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Ugress: Jeffrey. www.ugress.com. Welcome 4-D De-Li Lo-R S-T
This is a Norwegian remix of "A Song For Jeffrey". Starts with a really nice groove, but lack of variation stamps out the spark too
early. Also released on a 12".
The Ultimate Cover Band: Aqualung. http://membrane.com/reunion_concert2.html
Intended as humour I guess. Although this weird version has it moments it's most of the time almost unbearable.
Uncle Dirtytoes: Make Them Come Alive! CD 1997.
Life Is A Long Song.
Maria Anthony, Megan Hurt and band captured live doing a sympathetic folky rendition of LALS.
Universal Trilogy: Plus (+). CD 2001 Music Chicken.
Living In The Past (Funk Junkee Mix).
Cool intro leads to some sort of dance version by this Greek band. Doesn't come close to the finesse of Tull's own LITP mixes from
1993.
Universal Trilogy: Inside Blue. CD single 2001 Music Chicken.
Another mix of the above LITP on this hard-to-find CD single. It's actually pretty cool in it's own peculiar way.
Urban Legends: Logomotive Breath. www.sebmaster.com/bilderarchiv/sound_of_breitenborn.htm
The g instead of c in the song title perfectly reflects the spirit of this version. Everything is just a bit out.
Midge Ure: The Gift. CD 1996 (1985) EMI.
Living In The Past.
Perhaps Midge Ure could have done better with some other Tull-tune? Instrumental outro works nicely, but as a whole this is a
disappointment.
V.A.: 100 Heavy Horses Dancing On My Time/Space Discontinuum. CD 1999 A New Day Records.
Jackie Lynton: Not Quite Aqualung.
One minute of comedy. As the title says, it's almost Aqualung! Appears also on the album "Quick As A Roof" from 1996. Fun.
V.A.: It's For You--Two! CD 2006 A New Day Records.
Limite Dato: And Further On. Queen And Country: It All Trickles Down, Look At The Animals. Day-Glo Pirates: To Cry You Song,
Nothing To Say, Dun Ringill. Beggars Farm: A Passion Play Part 1, A Passion Play Part 2.
This CD, issued for AND-subscribers, contains some exceptional stuff. LD' s AFO is a superb big band jazz version, a complete re-arrangement,
simply excellent. QAC apparently focus on rare Tull, a mission highly appreciated. DGP is in solid form, especially DR sounds great. And
finally BF would deserve a gold medal for performing the rock-epic of all times: APP. The CD also contains some real Tull live, but sorry, the
covers are so much more interesting…
V.A.: Die DT 64 Story Vol. 5. CD 1997 BMG.
Joco Dev Sextett: Wenn die Schwalben wiederkehren (For A Thousand Mothers).
Actually this is not a cover but a plagiary, recorded in DDR 1971. "When The Shallows Return" (Beutner/Heine) tells the liner notes
of this compilation featuring rare and obscure recordings from behind the iron-curtain. Well enough played to reveal the evident
source of "inspiration". Highly interesting as such.
V.A.: Songs For Jethro Vol. 1. CD 2000 Il Popolo Del Blues.
Malibran: Bouree, Lincoln: Living In The Past, La Macchina Ossuta: Skating Away On The Thin Ice Of The New Day,
Souldrivers: Sweet Dream, Silvia Perlini & Gianni Mocchetti: Only Solitaire, Circle Game: Nursie, Dario Lombardo &
Chicago Blue Revue: Cat's Squirrel, Ernesto De Pascale & London Underground: A New Day Yesterday, U.B.T.: Mother
Goose, Cpt. Elica & Dissoi Logoi: Fat Man, Novalia: Aqualung, OAK: A Song For Jeffrey, Garybaldi: Locomotive Breath,
Algebra: Up To Me, Dun: Dun Ringill, Germinale: Wond'ring Aloud, Beggar's Farm: With You There To Help Me,
Grand Court Jesters & Special Guests: We Used To Know, Ductia: For Michael Collins, Jeffrey And Me, Michele
Manzotti: Too Old -Theme.
