Blodwyn Pig - Dear Jill

[3117ss]

Thanks...I haven't heard this in decades...still holds up...whatever happened to BP?

[plastiqueadapte]

Sooooo good !

[okicuru12]

been looking for this for years (didn't know the name or band)

thanks for the upload.

[PepperoniWolf]

I dig Anderson and Tull - AND I DIG THIS!

[chalkdust]

sick, sick music.

[spilopbob]

@chalkdust Thank you man...

[hwy163]

Jeez, and I thought it was spelled Pyg. Why no tutorial on this song? The brilliant chords of the slide guitar knock me down back in 1968 when I heard it on KMPX San Francisco. Great song to listen to when your mate dumps you and you need to cry your eyes out.

[spilopbob]

@hwy163 Thank you very much, I think you're right about the tears.. :-)

[cinderconk]

7-string bottleneck

[cinderconk]

7-string bottleneck

[marmas58ink]

Never heard this before... reminds me of some old Dave Mason

[timminananda]

I got this played on the Blues program on KLON here in Long Beach some years ago. Thanks, Gary Wagner !!

[pkwwoman]

I LOVE THIS SONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[talisman53]

Under Loved guitar player  over looked too real brit Blooze

[flamencoprof]

Ha ha, just got it after forty years. Dear Jill = Dear John letter. I feel so dumb!

A classic, thanks for posting!

[davebritainsong]

Couldnt agree more. When you listen to BP playing 'Same Old Story' you suddenly realise whos band Jethro Tull was up to the point of Mick leaving. This track is the blues track to end them all. Get better and get back on the road Mick!!

[mattsta1964]

This Was always was my favourite Tull album because of Mick's guitar style and the jazz/blues flavour.

[bassandguitarguy]

Great blues! I played Drive Me in my 1st band 1973. If you were a Tull fan from the start, like me, and picked up the 2 BPig LP's when they came out, hopefully yougot the 2 Wild Turkey LP's when bassist Glen Cornick left Tull(or was fired by Anderson)

So give Ian partial credit for these 4 Lp's! Ha!

[theseventhprotocol]

Mick Abrams was great on the first Tull album, ,but he got even better with BP without Ian Anderson trying to be top dog.

[spilopbob]

At least he's a better bluesmusician :-)

I did not know about the top dog thing, but you're probably right, there's almost always a leader, like in everything else..

Thanks for sharing your little story.

Per Bjarne.

[timminananda]

@spilopbob

actually, that pretty much covers it.

Anderson wanted to go beyond the bluesy thing and Abrahams got the door.

[DarkeningSkies1]

@theseventhprotocol And actually, I think that early Tull stuff would have been better had Ian & Mick took turns "being the leader", and the material would have been more diverse. Mick probably would have got sick of Ian's "proggier" concepts by the time "Aqualung" rolled 'round anyway and quit. Anyway, great track. Lancaster is aces on sax as well.

[spacepatrolman]

@theseventhprotocol anderson actually started on sax but he seemed to abandon that for flute jack lancaster playdr 2 saxes at once and flute like roland kirk andersons influence when blodwyn pig played fillmore east they sounded so tight and professional they must have been rehersing 20 hours a day a writer named richard kostelanetz gave them a bad review but admitted he never went to the concert?

[bwanna23]

any san francisco sketches? that would be the trip.

[55guitardave]

OH YEA!!!

I remember listening fondly to this whole album back in the 70s and when I found this track I was hoping "sketches" would be here too.

Thanks for this though. Love it!

[spilopbob]

i Dave.

Thank you back again, glad you liked it..

Take care and have a Happy Christmas..

Per Bjarne.

[songcollector07]

fugging awesome song ! gave me an eargasm in each ear ! heard it for the first time on sirius blues . . . thank God for sirius radio . . .

[sleekburnslim]

I love this pig track, great slide man

[welten17]

Powerful blues and vocals. A CLASSIC.

[jeffthrow6892]

Excellent, as is everything this band did!

[frauleota]

sweet!

[unconsciouspilot]

oh so excellent

[ddr78759]

Heard this in the backround of the movie "Almost Famous" and looked it up on Youtube and to my surprise found it. Mick Abrams from Jethro Tull and the band.Thanks to youtube I got it again!

[vanu49]

Havent heard this track for ages, 'coz I lost my vinyl copy somewhere

on the road. It still sounds as beautiful as when it did in the late 60's.

Tks.

Peace!

[sfdog1369]

Screamin BP Didnt Have A Track That Wasnt Good Peace!!!

[spilopbob]

You're absolutely right about that & and global peace thanks!!

[eagyl]

yep.

[elfin7]

I saw these guys at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in '69 or '70 and they were just awesome.

[pigboycooter]

Me too. I saw them play this song and I swear time stood stll. I owned a record store at 2nd and Broadway back then called Mother's Records. I later moved it to 6th and Wilshire...Fun Times.

[acstrick]

mick abrahms was tulls guitar player

before forming blodwyn pig he was

replaced by martin barre

[spacepatrolman]

Mick had a group called this was  [ named after the first tull lp ]but ian anderson put a damper on that legaly .

[spilopbob]

Well even god is an asshole sometimes or..

But I did'nt know that, but they are still good friends I think :-)

[spacepatrolman]

I relate songs to people and places my friends brother had a membership [ they called it a key ] to the playboy club we went to the one in new york they had nothing but lounge acts [ kai winding was the musical director of the playboy club but he wasnt there] so we went to the fillmore east and blodwyn pig was performing it was great [ a writer named richard kostalanetz wrote a review of the concert in the newspaper he said it wasnt good but he wasnt there .

[spacepatrolman]

How can you write a review of a concert you didnt attend ?

[spilopbob]

Yeah... A lot of strange sh*t happens in this world now a days, does'n it?

[jimmymcmenamin]

ArgotMay I understand. Muirfield about a couple miles from Sunset . This is the blues and it lasts a long time. It doesn't get better than this.

[ArgotMay]

Many a night with BP in my Hollywood bungalow, Mary smoldering amongst the fumes... 25 a friend to my Self... Sorry Jill... bad stuff happened to me. Namaste.

[sorceryrockband]

After a recording session in Hollywood Ca. my buddy Jimmy Gordon and I went to see them at the Whiskey. I became an instant fan.

Perry Morris/Drummer

[spilopbob]

Sorry I have never been able to se them live.. It was a long way to the states at that time for me, I'm from DK

[MetrologyMan]

Finally someone who understands how to download a clean audio copy!

Favorite tune! Great job!!

[spilopbob]

Thank you Metrology Man.. I simply love this song too much.. It's blues at it's best..