went to this in 73 at denver colasium was 14 it was one of the best concerts i went and still listen to tull as often as i can greatest band ever in my opinion!!!!!
I'm sorry, man, but I did film two reels of the San Diego show on Super-8 on that fancy, snappy Kodak film, but at one time I was in a funk, financially, and this Christian I knew was letting me sleep on his couch and during that time, the dude himself needed some money so he sold my chest of drawers, throwing its contents in with the deal. On a happier note, "And sitting a-stride a twig of a bush, a bee"! The press at the front door was so great that several of us almost died of suffocation.
Such a great period of progerssive bands,and Jethro took the risk or "caprice" to perform this complicate album to a wide audiences and the visual and musically
results of the concerts are awsemoe.I don´t know why some people crticise
the performances and the presentation of the entire work in "one go".
For example "The lamb" of Genesis is as obscure,long and the presentation
was also entire and without notice. BOTH RECORDS ARE GREAT AND
Wow- I hadn't really thought about this show for years, thanks so much for the loving effort expended in piecing this together. Somehow it is exactly as I recall it, haze and all. I saw them play on this tour at the Forum in L.A. directly above the stage to the right and I recall a moment where all the band members seem to evaporate into the fog. It was truly something to hear and experience. I think I still have the ticket stub, $5.50 for an advance purchase...
This was the first concert I ever went to. I remember thinking how strange this lady laying on the stage with a heartbeat in the back ground was. It was like something out of a horror movie Thanks for posting this it brought back some great memories. Tull rocks !
I remember this show like it was yesterday-1973-Madison Square Garden-I was almost 18 and two years into my Tull habit. Started in 1971 with Aqualung and saw the "Thick as a Brick" concert at the Garden as well. Have seen these guys well over 25 times in the past 38 years and have never stopped listening to their music. My all time favorite group-long live the king! Brad from Boca!
I've seen Tull seven times but I've never seen anything like this (I'm 38) I wasn't quite old enough .. thank you indeed for posting this.Must have been something to rehearse this and perform it live.Seems band nowadays aren't intelligent enough to write (let alone) reproduce music like this. Thick as a Brick is my fav of alltime
I'm a life-long Tull fan, and still love the band, but they don't do much from this era unfortunately.
My favourite albums were Thick, Passion Play and Minstrel In The Gallery, but Ian seems a bit embarrassed by Tull's 'prog rock' albums. Also most of it's incredibly hard to play and wouldn't sound the same without Jeffrey or Barriemore Barlowe, so it's probably best left alone. Shame!
Saw it tripping in Wichita Kansas. Chased their limo to the Holiday Inn and helped them out of the car, (Hammond-Hammond dropped a beer can as he hastened in the door before we got there. We attended Ian and his lady as they emerged. My friend had a question for him: What if Jenny Anderson married Jethro Tull? Her name would be Jenny Tull. Get it? Genital. He said it was a bit rude but it didn't matter they were getting a divorce and he was marrying "this one" who was the ballerina.
This was my very first Tull album, and it is also my all time favorite. Unfortunatley, I'm 20 years old so I wasn't around when they played this (and TAAB which is another masterpiece I would have loved to hear live). Thank you for posting this, so now I have some idea of what this magical performance was like. BTW, it's a shame Anderson stopped playing sax after Warchild, as his playing on APP is absolutely brilliant!
OMG!! I can even remember the date...it was June 2, 1973 when I saw this amazing Concert at The Montreal Forum! it was completely sold out and it was barely my fourth lifetime show (Purple, Alice Cooper and Zappa before Tull) and man was I trippin' (besides being really stoned but I can still remember lots of it). The ballerina entry, the freakin' phone, the hare movie...they played for almost 3 1/2 hours including both Thick as a Brick and Pasion Play in their entirety! Thanks for posting.
Probably their best album, spoken in terms of musical abilities...I ´ve never understood, why that album was torn by the music press and now even is disregarded by I.A: himself...the best music in popular history is always vanishing in the archives, obviously because "the lack of commercial potence" The old story: Money rules !
This album (like Thick as a Brick before it) went to #1 in the US in 1973. 1973 was the peak of progressive rock. ELP had Brain Salad Surgery. Yes has Yessongs and Tales from Topographic Oceans. Genesis had Genesis Live and Selling England by the Pound. Of course Pink Floyd released Dark Side of the Moon. Lastly Jethro Tull had A Passion Play which is still a highly underrated gem in the Tull canon.
OMG I kept telling myself if they show a balletrina on the screen this is the concert I went to but only remember parts because i had dropped orange sunshine. Thank you so much for posting this.
The people that didn't get this when it was new, and compare this to the Moody Blues and Pink Floyd - hmmm.......no wonder we now have rap music as the main style - let's not dare to be daring!
@tmay102436 Actually the atmosphere and the event itself is very similar to what you would see in Goa Trance raves... For example Ozora , at night it was very very psychedelic and a great experience :)
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Saw it in '73. Reaction then same as now. It's Jethro Tull trying to be the Moody Blues doing Pink Floyd. It didn't (and still doesn't) work. We booed them off the stage and they came back after the break with Aqualung. Not as good as the first time out, but at least it covered the cost of the ticket. Yeah, they could fail - but so did Magical Mystery Tour.
Thank you for the efforts you have made to document the 'Passion Play' concerts !
Got to see Tull at the Long Beach, Calif. Arena. This was the 3rd time at Long Beach for me... Previously, 'Thick as a Brick', and also in 1971. Thanks again for doing your best to bring something that (even though the quality...), nevermind, it's great you have& posted. Thank YOU !!!!!!
saw the same show in of all places, Jackson Mississippi. The second of three times I saw them. I remember mexican dirt weed, the wine chugging chicks being very bored and most of all purple all over the stage. And I don't think I dropped that time. Anyhow I do remember they worked hard as usual and really pulled it off. Only Pink Floyd and the Moody Blues surpassed Tull for non blues-rock concerts that I saw in those days. But this one you really had to want it, to dig the whole thing,
First, thanks Tulltapes! I saw this show at the old Chicago Stadium, first balcony, first row, left side, half way back. If anyone was there, I want my roachclip back!
Since that time, I've seen literally hundreds of concerts; rock, prog, jazz, symphony, you name it. This still stands out as the best live performance I've ever seen, with DSOM a close second. After watching this clip, i dug out my old vinyl copy of PP and cranked it out thru my Luxman M-117. It stands the test of time. Whoppa!
I was at this concert.......This was the best group of musicians Tull had.....Ian, Barrymore Barlow, Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond, John Evan, and of course, Martin Barre. Hammond-Hammond was a wild one.
Wow, I can't believe someone cares enough to put this fine work together. It amaze's me that Jethro Tull does not have Video of this performance that they could release on DVD! I saw the Passion Play tour at the Oakland Coliseum in 73.What a great show it was...
