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- So this video turned out to be the BUGGIEST video I have ever done. So, I had to split it in half AND take off the last 30 seconds (Which were worthless anyway, just me bitching about serving) BUT EVEN THROUGH ALL OF THAT... This was worth it. Totally. What a fucking album. Thank you to Ford Prefect for his donation and request of this album. Spectacular prog...
This video is technically my reaction to side 2 of "Minstrel in the Gallery" But I thought this title might be better lol
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So this video was a B*TCH to get out. The file was corrupted or something idk. But i got it out in the only way I could. So i apologize for the unorthodox video. You only missed like 8 seconds at the end.
I love yall! Thank you for everything.
Baker Street Muse is one of my favorite songs on one of my favorite albums by them and I've got all their studio albums and everything rare by them including several dozen live shows. Jethro Tull and Ian Anderson are one of the most technically sound progressive rock bands you will ever hear along with the band Yes in my opinion. And if you like Christmas songs one of my favorite Christmas songs of all time is "Ring Out Solstice Bells" off "Songs From The Wood" by Jethro Tull.
I love every Christmas song and instrumental Tull has put out, and there are quite a few from over the years. My kids used to love to sing "Jack Frost and the Hooded Crow". Tull's Christmas album is some fantastic music, as well.
The guitar you like is a 12 string Martin acoustic.
I had the honor of being Jethro Tull's publicist between 1975 and 1980. Ian is a genius.
Cheers!
Wow, that's amazing. Those were interesting times. Any fun stories to share?
There are very few people who can invent musical stories and make them songs the way Ian Anderson does. Immortal genius
He is one of the most creatively gifted people I've ever heard/seen. He is absolutely fantastic on stage as well. A modern bard, as I coined the first time I saw him lol
I've been listening to this album regularly since 1975 (when I was just 12) and am still astonished.
I was just finishing 7th grade When this came out. I had just bought my first 2 albums at Save On Drug store( Yes they had 1 isle dedicated to albums)crazy I know .For my hard earned money 7 or 8 $ I walked out with JTs Aqualung and The Sweet Desolation Blvd.And the wonderful trip started and WHAT A Incredible TRIP ITS BEEN! YOUVE got to realize what was going on in music at that time. You had Genesis coming out with Lamb Lie Down on Broadway. Yes, Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper, to many F'n incredible bands to name Oh and the great cheese shit show kiss what classless garbage but they did have their place. I bought those albums having no idea what I was getting ad a protest to what was getting all the radio time and I'm so glad I did. I was able to see JT 4 or 5 times before Ian's voice was damaged beyond repair. To think how GOOD THIS band was blows your mind it brings tears to my eyes to see these guys work their magic . It was the most insane time in music that I don't think can ever be repeated. Great and heart felt reaction👻🐟
Again lucky enough to see them perform the entire album 75
I had a brief online conversation with the string arranger a year or so go. Here's a comment Dee made I thought really exemplified working together:
"A further thought. MITG hosts many more of the creative gems I entrusted to Ian's keeping. The pizzicato strings (emulating the quacking of ducks) in One White Duck is but one. I must listen to the album again; after all, it's over 47 years since Ian and I shared (for a couple of weeks) a rented house in LA to work on the songs."
Oh, and that's definitely Barriemore Barlow on drums!
Tull always elevates my spirit and connects to my soul. Ian Anderson is a freaking genius.
You can see Barriemore Barlow’s drum solo from the 77 Songs From the Wood tour on TH-cam and also the 79 Stormwatch tour
Leaving our child like mind is part of growing up . A good childhood is a blessing.
Having a good foundation means you can always turn it around, no matter how bad it gets.
Lover of the black and white it's your first night
The Passion Play, goes all the way, spoils your insight
Flawless, absolutely flawless
As noted here, Ian was on acoustic guitar for most of this. His inside melodic lines buried in the chords are so iconic and identifiable. 😊
One of the best live bands, of all time.
You are young! You do have the whole world open to you!
For me, personally, Tull had a one-of-a-kind, completely unparalleled 12-album run of remarkable albums, from 1969's "Stand Up" thru 1980's "A" album. Greatest streak in rock history. Ridiculously good music, of the highest compositional caliber...
I would include also 1982's Broadsword and the Beast
Yup…got it in one..play them all..life is better for it.
