171. Cover of “Locomotive Breath” (by Jethro Tull) 

That was excellent!

excellent!!!!!

Your the only person to do the intro " and do it right " . Great Job Stewart !

awesome

Such a great breakdown, explanation and cover. Lots to work on as I have been playing this for while now. Thank you.

All i want to know is the number! The number of the train that ran me over! Great guitar man. Love JT. Ian is one of the top 5 imo. Thanks

Beautifully performed. I think I like the acoustic guitar intro over the piano. Thanks for explaining the meaning behind the song. Happy New Year.

Wonderful performance and description of the song.👍👍

Great intro. Chills. Cheers!

Yep. That's Locomotive Breath. Thanks for bringing John Evan and his style into the explanation. One of my favorite keyboardists of all time.

Speaking of failures, you sir failed, once again, to disappoint your audience. Most grateful for this and all your work in this fantastic catalog you’ve been building. Hope you find no way to slow down anytime soon. Cheers to you Stewart, and finest wishes for a happy, healthy new year!

Beautiful performance. I love your solo guitar interpretations of Jethro Tull. Looking forward to the next one❤

Buenísimo!!! Ojalá nuestros políticos "en su tiempo libre" se dedicarán a hacer estas cosas, en vez de andar jodiendo..... Todos mis respetos para usted.

You've done something I didn't think could be done: You've resurrected my appreciation for this (yes, greatly overplayed) song. Thank you for being one of the positive elements in my life and wishing you a lovely 2024.

Stewart, your introductions and epilogues are well though out, even for one of Tulls more obiquitous tunes. I wouldn't have considered it not possible on an acoustic guitar and have it sound the way that you did. Also, I would mention, as much as a Tull fanatic that I am, I was one of those that overlooked "A Passion Play" for too long. I say that because I thought it was a mess compared to the rest. Revisiting it decades later I'm finding that it truely is a masterpiece.

Of course I enjoyed it ! Brilliant as ever. And all explanations after the rendition are of a great added value. Please bring us plenty of similar gems in the coming year, Steward ! Happy new year to you

What an intro🤩

Its very interesting listening to someone, who can discribe the object under the microscope exactly without loosing the object as a work of art.

Amazing - Your extremely talented on the guitar !

Always a pleasure to listen to your music and hear your passion and explanation of the songs.

Hands down, the best cover of locomotive breath out there!

Pure brilliance all the way. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

OK, I just had to see what you did with the flute solo. Masterfully done.

Insanely brilliant!!!!!!!!!

great rendition and explanation, those words go by so fast

Simply awesome!! 🎶🤘

Wonderful

Fantastic job Stewart.

I’ve heard something about the intro. Apparently this jazzy piano part, it was supposed to be sort of a trick for the listener, wich at that point doesn’t expect anymore a strong and power rock song. Anyway, I love your passion for the band, and the way you describe and play! Thanks for sharing this contents

I have a feeling this was the song that IA wrote in a particular American hotel room, which he wanted to be booked into again on a subsequent tour (the room must have had ‘good writing vibes’), only to be told that the hotel in question was now off limits to rock bands as so many of them had trashed it.

Well done. Long time Tull fan. Locomotive Breath is the most exciting song about death and/or impending doom ever written. I didn't think it could be done on an acoustic guitar but you did it.

Excellent rendition & fantastic analysis. I like this song even more now.

Bravo, so many techniques in this song, nailed it

So cool that you did the piano into 👏

Amazon solo cover! If i could only do it?

I play that song with a looper, makes it a bit easier for me. But what you are doing there captures everything in the song with one single instrument. Excellent stuff 👏

One of your best. But darn it, ahead of me now I have weeks of pausing and playing this video to learn how to play your Intro.

Super video Stewart! Great cover and explanation. Fantastic! I’ll never listen in quite the same way again… But listen I will, … Very regularly… Thank you and Best wishes Dear Fellow.

Great stuff. Also worth noting that the Bass plays the fifth against the opening E's of each riff. The song was not played at Tull's gig at Eridge Park in May 2005 due to time constraints, which was fine with me, as I've heard it nintey six million times.

This kid knows how to play and sing, just like meself.

Great version! I discovered your video hunting around RU-vid for idea on how to handle this one with an acoustic guitar myself, especially the intro. You really nailed it. I will be stealing some of your ideas, my friend! I will also subscribe to your channel now and see what other goodies you've got for me!

Wonderfully played, and I really enjoyed the analysis!

Magnífico! Una gran interpretación de una canción maravillosa! Gracias!

You are a genius, Stewart! ❤

Really extremely well done!! Bravo !! Thank you for your efforts. This one really is a favorite. Cheers from Southern California

Nailed it once again ....

Hate to say it but you sound better than the present Ian. Really enjoyed your version.