I love that TullTapes is doing this. People have no idea just how popular Jethro Tull was in 1973. I know the show I was at in Detroit was Sold Out. High Priced tickets were six (6) bucks!
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In 1973 I was 13 yrs.old I owned Brick and passion Play thank god some one posted some live video of this tour ive seen tull on every tour sinse 1975 incl. tampa 76 never saw Passion Play done live thank you thank you thank you , also dident know Hare/specticals existed as a film , verry cool. anybody have the second half of tampa 76 ??? video ???
Excellent work my friend! Thank you so much for posting this footage. Passion Play was my very first Tull album, and it has remained my absolute favorite work by them. Can't wait to watch the rest of this. Thanks again!
Tull was my favorite band for years...starting with "Stand Up", and "Passion Play" has always been my favorite Jethro Tull album....a brilliant piece.
I agree with your opinions on this album. It is a masterpiece. Funny thing ... I first bought this on cassette when I was 15 or so and hated it. Just couldn't open my mind up enough at the time to follow it I guess. Now it's my favorite Tull album. Go figure! Thanks for all your work in producing this gem. My first Tull concert was Warchild in 74 at the Providence Civic Center. I missed all the good stuff!
One of the very, very best concerts I ever saw - and I saw some goodies. There were some nicely stoned heads in the Jacksonville that night, and when the girl jumps into the mirror, thousands of people gasped as one. Too good for words. Also, my fav Tull recording. The silver cord falls to the ground - indeed!
FABULOUS!!! I only have "part 2" (not Side 2) of the album (can't tell you why, since I want my msg posted), which includes the entire "Story of the Hare Who Lost His Spectacles" - a personal favorite for the supreme Brit-humor silliness.
Thanks a mil for all your very hard work to bring this prodigious project to fruition.
Thank you so much for this ambitious undertaking! Passion Play is one of Angelrage's favorite albums, and we really enjoyed seeing this! Can't wait to see it finished! Best of luck and thanks again!
A brilliant work in many respects, but not as moving musically as "Thick Brick" and even Ian admitted it was too highbrow for it's own good. Sometimes complexity for it's own sake creeps in, as does self-indulgence, which was always the problem with prog-rock. It's worth noting the next album went back to songs, with more than a few singles-oriented.
I saw this show in Shreveport, Louisiana in fall 1973. It still ranks as one of the best I have ever seen. A sadly underrated album (though it was a number one seller, the critic all stupidly hated it), it also made for one hell of a live show.
So was this never played in completion at a live show? I suppose that makes me feel a bit better having discovered Tull in '84. I was 12 and came across an 8 Track player with a set of tapes at a garage sale and one of those tapes happened to be Passion Play. Will always be my favorite Tull album as well as my first.
When I first heard this album I didn't care for it. But, man! To have been at that concert and got really good footage of JT in their prime would have been absolutely awesome! Forget Woodstock! This would have been the great moment.
Their most under-rated album. It's almost like Thick as a Brick, part 2. A song cycle, a concept, a huge work. Just brilliant. John Glasscock was amazing on bass, by the way. Died very young, a tragedy.
Anyhow, thanks for posting (and all the work piecing this together!)
does anyone have the tabs for A Passion Play? all of the sites seem to only have the last section "Magus Perde" and i'd like the whole thing, particularly the strumming leading up to... "All along the icy wastes, there are faces smiling in the gloom..."
It was just the right album at the right time, and long overdue congratulations are in order because it seems to me that probably "A Passion Play" stands to this day as being the single most successful album in flushing MORE PHONY "music expert" PRETENDERS out from under their rocks,than any other I can think of before or since.
Saw this concert at Mich State awesome also War Child at Chicago Stadium and I saw Tull for a 3rd time in Rockford Il 2001 for my 50th birthday Passion Play was the best. NEVER TOO OLD
Was this the concert where he had the telephone on a stool the whole concert????I remember at the end of the concert after the encore...the phone rang and Ian Anderson ran out answered it (ostensibly) then held out the receiver and said "It's for you".....Dammit maybe I'm just too old but I remember details like this but I don't remember if it was from this concert or from the Thick as a Brick Concert.....(Your words but a whisper your deafness a shour) HA
At Newcastle UK during the Thick As A Brick tour there was a telephone on top of John Evan's grand piano. It rang during the music as it was building up to a climax. The music stopped dead. Anderson answered the phone and said something about a horse in the foyer (I think). He put the phone down and the music kicked off again.
This question is answered in the vid of the 1972 thick as a brick show right here on youtube. The phone is sitting on a stool or something on stage, it rings and the music, which was a full throttle, suddenly stops. Ian answers the phone, and tells the crowed it is an urgent call for (can't recall who). Hangs up and the music resumes at exactly the point it stopped, again at full bore. They liked to mess with the audience's heads, which were already pretty far gone anyway (at least, mine was).
the line ian anderson said,"there is an urgent telephone message for a mike nelson--there seems to be a fish on the line" mike nelson, was the character that loyd bridges played on an american t.v. show called, "seahunt". thck as a brick tour was awesome as was the passion play.
fish on the line ... never quite got why people thought that was so funny in-joke ... it's quite silly. Like the pantomine horse that would canter out on stage and poop out a little golf ball. and let's not forget the balloons!
I saw this concert at the Old Boston Garden in 1973.....Didn't take any video,,,quite frankly tripping my brains out, but it was one of the most memorable experiences of my life...No Video, But I still have the original LP in tact........I cannot believe there was never a professional tape of this made but Ian Anderson was always eccentric...I was there for the "Thick as a Brick" concert too..... Really don't mind if we sit this one out...hahahah
You, and all the other fellas who do this sort of thing, should have the nobel price!
Love what you have done for us who didn't have the chance to see this back when (b 1971).
Thick as a brick is my absolute fav LP, but A Passion Play lingers close behind with Songs from the wood and Heavy Horses. Chuck in Aqualung somewhere ther and you have my top 5 JT LP:s!
I saw this show in Springfield, MA in the fall/winter of 1973. I still believe it was the greatest night of my life. It even tops the first time I got.... well, you know what I mean.
Thanks for making me cry like bluberin idiot,my god I miss "Real Rock" concerts! Bon Jovi anyone? What the hell happened to real rock and rollers and the "Performances" they put on...?
I too was at that Knoxville show and it was great! I also saw them in Knoxville in 1972 when they premeired an awesome Thick As A Brick! Nice to hear drom someone else who was at that show.
Jethro Tull will always be one my favorite rock bands. Sophisticated, blusey, folky, hard-rockin', tender, celtic, cross-eyed. Covers of Bach and Kirk.
Although there is no shame in surviving, they have been a shell of their former selves for some time (crutches, popeye-voiced).
