To this day Barriemore Barlow has the most uniquely progressive playing styles of any drummer and lightning fast double bass patterns. Just listen to those rolling quads. He'll always be known as one of the greatest drummers ever.
You must have gotten that comment from John Bonham. He said the same thing about him. Although, Bonhams style, sound, groove, techique, power, dynamics and what he did for rock drumming overall remains at the top of the mountain, IMO.
@@mthomas1973 The only quote I've ever read from Bonzo regarding Barriemore Barlow is that he's "The Greatest Drummer England Ever Produced" And he was absolutely right.
Still for me, the best live drum solo ever, his technical ability along with his incredible stamina, even to play with Tull was challenging enough but to produce this in front of a full house was just incredible and beyond words, the come out is brilliant too. Barriemore THANK YOU .
He was still developing this composition, he finally nailed it to perfection on the 1980 "Bursting Out" version. It wasn't on the orignal album release (i heard it had audio issues) but it's on the re-releases & remastered, check it out it's polished to a blinding 💎 diamond
@@riknaddal2231 Bunker was a great blues rock drummer, but only Barrie could take the drumming into the prog land of 70s Tull. Bunker is absolutely amazing on Live At The Isle of Wight, but he could not have done what Barrie did on TAAB and APP, and on songs like Sea Lion, Heavy Horses and And The Mouse Police Never Sleeps.
@@oskarileikos His musical/drumming vocabularyIn my opinion he was beyond drummers such as Bonham and Peart. ( I love them both) And he plays with more accuracy
There are no words to describe how incredibly brilliant this musicianship is. I am going to speak to the drumming as I am a expert on Barriemore Barlow. I have studied drums under Graham Lear, Santana drummer. Barriemore Barlow demonstrates an incredible capacity to will into existence any drum riff that might occur in his head. A lot of us drummers think about stuff we would like to do, but soon realize it is impossible. Barrie never had this barrier. He invents the most impossible thigs and actually does it. There is no drummer ever created that could do the drum solo you are seeing. NONE. Not Neil Peart, not the Dream Theater guys. NOBODY. And he did this in 1976. Nobody can ever ever ever top this. You know why? They don't have his imagination.
It's not just his imagination, Barlow was technically brilliant. To be able to interplay the hands and feet the way he did is a level that takes an awful lot of skill. Listen to the snare and bottom kit interplay, this is incredible. The only other guys I knew who did stuff like this at the time were Jack DeJohnette & Tony Williams. Barrie was one of my favorite rock drummers and this band right here of Evan, Glascock Barlow & Barre was phenomenal. I wish there was an album of just the instrumentals these guys did. Conundrum off of Bursting Out, King Henry's Madrigal off Watchers on The Storm 2 cd, the full Conundrum off of the Heavy Horses New Shoes Edition, this Instrumental here which is on the Songs From The Wood 40th Anniversary Edition also, these were just other worldly and rivaled some of the most complicated stuff ever.I miss Barrie not being really active anymore and even more so the late John Glasock, whom Ritchie Blackmore called 'the greatest bass player in rock!'
@@loucontino4804 , 100% mate, my fav drummer, wish he had continued more after Tull, missed some great drumming. He is still doing well at his Henley on Thames studio.
BARRIEMOREBARLOW JOHN BONHAM OF LED ZEPPELIN FAME CALKED BARRYMORE THE GREATEST DRUMMER ENGLAND HAS EVER PRODUCED, HIS ETHNIC STYLE ON SONGS FROM THE WOOD AND HEAVY HORSES IS INCREDIBLE
Lou Contino Ritchie Blackmore was trying to snatch John Glascock for his next Rainbow project at that time too , and agreed Barrymore Barlow is amazing he would even make Neil Peart's head spin
I think Barrie was the most accomplished Drummer ever produced by England. He was into double bass drumming when nobody eelse was doing it. His solo is amazing, i am sure he inspired lots of drummers.
Folkert I was just thinking that, conundrum the best live drum solo I’ve ever heard and there are elements of it here although not as well put together musically, wish there was a video of bursting out because Martin Barre solo on aqualung was his best ever but can’t find a video reference for that either damn! Brilliant musicians!
