I was at this show center floor about ten deep back from the stage with friends. Joe Griffin, Scott Masengill. Mike Owen, and Mark Moser of Brevard, North Carolina. At 15 years old, our minds were blown.
Twenty one days after this happened, I saw my first ever Tull show at the LA Forum on February 4th 1975 ... it was so damned mind blowing that I would go on to see 61 more, including two in the past two weeks! Thanks once again TullTapes for putting together these little archaeological treasures ... "invest your life in the memory bank ... ours the interest ... and we thank you."
TuLLHead - I saw them in may same year in Zagreb Croatia (former YU).It's imposible to forget this gig.The opeinig: Martin flyes from left side of the stage to the right part, like he is catapulted, and starts with riff from midle of "Wind Up"!Jeffrey flyes from right side to the left and join the tune.Ian apears in this minstrel outfit, and sings until they inmmediately jump into one of craziest parts of Passion Play!!! In one moment Ian trows his flute from left side of the stage, and John Evan catch it on right side, while still playing with another hand.It was pure visual and musical magic!!! I think it was 25th of May, and Ian later said in one interview, this night he first time made love with his future wife (in my hometown!) It was my first Tull live expirience, and I saw them 5 more times during the years in different countries.This Warchild tour is one of most spectacular events in the history of live R&R performances.
I was at this concert in San Diego, Ca, the opening act was a flamenco-rock group called Carmen, they were very good but the Tull was sublime, I still have the concert program. Thanks for the memories
Hello from Asheville! I was much too young to see this but who know 26 years later i would see them in the smaller "thomas wolfe theater" upstairs from the basement civic center of this show. Alas, no saxophone at that one.
Saw this in London at the Rainbow with the bosomy String Quartet. Forgot what an astonishing presence Jeffry Hammond was on stage. Tickets still taped on my Warchild album. "Some Grand Court Jester!"
Saw this tour in East Lansing in 1974 I think it was December. Seems like Jeffry Hammond Hammond came out with his Zebra suit on playing a matching Stand-Up Bass. ( I could be wrong about the Bass). It was at Jenison Field House.
This is heroic of Tulltapes to construct...pretty much all we have from the three greatest tours ever: 72,73 and 75. The lack of official release material from those years is frustrating and mysterious. You know what I think? I think if we live long enough, like well past Ian and Jeffrey having a vote, a flood of high quality film will emerge. And you know why? Because Tull, by far and away my favorite band ever and eternally in a class of their own, years before milli vanilli and the like, were probably 'cheating' with pre-recorded material integrated into the sound and they are stuck in the mindset of not getting busted even though live/sample/pre-recorded bits and all manner of 'cheating' are beyond acceptable and forgiven by 2022. Everyone knows Jeffrey could barely play bass and everyone who saw Tull was amazed at the precision, complexity, perfection and overall magic of the material, night after night. Tull were probably 'cheating' a little or maybe a bunch. Who cares? And they don't want us to see films that will make it evident ( remember Giddings not playing on Budapest clip?). All is forgiven, Ian, Jefferey, Dee...now share the films !!!
Ian looks positively bizarre in this Tull phase, what is that all about? The video is doing weird things ... but it looks like it is doing it in time to the music so whatever it is it's a cool effect! These older renditions of songs are so much punchier, today some of the lives stuff just gets phoned in for elevator music ... this is great to listen to - love it, thanks.
It was 1975 lol. That's what it's all about. But also, Ian was into the Elizabethan minstrel thing at that time, and the band in general was larger than life. I mean look at Jeffrey's outfit. Not exactly jeans and a t-shirt.
Hello wonderful person who posted this... I was there! Is there any chance you snipped out the part where the "zebra" walked on stage played by two roadies? The hind roadie dropped striped tennis balls behind them and Ian Anderson picked them up and said "ah. zebra sh*t!" An article I've seen says bassist Jeffery then juggled the balls but in my memory it was Ian who did the juggling...
@@rocksteady9115 yes... but only 2 songs, which I love by the way, but still not a "proper" live album. Also, in 1970 they were great but still not at their pick. IMO a first live album should have been released between 1972 and 1975.
@@eribaldoyes3883 I think then 72-75 they played tons of taab and passion p, I personally think the condensed version of taab was better ,so 78 worked better for me I've listened to lots of bootlegs from 72-75, they had a much rawer sound, plus the silly stuff doggie in window, hare lost spectacles etc wasn't really good, just my opinion of course
@@rocksteady9115 Yes, somethings like the doggie could have been edited, but their sound was so much powerful, and Ian´s voice was at it´s best. In 1978 he already had some problems and he sounded a little scraped and nasal. Also, until 1977 Martin used the Gibson Les Paul and he sounded brutal. In Bursting Out he changed to "Hammer" guitars and although it sounds great, it´s not the classic raw Les Paul sound. But anyway, just details here and there.