@@samuelecallegari6117 think the same. Broadsword belongs to this chain of albums.🙂
Andersons voice was at its finest on this albùm
This is my favorite Tull album. Ian Anderson's marriage had fallen apart just this album was put together, hence the more wistful, melancholic tone here. It's a unique vibe in Tull's discography.
Ian's mind and the way he wrote ,recorded and performed is as intriguing as the music itself.He was one of kind .An artist of the like the world will never see again. True genius . Here are some excerpts from wiki on the making of this album. Making use of a newly constructed mobile recording studio commissioned and constructed specifically for the band, the album was the first Jethro Tull album to be recorded outside of the UK, being recorded in tax exile in Monte Carlo, Monaco. where the band would record the album in the Prince of Wales Hotel.[6] Anderson rented a home in Los Angeles in December 1974 to finish writing of the album. Anderson believed that the band were undergoing a tense period during the recording of the album and were not getting along well, a recollection that other band members have disagreed with.Anderson found himself unhappy in Monaco, with his ire drawn mostly from the residents: "It made me sick getting up in the morning and watching all these people lying on the beach with their amazing vanity. Most of them are really ugly people, physically grotesque; the women are unattractive and the men are obscene. And they do nothing. I get very aggressive in that sort of situation because I've got a lot of things to do. Stylistically the album is varied, exemplary of Jethro Tull's progressive-influenced hard rock performances, with long instrumental passages, invested with elements of British folk and archaic, pre-Elizabethan sounds.[1] Team Rock called Minstrel in the Gallery's musical style a "heavy metal take on the obsessively ornamented style of A Passion Play".[7]
Give this another listen and read the lyrics so you can understand what Ian is saying and how the music fits with the feel and meaning of each song
One of the best sides of JT. And if you love concept albums, you must do the entire “Thick as a Brick,” the king of concept albums.
Thick is a brick will be the next album we tackle by them I believe.
@@L33Reacts cool. Read the Wikipedia article about the album to get the full story of the concept before you listen.
Thick As A Brick will literally blow your mind,Lee! T
Thick as A Brick remains my JT favorite…
@@L33ReactsFuck yeah!
This album is my 2nd favourite album from JT. Please do A Passion Play next...I know i am not a member on Patreon, but do yourself the favor of listening to it!!
A Passion Play is definitely my personal favorite Tull.
Thanks for the great reaction of a wonderful album.
Thank you my friend! I truly appreciate that. 🙏
This was such a cool new Tull album, when it came out! I still groove to it. I've never been disappointed by anything from Jethro Tull, before then or since, over the decades. I love it all, ever since I first heard them (Ian and crew) somewhere in the dim-confused-with-lightning-flashes jumble of my musical awareness adventure of the early '70s. Rock on, young fella; there's so much more, always more! 🤜☺️
That is the sign of true quality right there... and I totally see it too. I bet this stuff was even better back when it came out and you had no idea what was coming 😊
...so happy about this review - not only that I love that album so much, but I also completely go along with your feelings and reflections... such a treat!!! Yes, there are so many twists and turns, different instruments etc, but Ian weaves it all so cleverly together, that it doesn't feel 'scattered' - very sophisticated compository skill he has! After listening to the whole thing I always need to crawl out of those medieval sceneries and emotions, and remind myself of the modern world, I live in (somewhat misplaced-ly) 🌟
I've followed them all the way through the late 60s and the 70s, beyond a little less, but there are still gems. There are of course some further top notches, like 'Aqualung', 'Thick as...', 'Passion Play', 'Songs from...' and 'Heavy Horses', but one with their earlier stuff I would highly recommend: the double album 'Living in the Past' - man, is that packed with brilliance... its staggering, and it also shows, where they originally come from... there's quite some more folk and blues rock in there, but already 'Tull-style'!...
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So glad you enjoyed it my friend! This was certainly a treat. It felt very personal and very important. And some of the best prog I've ever heard in parts. Just great work all around. Ian is a true bard.
With Jethro Tull it’s usually Ian Anderson on accoustic Guitar and Martin Barre on electric Guitar.
This is probably the most Ian's Tull album. As you heard a lot of it is just voice and acoustic guitar played by him. It's one of the most personal albums and has a particular melancholy feel thanks to the strings arrangement and the soft voice. (Ian had divorced during that time so it was a period of reflection for him).
