If you felt lost and confused in the beginning then he succeeded. The song is about exactly that, lost people, those confused about them, and their assumptions about the homeless.
Tull toured like crazy in the 70’s, they came thru town almost every year and you never missed their show, played for hours and you always got your money’s worth considering tickets were about $5. Ian (the singer) is still playing today and he’s close to 80. A very underrated band especially Martin Barre the guitarist
The music was intentionally jarring at the beginning. The song is about how society sees the homeless. In the beginning he's seen as this creepy old man at the park looking at little girls in a bad way, then the music changes and he is seen through a more compassionate lens. He's just a guy down on his luck who is seeking to enjoy a seat on the bench in the sun. That's an over simplified summary of the song, but you get the drift. I would suggest that on your own time you listen to the music version of the song with no video.
Simplified version? No mate you really captured it. I never thought of the music being intentionally jarring because that’s how society looks at homeless. It makes so much sense now that you’ve said it. You’ve helped appreciate the song even more. Thank you for that.
53 years listen to that song never knew what it was about I just love the music and the arrangement but thank you for digging deeper it makes me love the song even more 🎵🎶
For me, from around the mid-sixties through the late seventies was like a mini-renaissance through that period of classic rock! So very many artists and groups that were transcendent!
Ian Anderson played flute on many of their songs. He was good at it - during live performances he stood on one leg whilst he played it. A real showman !!!!!
Everyone had this album in the 70's 😊 it was one of my favorites, Saw them at Cobo Hall in Detroit 1974 to see Ian play the flute 🪈 you will never forget, that night is an impression in my memory, l will never forget that performance. ✌️Peace ☮️ and Love ❤️ your 70 year old forever Young Hippie Gary 😊 Great Reaction👍 l feel Lucky to relive this memory with the 2 of you Thankyou 😅
I first saw Tull in July 1969 at the Newport Jazz Festival. A weekend with Tull, Led Zep, Jeff Beck, Zappa, James Brown, Dizzy Gillespie, etc. Glad you're enjoying your sojourn into vintage rock and soul. Try some blues, maybe Freddie King's Palace Of The King.
Jethro Tull are a British progressive rock band formed in 1967. The group’s founder Ian Anderson plays flute & acoustic guitar & is the lead singer & quite a showman. They've had a lot of different members over the years. They had a lot of great songs such as "Living In The Past", "Songs From The Wood", "A New Day Yesterday", "Cross-Eyed Mary", "Bungle In The Jungle", "Sweet Dream", "Life’s A Long Song" etc.
You are right about the photographs but there a few other things to note. The word “Aqualung” was describing the homeless man’s breath but it is also a brand name for scuba equipment. As first, the company was irritated by the song but their legal department said it was free advertising for their product. He picks up a “dog-end” with means a snuffed out cigarette butt. He goes to the bog which can mean a warm swamp of water or it can mean a public toilet. Then the “army’s up the road” referring to the Salvation Army who collect money from passersby on the street. And finally, the narrator says that “flowers bloom like madness in the spring” talking about the disease, tuberculosis, which makes you cough up blood. Great song with many meanings. If you want to try another song, I would suggest one from “Song from the Wood” with a completely different tone, a bit like a renaissance festival.
A band and a front man at their peak. Anderson's stage presence, musicianship and vocals were just phenomenal, and the other band members were also incredibly talented and a joy to watch.
When Domenika says the stage is too small for Ian's (singer's) personality, and compares him to a Jack-in-the-box--I love that! 😂 He comes off as a bit of a madman, lol.
The 2 different tempos you're talking about is supposed to indicate between 2 different viewpoints. The loud one is how the public can view homeless old men. The slower tempo is a sympathetic view of the same homeless man. It basically comes down to the attitudes of society.
Saw them in the early and mid 80s as a teenager and in America he was popular with us rock and rollers and we definitely laughed when he got a heavy metal award 😂😂😂 over Metallica 🤣 😆 and I have seen both in concert a few times 😘 I would take Jethro tull ticket any day 💯✌️🖖🤘💪
Jethro Tull was a 17th century farmer who invented an automated seed sower which was the basis for the agricultural revolution in England and thence world wide
This was the first by the band I heard and was intrigued and wanted more. Next was Bou'ree and then Locomotive Breath. I have been hooked since then and through all those years never a bad song of theirs yet ) Rock, blues, classical and a bit of medieval sound... they have always been so creavive.
