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Originally Posted by jackhammer
He put out Thick as a Brick as a joke almost, taking the piss out of Prog bands by releasing a big double album and I am not a fan of it too much but I do like Tull 75% of the time.
Would have loved to have seen Tull in their prime though.
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You're right, but he said that publicly from day one. He was unhappy that
Aqualung was labeled a concept prog album. Anderson didn't want Tull labeled as anything except for Jethro Tull, so he took the biggest stab he could at the Prog genre by creating the first single song album, and claiming the lyrics were written by the fictions 10-year old character Gerald Bostock, but in the process, he created one of the seminal prog albums of the original wave of progressive rock.
For me, Tull's output from '71 starting with
Aqualung through '79's
Stormwatch is almost completely flawless, and during that period (71- 79), they were more prolific than most any other band, releasing 9 studio albums and 1 live album.
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