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Jethro Tull - killer riffs with a flute player standing on one leg

Mick and the Phatman Season 4 Episode 9

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 Jethro Tull is one of the stranger turns taken by rock music over more than 50 years. Mick and Jeff look back at some of the band’s best work, and, maybe, some of their strangest. 

The “Album You Must Hear Before You Die” is Queen II, a sensational album released the year before Queen took over the world!  Both Mick & Jeff love it! 

Jeff takes a look at what AI is doing to music.  We’re not worried, because, as Joe Walsh says, AI can’t even trash a hotel room!  While he's at it, Jeff then looks at who is “knocking on Heaven’s door” this month. 

Yet another very full episode! 

Episode playlist 

Professional Flautist watches Jethro Tull:  https://youtu.be/0SCdFmSqcjk?si=gRbdG9nsk0rW4Od7 

 “Too Old to Rock & Roll / Too Young to die” 

 

References:  Queen II, EMI Records, Elektra Records, Trident Studios, Roy Thomas Baker, Jethro Tull, Marquee Club, flute, John Glasscock, Ian Anderson. Martin Barre, “Locomotive Breath”, “Aqualung”, “Loudermilk”, Ocean, “Thick as a Brick”, “Passion Play”, “Too Old to Rock & Roll / Too Young to die”, “Songs from the Wood”, “Heavy Horses”, “Broadsword and the Beast”, The Jethro Tull Christmas Album, Clive Bunker, John Glascock, Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi, salmon farming, Michael Stipe, Kirk Hammett, Nick Cave, Thick as a Brick 2: Whatever Happened to Gerald Bostock?, “Jethro Tull: The Rock Opera”, “RökFlöte”, Norse mythology, “The Zealot Gene”