Jethro Tull - "Aqua Letterman"

August 20, 1991 ... Ian & Martin & Dave Pegg sat in with Paul Shaffer & Company playing "Rocks On The Road", "Like A Tall Thin Girl", "Mother Goose/Jack-A-Lynn", "Bourée" ... and what actually was broadcast that night: A Medley of Aqualung/Locomotive Breath/Black Sunday... on "The Late Show" with David Letterman.

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[themountainviewguy]

I hate Letterman ... maybe he screwed one of his staff that night.

There it is ... right on American TV ... snot running down his nose ... now ... how does snot get down his nose,and what the hell is a dog end? ... nevermind, Letterman is a jerk, but he did shake Marty Lancelotte's hand!

Nice survey of Tull through the decades!

[4TuLLHEAD]

@themountainviewguy ... FYI : a "dogend" is a cigarette butt in Brit-speak.

[kataztr0fe]

whats the last part after loco breath? i've only heard it on live performances. can't spot it on one of the albums. =(

[4TuLLHEAD]

It's "Black Sunday" from the "A" album. It's also the opening song from the 1980 Video "Slipstream" ... because they opened the "A" tour with that song. It's a great tune... and very difficult to play. As Ian said, there's no place to take a breath.

[deconstructionist67]

Ian's gotten a lot of mileage from a song about a pedophile

[AckroPilot]

Looks like the boys had a tad of fun, Tull in all it's incarnation has a tendency to do that.

[dunebasher1971]

@Howardtripper That might be what it means in other countries, but it's not what Anderson meant. He was using it in the British slang sense, where a "dog end" is the discarded stub of a cigarette. Tramps are closely associated with picking up and trying to smoke dog ends.

[Howardtripper]

@themountainviewguy A DOG END IS A TIT BIT YOU THROW A DOG. A small piece of meat

[DoctorWho1983]

What?! The backup band goes from the greatest tull tunes to jackson 5?! I wonder how Ian and Martin went about that.

[jamesweisz]

i love his voice i grew up with tull its some of the best music even today.

[yoyoloto]

fuck, I cant pronounce Jethro properly

[BLUESMANRONCHICAGO]

@OdysseyIntoOblivion yeah, it is sad, but he can still play the hell out of a flute!!!

[FloydyTube]

@deconstructionist67 What makes you think it's about a paedophile? You need to listen to it a bit more closely

[meowandmeow]

This is awesome, his voice sounds much better here than I have heard elsewhere form recordings in the 90s/2000s

[zapspace]

Nice song!