Two more for the Tull AlbumWraps Collection
Jethro Tull
Lowell Tech. University
Lowell, Mass. U.S.A.
November 3, 1971
performance quality: B+
recording quality: C to B-
MP3 198
AlbumWrap
source: 1st generation audience tape
runtime: 76:50
setlist:
1: my god
2: thick as a brick
3: aqualung
4: to cry you a song
5: a new day yesterday
6: crosseyed Mary
7: up to me > tomorrow was today > hymm 43 > nothing is easy
*Original comments:
This is a rare, but not especially good quality Tull recording from a college in
northern Mass. I don't know the date of it, and the encores are missing from this,
but other than that and a flip cut in the drum solo the rest seems to be in here.
The source tape has some dropouts, not real bad ones and not alot of them, it was
recorded with a cheapo portable cassette deck and I had to speed adjust my 1st gen.
copy (which was copied on good decks) but it sounds listenable now, the TAAB here
is close to 18 minutes- after the full hour bricks, but before the Reader's Digest
versions started. This is pretty early Barriemore Barlow. The missing encore is a
Locomotive Breath medley that sounds the same in over 1000 Tull shows, all this
material is the stuff that never seems to get old live. I believe all before the
encore finale is in here. This was when Aqualung was still a new hit, I think when
it was just released and before TAAB was released and it sounds like the recording
got at least some of Ian's between song banter (not all perhaps, there's some editing
between tracks in the master source tape). Sometimes Tull can have long gaps between
their songs at this time, this was apparently one of those shows but not much left of
that in here now. I did not edit anything out except the encore because it cuts halfway
through it. I don't know the exact building of Lowell Tech that this takes place in,
it's not a very nice sounding place for a concert at all, probably a gymnasium, thus
the low quality rating. The recording is fairly typical sounding for a 71 Tull aud. (not
typical reel aud quality either. Jethro Tull was not so fussy about the sound in their
venues at this time, just give us a damn gig and we'll play. They worked the best
with it that they could and gave an inspired performance. I find it listenable sound.
Some of those heard here on dime from some other sources are quite nice sounding for
this time). This has been circulated a little in cassette trades, any of you who have
those please erase your tapes,they are off speed. This should be good. This is the 1st
time I have seeded it from my 1st gen. copy of this show. I spliced some between song
edits where the recorder makes that annoying shutoff noise, and balanced the levels,
reduced a couple of loud claps and knocks, otherwise this is a raw unaltered transfer
(no dolby/noise reduction/processing). Sound fanatics may not want this one, but if you're
not real fussy you may find this enjoyable. If you like early 70's Tull (and how anyone
couldn't who likes real good live rock shows, I don't comprehend) you will like this
performance. I didn't include the encore because my copy of that cuts in the middle.
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Jethro Tull
1971-10-28
New Haven, CT
SQ: g/vg- (bass heavy with distortion)
AlbumWrap
MP3 201
Set List:
Disc 1:
1. Ian Anderson Introduction 0:30
2. My God 2:57
3. Flute Solo 6:53
4. My God (reprise) 4:52
5. Thick As A Brick 7:35
6. Organ Interlude 1:51
7. Instrumental 2:41
8. Thick As A Brick (reprise) 3:27
9. Aqualung 7:07
10.To Cry You A Song 6:33
11.A New Day Yesterday 5:55
Disc 2:
1. Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond Introduction 1:48
2. Cross-Eyed Mary 3:16
3. Drum Solo 5:36
4. Cross-Eyed Mary (reprise) 4:18
5. Up To Me 3:07
6. Tomorrow Was Today 2:04
7. Hymn 43 2:24
8. Nothing Is Easy 4:51
9. Wind-Up 4:40
10.Instrumental 2:45
11.Guitar solo 10:20
12.Locomotive Breath 5:38
13.Hot-Headed English General 1:12
14.Instrumental 1:50
15.Wind-Up (reprise) 1:55
Total: 106:17
*Original Notes
many thanks to tullillnow for trading. didn't come with any info file so I created one, artwork says it's from 27th but Tull ministry of info says 28th.
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