The TV show ‘Face To Face’ presented by prog rock legend and Yes keybord player Rick Wakeman features a stellar line-up of guest musicians. On this show, Jethro Tull's frontman, Ian Anderson, is being interviewed. Read more here.
Showing posts with label Progressive Folk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Progressive Folk. Show all posts
Sunday, August 11, 2013
Saturday, April 20, 2013
Jethro Tull: Live at Madison Square Garden
This is the part of Jethro Tull's live performance at Madison Square Garden in 1978, which was captured on film. The full concert is available on the DVD Live at Madison Square Garden 1978, released in 2009, which contains the filmed part, as well as the rest audio only part. Read more here.
Thursday, April 11, 2013
The First 20 Years of Jethro Tull (documentary)
20 Years of Jethro Tull is a documentary on the band's first 20 years, also known as Jethro Tull: This is the First 20 Years, released in 1988. It consists of interviews with record company executives, fans and frontman Ian Anderson giving a rough chronology of the band, interspersed with clips from music videos and live performances. Read more here.
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Jethro Tull live: Tanglewood Festival 1970
This is Jethro Tull's live performance at the Tanglewood Festival, Lenox, Massachusetts, US on July 7, 1970. Read more here.
Friday, March 1, 2013
Progressive Folk
In the wake of the 60's, a Folk revival started on both sides of the Atlantic. When folk artists turned from acoustic to electric, Folk Rock was born. Soon most connoisseur were talking of Acid Folk, Psych Folk, and Progressive Folk, all having limited differences and no particularly drawn-out limits or boundaries, but all relying on experimental or groundbreaking adventures and good musicianship, but not necessarily of an acoustic nature. Read more here.
Monday, February 25, 2013
Jethro Tull: Live at the Hippodrome 1977
This is Jethro Tulll's concert at the London Hippodrome filmed on 10th February 1977 and broadcast on the BBC Sight & Sound program. Read more here.
Sunday, February 17, 2013
Jethro Tull Lively Arts BBC Documentary 1979
This documentary on Jethro Tull was filmed in the first half of 1979. It includes interviews and statements of all band members, as well as some rare concert footage that was filmed at the North American tour in 1979. Read more here.
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Jethro Tull: Live at Tampa Stadium '76
This is Jethro Tull's concert recorded live at the Tampa Stadium, Florida, U.S.A. on July 31st, 1976. Read more here.
Friday, November 30, 2012
Gryphon
Gryphon were a British progressive folk band of the 1970s, best known for their unusual Medieval sound and instrumentation. Spawned at the Royal College of Music and proficient in their musicianship, they started out making a name for themselves in folk-rock, but their classical training and their approach to composition, recording, and performance soon took them into the much bigger field of progressive rock, and eventually had them playing gigs in front of arena-size audiences. Read more here.
Sunday, October 7, 2012
Jethro Tull
Jethro Tull are a British rock group formed in Luton, Bedfordshire, in December 1967. Their music is characterised by the vocals, acoustic guitar, and flute playing of Ian Anderson, who has led the band since its founding, and the guitar work of Martin Barre, who has been with the band since 1969, after he replaced original guitarist Mick Abrahams. Read more here.
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