As soon as I heard this song some years ago, it felt like my anthem. I acknowledge there are better Jethro Tull songs, and ones I enjoy more, but this hits. Love it.
Tull was a great band and fun to see in concert. I saw them twice, once for the Aqualung tour. Ian Anderson is a phenomenal performer and musician. He is still performing and it is a disgrace that Tull isn't in the rock hall.
Ah, one of his very best songs, but at the same time, one that never gets played! Or reacted to, When you hear that hook, it will be in your head for the rest of the day!!
Harri, to find out what happened to Ray, listen to Pied Piper, which is on the same album. You will be pleased to learn he survived. Thanks for the reaction!
Great advice Harri! I'm 63 still wear my hair long still playing a rock and roll band and I don't care what anybody says and I'll do it till I can't do it anymore. By the way this was a hit when I was a senior in high school so it's ironic to hear it now. The original album's gatefold innersleeve had a comic strip with a panel of every song on this album. It was about a character named Ray Lomas. Quiz kid and Salamander are two other great songs from this album. Ray survives the crash and wakes up to find that all his clothes and style is back in fashion again.
Same here! I'm sneaking up on 63 in May and still wear my hair as long as I did when I was a teen! Sadly, every year or so I have to get a burr haircut to keep the psoriasis from taking hold too badly. I still have all my old music to get my through my Golden Years, too! #PeaceAndLove!!!
Frtunately he didn´t die.The following song of the LP,Pied Piper, starts "Well if you think Ray blew it,there was nothing to it,they patched it up as good as new,You can see him everyday rolling down the Queen´s highway handing out his small cigars to the kids from school...",so poor old Ray is given a second chance!!!
try, if u will, Living in the Past, The Witch's Promise, Just Trying to Be, & Life is a Long Song, all strong, unique classics in their own right. It's worth noting, Ian Anderson and crew never retired and are still going strong. They just released a new CD.
This song hits hard! Though I'm only 43 in 2024, I now have a family/kids, career and different responsibilities that make it so I'm unable to be in a band like the old days. Man, how much I miss jamming with friends and doing shows! Thank you mom for introducing me to this song! First time seeing HarriBest Reactions, Great job on the reaction! I will definitely watch more!
Very nice Dean! Absolutely love this concept album. It always had that Rocky Horror feeling to it. Love your take on it Harri. I'm a 62 year old rocker to the very core. As eclectic as I am in music, Rock is my true passion.✌️❤️🙂
My Junior High crew and I took an instant liking to this band in 77. That cool 8th Grader who wore the Tull T Shirt got us interested. Glad for that. Still into it now at 60. I wish I saw them live.
Love this Harri! My favorite Jethro Tull album, it's a perfect album start to finish. It's a concept album revolving around an old biker, late 50s/early 60s I'd guess (as opposed to the more medieval characters we have become used to from JT). I remember the original vinyl included an insert that was essentially a comic book of all the tracks, "wonderful stuff"! "From a Deadbeat To an Old Greaser" and "The Chequered Flag" are equally as epic. Great request too, @Dean_Jarva!
"From a Deadbeat To an Old Greaser" One of the most haunting and profound songs that I have ever heard. Epically overlooked album. I rate it Tull's second best, after Aqualung. .
@@Katehowe3010 - On the contrary, it's probably my favorite and I think it is very strong, but that just goes to show you how anyone's given situation or place in time when first hearing it can affect their opinion. I was in college and had only heard Tull's handful of hits at that point. Some of my floormates had the album and played it quite often and I grew to really like it. I then bought Songs From the Wood and really liked that too - played it to death (and I'm still not tired of it!). But then comes a real dog, if you want to talk about a weak effort - Heavy Horses. I never bought another Tull album after that except for the older stuff.
@@doplinger1 It most definitely is a case of where you were, and how many Tull albums you had previously heard, but i strongly disagree when it comes to 'Heavy Horses'! One of Tull's rural gems with nary a bad moment.
I still have this album on vinyl & just listened to it a couple of weeks ago for the 1st time in years. Good stuff Harri. If you'd like to hear a song that is a bit more upbeat, give a listen to Life's A Love Song.
Harry, glad you are back to Tull. They have a new album out. went to number 8 in Britain. Called "Zealot Gene" , I suggest "Zealot Gene", or "Shoshanna Sleeping", or my favorite "In Brief Visitation"
For once, I’d like to see someone try to react to the full Thick as a Brick album. XD Try tearing THAT little epic apart. Especially for its lyrical symbolism. XD
Ah dude, the album cover is awesome. You open it up, and it's like a comic book story. That was always a cool thing about when music was on vinyl, and there was usually all kinds of pictures and info about the band. Man, you'd listen to the record while reading the album cover. Yeah. Peace. Rock on
Back in the 80's (?) the US army attempted to flush Panama's General Noriega out of hiding by blasting his building with loud rock music....this song was used. It made me smile because Panamanians would hear 'up on the A1 by Scotch Corner'...a reference to a road unction/hotel/petrol station near my home town of Darlington.
