Nothing Is Easy-Live at the Isle of Wight 1970 [Import]

Product Description
Critically acclaimed 1970 live release features more blues-based rock then the band's late evolution into a folk-rock band or prog/art rock band would suggest. As good as anything in their main Chrysalis catalog. Eight tracks.

Tracks:

My Sunday Feeling
My God
With You There To Help Me
To Cry You A Song
Bouree
Dharma For One
Nothing Is Easy
We Used To Know/For A Thousand Mothers

Customer Reviews:

PISSER! ABSOLUTELY PISSER!.......2006-06-10

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!

Great long lost essential classic!.......2006-01-15

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.

Ferocious energy and gratuitous asswanking.......2005-12-30

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.

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.

If these guys hadn't slipped into the drawn-out noodling too many times, this would deserve SIX stars.

A Documentary.......2005-11-06

Jethro Tull at the Isle of Wight is more of a documentary than a live performance. They do play 6 songs from their early years.
Tull also does a very early version of My God which later appeared on Aqualung.
Ian Anderson is interviewed and talks about everything from how he learned flute because he knew he could never play like Eric Clapton.
He also talks about how promoters used Tull to get fans to pay for the performance.
This is very early Tull but a must for Tull fans like myself..

Tull in their very beginning - SPLENDID!.......2005-06-16

This is Martin Barre, Ian Anderson, John Evans and the whole crew in one of their best moments. This is a never released material that dates from 1970, in the Isle of Wight, this location got it's popularity for being the last place Jimi Hendrix played.

Of course there was a lot of other bands playing on the festival, and Tull was one of them. This is a fine performance made by a band with only 3 albums released, and Ian Anderson loaded of ideas in a very inspired day.

The unforgettable flute of Ian floats sweet and angry beyond the numbers, giving us the magic of a real rock menestrel that he are!

If you are a Tull fan, you can't miss this historical presentation.

Nothing Is Easy: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970

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Nothing Is Easy: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970
Jethro Tull
Manufacturer: Video Arts
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0006B9ZC2
Release Date: 2005-01-03

Tracks:

My Sunday Feeling
My God
With You There to Help Me
To Cry You a Song
Bour
Dharma for One
Nothing Is Easy
Medley: We Used to Know/For a Thousand Mothers

Album Description

Japanese pressing of 2004 live release, packaged in a limited edition miniature LP sleeve. Vall.

Album Details

Japanese Limited Edition in an LP-STYLE Slipcase.

Average customer rating:

Nothing Is Easy: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970
Jethro Tull
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Rock | Styles | Music

Progressive Rock | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music

Rock | Imports | Stores | Music
ASIN: B00063U312
Release Date: 2004-11-09

Tracks:

My Sunday Feeling
My God
With You There to Help Me
To Cry You a Song
Bour
Dharma for One
Nothing Is Easy
Medley: We Used to Know/For a Thousand Mothers

Album Description

Critically acclaimed 1970 live release features more blues-based rock then the band's late evolution into a folk-rock band or prog/art rock band would suggest. As good as anything in their main Chrysalis catalog. Eight tracks.

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