Funny that you mentioned Led Zeppelin because Martin Barre, the guitarist in the video, tells a story about recording the solo for this song. He improvised the solo and while he recording Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page came into the studio and was waving at him. Barre said he had to turn his back on him to keep from getting distracted. So apparently Page was there when the studio version was recorded
Because the song is about the dichotomy between societies perception and reality of the homeless, that is (I think) why there are different musical styles in the song each representing a different view.
It's so interesting how the song opens with a hard scornful view of a homeless man. Then breaks into a more sympathetic view empathizing with the homeless man's physical hardships and loneliness.
The harsh part at first denotes how many of the public view a homeless person. As is softens, it focuses on how they really are. Alone, hopeless, cold and afraid, wanting a better life.
It was this tour/Live Album Bursting Out that completely turned me onto Jethro Tull big time! The live performances and renditions were way better than the studio versions! You've only just begun!
Glad you enjoyed it, I enjoyed your reaction. So why do you think that the protagonist is called Aqualung? (Rattle, rattle.) Three points for non-British viewers if you knew that a dogend was a discarded cigarette. In context, it is not about a homeless man in Britain, it's about a tramp, as they were called (okay, splitting hairs but back then there was a difference). Many were real characters choosing the open air, not addicts.
I can’t believe that you haven’t played this yet. 😊This song introduced me to Ian and the band. And I have made them my favorite band seeing them 8 times. 🪈🎶👍🎶
The juxtapostion of the intense parts and the quiet acoustic parts is intentional Its almost theater. Kind of an expression of the bipolar issues of this old homeless man he used to see on his walk in London.
I loved this album, but I had to listen a few times to get into it. It’s a beautiful album. I was so excited when it came out. I had the vinyl,album on repeat, it remains a magnificent work.
The song came out when I was in 9th grade in high school and that means I'm old LOL but I've listened to the studio version most of my life and when I first heard this live version I was disappointed in the jarring beginning which I thought skewed the music from what is intentions were on the recording.
One of the very few songs where Ian Anderson doesn't play the flute! Great reaction guys. There is a lot to this song, you have only scratched the surface.
This song is an adventure!!! Pure artistry. The great thing about the seventies was the great variety and diversity of musical exploration available to listen to.
I watched this live on the BBC as a teenager and rushed out to buy Songs From the Wood which was just out on sale. Still my favourite Tull record. It also has their amazing hit Christmas Song Solstice Bells I then saw the Bursting Out tour at the Hammersmith Odeon. Probably one of the best live acts at the time.
I am a huge Tull fan. I could type pages. But I won't. 😌 Ian Anderson is a showman in every sense of the word. A great band to see live. Guitarist Martin Barre pioneered the 'Metal guitar sound' (imo). I think you will really enjoy more J.T. Andei, there was so much good music you couldn't listen to it all. And I had to choose which album I would buy. Dominika, the beginning music makes you uncomfortable, like how society sees the homeless. Dirty, shabby, untrustworthy. The softer part of the song tells of the homeless man's point of view. "Taking time the only way he knows" ☮❤🎶
With Tull it's always a bit of a trade off. With these live performance clips you get incredible energy and entertaining antics for sure, but you always lose the excellent musicianship and intricate arrangements of the studio versions which are typically much more layered and complex. That being said, these guys are one of my absolute favorite bands, and I have hours and hours of their music in my collection. They could definitely rock out, but I am especially fond of their many acoustic ballads and especially the pieces that have a medieval style to them. Tull is always full of surprises! Thanks for sharing this one.
The beginning is the view of others looking at the old man, harsh and hard, judging him without knowing him, then it´s the view from the old ill guy, suffering, so it´s softer.
For another great journey, check out the concert version of Thick as a Brick which is on youtube as well. It is a real beautiful composition that changes up constantly
I think people get distracted when they see Tull live because of Ian's antics, he is a great lyricist, most of his songs will make you think and tell s a story
i was a personal Friend with the brother of Ian Anderson . Robin Anderson who was involved with Scottish Ballet back in the 80s in Glasgow Scotland...... You should take a Listen to 'Thick as a Brick ' album . to me personally it was their best work....
It’s odd how I became educated about the homeless in London through the audiobook “Down and Out In Paris and London”by George Orwell, so I can really relate to this character Aqualung. That’s a fantastic book to listen to, in fact my personal favorite so far.
