songs from the wood Jethro Tull

[NickSayle]

and no MIDI involved!!!!!

[tokyopanda13]

This band IS my childhood. I thank my dad for introducing me to such great music.

[nachocassa]

justin bieber and the jonas saw this video

[audioman628]

Could never forget this song, 1977 at it's finest. Tull rocks forever

[Sterlin0]

i really truly love this song.

i bought it in vinil at the time, then on CD later...

Always great Ian Anderson&company

[Vraadrik]

I've heard a lot of traditional Irish & Scots music but Jethro Tull is the closest I've heard of traditional English music (in the modern context) and it's very good. It's a shame there aren't more bands around of this calibre and creativity.

[gonnabaroberts]

Awesome tune!! Best band from 70's!!

[srdool]

The Green Man is one of Gods creations for sure.Nice video.

[Laerlend]

I can't hear this song without either picturing Ian Anderson as Tom Bombadil or Tomb Bombadil as singing Jethro Tull songs. I can't help it. :P

[MwalshBaritone]

@Laerlend HAHAHAHAHA I COMPLETELY pictured Tom Bombadil differently, but I love that you know who that is and I also appreciate that view. Though it's not what naturally occurred to me, I could see it!

[EyMeng]

this is so complex

[superunt43]

@EyMeng Yes and we noticed HOW LONG AGO?

[EyMeng]

@superunt43 around 35 years ago

[superunt43]

@EyMeng So if you noticed 35 years hence?

[EyMeng]

@superunt43 then I am one cool guy but not as cool as Ian Anderson

[42belvedere]

A great song from a fantastic and ground-breaking album!

[hocus2011]

Muy buen trabajo de imagenes para un excelente tema de Jethro, gracias locooooo!!!!! que bueno que todavia queda gente que reconoce y admira y siente lo bueno, gracias a Dios!!!!!!!!!!!

[ephameracancrew]

I was born in 87 but have listening to and enjoying the wonderful sounds of jethro tull since 90... thanks to my mom .......keep listening they are wizards in the flesh ....

[kugunga]

galliards and lute songs served in chilling ale

[Revenantch]

reminds me of robin hood^^

[miriamele3]

Beautiful video! Complements one of my all-time favorite songs perfectly! Thanks for sharing this!

[blablaah7]

<3 <3 <3

[Throxl]

Great, first time i heard this song I was fazinated - it is 30 years ago. A long time I'didn't heard any song's of Jethro Tull - and now I found this music on you tube.

Hurrah

(excuse my bad english)

[timeship77]

Love this song! Songs From the Wood and War Child are my two favorite Tull albums!

[Gurkengraeber11]

Besser als gar nix !

[Pyllolla]

how wonderful this music is... how magic... JT are gifted by the gods...

[cthulula]

songs from the woods makes you feel much... thum thum... better :D

[TheDsmyth]

up the hippies, P.M. :)

[Gilnar13]

imagine Jethro Tull merging with Steeleye Span and/or Pentangle for this. Now that would be superband!

[dontleavehimfaceless]

watch?v=22R9FOv_lRI

[IYAMNI]

Good job on the video. Nice compliment to this classic.

[youmikkitube1]

Thank God for the musicians like Jethro Tull which I just found them today

on youtube. What a interesting and exciting arrangements of the music that they

create. Love'd the song, and all the lovely sounds they weave away.

All those years, I've forgotten to listen to the music, but it is so fine and very

fresh to my ears in a way, and to run into this band is so awsome♡♡♡♡♡

[first2nd2002]

my favorite song and album from JT

[612franklin]

thanks

[Querencias]

Well done -- great video for this classic Tull! Thanks.

[3ohs0unds]

Barrie Barlow was (is?) a master!

[IanAndersonROCKS]

Ian Anderson is the best person in earth,if chuck norris will mess with him he will end up as a flute.

[wzjpkp]

here you go....left alone and yet so pure..go ian,..

[Annie1844]

Well Done!  Nice touch putting in the Bauer Artwork <3

[MASAI97]

What a super song!

[officersheriff]

Only song with back up vocals???

[JOESD2300]

I saw this live with my girlfriend in 79'. After the concert she said, "There's a reason girls fall for a fast flute tounge."

