A Look at Jethro Tull's Anniversary Special Editions & Box Sets 

Their original 20th anniversary boxed set was just amazing for all the new material that was on it. Set the standard for boxed sets.

Thank you guys for Jethro Tull's Anniversary Editions & Box sets review!!🎤🎸🎵🥁

Pete + Jethro Tull = Pure Bliss!!! 👍🏻 Stormwatch shirt just adds to the heavenly experience that is this video!

Absolutely great show, guys. As a life-long Tull fan i can't thank you enough.

Jack is sooo cool ! And of course All Hail Pete👌👍😄🧘‍♂️

I seen Ian about 6 times, Every show was outstanding! One of the best showman of our times !

Loved watching these..thank you!

Picking my ten favorite Tull songs would, frankly, be impossible. The sheer volume of amazing music is incomprehensible. I mean , seriously, I know the R&R HOF is a joke, but jiminy frickin christmas, how stupid can the election committee be to NOT have Jethro Tull inducted? I am disgusted by the stupidity of the human race.

I have all of the Wilson Tull boxes. I would recommend all of them too.

I had been meaning to upgrade/expand my Jethro Tull collection for years, then Pardo springs these Steve Wilson 40th Anniversary editions on me a few months back. They looked killer, so I went and bought three right away. When they arrived I was blown away. They are so friggin' cool. Excellently done, excellently mixed, tons of rare stuff, live stuff, etc. I don't know why more bands haven't adopted this book-style presentation. I love it. Needless to say I have now bought ten of the twelve, still needing Thick As a Brick and Songs From the Wood. Those are still quite pricey, as are some of the others, but I've scored some really good deals considering. Buyer's warning, as I'm sure they'll mention in the video, Benefit, while a Steven Wilson remix, is not in the book-style format. And guess what? I actually bought that one twice. I got a little tipsy one night and forgot I bought it and then purchased it again a few days later. For $25 more than I bought the first one! Demon alcohol.

Thanks guys, for a really fun show. Recently found out about the recent boxed sets with the remixes etc. and now those are on my ‘grail’ list, especially my favorite three - Benefit, Thick As A Brick and Passion Play. Those were the first purchases for my collection and I was fortunate to see the band on the tours for each of the last two of those three. Here’s hoping for the Benefit box issue so at least one could be bought when issued. Thanks again to you both - your love of the band and their music made for a great show.

Thank you guys for showing the best box sets on the market. Full marks and kudos to Jethro Tull, Parlaphone and Chrysalis for giving the record buying public all they want and more at affordable prices as opposed to some millionaires putting out reissues and needing you to sell the farm. Marillion is the other band that is doing great sets. Steven Wilson is the best producer and a genius. Love all the JT sets and I have grown very fond of Minstrel in the Gallery and War Child. I hope that they will reissue Broadsword and Crest of a Knave. God bless you guys and Mr. Anderson. One person I would definitely love to meet. Tino

We had the pleasure of Martin Barre's current band playing twice at the 400 seat Strand Theater in little Hudson Falls, NY. The 1st time in September 2018 was mind-blowing and the band loved the theater so much they came back in April 2019 to rehearse for a week and then open their 50 Years Of Jethro Tull US tour here. Clive was on drums for that along with band drummer Darby Todd. Fantastic 2 long sets spanning the band's career. Great meet n greet after, they're so nice with the fans. Plans to return this year were scrapped for now.

Great show very enjoyable. Big Tull fan have all the original vinyl and cd’s no box sets yet will save my pennies to get a couple. Pete and Jack love your passion for this much treasured band. Well done!!

I just picked up the Stormwatch set and really want the Heavy Horses and Songs from the Woods. Great show Pete! Really love the Wilson sets.

Stitch in Time was actually on the 20 Years boxed set, which I got my parents to buy me when it came out while I was in middle school! I'm really, really hoping for an A remaster/remix but I don't know if we'll get it.