There is a huge difference between JT live and studio. Anderson was a perfectionist and spent months engineering his studio albums to a level they are impossible to duplicate live, so he doesn't even try. Instead live he concentrates more on a "performance", gives extra expression to the vocals and pretty straight forward rock and roll instrumentals. Saw him live on several occasions in the 1970s and they were equal to any Rock performance I ever saw. As an aside, although he has come close, I don't think he ever surpassed Aqualung. There is so much artistry, continuity, innovation and engineering perfection in the album, that I thought Thick As A Brick was a slightly inferior continuation (perhaps he just had a little less to say)😊.
@@TheOnespeedbiker Saw them five times. I simply feel hearing the studio renditions gives you a better feeling of what he was trying to convey. 3 times the last song was "Wind Up", and l felt very strongly that people thought it was an overarching condemnation of religion as a whole. I feel as though it is targeting The church of England specifically, as is "My God". I have the album cover and a bit more insight. He wasn't a big fan of Catholicism either. With "Aqualung" itself, l really feel the studio version shows the contrast between a punctuated and very biased view of homelessness compared to one that is revelatory and empathetic, "If not for the grace of God there go l." The live version is fantastic, but does not exemplify the contrasting views as well. By the way, that album cover is Ian himself.
In their Hey Day before Ian permanently injured his voice Tull was among the very best bands live in concert.Unfortunately for me when my late wife and I went to see Tull in concert Ian had already lost his voice . The band had mostly different members and lacked the energy they had once had!back around 1989
IAN ANDERSON is unique! In addition to being a virtuoso of the transverse flute, a masterful guitarist and a singer with a stylistically recognizable voice, he deploys on stage a physical energy without limits like no other in the history of prog rock. JETHRO TULL is IAN ANDERSON. Thanks. [NB1: The band borrows its name from that of an 18th century British scientist who promoted, in Europe, the use of a 16th century agricultural invention, the seeder. On the other hand, to the question: Why did the band choose this name? No answer has been given.] [NB2: Another superb composition by JETHRO TULL, this one from their more folk rock period: "Songs From The Wood" (taken from the album of the same name; 1977).]
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That opening guitar riff is one of the classic guitar riffs of all time.
INSTANT song recognition!
If you felt lost and confused in the beginning then he succeeded. The song is about exactly that, lost people, those confused about them, and their assumptions about the homeless.
Yes, the assumptions of the homeless. Excellent point.
Ahhhh the 70’s…what else can be said! Tull was ICONIC! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Tull toured like crazy in the 70’s, they came thru town almost every year and you never missed their show, played for hours and you always got your money’s worth considering tickets were about $5. Ian (the singer) is still playing today and he’s close to 80. A very underrated band especially Martin Barre the guitarist
The best reaction to this song I've seen on RUclips,..it was great you looked into the background of a song I've known all my life.
Ian Anderson= The Pied Piper! Andre & Dominica, He`s one of the very best flutist`s of all time!
Tull was its own genre. Genius for decades
Yes, you're right.
The music was intentionally jarring at the beginning. The song is about how society sees the homeless. In the beginning he's seen as this creepy old man at the park looking at little girls in a bad way, then the music changes and he is seen through a more compassionate lens. He's just a guy down on his luck who is seeking to enjoy a seat on the bench in the sun. That's an over simplified summary of the song, but you get the drift. I would suggest that on your own time you listen to the music version of the song with no video.
Yep I was fixing to post the same thing, this song still gives me chills after hearing it a million times
Simplified version? No mate you really captured it. I never thought of the music being intentionally jarring because that’s how society looks at homeless. It makes so much sense now that you’ve said it. You’ve helped appreciate the song even more. Thank you for that.
Saw Tull 3 times in the 70s they were great live. Youre right in the 70s there were so many great bands and music. wish i ciuld go back in time.
named my oldest Ian in 1982 because of Ian Anderson
and Ian Gillan!
Bring back memories.
Im so glad i grew up in the 70s ❤
53 years listen to that song never knew what it was about I just love the music and the arrangement but thank you for digging deeper it makes me love the song even more 🎵🎶
DITTO.
The 70's were great. Growing up with all the great music was an honor. I am so glad you have found an appreciation for the music of that time.
For me, from around the mid-sixties through the late seventies was like a mini-renaissance through that period of classic rock! So very many artists and groups that were transcendent!
Ian Anderson played flute on many of their songs. He was good at it - during live performances he stood on one leg whilst he played it. A real showman !!!!!
