First Time Reaction | Jethro Tull - Locomotive Breath | Reaction 

You MUST watch a video of them performing live! Ian Anderson's energy is off the charts!

They are sooooo entertaining live! Hard to explain if you haven't experienced it; they are absolutely epic live! Great showmen.

you had the pronunciation right the first time - tull - rhymes with skull. jethro tull was an english agriculturist born in 1674 and inventor of the horse drawn seed drill which planted seeds in neat rows eliminating the need to do it by hand. the newer version of tull is one of the most influential prog rock bands to exist. saw them live three times in the 70's when i was in my early 20's and are still to this day my favorite band of all time. just saw martin barre live in our nearby town of worthington mass. at the golf club in june in our berkshire hills. they were set up on the 9th green with the crowd on the fairway. at 76 he still shreds like the old days

More than a mere composition, “Locomotive Breath” goes beyond providing a memorable tune; the track offers profound commentary on the relentless and often uncontrollable pace of modern life.

To get the whole eccentric thing, you gotta see them, especially Anderson, perform live. Imagine the Tazmanian Devil from Loony Tunes as a Celtic bard and you'll get the idea. Check out "Aqualung", "Cross-Eyed Mary", and "Farm On The Freeway"

Jethro Tull, Lead singer Ian Anderson, and Flutists. As you would suspect with the band 's catalog is huge not to say tasteful, and iconic. More Tull, "Aqualung", "Cross Eyed Mary", " Living in the past" " Skating away", " My God ", "Thick as a Brick ", " Bungle in the Jungle" " Bouree ", " Teacher".

It warms my old heart to see young men such as yourself appreciating the great music form my day. The 60’s and 70’s produced great music in all genres. Love and respect

This is one of my all-time favorite Rock solos, regardless of instrument. The vocal grunts he adds as he plays are so tasteful too.

Jethro Tull are a British progressive rock band formed in 1967. The group’s founder Ian Anderson plays flute & acoustic guitar & is the lead singer & quite a showman. They've had a lot of different members over the years. They had a lot of great songs such as "Thick As A Brick", "Aqualung", "Living In The Past", "Songs From The Wood", "A New Day Yesterday", "Cross-Eyed Mary", "Bungle In The Jungle", "Sweet Dream", "Life’s A Long Song" etc.

Welcome to the club, you probably have never heard any band like this before. Ian's lyrics, singing and the musicians are amazing. Listen again and I think you'll catch the sound of a train.

Oh my God I never thought you would get here this quick This is one of my favorite artists there is so much to go through here and the band is just so tight but you have to go back to the beginning and see how they rolled through their career starting off a little bit different and the first album or two and then getting really progressive and bleeding the whole musical genre with a few other key artists... I haven't even watched this yet I'm so happy I'm looking forward to it and I couldn't wait to post something Hope you enjoy it.

Tull is best experienced live, Ian's energy is amazing. Thick as a Brick is my favorite but that likely because I saw them perform the entire song live in June of '72 with all the Monte Python style humorous skits included. They don't do the whole song anymore, they cut it down in their later shows to about a third of it's original length.

This is the most original band of all time. The song starts off classical and blends to jazz and then jumps in head first with rock. THEN blends folks flute music midstream. All their music is eclectic like this and the stories are off the charts. Amazing band.

The pied piper. Especially the percussive effect by the rhythm guitar mimics a train. Btw the album is amazing. It's not all pure rock, there's folk elements with medieval character. I love how you document yourself. "Mother Goose" is an great example of Jethro Tull's other (folk/medieval) side on that album.

Jethro Tull is definitely a band best seen live!

Oooh, you're in for it now. Jethro Tull is probably the most underrated band of the late 60s-early 70s era. Their first four albums are fantastic.

You did yourself a huge favor by making the studio version your first listen on Locomotive Breath. Live versions are great, but this was the way to go. Ian Anderson is a master showman as well. Check out Thick as a Brick to see him in his element.