[blarglesacks]

saw them at ravinia yesterday.front row!this song was so amazing live.easily the best concert ive ever been to

[miriamele3]

One of my favorite Tull songs off probably my favorite Tull album. This vid interprets the song beautifully. Thank you for sharing it!

[TheBuffaloChicken]

GREAT JOB!! THANX!!

[tecwolfen]

"Join the chorus if you can it'll make of you an honest man..." :3

[donald42dunkle]

t does not matter how or what religin you are when you hear this song you become more relaxed. and thats why this song along with outher songs of thers KICK ASS!!!!!!!!!!!

[ireneomcfunes]

I gave this a rating of 'poor' because of the recording level issue. It's completely un fucking listenable.

[ireneomcfunes]

Ok just what the fuck is going on with the recording levels going up and down in an incredibly stupid and annoying way in some of these youtube videos, eg this one? Someone has to know.

[sjplwc]

I don't know if I've ever seen any big name musician whose appearance changed more strikingly over the years of his career. Early Ian Anderson is nearly unrecognizable from the striking chap on the cover of "Songs/Wood". Looking at early Tull photos sometimes it takes me a minute to figure out which one is IA . Seems in every era he adopted a dramatically difft. physical personae.

[tango2romeo]

Oh, and re: Ian's appearance

I've seen some recent videos and photos of him - he seems to have aged VERY gracefully indeed. And he's cheeky as ever; I love his positive attitude. I think he'd be a very interesting guy to sit down and talk with over coffee or maybe whisky. Did you know that supposedly, Ian has never done drugs in his life, that he stayed completely clean even in the hippie years? Thumbs up to Ian for that, says I. Both he and John Lodge of the Moody Blues were drug free.

[sjplwc]

Yea, he's still a pretty cool looking guy. Actually, I find his very early "hippie" look to be rather unflattering for him. He's striking on cover of Songs/Wood - looks like a pirate. Re his rejection of drug use, I have heard that Tull actually didn't click with Led Zep when they toured with them because Ian and boys eschewed the wild drugs-n-partying lifestyle. If true, that's pretty impressive. Anyone confirm that report?

[theuglyhairmonster]

i would like to thank planet rock for allowing me to hear this amazing music

[BendyCowgirl]

Yay! Planet Rock rock!

[03045026878]

always extraordenary music.love it since i was 14years old,33years ago.

[SHOTGUNtime]

all i ahve to say is.....wow....

its weird at the start....and gets better. fuck jethro tull, take out the singing...ALL OF IT and it will sound fucking ridiculously good

[XxzxzczxMe]

hii could u please tell me where you got the picture of the face at 3.28 on the vid frm??iim drawing it for my art coursework and i kindof need to print it off hehe..

[longliveglamrock]

Print screen!

[AnaisTwoCrows]

Merry Beltaine, all! :)

[faunflynn]

Ah Robin Goodfellow's merry-be-gotts strike in the obliquity of the ecliptic once again !

Melissmas and all !

[SolitaryDruid57]

I love this Band...I love all of their music, but this one is special!! Thank you...

[pattylibraia]

@SolitaryDruid57 I completely agree, the same for me, nice vid!

[swampara]

Magical! Prelepo...

[bluesrockfan1]

excellent!!!!!!

[RosaeCrucis57]

Magnifico!

[ledzeplad]

very paganisitic great!!!

[sjplwc]

Paganistic? No, not really. Pagan philosophy has no corner on appreciation for nature. As a Christian, I see creation and all of its wonders as a product of the Creator, given by Him to men for our stewardship and use. I value nature as an expression of God, but I don't worship nature or esteem it the equal of man. Ian Anderson's feelings on this matter, admittedly, seem rather murky, but this song at least in no way needs to be taken as an ode to paganism.

[jakeytitch96]

I am very sorry but you are 100% wrong. Look at jethro tulls back catalogue and tell me that they aren't  pagan orientated. Then get yourself a dictionary and look up the word "pagan".

I think the only murkiness in this episode is your good self.

[sjplwc]

With respect, quite familiar with Tull's body of work. No doubt IA/Tull frequently celebrate celtic/naturalistic themes, and "Songs" contains some pieces that address pagan ideas - however, other Tull offerings nod at more conventional religious ideals -- for instance the Xmas album surpsingly honors some trad. Xmas ideals. Oddly, some of Aqualung's anti-religion notes still promote Xtian ideals (vs. institutional relig). IA says he embraces an eclectic blend of var. streams, incl. Christian.