Still crossing my fingers that we'll get a 50th Anniversary Edition of Benefit in book format, which would be this year too. Live at Carnegie Hall oughta included too which would be a bonus even if it were to be remixed by either Wilson or Jakko Jakszyk. I've also begun compiling remixed versions that would have ended up on the Living in the Past album, however, some of those tracks like the last 3 songs from the Life Is a Long Song EP and The Witch's Promise for example - their multi-track tapes are currently unavailable therefore cannot currently be remixed. Also, the live tracks from Carnegie Hall are the only tracks needed to complete my compilation. And I decided to leave Wond'ring Aloud, Again as is. :D And while I do own the Thick as a Brick book, I do hope we'll get a reissue as the unmastered version of the stereo remix which is currently available as a digital download only, needs to be included in a physical format.

Great show! I have all the multi-disc book editions, and they are awesome! Hope to see the release of a book edition of Benefit soon!

I have one. Passion Play and I love it!! Such a great edition.

cool job guys...loved it...thanks!

PETE& JACK said basically it all/ but I’ll agree with PETE/ to me the original CHATEAU D”is aster tapes which eventually became PASSION PLAY / smokes the latter. Obviously/ just my opinion! Informative show

Seriously, one of the songs from Chateau D'Isaster, "Look at the Animals," just came up on my shuffle when you guys were talking about it. And I've got 24,000 songs on my computer so that's pretty amazing.

It's been confirmed that A and Benefit will be released in book format.

Thank you! A reissue of all the previous Jethro Tull box sets would exceptional! The interest has skyrocketed as have the prices. Please Maestro Anderson, your loyal fans are here to cry you a song!

I have read recently that company and Anderson they were and still are in talks and they are trying to discover archival stuff, live gigs etc to finally reissue "Benefit" on the book style at the end of 2020 or 2021... Fingers crossed boys and girls.

The 40th anniversary box sets look great. I only have a few of them because I was a little late to the dance on these. Now they are out of print and very expensive. Hopefully they will do 50th anniversary versions for the people who couldn't get them.

My first Tull was a double.. MU and Mu 2 on vinyl if I remember it was a French press. Loved it with a passion (hehe) just remembered it was stickered as deux disques.

Great memories of Tull. Seen them live three times. I did a painting of Ian Anderson playing a flute in the woods, and after a gig in Ipswich, he kindly signed it for me. A treasured item on my living room wall. 😍

This was great guys! I have a Japanese CD replica of 'Thick As A Brick' down to the last detail of the newspaper format. It's amazing! Being a big Tull fan I was fortunate to meet Ian Anderson a few times and on three different occasions he signed my original vinyl newspaper copy of 'Thick As A Brick', the '20 Years of Jethro Tull' box set and 'A Passion Play'. The Passion Play' was amusing as I attended a small intimate gathering of fans in London, England where Ian introduced a screening of a documentary on the band made by a Polish filmaker. Afterwards, we were able to ask Ian many questions about music, the band, songwriting etc. When it came to 'A Passion Play' Ian was not overly favourable on the record and I eventually gave him a copy to sign, which made him smile and I suggested that perhaps, in time, he would be a little kinder to the album. A classy guy.

Thanks for all of this guys. Tull's legacy cannot be denied. I am a huge Tull appreciator; have all the box sets, in fact I have multiples (3-4 copies) of all of them...just in case I want to sell a couple in the future! TAAB is the really scarce one...the 5.1 of TAAB has to heard to be believed.....go on, spend that $500 on it, if it comes up on eBay. I understand that the 50th Anniversary Benefit book box (like the others) will be coming out...so be prepared. The one track from the vaults that really is an absolute ear worm and classic is "Tomorrow Was Today" from the War Child box......how that track wasn't released originally back in 1974 I have no idea....it took 40 years i.e. 2014 to actually be released. As Pete said; Anderson sat on so many of these, yet the majority of the ones that didn't quite "cut the mustard" to be included on Tull albums are brilliant. Jack you pronounce Martin's second name as "Bear".....100% sure it's pronounced "Bar". Anyway, that aside, it was a pleasure to see and listen to this.

After hearing the "Chateau Disaster" recordings, I've always regarded APP & War Child as sister albums.

Great show guys! Jethro Tull is the best live band I've ever seen. First saw them in 1970 on the Benefit tour, then in 1971 for the Aqualung tour. Saw Thick As A Brick, then Passion Play twice, and many times since. I hope the deluxe edition o' Benefit does get released.