Locomotive 🚂 breath live is a jethro tull classic also
Yes indeed, love the fluting 🪈 he's a master 🙌 Peace ✌️ Gary 😊
One of the greatest songs ever written ❤
One of my favorite JT songs is "Skating Away On the Thin Ice of a New Day.". But "Locomotive Breath" may be their best rocker.
Everyone had this album in the 70's 😊 it was one of my favorites, Saw them at Cobo Hall in Detroit 1974 to see Ian play the flute 🪈 you will never forget, that night is an impression in my memory, l will never forget that performance. ✌️Peace ☮️ and Love ❤️ your 70 year old forever Young Hippie Gary 😊 Great Reaction👍 l feel Lucky to relive this memory with the 2 of you Thankyou 😅
We had the 8 track😊
@@scotstevens5263as the youngin' would say 8 track what's that?😅 ✌️Peace ☮️ Gary
This is A Massive Band sold out worldwide in their day, still does, check out more of them.
I first saw Tull in July 1969 at the Newport Jazz Festival. A weekend with Tull, Led Zep, Jeff Beck, Zappa, James Brown, Dizzy Gillespie, etc. Glad you're enjoying your sojourn into vintage rock and soul. Try some blues, maybe Freddie King's Palace Of The King.
Now that’s a line up.
I was so lucky to be a teenager in the 70’s. I was 16 in 1977 when I saw them for the first time.
Jethro Tull are a British progressive rock band formed in 1967. The group’s founder Ian Anderson plays flute & acoustic guitar & is the lead singer & quite a showman. They've had a lot of different members over the years. They had a lot of great songs such as "Living In The Past", "Songs From The Wood", "A New Day Yesterday", "Cross-Eyed Mary", "Bungle In The Jungle", "Sweet Dream", "Life’s A Long Song" etc.
You are right about the photographs but there a few other things to note. The word “Aqualung” was describing the homeless man’s breath but it is also a brand name for scuba equipment. As first, the company was irritated by the song but their legal department said it was free advertising for their product. He picks up a “dog-end” with means a snuffed out cigarette butt. He goes to the bog which can mean a warm swamp of water or it can mean a public toilet. Then the “army’s up the road” referring to the Salvation Army who collect money from passersby on the street. And finally, the narrator says that “flowers bloom like madness in the spring” talking about the disease, tuberculosis, which makes you cough up blood. Great song with many meanings. If you want to try another song, I would suggest one from “Song from the Wood” with a completely different tone, a bit like a renaissance festival.
One of the greatest life performances. Magic.
A band and a front man at their peak. Anderson's stage presence, musicianship and vocals were just phenomenal, and the other band members were also incredibly talented and a joy to watch.
When Domenika says the stage is too small for Ian's (singer's) personality, and compares him to a Jack-in-the-box--I love that! 😂 He comes off as a bit of a madman, lol.
The 2 different tempos you're talking about is supposed to indicate between 2 different viewpoints. The loud one is how the public can view homeless old men. The slower tempo is a sympathetic view of the same homeless man. It basically comes down to the attitudes of society.
Saw them in the early and mid 80s as a teenager and in America he was popular with us rock and rollers and we definitely laughed when he got a heavy metal award 😂😂😂 over Metallica 🤣 😆 and I have seen both in concert a few times 😘 I would take Jethro tull ticket any day 💯✌️🖖🤘💪
Jethro Tull was a 17th century farmer who invented an automated seed sower which was the basis for the agricultural revolution in England and thence world wide
This was the first by the band I heard and was intrigued and wanted more. Next was Bou'ree and then Locomotive Breath. I have been hooked since then and through all those years never a bad song of theirs yet ) Rock, blues, classical and a bit of medieval sound... they have always been so creavive.
Life Is a Long Song , Songs from the Wood
Definitely Songs From the Wood
Sometimes you have to let new music grow on you. The more you hear the song, the better you like it.
I think they were ultimately a live band. Brilliant to have watched. But out of the mainstream pop sound.
Love it!! Excellent album also! I bought it way back then ❤❤❤
The cover is so cool too.
I recommend 'Thick As A Brick' at MSG
Funny that you mentioned Led Zeppelin because Martin Barre, the guitarist in the video, tells a story about recording the solo for this song. He improvised the solo and while he recording Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page came into the studio and was waving at him. Barre said he had to turn his back on him to keep from getting distracted. So apparently Page was there when the studio version was recorded
Many Tull concerts over the decades. Ian and the boys just kick ass.