Other album that you MUST listen from Tull are: Thick as a Brick, A Passion Play and Songs From the Wood. Try to listen the Steven Wilson remixes if you can
The “I can’t get out !” refers to how he is “owned by the Muse of poetry and cannot stop creating”
Baker St. Muse is my favorite song on my favorite album from my favorite band of all time.
This album sits in a really odd place in Tull's discography. The two albums either side are nothing like this, but feel like they belong together; whereas _Minstrel_ is one of a kind. It has at times been my favourite of theirs, but that does vary a lot!
I truly enjoyed this. It really did feel personal and whimsical in spots and then serious the next measure. The sound was super varied and the contrast worked great. This felt like a birth of a genre with some of the riffs they were playing...
It was Barrie...on drums..."One day you"ll b a Minstrel in the Gallery!!.......Good job my Boy!
Baker Street as in the Gerry Rafferty song, plus the home of Sherlock Holmes! What an awesome "song" to react to . Thank you.
I can't wait till you get to Heavy Horses. I would say the songs are stronger overall with a consistent texture of acoustic/electric blend and the bass and drums are maybe my favorite from Tull.
I will add it to the list! Thank you jimbo happy Thanksgiving!!
1. The 70s lasted for roughly 10 years. No joking. About 1968-1978. You are covering much of it in a year or two. (But there are still a lot of treasures hidden!) You have to mentally add our longing for the next album for months or years.
2. Don't overlook the importance of Martin Barre! Without the rock influence of him they shouldn't have that wide audience. Unfortunately Martin and Ian don't cooperate any longer and today we have two Jethro Tulls. Check up Martin Barre!
3. I will not bore you with my only visit to London in 1976. But after listening to this album for almost a year all emotions was there. From accidently crossing Baker Street to the blind man in the underpass. Exotic from my Swedish view (London was huge - and so British!)
man, I kinda forgot how good this album was. thanks!
One White Duck. Ian was speaking of his divorce.
Tull was an absolute rush to experience in concert. No other group put it out like them. No need for a big light show. Theyre extraordinary showmanship on stage was all that was needed. You got your money's worth.
Ian is the acoustic guitar player
Funny, he thought he wasn't very good ... at least not good enough to compete with Clapton, so he taught himself to play flute. And that made him famous.
What would someone that skilled on acoustic guitar sound like on an electric? I'd like to have heard it.
@@greenfalcon11 He does play electric guitar on a few songs. I think he played electric guitar on jump start. And there are others as well.
As a collection of songs this Jethro Tull album has 'The best JT album' written all over it... but in my view that accolade goes to A Passion Play. HOWEVER. , how can you argue with One white duck , the best prog-folk rock suite ever with Baker Suite Muse , and the perfectly short piece Grace. Love , love , love... what a perfect album. Chose a stunner there Lee. 😍
For years I was a TAAB best tull proponent. Few years ago I totally rediscovered APP. Now that's my favorite. Especially since I found night cap and the chateau tapes. Check out TH-cam for APP reconstructed. Guy put together what the original planned double album would have been.
L33: I don't know if Sherlock Holmes had anything to do with the theme of this epic, just know that I love it. And danged if your reaction to Ian's Spanish style of guitar playing isn't as strong as my own. So glad that you put this second half up on Thanksgiving so I could close out my day the same way I began it. (Even if I couldn't comment until today) Hope this holiday season is the turning point in your fortunes cuz you deserve it. Thanks again.
I remember picking up on Jethro Tull Thick as a Brick, I really fell in love with Ian's guitar playing. Offcourse Martin was the lead player, but the combination of Ian's voice and guitar sound somehow mixes so great.
As an old Welsh hippy who remembers how great Tull were from the early singles such as "Living in the Past", "Witches Promise" and "Sweet Dream" it's really cool to see a younger guy getting into the music I have always loved. Tull were consistently excellent. So exciting waiting for a new album to come out. I envy you hearing all this for the first time. What a treat for you. I agree also with others that you have to listen to "Passion Play" as one piece asap. It's brilliant musically and lyrically. Sort of pilgrims progress. Good reaction dude. I can always suggest some more obscure stuff in the same vein. Sorry, no pun intended. Have fun mate.
Haha thank you sir! I will definitely be doing passion play soon! I've heard nothing but good things lol. I'm so glad I discovered these fellas. They are absolutely riveting. 😊
I'd suggest 'A Passion Play' which was similar in style to this one, actually. But it's a whole album, as you might know already. It's a rock opera. It's darker in places than this, but it's extremes make it even more distinct and memorable. It's their best album, I think. Of course, probably their biggest album along with 'Aqualung'- 'Thick as a Brick,' is another concept album, like 'A Passion Play'. They are both amazing! The musicianship, alone, is off the charts on those albums. My favorite song of Jethro Tull's is 'Sossity, you're a Woman'.
