I do find it astounding that Ian, with no formal music training, would be able to do these sound maneuvers via absolutely brilliant dissonance. Beautifully explained and illustrated by you. Thank you for this!
Some people are born with a gift for melody. But I think Ian's compositions go very much deeper than that. Like you say, he wasn't afraid to embrace dissonance. He was searching for chords that are so unique.
WOW! Never thought in 40 odd years I would get such a brilliant tutorial on some of my favourite Anderson acoustics. After a full morning of watching and rehearsing, I've got all the timing and chords...but the fast finger work is proving difficult - damn arthritis! I shall probably have to improvise a bit. Thanks so much, and please keep them coming, they are very much appreciated.
I couldn't have posted this better myself. Not so much the arthritis, but my age and my love for Tull from the BEGINNING. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
I must admit I was completely unaware of this album. I had to stop this video and go listen to this album…. I loved it. It was like discovering Jethro Tull all a new. Thank you for making me aware of this masterpiece
It's a unique album for them, no doubt. I think it had the benefit of coming off the Chateau D'sisaster Tapes where most of the music had been written, Ian didn't like it, so he started all over with the same material and reworked it into Passion Play. So it had time to develop and mature. All the soprano sax turned me off at first, but it grew on me. For many Tull fans it's just too self-indulgent an album, but it works for me. I think the themes and melodies are really strong on this album.
Superb rendition. Never thought I'd ever get to see a youtube video of a Passion Play tutorial so clearly and expertly defined. Requesting a tutorial for Velvet Green.
I had Velvet Green rattling around in my mind before I went to sleep last night. Wondering if I can arrange the keyboard intro. I doubt seriously I can play Ian's guitar part and sing at the same time. I'm giving it thought.
@@snoozedoctor Thanks for considering my request. If vocal synchronisation is too problematic, maybe you would consider having the original playing softly in the background during the vocal sections while you play Ian's acoustic part in the foreground. It's the acoustic guitar parts during the verse sections that I'd love to learn to play.
I had the pleasure of seeing Tull live for the Passion Play tour at the Nassau Coliseum on the Isle of Long in New York and loved it! I spent some serious time over many weeks listening to this album before the show and went with my friends who were, like myself, serious Tull fans. Just brilliant! The audience could have been a little more sophisticated, to be sure, but it was an amazing experience never-the -less. This entire era of Tull was just spectacular, w/ Ian, Martin Barre, John Evan, Barriemore Barlow and Jeffrey Hammond bringing us some of the greatest progressive rock to ever grace vinyl.
I would have LOVED to has seen the PP tour. I was lucky to see Tull on the TAAB tour, just before the album was released, so the first I heard it was live. I agree, this lineup was hitting on all cylinders. I read some critic saying that Yes could not have played PP, it was just too complex. Now, I'm not sure that's true but I guarantee it wouldn't have been easy and would require massive rehearsing.
@@snoozedoctor I missed the TAAB tour (DOH!) but did see the Songs from the Wood tour in '77 and quite a few more tours as well. I was introduced to Tull for the first time for the Benefit tour, in a smaller venue, without knowing a single tune of theirs and it was amazing. I went out and bought the first three albums over the next few weeks and became a Tull fan ever since. Cheers.
Wow. That is going deep! I hope Ian sees this. For me this period is one of the most interesting in terms of his guitar playing - the material across Chateau D'Isaster and Passion Play (early Critique, Skating Away, Forest Dance, Only Solitaire, Scenario, Foot of the Stairs etc etc...) an acoustic/orchestral approach to that material would be incredible.
He really stretched out in this time period. The guitar arrangements on TAAB are pretty conventional, but here he took it to another level. The changes are so unconventional and original.
@@rdsloane Agree too. With Passion Play it seemed he just dug deep and said "let's see what I'm capable of." After this album I felt like he got reined in with the necessity of making the music slightly more commercial, although much brilliance afterwards as well.
I’ve always loved the music on this album and never even noticed there wasn’t flute. To be fair, I heard the Chateau Di’saster album only a couple of short years after hearing A Passion Play for the first time and it gave me a slightly different perspective of some of the musical ideas as a whole. As far as the concept and lyrics, I never really understood it until very recently. Some podcasters explained it in great detail and I have a whole new set of ears to listen with now. Even the music makes more sense having gained a better grasp of the story and it’s one of my favorites now.
I'm with you there. It is interesting hearing the earlier incarnations of these tunes. As well, I didn't really understand the lyrics until I read it was the struggle in the afterlife. There are so many clever lyrics too, "Invest your life in the memory bank, ours the interest and we thank you." I mean, how does he come up with that stuff. I think the music on this album was his most adventurous while still being melodic and interesting. I'm going to do a tutorial on "At the foot of our stairs" because I think it's so interesting harmonically. Simply amazing. Cheers!
I saw them do the Passion Play, same time period you mentioned. I had only a couple of days to listen to the album and really didn't have time for it to sink in when we went and saw the Play. It was so fantastic! When we got back home from the Passion Play, we put the album on and it got embedded in my memory as seeing the play while I listen. I loved that a lot. Thick as a Brick was one I basically have listened to the most.
I would have loved to see PP live! I had a similar experience with TAAB. I saw them perform it (in it's entirety) a few months before I had a chance to hear the album. Even so, I left the arena completely mesmerized by what I'd heard and seen. It's still my favorite show of the hundreds I've seen in my lifetime!
I’m thrilled to see you dive into this intricate and fascinating piece. Thanks for continuing to share your love for and knowledge of Ian’s marvelous guitar music. It’s appreciated and admirable!
It's really a masterpiece and I really don't understand why the Tull members don't look at it more fondly. Breathtakingly difficult arrangement. It truly showed what virtuosos the band members were. I always thought that if I practiced long and hard I'd be able to play all the guitar parts on TAAB, but there is not chance on PP.
@@snoozedoctor nice to know you play guitar. Recordo something so I can put my drums on Check my channel to see me playing drums. But I understand, passion play is very hard to play even for drums.
@@bateriaeletronica I checked out your cover of Dream Theater. Wow, excellent! I'm so impressed by drummers because I can't even shake a Tamborine in time through a song, much less hitting a drum in time.
Fantastic like all of your Tull,s covers. Also thanks for your comments on music theory. Your presentations and lessons are musical clinics that help us in our Tull,s covers. ❤️
Thank you and well done, I appreciate what a challenge this is, one that I will never achieve my memory is limited to KB not GB I will tinker at the edges and try to reach beyond.