Surfing some sites...yes, these cool ass Box Sets are outrageous. Damn, shoulda jumped on these early.

Jethro Tull's Benefit boxset from 2013 is being reissued and comes out the 5th. November. This probably means that several of them will be reissued so the scalpers can say goodbye!

I have the 20 Years of Jethro Tull and 25th Anniversary cigar box set. I don't have any of the Steven Wilson remixed box sets because I think they are little too expensive to buy an album that I already have even though you get bonus content in the new ones.

Some of my greatest concert memories are seeing Tull at the Boston Garden on the 1972-73 tour. Amazing, tight band.

My man jack!

Enjoyed this post. I only bought two of these anniversary sets. This Was because it was only $20 on Amazon for a while and I also bought Passion Play. Love that album. I have yet to open Passion Play! I know! What?! Now I'm tempted to sell it on eBay but just can't bring myself to do it. Hoping to find a few more sets used as I hit the stores for reasonable prices. Take care guys and thanks for the overview of the series.

I feel for you Jack. My wife always busts my balls if I am buying something too. Plus after watching all of these shows pete is putting me in the poor house buying all this great music.

I hope they reissue some of them.. I got on too late.. I have stormwatch and heavy horses but yeah the other ones are hard to get..

The Aqualung, Minstrel in the Gallery, and Songs from the Wood box sets must be back in print because they are selling on Amazon brand new for around 40 bucks each. I didn't start collecting any of the anniversary box sets until later on when a lot of them were already out of print, so I made sure to scoop those three up now that the prices are down. Kind of interesting the prices are down all of a sudden.

nice thing about being old I did get to see shows like Tull when they only had a hand full of albums and back then we wanted to hear the new music in concert

The first time I saw Jethro Tull was in 1977 at Dane County Coliseum in Madison, WI during their Songs from the Wood tour. Their setlist was very similar to what Jack was saying about the Songs from the Wood box set DVD where they played that Landover, MD concert.

Has anyone heard if Steven Wilson has had his arm twisted to consider doing "A" and "Broadsword and the Beast"?

Great stuff! For all you Tull fans, I think you will enjoy a podcast called Talk Tull to Me. One of my favorites.

I realise now how lucky I was to pick up Songs From The Wood (The Country Set) when it was released a few years ago...I actually paid less than £25 for it new !!...The concert DVD is outstanding and a band at the absolute peak of their game...

Hi guys from Greece, I've got 7 of these. My favourites are Heavy horses, Storm watch. Benefit is one my fave Jethro albums ever. I would love for them to release Crest of a knave. Can't wait to watch them live in Athens in September.

All power to the Sea and the Tull - beautiful.Really hope they do a 'Living in the Past' box set. Those singles and non-album tracks are superb. I'm sure there's plenty of other studio and live material available plus we've gotta have the reprint of the original booklet and what about a faux leather album cover with gold lettering! Far too much Tull total goodness to miss out. Other box sets I'm looking forward to: A, Broadsword and JethroTull.com ( very underrated IMHO).

The Live DVD Box set was not mentioned. It's titled Jethro Full Around the World Live including 6 video concerts. Released by Eagle vision in 2013 runs over 6 hours and is B+ resolution quality. No Steven Wilson involvement but any collection must include it 🤗

The ones I have so far are, Benefit, the first Aqualung box, before the book version, A Passion Play, Too Old To RnR, and Heavy Horses. I missed out on quite a few and they’re really expensive.

The Heavy Horses and Stormwatch book sets are still available at amazon.com for not obscene prices. If you snooze you lose.

I love Jethro Tull, and i love the passion on this show. I only have the «Thick as a Brick» boxset, but i sure have most of their other stuff on CD or LP.

I just discovered the Wilson Tull boxes today and was thinking about whether to spring for one given the prices. You're effing killing me. But I can't really blame you...

I didn’t listen to Jethro Tull until years after these went out of print. I really want to get these, but I don’t know if I should hold out for potential reissues or a new line of box sets

I own the, Heavy Horses, Stormwatch, and Too Old to rock and roll, book/cd/dvd sets. Absolutely love them. Isn’t my local hmv they have the, This Was book/ cd/ dvd set at £48.99p i won’t pay that sort of money for that set, as it was £28.99 in there 6 months earlier.

