The story behind the title of this album is that it was mistakenly released by the record company as Jethro Tow or Toe. The album was rereleased and titled This Was. JETHRO TULL.
@tjrxk7 It ,makes perfect sense actually, he knew the band would change (i mean look at stand up) from the beginning, so "this was" jethro tull. Not really irony, he planned it.
@meowandmeow Yes I agree. I have every Tull album from 'This Was' to 'Rock Island' {after which time I had to devote much too much time away from musical enjoyments with things like career and marriage...lol} but I would suggest we also look the album cover itself. Could Ian perhaps as he so often does, be using a play on words? Not unlike the "Too Old to Rock n Roll..." album cover . Here we see all of Tull dressed up as old men,then the title 'This Was' may be sort of a parady on words.
i first heard this in about 81 on some obscure radio station and was intrigued, you wouldn,t hear it played now on any station anywhere. anyway always loved and always will love tull.
I was in a Record store in Anchorage Alaska in 1981.... I found original printings of This Was...Stand Up...and Pink Floyd's original Piper at the Gates of Dawn..printed in Holland 1966................... SCORRREEE........
"and the mind-boggling flute solos" . . . what is even more mind boggling is that in an interview Ian claims that he did not start playing the flute until 2 months before this album was recorded. WOW!
First heard and purchased this album in a store called "The Magic Mushroom" on the corner of Pacific Coast Highway and Main Street in Huntington Beach Calif. - Good Times.
@dustydawg42 FOUND THIS GEM AT ROLLING STONE RECORDS ON IRVING PARK AND HARLEM IN CHICAGO BURBS, GREAT STORE, GREAT PRICES BACK THEN AND EVEN NOW, ALSO MANY AN ARTIST HAS COME THERE FOR ALBUM SIGNINGS, INCLUDING GEDDY LEE OF RUSH, ROBIN TROWER, JUST TO NAME A COUPLE
@dustydawg42On a bleak night not long after Cream's demise in late 68 , heard this material by Tull plus the first recordings of Zep on a FM station's bootleg/ emerging artist's show and thought well now - life goes on ... think there must have been MM's popping up :) just about anywhere -there was even one in Manitou Springs ,Co. in 72-73.
I have not heard this for ages and t brings a lot of good times back to me and I think this is a brilliant song from a brilliant album. Long live the tull.
@paulwall1981 i know exactly how you feel, though tull is my fav band tis been a while since i last heard em... with the care they need to. listening to this song brings complete happiness to me :)
@claramacdowell. I feel the same way my friend. If pepole today took the time to listen to this music and not that stuff they call music, then they would be more happier in the lives. Thanks for agreeing with me,it really means a lot.
@paulwall1981 so glad i grew up in the sixties and seventies, i was 15 when this album came out, and didn't get to it til 71 whn i first heard Aqualung, then went back for the earlier Tull albums and have been a fan ever since
@BLUESMANRONCHICAGO - I echo your sentiments. I was 14 that year, and understood this music so well by that time. As someone commented under a live Tull video on here, "If you are not down with Tull, you need your ass kicked". Too many of my contemporaries think that they started with "Aqualung" - the same people who think the Who started with "Tommy". They were never schooled properly on British rock.
I got this album from one of my students when I was teaching at a secondary school for music. :D I immediately chose this song as my favourite one. I usually listen to goth and metal, but I do like this song a lot!
This is my favorite Jethro Tull song. I really like the dark tone of the song, combined with the guitar rift in the background and the mind-boggling flute solos in the end. I am surpised this tune did not get as much radio play as some of Tull's other songs.
Ian anderson met roland kirk at the newport jazz festival in 1969 after being influenced by him for years ,the last ed sullivan show had roland kirk [ the ed sullivan show was replaced by cades county with music by henry mancini ] .Dick gregory wrote an article about the ed sullivan show saying it was this fantastic thing that people who couldnt afford to see a musical could see one .
The funny thing is you responded to me. You can stop anytime yet you continue to make yourself look like an ass. Is it true Patience is a big a whore as everyone says she is?
You are a real card. No I'm not going to give up that easily, I can do this all day. I'm game. The only ass here is you, you aren't even a fan of the music therefor you don't really have a right to be saying shit about a band you know nothing about.
Yeah, you're right, I'm not allowed to have an opinion. I can recite fact though and fact is "Tull" licks monkey anus.