The best Jethro Tull tribute album to date. It contains so many good takes that it's impossible to mention them all. Very few weak
moments. And then there is Ductia's "For Michael Collins…". This piece is just out of this world. Music that lifts you up and
gives you strength and hope. They have taken the main theme of this "forgotten" tune from Benefit and skipped the completely
useless middle-section. They have turned it into something so beautiful… and when Massimo Giuntini takes the lead with his
uillean pipes, that's when you really leave ground. A sincere thank you, Ductia. More memorable moments: Novalia's 'Indian'
"Aqualung". Just the right thing to do with such in some ways worn song. It's not just curiously funny, it's musically great too.
And Souldrivers' "Sweet Dream" - a perfect winner. All in all a wonderful effort by the Itullians.
V.A.: Jethro Tull Convention Italiana 2000. Video Itullians.
Lincoln: Boris Dancing, Little Flower Girl, Bouree. Silvia Perlini & Gianni Mocchetti: Just Trying To Be, Up The Pool,
Christmas Song, Reasons For Waiting. Dario Lombardo: Beggar's Farm. Mother Goose: Hymn 43, Lick Your Fingers Clean,
Living In The Past, Serenade To A Cuckoo, With You There To Help Me, We Used To Know. Souldrivers: Love Story, Sweet
Dream, Thick As A Brick. Beggar's Farm: No Lullaby, A New Day Yesterday, Nothing Is Easy, A Song For Jeffrey, Hunting
Girl, Up To Me, Aqualung. David Palmer: Wind Up, The Whistler, From A Dead Beat To An Old Greaser, Too Old To R'nR
Too Young To Die, Bourree, Move On Alone, Elegy, Locomotive Breath.
A documentary of a JT-convention. Former members Bunker, Cornick, Evan and Palmer visit the stage frequently. Looks like a long
but relaxed day of Tull-music. Ironically it's David Palmer's fiasco of "Too Old…" that stays in one's mind the longest. Maybe most
surprising is that he actually decides to continue the show after that complete disaster, and moves on into a terrible "version" of
"Bourree" with Bunker and Cornick. And I say this with all due respect of a dedicated fan. Well, of course these guys are only human
and can't do whatever without proper rehearsal. Hats off to the Itullians that they haven't edited out all embarrassing moments.
V.A.: To Cry You A Song--A Collection Of Tull Tales. CD 1996 Magna Carta.
Magellan: Aqualung. Roy Harper: Up The Pool. John Wetton & Phil Manzanera: Nothing Is Easy. Lief Sorbye: Mother
Goose. Robert Berry: Minstrel In The Gallery. Echolyn: One Brown Mouse. Mick Abrahams: Cat's Squirrel. Glenn Hughes:
To Cry You A Song. Robby Steinhardt: New Day Yesterday. Wolfstone: Teacher. Keith Emerson: Living In The Past.
Tempest: Locomotive Breath. Dave & Matt Pegg: Life's A Long Song.
A very inconsistent collection considering the reasonable expectations for such a line-up. First the complaints: apparently a mistake
to have 3 original JT-members 'reunite' for this project. They hadn't played together for almost 30 years, and they didn't do it now
either, as all parts were recorded separately. That led to no new-arranging and real stiffs like Keith Emerson's 'interpretation'
of LITP. And I'm really not sure if a Jethro Tull-tribute album is the right place for Mick Abrahams to perform "Cat's S" once again.
Good prog-outfit Echolyn deliver a lame "Brown Mouse", Wetton, Manzanera and the ex-Tullers prove that nothing sure is easy.
These guys are so good that I think you can expect them to do better. And now the goodies: this album contains one of the best pieces
ever heard! Robert Berry's mind-blowing, brain-storming, fantastic MITG. JT almost managed to disguise that they had come up
with one of rock'n'roll's greatest riffs, but Berry reveals it naked and bare. It's so good that you go speechless, you just want to jump
around and play that air-guitar! And listen to Roy Harper's "Up The Pool"- great, unique stuff.
V.A.: Obst Almanach Des Jahres 2001. CD 2001 Obst.
Dietmar Bonnen: We Used To Know.
Interesting interpretation in a jazzy manner, performed live with DB on piano and vocals and Gagga Deistler on electric guitar.
Good.
V.A.: SCC Jethro Tull Tribute. Cassette.
