Re: [Harp-L] Re: jethro tull harp thread

["Jim Greenwald" <staggerin@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

That was the group's first album, "This Was" It had two other tracks that 
featured harp - actually much more prominently than 'A Song For Jeffrey'  - 
'Some Day The Sun Won't Shine For You' and 'It's Breaking Me Up'
It's pretty decent work. I remember at the time snobbishly dismissing his 
playing as "like John Mayall" - I was so into the Chicago guys and Taj 
Mahal.
A couple years later I was visiting a friend in a monastery and he wanted to 
know what was going on in rock music -  I tried to describe Jethro Tull to 
him <g>

Cheers,
Staggerin' Jim
Listen to Roots Harmonica at http://www.live365.com/stations/staggerinjim

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bradford Trainham" <btrainham@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jaguire@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 7:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Re: jethro tull harp thread


> Oh!!
> And I was !!wrong!! to say that song on Stand Up was the only evidence
> of harmonica on the studio albums.
> "Song For Geofrey" (sic)  (I can't remember how he spells "Geofrey"
> and am currently too tired to go find out.) features harmonica.
> And there's something that speaks to me about all the work that group
> did from 68 to 72-ish just like it did when I wasn't even a teen-ager
> and used to hear it on the "big kids" records...  Something that
> suggests synthesis, reverence of things past, presence to one's own
> circumstance and much else that I'm unable to articulate just now, but
> which would tie right in with our desire to be creative and inspired
> when we perform.
> Brad Trainham