Jethro Tull We Used To Know (live c. 1970)

[littlequeen64]

Rock and rolls pied-piper....... : )

[afeifel]

From the great Isle of Wight performance

[garrington120]

Happy 64th Birthday Ian , 10th Auugust . Saw Tull first time in 1969 in London then last time in Dubai 2005 and about 15 times in between . Greatest rock band ever

[vanceatot]

having the same chord progression isn't plagiarizing. if it was, all pop songs would be copyright infringement.

[meowandmeow]

@vanceatot They would have to be considered music first

[garrington120]

LOL The music that The Eagles stole 7 years later for Hotel California

[SabLMPh]

Ouhhh geez... I can't believe I'll have to travel around the whole world in order to kill four idiots... Damn!

[bergadeer]

Love this album, listening to it right now on vinyl !

[yoursaxman]

"this is an amateur video"???? Dude- this is a Bill Graham Presents production! ITHIS was the big time in 1970.

[robycoss]

ME SACO EL SOMBRERO!!! QUE PERFORMANCE!!!

[thefoppa1000]

mega jam.

[ClassicRockDVD]

Jethro Tull, The Minstrel Looks Back 1969-1977 2DVD set features this concert without timecode and more, see our channel for link and more details

[malscott]

whoa id love to see more of this!

[ademiller1959]

cheers for that - love a bit of classic oldendays Tull ; )

[busterbone]

it's weird thar the guitar solo is so different from the "Stand Up" studio version-almost a prelude to "Locomotive Breath"

[chocolateman85006]

@busterbone Actually, it was a prelude to "For a thousand mothers".

[TheGameMasterXP]

wow they cheer so long

[chocolateman85006]

@TheGameMasterXP It's because they kick ass!.

[54taqiyya]

i think i was there.

[ragingbull888]

i thought the classic lineup was the aqualung lineup.

[zog97xy]

@ragingbull888 not! this was the best tull

[mormoonimikko]

fuckin great

[london2z]

Amazing how many albums Tull has put out over the years. They never stop! Just wish they had played the entire song in this one. And a guitar solo that resembled the studio version more.

[mflash55]

When i was 18-20 the bands i was in didn't want to do this song despite the neat chord arrangement because it was more appropoiate for OLD people-now that I am 55 I have incorporated it into my acoustic set-thanks for the video so I could get the timing and phasing right

[gmartinz01]

And 60 seconds of tuning up . . .

[busterbone]

every song on "Stand Up" and "Benefit" are divine. Very best Tull and some of my favorite music-even obscure tunes. You last two are dead corroect-I have nothing against Jeffrey Hammond and other JT bassists. However, Glenn Cornick on bass and Clive Bunker made the band-great energy, style sound to match Ian's flute.vocals and Martin Barre's guitar.

Although John Evan was a nice touch added about the time of this concert on some songs and others that did nice work. This is true Tull though!

[dukeblue1110]

Glenn Cornick was crucial to early Jethro Tull.

Once he got kicked out, the sound was never quite the same for me.

[gleknu]

I also think that Glenn Cornick was the best bass player ever to play with Tull. I wrote an e-mail to Glenn a few years ago and asked why he left/quit, because there are so many versions of the reason why, and he told me that Ian kicked him out to make room for his long time friend Jeffrey Hammond...a poor call from Ian sadly...

[plangentmusic]

That's so disappointing to hear. Glen never got with another good band. Great player.

[fabrikk60]

No kidding, as Jeffrey could barely play and on "Aqualung" Martin & Ian had to do several of the bass parts. That's one reason why I don't like "Aqualung nearly as well as the previous albums - the bass playing often sounds so wooden. Cornick was so much better.

I've read that Cornick liked to party hard on the road, and Ian & the others did not. After a while Ian decided to get a more sober employee into the band, someone he already knew well and would fit the proper mold.

[fireflyzip]

@fabrikk60 I was never crazy about Jeffrey H-H but John Glascock was sure good. Very tragic what happened to him. I greatly respect Ian for never going the way of drugs. It just wasn't his way. He has poured all he had into his music and it shows. Its so cool seeing these old videos (love the Filmore clips) and now seeing Ian in interviews. He is truly a great musician and seemed to stay grounded all through the years.