Both are amazing. It didn’t take me any time to warm to TAAB, but it took some listens for Passion. I saw them perform TAAB in it’s entirety back in’72. Still my fave show of all time.
Yikes! I have come across this video and I am amazed. A Passion Play is my favorite Jethro Tull album. There is an other worldly sound to it. As you mention here the dissonance and for me the soprano saxophone are what make this happen. And of course Ian's brilliant acoustic guitar work and the magical lyrics. A towering achievement by the band. And a great achievement by you as well explaining the theory and then playing these tunes from APP. Brilliantly done sir. I am another of the fortunate folks who got to see this tour in the summer of 1973. A fabulous concert by Tull and throw in that the show was opened by another great band - Steeleye Span. What a night! Thanks again for this.
Thank you. Love Steeleye Span too. Great band. I saw Tull in '72 on the TAAB tour but didn't see them again until '82. The '72 show was the best show I've ever experienced. Incredible.
@@snoozedoctor Good for you. The A Passion Play tour was my first Tull show followed by many others over the years. But APP was the best Yes, I bet seeing Thick As A Brick when it was fresh and new must have been quite something. TAAB is an amazing piece. Jethro Tull. Such a great band.
I always wonder how much of that stuff was right off the top of their heads. Dave Pegg once said that about Ian, that people didn't realize how incredibly musical he was and that much of what is on their albums was pretty much composed on the spot. He composed TAAB that way, wrote in the morning, took it to the band in the afternoon and recorded that section in the evening. Amazing stuff.
I just discovered your channel yesterday and am really digging into your stuff. I discovered JT in my senior year of High School in 1975 when a friend turned me on to Aqualung. I had to listen to it about four or five times before I started to really appriciate it. The more I listened the more I enjoyed. I returned to the music shop about 2 weeks later and purchased everything he had done to that day. I appreciated Passion Play from the start. As a very poor guitar learner I didn't realize the technique is any harder than any of his other works. Thank you so much for all your work in revealing the techniques of Ian's genius.
Thank you for putting this up. Loved the commentary and the playing is phenomenal. This happens to be my favorite along with TAAB. Albums like these always take an investment of time before the light goes on where a lot of folks demand instant gratification. I believe you set yourself up for failure by creating music like this. Case in point is with Yes’s Topographic Oceans where they pushed the limit further by creating a double album!!!! However, the rewards with albums such as these are plentiful if you in fact invest with your time and this album is a testament to that theory. You’ve reached a segment of the RUclips population that never thought they’d see the day of passion play being covered!!!!!!!
Thanks! I get occasional criticism in the comments because of commentary, but I figure they can skip ahead easy enough. I agree, some albums just take time to sink in. Passion Play was a carefully crafted set of themes that had been developed previously as independent songs. At my peak back in my 20s, I felt, with enough practice, I could have played TAAB in a band setting, but not Passion Play. It's just too damn hard.
@@johnkowal I was really thinking about Martin Barre's parts. I could do the acoustic stuff, maybe Martin Barre's parts on TAAB, but not Barre's parts on PP.
Hard to use those intervals outside jazz without it sounding contrived. One of favorites is in I am the Walrus F B7 "Corporation T-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday, Man you've been a naughty boy You let your face grow long
I was an AVID, almost ravenous Tull fan from 1970 to at least 1990. I knew every song of the early albums for sure AND even played them like you do. I tried to play every note just like the record. When I sang, I sang like Ian. Every inflection etc. I blew peoples minds because Jethro Tull was being performed before their very eyes. And now my passion play story...I was at somebodys room while I was in the Air Force and someone had APP on for us to listen to. I could not believe that was Jethro Tull. I hated it. In fact I think I called my friend a liar because Jethro Tull could do no wrong. I bought the album and I listened to it. I didn't like it. I listened to it again and again. still didn't like it. Then it hit me like a ton of bricks. I listened to it intently and read the lyrics and I could not believe HOW MASTERFUL IAN NDERSON"S composition was and is THE GREATEST TULL ALBUM OF ALL TIME. WOW. and of course Ian Anderson WAS THE GREATEST ROCK PERFORMER OF ALL TIME!!!No one else is worthy enough to be on the same stage other than his band mates, especially Martin. Thanks for sharing snooze. you are indeed a wonder. right up there with Andrew Tisbert, and Andreas Versici and Jack Hicko and all other Tull fans that realize how awesome Ian Anderson is/was
I'm with you. What was different about PP, and why I didn't like it at first, was his embrace of dissonance and really, really odd chord changes. I think a bit of excess is found in some of the instrumental passages, modulations up half steps and back down, etc. I think that's why Ian and Martin think it's unnecessarily complex. But there are moments when it's profound. My favorite piece of Tull music is the main refrain running through this piece, "there was a rush, along the Fulham Road." Just brilliant. And I totally agree that Ian was the best front man of all time. When I saw them in '72, at the height of their prowess, he, and the rest of the band, were forces of nature. Jeffrey had such stage presence too, and John Evan was just having a grand ol' time, running back and forth between his B3 and the grand piano, that were placed on opposite sides of the stage. It was fantastic. Never seen anything like it.
@@snoozedoctor When they toured in 73 they performed TAAB and APP. Two of the greatest pieces of legendary rock and because of my ignorance of APP, I chose not to go. This would have been the greatest Tull show for a true fan. And there are only snippets of this available for our viewing pleasure.
@@norcoauctions That would have been an amazing show! One fond memory I have of TAAB was, during the drum solo on side 2, the lights went out and the spot was on Barrie. At some point the lights come up and the rest of the band have these little cymbals and they're prancing around the stage hitting these things. It was hilarious. They actually took a 30 minute intermission and Jeffrey told some odd stories and they enacted some skits. It was wild.
Despite the band having difficulties playing it right every night on tour, I really really hope there'll be an official live release of the whole thing. It's my favourite Tull album...great video, thank you very much!
Another great job mate, yes I was much the same with A Passion Play but after a few plays I really got into it, I must have been around 17 too! You really have taken the breakdown of these pieces to a new level here and I very much appreciate your skills and hard work. Keep up the good work as they say! Greetings and Best Wishes from a Scot living in England not too far from Kentish Town! We pray for souls indeed.
I would kill for a professionally shot video/audio of full APP show. If you want to tackle another tough one, go for Baker Street Muse. Allegedly Tull never played it live.