Annwn (Leigh Ann's Band): Witche's Promise, Mother Goose, Life's A Long Song. Paul Tarvydas: Wondering Aloud,
Locomotive Breath. Kevin Thurston: Bouree. Phil Gammon: Cheap Day Return, Wind Up. GT's (John Fratus' Band): Hymn
43. Alman & Phelps: Up The Pool, Nursie. Chris Spillios: Slow Marching Band.
This collection was distributed for free through the St. Cleve Chronicle web-site. It mostly consists of primitive home made
recordings made without too much ambition. Still there are some fine moments, for instance Annwm sounds very promising. And then
there is a cover version of one of the greatest rock-ballads ever made. I'm of course speaking about "Slow Marching Band". Chris
Spillios gives a beautiful, unassuming rendition, accompanied only by piano and female harmony voice on the last phrases. Sad that
JT doesn't perform this hidden classic, it would make a great concert-finale. Maybe a certain Mr. Anderson doesn't share my opinion
of it?
V.A.: Live From Bonnaroo. 2CD 2002 Sanctuary Records.
Les Claypool's Frog Brigade: Locomotive Breath.
Good stuff from the Bonnaroo music festival in Tennessee. LC's FB rocks an audience of 70.000! Fab bass and drum work.
V.A.: Sucking The 70's. 2CD 2002 Small Stone Records.
Clutch: Cross Eyed Mary. Alabama Thunderpussy: Hymn 43.
An army of young American bands tribute seventies rock music. Appropriately two Tull-tracks featured. Both are fairly ok, though
I think the most uninteresting way to express energy is by adding distortion to the guitar-sound. Good anyway.
V.A.: Christmas In Vienna V. CD 1998 Sony Classical.
Riccardo Cocciante: Another Christmas Song.
Part of a Christmas-medley, Cocciante (Italian--of course!) on stage with Placido Domingo, Sarah Brightman and Helmut Lotti. Not
names usually associated with Jethro Tull-music. I think ACS is a great song, but here it is given a pompous treatment by the Wiener
Symphoniker. I can deal with it until the children's choir Gumpoldskirchner Spatzen take over for the middle section. From there on
it's plain grotesque.
Velvet Green: Live Im Hamburger Machwitz. CD 1994 Velvet Green.
Life's A Long Song, Wondrin' Aloud, Locomotive Breath.
Velvet Green: Intonational. CD 2001 Velvet Green.
Aqualung.
Sadly this original German duo doesn't exist anymore due to the all to early death of singer/guitarist Klaus Schleif. Excellent
acoustic versions highlighted by the outstanding virtuosity of violinist Miko Mikulicz.
Andrea Vercesi: Velvet Green--A Little Tribute to Jethro Tull. CD 2006.
Songs From The Wood, Beggar's Farm, A New Day Yesterday, For A Thousand Mothers, Mother Goose, Aqualung, Protect And
Survive, Wond'ring Aloud/Dun Ringill, Cheerio.
Big thanks to Andrea from Italy for this solo tribute. Yes, he plays all instruments himself, quite impressing. My favourites are the acoustic
songs; an excellent MG, PAS 25th anniversary style, and WA/DR. Maybe the overall sound could have profited by a little less use of echo?
You can order this fine CD from andrea_vercesi@libero.it. Recommended!
Andrea Vercesi: "Songs From The Forum"… With You There To Help Me. CD 2006.
Velvet Green, Weathercock, Jack Frost And The Hooded Crow, Fire At Midnight, Black Sunday, Under Wraps #2, Strip Cartoon,
The Clasp, Orion, Broadsword, Later That Same Evening, Down At The End Of Your Road, European Legacy, Slow Marching Band,
Broadford Bazaar, Jack-A-Lynn, We Used To Know.
If there is only one Tull tribute album you should have: this is the one. It has everything you can ask: interesting new angles to old songs, brave
choices of rarely or never before covered tunes and above all: it's a sincerely personal and heartfelt effort by a true JT-fan, performed with
style and skill.
Viking: Locomotive Breath, Thick As A Brick.
Found these two video-files on some Russian web-site. Actually not sure if that is the name of the band, as I can't read Russian… Looks
like some garage venue and the sound isn't too good. Still some interesting arrangement ideas on LB, TAAB is too short and shaky (2:45).
Vlad V: Vol IV. CD 2001 Record Runner.
Thick As A Brick, Tull Medley (Heavy Horses, Aqualung, My God)
Here's the first covers I've got from Brazil! A cunning band, with bandolin and other small nuances, but still I'd hope for more originality.
