Jethro Tull - My Sunday Feeling Live

[BESTSTRINGSLINGER]

...this is the Jethro Tull I saw at Newport in 69'...what's all this crap talkin' about M.Bolton...this is a period of time you obviously didn't live through...so much new music and experimentation in this era...not too much today shaking the planet...did a show with Bolton before he was Bolton...his attitude didn't endear me to him...

[EKJunction]

Only Tori & Hendrix have more borderline schizoids in their fan base.His schtick -the" Mad flutist / dodgy raconteur / court jester " bit is akin to something out of a Renaissance Fair gift shop.It might have started as a means to conceal his stage fright but then became the center of the performance.That reminds me even Steve Martin stepped away quietly & quickly from "the JerK' to earn the respect of peers.In retrospect ,can't believe I wasted my time to see Tull on 4 album tours.

[pyannaguy]

So great to hear real, inspired, skilled musicians laying it down, solid, crossing genre lines and transcending labels. I saw these guys at Laurel Raceway in Maryland, close to FORTY years ago, and I walked away inspired and amazed. It's all reawakened just watching this. Thanks for posting it!

I swore I'd never be an old fart who badmouths most of current pop, but, Come on - who's the 2010 counterpart to Tull, for example? Yikes! What a grand era. Glad I lived through it. Thanks, again!

[theseventhprotocol]

Mick and Clive made Tull so good ! To bad Mick couldn't get Clive to join Bloodwyn Pig !

[klopsgrinder]

Wow, that rocked!

[FISHMUSIC4U]

Bolton is "supposed" to be clean sounding, polished ALL the freaken time: he's a pop singer - made for mass distribution. He's hardly an artist unlike Ian Anderson, Hendrix, countless others..

[EKJunction]

@FISHMUSIC4U They are ALL products .Look no further than Col.Tom. Parker ,Brian Epstein or Jackson Sr.Michael Bolton can actually sing -though don't like his choice of material .Hendrix was an ex car thief & insecure show off with a can of Ronson fluid to obscure his theft of Wes Montgomery's phrasing - plus your misplaced guilt as the price of admission. Like Islam -Jimi's style has not exactly evolved over the span of too many years :) Put your shanks up yo mommas a-hole

[TheClacks]

One of the best and most unique bands of all time!

[pablitowsph]

PERFEITO!!

[intellexx]

What the hell was he doing at 2:09

Sounded like Giggidy Giggidy Giggdy Goo

[soleploce]

JUPI iiiiiiiii!!!

iiiiizz in my head

[ryanpmorrissey]

I wish Jethro Tull would have kept making music of this style instead of making albums like Under Wraps, Crest of a Knave, etc.--I think they were at their best with This Was, Stand Up, Benefit, Aqualung, and Thick as a Brick

[RitchieBrinckmore]

Yeah, the eighties ruined music.

[juicerino]

@RitchieBrinckmore there is a wealth of great 80's music. it's just that almost none of it comes from bands who reached their prime in the early to mid seventies. some bands made the transition into the new decade well, but still only had a few standout moments, where their past albums had been through and through successes. Genesis, Rush and Yes are nice example of such, although i think they each fell off towards the mid to late eighties.

look at the great albums of 1980 if have you some time

[rpsmith014]

@juicerino I love that early 80's prog rock. King Crimson, Genesis, Yes, though I'm not too big on Rush, that's just me.

[JuilliardReject]

Darn right. Why did Glenn Cornick bail anyway, did Ian boot him out of the band? WarChild,TOTROCKNROLL, etc. just pure dreck as far as I'm concerned. First five albums were the best.

[curiousnomad]

I agree with ryanpmorrissey- this band and Ian's songs from this period were amazing!

[HerbDangerous]

Tull has got to be one of the best rehearsed bands ever, cuz what you hear coming out of the studio on a record is pretty much what you hear at a "live" performance.

Not so with many another so called "great" band. What we hear coming out of the studio on records isn't always what we get "live".

Hendrix is a case in point. His performance at Isle of Wight was lack luster. He forgot the words to All Along The Watchtower.

[Coldacre]

that's a flawed argument for what makes a band 'great'. by your logic Michael Bolton is the greatest singer ever because his live shows sound exactly like the record. sure Hendrix was poor at the Isle Of Wight. he was strung out on heroin and died not long after. but at his peak, his improvisation and daring live performances (that sounded completely different to the records) were what made him the most exciting live performer of his era.

[aussieangie]

WICKED !!

[Flunder]

the music world is drowning for this stuff.

tell your dj.

[maik0lai0n]

a homeless talent, rock out da house!

[DontLickLarry]

Ah man,my youth, my youth!

[qriskybusinessg]

acid jazz!

[sbatto0]

SCUSATEMI MA SPACCANO IL CULO

[vaughanudall]

Oh Ian thoose long lost days. Saw u Isle of White and many other places. This guy does not suck 'he blows' and how!!!!

[16penney]

I like this Tull line up best. Powerfull jazz blues sound. I wish there was an old live clip of their song "cats squirrel".

[dougalmac54]

Amen to that, bother! Clive Bunker is sooooo tasty, is he not?

[inkal]

This rocks, love this song for a long time now ...

[Flunder]

I love that bass too. great licks and tone on that big Gibson Thunderbird.

[toecutterr6]

Vintage HIWATT amps too! I wonder if he's using any pedals?

[FermentedFunk]

i agree with u it is a cool scat,

[Flunder]

at 2:10? thats a cool scat thing

[Flunder]

I keep coming back to this because its so damn good.

[mikeruy]

music's great, leg kicks... even better

[acill71]

ian anderson if you read this have you been to port fairy folk festival in australia

[eli4exe]

it's a great song... jethro tull is simply amazing... for me this song deserves to be in a very high place of the rock history!! live legends!

[curien1000]

Thanks so much for sharing this with us. That whole festival had great stuff - and Tull was awesome! I love this song (isn't "My Sunday Feeling" about a hangover or am I spreading a myth?). Anyway Ian Anderson & Martin Barre (and the rest of Jethro Tull) are among my favorites of all time. Thanks for posting!

[metalschemist]

great video. too bad the camera operator didn't focus on martin's left hand.

[groovebassist]

Great band . This is one of my favorite live performances ive seen of any band. They used to have the whole show on here , its a shame they arent on here anymore.

[albertoegoavil]

clive bunker..........a great drummer,I love the first line up with glenn cornick and mick abrahams (also the powerful voice of Ian)they re jazz musicians.

[fluffsrevenge]

Clive Bunker... one of the best! Such a distinct soundstyle that's long gone in these days of dead muffled toms.

[jockymilne]

thank you for posting this. tull live was something to behold and seeing this brings back great memories. in the immortal words too old to rock and roll and too young to die. tull forever.

[curien1000]

Amen. There is so little footage from this period out there too. They got a little limp going into the eighties and all through the nineties. They will always be a great band though.

[ricmkover]

Ian never had a flute lesson!