Right! There is some low quality footage and audio from that tour, but precious little. It's a damn shame that it wasn't captured. Already tackled the Muse. ruclips.net/video/ckY3HNeXWzA/видео.html
@@artrogers3985 Cool. In Oakland it was Steeleye Span who I loved and immediately went out and bought a bunch of their albums. They had just gotten into their electric phase, and as I went back in their library to the old folks stuff I become addicted to lots of old English folk music, John Renbourne, Steeleye Span, Martin Carthy, Bert Jansch and others. I seemed to always branch out from music I heard at Jethro Tull Concerts. From the little I've heard of Livingston Taylor ( he is James Taylor's Brother, right? ) he was very talented. Whatever happened to him. Saw every Tull concert every year from that point on up to Rock Island, and then sporadic from then on. Not any more because of the voice.
@@justgivemethetruth I don’t know what happened to James’s brother Livingston but he did put on a good show. Ian’s voice is sad to listen to now but for a 73 year old guy he still has most of the moves. And he still hits the notes on some of the tunes.
@@artrogers3985 My ears hurt when Ian sings and see Martin playing with a garage band, but both are still rock historic first chairs at their instruments though and always will be. I'll settle to hearing any new stuff by buying it from albums. The live stuff just makes me mad. I say though what is really exciting and lots of fun, as regards Jethro Tull, is hearing all you guys' musical interpretations of the best of the past. It is like hearing those songs for the first time again to watch them interpret the songs. Or teach them. Your video library and others' are really treasures, and to me, done from a better mindspace than tired bands touring, trying to keep the past alive.
@@snoozedoctor..... unfeeling, feel lonely rejection, unknowing, know you're going wrong. And they can't see that we're just trying to be, and not what we seem, and even now believe that it's not real and only a dream. i admire your work and dedicatión.
Best piece by Tull. Their subleties and intricacies are only matched by the music of Gentle Giant, a band that toured with them at that time...this is music at its highest level.
I agree. 2 Totally unique bands. I prefer JT on the basis of vocals and strength of melody, but I love GG too. Syncopated madness. Superb musicianship. Yeah, with Passion Play it was like Ian threw out the rules and said "I'm going for it, let's do something truly out there." There are some unnecessary modulations here and there, maybe what prompted Martin B. to say it was unnecessarily complex, but for the most part the transitions are clever and inventive.
Great job! Nice to hear all the intricate parts so clearly. I used to hate this album as an electric guitar player, because the other instruments were more dominant. The older I get, the more I appreciate its brilliance and uniqueness. There has never been an album remotely like it. VERY difficult music to play also.
Thanks! I had a bit of similar reaction, that is the shortage of Martin Barre. He's all over in the mix, but sometimes buried in the complexity. I saw a reviewer who said that there wasn't another prog rock band at the time that could have produced such an album, and I agree. It is so jam packed with odd time signatures, odd measures, modulations, and sheer virtuosity!
Passion Play was different, but I liked it the first time I heard it. Of course, on repeated listenings I LOVED it. I'm a great fan of non-standard time signatures (Dave Brubeck). Bungle in the Jungle in 5/4 and Passion Play has a lot of this and other time changes. Again, Doc, you have my heartfelt thanks for your tutorials.
Totally agree, PP threw me at first because it was just so different from TAAB. But now I listen to it more than TAAB. I find it very hard to compose in an odd meter and not have it sound contrived. Ian's never did, it just seemed to float right by you, until you try to play along, and you realize, oh!
I like them too! It's a prog masterpiece. The 'songs' embedded within the piece are all strong. Martin said he felt some of the connections were unnecessarily complex and that performing it live was difficult for him because he was always counting measures to know when to come in, and therefore couldn't interact with the crowd as much. I once read a critic who said that no other prog band at the time could have come up with such a piece and I believe that.
Great video. I think you are right. PP was when it seems to me that Ian started looking at music and the band as a job. It was the demarcation between Jethro Tull and the Ian Anderson band ... not that Ian is bad ... quite the contrary, I've loved his music for ... God ... 5 decades now, but there was less life in it and rawness. Your TAAB side two video was fantastic. I liked the original PP, and recently got the anniversary edition and the remaster to me just isn't as good as the original. I have the Original Master Recording Gold CD version ... after having bought the vinyl and regular CD versions.
Folks have their favorite periods of Tull. PP was a rewrite of a bunch of individual songs that were meant to be released (Chateau D'isaster). I think Ian was pushing the envelope of harmony and rhythm about this time. Very unconventional and thus less commercially successful. Warchild and Too Old to Rock and Roll have a few bright spots but they just don't do it for me. Sandwiched in there were 3 stellar efforts though, Minstrel, Songs from the Wood and Heavy Horses.
@snoozedoctor >> Warchild and Too Old to Rock and Roll have a few bright spots but they just don't do it for me. Me too. I like most of Tull's stuff, his musical ideas are second to none ... he is brilliant in melody and harmony, but as he got more control over everything and micromanaged the whole thing something was lost. Not exactly bad songs, but just songs that I don't listen to much. His last album Homo Erraticus was so sparse. There was good stuff in it, but very few solos and the same musical motives used throughout the whole album. I got it when it came out and saw the concert, but I never have the urge to listen to it like I used to when a new Tull album came out. Used to be when a new album came out I would have it on my record player for the next year listening to it all the time, and humming it. I liked Stormwatch, Under Wraps, Roots To Branches, Dot Com, and TAAB2. Also all of his solo albums. It's hard to believe one man could create all that music.
@@justgivemethetruth Interesting effect Ian's/Tull's music has. At times, on relistening, it seems as if something has peeled away on the vinyl or cd to reveal additional music that you didn't hear orginally. Sometimes after listening to a new release, you go back and appreciate the previous albums in a new light. You should give Homo Eraticus another listen. It has a lot to offer musically and lyrically. It's like the history of the world in 40 or so minutes. Pure genius!
@@asabrick I agree with you on Ian/Tull's music. My typical pattern, aside from Aqualung that I pretty much loved everything on it from the start, was to buy an album, spin it and listen to it and maybe find one song that I liked. Thank god for record players back in they day because it caused me to have to listen to a while side most of the time. Then over about a week I would find myself humming a few themes of the music, and going back to listen to the songs. Then I usually kept the album on my turntable for the next year until the next album came out. I would be listening and find that I would notice melodies, and counterpoints in the music over time that I missed when I first listened, or that some of the parts or solos were extremely intricate. That is something I've really liked about IA/JT music. As I said, to me, Homo Erraticus was "thin". It was lacking the solos and interludes common in previous albums and songs. Also in place of lyrics we got a lot of brand names, or latin phrases. But the instrumentals were strong ... like ""The Pax Britannica". I just find that I do not listen to it or go back to it much ... but when I got it, I listened to it plenty, and even went to the concert in the Fox Theater in Oakland, a grand place even if in a state of decay and costing too much. I decided that was going to be the last live performance I would watch.
