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PISSER! ABSOLUTELY PISSER!
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>Something I discovered around the time I was fifteen was that JETHRO TULL is one of the most eclectic bands of all time. The bands repetoire spans everything from rock to blues to jazz to world music to progressive to ("metal"?). <
>There are times when I can really dig on TULL, and there are times that I really can't stand them at all, and truthfully (take it easy on me now) the latter outweighs the former, BUT.. when JETHRO TULL is good, JETHRO TULL is goooooooooood, and this album here is TULL at their BEST! No bull on this peice, just ace kickin bluesy rock jams. <
>This is the band with the original line up still in place. The sound was a lot more raw then they would become in the following few years. Ian Anderson plays the flute like it's his own creation, dirty, no remorse for the proper music it was intended to play. The band smokes and crunches its way through a helping of their late sixties progressive blues material. <
>If you happen to own some of the early studio discs (THIS WAS, BENEFIT, there are a few others) and have not heard the early live stuff... GET ON IT. <
>The bands live recordings are completely fresh. They aren't muddled like the studio recordings of the day, and they aren't sappified like the live albums they would come to release in the eighties. ISLE OF WIGHT represents this band when it was still out for blood, and full of energy. It happens to be some of the greatest blues rock of all time. DONT MISS!

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Great long lost essential classic!
More oomphf than you can imagine, or convey. The mixture of originality, musicianship, and a devil may care boldness unfolds a rare expression in music.

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Ferocious energy and gratuitous asswanking
Any fan of Tull should run, not walk, to get this one. The explosive dynamics and rock-n-roll energy of this set was on par with The Who, who also played this festival. But... the momentum of these killer songs was broken up by too many asswanking solos to be fully satisfying. The intensely explosive "With You There to Help Me" just sort of fizzles into seemingly endless piano noodling when I was ready for its explosive final blast. <
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>The songs that DID pretty much stick to the point, such as "My God," "Bouree," "To Cry You A Song," etc. were just plain marvelous, with an energy and verve rarely matched by any band ever. The occasional sloppiness didn't matter: it is just plain exhilirating to hear some great musicians totally blasting out. <
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>If these guys hadn't slipped into the drawn-out noodling too many times, this would deserve SIX stars.