[johndy7]

Yess , this = for me the best song from the LP" STAND UP", and also the best album from the 'TULL''(Ian Anderson himself sais the same )

The first formation was the best ,,,great drummer/gitar and bassplayer to,

When the drums and bassplayer was leaving, after ''STAND UP'',,,,

for me was the Tull never more the same band.

I saw in the sixties and seventies many great bands ,but :Jetro Tull is for me one of the best bands ever

greats , a pro drummer/Holland.

""

[TyBlondahl]

this is on of the tulls best tunes

[surduburdu]

Glenn Cornick was the Tull's best bass player ever!

[CoolCounselorDude]

FABULOUS SOUND AND VIDEO OF THE GREAT IAN ANDERSON AND JETHRO TULL..thanks for posting! Wish there was more!

[nsra1933]

small stage for Tull. Ian doesnt have room to go crazy..

[rula42]

really rare stuff....thx for uploading

[Zorack10]

Awesome. Just awesome.

[sergegrone]

This one used to be my favorite Tull song from their Stand Up album. Now is a close second to Reasons for Waiting.

The jam reminds me a lot of Sabbath's debut. Iommi played with them for a brief time, so that's not a coincidence.

Great great version.

[davis80smusic]

wow - amazing - yes, great music, great memories - thanks for this astounding upload!

[lbuerman]

i can,t believe there are not more 1969/70videos out there. tull played warmup band tour for led zepplin in 1969 and aqualung tour in 1970?

[steamsearcher]

WOW, so Tull cover all music from metal to folk, to dark ages circa 1420 AD.

What a range, I am so glad I am a fan.

[record1207]

i agree 100%. I am so glad a friend of mine let me borrow Stand up back in 71.!!

[bobtlizard]

Hotel California meets Black Sabbath.

[KaiBailey]

The Eagles wrote Hotel California after hearing Tull perform this song. :)

[2610ksj]

Let's see - it's the song the Eagles ripped of first off...

[Grygry82]

This song is the main inspiration for the "Hotel California" melody.

[foppa123]

which part of the Eagles song?

[PROTENON]

EAGLES SUX!!! THEY STOLE DIS FROM DA TULL. SRSLY what a bunch of hacks.

[j3mz12]

AMAZINGGGGG

[rootslouch]

i can never get enough of tull <33

[zammyhawk]

excellent.

[1stStreetPubOpenMic]

Love everything from Stand Up - wow 1969 was an amazing year for rock albums

[spweather]

This was either right before or immediately after Isle of Wight. I really liked this lineup. Barre had just replaced Abrahams for their 3rd album Benefit. Very raw and not always clean but a band on the verge of stardom.

[bammeu]

Barre was in the band before that he played on every JT album except This Was.

[unknownkingdom]

Ian Anderson looks so stoned waving his arms around like that.

[schragemusik]

Does one actually need to be stoned to wave one's arms about? I can do that after a cup of Horlicks.

[kpsars]

jethro tull didn't do drugs, as I used to know...

[tarcisoassis]

Jethro tull em sua melhor forma!!!!

[miltthepimp]

First, I like Tull and I like the Eagles.

Ian Anderson, Martin Barre, Don Henley, Glen Frey are all great artists. But some of this dialog is stupid. Who's better? What are we, 12 years old? Who stole what progression? Do we need to go there? If you like Tull, listen to them. Same goes for Eagles fans. In the end, they're the ones with all the money and here we are quibbling on YouTube about this kind of meaningless shit.

[Pletet]

this is fucking awesome

[wailin1967]

The Eagles ?, Black Sabbath ?!!, Richard Thompson ?, Fairport Convention?, Lou Reed, Roland Kirk ? - you geeks need to get out more !

So what's that riff Barre goes in to before For A Thousand Mothers ? sounds like something off Benefit...yeah I'm a geek too !

