Jethro Tull - Songs from the Wood - Too Old to Rock'n'Roll - Heavy Horses - Cardiff 1996

[renues]

Whats the deal with the lip-synching? Everyone can tell its fake. Why dont they just do it live? Crappy or not, at least it would be real.

[mikemacjunkie1]

@renues what part is fake about it?? doesn't look lipsynched. i know for sure it wasn't lipped when i saw them a few months ago!

[renues]

@mikemacjunkie1 The chorus parts are for sure. You can see at 1:05 when Ian turns on his mike. Plus, you can hear flute but he is not playing. Its not until 1:10 when he actually starts singing for real...and its obvious.

[mikemacjunkie1]

@renues i see it now lol. i was watching at like 5am. kinda sleepy. no wonder he doesn't perform it like this anymore, the intro sounds like the studio album version LOL. for a more current version, check out my channel, i uploaded songs from the wood and my god from the Toronto show this past june. amazing!!

[captainkane1984]

Wish I could have heard him do that flute solo in HH! The a capella stuff sounded tasty too.

[yubsugable]

This recording is NOT to old to die,does the albums no justice, so I'm pullin' the pin.

plenty more GREAT tull out there, onward and upward, in search of songs from the wood, and other gems, HAPPY TULLING!!!

[aquecedoroleo]

Ian isn't too old to rock n roll or even to die

keep it dude

[KingHellstrings]

Does this video cut in and out for everyone else?

[ladybirdflies]

it's buffering as it's downloading into your computer. i wider broadband should help

[KingHellstrings]

It's not that. It starts doing that around the 2:56 mark.

[ladybirdflies]

thanks for the advice, KHs.

[bluegreenmonkey]

Yeah I'm getting it too.

shame it sounds like a rare performance

[CyborgNinjaZombie]

Is it just me or did Ian lip synch quite a bit in this.

[Tullywho]

It's not you. Ian Anderson indeed lip-synched quite a bit of "Songs from the Wood," but he's been using backing tapes for years to cover the intricate harmonies. To be fair, if those tapes weren't used, it's doubtful that the band could've covered those parts effectively enough to pull it off (no matter what line-up, truthfully). Anyway, back to this particular line-up and concert, the rest of the medley was all he, so there's no "Jethro Vanilli" here!

[KingHellstrings]

Look at the 77-82 performances of SFTW. There's no lipsynching in THOSE performances. Only when his voice died did he start using backing tapes.

[Tullywho]

I beg to differ. For absolute proof, check out David Rees' book, Minstrel in the Gallery, which is the definitive English language biography of Jethro Tull by (arguably) the foremost authority on the band. He talks about the tapes during the chapters dealing with Songs from the Wood and Heavy Horses. The whole book is killer, really. It's more than worth searching out a copy.