Jethro Tull has tons of albums and so many good stuff but this was off of his truly iconic album Aqualung. Which was also a huge radio hit just like this. You've really got to check it out and definitely do the studio version first so you can see all the nuance and how impactful it was when we first heard it on the radio and ran out to buy the album. It's kind of a look at the homeless, but it's told from two points of view. When it's loud and rocking out with this most iconic riff, it's about the way Society generally regards homeless people. Or just generally those that are down on their luck. But in the acoustic Parts it's a first-person exchange with someone who's hung out and kiten have gotten to know the guy a little bit and realizes that he's just trying to warm his feet in the Bog and he's suffering huge health problems and he's barely functioning. And so there's a bit of sympathy there. And then it goes right back to the total lack of sympathy and Imagining the worst things about somebody.

Ian Anderson IS JETHRO TULL. He’s the singer, songwriter, lyricist and leader. He is the main creative force of his band. Also a helluva charismatic frontman! Stands on one leg, waves his flute around and plays. Really unique band and frontman.

You REALLY need to see their live performances--they are famous for it.

The train's rolling, so you have the clashing guitar chords followed by the clicky, chuggy "chk-a-chk-a-chk" segment, with the strings muted. That represents both the chugging of a steam engine and the clicking of the wheels across the rail joins. Also, in the intro the guitar starts faintly wailing in the distance, slowly getting stronger and clearer, like the whistle of an approaching train, then it's suddenly on top of you, with that first full-volume guitar chord. I grew up in a small rural town in the grain belt, and we frequently had trains passing through town. Those were diesel-electric engines, which sometimes stopped at the elevator to load grain, but there was still that chk-chk, chk-chk of the trucks crossing the joints. The difference there is that modern rails tend to run much longer than in the past, so the sounds would have come faster, even at a lower speed. JMNSHO

Skating Away on the Thin Ice of a New Day, Witch's Promise, Song From the Woods, Rumble in the Jungle are ALL BANGERS too!!!!

Watch a live version. They fiquered out how to do it live! I saw them last week and Ian Anderson is still quite the showman at 76.

Oh thank you for checking them out! ANY instrument can be a rock n roll instrument (and all the other genre too) in the hands of a great musician, if you haven't heard them yet, please check out Apocalyptica and their amazing use of cello .

GREAT REACTION! I love the sound of the runaway locomotive throughout. Wonderful live. This and Pink Floyd’s “Time” make me think of life, hard.

Thank you for this. Jethro Tull music is an absolute must for beyond awesomeness talent and content.

Cross eyed mary next, think you'll enjoy

Ian Anderson liked to play the flute while standing on one leg 😂 you really need to see a live video to appreciate them. Oh, and Tull rhymes with seagull

They put on one hell of a show, that was a great time to be alive and listen to music

It's nothing like Chicago! Ian Anderson plays over a dozen instruments - well, and he composes all the music and lyrics and is also an incredible showman on stage. Ian Anderson is a modern day master like a Beethoven or a Bach. His music is both complex and/or sophisticated simplicity, but has many key and time signature changes, and layers MANY unique instrumentations in masterful ways. Check him out doing this song live, 45 years later: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-d76pxiPlxHs.html (Jethro Tull "Locomotive Breath" (HD - Official) Live at AVO Sessions) And for a glimpse at the talent and diversity of his music, check out the entire album which is essentially one piece, called "Thick as a Brick". It is a bit of a mocking of concept albums because the critics called Aqualung a concept album and it wasn't, so Ian got pissed and said "I'll show you the mother of all concept albums" and wrote and recorded this 45 minute progressive rock symphony, in about 2 months. Do not listen to the shortened versions, but the whole album from start of side A to the end of side B. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ldXdnZtTWp8.html (Thick as a Brick (Pt. I) (1997 Remaster)) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GTWQv8RsI6s.html (Thick as a Brick (Pt. II) (1997 Remaster))

Keep listening to more Jethro Tull! They might become one of your favorites! You have to watch any of their live perfomances. The show is as good as their music!

Good pick...... You've found the Piped Piper of ROCK... Histories top rock troubadour.

