Jethro Tull & Nuggets

["Mark R. Leaman" <mleaman@sccoast.net>]

Sorry for the slight Who content (Tull opened for The Who in 1970), but
Jethro Tull played last night at our HOB and I wanted to recommend any
British Rock fans to try to catch this tour. There were very good,
although I thought the drummer was rather standard and they missed huge
gaps of their career. Anderson was in good voice and extremely good
performance...Martin Barre as well, just incredible. What they did play
was great, and there were some welcome surprises like With You There To
Help Me, Budapest, and My Sunday Feeling (they opened with it). Catch
them if you can.

The other suggestion I wanted to make is about Rhino records recent
release called NUGGETS. It's a four disc collection of US Rock, from the
post British Invasion-influenced stuff to the Psychedelic, and it's well
worth having. There's a sprinkling of fairly well known songs, like I
Had Too Much To Dream Last Night and Journey To The Center Of Your Mind,
and many more gems I never knew existed. Some songs I hadn't heard since
1966. For instance: Beg Borrow & Steal by the Rare Breed, which will
make you swear it's Louie Louie for the first few moments. It has
Respect by The Vagrants...which is Leslie West (later of Mountain and
the NYC WHO'S NEXT sessions) and his brother (!).
Any Rock fan worth their salt should own this set. Apart from collecting
a LOT of songs you just can't get elsewhere, it gives you the best of
the forgotten US Rock one-hit-wonders from this period. Strongly
recommended. If you like the afore-mentioned songs, you'll love it. The
sound quality (as is usual with Rhino) has the highs perhaps a touch too
strong, but with this material it works.

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    "He's more like Burger King than Martin Luther King."
                            Colt Fortifeinburg on Al Sharpton

                      Cheers                ML