That's Ian on acoustic
Sensitivity & gratitude within his beautiful voice. I want to go with him. Thank you 🌛
The only weak point that this album has is that it ends.😊👍
I agree Tommy... I wanted Baker St to just keep going and going haha
@@L33Reacts Haha exactly but on the other side, you have then no time to listen to other Tull records.🤔😂
If you want to hear an excellent Tull concept album give A Passion Play a listen! I don't think you will be disappointed!
Also Thick as a Brick 2 from 2012 is a winner as well!
Keep up your hard work!
The fact that Ian Anderson was self taught in Classical Guitar and Flute is just...F'n astonishing really.
My favorite Tull album...Awesome. Recorded live and uncut...
His voice is silk. Omg💕
This is one of the best Tull albums ever and I’m so glad that you enjoyed it
kicks medieval ass
This makes me feel like all is well. Changed grumpy into grins. Thank you.
Love your reaction ❤❤❤ I was a concert going person and I've seen Tull 12 times, in the front row always!! Best memories in my old age!!! Love your brain, we think the same! Be watching ya!!!
It's a bit of generational separation, but I think it's more cultural. He's just on another planet. England is close, but it's a slightly off kilter parallel universe. We are experiencing similar troubles and examples of narcissism and callousness, but our dialects are vaguely altered and esoteric. I know you're getting the jist. It just leaves us yanks slightly puzzled. Don't be caught up in cracking open every nuance, it's not essential.
It's funny how you compared it to drama and plays. There are absolutely movements and transitions that emulate scene changes. Coming on the heels of Brick and A Passion Play, Ian carried those theatrical tools into Minstral. God, you gotta love those big fat orchestral swells and movements. He could always make me feel the emotion of the story, and always brought me back to earth with his humor and humility.
I can't wait to hear passion play. Everyone has been hyping it up! Same with Thick, but I've at least heard the title track from Thick, nothing from passion. Can't wait! Thanks for watching my friend! Tull rules.
@@L33ReactsYou've heard part of Thick. The entire album is a single song split into two parts (because you had to flip the record over). You're in for a treat.
His voice is gone now. Has been since the early 80’s. He smoked a lot of tobacco over his years. Often recording songs whilst smoking. Sad loss.
So great you played this. One of the best if not the best of Tull. I'm a bit older than you and remember this album coming out and buying the vinyl. It seems these days most folks listen to music with headphones. In those days, I or one of my mates would buy a vinyl and immediately get together to play the whole thing with suitable refreshments and really enjoy the shared experience. I think this is why I really like (just a few though) reaction video folks like yourself (one of the best). It is like sitting with one of my mates again.
JT's epic-length songs (Thick As a Brick, Baker St. Muse, Heavy Horses, Dark Ages, others) are just so brilliant. If you really get into them, they can bring you to tears.
Masterpiece
I think that you are ready for "Thick as a Brick", the album not any of the live versions. The live versions are good, but they have to cut out over 30 minutes of awesome music to do the live version.
Yes. If Baker St. Muse works for you, Thick as a Brick (the full, studio album) will amaze you.
From an article in Grooves magazine, #18, 1979, on the Stormwatch album, called “Jethro Tull’s Stormin’ Again” - writer Mike Greenblatt discussing what Ian had earlier stated in 1975, after Minstrel in the Gallery was put out - “I am absolutely not interested in what other groups are doing,”’Anderson stated flatly in an interview with Judith Sims at the time. “My inspiration is more historical. I’m looking for something people might enjoy, not this year or the next; but maybe in a hundred years somebody will say, ‘that chap did something different, rather interesting, not the same old thing”
My favorite song by far
I would have liked to have taken the underground to Baker Street and see its valley of buildings back then.
Also see Fullham Road
I remember being excited about getting this album when it came out. The first few times I listened to it, I wasn't sure how much I liked it. I would have to say it grew on me. I think because it was so unusual and different.
Thanks! Welcome to my world.
I think this song is one of Tull's absolute masterpieces, it is just perfect. Barrie Barlowe is the best drummer I have ever seen or heard.
