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  • does anyone know the tab for this song? I want to play that beautiful arpeggiated part so bad but I can only find chords

  • Man, I'd love to see a duet with Ian Anderson and Nina Hagen...think of the awesome rock power fidgeting and face-pulling!

  • He pulls the nuttiest facial expressions but I love them!

  • it's sad when an artist exhibits ANY kind of personality/animation... people talk about how "high" he was...... it's called PERSONALITY... and not EVERYONE needs dope in order to exhibit creativity/originality.... GEEEEZUS

  • @wolfatnight ian anderson was decidedly against drugs, so you are right

  • Greatest performer of all time.Michael Jackson was a punk compared to Ian Anderson and Bieber and all the rappers are crap.

  • Guitarists got a cool hat, gotta get a hat like that.

  • Thank You for posting this!

  • Beautiful nostalgia

  • I love how he exaggerates miming :D

  • When Ian Anderson performs his music, he always has facial expressions that make him look like he is high. He is one of the few hard rock performers that didn't do drugs. And for those of you that can't figure out what genre this music is....well you are completely ignorant. This is slap you in the face "TULL" music and is classic hard rock.

  • @billybobb613 actually not true. They had several genres bluesrock, folk rock, progressive rock to name a few.

  • its a good thing i live alone. i play this song to death. i really "feel" this song.and i dont care what anyone says. i love this song.

  • 16 bpeople don´t like folk music

  • Magnifici Jethro!

  • Sick music here......what is it? bluegrass? folk?Country?

  • @moarscooby I think that it's a mix of bluegrass,folk and rock.

  • he was wasted. Its a shame because they were great.

  • @pictureisup1

    It's a shame you make comments like this. What difference does it make to you personally if Ian Anderson was wasted one day back in 1970? Tull was, is and always will be great!

  • @mousepolice55 It dosen't make difference to me. You have to that to be great. Getting wasted is not great. 

  • And STFU about Ted Nugent. Nugent sucks cock & should never be mentioned on a video about Jethro Tull. Not even in the same league, as Nugent is a tea baggin cock mongrel. You Nugent fags need to berry your selves alive so i can piss on your grave. Nugent is a pathetic display of egotistical masculinity hiding in the homo closet, secretly wanting to rape little boys..

  • @LendMeYourHand But... tell us how you really feel.

  • I dont care whether this was an overdub, it's still Fkking Awesome. Not to mention the shamanic break on thru, which cant be produced by any of these SOBER douchebags. Just keep dreaming in your NON altered states that you can ever produce like an artist like this... They want you to believe that drugs are bad in even a genius mind, but the proof is an awakening into a right & left brain multi consciousness that far exceeds left brain thinkers. This is Electro Magnetic mind blowing.

  • LSD

  • For those whining about the "lip syching" and the chicks dancing - doesn't this fabulous snapshot of a fantastic era make you wish this kind of thing still made the Top Ten singles chart, and that sexy young girls would at least try to dance to it? Top Of The Pops in 1970 has a fabulously iconic feel to it, there was a wonderfully eclecticism to the pops charts reflected on the show & that "cage set" looks glorious now - better than most US & European pop shows of the time.

  • man those guys probley got mad play and they were all grizzly adams and shit, i wish i was born in the 40's like all u old fuckers.. my question to all the old people? how did the hippies of the past let the world get so fucked up? arent you morons the generation that is currently ruining the world lol. the irony is killing me

  • I need to find that plaid jacket.

  • i love jehtro tull's bass man XD

  • Now I know I can form a rock band even if I can only play flute! XD

  • Jethro tull is goddamn phenomenal!!! The whole Living in the past album is fucking awesome!!! From start to finish, it is genius.

  • i just discovered this, I have heard of Jethro Tull before but never really searched it, this song is so great and the singer seems to be so cool. Very promising! :)

  • so fucking underrated..... so original..... so fucking talented.... love them

  • check the dancers -- hard to hippy-dance to a 3/4 beat sometimes -- the only fit step would be the waltz -

    Love the song, love Tull!

  • why is this so loud and crappy quality?-good song tho

  • eathchild when i say he was/is a showman drugs had nothing to do with his actions in this video the mans ambition was to own a salmon farm for gods sake not the ambition of a drugged out hippy and he actually got his farm.............only speak of what you know the rest is bullshit

  • he aculy was on drugs in this preformence the signs speak for them self.dilated eyes this should not happen on stage for a sober person. the lights are extremely bright.he has a croked jaw with no stane this is a sing of LSD stricnine.also his words are slured compared to his outer acts..id say hes on a trip but of couse he would him self say hes never touched a drug.most people who use drugs lie when it comes to hiding the fact of there use

  • @eathchild

    Funniest load of cack I ever read on You Tube.