Saw them in Concert 1971 🤘
Because the song is about the dichotomy between societies perception and reality of the homeless, that is (I think) why there are different musical styles in the song each representing a different view.
I always considered Tull to be rock and roll minstrels.
Another great reaction! Just wait until you listen to Ian play the flute! Love to ya'll from Florida!
Seen them live 2 times back in the day! Love the band.
This one will definitely surprise you . Glad someone recommended it 😊
It's so interesting how the song opens with a hard scornful view of a homeless man. Then breaks into a more sympathetic view empathizing with the homeless man's physical hardships and loneliness.
The harsh part at first denotes how many of the public view a homeless person. As is softens, it focuses on how they really are. Alone, hopeless, cold and afraid, wanting a better life.
Have not you two for a while. Sending appreciation from America 😊
Thick as a Brick live in MSG 1979 is a master peace. Jethro Tull 's the greatest.
Please play 'Locomotive Breath' live. Ian Anderson plays another instrumet very well in that song! ;)
It was this tour/Live Album Bursting Out that completely turned me onto Jethro Tull big time! The live performances and renditions were way better than the studio versions! You've only just begun!
Back in the day, the only thing I really heard was "Aqualung my friend..." I was missing the true genius if Ian.
Glad you enjoyed it, I enjoyed your reaction.
So why do you think that the protagonist is called Aqualung? (Rattle, rattle.)
Three points for non-British viewers if you knew that a dogend was a discarded cigarette.
In context, it is not about a homeless man in Britain, it's about a tramp, as they were called (okay, splitting hairs but back then there was a difference). Many were real characters choosing the open air, not addicts.
Talking about My God Andre, check out Jethro Tull "My God" live at the Isle of Wight 1971 for a virtuoso flute performance.
The 70s❤
"Benefit" Album and "Stand Up" are his best.
You ought to check out Bungle In The Jungle. Good reaction
This whole album is great!
You should give the studio version a listen as well, the lead guitar solo on that is one of the best I've ever heard.
Anything from the album Songs from the Woods is fantastic, as well!
I can’t believe that you haven’t played this yet. 😊This song introduced me to Ian and the band. And I have made them my favorite band seeing them 8 times. 🪈🎶👍🎶
The juxtapostion of the intense parts and the quiet acoustic parts is intentional Its almost theater. Kind of an expression of the bipolar issues of this old homeless man he used to see on his walk in London.
I loved this album, but I had to listen a few times to get into it. It’s a beautiful album. I was so excited when it came out. I had the vinyl,album on repeat, it remains a magnificent work.
The song came out when I was in 9th grade in high school and that means I'm old LOL but I've listened to the studio version most of my life and when I first heard this live version I was disappointed in the jarring beginning which I thought skewed the music from what is intentions were on the recording.
That's an insane performance. Wow! One of the best showmen ever if not the best. McCartney's really great too. Bruce...whataya gonna do?
One of the very few songs where Ian Anderson doesn't play the flute! Great reaction guys. There is a lot to this song, you have only scratched the surface.
This song is an adventure!!! Pure artistry. The great thing about the seventies was the great variety and diversity of musical exploration available to listen to.
That was AMAZING ! He was quite the entertainer In a court jester sort of way 🦹♂️
That was a 3 course meal.
That line up of Jethro Tull was/is the best ever..Few understand that music of this genre is also a physical expression..✌️
I watched this live on the BBC as a teenager and rushed out to buy Songs From the Wood which was just out on sale. Still my favourite Tull record. It also has their amazing hit Christmas Song Solstice Bells I then saw the Bursting Out tour at the Hammersmith Odeon. Probably one of the best live acts at the time.
Amazing group,Thick As a Brick is a classic.
This one of the very best bands rock n' roll has ever produced. This is a small part of what he's done.
Check out more Jethro Tull. probably the greatest live band of all time
Love you guys. We were spoiled and didn't even know it:(
I am a huge Tull fan. I could type pages. But I won't. 😌 Ian Anderson is a showman in every sense of the word. A great band to see live. Guitarist Martin Barre pioneered the 'Metal guitar sound' (imo). I think you will really enjoy more J.T. Andei, there was so much good music you couldn't listen to it all. And I had to choose which album I would buy. Dominika, the beginning music makes you uncomfortable, like how society sees the homeless. Dirty, shabby, untrustworthy. The softer part of the song tells of the homeless man's point of view. "Taking time the only way he knows" ☮❤🎶
You should check out Thick as a Brick, live at Madison Square Garden in 1977. It great.