[tango2romeo]

sjplwc: yes, Ian seems to be a fairly open minded man, not really having a problem with any divine figures at all. Since he's a Scot (born in Scotland, remember), it seems he doesn't have the American tendency to hyperemotional evangelical Christianity, that screams about the flesh and material existence being evil and corrupt, etc; I'm going to guess he grew up Church of England, which is more Catholic and teaches that flesh is good. After all, Jesus took on a human body too...

[tango2romeo]

Ian wrote this for a concert programme (St Brides Church, Fleet Street, London, where the Curate, the Rev. George Pitcher, had invited Ian to do a Christmas concert for local London Charity, St Mungos, in aid of the homeless of that great and sprawling city)

"I'm afraid I'm still as jaundiced and sceptical of some aspects of organised religion as I ever was."

(continued....)

[tango2romeo]

Ian went on to say: "But, I am, I fancy, a rather spiritual person who is proud to have grown up and been morally educated in a country historically Christian in terms of predominant national faith."

(continued...)

[tango2romeo]

Ian concluded: "In essence, I am somewhere between Deist and Pantheist (Google those terms in case you think this makes me heathen or worse) but feel no sharp practical divide or contradiction between my broad views and the main tenets of Christianity. So I'm always more than happy to perform in a church, or any place of worship if that place is happy to have me."

This is on his website.

[sjplwc]

Thanks for that info tango2romeo; I had never read that b/4. He makes roughly corresponding, but less specific, comments on the intro to Tull's Christmas album: sympathetic to much of the Christian faith, not a fan of many aspects of its "organized" expression. As a historic, conserv. Xstian myself, I've often had trouble with some of Tull's lyrical content --some not all of it -- but have also long stood amazed by their musical product. First time I heard "Songs/Wood' I was stunned. (cont'd)

[sjplwc]

(cont'd) BTW, tanto2romeo, pleased to see I'm not only one who sometimes posts in multiple parts. Anyway, like some other non-traditional thinkers before him (Thom. Jefferson, for inst.), Ian A. seems to hold a respect for Jesus (refers to him affectionately as "Mr. C" on Christmas Album (a moniker, along with "The Man Upstairs", which I really hate, but at least shows a degree of regard for the God I worship) while challenging "religion" or "clericalism". I don't totally disagree with that!

[BendyCowgirl]

As a Pagan I am afraid I must point out your misunderstanding...paganism is an earth based religion and based on an appreication (not worhsip) of nature. Early xians adopted these values.

[sjplwc]

Thanks for input, BendyC. I realize most pagans don't literally worship trees, rivers, etc. I suppose I'm speaking more metaphorically -- many folks, incl. some enviromentalists, treat "nature" with a reverance bordering on worship. As a Christian, I agree we must respect (I would use the phrase "responsibly steward") the natural world, ie, treat it as a gift from the Creator. I make a sharp distinction between "created" and "Creator". I must respect the former; I worship the latter. Thnx again.

[gilcarj]

Simply put: Ian Anderson, master performer and most important composer of the 20th century (in the "West"). And his old accomplice Martin Barre (with the other musicians, of course) was never too far away... This body of musical work and cultural achievement is unparalleled. Thank you for everything for all these years, "Man of the Woods".

[lepoleonic]

Hi mate, great song! Love Tull! This maybe a daft question (giving the vast possibilities but I think I recognise that first scene. Is it on the West Highland Way in Scotland? Cheers Lee

[headschlong]

Beautiful.

[doolandartt]

I named my son Ian after Ian Anderson. Really creative video!

[nomisairsoft]

thanks, Ian is a good name

[1400deadwood]

@nomisairsoft - Yes it is!

[brianpage100]

@doolandartt LOL My dad almost named me Ian. Jethro Tull is his favorite band.

[scrumpyjack234]

Awesome song, awesome album. Love the bit when it oomphs up and the heavy flute kicks in towards the end

[nomisairsoft]

i cant think of anyone like Ian Anderson

[blulotus16]

@scrumpyjack234 ay I agree scrumpyjack!

[Aqualung71]

Cool Video.