First time I ever listened to JETHRO TULL - Locomotive Breath Live (Reaction!)

Jethro Tull are a British progressive rock band formed in 1967. The group’s founder Ian Anderson plays flute & acoustic guitar & is the lead singer & quite a showman. They've had a lot of different members over the years. They had a lot of great songs such as "Thick As A Brick", "Aqualung", "Living In The Past", "Songs From The Wood", "A New Day Yesterday", "Cross-Eyed Mary", "Bungle In The Jungle", "Sweet Dream", "Life’s A Long Song" etc.

I first saw Tull in concert, with this song, when I was 14 years old. I’m 68 now. Tull is English theatre with amplifiers! It still rocks!

Man, I miss the concerts of the '70s. They just aren't the same anymore. Your face when he started playing the flute was priceless and almost made up for the stoppages.

Jethro Tull live is a total trip. I was lucky enough to see them in concert ... well, about 40 years ago. 🙂 Even my high school music teacher, back in the early 70s -- an elderly lady close to retirement, and a trained orchestra conductor, used to be a fan.

Yes, that was Martin Barre on the guitar. The man's a badass. One of my favorites. Jethro Tull is an incredibly unique and talented rock band. Their album Aqualung is a bonafide classic. You would really enjoy the whole album. Definitely worth your time to give it a listen, even if you can't react to every song.

While I dig Tull's live shows, the studio version of this song has an incredible slow-build dynamic that is lost when played live.

You should ALWAYS listen to music from the 60s and 70s with headphones!!! The songs were mostly performed and engineered specifically for headphones. Also, always listen to the studio version first, that is how we first heard them. You can get a feeling of how it was introduced to us, why we fell in love with it and why it became a classic. It puts you there at that time and you can discover it as we did. You can always return for alternate versions and live performances later. I'm in my 60s, I got to see it all go down in real time. What a blessing!

Ian Anderson was actually a classic guitarist. He picked up the flute later in his career. Shows the built in talent he had.

Man I wish someone would do this reaction to the studio version. It's so clear and great.

Jethro tall is the first concert that I ever went to see. I was 16 at the time and they rocked.

Yes! That driving beat that pushes straight through the song, and then that flute solo that makes Tull SOO special. Another iconic song still living on my Ipod. For all the impact the live video has to see the utter uniqueness of Tull, the original recording IMO hits much harder. Agree with the comment that this is best listened too with headphones.

Jethro Tull is totally unique. This song is from the album "Aqualung". You should listen to more cuts from this album. Start with the first cut entitled Aqualung.

At the end of Ron Burgandy's flute solo is actually a nod to Jethro Tull with the Aqualung riff. Maybe my second favorite flute solo too ;-)

Locomotive Breath, a song about life, how it won't stop, and how it feels like a train running you over sometimes. Hearing songs like this from Tull are a good reminder that, even if metal fans don't want to admit it, Tull had a big influence on the sounds that ended up in Metal. Also, Locomotive Breath was from the B side of the album Aqualung, which was a set of songs about God, hence the reference to Gideon's Bible. The A side of Aqualung was a set of stories about a small group of characters in a little English town. The entire album is worth a listen, some of the greatest work Tull ever did.

seen a few of your reactions now. it's great to watch you truely enjoying that 'old' stuff. keep widening your horizon, man. your on your way. thanks.

Watching you react to Jethro Tull while my cat, Jethro Tull, sleeps on my lap. He is named after this great band. That flute solo was the first I ever heard of a flute solo in rock music and has always been my number one for the flute in itself.

Seeing your face when the flute started was priceless! I saw Jethro Tull in 2015, what an exciting show!

JT is the best concert I ever saw. Not only the music, the crowd was epic. Biker crowds are underrated.

Saw Jethro Tull at Hull City in 1969 when i was a teenager, Ian Anderson had such a stage presence, and a brilliant performer

That look on your face when Ian started his first Flute Solo!! I've seen that look on MANY faces over the last 50 years. Had it myself the first time I heard it.