Great video guys, very informative, although when I saw the video on RU-vid I thought you guys were also going to cover box sets like the 20th and 25th anniversary boxes. I'm ashamed to admit I was slow to get some of these as they were released, and they are out of my price range 😔 Stormwatch was my first studio album from Tull (My first album was MU) so you know I was all over the force 10 edition when it was released! I must have checked 1000 times on Amazon waiting for it show up for pre-order. Again, great video guys! 😀

Excellent content great artist. I wonder if you could do a top ten songs from chris whitley. So under rated.

I have to admit that the only Tull album in my collection that was remixed by Steven Wilson is Aqualung, and he did a damn fine job, I must say. I don't know if this was the case with all pressings, but the remaster (from the '90s with an interview with Anderson at the end) that was out prior to it was an absolute atrocity. Couldn't hear shit without turning the volume all the way to the top. I guess you can call me a purist, in general. For example, I can't stand the 2007 Genesis remixes (I'm a detail guy, and details and nuances that I love about Genesis' songs got completely buried), so I sold them eventually. I own the Steven Wilson ELP 2CD+DVD-audio remix packages. I prefer the original mixes on all of those, but at least in those packages, you have the option to choose which mix you prefer to listen to. By the way, my favorite Tull album is Minstrel In The Gallery.

Luckily I managed to get all the Tull 40th book/box sets at retail as they were released, with the notable exception of TAAB, which was the first one and is just too obscenely priced for my wallet !! All are exceptional value for money and appear to be great investments. I've heard varying reports that they may end the series with Stormwatch, and other reports that they may continue up through Broadsword, although I am almost certain Steven Wilson's involvement ended with Stormwatch. Guess we shall see... I can't see Ian passing up a possible revenue stream, but those 80's Tull albums were hit and miss.

The companion 20th anniversary VHS (sold separately) to the box set is amazing. It seems to be very rare. Sad to say I never saw a DVD release in my searches. Nice mix of Ian on the farm, in the studio and obviously interviewed. IMO, Tull documentary releases after this never quite measured up. Don't know if Pete mentions it ...still listening right now...

nice!

Got all of them, want Benefit in book edition, soon hopefully. Not got Aqualung though because I've got it in the edition including the vinyl, can't bring myself to change it as Aqualung was the first record I brought with my own money age 11, haven't got the original vinyl anymore but the box set was a wonderful replacement with the surround sound and full size cover. Shame the original lyric insert wasn't done but you can't have everything. These box sets are the way to do it. The best in my collection almost, only bettered by King Crimson and the very large Steve Hillage box, shame that hasn't got 5.1 like the others.

iv seen TULL 4 times and IAN ANDERSON twice and THE MARTIN BARRE BAND twice(fantastic)...i have everything from them albums..cds..singles....great stuff!..first time i saw them was in 1970,,,,as recently as 2 years ago...IAN and MARTIN..

Do not many people listen the the 5.1 surround mixes? That's best reason for getting these wonderful box sets

Hey Pete, just picked up an Ian Anderson solo album. Divinities. Are you a fan of his solo albums?

Jethro Tull was with Song from the woods, my first Concert, in the biggest venue in Frankfurt Die Festhalle but I lost Track in the mid 80"

I have a box set of Tull that was the 30th anniversary of Aqualung.Inside the box is a cd of Aqualung,a LP picture disc and a hard cover book of all the lyrics of every song up to that point.I've never seen it before or since but it's very cool.I've seen Tull at least 30 times starting in 73.And why aren't they in the HOF I mean Roxy Music,Joan Jett are in come on give me a break

Nice stuff...but to me,the first 5 lp's will always be the best !!!

I didn't buy the "Thick as a Brick" set because I heard there were mastering or pressing problems. Now I want that set re-released. Have all the other Steve Wilson sets.

I hope you now have the TAAB book edition!

The only time I saw Jethro Tull was on the ‘Under Wraps ‘ tour. Could I have picked a worse moment?

Where’d you get that awesome Stormwatch shirt?

the original carnegie hall release was mixed way better than the wilson mix....also, why wasn't that show on the benefit remaster??