Thank you all I.e. tull-tapes) for posting the band in their prime.
brilliant...saw Tull in Lond. June 73 first ever Tull concert,was 17..200 ft from stage!Slept in Hyde Park 2 days to hitch home to Liverpool worth it of course!Met Ian on a train from Blackpool 8 mths later,reading 007 !Still going t see em,Blackpool 2006 fantastic.....ditch J Duncan Ian.. get Doane back,spend 6 mnth off the road , write some original stuff.Your legacy'll be the great work you leave behind,Bd'sword,Budapest,Brick, etc NOT touring ...!All hail oh mighty one...Sir Ian!!
I saw Jethro Tull more than a dozen times in the 70's and possibly early 80's. This video project is a labor of love. How tremendously hard you must have worked. Thanks. I love A Passion Play.
bro i don't wish to remember. i do remember!!it was the baltimore civic center on aug 26 1973. on the back of my ticket stub i scrawlled "#1 concert ever attended" by the way only 6.50$ for floor seats. thanks for bringing it back though, 35 years can make any memory fuzzy
I saw this show in Knoxville, TN when I was just a young 14 year old. I remember how much I loved it. I'm so glad you did this... it's a great gift. My favorite part was after they finished the song they left the stage as if the show was over. They came out for what appeared to be an encore and Ian said, "And now for our next number." They went on to do a great show from there. A true concert highlight of my now very long life.
I have a similar memory in the Boston Garden, after the great show-(the hare who lost his spectacles)- they emerged after this song and Ian said to the crowd- Welcome all to an even ing with Tull, and played for another hour and a half. What a night, I still recall very well
A pitiful tull trainspotter here, but for the Play shows what Ian said at the end of Play specifically was "Welcome to an evening of light entertainment with Tull." Had a lousy seat in the Chicago Stadium for this one, even though we walked through one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in Chicago, which means real dangerous, at 3 am to get tickets, 100th person in line and they sold us crap. Ian generally says the same stuff each night, small embellishments maybe
I was fortunate enough to see this show twice in one week at the Inglewood Forum in July of 1973. It is my single favorite concert of all time. When the heartbeat and white dot on the screen began it lasted for such a long time before the ballerina stood up, jumped through the looking glass and said "Something wonderful is happening". The band received the longest standing ovation I've ever seen at the end of Passion Play.
I didn't even like rock. A friend dragged me to this concert (it's Nashville leg). I expected a bunch of blue jean and t-shirt clad hippies playing too loud on a lousy sound system. Well, I was right about the sound system . . .but this was the best concert I ever experienced and APP is still the best album of all time.
Although I had the pleasure of attending many of Jethro trull's concerts, I can truly say that Passion Play was the very first, complete music video I had ever seen on screen. It was 1973, at the Forum in Los Angeles--me, a high school junior and flautist, sitting in absolute awe as I took in every note, word and visual--what an honor and privilege, so struck with not only the group's virtuosity, but Ian Anderson's ability to captivate his audience---something that I will never, ever forget.
This was the very first concert I saw. I could not talk my older brothers into taking me to Red Rock to see the Aqualung tour in '71...Who wants a 10 year old tagging along when you're trippin'? I did see them at Red Rocks in the 90's without the tear gas! Just saw them last night in Denver, a little slower but still the best rockers ever. Thanks for this!!!
I think the proof of this music's merit is the way that listening to one artist builds your appreciation of other skilled artists, even if they are completely different stylistically.
If you are used to having your expectations and preconceptions met with hook-based music then you don't understand music at all. If the "expert" critics had real ears they wouldn't stand to review all the trash they do.
I consider "Passion Play" to be the best rock album ever. I didn't understand it my first few times, only after "Pawn Hearts", "Lark's Tongue", Thelonious Monk and other modern greats was I prepared to hear it properly. Then, boom, several months later I heard its greatness immediately.
SUCH a pity the ignorant critics who pan this album. They prefer Chateau D'Isaster, which is the same ideas with more repetition, less sophistication, and a kindergarten theme.
Got to agree with touwatch. One of the 3 best concerts I saw in 73-74. (along with ELP - Brain Salad Surgery & Yes - Tales of Topographic Oceans). I'm just wondering, did anybody film Steeleye Span?
OMG!!!! I know how to play every guitar part in this materpeice! I'm so exicted to able to see what tull was like at their peak! being 24 does have it's drawbacks
Thanks for the chuckle! I'm exactly twice your age so I did get to see Tull (and Yes, Rush, Zeppelin, etc). And when I had a Marshall it was a full stack with NO master volume (want distortion? turn it up!!) but I'd still trade it to not have all the aches and pains, let alone the tinnitus (hearing damage)!
TullTapes, this kicks ass. I've seen some of your other stuff too and it kicks ass as well. I love this rare stuff from Tull. I collect tull stuff, but never found anything like this. WOW thanks for posting this stuff.
Saw their first performance of Passion Play at Michigan State. Great show followed a nearly deadly crush as the 1 door opened an hour late, a line that lifted off the ground, girls passed out and passed back over our heads.
Its one of the best works to come out in a long, long time. And the dare....way back then, to cut a disk, running for 45 mins...just one number....I mean
TullTapes, thank you, thank you! You've made my day. This is so beautiful! I've heard the LP back in 73 so many times that I still know it by heart. And now we get to see it live! I can't thank you enough!
What and incredible album Jehtro Tull is the best I had the chance to see them here in Costa Rica and I would have never forgiven myself if I wouldn't have gone. Long live J-Tull :D
As enormous a fan of JT as I was and am...I missed
PASSION PLAY when it was performed in I think '73 at the Los Angeles Forum. It was a horrible loss for me not to have been there particularly due to the fact that PASSION PLAY is my favorite work by the band. To her benefit, my sister was able to be there. So...I couldnt be MORE GRATEFUL to whomever you are collectively, for bringing this most amazing work to us all! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! A MILLION TIMES THANK YOU!
Fantastic!!!...Saw this concert at the Municipal Auditorium in New Orleans at 15 y/o. Knocked out of my mind on angel dust. The beginning white flash on the screen was to the rythmn of a beating heart that morphed into a ballerina. I'll never forget it.
Kudos to your on-going endeavour!! I was too young to see the magic of Tull from this era! Our their any other concerts or groups you have with the 8MM FOOTAGE? I would love to see EDGAR WINTER GROUP or FOCUS, RENAISSANCE or SPIRIT. This is awesome!
I love Jethro Tull, Ian Anderson is just fantastic to say the least. I have assisted to all of their shows and each time, I was amazed by such talent ... Wow
Me too. I wrote a bit earlier. I did not realize the band had gotten negative reviews on this show. I wouldn't be surprized depending on the critic. I really feel that this was the best tour of Jethro Tull I ever saw and I saw the band 4 times in the 1970's. This tour was as tight as The Thick As A Brick tour but better theatrics here! Critics ere often assholes back in those days. this is the opening song on The A Passion Play album, isn't it?
No matter what anyone has recognized, this was their best album and a classic.