  • @SteGreenall thank you hahaha

  • one of my early favorites, still to this day awesome

  • lol Jethro <3 He did look like he was tripping in that one ^^;

  • He looks like a crazed nutter. 

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  • @FAX335 I'm no Nugent fan, but I'm not sure I can agree with you, given that Anderson is only 16 months older - was he REALLY that precocious?

  • this song just blew me away when i first heard it! awesome voice :)

  • Love  Tull- remember the first time I saw this on TOTPs , and havebeen a fan ever since.Music from 1969-73 , never better in my opinion!

  • Drummer thinks "wonder what I'll have for me dinner?"

  • Jethro Tull = Prog-medieval-folk-fusion? Love it :)

  • A música do Jethro Tull é demasiadamente rica. Uma imagem que evoca duendes, bruxas, sons que vem da floresta, de encantamentos... Eles conseguem, de maneira surpreendentemente criativa, mesclar com o rock, o som medieval/celta bem coerente com a proposta dos anos 70, onde valia tudo em prol de uma nova consciência.

  • This is "classic rock"! A little bit o' class, a bunch of Celt, and a whole lot of Brit! Ian and Tull raised the actual learning curve to rockers..........a 16th century agronomist, a flute, minstrels, who wouldn't be enthralled. They are brilliant in what they did, and continue in their own ways today! Thanks, Jethro, for many, many years of your music!

  • what a voice!

  • @ReinaldoCamila Fully agree!

  • good faces

  • freaking awesome.

    JT will never die.

  • Why is McLovin playing the bass?

  • I hear a mellotron but I dont see any....

  • Can't believe I haven't heard this since another life ago. Freaked out to this band when 17 and crazy, still freaking when listening now, brilliant! Going to hunt all the albums out now. God help the neighbours, and never let me get THAT old where I won't appreciate Tull.

  • 2:41 is some freaky ass shit

  • @1988bluemoon This was the actual moment i fell in love with Ian Anderson and Jethro Tull.

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  • Lost this TOTP performance on a VHS a few years back. Bonus. Thanks for posting up this vid.

  • He is on drugs.

  • No Offence to him, but is he on drugs

  • @Cats1357911 he actually didnt do drugs. he is still alive too

  • This seriously is my most favorite video and song on youtube

  • @tazer74 How do you know?

  • @Useless2112 look it up lol i used to think the same thing. i was like that dude has to be dead from all that shit he did, turns out he only drank and is still kickin. he was just a great performer.

  • During the same period America had such awful pop ptrogrammes as Shindig and similar programmes where young girls where encouraged to scream during the whole of the stars songs even ballads .the whole set up was treated as rampant teenybopper stuff and was treated just as a temporary music phase . Its a shame that classic clips of film and music was ruined by rridiculous setting for pop stars / groups with continous screaming in most parts , thank god British TV managed to limit or omit it.

  • @justagog AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA­AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHHH­HHHH

    I'm adding a Shindig-style accompaniment to your comment.

  • the so called go go dancers where members of the invited audience not go go dancers and they had nothing to do with the band , one thing you must be aware in the 1960s the British TV at least veiwed the artists as a musical art form took them fairly serious and devised such programmes as Ready Steady Go ... The Old Grey Whistle Test, A Whole Scene Going , Thank Your Lucky Stars and of course the long running Top Of The Pops ..

  • Great video. His movements are so poetic. He is like a more modern shakespeare

  • @Yazoku Yes, Shakespeare was renowned for his rhythmic prancing and peculiar face-pulling during his long flute solos.

  • This was taken from an episode of Top Of The Pops a long running pop programme on british TV , the programme producers insisted all artistes mime to their latest release , so it wasnt up to Anderson wether to mime or not he had no choice if he wished to plug his record on this high ranking pop programme, plus Anderson was one of the few rock performers who avoided drugs but he didnt not mind being a showman and putting on a manic looking act which was his trademark as was the flute.....

  • @justagog Thanks for the info justagog. Don't know why people get in such a tizzy because he lip syncs because that wasn't unusual back in the day, artists used to lip sync often when they appeared on TV shows. And glad you brought up the act too because Ian didn't do drugs and what people are seeing is like you said - a showman. People find it hard to understand that Ian is perfectly sober during this performance, just having fun.

  • @justagog Thank you. Anderson's a brilliant genius anyway. His crazy faces are just as funny as the song is exceptionally good. I both enjoy the song and the performance. It always makes me laugh. And it was also nice to know Ian Anderson didn't do drugs.