You have to find the live concert of Jethro Tull at Red Rocks in Denver Colorado from 1971. Totally amazing and I was blessed to be there

Jethro Tull is underated they were a great band saw them once back in the late 70's.. Ian Anderson was a master flutist

Imagine how the old folks felt listening to this. You young folks danced to music. We felt music. It's a different thing.

It's NOT "tool" it's Jethro tull, as in dull. It's the name of a farmer who invented the seed drill for automated planting behind horses, in the early 1600s.

- I laughed with great joy each time you got stopped in your tracks (pun intended)! :D - The look on your face was priceless. - And, the first time you were about to comment, then halted abruptly... then your head started to bob slowly w/ the music was when I knew you were gonna be captivated by Tull! :) - Enjoy the ride

Their catalog is so deep it’s hard for me to pick a favorite song … I prefer their deep tracks rather than most popular… Been my favorite band for the past 40 years 👍

I'm old. Saw all the best bands. Saw the Aqualung tour in 1972. One of the best concerts I have ever seen in my life and I have seen a lot of them!

Dude these are true musicians! No electronics no joke!! Serious stuff then!! Thank god I grew up listening to this kind of music!!!

Great observation about experiencing the various different instruments that can intensely so low in these frameworks.

Scottish/Celtic/Irish folk music permeates a lot of their songs (not this one so much), but they do rock also!....on a side note, Chicago has a flute solo in their song "Colour my World"

Grew up with this album in High School, but you reminded me just how special it was!

i saw them 3 times back in the 1970's, now you can watch them live... Jethro Tull - My God (Nothing Is Easy - Live At The Isle Of Wight 1970)

Anderson is a genius, IMO. "Minstrel in the Gallery" is my favorite. "Aqualung" is like my fifth. I like singing along, and "Aqualung's" lyrics stick in my throat. Thanks! PEACE!!!

The look on your face when the jazz flute hit was SPECIAL!! Welcome to the GenX club baby. Best era of music. 🙌

That "train sound" is more recognizable to us older folks. Modern 21st C. trains are MUCH quieter. The deeper you dig into Tull, the more you'll grow to love 'em.

See? This is when bands could play! We had ALL the bands! This was our normal music. All these high level bands you are just now discovering. In our day, you could turn on the radio and have a very good chance at hearing one of these bands you’re reacting to now. All of these songs were in constant radio rotation and then they’d come to town on tour for every new album! This was normal. We didn’t know how special in time it was going to be, we just knew it was badass and so were we. It was a party!

Ian Anderson is still performing and funny as hell! Great performer!

The riff is about being run over by a train, just like TIME bears down on us all!

Man, look how many top tier bands we were listening to from 1965 'til 1975 just in the rock genre.

This IS one of THE most Classic Rock songs. Everyone my age knows it and can sing it! Ha Ha! It’s true! That goes for a lot of the stuff on your channel. We’ve had these songs memorized from the beginning in the 70’s & 80’s. We’ve been singing along for decades! 😆 it is kinda weird seeing 50 somethings and sixty somethings knowing all this music by heart. We’ve literally heard all these songs a thousand times! Pick any band, we can sing it!

Jethro Tool is a great band.

Skating away On the thin ice of a new day

Your expression was priceless when you suddenly realized you would have to start considering the flute an instrument of Rock and Roll.

The only thing better than listening to Jethro Tull's albums is seeing and hearing them live.

Ian Andersen is a musical genius, no lie. Over and over again, years upon years, he shows up as a creative genius. And wait til you see him perform...it'll stretch you. Oh...he also plays a beautiful guitar, and his songwriting is deep and thought=provoking. Welcome!