I don't know how old you are, I'm 37 and almost no one my age that I know of likes Tull. Many like Zeppelin, Floyd, the Beatles, Hendrix, the Dead etc but don't know any other Tull fans. People my age definitely know of them, but most seem to judge them as goofy, outdated "medieval minstrel" wannabes without actually listening to them.
@@keb6213 Well the guy was talking about people of his generation not knowing about Tull, and I was just expanding on that. I personally love Tull, they're one of my favorite bands.
@@AK99581 Good to hear i am not alone.😁 I like the bands you listed too, but i think on a good night in the mid seventies J.T.could blew all of them away.
He went on to play drums with Robert Plant and Yngwie Malmsteen, then seemingly retired from drumming to become a recording engineer. Last I heard, he's picking up his drumsticks again for a few shows with Martin Barre.
I saw Jethro Tull twice in 1975: once in January, promoting the War Child album, I believe; and once in October, after the release of Minstrel In The Gallery. Let me say that, with all respect to John Glascock & Glenn Cornick (RIP, both of them), the combination of Jeffrey Hammond & Barriemore Barlow was quite impressive. They were the team fueling the bottom end of Brick, Passion Play & the Minstrel albums, playing some very complicated music, and doing it very well. They had apparently played together previously in the earliest version of (pre-)Tull, but neither joined the band until Jeffrey replaced Glenn Cornick for Aqualung, their breakthrough album, and Barrie replaced Clive Bunker to make prog masterpiece Thick As A Brick, Tull's first #1 Album in the US.
The only problem with Ian's eccentric persona is that these guys don't get near the amount of recognition they deserve. Ian is a genius, but he undoubtedly also got a lot of help.
Barrie left the band because of Ian not giving Glascock due appreciation and respect even after Glascock's death. Barrie needed to mourn while Ian made things worse. JT never did as good without Barrie. Big big mistake by Ian.
What an absolute band of super talented musicians. John Evans on Keyboards with his sidekick David Dee Palmer, John Glascock a beast on the bass, and Martin Barre the mystro of the six string guitar, and last but not least Mr. Barriemore Barlow on the skins. For me this was the best Jethro Tull lineup ever, sadly i was to young at this tims to see them, but did see them in September '82 at Marriweather Post Pavilion on their Broadsword Tour, at that time all them were gone except for Martin Barre.
An outstanding and under appreciated drummer, so unique and diverse. My hats off to Barrymore Barlow and Jethro Tull, fantastic musicianship.,and the greatist band ever! 👏🇳🇱
John was great. Glenn Cornick was good in a looser more jam-focussed way, but he was the root of Jethro Tull's complex bass lines and arguably pushed them into the prog realm from the beginning. Dave Pegg was great with them as well. Jeffrey brought a lot of eccentricities and aesthetic into the band. Like Dave Palmer he was Ian's creative muse in the band, but he wasn't a brilliant bassist. What is remarkable is that he picked up complex parts. Poor John Glascock was treated partly like a hired hand, so was on a lower wage than 'core' members.
Wow! This is my first time seeing this. Barrie Barlow was and still is a huge influence. I first heard him when I was around 10 or 11 years old. I got to see him live with Tull in 1975 and although Bonham was huge back then but Barrie Barlow really blew my doors in with all the great drumming on Thick As A Brick & A Passion Play. I still listen to all those great albums along with Warchild, Minstrel In The Gallery, Songs From The Wood, and Heavy Horses! He is so precise in everything he plays both live and in the studio! Thank you for posting this!!
This is one of the things I love(d) most about Jethro Tull, they always used to have these very cool instrumental interludes that used to blow me away.
Genius musicians!! Martin barre, Glascock, Barriemore Barlow, England produces the best!! Listen up kids of today!! That is what Music is supposed to be!! This computer stuff today is Junk!!
I saw this tour at the Cow Palace in SF California. To this day, the drum solo is still the best I have ever heard.Of course, the purple micro dot may have had an influence.