[blo0dy0wn4g3]

stunningly brilliant. they don't make them like that anymore!

[yhwh67]

my favorita de JETHRO TULL, we used to know,

beautifull and 100% classic rock babe,,

[bakabana1966]

after all, music is the best

[bakabana1966]

when i saw the TULL in Rotterdam in 1969 i bought the StandUp LP right away and WE USED TO KNOW is such an amazing beautiful song, i always have to cry !! thankls for posting !!

[kennyschmitt]

Pick up the Isle of Wight DVD and see an equally amazing performance of this and other Tull songs.

[texasranga]

this is such a great song... thats all i can say, if i try to go on id just be saying the same thing in different words.

[emadmadi]

and i take my hat off for the dramr...

[robertlaberge]

Song starts at 3:00

[emadmadi]

what a song and what a solo guitar...

*hot tuna/rock me babe 1975*... you find it here in youtuba.

[RLW1967]

Ian Anderson got a lot of his flute riffing from Rahsaan Roland Kirk.

[rokyfireloadat32]

I love Ian's music soo much..really helped me through some really difficult times..also being 'responsible' for my deppressed state of mind at that time

[sammysammsamm]

i agree. i've had bad days that were turned around by this great music

[rokyfireloadat32]

Martin Barre is awesome!!! I'd love to be on these early shows!! ( I'd have to be like 50 now I guess but what the hell!)

[dougalmac54]

I hate time code! But this is SO good, I'll live with it....

[goodfoot08]

Love the song. The album version is terrific. From one of my all time favorite albums. But Ian Anderson--he really can't sing. Or couldn't at the time this was recorded.

For my money, Richard Thompson now sounds so much better to me as a song writer and guitar player. Plus the Fairport Convention singers were infinitely better than Ian. His voice sounds thin and untrained here.

[dougalmac54]

Ian anderson can't sing? You silly twit!

[goodfoot08]

oh. "silly twit" sure changes everything. including his own reservations about the limits of his voice.

Just relax--let him be what he will be. This sort of silly fanboy crap does not prove anything.

[theodorus45]

@goodfoot08 Ian Anderson can`t sing?? You are really critical,he has a great voice!

Can`t imagine anyone else singing like he does with this kind of music.How can you compare Fairport Convention singers with him?Totally different kind of music.

[riffz0r]

Ian Anderson is a silly fellow...cool stuff. I'm going to go download some of his stuff from bitorrent

[tullist]

While you can tell by my name where my sympathies lie I would stop short of saying Tull is "better" than the Eagles or vice versa, you can only listen with your own head. I must say, being a non musician other than flute dabblings, I have never heard the connection between the two songs, don't doubt its there, feel sorry for the Eagles and Livingston Taylor and the great Steeleye Span and Captain Beefheart being treated rudely by Tull audiences way back.

[kirksonline]

Great performance

[JDethroTull]

O please!!!

You are comparing one of the most complex bands of the progressive rock with eagles

Listen thick as a brick, and you will know what i mean

Jethro tull never sold that many because it was not a so commercial music

Other skill That J T has is that they adapted

to the music of the 80´s making great stuff

Ian is a genius

Everybody knows that...

[jbsrknu]

why mention Tull and the eagles here i the first place?---just sit back and enjoy...you want to know about the eagles---watch Jeff Bridges in The Big Lebowski---sums that band up

[pocogirl]

I think that Tull generally acknowledges the fact that HC was 'adapted' from WUTK but consider it more as a form of flattery than anything else. Interviewers often asked about the similarity between the two and Martin had commented that he thought Hotel California was a well written song and really liked it. So, if it didn't bother Tull then it shouldn't bother anyone now imo.

[dougalmac54]

according to who? I read Don Felder's book, and especially the part about him writing "Hotel California", and there's absolutely NO mention of any such thing. I think you made it all up!

[PeterMayer]

Gee, I didn't know that some rock bands had the rights to the C, D, Em, chord. So Tull fans, ever heard of Rahsaan Roland Kirk? Listen to the way he played the flute. Ian owes him big time. Next.....

