of the greatest bands in popular music history, and one that is perpetually underrated/under-appreciated. What a gift their music has been….If only it would get the attention it deserves.
As for the album that spawned this blog posting – It’s a great show from one of their best tours. Can’t wait to hear it professionally mastered…….More please!
Ian Anderson may be underappreciated by the masses but has sustained 40 years plus of steady loyal crowds worldwide.
They are too damn good for the masses.