RONALDWILLIAMRYAN 2 months ago
went to this in 73 at denver colasium was 14 it was one of the best concerts i went and still listen to tull as often as i can greatest band ever in my opinion!!!!!
pheron52 9 months ago
When Jethro Tull recently announced that they will perform Aqualung, I began to search for footage and found this
brilliant stuff! Thanks for posting one of the most unique rock groups ever. Provocative, evocative, and completed f-ing rocking!
SuperYankee61 10 months ago
Just found 4 great original 1973 Tull original polaroids from their NY concert, not sure what i should do with them, they're awesome action pics
assilem012 10 months ago
I'm sorry, man, but I did film two reels of the San Diego show on Super-8 on that fancy, snappy Kodak film, but at one time I was in a funk, financially, and this Christian I knew was letting me sleep on his couch and during that time, the dude himself needed some money so he sold my chest of drawers, throwing its contents in with the deal. On a happier note, "And sitting a-stride a twig of a bush, a bee"! The press at the front door was so great that several of us almost died of suffocation.
cliffwalkinfool 1 year ago
My wife and I attended Jethro Tull's Passion Play concert in Cleveland in 1973.
Thinking about the start of that concert still sends chills up my spine... a middle bit of Thick As a Brick was the encore.
Best concert we even saw and we been to hundreds over the years...
TonySpadafora 1 year ago
Such a great period of progerssive bands,and Jethro took the risk or "caprice" to perform this complicate album to a wide audiences and the visual and musically
results of the concerts are awsemoe.I don´t know why some people crticise
the performances and the presentation of the entire work in "one go".
For example "The lamb" of Genesis is as obscure,long and the presentation
was also entire and without notice. BOTH RECORDS ARE GREAT AND
GOOD FOR THEM TO PLAYED THAT MUSIC LIVE!!!!
Enricon47 1 year ago
my favorite tull-album =)
chaoscast 1 year ago
with this music & the show JETHRO TULL was on top of music avant-garde at that time !
strathsail 1 year ago
Wow- I hadn't really thought about this show for years, thanks so much for the loving effort expended in piecing this together. Somehow it is exactly as I recall it, haze and all. I saw them play on this tour at the Forum in L.A. directly above the stage to the right and I recall a moment where all the band members seem to evaporate into the fog. It was truly something to hear and experience. I think I still have the ticket stub, $5.50 for an advance purchase...
wea7777 1 year ago
This was the first concert I ever went to. I remember thinking how strange this lady laying on the stage with a heartbeat in the back ground was. It was like something out of a horror movie Thanks for posting this it brought back some great memories. Tull rocks !
Vipguy2003 1 year ago
I remember this show like it was yesterday-1973-Madison Square Garden-I was almost 18 and two years into my Tull habit. Started in 1971 with Aqualung and saw the "Thick as a Brick" concert at the Garden as well. Have seen these guys well over 25 times in the past 38 years and have never stopped listening to their music. My all time favorite group-long live the king! Brad from Boca!
pooldlr1 1 year ago
I just had a flashback!!! I was there in Los Angeles, what a concert!!!!!
vegasvickie 1 year ago
me too-remember we shared a bowl of some primo owl
busterbone 1 year ago
I have seen him 5 times this is the show I saw first in 73, my very first concert 16 years old, Detroit MI
evansphoto 2 years ago
I've seen Tull seven times but I've never seen anything like this (I'm 38) I wasn't quite old enough .. thank you indeed for posting this.Must have been something to rehearse this and perform it live.Seems band nowadays aren't intelligent enough to write (let alone) reproduce music like this. Thick as a Brick is my fav of alltime
ChrisHaspeck 2 years ago
@ChrisHaspeck
I'm a life-long Tull fan, and still love the band, but they don't do much from this era unfortunately.
My favourite albums were Thick, Passion Play and Minstrel In The Gallery, but Ian seems a bit embarrassed by Tull's 'prog rock' albums. Also most of it's incredibly hard to play and wouldn't sound the same without Jeffrey or Barriemore Barlowe, so it's probably best left alone. Shame!
jackHNv 1 year ago
Saw it tripping in Wichita Kansas. Chased their limo to the Holiday Inn and helped them out of the car, (Hammond-Hammond dropped a beer can as he hastened in the door before we got there. We attended Ian and his lady as they emerged. My friend had a question for him: What if Jenny Anderson married Jethro Tull? Her name would be Jenny Tull. Get it? Genital. He said it was a bit rude but it didn't matter they were getting a divorce and he was marrying "this one" who was the ballerina.
hippyhunter420 2 years ago
This was my very first Tull album, and it is also my all time favorite. Unfortunatley, I'm 20 years old so I wasn't around when they played this (and TAAB which is another masterpiece I would have loved to hear live). Thank you for posting this, so now I have some idea of what this magical performance was like. BTW, it's a shame Anderson stopped playing sax after Warchild, as his playing on APP is absolutely brilliant!
DesertEagle97531 2 years ago
OMG!! I can even remember the date...it was June 2, 1973 when I saw this amazing Concert at The Montreal Forum! it was completely sold out and it was barely my fourth lifetime show (Purple, Alice Cooper and Zappa before Tull) and man was I trippin' (besides being really stoned but I can still remember lots of it). The ballerina entry, the freakin' phone, the hare movie...they played for almost 3 1/2 hours including both Thick as a Brick and Pasion Play in their entirety! Thanks for posting.
Ltlegendary 2 years ago
I saw Tull on this tour in Nashville, TN. It was an amazing show one of the best ever. Thanks for posting this one, I will watch for more.
bebon15 2 years ago
Gawd, I was there in 1972, sweet memories...
Edmund001 2 years ago
thanks for this :)
mrsshaggcollector 2 years ago
Probably their best album, spoken in terms of musical abilities...I ´ve never understood, why that album was torn by the music press and now even is disregarded by I.A: himself...the best music in popular history is always vanishing in the archives, obviously because "the lack of commercial potence" The old story: Money rules !
Tarabos1 2 years ago
This album (like Thick as a Brick before it) went to #1 in the US in 1973. 1973 was the peak of progressive rock. ELP had Brain Salad Surgery. Yes has Yessongs and Tales from Topographic Oceans. Genesis had Genesis Live and Selling England by the Pound. Of course Pink Floyd released Dark Side of the Moon. Lastly Jethro Tull had A Passion Play which is still a highly underrated gem in the Tull canon.
floydgenesisnut 2 years ago
For some reason I keep thinking it was called " A Passion Play, The Oprea"
iampeniel 2 years ago
OMG I kept telling myself if they show a balletrina on the screen this is the concert I went to but only remember parts because i had dropped orange sunshine. Thank you so much for posting this.
iampeniel 2 years ago
If I close my eyes, I feel like I'm at the circus or a carnival. I can almost smell the roasted peanuts, popcorn and cotton candy. ;D
aleon1018 2 years ago
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wymhaq 2 years ago
I know I was at this concert but then as the saying goes If you remember... you weren't there!