  • @AviatorRider LMMFAO!! cant you see he's on like a pound of cocaine, your an idiot. LMAO! your to damn funny. Nope, he's not on cocaine because some non drug user cant face reality. Anyone who's been on cocaine can see his jaw turning sideways. ROFL!!!!!!!

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  • Watching this, takes be back to ALL the other badly mimed efforts on Top of the Pops in the 1970s. As a teenager i used to get pissed off watching a lot of the bands Laughing when they should at least be pretending to sing. A bit of a Joke, still I have the last laugh, I get their music for free now.

  • @lndac02 Bands shouldn't be miming. EVER!! Ian's taking the piss.

  • Jethro Tull are one of the best bands of ALL TIME bar none OK"!!!!

  • i want some of there dope for sure

  • Nothing says 70s like a random lady dancing in the background. Good stuff.

  • SMOKE A JOINT AND LISTEN TI THIS ,AND U GO OFF INTO SOMEKINDA WONDERLAND!!!!!!!

  • ya i herd the guy be high on crack ir meth too!

  • What a cool dude he is timless and he play some fantastic and difficult chords

  • Ian played the flute like no other. His facial expressions only make him Ian. And Tull wasn't Tull without him.

  • Ian is a God.

  • @SamJuanIDunno agree! He has a fantastic pleasant voice!

  • saw him play the mecca in sunderland early seventies , guy was spellbindin

  • LOL

    mOOsik nOObs

    Ian Anderson was making crazy faces on stage when Ted Nugent was an unspent round in his daddy's revolver.

    FAX

  • @FAX335 Well I don't want to make light of Ted Nugent's accomplishments either. I saw him live and he's one of the best live performers ever in Rock. He's also one of the best combination of guitarist/singer/writer too. The man can flat out RIP! And he can to this day.

  • @Tommygun1028 - Yeah, Ted can flat out rip.... the heads off of large animals!

  • @Tommygun1028 but compared to intelligent thoughtful ian... nugent is a morally bankrupt self promoting ass.

  • @FAX335 I think Ted Nugent is older than you think. He had a hit single with the Amboy Dukes in the late 60's call "Heaven In Your Mind". That said I;ll take Ian Anderson over Ted any day.

  • @soxfan1957 - I think you mean "Journey to the Center of the Mind".

  • @nebulax You're correct. I got it mixed up with a tune by Traffic from about the same time period. I'm at the age where it's all blending together.

  • @soxfan1957 We're not as young as we used to be.

  • The go-go dancers are a 'nice touch'..,

  • Yeah Tull fan for life - nuff said

  • This sounds like the studio version... otherwise, where is the second flute player/string section? Plus it looks like he's lip sinc-ing

  • @RedSkyTree1

    Obviously he was lip syncing! This was recorded over 40 years ago on Top of the Pops in the UK, which was renowned for ALL it's artists lip syncing to their own records, some of them objected strongly such as The Smiths and this was why Morrissey danced around on stage with a great big bunch of flowers stuffed in his trousers.

  • @SFT223 Hey I had no idea. I'm surprised Tull went allong with that. Seems kinda silly.. why not just have the bands play live? The birth of Milli Vanilli???

  • @RedSkyTree1 really-? i didn't no Milli Vanilli covered this song too

  • Love this song and I love this band all the way round. I will be a Tull fan for life.

  • can't decide what I like more, the music or the clothes,,,

  • that is just so fucking good

  • He is fantastic and yhe music unforgotten!!!

  • That's why we all are living in the past. "Past" music was REAL MUSIC

  • THIS SORT OF  MUSIC WILL ALWAYS BE TIMELESS AND A TIME OF WHEN MUSIC WAS MUSIC

  • THIS SORT OF MUSIC WILL ALWAYS BE TIMELESS

  • JETHRO TULLS MUSIC IS TIMELESS

  • His dirty old man act is the worst part of the music. The music from the Witch'sPromise/Life is a long song/Living in the Past period was sheer genius, and on the strength of that I bought every album he/they made afterwards, but I could never warm to his increasing pomposity, and Anderson never recaptured those glory days; the stuff he has produced over the last 20 years or so is banal, sad to say - Too affluent to Rock and Roll but Too Young to Die.

  • Ian´s usual unusual face expressions.

  • Thanks for this; brought back memories. The best single of all time; but what the hell are the lyrics about ? ( not that it matters )

  • greatest rock band in history

  • These guys kicked more butt more ways than half the guys in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and more than any that are being discussed for inclusion. What the bleeding F%$K.

  • Perfect sound of flute....it makes me feel so good, brilliant tune....