This is mindblowing. I saw Tull many times during the 1970s and thought then--and can hear now--that they were in a class all their own. Imagine a group that could shift instantly from hard rock in 9/8 time to the 2nd movement of Beethoven's 9th symphony and back again to the hard rock. Tull did it, made it seem effortless, and made you laugh while doing it. Plus they did costume changes and music-hall comedy shtick, all while playing at an incredibly high level of musicianship. They were astounding. Barrie Barlow was a big part of their brilliance. No wonder John Bonham called him "The greatest rock drummer England ever produced" and Plant and Page thought Barlow was one of the few drummers would could replace Bonham in Led Zep after his death.
Even their version of Beethoven's 9th was hard rocking! Best band I ever saw, especially their 1972 Thick as a Brick tour, never saw another group come close and I saw many!
Thank You for posting. Lucky to see him in the front row for the Stormwatch Tour. He was awesome and blew me away with his solo. Underrated drummer and one of my favorites. Wish more videos of Mr. Barlow were out there during this time frame. Thanks Again!
Barrimore Barlow also worked on Kerry Livgrens solo album called Seeds of Change. Listen to Just one way and Mask of the great deceiver both on that album recorded back in 1980..
I had the pleasure to see this Tull line up live at Hammersmith Odeon, London on the Songs from the Wood tour - utterly brilliant ! To this day one of the most outstanding live gigs i have ever been to.
His run with Jethro Tull from 71 to 1980 was by far their best lineup when John glasscock on base it was one of the best Rhythm sections I've ever heard. Albums like War child Passion Play thick as a brick Minstrel in the gallery too old to rock and roll Too Young To Die songs from the woods heavy horses breaking out in storm watch just brilliant music this lineup put out
He plays his double bass drums like another musical instrument......what a drummer! I am lucky enough to be old enough that I saw these guys live several times. ?_
Often overlooked as a drummer which is a crying shame ... he had some great moves did Mr barlow and some great double kick and rudimental playing ... one of the greatest for sure
Drummer is playing a flam to start every ruff, which blurs and defines play simultaneously. Makes it tough to analyze, sounds great. BB was phenomenal.
What a treat to stumble across this. Barrymore Barlow, one of my favorite drummers of all time. IMO The best JT drummer ever, Ian Anderson’s opinion to the contrary. 🤓
Clive Bunker was a very good drummer . Barriemore had big shoes to fill and he smashed it! His drumming was consistently amazing during his time in Tull and once he was gone they were never the same IMO. You know you are great when Bonzo praises you!
The "Bursting Out" solo is the crem de la crem. Structure wise probably the greatest solo of all time w/Moby Dick & the greatest of all time "John Henry Bonham" in a class of it's own. Also played a few tracks on Jimmy Pages solo album "Outrider"..he ruled the stage when i saw them "Songs from the wood" tour Boston Garden 77'
I've talked to people for 40+ years about the greatness of Barriemore Barlow. I just included this vid along with a vid of Buddy Rich and Billy Cobham to a drummer friend who is unfamiliar with the three. If you can believe it.
All you drummers out there prepare yourself for real genius , Mr Barrymore Barlow, saw him at the Stormwatch tour and my bandmate threw his drumsticks down and went back to school
Barlow was just "working the bugs out", here, of his most epic solo that can be found under the song 'Conundrum' - on the "Bursting Out Live" album.. a far Superior drum solo as compared to this one!! You can tell all the kinks are finallu banged out on that solo, and it is nothing but perfection!! The guy is a smoking, buttery smooth, lightning bolt across the kit. When he gets on to those high concert toms and works his way down, I SWEAR a third arm pops out of somewhere! He is SICK! One of my very top favorites. (And, surely do not pass up the incredible, incredible drum solo off of Thick as a Brick Part 2! I have NEVER heard anybody touch that drum solo! Listen to how his hi hat keeps the continual bizarre Rhythm pattern as he plays that insanity! WTF?Very Scottish in its feel. I bow before thee, BB!!!!!
Barrie is the most under-appreciated drummer in rock history.
Bonham called him the greatest drummer England produced.
I Certainly agree but don't forget Clive Bunker. It seems he left only because he was more jazzy/blues.