Speaking of that, I'd love to hang around all day as well but I can hear your mom calling me from the next room. She lost another tampon in that rancid vagina of hers. Oh well, be back soon!
Well YOU'RE opinion don't mean anything. The fact is that you are a vulgar and immature little twit that will get his ass kicked someday if he don't watch his mouth around the wrong people.
If you rubbed the dumb out of your eyes and looked more closely you'd see my comment was a response to another youtube poster, not "Tull". Although I'm sure Tull is a douche as well.
It don't matter, I didn't see any comment out of line on here until I read yours. So just shut up and go watch some other dumb ass video if you don't like Tull.
Taking my insult and turning around on me. How clever! You truly are a master of the insult. I mean I know how much effort it would take to actually come up with something original but instead you just rehash my insult. Brilliant! Are all "Tull" fans so lame and unoriginal?
Stop Being So Negative Be More Positive Like The Care Bears Fag Is A Bad Word You Should Said Men That Like The Same Sex This Is PositiveCrow Here Have A Super D Duper
Awesome, now Aqualung has his friends joining in. Glad you men that like the same sex could stop blowing each other for five minutes to type a response!
The story behind the title of this album is that it was mistakenly released by the record company as Jethro Tow or Toe. The album was rereleased and titled This Was. JETHRO TULL.
davidratcliffe1 1 week ago
tulls best lp with mick abrahams,just my opinion!
yellowsil 2 weeks ago
Long live Tull, indeed
robin56 2 weeks ago
My favorite Tull track! That Bass tone!!
toecutterr6 1 month ago
probably my favorite Tull track!
jimi99colorado 4 months ago
Amo esse grupo, amo esse som, esse jeito de tocar rock.
McClaudioMacau 7 months ago
Metallica ripped off the riff from Enter Sandman from beggars farm
1953django 10 months ago 4
How ironic Ian Anderson would name Tulls' very first album "This Was".
tjrxk7 10 months ago
@tjrxk7 It ,makes perfect sense actually, he knew the band would change (i mean look at stand up) from the beginning, so "this was" jethro tull. Not really irony, he planned it.
meowandmeow 1 month ago
@meowandmeow Yes I agree. I have every Tull album from 'This Was' to 'Rock Island' {after which time I had to devote much too much time away from musical enjoyments with things like career and marriage...lol} but I would suggest we also look the album cover itself. Could Ian perhaps as he so often does, be using a play on words? Not unlike the "Too Old to Rock n Roll..." album cover . Here we see all of Tull dressed up as old men,then the title 'This Was' may be sort of a parady on words.
tjrxk7 1 month ago
Absolutely brilliant number; but I hate how they've changed the album cover for the CD release. I'm so happy with my old LP.
jannyrcobs 11 months ago 2
i first heard this in about 81 on some obscure radio station and was intrigued, you wouldn,t hear it played now on any station anywhere. anyway always loved and always will love tull.
jonnyb69able 1 year ago
Tull is pro changing the notes and riffs in middle of song adding their skilful abilities.
MrDodstink 1 year ago
I was in a Record store in Anchorage Alaska in 1981.... I found original printings of This Was...Stand Up...and Pink Floyd's original Piper at the Gates of Dawn..printed in Holland 1966................... SCORRREEE........
WrathchildNH 1 year ago
@WrathchildNH: Hows that possible since those albums didn't come out till a year or two later?
WhatFuckingUsernameI 1 year ago
the music was so fucking good back then thanx for this gem ..
wolfgar50 1 year ago
Sounds as fresh now as it did the first time i heard it (oh my its 42 or 43 years ago) Great sound quality. Glad people still think its cool.
quicktothe4 1 year ago
Great song and great Jethro Tull!!!
Mihon54 1 year ago
This can be heard playing in the background over the PA in the film of Woodstock
kkkaldav 1 year ago
Great song from a great band thnx for the upload!