  • Miming Tory

  • @AusgangZumHimmel tell me about my dad got me in to jethro tull when i was 12 im 20 now if justin bieber heard jethro tull he probablly piss his pants and cry to his mommy

  • ian and joe crocker mus have hung out a little

  • Ted who? Tull is the real stuff.

  • Ted came much later! But does anyone else see the effects of the LSD ! aahhh

  • @suni69sunshine Ian always says he never did drugs but looking these videos makes it hard to believe.

  • Ian Anderson: the best flute player ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • He understands pencils.

  • nugent didn't come out in survivalist/ hunter mode until later.

  • tull ; has always been awsome grew up on listen to him

  • @PupuTheClown Was Ted Nugent making these kind of faces in 1970? I thought that was later

  • @Tommygun1028

    Actually yes he was...Ted was not running the full on beard yet but the side burns were quite worthy. Ted has been recording and playing live since the heady days of The Amboy Dukes. New York Acid eater band that Ted took over in 1969.

    Peace

    by the by Tull has been #1 for me since I saw the Heavy Horses tour.

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  • @Tommygun1028 Ted Nugent had never been heard of then, and still would have never held a candle to the one and only Ian Anderson

  • @Tommygun1028 perhaps some pharmaceutical influences at work here

  • @Tommygun1028

    Who the hell is Ted Nugent?.

    I'm serious,I've never heard a note of his music.

    Is he more photogenic than Ian Anderson?.

    Could he simultaneously play the flute on one leg while creating classic Folk/Rock music renowned the world over?.

    I do not know,but the fact I've never heard him does not bode well for us at the local Folk music club.

  • @PupuTheClown

    not seen tull before then ted nugent may have got some ideas from ian anderson not the other way around

  • @PupuTheClown ...as if...

    amboy dukes was a straight gig.

    ian & his troop were bonified freaks and can never be confused with the less worthy.

  • @PupuTheClown Did anyone notice Tony Iommi playing guitar in the background?

    He also appeared with Tull in the Rolling Stones Rock and Roll circus. He left after 5 weeks because he said it was Ian Anderson's way, or no way at all.

  • @bloderme  That is NOT Iommi. That is most definitely Martin Barre on the guitar.

  • @PupuTheClown ~ This was before Ted Nugent. ;-) Just sayin.

  • @PupuTheClown that's like Da Vinci learning how to water color from a kindergartener.

  • @PupuTheClown Nugent wishes he was as popular

  • @PupuTheClown

    Ian Anderson did his own thang. His resemblance to Ted is there to be seen in the eyes but you also might see Jim Dandy as well.

    This was theatrical rock & roll and they put on a great show for sure.

  • @PupuTheClown More like the coke thing.

  • @PupuTheClown wayyyy before Ted, dear....he rocks you would like it all.........

  • @PupuTheClown ummm.. no. teddy was still trying to load his gun all by himself back then lol.Ian was the father of  the face... him and joe cocker.

  • @PupuTheClown yeah ted took the crazy eye from ian.

  • So clever.

  • exelente!

  • Awesome,just great

  • If I could "Jethroll" people, this would be the video I sent people to.

  • im 29 and love this band.

  • @peeps6901 I'm only 18, and it's in my top three with Kansas and Steely Dan.

  • @peeps6901 I'm 15 and I love this band haha

  • I make facial expressions like that on a regular basis. =D <3 Jethro Tull

  • Don't you just love it when you back in Manchester England

  • reminiscent of Woody Kern

  • what is he high off of shrooms

  • @thewrightlilbro

    um..its 1970. u didnt have to do shrooms to trip. lets make it like that again!!!!!

  • @cuntsgab yes but you choose either or.

  • uno de mis mas grandes idolos, jaja me gusta hacer caras igual que a el XD...Ian es un verdadero artista...un loco.. y por lo tanto un artista..

  • Love Clive's short stick style.

  • They made the mistake of not going to Woodstock Festival,because they tought it'd not be a big deal..

  • @elyeye66 they weren't flower power at all, glad they didn't go

  • ♥ Tull

  • ♥ me some Cocker

  • someones been eating too many sweeities!

  • esta pasadom de merca......pero es un grandee!!

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  • this man a strange actor... a clown actor... it's quite cool... even if i' m not a huge fan of this album from 1970...but this song is really one of the best out there... the previous album "stand up" (69) is one of my fave of those clowns hehe

  • ah that raised leg. a signature move. however i hate these reenactments. i love the whistle test videos when musicians really performed their pieces. check them out.

    JT is unique. when's the last time you saw the lead singer pull out a flute and wail. God bless diversity!

  • ah that raised leg. a signature move. however i hate these reenactments. i love the whistle test videos when musicians really performed their pieces. check them out.

  • The album that this is