Haven't listened to this song for a long time....maybe 30 years...but I did buy the vinyl album back in the late 80's and I still have it to this day. I vaguely recall liking this song very much back in the day. It's still good even after hearing it just now. Not one of my favourite Tull albums but still decent.
The Who sang, "I hope I die before I get old." Well, at 67, society tells me I'm old, as does my body most times, but my mind is still young in thought and action. I know people who are in their 30s and 40s who are "old." They have shut their minds and hearts to grow and love. Rock n Roll is a state of mind as well as a beat. Listen to Dylan's "Murder most Foul" and his Nobel prize acceptance speech. At 80, he was so much older then, he's younger than that now. "So, for me, I know I'll die before I get old:-) Keep on rockin' in a free world boomers.
Retirement has killed way too many of my friends. Some from the consequences of their actions in their youth, most out of sheer boredom. Our generation did things. We went camping without camping gear, we jumped into creeks and ponds naked and nobody thought anything of it, we marched for justice, equality and peace. We were active in life. Retirement, specially forced retirement, kills our spirit. It's as if we are tied to a chair and made to watch the world go to hell in a bucket full of holes.
Thats not the whole Song. He wakes in Hospital, to see that "everyone" is wearing leatherjackets and long hair. It'a nice Comic about inside the Album Cover.
I've always thought, the worst aspect of Rock & Roll ( this includes rap), it is a young person's game. I know there are many who don't want to hear that but I do believe it's true. Since Rock's conception, it's always been youth that drives the spirit. Yes, of course you have groups like the Rolling Stones or even Paul McCartney, but that's by far the exception. Other genres of music I believe are more forgiving such as blues, jazz, country and classical. Yes, you can still be older and rock out but I seriously doubt there will be many record producers knocking on your door.
Don't limit yourself to the suggestions made below. Tull is amazing, they don't really fit in one category. Benefit is different than Thick as a Brick, which is different from Too Old to Rock and Roll. For a different look at Tull, try Roots to Branches. Amazing musicianship!
Just as Aqualung-highly popular in UK and America-is vastly different from Broadsword and the Beast, which Ian said did infinitely better in Germany. Personally, the side I like best of the boys here was Aqualung, Thick as a Brick era, sadly didn’t get as into Roots to Branches, and the changes made during Stormwatch-which if JT had any urban legend “cursed” production period, Stormwatch would be it-just really shook things hard. Two deaths and two leavings.
I don't see anything wrong with Older Artists whose health permits to Keep Performing. Some Teenagers who feel embarrassed by it Need To Get Over Themselves. Who in their Right Mind would try telling Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr that they're Too Old To Rock. Or try convincing ABBA to break up again. My Favourite Uncle who was a Good Father to Me, was Impossible to think of as Old. I got My Policy from Him. I say "If Men don't have to Grow Up Completely, Why Should I? Just so long as you're Mature Where You Need To Be."
As soon as I heard this song some years ago, it felt like my anthem. I acknowledge there are better Jethro Tull songs, and ones I enjoy more, but this hits. Love it.
Tull was a great band and fun to see in concert. I saw them twice, once for the Aqualung tour. Ian Anderson is a phenomenal performer and musician. He is still performing and it is a disgrace that Tull isn't in the rock hall.
I agree but screw the HOF. I wouldn't be surprised if Ian would tell them to bugger off! There seems to be too much favoritism bs politics involved.
Another great Tull song is "Skating away (on the thin ice of a new day)".
Ah, one of his very best songs, but at the same time, one that never gets played! Or reacted to, When you hear that hook, it will be in your head for the rest of the day!!
Harri, to find out what happened to Ray, listen to Pied Piper, which is on the same album. You will be pleased to learn he survived. Thanks for the reaction!
Great advice Harri! I'm 63 still wear my hair long still playing a rock and roll band and I don't care what anybody says and I'll do it till I can't do it anymore. By the way this was a hit when I was a senior in high school so it's ironic to hear it now. The original album's gatefold innersleeve had a comic strip with a panel of every song on this album. It was about a character named Ray Lomas. Quiz kid and Salamander are two other great songs from this album. Ray survives the crash and wakes up to find that all his clothes and style is back in fashion again.