Great to hear your personal opinion on A Passion Play. And great to hear you playing these excerpts from it. You are the passionate Minstrel in the Gallery. A really lovely rendition! 😛cttgaegoaktd
I loved A Passion Play on release, when I was about 16/17. I think it is more of a concept album, unlike taab which is more like a spoof concept album and in the main about 6/7 little acoustic songs perfectly knitted together by the band. I saw them for the first time on the war child tour when they played an excerpt from app. That was a amazing gig. Thanks for your thoughts and video. ...There was a rush...
Would have loved to have seen some of this performed. Can't remember if I told you I saw them in '72 on the TAAB tour. Wow, what an amazing show. They did the whole album and not just the excerpts they did later.
@@snoozedoctor this is the set list from the war child gig I was at. Fab show.www.setlist.fm/setlist/jethro-tull/1974/odeon-newcastle-england-bd3b542.html
@@Robbo57 We have some things in common - I was 16 coming on 17 when A Passion Play was released and the first Tull gig I went to was the Warchild tour, in my case at the Rainbow in London. It blew me away at the time and remains to this day my favourite gig for all sorts of reasons, not least the fact that I was just 18 and had never been to a big venue, top band gig before. The following day I went to see Pink Floyd at the Empire Pool Wembley (Wembley Arena as it is now), and it was a case of "after the lord mayor's show"; it might have been a really good gig, but I was still full of the Tull gig the night before and couldn't summon any enthusiasm at all. I remember that the excerpt from A Passion Play that they did on the Warchild tour was the bit of side 1 that begins "All of your best friends telephones", stopping where "The Hare" begins on the record. Ian also played some of it on the 50th anniversary tour, about 4 minutes beginning from "All along the icy wastes...". They also used to play live an instrumental called "Passion Jig", but it was more based on a melody from A Passion Play than an excerpt from the album - that was back in the Andy Giddings days, around the time of Roots to Branches. Yes, I'm a Tull nerd 😁
@@adolforodolfo6929 we certainly have mate. That was a great gig and I know what you mean about the Floyd because I also saw them on that tour but in Newcastle. I was so disappointed with the first set the Floyd played but in hindsight it was probably because I hadn't heard shine on, you gotta be crazy (dogs), raving and drooling (sheep). The second set was fab. I love tull, I think I've seen them more than any other band. It's just a pity Martin Barre is no longer part of it all and Mr Anderson has lost his voice. But...really don't mind if you sit this one out!
Amazing, thanks for showing the chords of "the Jack Rabbit Master" part, and I love the way you interpreted the soprano solo. By the way, the B major chord in Overseer Ouverture is another unexpected chord by Ian Anderson (because it has a D# that you wouldn't expect when the ground chord is E minor). Would you agree?
Thanks! Yes, Ian frequently uses the V7 in minor keys. It gives a great spooky feel. He does it in the key of G frequently, where it becomes a III7 chord to lead to Em.
Good evening Doc! Love your edits on PP. PP is the one I go up first again and again, TAAB. I really enjoy the complexity of both. I’m catching up on the TT’s and wondering if these 2 parts will make the TT cut, even if it’s just the licks and transitions? Please keep up this great work (selfishly ) as I’m now retired and am decompressing with JT and my guitar - thank you very much - Jim
We had exactly the same experience with Passion Play. I didn’t like it much on first release but it is now my favourite Tull album. I really believe it is a masterpiece (although I could still live without The Hare....).
I have never played this album much, and like side two more than side one. Having read these comments, it sounds persevering with listening to it. 😛cttgaegoaktd
In case you didn't know "Well, I'll go the foot of our stairs" is an English phrase that basically means "That's a surprise!" or "I couldn't believe it" eg Our Tommy managed to eat a whole pan full of stew! Well, I'll go to the foot of our stairs!
It took me 15 times listening to start entering in my mind, and then it blew my head.
Thank you. I'm 63 and what a joy it is to live under the stars while listening to a passion play, and now learn to play it. Thank you again.
We are nearly the same age. Glad you found my video!
I do find it astounding that Ian, with no formal music training, would be able to do these sound maneuvers via absolutely brilliant dissonance. Beautifully explained and illustrated by you. Thank you for this!
Some people are born with a gift for melody. But I think Ian's compositions go very much deeper than that. Like you say, he wasn't afraid to embrace dissonance. He was searching for chords that are so unique.
WOW! Never thought in 40 odd years I would get such a brilliant tutorial on some of my favourite Anderson acoustics. After a full morning of watching and rehearsing, I've got all the timing and chords...but the fast finger work is proving difficult - damn arthritis! I shall probably have to improvise a bit. Thanks so much, and please keep them coming, they are very much appreciated.
Arthritis sucks for us guitar players. More tutorials on the way!
I couldn't have posted this better myself. Not so much the arthritis, but my age and my love for Tull from the BEGINNING. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
I saw Tull during the Warchild tour. They played excerpts of Passion Play. It was incredible
I would have loved to have seen them do some passion play. I caught them in’72 with TAAB tour. Didn’t see them again until’83. Still a great show.
I must admit I was completely unaware of this album. I had to stop this video and go listen to this album…. I loved it. It was like discovering Jethro Tull all a new. Thank you for making me aware of this masterpiece
It's a unique album for them, no doubt. I think it had the benefit of coming off the Chateau D'sisaster Tapes where most of the music had been written, Ian didn't like it, so he started all over with the same material and reworked it into Passion Play. So it had time to develop and mature. All the soprano sax turned me off at first, but it grew on me. For many Tull fans it's just too self-indulgent an album, but it works for me. I think the themes and melodies are really strong on this album.
Superb rendition. Never thought I'd ever get to see a youtube video of a Passion Play tutorial so clearly and expertly defined. Requesting a tutorial for Velvet Green.
I had Velvet Green rattling around in my mind before I went to sleep last night. Wondering if I can arrange the keyboard intro. I doubt seriously I can play Ian's guitar part and sing at the same time. I'm giving it thought.
@@snoozedoctor Thanks for considering my request. If vocal synchronisation is too problematic, maybe you would consider having the original playing softly in the background during the vocal sections while you play Ian's acoustic part in the foreground. It's the acoustic guitar parts during the verse sections that I'd love to learn to play.
