RE: Music Legends – Featured Artist Jethro Tull
Thanks, this was enlightening. I have always wanted to know more about this band but have been a bit too lazy to delve into finding out. Reading this while listening to their music was great! :)
I wonder if you know about an american band called Iron Butterfly, I have one of their LPs (safely in my brother's garage) my dad brought back after home after his exchange student year in the early 70's. It has the song "In-a-gadda-da-vida" which is pretty cool.
I know they had made a few more albums than that, but from what I hear they stayed relatively unknown to the rest of the world. Apparently their guitarist was a young genious or something, but died from drugs? (I might remember it wrong. It's been almost 30 years since I last read the in-sleeve of the album cover.
I find In-a-gadda-da-vida weirdly similar to Cream's Sunshine of Your Love.
I love these band essays you have written. I might try it out too, I have not very many, but some interesting albums in my shelf. :)
Cream .. First heavy metal band imho
Ah, the great Rock and or roll band, I Ron Butterfly
Oh yeah, Cream were the 'super group' with brilliantly talented musicians ...Jack Bruce was rated as the top Bassist at the time, Ginger Baker to my mind WAS the best drummer then and possibly of all time (I know...subjective {grin}).... and of course old slow hand himself Eric Clapton a virtuoso guitarist. Overall their career together was a disappointment... imo their best being White Room off the Wheels of Fire album!
Btw. I read here that Clapton adopted his style of playing from JJ Cale.
I remember Iron butterfly well, and yes their song Inacadanaveda was a classic. I believe I may have some of their stuff in my collection. I enjoyed them without being a big fan.... but there is a qualifier here. In those days we only had AM or Medium Wave radio so the quality of the sound was not good. So a lot of the instrumentation was lost... {note to self: Dig out Iron Butterfly vinyl and re-listen}
Thanks for reading and taking the time to comment, I really appreciate it.
Heh, I had to check IB from Wikipedia and discovered that it wasn't the guitarist Eric Braunn who died, but their bassist Philip Taylor Kramer who apparently did a suicide.
Be careful @Gamer00... this music stuff sucks one in :) :) ... When I get started I lose hours. thanks for the feedback.
Haha, I noticed. I should've been doing homesteading, and now be picking up my offspring from school and daycare and I've wasted my morning listening to music and reading wikipedia.
Never wasted {grin}...now off with ya..