19pilota 1 year ago
TULL AND HENDRIX
acapulcopaul 2 years ago
"and the mind-boggling flute solos" . . . what is even more mind boggling is that in an interview Ian claims that he did not start playing the flute until 2 months before this album was recorded. WOW!
jscbloom 2 years ago
First heard and purchased this album in a store called "The Magic Mushroom" on the corner of Pacific Coast Highway and Main Street in Huntington Beach Calif. - Good Times.
dustydawg42 2 years ago 3
@dustydawg42 FOUND THIS GEM AT ROLLING STONE RECORDS ON IRVING PARK AND HARLEM IN CHICAGO BURBS, GREAT STORE, GREAT PRICES BACK THEN AND EVEN NOW, ALSO MANY AN ARTIST HAS COME THERE FOR ALBUM SIGNINGS, INCLUDING GEDDY LEE OF RUSH, ROBIN TROWER, JUST TO NAME A COUPLE
BLUESMANRONCHICAGO 1 year ago
@dustydawg42On a bleak night not long after Cream's demise in late 68 , heard this material by Tull plus the first recordings of Zep on a FM station's bootleg/ emerging artist's show and thought well now - life goes on ... think there must have been MM's popping up :) just about anywhere -there was even one in Manitou Springs ,Co. in 72-73.
TumbrelJockey 1 year ago
best song on their best lp
treeelizard 2 years ago 2
best tull album... and theyre all fine
treeelizard 2 years ago 2
Agreed. A 40+ year classic beauty by Tull. Thanks Kerakao.
Querencias 2 years ago
I have not heard this for ages and t brings a lot of good times back to me and I think this is a brilliant song from a brilliant album. Long live the tull.
paulwall1981 2 years ago 16
@paulwall1981 i know exactly how you feel, though tull is my fav band tis been a while since i last heard em... with the care they need to. listening to this song brings complete happiness to me :)
claramacdowell 1 year ago
@claramacdowell. I feel the same way my friend. If pepole today took the time to listen to this music and not that stuff they call music, then they would be more happier in the lives. Thanks for agreeing with me,it really means a lot.
paulwall1981 1 year ago 2
@paulwall1981 so glad i grew up in the sixties and seventies, i was 15 when this album came out, and didn't get to it til 71 whn i first heard Aqualung, then went back for the earlier Tull albums and have been a fan ever since
BLUESMANRONCHICAGO 9 months ago 3
@BLUESMANRONCHICAGO - I echo your sentiments. I was 14 that year, and understood this music so well by that time. As someone commented under a live Tull video on here, "If you are not down with Tull, you need your ass kicked". Too many of my contemporaries think that they started with "Aqualung" - the same people who think the Who started with "Tommy". They were never schooled properly on British rock.
harriet1954 8 months ago
Great song.
toecutterr6 3 years ago 8
I got this album from one of my students when I was teaching at a secondary school for music. :D I immediately chose this song as my favourite one. I usually listen to goth and metal, but I do like this song a lot!
mircalla666 3 years ago 2
This is my favorite Jethro Tull song. I really like the dark tone of the song, combined with the guitar rift in the background and the mind-boggling flute solos in the end. I am surpised this tune did not get as much radio play as some of Tull's other songs.
wmitchell87 3 years ago
Ian anderson met roland kirk at the newport jazz festival in 1969 after being influenced by him for years ,the last ed sullivan show had roland kirk [ the ed sullivan show was replaced by cades county with music by henry mancini ] .Dick gregory wrote an article about the ed sullivan show saying it was this fantastic thing that people who couldnt afford to see a musical could see one .
spacepatrolman 2 years ago
Tull hit the ground running and got better!
40 years later still sounds good to me---
maida1982a 3 years ago
could you guys stop biting each other?
i will disable comments if you guys don't stop.
go argue somewhere else, not here.
KERAKAO 3 years ago 4
To be fair, he replied to me, not the other way around. He can end it anytime.
DesKraven 3 years ago
To be fair your an idiot. Plus you keep dissing the band and started the negative comments to begin with, I was just putting you in your place.
Aqualung71 3 years ago
That's "you're" not your smart guy. What a fucking moron! Then again, not surprising from a "Tull" freak.
DesKraven 3 years ago
Oh man will you just shut up? What are you trying to prove? That YOU'RE an asshole? I think I already got that message, so you can stop now.
Aqualung71 3 years ago
The funny thing is you responded to me. You can stop anytime yet you continue to make yourself look like an ass. Is it true Patience is a big a whore as everyone says she is?
DesKraven 3 years ago
You are a real card. No I'm not going to give up that easily, I can do this all day. I'm game. The only ass here is you, you aren't even a fan of the music therefor you don't really have a right to be saying shit about a band you know nothing about.
Aqualung71 3 years ago
Yeah, you're right, I'm not allowed to have an opinion. I can recite fact though and fact is "Tull" licks monkey anus.