APP my favorite, and Velvet Green my favorite off of Songs (just a beautiful song)
I had the pleasure of seeing Tull live for the Passion Play tour at the Nassau Coliseum on the Isle of Long in New York and loved it! I spent some serious time over many weeks listening to this album before the show and went with my friends who were, like myself, serious Tull fans. Just brilliant! The audience could have been a little more sophisticated, to be sure, but it was an amazing experience never-the -less. This entire era of Tull was just spectacular, w/ Ian, Martin Barre, John Evan, Barriemore Barlow and Jeffrey Hammond bringing us some of the greatest progressive rock to ever grace vinyl.
I would have LOVED to has seen the PP tour. I was lucky to see Tull on the TAAB tour, just before the album was released, so the first I heard it was live. I agree, this lineup was hitting on all cylinders. I read some critic saying that Yes could not have played PP, it was just too complex. Now, I'm not sure that's true but I guarantee it wouldn't have been easy and would require massive rehearsing.
@@snoozedoctor I missed the TAAB tour (DOH!) but did see the Songs from the Wood tour in '77 and quite a few more tours as well. I was introduced to Tull for the first time for the Benefit tour, in a smaller venue, without knowing a single tune of theirs and it was amazing. I went out and bought the first three albums over the next few weeks and became a Tull fan ever since. Cheers.
Hearing it on an acoustic like that really brings out an ominous feeling, beautiful!!! Thanks for sharing!
Glad you like it!
Wow. That is going deep! I hope Ian sees this. For me this period is one of the most interesting in terms of his guitar playing - the material across Chateau D'Isaster and Passion Play (early Critique, Skating Away, Forest Dance, Only Solitaire, Scenario, Foot of the Stairs etc etc...) an acoustic/orchestral approach to that material would be incredible.
He really stretched out in this time period. The guitar arrangements on TAAB are pretty conventional, but here he took it to another level. The changes are so unconventional and original.
@@snoozedoctor Agreed - this and around this time is when he most showed his musical genius.
@@rdsloane Agree too. With Passion Play it seemed he just dug deep and said "let's see what I'm capable of." After this album I felt like he got reined in with the necessity of making the music slightly more commercial, although much brilliance afterwards as well.
I’ve always loved the music on this album and never even noticed there wasn’t flute. To be fair, I heard the Chateau Di’saster album only a couple of short years after hearing A Passion Play for the first time and it gave me a slightly different perspective of some of the musical ideas as a whole. As far as the concept and lyrics, I never really understood it until very recently. Some podcasters explained it in great detail and I have a whole new set of ears to listen with now. Even the music makes more sense having gained a better grasp of the story and it’s one of my favorites now.
I'm with you there. It is interesting hearing the earlier incarnations of these tunes. As well, I didn't really understand the lyrics until I read it was the struggle in the afterlife. There are so many clever lyrics too, "Invest your life in the memory bank, ours the interest and we thank you."
I mean, how does he come up with that stuff. I think the music on this album was his most adventurous while still being melodic and interesting. I'm going to do a tutorial on "At the foot of our stairs" because I think it's so interesting harmonically. Simply amazing. Cheers!
the audiences on supercharged in LA they loving it, the opening is pure 🔥
Passion play is amazing
That it is!
I saw them do the Passion Play, same time period you mentioned. I had only a couple of days to listen to the album and really didn't have time for it to sink in when we went and saw the Play. It was so fantastic! When we got back home from the Passion Play, we put the album on and it got embedded in my memory as seeing the play while I listen. I loved that a lot. Thick as a Brick was one I basically have listened to the most.
I would have loved to see PP live! I had a similar experience with TAAB. I saw them perform it (in it's entirety) a few months before I had a chance to hear the album. Even so, I left the arena completely mesmerized by what I'd heard and seen. It's still my favorite show of the hundreds I've seen in my lifetime!
Cool ... Passion Play 1973 in Oakland was the first concert I ever went to. The band Steeleye Span opened for them.
Saw Passion Play tour and it was awesome! Saw them 3 more times in the 70’s. All shows were great.
A passion play is the best album of all time. Of any band
I’m thrilled to see you dive into this intricate and fascinating piece. Thanks for continuing to share your love for and knowledge of Ian’s marvelous guitar music. It’s appreciated and admirable!
Thanks. Continues to be a challenge.
A passion Play is the best album of all time. Of any band.
It's really a masterpiece and I really don't understand why the Tull members don't look at it more fondly. Breathtakingly difficult arrangement. It truly showed what virtuosos the band members were. I always thought that if I practiced long and hard I'd be able to play all the guitar parts on TAAB, but there is not chance on PP.
@@snoozedoctor nice to know you play guitar. Recordo something so I can put my drums on
Check my channel to see me playing drums. But I understand, passion play is very hard to play even for drums.
@@snoozedoctor everything is perfect o this album, where Nothing tires me. Like listening to Arnold Schoenberg Op 4 and 5.
@@bateriaeletronica I checked out your cover of Dream Theater. Wow, excellent! I'm so impressed by drummers because I can't even shake a Tamborine in time through a song, much less hitting a drum in time.
@@snoozedoctor thanks!
I love passion play on Jethro tull, this year is 50th aniversari from album!!!
Wow, yes! Hard to believe it's been that long. It's a great album.
Thank you so much again for sharing your incredible playing of JT challenging work.
My pleasure! I've had much fun learning all these pieces I listened so much to in my youth.
Fantastic like all of your Tull,s covers. Also thanks for your comments on music theory. Your presentations and lessons are musical clinics that help us in our Tull,s covers. ❤️
I'm glad you're enjoying them!
Love it! I play it constantly!
Same here!
Thank you and well done, I appreciate what a challenge this is, one that I will never achieve my memory is limited to KB not GB I will tinker at the edges and try to reach beyond.
We al have our favorite, I still prefer Thick as a Brick as a musical piece but I loved Passion Play from the first time I played it.
Both are amazing. It didn’t take me any time to warm to TAAB, but it took some listens for Passion. I saw them perform TAAB in it’s entirety back in’72. Still my fave show of all time.
Yikes! I have come across this video and I am amazed. A Passion Play is my favorite Jethro Tull album. There is an other worldly sound to it. As you mention here the dissonance and for me the soprano saxophone are what make this happen. And of course Ian's brilliant acoustic guitar work and the magical lyrics. A towering achievement by the band. And a great achievement by you as well explaining the theory and then playing these tunes from APP. Brilliantly done sir. I am another of the fortunate folks who got to see this tour in the summer of 1973. A fabulous concert by Tull and throw in that the show was opened by another great band - Steeleye Span. What a night! Thanks again for this.