A question for you guys. Do the Aqualung book lyrics include the full Morgan version of Wond'ring Aloud, Again? The ones on the Internet look somewhat botched to me at points...especially that third verse. Before starting arguments, though, I'd like to know if there's an official version. TIA

The car in the Songs From the Wood photo is an MG TF - not a Bentley!

They should release the whole catalogue in Bluray audio. Every album. One disc. You can listen to it, in any format. 5.1 or 2.0 stereo.

The Stooges released Funhouse box set for $500, 1970 copies. Sold out within a few days.... I wonder how much that will be worth only after a few weeks!??

Ian didn't write Urban Apocalypse, it's a David/Dee Palmer song. That's probably why he didn't release it! It's on Dee's solo album.

Ian Anderson should form a funk-folk duo called Codpiece with Larry Blackmon from Cameo.

Saw Tull first time on the Stormwatch Tour in New Haven Ct New Haven Coliseum ( which is no more a train station parking lot) Stormwatch S.W box set besides Songs From The Wood is the best box set of the bunch great live cd disc. Stormwatch is Tulls heaviest an most underrated album IT IS GREAT North Sea Oil, Orion(DARK AGES one of Tulls best songs Could be Martins heaviest guitar,) Somethings on the Move, Dun Ringill, King Henrys Madrigal ,Elegy a great instrumental of of only 3 songs John Glasscock plays on ,Orion, and the other escapes me right now??? The last time I saw Ian a couple of years ago very disappointed great to see Ian but without Martin just doesn't do it for me , plus a few of the songs there was a backdrop screen with some girl an guy singing part of Heavy Horses an Songs from the Wood I mean terrible but good to see Ian anyways even though he's lost his voice a bit understandable for his age still a great performer. These box sets are perfect just wish that there was more concert video like on the Songs From The Wood box set . Gonna give my top ten Tull songs 1. Songs From The Wood 2. Dark Ages 3.Minstrel In The Gallery 4.Thick As A Brick 5.Heavy Horses 6.Aqualung/Locomotive Breath 7.Velvet Green 8. Fire At Midnight 9.A New Day Yesterday 10.Cross Eyed Mary Now the best other cuts 1.Beltane 2. Dr .Bogenbroom 3. Budapest 4.Sweet Dream 5.Pibroch Cup In Hand 6.North Sea Oil 7.Elegy 8.Somethings On The Move 9.Orion 10.No Lullaby 11.Cold Wind To Valhalla 12.One Brown Mouse 13.Farm On The Freeway 14.Acres Wild 15.Teacher 16.Radio Free Moscow 17. Lap Of Luxury 18.A Song For Jeffery 19.Someday The Sun Won't Shine for You 20.Bouree 21.Living In The Past 22.A Passion Play ( & the disaster Tapes) 23.Rocks On The Road 24.Life is a Long Song 25.My God Ill stop now Lol.

So many anniversary editions, so little money! lol

Why didn't you buy these when they were new, as I did? You really need to hear the Blu-ray audio on a high-end Bluray player designed for sound on electrostatic headphones!

Andrew Lincoln, Rick from Walking Dead is married to Ian Anderson's daughter. He appeared on Norman Reedus' show. Beautiful stately home in the English countryside.

Still waiting for an Under Wraps / Wilson Box Set. 😬

Pleaseeeee do j Giles band top 10

One of you bastards got me! I had an offer in on ebay for Songs From the Wood for $170 and it got snatched out from under me for $175. I'm going to cry myself to sleep tonight.

Minstrel goes for stupid money these days.

No disrespect but I'd rather see you on your own. You do not need another person on the video, in my opinion. You have the knowledge and are very fluent. Much more fun to watch...

Always thought This Was was a bit shambolic and uneven.

Poor guy couldn't enjoy his hobbies properly because his wife put pressure on him...

Its not just Ian who has all this stuff up his sleeve . . they mostly all do but are to lazy to stingy to care about their fans where Ian shows a lot of love for us fans. One of the most disappointments most lazy & selfish ever carried out by remastering was by Jimmy Page . . what a over blown over priced waste of time waiting to be so let down .