[dougalmac54]

"Ian owes him big time? you silly sod-get a life! You know who would laugh you out of the room? Rahsaan Roland Kirk! What a silly wanker you are!

[PeterMayer]

Listen you Limey fuck, have you ever heard Kirk play the flute? It sounds a lot like Ian. My point was everyone borrows from everyone. So when you actually know what you are talking about, give us call asshole.

[GoWest1967]

Tull covered Kirk's "Serenade to a Cuckoo" on their first album "This Was" so to deny his influence would be foolish.

[PeterMayer]

Thank you. It was in response to saying that the Eagles "Hotel California" was a rip of this, which it might be. My point was a saw a clip of Kirk playing the flute and I said "Gee, sounds like Ian Anderson". I didn't want to get into a name calling situation but I got slammed first.

[GoWest1967]

I try not to slam or name-call. There's lots to be learned everyday, about music and so much more. I read an interview a few years back in which Anderson speculates that "WUTK" may have influenced "HC" after having played the song on tour while the Eagles opened. Influence can be subconscious, just ask my sweet George.

[FistulofYen]

I find that "We Used To Know" resembles "Road To Cairo" more than "Hotel California".Anyway, that riff is quite common in many songs, and both Tull's and Eagles' songs are great, so there's n o sense in arguing so much. Just enjoy the music!

[trombalazanas]

Perfect Day - Lou Reed.

[FortMaximus1]

haha, comon people, just enjoy the music

[appletonnorth]

Oops, I meant the Eeagles.

[appletonnorth]

p.s.

Eagles-overrated, too.

[appletonnorth]

Hotel California- Overplayed overrated song.

We used to Know- Underplayed underrated song.

[maisler]

I can't believe how people argue about We used to know and Hotel California. What is the problem? Ever heard of covers or inspiration?

Insteed of being pissed of at Eeagles, feel proud that they thought this song was so good, and that it inspired them to do one of the best songs ever, Hotel California

[samansun]

This is one side of the "inspiration or plagiarism" issue. Take early Beatles and Stones, Zeppelin, most blues

songs... An infinite list. And the fancy ones

like "Listen to your heart-Roxette /Alone-Heart" even "Billie Jean-M. Jackson/Black is Black-Los Bravos" not mentioning hundreds of remakes of folk songs.

On the other hand, what is copyright for? If you cover the song you think is good, better mention the songwriter's name along.

Anderson obviously just showed voluntary courtesy.

[hovogliadileggere]

martin barre rocks here

[lowflyingsquab]

What a rip off! Ian Anderson traveled forward in time to steal this from the Eagles! :)

This must have been recorded at on of the Bill Graham venues. He used to tape every show. I went to many concerts at Winterland in San Francisco, and often sat just in front of one of the two camera platforms.

[MeladoriMagpie89]

Holy Shit!

tull totally ripped off Black Sabbath's "sweet leaf"!!!!

[Fredchiodi]

Wasn´t it the first time they played this song in public...???

It was an excellent concert.

[showtaper]

No, it was played live back in October of 1969....

[OU8121ST]

Love this song, you go your way ill go mine best of luck with what you find

[mingeral]

My God, This Was, Tull at their, Stand Up , best played for our, Benefit. I know , pretty crappy syntax but its true. Best band in the MULTIVERSE.

[Zluyto]

I was there Tull were by far the better concert act....period

[lucisuciu]

I never knew this song but it seems to have a kind of " touch " with Hotel California ... but also in the final you can hear quite clear the guitar part of Judas Priest's " Breaking the law "...interesting

[room953]

Superb song, performed with great energy. Love Jethro Tull.

[ls1phsyco]

Hotel California will eat this song for dinner! Go Felder go Eagles!!!

[Steveco]

The Eagles wrote Hotel California in 1976. A few years beforehand they supported Tull on tour.  Form your own conclusions.

[ls1phsyco]

yeah I know it was released Dec. 18 1976, so this is not the origin of Hotel California! And mr. goodcorn, you have to admit that the Eagles are way more popular and are one of the best selling bands in history, as on the other hand tull isn't even in that list

[canley1]

You are talking nonsense you fool!!