Oh yes that was a very good reaction I enjoyed it a lot and I've seen a lot of Jethro Tull reactions they're one of my favorite bands so this is a great wake up morning for me Thanks so much... You do some research , I love that! I'm really looking forward to you taking this journey and I can almost predict that the next recommendation of the live performance is going to be the beginning part of the song thick as a brick now this song is not just a song it is one song that goes both sides of the LP... There's a whole lot of backstory with this song and this album you have to understand that to get it... The performance is just amazing but you're not going to understand the words unless you know the backstory. The whole LP was kind of a middle finger to the music industry who said that the album aqualung was a concept album which it really wasn't It just happened to have a few songs that had characters that fit together so Ian Anderson Said you want to concept album will give you one hell of a concept album and they came up with the spoof of a little boy riding a poem and winning a contest and then reading that poem live on the air of BBC radio back in the day and everybody freaking out about it... It's all made up but it goes back to the progressive album days when everybody was competing and you had a physical album LP in front of you and they built into this LP an entire newspaper of silly things and funny things all written by the band it's quite an experience Not sure if you're going to read this but I wanted to make sure that you understood how complicated thick as a brick is and some people just don't take the time to learn the backstory. Now as far as the music goes the song would completely fall apart if it wasn't for the man on the organ look him up give him some cred because he keeps it all together it's just amazing the song is just phenomenal

I know you can’t react to their “Thick Aw A Brick” masterwork - it’s an entire album, one song - but I highly recommend you listen to it. If you do full album reactions, that would be a great start. Thanks for reacting to this rock classic.

Give both Aqualung and Bungle in the Jungle a listen next!

Ian is a character, you need to see live versions of them. ❤

I think that "eccentric" in the case of Jethro Tull means "the instruments matter and we're virtuosos. Oh, and I'm gonna play my flute".

Yup.. eccentric....means you put it all out..doing your own thing.. that's what Tull did...and God blessem🙏🙏🙏🙏👍👍

Who's playing what instrument depends on which version you're listening to. This sounds like the studio version, in which case that was ALL Ian Anderson (check the album, only Ian is credited for the studio version). The band wasn't getting the sound he wanted, so he recorded each instrument on its own track, mixed it, and the rest is history. I've met him twice(!),he's an amazing guy, and easy to talk to. Should you ever get the chance to meet him, don't offer to shake hands (I did, the first time) he doesn't do that - he 'rubs elbows'. Awesome reaction, hope you take a listen to their whole catalog of music, there are some of the greatest songs (imho) ever made there.

I believe that world evolution is unstoppable and we are all unwilling passengers on this crazy thing called life.. P.S. Ian must be seen live. AC/DC has bagpipes!

Watch some live Jethro Tull. Ian Anderson is an absolute maniac on stage, and the whole band dresses like minstrels from the dark ages. They're a uniquely fun band. But for the ultimate maniac on stage, watch the band Focus play "Hocus Pocus" live on the Midnight Special. That will truly drop your jaw!!! A perfect song to react to.

Do a double take please, The studio version of aqualung (deep lyrics!) Then the live version. It will blow your mind. Trust me!

I went to see them for the first time when I was 15 and have seen them 6 times now and would go again if they came back to Houston again. Enjoy the ride it's a good one.

Interesting comments about Jethro Tull (Ian Anderson) voice being similar to Lynyrd Skynyrd (Ronnie Van Zant) In high school, Jethro Tull was my favorite band. A year after high school, Lynyrd Skynyrd was my favorite band.

If instrumentation is your bag, Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention is your band.

Jethro Full are a deep rabbit hole, don't be persuaded by the fact that the 2-3 most famous songs are far more popular than the rest of their catalogue. Some suggestions for the next listens would be: Aqualung, Cross Eyed Mary, Bourée, Thick as a Brick, Songs From the Wood, Minstrel In The Gallery.

great band, unbelievable live. the driving beat sounds like an old locomotive train. listen again the intro is like the train starting to go. Ian was/is a great guy constantly doing charity shows and benefit concerts to fight homelessness, climate issues, endangered species etc... seeing them live is a must I've seen them twice and wish I could see them twice more. but you better hurry 'cause unfortunately Ian is on his way out. he was diagnosed with an incurable lung disease, despite that they're out on tour right now, off in europe somewhere I believe. check out "Aqualung", "thick as a brick", "teacher", "cross eyed mary", "hymn 43" +++

We're talkin' about a steam train locomotive man which were the trains around at the time. And they nailed that rhythm.