Speaking of that, I'd love to hang around all day as well but I can hear your mom calling me from the next room. She lost another tampon in that rancid vagina of hers. Oh well, be back soon!
DesKraven 3 years ago
Well YOU'RE opinion don't mean anything. The fact is that you are a vulgar and immature little twit that will get his ass kicked someday if he don't watch his mouth around the wrong people.
Aqualung71 3 years ago
I know, were talking fact now and fact is tull sucks ass! Not like your mom sucks ass though. She's a real pro!
DesKraven 3 years ago
Thats not fact, its only altercation from your sick mind. Get help, now.
Aqualung71 3 years ago
I've already told you, your mom gives me plenty of help!
DesKraven 3 years ago
RIGHT....
Aqualung71 3 years ago
Pussying out already? Figures.
DesKraven 3 years ago
Nope. I am getting bored of bickering with you about nothing though.
Aqualung71 3 years ago
Your choice douchemonger.
DesKraven 3 years ago
lol, whats that your nickname?
Aqualung71 3 years ago
Again using my own insults against me. You have no thought process do you?
DesKraven 3 years ago
Well its really not worth the effort with you. Its simple, your insults are so lame they can bounce against you.
Aqualung71 3 years ago
Haha, it's not worth the effort yet you continue to reply to my every word? Just keep telling yourself you're not in love with me. Denial is good.
DesKraven 3 years ago
No I just reply becuase I have nothing better to do. I am sorry, but I am not a fag like you.
Aqualung71 3 years ago
So you admit you're a loser? Hahahaha, awesome!
DesKraven 3 years ago
I never said I was I loser, its just boredom. So why don't you keep replying then? Because your loser?
Aqualung71 3 years ago
"Because your loser"
...
Wow.
Did you mean to say "Because you're a loser?"
Are all Tull fans so uneducated?
DesKraven 3 years ago
Again, what are you? The professor of scumbagism?
Aqualung71 3 years ago
Nope, just the raper of your mother. Good stuff.
DesKraven 3 years ago
You rape your mom and think its good?
Aqualung71 3 years ago
I rape your mom till the blood flows. SOmetimes we listen to tull while I go at it!
DesKraven 3 years ago
Can you die please?
Aqualung71 3 years ago
If your moms vagina gets any bigger we'll all be dead!
DesKraven 3 years ago
If it kills you then good, bless your mom's vagina!
Aqualung71 3 years ago
Your moms giant vagina?
DesKraven 3 years ago
No, your thick skull.
Aqualung71 3 years ago
Your moms giant bloody vagina?
DesKraven 3 years ago
Stop telling me about your mothers private parts, its very disturbing.
Aqualung71 3 years ago
Stop telling you about your moms giant bloody vagina? Why?
DesKraven 3 years ago
Can you do me a tremendous favor?
Aqualung71 3 years ago
Stop raping your mom?
DesKraven 3 years ago
No, actually it was can you shut the fuck up?
Aqualung71 3 years ago
Nope, I can't stop raping your mom.
DesKraven 3 years ago
Yes you can stop raping your mom, it takes will power son.
Aqualung71 3 years ago
Why would I want to stop raping your mom?
DesKraven 3 years ago
No, you can keep on doing that to your mom, just shut the fuck up about it please.
Aqualung71 3 years ago
Why don't you want to hear about me raping your mom?
DesKraven 3 years ago
If you would just kill yourself that would be fantastic.
Aqualung71 3 years ago
You want to to rape your mom even more? Ok, if you say so!
DesKraven 3 years ago
Can you stop whining about your sick and warped personal life? That would be nice if you would.
Aqualung71 3 years ago
You don't like hearing about your mom getting raped?
DesKraven 3 years ago
No, I don't like hearing about you raping your mother.
Aqualung71 3 years ago
?But your mom loves it, why can't you?
DesKraven 3 years ago
Your mom loves it? Well then she is sicker then I thought.
Aqualung71 3 years ago
That's no way to talk about your mom!
DesKraven 3 years ago
Sorry, but I thought your mother liked to be talked to that way.
Aqualung71 3 years ago
Yes your mom loves rape, that's not in question.
DesKraven 3 years ago
Whats that? You liked to be raped? Hmm, maybe you should see someone about that.
Aqualung71 3 years ago
I already see your mom for my rape fill, you know that.