vegasvickie 2 years ago
MASTERPIECE
vinnypimentel 2 years ago 2
Saw both TAAB and PP. Man, what an experience for the senses.
thmoorer 2 years ago
Genius, pure genius.
pennyfritz 2 years ago 2
The people that didn't get this when it was new, and compare this to the Moody Blues and Pink Floyd - hmmm.......no wonder we now have rap music as the main style - let's not dare to be daring!
tmay102436 2 years ago 4
@tmay102436 Actually the atmosphere and the event itself is very similar to what you would see in Goa Trance raves... For example Ozora , at night it was very very psychedelic and a great experience :)
kafcin 1 year ago
@tmay102436 daring, pretentious, whatever...u old
sixsixxsixxxx 2 months ago
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Saw it in '73. Reaction then same as now. It's Jethro Tull trying to be the Moody Blues doing Pink Floyd. It didn't (and still doesn't) work. We booed them off the stage and they came back after the break with Aqualung. Not as good as the first time out, but at least it covered the cost of the ticket. Yeah, they could fail - but so did Magical Mystery Tour.
sunnypenn 2 years ago
You haven't a frik'n clue son. Grow up and stop sniffin the glue and smell the coffee
drj602 2 years ago 2
The words of a blind fool.
What a great show. Nothing like it. :)
KaiBailey 2 years ago
masterpiece
MegaBufas 2 years ago 2
saw this concert at mich st.the light thing at the begining had the crowd in a frenzy and the show was great. war child @ Ch stadium and 0n my 50
birthday in Rockford il. Tull is the best never too old
staninsb 2 years ago
Thank you for the efforts you have made to document the 'Passion Play' concerts !
Got to see Tull at the Long Beach, Calif. Arena. This was the 3rd time at Long Beach for me... Previously, 'Thick as a Brick', and also in 1971. Thanks again for doing your best to bring something that (even though the quality...), nevermind, it's great you have& posted. Thank YOU !!!!!!
ThatMiserableCat 2 years ago
i see the Passion Play in Buffalo NY---
aqua7cn 2 years ago
Opoops, read the info ... it's a "fake" ... still cool, but I guess i won't be seeing myself in the audience! :-(
themountainviewguy 2 years ago
Wow, I just found this .... I was there! Coooooool! Such a great show, but I almost totally forget it now ... this is great, thank you.!
themountainviewguy 2 years ago
Man i loved passion play with a passion!
shire2005 2 years ago
see or google
"the thorn trailer" for
another side
beck7t 2 years ago
Awesome man.
CyborgNinjaZombie 2 years ago
The Most Underated Tull Album
DrHeathenScum 2 years ago 11
@DrHeathenScum The Greatest Tull Album.
rlawton002 1 year ago
,,at the end of the Tull show did a phone start ringing ,,and anderson pickes it up and says """it,s for you""'
twochaudio 2 years ago
As beat that I can remember ( lol ) that is how the concert in L.A. at the Forum ended. but then it WAS a Jethro Tull concert!
vegasvickie 2 years ago
saw the same show in of all places, Jackson Mississippi. The second of three times I saw them. I remember mexican dirt weed, the wine chugging chicks being very bored and most of all purple all over the stage. And I don't think I dropped that time. Anyhow I do remember they worked hard as usual and really pulled it off. Only Pink Floyd and the Moody Blues surpassed Tull for non blues-rock concerts that I saw in those days. But this one you really had to want it, to dig the whole thing,
kdx220a 2 years ago
good idea !!!
jking4425 2 years ago
dude are you kidding??
This is by far the most incredible thing I have seen!
AdrianS1123 2 years ago
First, thanks Tulltapes! I saw this show at the old Chicago Stadium, first balcony, first row, left side, half way back. If anyone was there, I want my roachclip back!
Since that time, I've seen literally hundreds of concerts; rock, prog, jazz, symphony, you name it. This still stands out as the best live performance I've ever seen, with DSOM a close second. After watching this clip, i dug out my old vinyl copy of PP and cranked it out thru my Luxman M-117. It stands the test of time. Whoppa!
billfrog2 2 years ago
I was at this concert.......This was the best group of musicians Tull had.....Ian, Barrymore Barlow, Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond, John Evan, and of course, Martin Barre. Hammond-Hammond was a wild one.
sirfleabert 3 years ago
Wow, I can't believe someone cares enough to put this fine work together. It amaze's me that Jethro Tull does not have Video of this performance that they could release on DVD! I saw the Passion Play tour at the Oakland Coliseum in 73.What a great show it was...
afjeff56 3 years ago
Jethro Tull "The Minstrel Looks Back, 1969-1977 2DVD set" has other Tull concerts and unreleased video footage from the 70s including this clip
ClassicRockDVD 3 years ago
I love that TullTapes is doing this. People have no idea just how popular Jethro Tull was in 1973. I know the show I was at in Detroit was Sold Out. High Priced tickets were six (6) bucks!
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punkaksyoo 3 years ago
In 1973 I was 13 yrs.old I owned Brick and passion Play thank god some one posted some live video of this tour ive seen tull on every tour sinse 1975 incl. tampa 76 never saw Passion Play done live thank you thank you thank you , also dident know Hare/specticals existed as a film , verry cool. anybody have the second half of tampa 76 ??? video ???
obeboops 3 years ago 2
Saw Tull at LB arena do Thick as a brick in 71, and Passion play at the LA forum in 73 I think.
jmmmccc 3 years ago
Excellent work my friend! Thank you so much for posting this footage. Passion Play was my very first Tull album, and it has remained my absolute favorite work by them. Can't wait to watch the rest of this. Thanks again!
DesertEagle97531 3 years ago
Tull was my favorite band for years...starting with "Stand Up", and "Passion Play" has always been my favorite Jethro Tull album....a brilliant piece.
Bix12 3 years ago 2
I agree with your opinions on this album. It is a masterpiece. Funny thing ... I first bought this on cassette when I was 15 or so and hated it. Just couldn't open my mind up enough at the time to follow it I guess. Now it's my favorite Tull album. Go figure! Thanks for all your work in producing this gem. My first Tull concert was Warchild in 74 at the Providence Civic Center. I missed all the good stuff!
Regards,
Michelle
msmichellelynn 3 years ago 3
I saw this concert at the chicago stadium ticket
cost me seven bucks main floor. the heartbeat
started then the house lights slowly dimmed.
the video started with the ballerina,and when
she opened her eyes and got up the pharmaceuticals kicked in and what a show it was.
randyschallau 3 years ago
One of the very, very best concerts I ever saw - and I saw some goodies. There were some nicely stoned heads in the Jacksonville that night, and when the girl jumps into the mirror, thousands of people gasped as one. Too good for words. Also, my fav Tull recording. The silver cord falls to the ground - indeed!
tarkusontube 3 years ago
who was filming this?
underwwraps2 3 years ago
thank you for working so hard at doing that.
i think you must look at passion play as a great simphony not as an album...
i was wondering (as he says..) 40 years have gone and we still got jethro tull in our heart.
i think that it means something.
iv3shf 3 years ago
FABULOUS!!! I only have "part 2" (not Side 2) of the album (can't tell you why, since I want my msg posted), which includes the entire "Story of the Hare Who Lost His Spectacles" - a personal favorite for the supreme Brit-humor silliness.