Thank you. Love Steeleye Span too. Great band. I saw Tull in '72 on the TAAB tour but didn't see them again until '82. The '72 show was the best show I've ever experienced. Incredible.
@@snoozedoctor Good for you. The A Passion Play tour was my first Tull show followed by many others over the years. But APP was the best Yes, I bet seeing Thick As A Brick when it was fresh and new must have been quite something. TAAB is an amazing piece. Jethro Tull. Such a great band.
Great job, Doc!
Thank you kindly!
14:47, now that's songwriting. Your rendition nails the power in this masterpiece. Timeless.
I always wonder how much of that stuff was right off the top of their heads. Dave Pegg once said that about Ian, that people didn't realize how incredibly musical he was and that much of what is on their albums was pretty much composed on the spot. He composed TAAB that way, wrote in the morning, took it to the band in the afternoon and recorded that section in the evening. Amazing stuff.
I liked to see you in this Passion Play. Thanks a lot, Doc.
Thanks!
Well done! Beautiful!
thanks so much!
I just discovered your channel yesterday and am really digging into your stuff. I discovered JT in my senior year of High School in 1975 when a friend turned me on to Aqualung. I had to listen to it about four or five times before I started to really appriciate it. The more I listened the more I enjoyed. I returned to the music shop about 2 weeks later and purchased everything he had done to that day. I appreciated Passion Play from the start. As a very poor guitar learner I didn't realize the technique is any harder than any of his other works. Thank you so much for all your work in revealing the techniques of Ian's genius.
We have nearly the same story. I was a senior in '74 and Aqualung was the first one I really got into!
Thank you for putting this up. Loved the commentary and the playing is phenomenal. This happens to be my favorite along with TAAB. Albums like these always take an investment of time before the light goes on where a lot of folks demand instant gratification. I believe you set yourself up for failure by creating music like this. Case in point is with Yes’s Topographic Oceans where they pushed the limit further by creating a double album!!!! However, the rewards with albums such as these are plentiful if you in fact invest with your time and this album is a testament to that theory. You’ve reached a segment of the RUclips population that never thought they’d see the day of passion play being covered!!!!!!!
Thanks! I get occasional criticism in the comments because of commentary, but I figure they can skip ahead easy enough. I agree, some albums just take time to sink in. Passion Play was a carefully crafted set of themes that had been developed previously as independent songs. At my peak back in my 20s, I felt, with enough practice, I could have played TAAB in a band setting, but not Passion Play. It's just too damn hard.
@@snoozedoctor as a guitar player, I was wondering why passion play would be harder to play as compared to TAAB?
@@johnkowal I was really thinking about Martin Barre's parts. I could do the acoustic stuff, maybe Martin Barre's parts on TAAB, but not Barre's parts on PP.
Flatted fifth ... the dreaded rootless tritone!
Hard to use those intervals outside jazz without it sounding contrived. One of favorites is in I am the Walrus
F B7
"Corporation T-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday, Man you've been a naughty boy
You let your face grow long
Just found this one. Thank you! Love the Keyser. My favorite.
Glad you like it!
Bravo...mine is the right to be wrong....great piece of music...great concerto
Love the lyrics on this one. Much underrated.
I was an AVID, almost ravenous Tull fan from 1970 to at least 1990. I knew every song of the early albums for sure AND even played them like you do. I tried to play every note just like the record. When I sang, I sang like Ian. Every inflection etc. I blew peoples minds because Jethro Tull was being performed before their very eyes. And now my passion play story...I was at somebodys room while I was in the Air Force and someone had APP on for us to listen to. I could not believe that was Jethro Tull. I hated it. In fact I think I called my friend a liar because Jethro Tull could do no wrong. I bought the album and I listened to it. I didn't like it. I listened to it again and again. still didn't like it. Then it hit me like a ton of bricks. I listened to it intently and read the lyrics and I could not believe HOW MASTERFUL IAN NDERSON"S composition was and is THE GREATEST TULL ALBUM OF ALL TIME. WOW. and of course Ian Anderson WAS THE GREATEST ROCK PERFORMER OF ALL TIME!!!No one else is worthy enough to be on the same stage other than his band mates, especially Martin. Thanks for sharing snooze. you are indeed a wonder. right up there with Andrew Tisbert, and Andreas Versici and Jack Hicko and all other Tull fans that realize how awesome Ian Anderson is/was
I'm with you. What was different about PP, and why I didn't like it at first, was his embrace of dissonance and really, really odd chord changes. I think a bit of excess is found in some of the instrumental passages, modulations up half steps and back down, etc. I think that's why Ian and Martin think it's unnecessarily complex. But there are moments when it's profound. My favorite piece of Tull music is the main refrain running through this piece, "there was a rush, along the Fulham Road." Just brilliant.
And I totally agree that Ian was the best front man of all time. When I saw them in '72, at the height of their prowess, he, and the rest of the band, were forces of nature. Jeffrey had such stage presence too, and John Evan was just having a grand ol' time, running back and forth between his B3 and the grand piano, that were placed on opposite sides of the stage. It was fantastic. Never seen anything like it.
@@snoozedoctor When they toured in 73 they performed TAAB and APP. Two of the greatest pieces of legendary rock and because of my ignorance of APP, I chose not to go. This would have been the greatest Tull show for a true fan. And there are only snippets of this available for our viewing pleasure.
@@norcoauctions That would have been an amazing show! One fond memory I have of TAAB was, during the drum solo on side 2, the lights went out and the spot was on Barrie. At some point the lights come up and the rest of the band have these little cymbals and they're prancing around the stage hitting these things. It was hilarious. They actually took a 30 minute intermission and Jeffrey told some odd stories and they enacted some skits. It was wild.
Despite the band having difficulties playing it right every night on tour, I really really hope there'll be an official live release of the whole thing. It's my favourite Tull album...great video, thank you very much!
same here. would love to hear a high quality live recording of it! There is some audio floating around on YT of it but not very good.
@@snoozedoctor I have most of those audience bootlegs in lossless quality...which doesn't change the fact of the poorness of the original recordings.
Another great job mate, yes I was much the same with A Passion Play but after a few plays I really got into it, I must have been around 17 too! You really have taken the breakdown of these pieces to a new level here and I very much appreciate your skills and hard work. Keep up the good work as they say! Greetings and Best Wishes from a Scot living in England not too far from Kentish Town! We pray for souls indeed.
wow, thanks. Hope to visit the isle someday in the not too distant future!
