Flutist's Explosive Reaction to Jethro Tull's Locomotive Breath Live
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- Опубликовано: 21 авг 2024
- Watch as a flutist reacts to Jethro Tull's electrifying performance of "Locomotive Breath"! In this video, witness her amazement and enthusiasm as she experiences Ian Anderson's masterful flute playing and the band's dynamic energy. She'll break down the technical aspects of the flute sections and share her thoughts on why his playing deserves even more credit than it gets. Don't miss this exciting reaction to one of Jethro Tull's most iconic tracks!
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A track from East of Eden - performed live on TV BUT sound recorded in advance (they didn't have synched cameras back than)
Dave Arbus playing flute (he was mostly a fiddler and saxophonist)
Similar era to Jethro Tull ... and they sounded awesome live (I listened to one performance form the wings on stage)
I was "heavily into" progressive groups that used classical instruments - and still am.
ruclips.net/video/h8frmy1w1NU/видео.html
I have watched other flutists react to this and when they saw Ian twirling his flute around, they almost had a heart attack. HEHE! 😜
Yep. Looks of sheer panic!
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I've been a Jethro Tull fan for over 40 years ! Loved every second of it !
One of my all time favorite Live Bands I was lucky enough to see Jethro Tull 3 times at the Oakland Indoor Arena back in the 70s and 80s. Great Live show by Ian Anderson and his mates.
The Jethro Tull storm hit even the tiny islands of Okinawa where I was a high school student back in the early 70s. They were one of our top 10 groups which also included the likes of Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, and Grand Funk.
Love your list, as another person from the 70's. Lol 😂
I was so lucky to see them 5 times in the 70s. Their live shows were masterpieces, and Ian was mesmerizing!
I also was fortunate to see him in concert in the early 70's. Unforgettable great concert.
Greetings from Canada. I'm a Tull fan since 1968- got their first 6 albums (then the Army sent me into the boondocks and I missed some). Good on you- it's great to see young folk enjoying just as we did then. Peace, love and bellbottoms.
You're a fan since 1968, you're one of the original Tull fans ! My respect to you!!!
@@scottmoquin Thank you for those kind words... but I was always susceptible to the Blues and Blues Rock, which is where Tull started before leading me into Prog and Folk Rock. Peace, love and marmalade.
Elephant bells I n particular. Lol 😊
Jethro Tull was a very well oiled, professional band both in the studio and on stage. It looked chaotic and crazy but their shows were always well planned and the band members were always on form. One show I remember they came out dressed in overalls looking like Roadies, all of a sudden off came the overalls and away they went.
I was fortunate enough to have seen them twice in concert, incredible!!!
Me too. Philadelphia in the early 70's! Fantastic!
God given gifts, skills and talents are mind blowing when revealed to a receptive audience.❤
My supervisor at work is called Ian Anderson, he still has no idea why I call him Jethro 😂
Hi from Grimsby. I first started listening to Jethro Tull as a teenager with Livening in the pass .and yes this was this was in the early 70's. never seen live but a sound track to my teens.
Hi Mike, send my regards to Grimsby for me! Thanks for watching and I'm glad it brought back some memories for you! 😄🙏
Although I've never seen Tull, I've seen Ian Anderson many times and there's always Tull fans and merch there.
You are absolutely correct. The 70s were the greatest decade to be alive and young. The music, the counter culture, the effluviants... In the 60s, an exciting but extremely uncertain and violent decade, the demand was always much greater than the supply. It was only in the magical 70s that the supply finally caught up. Please check out Gentle Giant if you really want to see the best example of this, musically speaking.
Even more amazing, Ian was self taught on the flute.
You're right, I like going to rock shows and watch the band members do crazy things, jump around and smile--it shows me that they're having fun and are happy to be there for their fans.
I was a teenager then and Jethro Tull was one of my favorite bands. I still feel the same.
When I heard in a song by Eric Burdon and war say, 'a long-haired leaping gnome', I instantly thought of Ian Anderson.
Growing up in the 60's and 70's was great. The best cars and the best music.
And plenty of loose hippie girls!
