“And the love that I feel is so far away. I’m a bad dream that I just had today. And you shake your head and say, it’s a shame.”
Jethro Tull’s Thick As A Brick album was released in 1972. Sixteen years old, I bought it on vinyl and wore it out playing it. Listening to this concept album last night – concept albums were big in those years – it reminds me of some of the era’s Yes and Emerson, Lake, and Palmer music — or they remind me of Jethro Tull. Like most art, it’s a continuum of exploration and imagining, building on what’s heard and done.
“But your wise men don’t know how it feels, to be thick as a brick.”
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I’ve loved that song since I first heard it on the radio in my mom’s car. We dubbed it worth staying in the car after we got home to listen to it finish.
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Excellent. I had some friends who turned away from J.T. because of the flutes and pipes. “That’s not rock and roll.” I didn’t care – it was music.
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I had this one as well – loved J.T. – my favorite was Songs From The Wood. Cheers, Brian
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“Kitchen prose, gutter rhymes and divers!”
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Fires at midnight 😉
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“I tell you one thing that really drives me nuts is people who think that Jethro Tull is just a person in a band.” 🙂
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LOL – yes. Like Pink Floyd – “Yes, a collect call for Mrs. Floyd from Mr. Floyd.
Will you accept the charges from United States?”
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