@@MrRamplead
Greatest "Rock" drummer England ever produced....
I saw him live, was only 14, blew my mind 🤯
@@rambleman9150 I saw him 4 times. I was 16-18 when I saw those shows.
Barlow and Glascock were one of the most absolutely devastating Rhythm sections in all of Rock n Roll.
Agreed..
They were great friends too. After Glascock died Barlow lost interest in the band.
Best line up of Tull by far!
💯!!!
Not a patch on Glenn Cornack and Clive Bunker!
To this day Barriemore Barlow has the most uniquely progressive playing styles of any drummer and lightning fast double bass patterns. Just listen to those rolling quads. He'll always be known as one of the greatest drummers ever.
You must have gotten that comment from John Bonham. He said the same thing about him. Although, Bonhams style, sound, groove, techique, power, dynamics and what he did for rock drumming overall remains at the top of the mountain, IMO.
@@mthomas1973 The only quote I've ever read from Bonzo regarding Barriemore Barlow is that he's "The Greatest Drummer England Ever Produced" And he was absolutely right.
It seems that Marco Minnemann is big a fan of Barriemore Barlow.
Barlow was ridiculously, stupidly, unbelievably ahead of all of us in the 70s. Every new Tull record was a revelation.
@@papalegba6796 So true.
You can tell Barriemore Barlow knew every note and nuance that was being played. One of the best rock drummers ever!
Barlow was a MONSTER. No one came close. Such structure and command. He melded with his Kit.
John Glascock and Barriemore Barlow were simply devastating.
They were very close friends, and it shows. BB was devastated when John died.
Yup powerhouse rhythm section!
You can't forget Clive bunker
@@rogerray1853 Clive was a very good drummer for early Tull, but Barrie really took them to a next level. One of the best
Still for me, the best live drum solo ever, his technical ability along with his incredible stamina, even to play with Tull was challenging enough but to produce this in front of a full house was just incredible and beyond words, the come out is brilliant too. Barriemore THANK YOU .
Yes my fave drummer too he also looked the coolest to watch
He was still developing this composition, he finally nailed it to perfection on the 1980 "Bursting Out" version. It wasn't on the orignal album release (i heard it had audio issues) but it's on the re-releases & remastered, check it out it's polished to a blinding 💎 diamond
B.Barlow is a marvelous and underrated drummer
Excellent band,thank the Lord i got to see them 14 times,and my son did --4 times.
Im jealous! Good for you and your boy.
Awesome drummer, should be more well known in my opinion.
Clive Bunker is the best JT drummer...imo
@@riknaddal2231 Bunker was a great blues rock drummer, but only Barrie could take the drumming into the prog land of 70s Tull. Bunker is absolutely amazing on Live At The Isle of Wight, but he could not have done what Barrie did on TAAB and APP, and on songs like Sea Lion, Heavy Horses and And The Mouse Police Never Sleeps.
@@oskarileikos agreed.
@@oskarileikos His musical/drumming vocabularyIn my opinion he was beyond drummers such as Bonham and Peart. ( I love them both) And he plays with more accuracy
There are no words to describe how incredibly brilliant this musicianship is. I am going to speak to the drumming as I am a expert on Barriemore Barlow. I have studied drums under Graham Lear, Santana drummer. Barriemore Barlow demonstrates an incredible capacity to will into existence any drum riff that might occur in his head. A lot of us drummers think about stuff we would like to do, but soon realize it is impossible. Barrie never had this barrier. He invents the most impossible thigs and actually does it. There is no drummer ever created that could do the drum solo you are seeing. NONE. Not Neil Peart, not the Dream Theater guys. NOBODY. And he did this in 1976. Nobody can ever ever ever top this. You know why? They don't have his imagination.