Hi Claire. I'm 69 years old, so I lived through the 1970's and experienced its wonderful array of music in real time. It was indeed quite an era to be alive. I'm a first time visitor to your channel; it's quite enjoyable. Your enthusiastic, welcoming personality shines through. All the best!
ditto
Thank you so much David! You're very welcome to join myself and my community at our weekly livestreams where we share live music and chat together - details are all on my channel page. Wishing you a most Flutifull day! 😄🙏
I saw Jethro Tull only once. It was a stop in Denver on their Passion Play tour in 1973. They did maybe half of Thick As A Brick, in addition to the fantastic multimedia Passion Play performance. And the crowd went wild when Ian Anderson stood one-legged with his finger extended to the heavens and launched into that unforgettable intro to Cross-Eyed Mary.
Claire! you said it Fun! Musicianship! Performance! Wow! Thank you for your enthusiasm and sense of fun.
what blows my mind most about these self taught musicians, is that they attained such a high level of skill in a short space of time, when there was no RUclips to show how its done.
yep, just good old experimentation and working it out! Thanks for watching! 😄🙏
Yes, lol 😊
Reaction face is priceless 😂
hehe thanks Wild! 😄🙏
I was at that concert! Incredible live show
Please watch the Genesis song Supper's ready (live 1973) I ❤ the flute parts in it! And its an EPIC song!
After this third reaction I am sure somebody has mentioned it but if not here goes. One Ian is entirely self taught on his flute playing. Also, you will note on some videos that he rarely uses the right hand little finger and it sticks out at an odd angle. It was badly broken when he was younger so he figured out how to play mostly without it. Third, much later his daughter was studying flute as well and she got on him because he wasn't playing it right. So it wasn't until after his daughter pointed it out that he finally got proper instruction on playing it as after all he had to set an example didn't he?
He considered himself an average guitarist and he was a good mouth harp player but he wanted something different and so he literally just picked up the flute and figured out how to play it. Now how great is he as a musician to just pick it up and play it so well?
Absolutley! Thanks Tony, and thanks for watching! 😄🙏
I knew he was self taught but never heard about his daughter correcting him. Thanks for the info. ✌️❤
What a fantastic live band, Saw them on the Broadsword tour in 82, and another 7 times since, fantastic show
I don’t know if you have seen the Isle of Wight performance (1970) - England’s Woodstock- but it’s on RUclips- the whole set list. Especially My God. The flute solo is just incredible considering Ian had only played it for about two years. It’s worth your while to view it. The band’s energy combined with Ian’s showmanship and flute playing is just mind blowing and every live tour thereafter was amazing as no other band could give you your money’s worth like Tull. I would love to see your reaction to the Isle of Wight show
Thank you Gary, I'll definitely check that out. Wishing you a most Flutifull day! 😄🙏
As someone who came of age in the 70s, I am becoming more and more convinced that it was absolutely the best time ever to young and alive. There will never be another like it. And the music spectrum at the time was so broad, free, and intense before corporate packaging became the only standard.
You are right, my son wishes I would quit saying how much I miss the 70s.
1- I wrote a novella once, never got it published - the last mission of an old, broken cyborg - using the album version of this song, repeated, to help me set tone and pace.
2- In the very early 2000s, they did a series of small venues, mostly conventions for fan clubs and the like, called The Rubbing Elbows tour, at which kazoos would be passed out so everybody could play this flute solo on kazoo. I didn't get to attend, but a brown Beanie Baby dragon named Leif Krispin did attend as my surrogate, came home with a tiny shirt with their autographs and a picture of Mr. Anderson mugging being terrified of him, among other fun things.
3- In the old days, Mr. Anderson's leaping around like a madman was a very important part of the show - by the time of this show, his well-established persona was a medievaloid minstrel gone mad. Age and a couple injuries from those very stunts have slowed him down, of course...
4- BTW, since his unfortunate parting from the band in 2012, Martin Barre has been doing shows with his own little band of various musicians, including former Jethrio Tull members and a vocalists whose style sounds to me kind of like "If Cat Stevens decided to do Jethro Tull covers", he's actually quite good and I really wish I had the means to see them live.
First time I saw Tull was -69 as a warmup band for Jimi Hendrix. What a great concert!!!!!!!!!😎 This was in Stockholm.
JT is so under most peoples radar it is criminal. I was born in 62 but even I was not really aware of them growing up. The lads a few years older in 6th form where into Floyd, Yes, Zepplin and Tull but they where just off my radar much to my shame. What an amazing band.
I’ve also seen Tull 3 times, while living in Germany. These guys are all masters of their instruments and put in a fantastic show.