Thanks a mil for all your very hard work to bring this prodigious project to fruition.
davidpockettrpt 3 years ago
It's like a circus. Wonderful.
johnshipe 3 years ago
Thank you so much for this ambitious undertaking! Passion Play is one of Angelrage's favorite albums, and we really enjoyed seeing this! Can't wait to see it finished! Best of luck and thanks again!
angelrage1 3 years ago
Oh. There it is. Disregard.
atichman 3 years ago
Thanks so much for helping me remember my first TULL SHOW in NYC Madison SQ Garden.
Those who knock this piece of work aren't able to grasp the complexities of a rare music find.
Barrimore Barlow .....One of the best drummers and Jon Bonham best friend.
Listen,listen,listen and you will find something different each time.
I'm going to see Tull tonight.
Mohegan Sun Arena.
Thanks for the memories of this incredible and the best show I've seen.
Great work.
mtull58 3 years ago
A brilliant work in many respects, but not as moving musically as "Thick Brick" and even Ian admitted it was too highbrow for it's own good. Sometimes complexity for it's own sake creeps in, as does self-indulgence, which was always the problem with prog-rock. It's worth noting the next album went back to songs, with more than a few singles-oriented.
ThisIsBilbo 3 years ago
This strange album came at a strange time in my life. Were we in tune? We are players in the play.
hillbillyvol 3 years ago
This was my First concert I attended At the Inglewood Forum, Ca. Never seen a show better than this
broadsidebill 3 years ago
I saw them their to in the seventies. I think then it was called the fabulous forum. I saw him two nights in a row. Awesome concerts!
blowingharp 3 years ago
I saw this show in Shreveport, Louisiana in fall 1973. It still ranks as one of the best I have ever seen. A sadly underrated album (though it was a number one seller, the critic all stupidly hated it), it also made for one hell of a live show.
WRobison3 3 years ago
So was this never played in completion at a live show? I suppose that makes me feel a bit better having discovered Tull in '84. I was 12 and came across an 8 Track player with a set of tapes at a garage sale and one of those tapes happened to be Passion Play. Will always be my favorite Tull album as well as my first.
Zenophobius 3 years ago
They did play all of the album, they just didn't have professionals tape it. Which is why private tapes have been pieced toghether like this.
komkua 3 years ago
When I first heard this album I didn't care for it. But, man! To have been at that concert and got really good footage of JT in their prime would have been absolutely awesome! Forget Woodstock! This would have been the great moment.
lookin4space 3 years ago
My favourite band. Listen to my "Wondrin´aloud" version.
siggi5153 3 years ago
I think at this time the bass player was Jeffrey Hammond Hammond.
ragnoca 3 years ago 2
you are correct. jeffrey was the bassist. glasscock came after warchild and so on.
antonettagalione 2 years ago
Their most under-rated album. It's almost like Thick as a Brick, part 2. A song cycle, a concept, a huge work. Just brilliant. John Glasscock was amazing on bass, by the way. Died very young, a tragedy.
Anyhow, thanks for posting (and all the work piecing this together!)
JohnLeeJohnLee 3 years ago
Jeffrey Hammond played bass. John wasn't playing for another 2 years.
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centauron 3 years ago
does anyone have the tabs for A Passion Play? all of the sites seem to only have the last section "Magus Perde" and i'd like the whole thing, particularly the strumming leading up to... "All along the icy wastes, there are faces smiling in the gloom..."
nigbeard 3 years ago
I love this album...I'm only 16, so I sort of missed seeing this show...
Lethkhar14 3 years ago 2
Thanks. I haven't heard this in nearly 30 yrs. I will listen more now. I did not get it then, but maybe I won't now. But maybe I will.
hillbillyvol 3 years ago
It was just the right album at the right time, and long overdue congratulations are in order because it seems to me that probably "A Passion Play" stands to this day as being the single most successful album in flushing MORE PHONY "music expert" PRETENDERS out from under their rocks,than any other I can think of before or since.
drj602 3 years ago 3
Saw this concert at Mich State awesome also War Child at Chicago Stadium and I saw Tull for a 3rd time in Rockford Il 2001 for my 50th birthday Passion Play was the best. NEVER TOO OLD
bakaktsu 4 years ago 3
I was there too@ MSU
doctorstork 3 years ago
Was this the concert where he had the telephone on a stool the whole concert????I remember at the end of the concert after the encore...the phone rang and Ian Anderson ran out answered it (ostensibly) then held out the receiver and said "It's for you".....Dammit maybe I'm just too old but I remember details like this but I don't remember if it was from this concert or from the Thick as a Brick Concert.....(Your words but a whisper your deafness a shour) HA
patsfan9954 4 years ago
At Newcastle UK during the Thick As A Brick tour there was a telephone on top of John Evan's grand piano. It rang during the music as it was building up to a climax. The music stopped dead. Anderson answered the phone and said something about a horse in the foyer (I think). He put the phone down and the music kicked off again.
Steveco 4 years ago
an horse in the foyer???? LMAO!!!!!! 8^D
trombalazanas 3 years ago
He was joking of course...
Steveco 3 years ago
I didn't think for a second there was really a horse in the foyer, but now you mention it, I'm thinking what if Keith Moon was JT drummer? ;)
trombalazanas 3 years ago
Yes it sure was the Passion Play shows.
drj602 3 years ago
This question is answered in the vid of the 1972 thick as a brick show right here on youtube. The phone is sitting on a stool or something on stage, it rings and the music, which was a full throttle, suddenly stops. Ian answers the phone, and tells the crowed it is an urgent call for (can't recall who). Hangs up and the music resumes at exactly the point it stopped, again at full bore. They liked to mess with the audience's heads, which were already pretty far gone anyway (at least, mine was).
rumpole111 3 years ago
the line ian anderson said,"there is an urgent telephone message for a mike nelson--there seems to be a fish on the line" mike nelson, was the character that loyd bridges played on an american t.v. show called, "seahunt". thck as a brick tour was awesome as was the passion play.
antonettagalione 2 years ago
fish on the line ... never quite got why people thought that was so funny in-joke ... it's quite silly. Like the pantomine horse that would canter out on stage and poop out a little golf ball. and let's not forget the balloons!
themountainviewguy 2 years ago
I saw this concert at the Old Boston Garden in 1973.....Didn't take any video,,,quite frankly tripping my brains out, but it was one of the most memorable experiences of my life...No Video, But I still have the original LP in tact........I cannot believe there was never a professional tape of this made but Ian Anderson was always eccentric...I was there for the "Thick as a Brick" concert too..... Really don't mind if we sit this one out...hahahah
patsfan9954 4 years ago
You, and all the other fellas who do this sort of thing, should have the nobel price!