Too right
It's not just his imagination, Barlow was technically brilliant. To be able to interplay the hands and feet the way he did is a level that takes an awful lot of skill. Listen to the snare and bottom kit interplay, this is incredible. The only other guys I knew who did stuff like this at the time were Jack DeJohnette & Tony Williams. Barrie was one of my favorite rock drummers and this band right here of Evan, Glascock Barlow & Barre was phenomenal. I wish there was an album of just the instrumentals these guys did. Conundrum off of Bursting Out, King Henry's Madrigal off Watchers on The Storm 2 cd, the full Conundrum off of the Heavy Horses New Shoes Edition, this Instrumental here which is on the Songs From The Wood 40th Anniversary Edition also, these were just other worldly and rivaled some of the most complicated stuff ever.I miss Barrie not being really active anymore and even more so the late John Glasock, whom Ritchie Blackmore called 'the greatest bass player in rock!'
@@loucontino4804 , 100% mate, my fav drummer, wish he had continued more after Tull, missed some great drumming. He is still doing well at his Henley on Thames studio.
BARRIEMOREBARLOW JOHN BONHAM OF LED ZEPPELIN FAME CALKED BARRYMORE THE GREATEST DRUMMER ENGLAND HAS EVER PRODUCED, HIS ETHNIC STYLE ON SONGS FROM THE WOOD AND HEAVY HORSES IS INCREDIBLE
Lou Contino Ritchie Blackmore was trying to snatch John Glascock for his next Rainbow project at that time too , and agreed Barrymore Barlow is amazing he would even make Neil Peart's head spin
When Barrie plays, it sounds like more than one drummer is playing at the same time and that was his uniqueness.
Peanuts against Neil Peart!!!!
@@frankvirnich5310 Barrie was obviously an influence on Neil.
@@frankvirnich5310 Put down the crack pipe.
That was a characteristic of Ginger Baker, and you can hear that influence.
@@frankvirnich5310 Peanuts? Peanut!
I think Barrie was the most accomplished Drummer ever produced by England. He was into double bass drumming when nobody eelse was doing it. His solo is amazing, i am sure he inspired lots of drummers.
He did and still does. Ian Anderson chose his drummers very carefully. Barlow is the best of his drummers for JT
He is certainly in the running, along with Pip Pyle, Bruford, Robert Wyatt, Phil Collins, and Chris Cutler.
Bonham said the same thing about him, and THAT'S an opinion that means something.
BB's drumming patterns on the live album Burstin' Out (a must for every drummer to hear)are so innovative and original.
Folkert I was just thinking that, conundrum the best live drum solo I’ve ever heard and there are elements of it here although not as well put together musically, wish there was a video of bursting out because Martin Barre solo on aqualung was his best ever but can’t find a video reference for that either damn! Brilliant musicians!
@Chris Manzi I think Neil was influenced by Barlow not the other way around
An amazingly talented group of people who I wish more people of my generation recognized
I don't know how old you are, I'm 37 and almost no one my age that I know of likes Tull. Many like Zeppelin, Floyd, the Beatles, Hendrix, the Dead etc but don't know any other Tull fans. People my age definitely know of them, but most seem to judge them as goofy, outdated "medieval minstrel" wannabes without actually listening to them.
@@AK99581 So What????
@@keb6213 Well the guy was talking about people of his generation not knowing about Tull, and I was just expanding on that. I personally love Tull, they're one of my favorite bands.
@@AK99581 Good to hear i am not alone.😁
I like the bands you listed too,
but i think on a good night in the mid seventies J.T.could blew all of them away.
@@AK99581 Don't worry, it's their problem. People voted for Donald Trump, Joe Biden and Boris Johnson, don't worry about it !
This is incredible. The top of the mountain in their career.
The best JT's line up! Barrimore Barlow, Wow!!! The most underrated drummer ever! What did he become?
He went on to play drums with Robert Plant and Yngwie Malmsteen, then seemingly retired from drumming to become a recording engineer. Last I heard, he's picking up his drumsticks again for a few shows with Martin Barre.
@@AK99581 Barre and Barlow? I am going to check that out as soon as COVID is over!!!!
