JETHRO TULL RARE PASSION PLAY 1973 LIVE PROJECT PART1

PLEASE WATCH THE UPDATED VERSION OF THIS INSTEAD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=445HDZlQ5p0




Pieced together from various footage which was shot throughout 1973 at various Jethro Tull Concerts, this project is an attempt to put together a complete Jethro Tull "Passion Play" concert. Passion Play is regarded as Tull's masterpiece by some and as "over the top" by others, usually those who have not given it enough listens say this as like most brilliant works of art, it may take a while to grow on you at first but once it does you soon realize that it is indeed a brilliant album. Never before have Jethro Tull played so harmonically and with Ian mainly on the Soprano sax! This is a master-work of epic proportions... from it's haunting musical interludes to it's profound lyrical content.
Ian Anderson took a lot of undeserved heat for this album and it's concert from the critics but the album actually soared to #1 on the Billboard charts...(HUH?)
Tull's Passion Play stands like a classical monument, as powerful and moving as anything Bach or Mozart constructed. This was Progressive Art Rock at it's finest. Ian blends his Medieval madness with classical arrangements to form the foundation of a true MASTERPIECE.
The concert for this tour had the same mixed reviews. Those who were lucky enough to see this concert in 1973 have been left to remember it only with their imagination since no pro-footage or pro-sound seems to have ever been recorded from this concert.
I took a complete audience audio recording of a Passion Play concert and attempted to sync up the various pieces of private 8mm footage taken from audience members. There is very limited footage of this sort and some of it is not the best quality however some of it is pretty good. This project is only on it's first stage. I am currently seeking any other passion play Super8, 8mm, or 16mm footage that may still exist in order to continue to upgrade this project. Anyone with additional footage or if you know someone who may have something, please contact me at TULLTAPES@YAHOO.COM. Those who wish to criticize this project, I understand that not everyone wants to watch old grainy tull footage But if you are a die hard Tull fan then you should enjoy this alot. There are sections of this concert that I have now synced up pretty well therefore these synced sections have never been seen by anyone until now. Unless you were at the show. Like I said this is a beta version 1.0 and the more good footage that gets discovered the better the final version will turn out.

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[DrHeathenScum]

The Most Underated Tull Album

[tmay102436]

The people that didn't get this when it was new, and compare this to the Moody Blues and Pink Floyd - hmmm.......no wonder we now have rap music as the main style - let's not dare to be daring!

[sixsixxsixxxx]

@tmay102436 daring, pretentious, whatever...u old

[RONALDWILLIAMRYAN]

No matter what anyone has recognized, this was their best album and a classic.

[pheron52]

went to this in 73 at denver colasium was 14 it was one of the best concerts i went and still listen to tull as often as i can greatest band ever in my opinion!!!!!

[SuperYankee61]

When Jethro Tull recently announced that they will perform Aqualung, I began to search for footage and found this

brilliant stuff! Thanks for posting one of the most unique rock groups ever. Provocative, evocative, and completed f-ing rocking!

[assilem012]

Just found 4 great original 1973 Tull original polaroids from their NY concert, not sure what i should do with them, they're awesome action pics

[cliffwalkinfool]

I'm sorry, man, but I did film two reels of the San Diego show on Super-8 on that fancy, snappy Kodak film, but at one time I was in a funk, financially, and this Christian I knew was letting me sleep on his couch and during that time, the dude himself needed some money so he sold my chest of drawers, throwing its contents in with the deal. On a happier note, "And sitting a-stride a twig of a bush, a bee"! The press at the front door was so great that several of us almost died of suffocation.

[TonySpadafora]

My wife and I attended Jethro Tull's Passion Play concert in Cleveland in 1973.

Thinking about the start of that concert still sends chills up my spine... a middle bit of Thick As a Brick was the encore.

Best concert we even saw and we been to hundreds over the years...

[Enricon47]

Such a great period of progerssive bands,and Jethro took the risk or "caprice" to perform this complicate album to a wide audiences and the visual and musically

results of the concerts are awsemoe.I don´t know why some people crticise

the performances and the presentation of the entire work in "one go".

For example "The lamb" of Genesis is as obscure,long and the presentation

was also entire and without notice. BOTH RECORDS ARE GREAT AND

GOOD FOR THEM TO PLAYED THAT MUSIC LIVE!!!!

[chaoscast]

my favorite tull-album =)

[strathsail]

with this music & the show JETHRO TULL was on top of music avant-garde at that time !