@@eribaldoyes3883 Martin used a Gibson SG for Warchild Minstrel tours,but tbh I prefer his Hamer Sunburst tone on Storm watch, Dark Ages is his best ever tone imo Have you got Minstrel boxed set, it has a live album from 1975 on it??
Well, their just like the late medieval and Renaissance pants, as well as minstrel in the gallery and thick as a brick also in Parts was Inspired by late Renaissance/Baroque music.
I remember these concerts, It was GRAND. Saw my first one in 71' Saw Passion Play, and they blew me away. Best Prog/ Rock Band ever.
I was at this show center floor about ten deep back from the stage with friends. Joe Griffin, Scott Masengill. Mike Owen, and Mark Moser of Brevard, North Carolina. At 15 years old, our minds were blown.
Cool!!!
I was there 13 days shy of my 15th birthday. I sat up high behind the stage. I have never forgotten where I was on January 17, 1975!
I attended this concert when I was a student at Christ School in Arden, NC. FANTASTIC that this footage exists!
The best band in the history of mankind at its best.
Absolutely agree. Even when Jeffrey left and John Glascock came in, Tull was phenomenal.
Tull at their finest. And TullTapes at HIS finest. Thanks for this mini-masterpiece!
Twenty one days after this happened, I saw my first ever Tull show at the LA Forum on February 4th 1975 ... it was so damned mind blowing that I would go on to see 61 more, including two in the past two weeks! Thanks once again TullTapes for putting together these little archaeological treasures ... "invest your life in the memory bank ... ours the interest ... and we thank you."
TuLLHead - I saw them in may same year in Zagreb Croatia (former YU).It's imposible to forget this gig.The opeinig: Martin flyes from left side of the stage to the right part, like he is catapulted, and starts with riff from midle of "Wind Up"!Jeffrey flyes from right side to the left and join the tune.Ian apears in this minstrel outfit, and sings until they inmmediately jump into one of craziest parts of Passion Play!!!
In one moment Ian trows his flute from left side of the stage, and John Evan catch it on right side, while still playing with another hand.It was pure visual and musical magic!!!
I think it was 25th of May, and Ian later said in one interview, this night he first time made love with his future wife (in my hometown!)
It was my first Tull live expirience, and I saw them 5 more times during the years in different countries.This Warchild tour is one of most spectacular events in the history of live R&R performances.
I too was at this show. Tull had spent the week in Asheville getting the show ready for the road...
This is so cool, great job on the syncing. Saw them about 4 months after this show at New Haven.
Ian's voice was in fine form here. Really wish I had seen the band perform this early
They were even better on the APP tour.
Absolutely- 1972-1979 - Anderson’s voice at its peak performance. Brilliant
I was at this concert in San Diego, Ca, the opening act was a flamenco-rock group called Carmen, they were very good but the Tull was sublime, I still have the concert program. Thanks for the memories
+Roberto Ramirez
The base player for Carmen was John Glasscock. Who joined Tull after Jeffrey Hammond left Tull.
+Mayoff Jack
this is truth. I already know this. thanks for remember this.
WTF? Someone captured this show?!?! I was there!!!
Hello from Asheville! I was much too young to see this but who know 26 years later i would see them in the smaller "thomas wolfe theater" upstairs from the basement civic center of this show. Alas, no saxophone at that one.
I was at this show that same year in Seattle. Good times.
great sync job...astounding footage of Tull...they should have filmed this one...
It's so good to see film of Jeffrey Hammond Hammond. There's not much of it about. What a star!
Saw this in London at the Rainbow with the bosomy String Quartet. Forgot what an astonishing presence Jeffry Hammond was on stage. Tickets still taped on my Warchild album. "Some Grand Court Jester!"
Good job with syncing the audio! Must have been a nightmare with all the jump cuts.
I was there!!!! I was 15 - and I still think it was the best rock show I have ever seen!!!!!
Attended both of these shows at the Boston Gahden !!!! Garden
Such a pity there is no pro-shot footage of them playing the complete Brick and APP. Happily I saw it live.
Thank you so so much for your efforts!! This is great!!
Priceless...!! Thanks for the upload, this is amazing...!!
Absolutely marvelous!
they hit Asheville with the North Carolina symphony behind them -- Toured the rest of the country with just a string ensemble!
Checking out these clips because read your comment on GD 4-12-78
@@adamgoldman9500 were you at the show or just a fan?
Saw this tour in East Lansing in 1974 I think it was December. Seems like Jeffry Hammond Hammond came out with his Zebra suit on playing a matching Stand-Up Bass. ( I could be wrong about the Bass). It was at Jenison Field House.