75 through 78 we're just incredible albums one after another that he was a part of especially songs from the woods and heavy horses
I saw Jethro Tull twice in 1975: once in January, promoting the War Child album, I believe; and once in October, after the release of Minstrel In The Gallery. Let me say that, with all respect to John Glascock & Glenn Cornick (RIP, both of them), the combination of Jeffrey Hammond & Barriemore Barlow was quite impressive. They were the team fueling the bottom end of Brick, Passion Play & the Minstrel albums, playing some very complicated music, and doing it very well. They had apparently played together previously in the earliest version of (pre-)Tull, but neither joined the band until Jeffrey replaced Glenn Cornick for Aqualung, their breakthrough album, and Barrie replaced Clive Bunker to make prog masterpiece Thick As A Brick, Tull's first #1 Album in the US.
The only problem with Ian's eccentric persona is that these guys don't get near the amount of recognition they deserve. Ian is a genius, but he undoubtedly also got a lot of help.
Tis a great pity Glascock died. Without Anderson, they could have been successful. Such a pity that combination never occurred.
Barrie left the band because of Ian not giving Glascock due appreciation and respect even after Glascock's death. Barrie needed to mourn while Ian made things worse.
JT never did as good without Barrie.
Big big mistake by Ian.
DA WAR JETHRO TULL DIE ABSOLUT ULTIMATIVE ROCKBAND UND KONNTE SICH MIT DEN ALLER BESTEN DER WELT MESSEN!!❤😊
3:58 Stick mishap recovery level: Expert.
True, and I think that only drummers can pick that up.
What an absolute band of super talented musicians. John Evans on Keyboards with his sidekick David Dee Palmer, John Glascock a beast on the bass, and Martin Barre the mystro of the six string guitar, and last but not least Mr. Barriemore Barlow on the skins. For me this was the best Jethro Tull lineup ever, sadly i was to young at this tims to see them, but did see them in September '82 at Marriweather Post Pavilion on their Broadsword Tour, at that time all them were gone except for Martin Barre.
Absolutely sick drum solo I love his energy and the sound of those powerful tom fills
The only other person in his league is Terry bozzio😂 uh-huh
best tull drummer ever....barrie rocks
Shit, one of the best drummers PERIOD
Perry is pretty phenomenal, too.
@@premodernprejudices3027 Not even in the same universe as Barlow who are you kidding ?
John Bonham thought that Barlow was the best drummer of their time .
@@moparmatthew77 John also got the idea to wear bucket hats from him as well it seems lol
An outstanding and under appreciated drummer, so unique and diverse. My hats off to Barrymore Barlow and Jethro Tull, fantastic musicianship.,and the greatist band ever! 👏🇳🇱
john glascock great bass player 😘
Τhe best!!!!!
The best bassplayer was Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond 😉
@@WenzTout They were both great .
John was great. Glenn Cornick was good in a looser more jam-focussed way, but he was the root of Jethro Tull's complex bass lines and arguably pushed them into the prog realm from the beginning. Dave Pegg was great with them as well. Jeffrey brought a lot of eccentricities and aesthetic into the band. Like Dave Palmer he was Ian's creative muse in the band, but he wasn't a brilliant bassist. What is remarkable is that he picked up complex parts. Poor John Glascock was treated partly like a hired hand, so was on a lower wage than 'core' members.
Know him ..met him years ago while i was in a band he was involved with..slept at his studio many times (The dog house)..great guy 👍😎
Wow! This is my first time seeing this. Barrie Barlow was and still is a huge influence. I first heard him when I was around 10 or 11 years old. I got to see him live with Tull in 1975 and although Bonham was huge back then but Barrie Barlow really blew my doors in with all the great drumming on Thick As A Brick & A Passion Play. I still listen to all those great albums along with Warchild, Minstrel In The Gallery, Songs From The Wood, and Heavy Horses! He is so precise in everything he plays both live and in the studio! Thank you for posting this!!
Ultimate Jethro Tull lineup ever! Dam Ian for breaking this group up. SFTW, HH, SW the trio of best Tull albums IMO
This is one of the *best* drum solos I have ever heard and I've heard quite a few ‼
This is one of the things I love(d) most about Jethro Tull, they always used to have these very cool instrumental interludes that used to blow me away.
Took my brother to this gig at the Albert hall in London only managed two concerts but what wa musician! Bravo ELP RIP Keith and Greg xx
One of the best drummers ever !