Its Barriemore Barlow on drums.
Yeah I realized after haha I felt kinda dumb. It does sound like him too idk what I was on about
@@L33Reacts,don't worry about it , if you were dumb, you wouldn't be listening to prog rock eh ? It's not a exam,I enjoyed your reaction to Minstrel, my favourite Tull album. Keep up the good work.
A minute 17 he's in the middle of a very melodic song, but you know he set you up.
Then with one strum of the guitar he changes trajectory
" Couldn't wish for a better one!!"
and you'll never see the end coming!!!
Few lyricists have ever been able to vividly paint a picture like Ian Anderson.
Nice reaction.
You are one of my favorite reactioners now. However, I don't want you to take this wrong. You could stand to talk a little bit less during the songs. Because you literally talked almost all the way through the song.
I don't want to offend you by saying that. But save up some of your comments and make them, You know less frequent. Because I know there's some really good parts of this song that you missed. Because you were actually talking during that time. So you need to listen to this one more time and make no comments. Not on here. Just listen to It for yourself. Just put your headphones lay back and close your eyes and listen to It. You'll get a whole lot more out of it. Not that I'm saying you didn't. But I think you'd have to admit you'd have to get more out of it. Think about it
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I love the title track... it's my favourite Tull track ever (well at least this week it is!). Cold Wind to Valhalla, Requiem and One White Duck.. are classics. But I don't care for either Black Satin Dancer or Baker St Muse. The latter IMHO goes nowhere and I have tried to like it since I first heard it in 1975, but it just doesn't do it for me and that's coming from a JT fanatic who has followed them since 1972.
I've heard Ian in a radio interview state that he actually wasn't happy with how the album ended up and that the band weren't at their best....maybe Jeffrey was thinking "I have to leave and take up my love of painting"....which he did soon after.
I kinda agree on Black Satin Dancer, it's not a favorite of mine. Can't go along with Baker St Muse, however Bungle in the Jungle is "that" song for me. I'd be fine if I never heard it again. It's the only Tull song I feel that way about.
Please give “Black Satin Dancer” another chance. I’ve found it can be a jammer
More cowbell
Needs more 🐄 🔔
So what do you really think about old hippie music?
The other songs on this album will grow on you with repeated listening. Everything on this album is strong.
you mentioned that there was a social commentary element during your listening. which it is. As Ian was observing life in the Baker Street environment he turned those observations into the song- and you need to really read the lyrics to get a better understanding of what Ian is saying. Example, Crash Barrier Waltzer is about a drunk old lady in the street and the encounter with the policeman. Very poetic description of a sad part of our society
...some only-son's mother...Baker St. casualty.
Why they are not in the rock hall of fame. I don't get it. Legendary band.
Because it's a sham, and not to be taken seriously. They've never even been nominated.
I think they have a lot of harpsichord in this
Yeah if you think the music has made your transitions so does his lyrics and his themes. I've listened to this guy for 45 years and I don't understand the background of the songs
Welcome to "Prog-Rock," where music was art and not commerce. Where artists had something to say, although you had to figure it out. Where the players were master musicians, not just dumb-ass gits downloading beats and rapping about how great they are. If you really get into this music, Jethro Tull, Yes, Pink Floyd, Genesis (Peter Gabriel Genesis, not Phil Collins Genesis, a very important distinction) you'll be spoilled for anything else.
I was just finishing 7th grade When this came out. I had just bought my first 2 albums at Save On Drug store( Yes they had 1 isle dedicated to albums)crazy I know .For my hard earned money 7 or 8 $ I walked out with JTs Aqualung and The Sweet Desolation Blvd.And the wonderful trip started and WHAT A Incredible TRIP ITS BEEN! YOUVE got to realize what was going on in music at that time. You had Genesis coming out with Lamb Lie Down on Broadway. Yes, Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper, to many F'n incredible bands to name Oh and the great cheese shit show kiss what classless garbage but they did have their place. I bought those albums having no idea what I was getting ad a protest to what was getting all the radio time and I'm so glad I did. I was able to see JT 4 or 5 times before Ian's voice was damaged beyond repair. To think how GOOD THIS band was blows your mind it brings tears to my eyes to see these guys work their magic . It was the most insane time in music that I don't think can ever be repeated. Great and heart felt reaction👻🐟
Oh I didn't listen to Passion Play for like 5 yrs because my mind couldn't handle it with out a complete melt down😂