Love what you have done for us who didn't have the chance to see this back when (b 1971).
Thick as a brick is my absolute fav LP, but A Passion Play lingers close behind with Songs from the wood and Heavy Horses. Chuck in Aqualung somewhere ther and you have my top 5 JT LP:s!
Again, thank you so much!
erikjonaz 4 years ago 3
I saw this show in Springfield, MA in the fall/winter of 1973. I still believe it was the greatest night of my life. It even tops the first time I got.... well, you know what I mean.
arogers777 4 years ago
Thanks for making me cry like bluberin idiot,my god I miss "Real Rock" concerts! Bon Jovi anyone? What the hell happened to real rock and rollers and the "Performances" they put on...?
gazorba 4 years ago
I applaud you for doing this. I saw Tull do this
in Knoxville in 1973. Seems lke it premiered there because Ian wasn't happy with his last
show there, but my memory might be wrong on that. What an outstanding experience their
concerts were.
thmoorer 4 years ago
I too was at that Knoxville show and it was great! I also saw them in Knoxville in 1972 when they premeired an awesome Thick As A Brick! Nice to hear drom someone else who was at that show.
alawson2 4 years ago
Not my fav lp of theirs but definetely in my top 5 .
Benefit, Stand Up, Thick As a Brick, Passion Play, Aqualung.
I really love Living In the Past, Minstrel, This Was and Songs from the Wood as well.
After Songs/Wood I know there were many moments, but didn't hit the same level in my view.
atichman 4 years ago
Jethro Tull will always be one my favorite rock bands. Sophisticated, blusey, folky, hard-rockin', tender, celtic, cross-eyed. Covers of Bach and Kirk.
Although there is no shame in surviving, they have been a shell of their former selves for some time (crutches, popeye-voiced).
Thank you all I.e. tull-tapes) for posting the band in their prime.
atichman 4 years ago
Great work man!!! So glad there are people like you out there! Thanks a bunch!
Piercemannen 4 years ago 2
brilliant...saw Tull in Lond. June 73 first ever Tull concert,was 17..200 ft from stage!Slept in Hyde Park 2 days to hitch home to Liverpool worth it of course!Met Ian on a train from Blackpool 8 mths later,reading 007 !Still going t see em,Blackpool 2006 fantastic.....ditch J Duncan Ian.. get Doane back,spend 6 mnth off the road , write some original stuff.Your legacy'll be the great work you leave behind,Bd'sword,Budapest,Brick, etc NOT touring ...!All hail oh mighty one...Sir Ian!!
TULLVALHALLA 4 years ago
I hope he takes your advice because you are right!!
canley1 4 years ago
wow! this is great! ty so much for making this :)
farscape82 4 years ago
I saw Jethro Tull more than a dozen times in the 70's and possibly early 80's. This video project is a labor of love. How tremendously hard you must have worked. Thanks. I love A Passion Play.
ode2joy4u 4 years ago
bro i don't wish to remember. i do remember!!it was the baltimore civic center on aug 26 1973. on the back of my ticket stub i scrawlled "#1 concert ever attended" by the way only 6.50$ for floor seats. thanks for bringing it back though, 35 years can make any memory fuzzy
jahras74 4 years ago
ian anderson will go down as another mozart some day!!!!! The best band i have ever seen in concert!!
tommytull 4 years ago
I agree in every way.
IItothe222345helomot 4 years ago
I saw this show in Knoxville, TN when I was just a young 14 year old. I remember how much I loved it. I'm so glad you did this... it's a great gift. My favorite part was after they finished the song they left the stage as if the show was over. They came out for what appeared to be an encore and Ian said, "And now for our next number." They went on to do a great show from there. A true concert highlight of my now very long life.
WJamzMan 4 years ago
I have a similar memory in the Boston Garden, after the great show-(the hare who lost his spectacles)- they emerged after this song and Ian said to the crowd- Welcome all to an even ing with Tull, and played for another hour and a half. What a night, I still recall very well
whiskeyreal 4 years ago
A pitiful tull trainspotter here, but for the Play shows what Ian said at the end of Play specifically was "Welcome to an evening of light entertainment with Tull." Had a lousy seat in the Chicago Stadium for this one, even though we walked through one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in Chicago, which means real dangerous, at 3 am to get tickets, 100th person in line and they sold us crap. Ian generally says the same stuff each night, small embellishments maybe
tullist 3 years ago
Thanks for the reply, good comment. Oops, sorry, gotta go...phone call for Mike Nelson!
whiskeyreal 3 years ago
You can buy the CD, no problem. It's a great album set if you still have a turntable. LOL Ian Anderson (lead singer) rescues Bengal cats.
jmcquown 4 years ago
i NEED this cd... and also thick as a brick... i have to go to the music store one of these days...
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kevinmann 4 years ago
I was fortunate enough to see this show twice in one week at the Inglewood Forum in July of 1973. It is my single favorite concert of all time. When the heartbeat and white dot on the screen began it lasted for such a long time before the ballerina stood up, jumped through the looking glass and said "Something wonderful is happening". The band received the longest standing ovation I've ever seen at the end of Passion Play.
Madmonk1917 4 years ago
i love passion play also.
felicer 4 years ago
I didn't even like rock. A friend dragged me to this concert (it's Nashville leg). I expected a bunch of blue jean and t-shirt clad hippies playing too loud on a lousy sound system. Well, I was right about the sound system . . .but this was the best concert I ever experienced and APP is still the best album of all time.
wardka 4 years ago 2
Thank you so much.
This album is amazing.
madkinski 4 years ago
Marvelous, thanks for posting. I'll get the album.
MemphisMyoho 4 years ago
OOPS! Jethro Tull---blame it on the White Zinfandel.......
Provaca Tess
ProvacaTess 4 years ago
Although I had the pleasure of attending many of Jethro trull's concerts, I can truly say that Passion Play was the very first, complete music video I had ever seen on screen. It was 1973, at the Forum in Los Angeles--me, a high school junior and flautist, sitting in absolute awe as I took in every note, word and visual--what an honor and privilege, so struck with not only the group's virtuosity, but Ian Anderson's ability to captivate his audience---something that I will never, ever forget.
ProvacaTess 4 years ago
This was the very first concert I saw. I could not talk my older brothers into taking me to Red Rock to see the Aqualung tour in '71...Who wants a 10 year old tagging along when you're trippin'? I did see them at Red Rocks in the 90's without the tear gas! Just saw them last night in Denver, a little slower but still the best rockers ever. Thanks for this!!!
teacupbehemoth 4 years ago
thank you so much for doing this!!!!!!
giopagoda 4 years ago
I think the proof of this music's merit is the way that listening to one artist builds your appreciation of other skilled artists, even if they are completely different stylistically.