I would kill for a professionally shot video/audio of full APP show. If you want to tackle another tough one, go for Baker Street Muse. Allegedly Tull never played it live.
Right! There is some low quality footage and audio from that tour, but precious little. It's a damn shame that it wasn't captured. Already tackled the Muse.
ruclips.net/video/ckY3HNeXWzA/видео.html
working on the last part of the tutorial tomorrow. Check my channel for it. Cheers!
Evening Doc! Enjoying this one more time, excellent! Great right hand on OO portion. A lot to be said for consistent strumming - thanks again
Thanks. I can't imagine how terrifying it must have been to perform this album live. I'd been booted off the stage within a minute or two.
Passion Play was the first time I saw Ian in person. Around the 20th row. Love it. But I think the story of the album is far from nonsense. Cheers!
What city did you see PP in. It was the first concert I ever went to ... in Oakland, CA.
@@justgivemethetruth Springfield, MA. It was magical. Livingston Taylor was the lead act.
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Cool. In Oakland it was Steeleye Span who I loved and immediately went out and bought a bunch of their albums. They had just gotten into their electric phase, and as I went back in their library to the old folks stuff I become addicted to lots of old English folk music, John Renbourne, Steeleye Span, Martin Carthy, Bert Jansch and others. I seemed to always branch out from music I heard at Jethro Tull Concerts. From the little I've heard of Livingston Taylor ( he is James Taylor's Brother, right? ) he was very talented. Whatever happened to him. Saw every Tull concert every year from that point on up to Rock Island, and then sporadic from then on. Not any more because of the voice.
@@justgivemethetruth I don’t know what happened to James’s brother Livingston but he did put on a good show.
Ian’s voice is sad to listen to now but for a 73 year old guy he still has most of the moves. And he still hits the notes on some of the tunes.
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My ears hurt when Ian sings and see Martin playing with a garage band, but both are still rock historic first chairs at their instruments though and always will be. I'll settle to hearing any new stuff by buying it from albums. The live stuff just makes me mad. I say though what is really exciting and lots of fun, as regards Jethro Tull, is hearing all you guys' musical interpretations of the best of the past. It is like hearing those songs for the first time again to watch them interpret the songs. Or teach them. Your video library and others' are really treasures, and to me, done from a better mindspace than tired bands touring, trying to keep the past alive.
you are passionate!
Trying to be!
@@snoozedoctor..... unfeeling, feel lonely rejection,
unknowing, know you're going wrong.
And they can't see that we're just trying to be,
and not what we seem,
and even now believe that it's not real and only a dream.
i admire your work and dedicatión.
@@marioalbertobritomoran6445 take care friend.
Best piece by Tull. Their subleties and intricacies are only matched by the music of Gentle Giant, a band that toured with them at that time...this is music at its highest level.
I agree. 2 Totally unique bands. I prefer JT on the basis of vocals and strength of melody, but I love GG too. Syncopated madness. Superb musicianship. Yeah, with Passion Play it was like Ian threw out the rules and said "I'm going for it, let's do something truly out there." There are some unnecessary modulations here and there, maybe what prompted Martin B. to say it was unnecessarily complex, but for the most part the transitions are clever and inventive.
Great job! Nice to hear all the intricate parts so clearly. I used to hate this album as an electric guitar player, because the other instruments were more dominant. The older I get, the more I appreciate its brilliance and uniqueness. There has never been an album remotely like it. VERY difficult music to play also.
Thanks! I had a bit of similar reaction, that is the shortage of Martin Barre. He's all over in the mix, but sometimes buried in the complexity. I saw a reviewer who said that there wasn't another prog rock band at the time that could have produced such an album, and I agree. It is so jam packed with odd time signatures, odd measures, modulations, and sheer virtuosity!
Oh. Almost forgot. Very nice job on an incredibly difficult piece of music.
thanks so much. those damn rhythms he uses. So hard to play and sing at the same time.
Passion Play was different, but I liked it the first time I heard it. Of course, on repeated listenings I LOVED it. I'm a great fan of non-standard time signatures (Dave Brubeck). Bungle in the Jungle in 5/4 and Passion Play has a lot of this and other time changes. Again, Doc, you have my heartfelt thanks for your tutorials.
Totally agree, PP threw me at first because it was just so different from TAAB. But now I listen to it more than TAAB. I find it very hard to compose in an odd meter and not have it sound contrived. Ian's never did, it just seemed to float right by you, until you try to play along, and you realize, oh!
Great Chanel
Thank you so much! Very much appreciated.
My favorite album!...and I like green olives.
I like them too! It's a prog masterpiece. The 'songs' embedded within the piece are all strong. Martin said he felt some of the connections were unnecessarily complex and that performing it live was difficult for him because he was always counting measures to know when to come in, and therefore couldn't interact with the crowd as much. I once read a critic who said that no other prog band at the time could have come up with such a piece and I believe that.
It took me 8 or so listens before it became one of my favourite albums.
Same for me!
Great video. I think you are right. PP was when it seems to me that Ian started looking at music and the band as a job. It was the demarcation between Jethro Tull and the Ian Anderson band ... not that Ian is bad ... quite the contrary, I've loved his music for ... God ... 5 decades now, but there was less life in it and rawness. Your TAAB side two video was fantastic. I liked the original PP, and recently got the anniversary edition and the remaster to me just isn't as good as the original. I have the Original Master Recording Gold CD version ... after having bought the vinyl and regular CD versions.
Folks have their favorite periods of Tull. PP was a rewrite of a bunch of individual songs that were meant to be released (Chateau D'isaster). I think Ian was pushing the envelope of harmony and rhythm about this time. Very unconventional and thus less commercially successful. Warchild and Too Old to Rock and Roll have a few bright spots but they just don't do it for me. Sandwiched in there were 3 stellar efforts though, Minstrel, Songs from the Wood and Heavy Horses.
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Warchild and Too Old to Rock and Roll have a few bright spots but
they just don't do it for me.
Me too. I like most of Tull's stuff, his musical ideas are second
to none ... he is brilliant in melody and harmony, but as he got
more control over everything and micromanaged the whole thing
something was lost. Not exactly bad songs, but just songs that I
don't listen to much. His last album Homo Erraticus was so sparse.
There was good stuff in it, but very few solos and the same musical
motives used throughout the whole album. I got it when it came out
and saw the concert, but I never have the urge to listen to it like
I used to when a new Tull album came out. Used to be when a new
album came out I would have it on my record player for the next
year listening to it all the time, and humming it.