One of my alltime favorites! He plays like no other! Totally original! Love the ways he phrases Tull music!
I seen them about 45 years ago in Fresno CA. One of the best live shows I have seen
Genius musicians!! Martin barre, Glascock, Barriemore Barlow, England produces the best!! Listen up kids of today!! That is what Music is supposed to be!! This computer stuff today is Junk!!
Hat alles seine Berechtigung. Kunst muss ständig neue Wege gehen.
I saw this tour at the Cow Palace in SF California. To this day, the drum solo is still the best I have ever heard.Of course, the purple micro dot may have had an influence.
No band had more excellent drummers than Jethro Tull.
And bassists
My all time favorite drummer absolutely incredible
This is a fantastic post! Blew my mind.
Barrimore Barlow: John Bonham's favourite drummer (he used to say that Barrimore was the "best English drummer ever").
I dare say the Bursting Out solo is better than Neil Peart's Exit Stage Left solo...I do play drums.
Cir google it's Clive Bunker
It's Barriemore Barlow in this video.
I think so, besides Simon, tm
trusstingod blasphemy! Lol
OMG, the intricate and super tight musicianship is absolute magic. Barrie Barlow is a monster drummer
an absolutely brilliant drummer. One of the best.
Just shaking my head watching this. Brilliant.
This is mindblowing. I saw Tull many times during the 1970s and thought then--and can hear now--that they were in a class all their own. Imagine a group that could shift instantly from hard rock in 9/8 time to the 2nd movement of Beethoven's 9th symphony and back again to the hard rock. Tull did it, made it seem effortless, and made you laugh while doing it. Plus they did costume changes and music-hall comedy shtick, all while playing at an incredibly high level of musicianship. They were astounding. Barrie Barlow was a big part of their brilliance. No wonder John Bonham called him "The greatest rock drummer England ever produced" and Plant and Page thought Barlow was one of the few drummers would could replace Bonham in Led Zep after his death.
Even their version of Beethoven's 9th was hard rocking! Best band I ever saw, especially their 1972 Thick as a Brick tour, never saw another group come close and I saw many!
Insane drummer!
to John Glascock - who died too young but would have been among the greatest
John was really GREAT bass player and musician!!!
Barrie Barlow the best !
This fantastic solo initiated my desire to become a drummer. Thank you very much, BB! Actually I am a very happy man!
I never tire of listening to Barrie.
I absolutely love this
Really glad I found this. Super impressive. I think Yes pushed all the bands of that era.
Thank You for posting. Lucky to see him in the front row for the Stormwatch Tour. He was awesome and blew me away with his solo. Underrated drummer and one of my favorites. Wish more videos of Mr. Barlow were out there during this time frame. Thanks Again!
The best rock drummer in the world, Tull were never the same after he left.
agreed.... :-)
The best rock bassist in the world, . . . . RIP John Glascock
@@Cluless02 One of the best...!
Clive was better, there is more to rumming than soloing
@@chrischoir3594 Clive said in an interview he could never have played on Barlow's level.
Barrimore Barlow also worked on Kerry Livgrens solo album called Seeds of Change. Listen to Just one way and Mask of the great deceiver both on that album recorded back in 1980..
Barrie did a excellent job on Kerry Livgren's Seeds of change album!!!!
My favourite Tull drummer.
A great band, with ny even greater drummer. Thank you Barrie.
Bunker and Barlow......my two favorite Tull drummers...in fact, two of my favorite drummers, period.
phantastic drummer
the best song I ever heard from TULL.....thank you for posting it
INSANE musicianship ❤️
What an incredible live sound!
I had the pleasure to see this Tull line up live at Hammersmith Odeon, London on the Songs from the Wood tour - utterly brilliant !
To this day one of the most outstanding live gigs i have ever been to.
His run with Jethro Tull from 71 to 1980 was by far their best lineup when John glasscock on base it was one of the best Rhythm sections I've ever heard. Albums like War child Passion Play thick as a brick Minstrel in the gallery too old to rock and roll Too Young To Die songs from the woods heavy horses breaking out in storm watch just brilliant music this lineup put out
Amazing solo!..........
one of my all time favorite drummers seen him live in 1972 thick as a brick tour
Totally mindblowing!