A great review from you two.
A wonderful adventure!
"do you snatch your rattling last breath with deep sea diver sounds, and the flowers bloom like madness in the spring?"
Another great reaction. Glad you turned around your original thought about not liking it!
With Tull it's always a bit of a trade off. With these live performance clips you get incredible energy and entertaining antics for sure, but you always lose the excellent musicianship and intricate arrangements of the studio versions which are typically much more layered and complex. That being said, these guys are one of my absolute favorite bands, and I have hours and hours of their music in my collection. They could definitely rock out, but I am especially fond of their many acoustic ballads and especially the pieces that have a medieval style to them. Tull is always full of surprises! Thanks for sharing this one.
The beginning is the view of others looking at the old man, harsh and hard, judging him without knowing him, then it´s the view from the old ill guy, suffering, so it´s softer.
Sheesh, no flute solo in this.
70s 🎶 is a party of all sorts ....it was flow vs dough💲❗✌😁🎶😁✌
❤❤❤❤
Crazy genius
Saw him live three times. Once on this tour above. I can tell by the striped clothes they're wearing. Best live band you could ever see.
Another great reaction ❤
I like the studio version too, maybe give that a try!
- "Crazy in the best way." 100% AGREED! :)
For another great journey, check out the concert version of Thick as a Brick which is on youtube as well. It is a real beautiful composition that changes up constantly
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I think people get distracted when they see Tull live because of Ian's antics, he is a great lyricist, most of his songs will make you think and tell s a story
i was a personal Friend with the brother of Ian Anderson . Robin Anderson who was involved with Scottish Ballet back in the 80s in Glasgow Scotland...... You should take a Listen to 'Thick as a Brick ' album . to me personally it was their best work....
It’s odd how I became educated about the homeless in London through the audiobook “Down and Out In Paris and London”by George Orwell, so I can really relate to this character Aqualung. That’s a fantastic book to listen to, in fact my personal favorite so far.
Ian is an perfectionist. You should see and hear him playing his 2 inch Harmonica - crystalclear ❤❤❤
In my opinion this song would have been better to start with the studio version. Cheers!
You really should try the studio version just to get aquainted with the sentiment without the distractions.
There is a huge difference between JT live and studio. Anderson was a perfectionist and spent months engineering his studio albums to a level they are impossible to duplicate live, so he doesn't even try. Instead live he concentrates more on a "performance", gives extra expression to the vocals and pretty straight forward rock and roll instrumentals. Saw him live on several occasions in the 1970s and they were equal to any Rock performance I ever saw.
As an aside, although he has come close, I don't think he ever surpassed Aqualung. There is so much artistry, continuity, innovation and engineering perfection in the album, that I thought Thick As A Brick was a slightly inferior continuation (perhaps he just had a little less to say)😊.
@@TheOnespeedbiker Saw them five times. I simply feel hearing the studio renditions gives you a better feeling of what he was trying to convey. 3 times the last song was "Wind Up", and l felt very strongly that people thought it was an overarching condemnation of religion as a whole. I feel as though it is targeting The church of England specifically, as is "My God". I have the album cover and a bit more insight. He wasn't a big fan of Catholicism either.
With "Aqualung" itself, l really feel the studio version shows the contrast between a punctuated and very biased view of homelessness compared to one that is revelatory and empathetic, "If not for the grace of God there go l."
The live version is fantastic, but does not exemplify the contrasting views as well.
By the way, that album cover is Ian himself.
In their Hey Day before Ian permanently injured his voice Tull was among the very best bands live in concert.Unfortunately for me when my late wife and I went to see Tull in concert Ian had already lost his voice . The band had mostly different members and lacked the energy they had once had!back around 1989
The BARD!!!!
IAN ANDERSON is unique! In addition to being a virtuoso of the transverse flute, a masterful guitarist and a singer with a stylistically recognizable voice, he deploys on stage a physical energy without limits like no other in the history of prog rock. JETHRO TULL is IAN ANDERSON. Thanks.
[NB1: The band borrows its name from that of an 18th century British scientist who promoted, in Europe, the use of a 16th century agricultural invention, the seeder. On the other hand, to the question: Why did the band choose this name? No answer has been given.]
[NB2: Another superb composition by JETHRO TULL, this one from their more folk rock period: "Songs From The Wood" (taken from the album of the same name; 1977).]
Check out My God live at the Isle of Wight