Awesome band !! Sir you need to be wearing headphones or earbuds to listen to music from this era (60's & 70's), you will have a much more enjoyable journey into the best music ever produced, and you will better understand why us Old people are the way we are, We were there when this first hit the air waves as NEW, God Bless.

Yes - you should listen to the whole album, it is superb. But do not stop there, each of their albums has a different feel/sound to it and are great in their own way. This is a very enjoyable rabbit hole to go down.

Welcome to Ian anderson and Tull. As stated elsewhere, you gotta see a live video from back in the day... The Tull catalogue is long and deep. I believe anderson just released a new Tull album this year in 2023. "No way to slow down"

Did you say "jawn" ??? Gotta be a Philly man. I love your reaction to the flute! Anderson plays it like a lead guitar. All of Tull's realier albums, especially Aqualung and Thick as a Brick are revolutionary.

They still are touring. They will be here in Italy in November and also next year I have no doubt that I will be going to see them.

I was at their first show in the US and they were phenomenal. Loved you reaction. Watch them live if you want the full effect.

It's so cool that you're enjoying learning about the music of our youth - and I hope you're passing it along to your friends as well as posting it on RU-vid. 👍😎😊

Jethro Tull is considered prog rock or progressive rock. They have so many great albums. Another great prog band to check out is Emerson, Lake, and Palmer. Listen to their songs "From the Beginning," "Knifes Edge," "Tarkus" just to name a few.

Loved how your head stopped bobbing when the flute sole came in :)

I like "Cross Eyed Mary" and "Bungle in the Jungle" but ALL of their songs rock!

That intro grabbed me in 1972 ish lol. Still love it to this day.

One of my favorite artists/groups of all time!

Jethro Tull was the real deal. One of my all time fav bands. Very eclectic, very eccentric, and always very good. They even go a bit medieval from time to time. 🙂

You in the 70's now pal. anything goes. Welcome to my world.

It's tuuul. As in hull. They rock... The difference between crazy and eccentric is MONEY!

Skating Away and Aqualung are both amazing cuts. I always recommend the album version first as the live performances, while interesting, don’t have the same audio quality. Great react!

Jethro Tull is the gentlemen who invented the Scarecrow

Gotta watch a live performance! There were no videos then!!❤️

Legendary band and best frontman called Ian Anderson. Great tune among fifty or 70 more great ones. Try reacting to Teacher, My God, A New Day Yesterday, Skating Away, Hunting Girl, Budapest!I would call the band more eclectic, unique and play many different styles!This will become one of your all time favorites just like me. I love early Chicago !

The “train” chugging is heard in Martins phenomenal guitar work, not the bass. Love when new people discover Tull! By the way, there is NO tighter band than Jethro Tull. Superb!

Dude the Kings of Progressive Rock are King Crimson, the album “ In the Court of The Crimson King”. The Title Trak will take you to deep space.

If "Jethro" Tull was 1 person, it would be an Amish dude with all custom handmade wood instruments, none being electric, made by him and his community. 😁

My favourite album is 'Songs from the wood'. Awesome drumming

Cross-eyed Mary....next please! 💞✌️

Ian Anderson taught himself to play the flute.

T-uh-! Ian Anderson is the leader (it’s his band - he’s changed other members as his style changed) Name Jethro Tull comes from an English agricultural innovator in the 18th century who invented (I think) the seed sowing drill hauled by a draught horse team.

That's OK! A lot of bands had confusing band names back that then. There was never any Lynyerd Skinyrd. The was nobody named Doobie in the Doobie Brothers. On the other hand, Dwyane and Greg Allman Brothers were...the Allman Brothers. It could get very confusing. Clive Bunker was a hell of a drummer. Glenn Cornik was a fantastic bassist. They were called eccentric, not only for their choice of material but Ian Anderson was a madman on stage. For a while they went on a homeless person fashion sense. They are so different from the Neal Diamond songs constantly played in my tiny town! They caught me from the first song I heard "Living in the Past". Good stuff.