Why not sing in Portuguese instead of bad English? The medley with snippets of those big classics is only 2.39 long, and leaves you mostly
confused. Hopefully it's an introduction to something larger forthcoming!?
Waltari: Plays Jethro Tull. Cassette 1998 (unreleased).
Beastie, Black Sunday, To Cry You A Song.
Adventurous Finnish heavy-band bootlegged playing their favourite music. Not bad at all, despite so-so sound quality.
W.A.S.P.: Mean Man. Single 1989 Capitol Records.
Locomotive Breath.
Once again a heavy-band inspired by JT and LB. This might be very startling in the WASP category, but if you're more into stuff
like "Passion Play" or "Baker Street Muse", I suspect you will find this plain boring.
Water: The Witch's Promise. markszabo.net/ms/music.asp
Recorded live in 1995, this version starts fairly fascinating with some guitar improvisation. The actual TWP is a disappointment
though, with bad timing and a hurried feel.
Karl Werne & Eddie Williams: Live! CD 1999.
Thick As A Brick.
American duo serves a beautiful TAAB, with soulful vox and sax. Actually the middle part of a medley starting with an improvised
saxophone solo based on Chaplin's "Smile", and ending with the Santamaria/Brown Jr. -tune "Afro Blue". An unlikely combination?
Sure, and it's great!
The Wesleyan Spirits: Espiritus. CD 1996.
Songs From The Wood.
Now this is something else! An American college boys choir perform this a cappella version that just can't be described. First I thought
they had programmed percussion, but no: even the incredible drum parts are made with human voices. Absolutely unbelievable stuff!
Arlo West. CD-R.
Dun Ringill, Dun Ringill (1st Mix), Medley: Heavy Horses/Aqualung, Mother Goose.
Super kind of Arlo West to share his JT-covers. DR has been released on his celtic rock album 'I'll Take You With Me', the rest of the
material are demo-versions featuring AW on vocals and acoustic guitar. Naturally the completed DR stands out with it's neat
arrangement. Hopefully at least MG would get the same treatment on some future release?
Brian Wilson: 2 x Dun Ringill, Mother Goose.
Brian from Belfast was so kind to share these very promising demos that he has produced over the years. Hopefully he will get to making
a complete album, as this stuff is very close to ready. And he tells there are more treasures in the vaults… Stay tuned:)
The Wood: Nothing Is Easy (June 03), Boureé, Locomotive Breath, A New Day Yesterday, Nothing Is Easy (October 03).
Downloaded from www.thewood.it/music.htm. Italy, the nation of Tull cover-bands! The band excuses for these low quality live takes…
OK, there are some flaws and bad sounds, but it's fun and it's free! Also some short clips, including video, available.
The Wood: Bouree, My God, Locomotive Breath (live at Teatro San Leonardo), Bouree, Nothing Is Easy, Singing Al Day (live at Lettere
Caffe).
Apparently The Wood update from time to time, with old stuff going out and newer versions in. The gem among these is SAD, the first
cover I've heard of this song.
The Wood: Aqualung. http://www.rockfest.it/Downloads.htm
The Wood has been at it again, but isn't that intro "Stayin' Alive"? Well, if JT themselves do "Bohemian Rhapsody" , then why not?
Wullschläger Herberg Roller: Live 99. CD 1999 Lonesome Loser Records.
Locomotive Breath.
LB seems to be a must in German pubs. This jam clocks at almost 10 minutes and includes a harmonica solo lending from Beatles
(Norwegian Wood) and a space guitar section that reminds of early Pink Floyd! Not too bad actually, with cunning players and a
nice intro by Wullschläger: "Blue Train Coming".
YesterYears: Locomotive Breath. www.yesteryears.de/2464.html
A very typical party-band version that completely lacks originality and artistic ambition.
Yoghill: Slipstream. perso.wanadoo.fr/yoghill/Music/07Slipstream.htm
French Thierry Antoine serves his version of this classic Tull "snippet" . He makes it longer than the original with a guitar-
interlude and a repetition of the song. Something essential of the original idea gets lost this way, I feel.
Ädu: Locomotive Breath. http://www.mundart-aedu.ch/inframe.htm
Really good live-take with some excellent flute.
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