Happy Birthday Barriemore Barlow....🍾👌
70 years old today !!
Was at Hammersmith when they were in London in 77 it a FANTASTIC show!!!
He plays his double bass drums like another musical instrument......what a drummer! I am lucky enough to be old enough that I saw these guys live several times. ?_
Beautiful!!!!!!!!
Often overlooked as a drummer which is a crying shame ... he had some great moves did Mr barlow and some great double kick and rudimental playing ... one of the greatest for sure
The best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Absolutely fantastic
Drummer is playing a flam to start every ruff, which blurs and defines play simultaneously. Makes it tough to analyze, sounds great. BB was phenomenal.
take note young lads.. tons and tons of practice!! Barriemore was fantastic!!
Dam!
Jethro Tull had some amazing musicians throughout all their different line-ups!!!!!
Glad to read your comments on Barrie. You are all right on.
not his best solo but he is my favorite, the stuff he starts getting into at around 3:30 is great, he and Clive were the best ever
3:56 - Barriemore Barlow's drumming solarizes the video ... amazing! ;-)
What a great drum solo.
I wish Barrie would have played this solo with a stuffed parrot on his left shoulder it would have really added to his amazing playing!😁
Für mich die beste Zusammensetzung der Band, die es je gab. RIP John Glascock!
Only going to say one word.... MAGNIFICENT!
I just love his driving head moves that accompany his magnificent playing.
Has to be one of the most overlooked drummers ever
Why? He’s being featured right here.
England has produced the best drummers!!!
I very rarely suffer a drum solo...but I could not look away from this one
What a treat to stumble across this.
Barrymore Barlow, one of my favorite drummers of all time.
IMO The best JT drummer ever, Ian Anderson’s opinion to the contrary. 🤓
Clive Bunker was a very good drummer . Barriemore had big shoes to fill and he smashed it! His drumming was consistently amazing during his time in Tull and once he was gone they were never the same IMO. You know you are great when Bonzo praises you!
Love BB!
The "Bursting Out" solo is the crem de la crem. Structure wise probably the greatest solo of all time w/Moby Dick & the greatest of all time "John Henry Bonham" in a class of it's own. Also played a few tracks on Jimmy Pages solo album "Outrider"..he ruled the stage when i saw them "Songs from the wood" tour Boston Garden 77'
@@paulrobinson5833 ...Bonham was King, power, finesse & the tastiest licks. The Film "The Song Remains The Same" proves he's the best ever !
These dudes are monsters!!!
I've talked to people for 40+ years about the greatness of Barriemore Barlow. I just included this vid along with a vid of Buddy Rich and Billy Cobham to a drummer friend who is unfamiliar with the three. If you can believe it.
WoW All TITANS ⚡⚡⚡
That'll straighten him out 🤣👍
Barlow the best drummer ever in Jethro Tull
barlow...grandissimo animalo!
All you drummers out there prepare yourself for real genius , Mr Barrymore Barlow, saw him at the Stormwatch tour and my bandmate threw his drumsticks down and went back to school
Uno de los mejores grupos en vivo, y lo vi en Chile. Gracias por resubirlo. Saludos
Gracias a ti por avisar. Saludos!
Barlow was just "working the bugs out", here, of his most epic solo that can be found under the song 'Conundrum' - on the "Bursting Out Live" album.. a far Superior drum solo as compared to this one!! You can tell all the kinks are finallu banged out on that solo, and it is nothing but perfection!! The guy is a smoking, buttery smooth, lightning bolt across the kit. When he gets on to those high concert toms and works his way down, I SWEAR a third arm pops out of somewhere! He is SICK! One of my very top favorites. (And, surely do not pass up the incredible, incredible drum solo off of Thick as a Brick Part 2! I have NEVER heard anybody touch that drum solo! Listen to how his hi hat keeps the continual bizarre Rhythm pattern as he plays that insanity! WTF?Very Scottish in its feel. I bow before thee, BB!!!!!
Amazing
Well, that was pretty amazing.