My Boomer generation played Thick as a brick & Aqualung for a year non stop. The words to all the songs are in my DNA. Long Live Ian Anderson! Thanks Billy!!!
The very best thing about Billy is his age. If God blesses us properly, we can have this divine gift playing for us for 50 more years... if we are lucky.
Billy is so unusual, can kill a bluegrass classic but his imagination and tastes are so much broader than that, and his virtuoso skills can back him up in any genre.
Every time I listen to Billy, he comes up with something totally off the wall like this! When I saw the video title, I thought naaah, he wouldn't really do a Jethro Tull cover.. would he? Perfectly executed and brings back some great memories of the 70's!!😍🎵🎶
Ian Anderson played all the acoustic guitar parts in the several times I saw Tull live. Martin Barre played the electric guitar in a delightful counterpoint. Listen to the original recording sometime. Truly a masterwork.
I saw them last, in 1987. It was the last gig, with chairs for the audience, I ever visited. It was great, but I remember most, the chairs. Perhaps, I saw to many great names...
My Tull concert memoire holds the band in white jump suits making adjustments to the stage and suddenly whipping them off and zap bright colors and driving music. Billy tears that up as a one man band.
@@flouisbailey I remember that concert well at the Sports Aroma in San Diego. But my favorite was Aqua Lung at the Golden Hall downtown. Billy brought back memories of those 4 Tull concerts. I was checking out a" My God" tutorial just yesterday. I guess I need to check out "Thick as a Brick" next!
You have concluded correctly. Wow, if you haven't checked out any of his original songs yet, by all means! There are so many that are just great songwriting along with the brilliant playing.
At the high school radio station we would put on side one of "Thick as a Brick" and go over to Red Robin Hamburger and be back before the album was done! And the music is incredible cause it holds up!
This guy always blows my doors off when he comes out with something new, and this is special! I love JT and this song was one of my favorites! I did not think anyone else could do it well, let alone this superb performance!!
the first time i heard jethro tulls thick as a brick album i may or may not have been on "to much"" as they say, i replayed it five times, i saw fish jumping from my ceiling a beautiful night. love this song in all its forms.
I never get tired of Billy strings. Young enough (still) to fill old tues with new life. So inventive. And now years later more refined and smokin on those guitar strings.
Well put!!! I first saw Billy play at a festival I volunteer at years back, drove him and his gear to different stages--- down to earth kid, he has come a long way!!!
same for me, i would say ians playing started my love for acoustic guitar in general. he is so underated as a guitar player and his parts are much more difficult than they seems at first glance.
Truly excellent song choice! And the instrumental coda at the end not only was jammin' hard, but it also had a very fitting British folk tune/bluegrass feel to it. Billy continues to innovate. Bravo! 👏💯🤙
TAAB done in a southerly way is just something i didn't expect. and what a surprise this was. enjoyed much. also the bluegrassy music at the end! THANK YOU! thank you for the uplift and for the excellent music
Well I could easily make out where Tull ended and the bluegrass started. I always like to hear what has influenced artist growing up. So now we know he likes 70s prog rock. Paying homage/ respect as it were Very cool
Well let us be honest here folks. Here he sings two brief parts of the opening section of a 40 minute epic tune by Jethro Tull. After he stops singing the remaining solo playing is not from Thick As A Brick. So this is more of a small taste of Thick As A Brick. I'm not knocking his playing at all. He is quite good. I just want those who do not know Jethro Tull to understand that there is a fantastic, complex and long tune out there for them to listen to and this barely scratches the surface of it.
Without a doubt one of the Greats of Guitar, and we can get to see him now. Total virtuoso and savant on his instrument. Go and see him if you haven't already. He will go down in history as one of the greats.
I've been listening to Billy for a few years now... I honestly clicked on the link for this video thinking, "no way is this going to be a Jethro Tull cover". ....still smiling!
It’s up to us to keep the younger generation into the good stuff. My daughter is 27, she knows who Jethro Tull is because I listened and I listened because my dad listened.
My son is named after Ian Anderson...and the guy that turned me on to Tull 43 years ago is named Billy. Full circle?? Billy Strings...you never cease to amaze...🤟