Oh fantastic! I thought he died! Glad to hear that 😀
My older sister bought me this album for my thirteenth Birthday. 1976.
Dang hippie
Same here! I'm sneaking up on 63 in May and still wear my hair as long as I did when I was a teen! Sadly, every year or so I have to get a burr haircut to keep the psoriasis from taking hold too badly. I still have all my old music to get my through my Golden Years, too! #PeaceAndLove!!!
I love having been "that generation" who got to see these giants in those great 70's. That was music.
"If you think Ray blew it, there was nothing to it... they fixed him up as good as new"
The lead in lines to the following song, he didn't die
Jethro Tull never disappoints. Ian is so talented! 🌺✌️
You're never too old to rock and roll. Peace.
Never to old react rock n roll
you gotta hear the next one to finish the story
Alright Alright! Tull nails it again!!
What a great live show --- If you haven't seen them live, you haven't seen them.
Ian Anderson, the consummate trubidore, love me some tull. Thanks Harri
Tull is another amazing gift to Rock n Roll. Nothing quite like them. Your patreons are all so very wise Harri! Great choice!
Frtunately he didn´t die.The following song of the LP,Pied Piper, starts "Well if you think Ray blew it,there was nothing to it,they patched it up as good as new,You can see him everyday rolling down the Queen´s highway handing out his small cigars to the kids from school...",so poor old Ray is given a second chance!!!
I saw Jethro tull in germany in 73 or 74 frankfurt festhalle great band
try, if u will, Living in the Past, The Witch's Promise, Just Trying to Be, & Life is a Long Song, all strong, unique classics in their own right. It's worth noting, Ian Anderson and crew never retired and are still going strong. They just released a new CD.
This song hits hard! Though I'm only 43 in 2024, I now have a family/kids, career and different responsibilities that make it so I'm unable to be in a band like the old days. Man, how much I miss jamming with friends and doing shows! Thank you mom for introducing me to this song! First time seeing HarriBest Reactions, Great job on the reaction! I will definitely watch more!
Very nice Dean! Absolutely love this concept album. It always had that Rocky Horror feeling to it. Love your take on it Harri. I'm a 62 year old rocker to the very core. As eclectic as I am in music, Rock is my true passion.✌️❤️🙂
Whatever makes you happy, just do it! Exactly!
If you haven't, listen to Jethro Tull album Aqualung. I listened to this album over and over when I was a teenager. Still a great album!
My Junior High crew and I took an instant liking to this band in 77. That cool 8th Grader who wore the Tull T Shirt got us interested. Glad for that. Still into it now at 60. I wish I saw them live.
Maddy Prior sang the backing vocals on this track.
In my top five Tull Songs of all time love you
This is just a GREAT song. And I just listened to it last night! heheh.
Spooky
"Look Into the Sun", is another great Tull song...
Love me some Jethro Tull. Keep up the great reactions "cool cat" 😎
There's a funny video that goes with this song, worth watching :)
watched a professional flutist react to Gethro Tull playing a solo flute song. She said she wished she could be that good. Thats how good he is.
Thanks very inspiring songs and comments.Thanks Again
Love this Harri! My favorite Jethro Tull album, it's a perfect album start to finish. It's a concept album revolving around an old biker, late 50s/early 60s I'd guess (as opposed to the more medieval characters we have become used to from JT). I remember the original vinyl included an insert that was essentially a comic book of all the tracks, "wonderful stuff"! "From a Deadbeat To an Old Greaser" and "The Chequered Flag" are equally as epic. Great request too, @Dean_Jarva!
"From a Deadbeat To an Old Greaser" One of the most haunting and profound songs that I have ever heard. Epically overlooked album. I rate it Tull's second best, after Aqualung. .
I'm a huge Tull fan, but this album is indubitably one of their weaker efforts. To think that the sublime 'Songs From The Wood' followed this album!
@@Katehowe3010 - On the contrary, it's probably my favorite and I think it is very strong, but that just goes to show you how anyone's given situation or place in time when first hearing it can affect their opinion. I was in college and had only heard Tull's handful of hits at that point. Some of my floormates had the album and played it quite often and I grew to really like it. I then bought Songs From the Wood and really liked that too - played it to death (and I'm still not tired of it!). But then comes a real dog, if you want to talk about a weak effort - Heavy Horses. I never bought another Tull album after that except for the older stuff.
@@doplinger1 It most definitely is a case of where you were, and how many Tull albums you had previously heard, but i strongly disagree when it comes to 'Heavy Horses'! One of Tull's rural gems with nary a bad moment.