The Eagles definetely ripped Tull off.

Tull were bigger than the Eagles in the 70's, cos the Eagles supported Tull (go figure).

Only put a comment up when you know what you are talking about.

P.S

I also like the Eagles!!

[ls1phsyco]

The Eagles are better, they have sold more albums that these guys look it up on wikipedia!!

[goodcorn]

yeah, i have to agree with the dude here. "i fucking hate the eagles!"

[ls1phsyco]

you shut the hell up!!

[marianopicco]

Dude Hotel California was inspired in this song

Like you said, look it up in Wikipedia.

Stfu.

[ls1phsyco]

no, that's is what morons like you say and think! there was no inspiration, don felder came up with the chord progression in a totally different key

[marianopicco]

LAALALALALLALAALALA "IM A CHILD AND DONT KNOW HOW TO SUPPORT MY CLAIMS LALALALA I CANT HEAR YOU, YOURE AN IDIOT, EAGLES RULE COS I LIKE THEM, EVERYONE MUST LIKE THEM, LALALAALALA I SHOULD GO BACK TO THE MENTAL INSTITUTION I RAN AWAY FROM"

Thats how you sound like.

[ls1phsyco]

I do?

[sking422]

Considering that the Eagles toured with Tull in the early 70's, when Tull was established and the Eagles were just getting started up, all you have to do is listen to this song to hear the Hotel California sound at the beginning. Oh, and by the way, Henley put the key on Hotel California, not Felder.

PS - I too am an Eagles fan.

[ls1phsyco]

felder put the E minor key, henley just moved it up to B minor to fit hit voice. I know that.

[canley1]

I bet he did!! He had to think about copyright infringement, after all!!

[rpdbluevideo]

is this Tangle wilde music shed 1970? if so it aint amateur.. Bill Graham had it filmed and many other bands too. using cheapo gear.. no less..

ryan

[Hunt4life]

Comparing the Eagles to Jethro Tull is like comparing tap water to fine wine.

What is wrong with you?!

[mingeral]

I totally agree! Why dont you go on to the We Used to Know website and argue your corner as a true Tull fan. Hotel California is a rip off. The Mingeral will support you 100%.

[grucul]

thanx a lot - martin barre forever!

[Pofazovics]

I know a Hungarian Teacher who said this song "We Used to Know" to be played (from CD of course) at his funeral.

[canley1]

TULLMONGOUS!!

[panzerson2]

cornick and bunker kick ass

[zonkov88]

near the bottom i mean

Barre kicks ass by the way

[zonkov88]

cant you cut out the shit on the bottom of the video?

[endogeorge]

Years waiting for this. I've seen Tull three times in concert and never played it. Will see them again next month hopefully I will see my very favorite Tull's song live.

Thanks for posting it.

[buchali]

So good. so together! GReat.

[wondertape]

thank you it was a pleasure watching this!

[cfslv123]

To the last 2 responses - It's great how much attention you pay to detail. I could only say I was not 'on the scene' in those days to know whether it was a fan's hand held video or a concert footage from a movie- I was maybe 8 yrs old at the time

[MikeInTheValley]

This was worth the wait to witness what we heard on our concept albums. To all the staid visionaries (or lack of) who were to selfish to have low cost film or video capture these gigs. In a land of lip sync flim flamming-this is precious, wrong notes and all!

[cymruisrael]

All 4 of them jam?? There are already 5 of them - John Evan is on keyboards.

[cfslv123]

OK My bad

[showtaper]

This is NOT an amateur video,this is 7/7/1970 Tanglewood.  Tull was the opening act for the Who. Bill Graham Productions was responsible for the concert and the video.

[cfslv123]

Thanks for the info- Would you know where I can get more of this concert of both Tull and the Who

[jordano45]

just run it up 2.50 mins 2 the start  kool vid #####

[jockymilne]

The essential Tull. Your'e right well worth the wait. Tull forever.

[hibernatus]

One of my favorites of the Tull!