The shows in those days were so damned much fun... Tull was at the time the best touring band on the planet. Ritchie Blackmore cites War Child as the best live tour he ever saw. And you could see this circus for 10 bucks.
Incredible days... I was a young man in my late 20s when this show was performed, and those days were the best years of my life.
Extreme talent!
Thank you for including the fantastic piano intro!! Other reactors never do...
I just happen to come across your channel! And like you… huge fan of Ian Anderson/Jethro Tull! Such brilliance. Absolutely adore Ian… I myself have seen them twice in concert, and there’s nothing like a Jethro Tull concert!!
I absolutely so enjoyed your channel and your energy, I subscribed!👍🏼👍🏼. Of course I did.
Sending you much love 👋🏼🥰. Happy to have found you this early Tuesday morning!
Hi Cheryl and welcome to the flutifull family! I hope you enjoy my other content too, including lots of Tull/Ian Anderston stuff!! Best wishes, Claire 😄
I heard that Ian has his daughter in music class and she's taking up the flute and teaching him. Thats so cool.
Man, his daughter has got to be pretty old, unless she was born later in his life.
Les années 60/70 furent d'une incroyable créativité et diversité musicales qu'il sera très difficile d'égaler un jour ...
I believe the word "savant" fits him and his talent perfectly. Having seen Tull live, it's an AMAZING show!
I was 13 when I first heard this tune in 1973 in San Antonio and was hooked ever since!!!! Yeah growing up in the 70’s was pretty awesome if you liked rock/disco/psychedelic type music 🎵. So says Austin Tx!!❤️😎🍸
Yeah you found Tull 's best rendition of Locomotive Breath. The late John Glascock era for me was Tull at their best. Sadly I never saw this line up live, so have DVD and RUclips to enjoy and reminisce what I missed. Ian is a perfectionist as an artist and strives for the highest of standards not only for himself but also band members too. 😎💙🇬🇧👍
The 70s were amazing!
Thank you, Claire, great review.
You’re very welcome, thanks for watching! 😃🙏
Better than any Broadway play!!!
Claire,
My first visit to your channel, greetings! These guys were actually rather good musicians. Their music was so different. I always thought Ian looked higher than Georgia pine tree. Decades later I learned Ian is anti dope. These guys rock out!! In 1977 I had been out of high school for four years. Yes love it was a great time to be a young adult. We had the best vehicles (muscle cars) AND we had the best music..
Tull was one of those bands where in the first few notes you knew who it was. Take care lady!!!!
Yep, Ian rides on his love of music and performance! Thanks for watching and commenting 😄🙏
You are beautiful, flutiful, and a Masterpiece of God. Please keep up the great work!👍🙏😎🥰❤️
Very kind of you Brian, thank you so much! 😄🙏
Creedence of America as with my Canadian brother I too have been a fan since 1968 and I too volunteered for the military to go to Vietnam but I joined the Marine Corps and when I came back I continued following Jethro Tull and I believe I own every album up to Rock Island including the big box set
To my Canadian brother in arms Semper Fi
Great concert, I was there two nights. Those balloons!
Time flies....
Nowadays so interesting watching all these, mostly young, "guitar-players, drummers, flautists" or whatever filming mostly themselves talking a lot and, filming themselves, talking about good old music!
Keep up the interesting work, no hard feelings! Now it's yt, all about clicks/money ,I guess
(Small thing: if you're really been studying how to play the flute, a lot to say about IA's "technique" I guess? Still, doesn't matter, still sound so good!)
Saw Jethro Tull on this same Tour, November 6, 1977 @Bayfront Center Arena in St. Petersburg, Florida
Great Show! 2 hour set w/ this song being part of a 2 song encore . ("Backdoor Angels " was the other one) 😎👍
I was there Too!
I saw Jethro Tull 3 times in the 70's in and around the L.A. area....great showmanship!!
I got to see him about 24 years ago , was amazing.
The best version of this band. I first saw them in 1977 and have seen them ten times since then. Sorry to say that later incarnations of Tull don't have a fraction of the personality of this group.
When based at West Drayton in the early eighties, I did the stewarding at Wembley. I was actually paid, to go and see so many awesome bands. Including Jethro.
Too cool for school right there! Wishing you a flutifull day Tony! 😄
Got to see Tull once in the 80's. Fantastic show.
GREATEST era of music... the creativity and open mindedness towards music was MAGICAL. What is so magical of that period of music is the incorporation of instruments you wouldn't normally associate with Rock from this to Forigener 1 which promitantly featured flue solos
She is a flautist. The constables told her to stop flauting but she does what she does.