I liked Stormwatch, Under Wraps, Roots To Branches, Dot Com, and
TAAB2. Also all of his solo albums. It's hard to believe one man
could create all that music.
@@justgivemethetruth Interesting effect Ian's/Tull's music has. At times, on relistening, it seems as if something has peeled away on the vinyl or cd to reveal additional music that you didn't hear orginally. Sometimes after listening to a new release, you go back and appreciate the previous albums in a new light. You should give Homo Eraticus another listen. It has a lot to offer musically and lyrically. It's like the history of the world in 40 or so minutes. Pure genius!
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I agree with you on Ian/Tull's music. My typical pattern, aside from Aqualung that I pretty much loved everything on it from the start, was to buy an album, spin it and listen to it and maybe find one song that I liked. Thank god for record players back in they day because it caused me to have to listen to a while side most of the time. Then over about a week I would find myself humming a few themes of the music, and going back to listen to the songs. Then I usually kept the album on my turntable for the next year until the next album came out. I would be listening and find that I would notice melodies, and counterpoints in the music over time that I missed when I first listened, or that some of the parts or solos were extremely intricate. That is something I've really liked about IA/JT music.
As I said, to me, Homo Erraticus was "thin". It was lacking the solos and interludes common in previous albums and songs. Also in place of lyrics we got a lot of brand names, or latin phrases. But the instrumentals were strong ... like ""The Pax Britannica". I just find that I do not listen to it or go back to it much ... but when I got it, I listened to it plenty, and even went to the concert in the Fox Theater in Oakland, a grand place even if in a state of decay and costing too much. I decided that was going to be the last live performance I would watch.
Would you like to try the legendary JT song aqualung ?
I've been ruminating on the Aqualung solo. I've never learned it, but it may be time. So, yes, it's on the list!
Great to hear your personal opinion on A Passion Play. And great to hear you playing these excerpts from it. You are the passionate Minstrel in the Gallery. A really lovely rendition!
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Thanks again!
I loved A Passion Play on release, when I was about 16/17. I think it is more of a concept album, unlike taab which is more like a spoof concept album and in the main about 6/7 little acoustic songs perfectly knitted together by the band. I saw them for the first time on the war child tour when they played an excerpt from app. That was a amazing gig. Thanks for your thoughts and video. ...There was a rush...
Would have loved to have seen some of this performed. Can't remember if I told you I saw them in '72 on the TAAB tour. Wow, what an amazing show. They did the whole album and not just the excerpts they did later.
@@snoozedoctor this is the set list from the war child gig I was at. Fab show.www.setlist.fm/setlist/jethro-tull/1974/odeon-newcastle-england-bd3b542.html
@@Robbo57 We have some things in common - I was 16 coming on 17 when A Passion Play was released and the first Tull gig I went to was the Warchild tour, in my case at the Rainbow in London. It blew me away at the time and remains to this day my favourite gig for all sorts of reasons, not least the fact that I was just 18 and had never been to a big venue, top band gig before. The following day I went to see Pink Floyd at the Empire Pool Wembley (Wembley Arena as it is now), and it was a case of "after the lord mayor's show"; it might have been a really good gig, but I was still full of the Tull gig the night before and couldn't summon any enthusiasm at all.
I remember that the excerpt from A Passion Play that they did on the Warchild tour was the bit of side 1 that begins "All of your best friends telephones", stopping where "The Hare" begins on the record. Ian also played some of it on the 50th anniversary tour, about 4 minutes beginning from "All along the icy wastes...". They also used to play live an instrumental called "Passion Jig", but it was more based on a melody from A Passion Play than an excerpt from the album - that was back in the Andy Giddings days, around the time of Roots to Branches.
Yes, I'm a Tull nerd 😁
@@Robbo57 wow, great set-list. Would loved to have seen that show!
@@adolforodolfo6929 we certainly have mate. That was a great gig and I know what you mean about the Floyd because I also saw them on that tour but in Newcastle. I was so disappointed with the first set the Floyd played but in hindsight it was probably because I hadn't heard shine on, you gotta be crazy (dogs), raving and drooling (sheep). The second set was fab. I love tull, I think I've seen them more than any other band. It's just a pity Martin Barre is no longer part of it all and Mr Anderson has lost his voice. But...really don't mind if you sit this one out!
Amazing, thanks for showing the chords of "the Jack Rabbit Master" part, and I love the way you interpreted the soprano solo. By the way, the B major chord in Overseer Ouverture is another unexpected chord by Ian Anderson (because it has a D# that you wouldn't expect when the ground chord is E minor). Would you agree?
Thanks! Yes, Ian frequently uses the V7 in minor keys. It gives a great spooky feel. He does it in the key of G frequently, where it becomes a III7 chord to lead to Em.
THAT GUITAR!!! How does it get that sound? And the effortless volume!!! The strings really ring!! The harmonics sound better than the frets!!
Another of my favorites, a '90 Collings OM3. Wonderful guitar.
@@snoozedoctor i don't know if I like the Martin aura best or the Collings?? Not that they sound the same but you definitely need both!!
Good evening Doc! Love your edits on PP. PP is the one I go up first again and again, TAAB. I really enjoy the complexity of both. I’m catching up on the TT’s and wondering if these 2 parts will make the TT cut, even if it’s just the licks and transitions? Please keep up this great work (selfishly ) as I’m now retired and am decompressing with JT and my guitar - thank you very much - Jim
Good evening! yes, they are in the queue.
We had exactly the same experience with Passion Play. I didn’t like it much on first release but it is now my favourite Tull album. I really believe it is a masterpiece (although I could still live without The Hare....).
The Hare was funny the first few times but after that I just wanted to get to the music.
I have never played this album much, and like side two more than side one. Having read these comments, it sounds persevering with listening to it.
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@@stevenhaywood1195 same here. I like side 2 the best.
Okay.
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@@snoozedoctor, I mean, it sounds like it is worth persevering with.
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This is the story of the hare who lost his spectacles!
You know, I always loved that piece. When my kids were young it cracked them up.
In case you didn't know "Well, I'll go the foot of our stairs" is an English phrase that basically means "That's a surprise!" or "I couldn't believe it"
eg
Our Tommy managed to eat a whole pan full of stew!
Well, I'll go to the foot of our stairs!
Did not know that!
Thanks for clarifying that lyric. Much appreciated.
That is important information that I've never heard before.
what the fuck is he talking about, he likes the flute, i like da gun