THICK AS A BRICK

I first saw Tull in Glasgow when they were promoting this album, and enjoyed the visuals as wella s the audio magic that accompanied this album.

It had onltybeen out a week or so and as a result, the fans expected to hear "trailers" from TAAB" but when the band ripped off their tramp/derelcit outfits (yes theyhad been on the stage a full 15 minutes previously peering under the dustcovers of what appeared to be drums, pianos, speakers) Ian Anderson slipped up to the mike and simply said "Thick as a Brick" - and for the best part of an hour we were hit with this stunning piece of work which was actually longer live than the album itself given the various add -ons - mainly visual that featured so much in Tull's stage show then. Such as....when the band are at full stretch in the halfway section on side one of the album, a telephone would ring stage right on a grand piano and the band's instrumental might would stop! John Evans would get up from his Hammond stage left, sprint across the stage to the (apparantly) bemused look of the band (and the 3000 agog fans), answer the phone with "Sorry, wrong number", repeat his run back to the organ and off we would go again from the point where the phone rang...as we old timers would say, you had to be there to experience it!

Martin

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