If you are used to having your expectations and preconceptions met with hook-based music then you don't understand music at all. If the "expert" critics had real ears they wouldn't stand to review all the trash they do.
Leipaa 4 years ago
I consider "Passion Play" to be the best rock album ever. I didn't understand it my first few times, only after "Pawn Hearts", "Lark's Tongue", Thelonious Monk and other modern greats was I prepared to hear it properly. Then, boom, several months later I heard its greatness immediately.
SUCH a pity the ignorant critics who pan this album. They prefer Chateau D'Isaster, which is the same ideas with more repetition, less sophistication, and a kindergarten theme.
Leipaa 4 years ago
By the way passionplay is still my fav tull album
OsCONSERVITIVE 4 years ago
I didnt get to see them untill 1978 but people told me about this concert Great work
OsCONSERVITIVE 4 years ago
excellent work, tulltapes!
MisterDD78 4 years ago
I missed them on this tour but I saw them on the Thick as Brick tour and the War Child tour but I would have really liked to have seen this one.
artlark 4 years ago
fantastico ! que pasada !
Gonzalopucelano 4 years ago
Saw this tour in Miami. One of a handful of albums that I know all the words to. LOL.
Always remember the chill at the beginning of the show when the ballerina started moving on the big screen....
attw3 4 years ago
IAN'S MASTERPIECE.. FANTASTIC!!
canley1 4 years ago
Got to agree with touwatch. One of the 3 best concerts I saw in 73-74. (along with ELP - Brain Salad Surgery & Yes - Tales of Topographic Oceans). I'm just wondering, did anybody film Steeleye Span?
Trgtomita 4 years ago
Passion Play is one of the best LP's of all times, with Lizard (King Crimson), Ummagumma (Pink Floyd) and Pawn Hearts (Van Der Graaf Generator)
touwatch 4 years ago
Este es el mejor disco ("A Passion Play") que se haya grabado jamás. ! Excelente !
robindrag101 4 years ago
OMG!!!! I know how to play every guitar part in this materpeice! I'm so exicted to able to see what tull was like at their peak! being 24 does have it's drawbacks
tullaholic 4 years ago
Thanks for the chuckle! I'm exactly twice your age so I did get to see Tull (and Yes, Rush, Zeppelin, etc). And when I had a Marshall it was a full stack with NO master volume (want distortion? turn it up!!) but I'd still trade it to not have all the aches and pains, let alone the tinnitus (hearing damage)!
sloiselle1 4 years ago
TullTapes, this kicks ass. I've seen some of your other stuff too and it kicks ass as well. I love this rare stuff from Tull. I collect tull stuff, but never found anything like this. WOW thanks for posting this stuff.
runningman77 4 years ago
Saw their first performance of Passion Play at Michigan State. Great show followed a nearly deadly crush as the 1 door opened an hour late, a line that lifted off the ground, girls passed out and passed back over our heads.
NJtoTX 4 years ago
What year was that, I saw it as MSU too
MAGUMNURSIS 4 years ago
May of 1973
NJtoTX 3 years ago
Saw this show in Springfield Mass. My first Tull show---I remember I paid a scalper $7 for a $5 ticket. Best $7 I ever spent.
spetow 4 years ago
Its one of the best works to come out in a long, long time. And the dare....way back then, to cut a disk, running for 45 mins...just one number....I mean
maverickdivya 4 years ago
Second childhood acid flashback from first....Two Tull concerts 1970, 1972
JohnMcCSF 4 years ago
Como me gustaría haber estado allí para verlo.Magnifico CD A Passion Play
oscarbat 4 years ago
TullTapes, thank you, thank you! You've made my day. This is so beautiful! I've heard the LP back in 73 so many times that I still know it by heart. And now we get to see it live! I can't thank you enough!
QueenofheartsV 4 years ago
What and incredible album Jehtro Tull is the best I had the chance to see them here in Costa Rica and I would have never forgiven myself if I wouldn't have gone. Long live J-Tull :D
Kpeters 4 years ago
such a pity.....i was not born that time....i am so sorry to have missed al those brilliant gigs of my fav JT.... JT's best!
taiaworld 4 years ago
As enormous a fan of JT as I was and am...I missed
PASSION PLAY when it was performed in I think '73 at the Los Angeles Forum. It was a horrible loss for me not to have been there particularly due to the fact that PASSION PLAY is my favorite work by the band. To her benefit, my sister was able to be there. So...I couldnt be MORE GRATEFUL to whomever you are collectively, for bringing this most amazing work to us all! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! A MILLION TIMES THANK YOU!
ibrowguy 4 years ago
Fantastic!!!...Saw this concert at the Municipal Auditorium in New Orleans at 15 y/o. Knocked out of my mind on angel dust. The beginning white flash on the screen was to the rythmn of a beating heart that morphed into a ballerina. I'll never forget it.
heraclitus1 4 years ago
Wow! - Never thought I'd get to see my favourite Tull album played live. It's fantastic. All credit to you for your efforts in piecing this together.
crowdedhouse5 4 years ago
A Passion Play.. (ed)..live is also very good,thank's !
davlaurent 4 years ago
I saw this concert in Dallas...good luck on the project.
lwplwp 4 years ago
My wife and I were lucky enough to see this concert... that about sums it up
newrulz2005 4 years ago
Anderson is God and Tull are his apostols
voloaltissimo 4 years ago
Kudos to your on-going endeavour!! I was too young to see the magic of Tull from this era! Our their any other concerts or groups you have with the 8MM FOOTAGE? I would love to see EDGAR WINTER GROUP or FOCUS, RENAISSANCE or SPIRIT. This is awesome!
razzle007 4 years ago
I love Jethro Tull, Ian Anderson is just fantastic to say the least. I have assisted to all of their shows and each time, I was amazed by such talent ... Wow
jojovava07 4 years ago
Awesome work! Hearing Ian's voice from back then brings tears to my eyes, he will forever be my favourite rock vocalist, even beats P. Gabriel imho.
ueskjold 4 years ago
Amen. No Greg Lake, no Peter Gabriel. I was shocked when I heard Ian saying in some interview that he's not much of a singer!
QueenofheartsV 4 years ago
Thank you so much. I was very fortunate to have seen this tour. A tour which so upset Ian Anderson because of negative reviews.
racer500gp 4 years ago
Me too. I wrote a bit earlier. I did not realize the band had gotten negative reviews on this show. I wouldn't be surprized depending on the critic. I really feel that this was the best tour of Jethro Tull I ever saw and I saw the band 4 times in the 1970's. This tour was as tight as The Thick As A Brick tour but better theatrics here! Critics ere often assholes back in those days. this is the opening song on The A Passion Play album, isn't it?
Beadbud5000 4 years ago
Awesome - many thanks for your work! Magic and among the finest moments in rock history. Amazing band.
enrdes 4 years ago
Tull at their peak, no doubt. Fabulous stuff, thanks
malcolmriviera 4 years ago