DesKraven 3 years ago
Why do rapist and perverts use youtube?
Aqualung71 3 years ago
You tell me.
DesKraven 3 years ago
I don't know, I am not one of them.
Aqualung71 3 years ago
You're saying to don't want to join me in raping your mom?
DesKraven 3 years ago
No, I'm saying shut UP. You ignorant chickenshit. Thats what I'm saying.
Aqualung71 3 years ago
So you do like hearing about me rape your mom?
DesKraven 3 years ago
Actually no it got old fast.
Aqualung71 3 years ago
Your mom got old fast.
DesKraven 3 years ago
That joke got old the first time you told it.
Aqualung71 3 years ago
Your mom got old the first time she told it.
DesKraven 3 years ago
You are still using the same joke, it wasn't funny the first time and isn't now.
Aqualung71 3 years ago
Your mom isn't funny now.
DesKraven 3 years ago
Well you never were funny to begin with.
Aqualung71 3 years ago
You mom was never funny to begin with.
DesKraven 3 years ago
Neither were you.
Aqualung71 3 years ago
Neither was your mom.
DesKraven 3 years ago
Yeah....
Aqualung71 3 years ago
Yep.
DesKraven 3 years ago
Yeah.
Aqualung71 3 years ago
Yep.
DesKraven 3 years ago 2
Right.
Aqualung71 3 years ago 2
Yep.
DesKraven 3 years ago 2
This comment has received too many negative votes show
DesKraven is ass poundingly gay.
Geministics 2 years ago
This guy keeps on dissing the band man, if anything you should disable his comments. I was just trying to put him in his place.
Aqualung71 3 years ago
Holy shit talk about FAG!
DesKraven 3 years ago
Your a fag, shut up idiot.
Aqualung71 3 years ago
Yeah... that's "you're" not "your" smart guy.
DesKraven 3 years ago
Like i care asshole. Where do you get off saying that about Tull?
Aqualung71 3 years ago
If you rubbed the dumb out of your eyes and looked more closely you'd see my comment was a response to another youtube poster, not "Tull". Although I'm sure Tull is a douche as well.
DesKraven 3 years ago
It don't matter, I didn't see any comment out of line on here until I read yours. So just shut up and go watch some other dumb ass video if you don't like Tull.
Aqualung71 3 years ago
Nah I think I'll stay here and rag on "Tull". Tull's a cockmonger.
DesKraven 3 years ago
No, you are a cockmonger. You don't even know that Tull is a band and not a person you moron. Piss off.
Aqualung71 3 years ago
Nah, I think I'll stay here and rag on "Tull". Tull blows herds of squirrel.
DesKraven 3 years ago
Nah, I think you do that. Isn't that your job, shouldn't you be doing that now? Thats gross, you blow squirrels? You sick bastard!
Aqualung71 3 years ago
Taking my insult and turning around on me. How clever! You truly are a master of the insult. I mean I know how much effort it would take to actually come up with something original but instead you just rehash my insult. Brilliant! Are all "Tull" fans so lame and unoriginal?
DesKraven 3 years ago
No I was just shocked and disgusted to hear that you blow squirrels. You should get some help.
Aqualung71 3 years ago
Your moms actually helping me out right now. She sure knows how to lend a hand!
DesKraven 3 years ago
lol, how inventive. Your momma jokes are so lame.
Aqualung71 3 years ago
I've still yet to hear anything orginal from you. We know how brain dead "Tull" fans are though.
DesKraven 3 years ago
Oh No You Said Cock That Is A Bad Word Stop Being Negative Be More Positive You Mean To Said
Bum monger Or Just Say Super D Duper When You Said Positive Words People Will Listen To You With A Open Mind
PositiveCrow 3 years ago
My bad. Tull is a bum monger. Thanks for the help.
DesKraven 3 years ago
Stop Being So Negative Be More Positive Like The Care Bears Fag Is A Bad Word You Should Said Men That Like The Same Sex This Is PositiveCrow Here Have A Super D Duper
PositiveCrow 3 years ago
Awesome, now Aqualung has his friends joining in. Glad you men that like the same sex could stop blowing each other for five minutes to type a response!
DesKraven 3 years ago
You And Aqualung Need to Stop Fighting Be friends
Stop Soo Negative
PositiveCrow 3 years ago
I love this song. Thanks for posting it. Jethro Tull at their absolute best.
bddrex 3 years ago 2