This is heroic of Tulltapes to construct...pretty much all we have from the three greatest tours ever: 72,73 and 75. The lack of official release material from those years is frustrating and mysterious. You know what I think? I think if we live long enough, like well past Ian and Jeffrey having a vote, a flood of high quality film will emerge. And you know why? Because Tull, by far and away my favorite band ever and eternally in a class of their own, years before milli vanilli and the like, were probably 'cheating' with pre-recorded material integrated into the sound and they are stuck in the mindset of not getting busted even though live/sample/pre-recorded bits and all manner of 'cheating' are beyond acceptable and forgiven by 2022. Everyone knows Jeffrey could barely play bass and everyone who saw Tull was amazed at the precision, complexity, perfection and overall magic of the material, night after night. Tull were probably 'cheating' a little or maybe a bunch. Who cares? And they don't want us to see films that will make it evident ( remember Giddings not playing on Budapest clip?). All is forgiven, Ian, Jefferey, Dee...now share the films !!!
Well, not so good on the film in sound quality, but I've seen TULL in-concert 8×...
So it's still good to reminisce to. Cheers Ian
Hammond Hammond and that guitar suit ! A star
It was a Zebra suit, which matched the two men in the zebra suit which excreted balls of striped zebra 'shit'.
Unfortunately, despite the genius, a largely unappeciated piece. Seriously underated.... amazing live repoduction of absolute musical prodigy.
Ian looks positively bizarre in this Tull phase, what is that all about?
The video is doing weird things ... but it looks like it is doing it in time to the music so whatever it is it's a cool effect!
These older renditions of songs are so much punchier, today some of the lives stuff just gets phoned in for elevator music ... this is great to listen to - love it, thanks.
It was 1975 lol. That's what it's all about. But also, Ian was into the Elizabethan minstrel thing at that time, and the band in general was larger than life. I mean look at Jeffrey's outfit. Not exactly jeans and a t-shirt.
pCeLobster indeed, it was THE BEST Tull phase ever!!!
my God this guy can play the flute !
best band ever
Love this!!!
Fabulous !
Hello wonderful person who posted this... I was there! Is there any chance you snipped out the part where the "zebra" walked on stage played by two roadies? The hind roadie dropped striped tennis balls behind them and Ian Anderson picked them up and said "ah. zebra sh*t!" An article I've seen says bassist Jeffery then juggled the balls but in my memory it was Ian who did the juggling...
When they were in Greensboro in August of '75, Jeffrey was doing the juggling.
I think that was 75 and Ian said 'you can't say Tull doesn't have their shit together'
WTF, who transferred this super 8? I was there as an 18;year old kid with great dreams...Brings back great memories! Martin Barre can’t read a note😉
❤❤❤
Rare Live footage from this era!
In his pomp and all his glory.... Tull @ their peak
Excellent singing.
Are these different concerts, or does Jeffrey do an outfit change halfway through?
same concert
thanks guys, dime members rule!
JHH's Amazing Technicolor DreamCoat !
Asheville was one 'backwoods' place to start a major tour. Charlotte was more appropriate.
I bet they got a steal renting the Asheville Civic Center for the week. Ian was always an astute business man.
They played Greensboro later that year in August, the night before Ian Anderson's birthday.
Inexplicably, Ian would wait until 1978 to put out their first live album...
Side 3 of living in the past was live
@@rocksteady9115 yes... but only 2 songs, which I love by the way, but still not a "proper" live album. Also, in 1970 they were great but still not at their pick. IMO a first live album should have been released between 1972 and 1975.
@@eribaldoyes3883 I think then 72-75 they played tons of taab and passion p, I personally think the condensed version of taab was better ,so 78 worked better for me
I've listened to lots of bootlegs from 72-75, they had a much rawer sound, plus the silly stuff doggie in window, hare lost spectacles etc wasn't really good, just my opinion of course
@@rocksteady9115 Yes, somethings like the doggie could have been edited, but their sound was so much powerful, and Ian´s voice was at it´s best. In 1978 he already had some problems and he sounded a little scraped and nasal. Also, until 1977 Martin used the Gibson Les Paul and he sounded brutal. In Bursting Out he changed to "Hammer" guitars and although it sounds great, it´s not the classic raw Les Paul sound. But anyway, just details here and there.
@@eribaldoyes3883 Martin used a Gibson SG for Warchild Minstrel tours,but tbh I prefer his Hamer Sunburst tone on Storm watch, Dark Ages is his best ever tone imo
Have you got Minstrel boxed set, it has a live album from 1975 on it??
Might need to re-upload this. The file has been corrupted and now the image is jumping around.
Ian was great showman in the early days of hair and theatre Rock. No question
Ian's best in-concert look - IMHO.
Peak Tull......and that's HIGH
I hate to discourage, but WTH is this? This is not the original Tulll? Talk to me.
What about that hair? Yucko ... what is holding it in place ... I think Trump would be interested.
Love Tull but Ian in tights is kinda cringey
Well, their just like the late medieval and Renaissance pants, as well as minstrel in the gallery and thick as a brick also in Parts was Inspired by late Renaissance/Baroque music.