Description
Rare double cd
This double album starts with seven tracks recorded at the Anaheim Convention Centre on the 6th of April 1977. This is from the America part of their Songs From The Wood Tour and the band plays Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony second and fourth movements,abridged. Out next comes nine tracks recorded at the Tower Theatre in Philadelphia on November 25th, 1987. This was a kind of rebirth for Jethro Tull. Although most of the band had been together for several years (since the onset of the 1980s most of guys in this line-up were in place), the band was playing with renewed vigor propelled by the success of Steel Monkey, a rocker that brought them considerable radio airplay once again. In fact, it was the recording of Steel Monkey that got Tull the Grammy for Best Heavy Metal recording in 1987, beating out Metallica, who most anticipated would win. New to the band for this tour was keyboardist Don Airey, who worked with Whitesnake, and later in Deep Purple. The newer songs in the show went down well, but it was the Tull classics that make this one of the best live recordings of the band. Here it opens with a stunning version of Thick As A Brick, which they also reprise at the end of the show. Wond Ring Aloud, Skating Away On The Thin Ice Of A New Day, and Too Old To Rock And Roll Too Young To Die add to the greatest hits presented in this show. The whammy closer of Aqualung and Locomotive Breath brings the show to a climax, as it has done on hundreds of other Tull concerts. Overall an outstanding recording both from the standpoints of the band’s tight performance and the stellar live broadcast mix.
Track list:
1. Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony-second and fourth movements abridged-Anaheim 1977
2. Minstrel In The Gallery-Anaheim 1977
3. Cross-eyed Mary-Anaheim 1977
4. Aqualung-Anaheim 1977
5. Wind-up-Anaheim 1977
6. Back-door Angels-Anaheim 1977
7. Locomotive Breath-Anaheim 1977
8. Thick As A Brick-Philadelphia 1987
9. Farm On The Freeway-Philadelphia 1987
10. Wond’ring Aloud-Philadelphia 1987
11. Skating Away On The Thin Ice Of A New Day-Philadelphia 1987
12. Jump Start-Philadelphia 1987
13. Too Old To Rock n Roll; Too Young To Die-Philadelphia 1987
14. Aqualung-Philadelphia 1987
15. Locomotive Breath-Philadelphia 1987
16. Thick As A Brick (reprise)-Philadelphia 1987