@@Katehowe3010 - I guess we can just agree to disagree! :D
Ian Anderson aka Jethro tull lives on a farm in England according to the inter net
I still have this album on vinyl & just listened to it a couple of weeks ago for the 1st time in years. Good stuff Harri. If you'd like to hear a song that is a bit more upbeat, give a listen to Life's A Love Song.
Harry, glad you are back to Tull. They have a new album out. went to number 8 in Britain. Called "Zealot Gene" , I suggest "Zealot Gene", or "Shoshanna Sleeping", or my favorite "In Brief Visitation"
For once, I’d like to see someone try to react to the full Thick as a Brick album. XD Try tearing THAT little epic apart. Especially for its lyrical symbolism. XD
Another tune that tangentially deals with the idea. Rockpile did a song called "Crawling from the Wreckage".
Don't forget about taxi grand on this album too
Ah dude, the album cover is awesome. You open it up, and it's like a comic book story. That was always a cool thing about when music was on vinyl, and there was usually all kinds of pictures and info about the band. Man, you'd listen to the record while reading the album cover. Yeah. Peace. Rock on
Back in the 80's (?) the US army attempted to flush Panama's General Noriega out of hiding by blasting his building with loud rock music....this song was used. It made me smile because Panamanians would hear 'up on the A1 by Scotch Corner'...a reference to a road unction/hotel/petrol station near my home town of Darlington.
Haven't listened to this song for a long time....maybe 30 years...but I did buy the vinyl album back in the late 80's and I still have it to this day. I vaguely recall liking this song very much back in the day. It's still good even after hearing it just now. Not one of my favourite Tull albums but still decent.
Love this song!
I just retired.I can now relate to this song.
If I had hair... I'd wear it long!
Hahahaha
The Who sang, "I hope I die before I get old." Well, at 67, society tells me I'm old, as does my body most times, but my mind is still young in thought and action. I know people who are in their 30s and 40s who are "old." They have shut their minds and hearts to grow and love. Rock n Roll is a state of mind as well as a beat. Listen to Dylan's "Murder most Foul" and his Nobel prize acceptance speech. At 80, he was so much older then, he's younger than that now. "So, for me, I know I'll die before I get old:-) Keep on rockin' in a free world boomers.
Retirement has killed way too many of my friends. Some from the consequences of their actions in their youth, most out of sheer boredom. Our generation did things. We went camping without camping gear, we jumped into creeks and ponds naked and nobody thought anything of it, we marched for justice, equality and peace. We were active in life. Retirement, specially forced retirement, kills our spirit. It's as if we are tied to a chair and made to watch the world go to hell in a bucket full of holes.
Hari you gotta hear farm on the freeway
Thats not the whole Song.
He wakes in Hospital, to see that "everyone" is wearing leatherjackets and long hair.
It'a nice Comic about inside the Album Cover.
I've always thought, the worst aspect of Rock & Roll ( this includes rap), it is a young person's game. I know there are many who don't want to hear that but I do believe it's true. Since Rock's conception, it's always been youth that drives the spirit. Yes, of course you have groups like the Rolling Stones or even Paul McCartney, but that's by far the exception. Other genres of music I believe are more forgiving such as blues, jazz, country and classical. Yes, you can still be older and rock out but I seriously doubt there will be many record producers knocking on your door.
Don't limit yourself to the suggestions made below. Tull is amazing, they don't really fit in one category. Benefit is different than Thick as a Brick, which is different from Too Old to Rock and Roll.
For a different look at Tull, try Roots to Branches. Amazing musicianship!
Just as Aqualung-highly popular in UK and America-is vastly different from Broadsword and the Beast, which Ian said did infinitely better in Germany. Personally, the side I like best of the boys here was Aqualung, Thick as a Brick era, sadly didn’t get as into Roots to Branches, and the changes made during Stormwatch-which if JT had any urban legend “cursed” production period, Stormwatch would be it-just really shook things hard. Two deaths and two leavings.
I don't see anything wrong with Older Artists whose health permits to Keep Performing. Some Teenagers who feel embarrassed by it Need To Get Over Themselves. Who in their Right Mind would try telling Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr that they're Too Old To Rock. Or try convincing ABBA to break up again. My Favourite Uncle who was a Good Father to Me, was Impossible to think of as Old. I got My Policy from Him. I say "If Men don't have to Grow Up Completely, Why Should I? Just so long as you're Mature Where You Need To Be."
I'd like to recommend a song perhaps in a similar vein by an equally esteemed band: 'A Rock and Roll Fantasy' by the Kinks.
no he did not die. 'well, if you think Ray blew it, there was nothing to it. They patched him up as good as new..... '
Fpur words hatti
Thick as a brick