🤣 That's right Bill! Thanks for watching and commenting and wishing you a most Flutifull day! 😄🙏
I graduated from high school in 79. It was a great time to be a teenager!
I was born in '61 so I lived through those times and I was in High School in the late '70s (77-80). I remember it well.
Ian Anderson is also an accomplished guitarist...hence why you you impressed with his fingering
I have saw 2 times live on stage.Fantastic music and fun with Ian🤘
Saw them live. Stupid good. Crazy epic.
Ever thought that all flautist are weirdos? 😮 - I know. It takes one to know one. I just left your neck of the woods Claire, Aidensfield somewhere in the moors. Yes - Heartbeat 😜
I watched the whole series. Set around the sixties/seventies the music was mind-blowing and yes, there was some Jethro Tull in it.
The legend has it that Ian Anderson wanted to play the guitar, but when he realised how good Clapton was, he said - I'll never be as good as him - and decided to buy a flute instead.
Amongst others Ian also mentions Beethoven as a big influence on him. Frankly that doesn't surprise me when I listen to Thick as a Brick (the album).
Nice, honest, knowledgeable reaction, Thank You!
You're very welcome, thank you! Wishing you a most Flutifull day! 😄🙏
Heared it in a Love Song, The Marshal Tucker Band.
American Trilogy, Elvis Presely
You are the Woman, Firefall
Claire,
My first visit to your channel. Ian is/was a gifted entertainer. My favorite quote from Ian goes like this - He was asked why the flute? He said a flute is easier to carry than a piano. Typical Ian..... Warning Ian likes to swing his flute around. Very kind comments...... Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You're very welcome Mike, thanks for watching and commenting. Wishing you a most Flutifull day! 😄🙏
Guess what? 40 years on, it’s still a monster song ….even with the change in line up. Anderson let’s youth, young guitarist, carry vocal work. Great video critique. Thank you.
In addition, the late great Bob Brozman said that “real music” stopped for him about 1974……probably right.
Agreed! Thanks for watching, and commenting and I wish you a most Flutifull day! 😄🙏
Ian Anderson and P.F.M. Bouree.. Stendhal Syndrome 🤣🤣🤣 ciao da Roma
You mentioning how far Ian has gotten practicing and developing as a self-taught flute player in those 9 years becomes even more impressive when we bring up all the other things he was doing at the same time:
- Practicing and developing his unique style on all the other instruments he taught himself to play (it's a big list)
- Writing songs and producing albums
- Choreographing Tull's live shows
Great point, thanks, and thanks for watching! 😄🙏
Apparently he was self taught and only later in life his daughter who went to music college and was taught the flute explained to her father that he was playing the flute incorrectly- he then learned how to play the flute again !
I've never seen Martin Barre so animated
You can't go wrong listening to every song on the album songs from the wood. I think it's Tull's best album ever.
Songs From the Wood was what made me an actual fan - before that they were just another good band among many.
You are amazed that he is this good after 9 years, and it is amazing. Much more amazing though is the Aqualung album and the flute playing on it was after he had been playing only about 1 year. Now that is truly amazing
Tull is like an electric busker organ at times.
good fer you . I was there !!!!!! (I am 75 now) the band was STELLAR. (I learned the flute because of him)
I graduated high school in 1973 and was a big JT fan; saw him in concert at the Hollywood Bowl I think in 1974. JT studio albums are quite different from his live performances and both are worth listening to; Aqualung probably his best.
Love your reactions! Would you please put 40,000 Headmen by Traffic on your list? Btw, you're doing a great job! Thank you for sharing yourself with us!💕
Sure will, thank you, and thanks for watching! 😄🙏
saw them 5 times live :)
in the original recording of this Ian Anderson played all but the piano because the band didn't understand what he wanted it to sound like
Hello from Canada!! You might enjoy Burton Cummings playing the flute in the song "She`s Come Undone" by the Guess Who.
Hi and thanks, I've already reacted to that track, you can watch it here if you like: ruclips.net/video/33WHHEFymo4/видео.html Thanks for watching and commenting! 😄🙏
I thought it was spelled “flautist”, not “flutist” for a British person! (“Flutist” is American. :) )
Ian plays eleven instruments the eleventh is a group of whistles and he didn’t know how to use his little finger until his daughter taught him how because she was taking lessons at the time. Checkout “ Nights in White Satin” by the moody blues band.