Another typically great video and performance, thank you! I've always loved John Evan's brilliant contributions to Tull. It struck me while recently listening to the Thick as a Brick album for the "gazzillionth" time in my Tull fan career, that so much of the greatness of it (my favorite), is owed to him. If you don't mind, "lend me your ear" while I …ask you a question: What are all the pieces of music John Evan plays/references in "By Kind Permission Of"? I believe I've correctly picked out Beethoven Piano Sonata #8 "Pathetique" 1st movement, Rachmaninov Morceaux de Fantaisae -No. 2 Prelude in C Sharp minor, and Debussy's Children's Corner -Golliwog's Cake Walk. If you know, what if any pieces have I missed? Thank you. Also was about to ask if you've heard Ian saying Loco is about overpopulation, but you covered that too! Hope you and family had a very merry Christmas and I wish you a very Happy new year to come. Cheers from the Hudson Valley, NY USA. Yours in Jethro Tull, Bob

The explanation is such a revelation, after the masterful delivery of the song! Thank you for sharing this! I’m inspired to learn to play and sing this now.

Hope you had a wonderful Christmas and never heard the into on guitar maybe I'll try it thanks again

I'm 66 now and some friends & I attended a Tull concert and man we were blown away with the awesomeness of the live performance. I'll cherish the memory of seeing Jethro Tull for the rest of my life. I was 15 at the time & the performer's made a lasting impression on me. I've heard other's play an abbreviated version using what I refer to as cowboy chords which is fine "but" doing such is kinda like getting the old woman almost into the goal but just shy of making the goal. I've heard people say well, if you was playing horse shoes at least you got close. I think not. If ya ain't got no wind the boat ain't gonna sail. You Sire captured the essence that Mr Anderson meant the piece to be delivered. You got the old girl to bucking & made the goal. Yes sir your the winner. That was masterful, fulfilling exactly as intended.👍. I think I'm going to subscribe. 😎

Amazing! I love your intro on the acoustic!

Your Version is Great!

Outstanding on all fronts. Thank you so much !

Nicely loco’d excellent reproduction ❤ it

God dang, I dig your wonderful contribution to my life. If you are ever in Phoenix, Az. USA, you have a place to flop! Your music is only second to Ian's. Thank you.

Magical lesson

Thank you Stewart. amazing stuff. You just have a very special combination of gifts. ✌🏼🙏

well that does it!!you,re my best cover artist of Jethro Tull!!ooh yes of course..good luck

thank you for this entire project. I've learned so much.

....and I enjoyed your analysis too. Thanks for taking the trouble.

well, thank you. by far you are awesome, what a great explanation and lesson, thx you

OMG your version totally blows mine away. That was really nice sir.

Niiiiiiiiiice!! Keep up the awesome, and here's to only good things in 2024! Cheers

Absolutely tremendous. One song I never thought I'd hear done acoustically. Brilliant acoustic work too!

Excellent. Thank you, sir!

Flawless performance! Especially the piano and flute solos! Fantastic!!

Tull songs are so unique and interesting. Really enjoy hearing your interpretations!

Thanks for playing and giving insights into Ian and JT

Very talented Stewart , thank you

Always loved that song. Inspiring rendition.

Words fail me always thought it was a great song now i know its a brilliant one.Cheers Stewart a lovely end of year gift and have a happy new year for 2024.

niiiiiiiiccccceeee!!!!!

Just wow! Brilliant

Awesome version! Thanks for making and sharing it. Cheers

Best cover and best analysis of this song

Bery good interpretación 🎉😊

Bravo!! Great job. Nuanced and lovely.

Stewart, I have never believed it when Ian said that this song was about population growth. It's really about what you were saying. I don't know why he went along with that population growth story. Maybe he thought it sounded better, or more intellectual. I'm not sure, but I don't believe it for 1 second. And I think your first explanation hit the nail right on the head. The lyrics and the music tell the story and it's not a story of population growth. It's exactly what you said. I've always believed that, and now that you've said it as well, It makes me believe it even more.

Happy New Year!

just flashed back to 73,wow,go epiphone!

What a great performance. Your voice is pretty similar to the original

Very nice!

Thats just great!!

Nailed as always.

Incredible rendition.

Excellent performance and exposition. How long did it take you to compose/arrange that intro and solo?

Old Charlie = Charles Darwin, at least that's how I see it. Thanks for your beautiful interpretation.

Terrific work sir!

Only 3.5k views? What?

honestly, i am trying to play this one for a long time and quite cant get the timing of the riff right.

Stewart this was my "Thunderbolt" Tull gateway song in 1979 coincidentally or not while in Tull-Aviv, and your performance and commentary has made me feel and made me think; and it has changed my standing opinion a bit... as it now seems not so much a Tull song or unique among them while I am not so sure that Ian "failed" in musically delivering locomotion. I do believe that Ian's late assertion about population was a convenient latter-day gaslight. What prevailed over you to perform and post it now as opposed to at some point earlier?

Stewart...Any chance we can private zoom a lesson on the intro?

Do you have a transcription of the intro part where you've arranged the piano part for acoustic guitar?

Your D or G string is a little flat but you did a superlative job. Do you know Ian Anderson personally?👍

I don’t think the studio version totally comes off. The intro, featuring Evan and Barre, is excellent (and you do a wonderful job transcribing it here), but the ‘hard rock’ section sounds awkward and a bit forced: the potential of the song wasn’t realised in 1971, probably down to the band being young and still untried in the ways of the studio. It really came into its own in concert, of course.

You do these JT songs FAB, it just shows that Ian, should have been a solo artist he was brill, with Guitar & flute, maybe a few more instruments? as I said you do them FAB he would have done them better? he did not need a band at all.

Hurry up and monetise these music lessons so I can pay off my student loans please

It's fantastic hearing from you, Stewart