Tull's latest, RokFlote 2023 is IMHO has perhaps Ian's best flute work to date, possible exception is Diviniies. Try "The Perfect One", "The Navigatiors"
Have you heard "Oye Como Va"? Originally it was a flute based piece by Tito Puente (which is the version that I want to bring to your attention). There is a famous (and excellent) cover by Carlos Santana, but he has transposed the flute part to electric guitar.
No but I have now! Thanks, I'll check it out. Wishing you a most Flutifull day! 😄🙏
Dear Claire, please try Mouning Sad Morning by Free, with Traffic flautist Chris Wood (RIP)
Best music came from the 60s and 70s
Used to see them every tour in the 70’s in So Cal they always played the Long Beach Arena instead of The Forum like the other touring bands. Always loved the balloons but they never got to me as I was in the upper deck .
Saw them live on the second date on their Thick as a Brick tour at WVU ( first date was NYC) where I was in grad school at the time, they did the Thick as Brick rock opera about 1.5 hr. took a 1/2 break and came back and played about 1.5 hr. of their best songs best $4 I haver spent
Saw them the same year in Indianapolis. Blackmore's Rainbow came first. Quite a night!
If amazing flute solo’s impress you, then you need to react to “Hocus Pocus” by “Focus” on their 1973 performance on Midnight Special, it is worth listening to!
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Gotta imagine his guitar skills help with flute fingering precision
Ian is a master in his genre, you need to check out the mad Dutchman Thjus Van Leer of Focus.
Thanks, I'm a big fan of Focus - here's a reaction featuring the man himself ruclips.net/video/gxEIIW3TpPU/видео.htmlsi=ZVVP-1N88yEEXT4_ 😄🙏
I saw them on this tour in St. Paul Minnesota. It was my first rock concert. 😊
Wow, what a way to start! Thanks for watching! 😄🙏
@ClaireHoldich Yes, it was. I saw them 6 times, I think, to sometime in the 90's. Ian always put on a great show. His flute solos were other worldly. Thanks for your reply.
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P.S. do go see them if ever you get the chance.
@@thelonesomefisherman7425 I've seen them three times now - I went all the way to Rome (you can watch my vlog here ruclips.net/video/atum4CM4tjg/видео.html) only to find they then were 7 miles from my house!! Worth the trip though! 🤣
@ClaireHoldich
HAHA, that's funny. Travel all the way to Rome and find out they're playing just down the road from home. Life is strange like that. Makes me wonder sometimes how things happen like that. Anyhow, happy to hear that you've seen them too. Thank you for your reply
Loved watching you enjoying this music!!!!!!!!!! You've made a happy man very old lol :)
hehe thank you!! Wishing you a most Flutifull day! 😄🙏
The piano played is an iconic electric piano a Yamaha CP70 with 73 keys or the 80 with 88. As a keyboardist back then its a very unique instrument basically trying to create a real acoustic piano sound and action in something thats portable unlike a grand piano and stays in tune and sounds pretty accurate for its time anyway. heres a link to a short youtube video showing how you open it up and quickly assembly it on stage lets you see the proper piano action in there but how small they made it . They still make software emulations of these as they are a unique sound used on many hits from mid 70s to mid 80s ruclips.net/video/PuN94LfonTI/видео.html
Thank you William for that brilliant insight and the link, really interesting. Wishing you a most Flutifull day! 😄🙏
Tull have been playing this at various venues across the world. An earlier version was BBC Sight and Sound in Concert from Golders Green, London. I subsequently bought the dvd after having recorded on cassette the original broadcast at my parent's home. Check this out on RUclips too. 😎💙🇬🇧👍
Interesting about 9 years not being very long to master the flute.
Ian was using flutter tongue and vocals aa he played within weeks of learning to play.
By 1972 when they toured Australia , he had mastered the upward scale or whatever you call it, ( starting from low note rising to high top note ).....using just a flick of his right wrist.....kind of like when a pianist runs a finger or hand acros the keys quickly or a guitar strum.
If you havent seen it, it is weird.
Holds his right hand high in the air while playing , then as he lowers the hand he rotates his wrist to run the scale.
Thanks, I think I know the move you mean and yes, it's very unique but seems to work for him! Thanks for watching and commenting! 😄🙏
Watch Thick as a brick by Tull live at New York.