Flutist's Explosive Reaction to Jethro Tull's Locomotive Breath Live

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I have watched other flutists react to this and when they saw Ian twirling his flute around, they almost had a heart attack. HEHE! 😜

I was so lucky to see them 5 times in the 70s. Their live shows were masterpieces, and Ian was mesmerizing!

The Jethro Tull storm hit even the tiny islands of Okinawa where I was a high school student back in the early 70s. They were one of our top 10 groups which also included the likes of Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, and Grand Funk.

I've been a Jethro Tull fan for over 40 years ! Loved every second of it !

Greetings from Canada. I'm a Tull fan since 1968- got their first 6 albums (then the Army sent me into the boondocks and I missed some). Good on you- it's great to see young folk enjoying just as we did then. Peace, love and bellbottoms.

One of my all time favorite Live Bands I was lucky enough to see Jethro Tull 3 times at the Oakland Indoor Arena back in the 70s and 80s. Great Live show by Ian Anderson and his mates.

Jethro Tull was a very well oiled, professional band both in the studio and on stage. It looked chaotic and crazy but their shows were always well planned and the band members were always on form. One show I remember they came out dressed in overalls looking like Roadies, all of a sudden off came the overalls and away they went.

I was fortunate enough to have seen them twice in concert, incredible!!!

Even more amazing, Ian was self taught on the flute.

When I heard in a song by Eric Burdon and war say, 'a long-haired leaping gnome', I instantly thought of Ian Anderson.

Hi from Grimsby. I first started listening to Jethro Tull as a teenager with Livening in the pass .and yes this was this was in the early 70's. never seen live but a sound track to my teens.

You are absolutely correct. The 70s were the greatest decade to be alive and young. The music, the counter culture, the effluviants... In the 60s, an exciting but extremely uncertain and violent decade, the demand was always much greater than the supply. It was only in the magical 70s that the supply finally caught up. Please check out Gentle Giant if you really want to see the best example of this, musically speaking.

I heard that Ian has his daughter in music class and she's taking up the flute and teaching him. Thats so cool.

1- I wrote a novella once, never got it published - the last mission of an old, broken cyborg - using the album version of this song, repeated, to help me set tone and pace. 2- In the very early 2000s, they did a series of small venues, mostly conventions for fan clubs and the like, called The Rubbing Elbows tour, at which kazoos would be passed out so everybody could play this flute solo on kazoo. I didn't get to attend, but a brown Beanie Baby dragon named Leif Krispin did attend as my surrogate, came home with a tiny shirt with their autographs and a picture of Mr. Anderson mugging being terrified of him, among other fun things. 3- In the old days, Mr. Anderson's leaping around like a madman was a very important part of the show - by the time of this show, his well-established persona was a medievaloid minstrel gone mad. Age and a couple injuries from those very stunts have slowed him down, of course... 4- BTW, since his unfortunate parting from the band in 2012, Martin Barre has been doing shows with his own little band of various musicians, including former Jethrio Tull members and a vocalists whose style sounds to me kind of like "If Cat Stevens decided to do Jethro Tull covers", he's actually quite good and I really wish I had the means to see them live.

I saw Jethro Tull only once. It was a stop in Denver on their Passion Play tour in 1973. They did maybe half of Thick As A Brick, in addition to the fantastic multimedia Passion Play performance. And the crowd went wild when Ian Anderson stood one-legged with his finger extended to the heavens and launched into that unforgettable intro to Cross-Eyed Mary.

What a fantastic live band, Saw them on the Broadsword tour in 82, and another 7 times since, fantastic show

Although I've never seen Tull, I've seen Ian Anderson many times and there's always Tull fans and merch there.

I was at that concert! Incredible live show

You're right, I like going to rock shows and watch the band members do crazy things, jump around and smile--it shows me that they're having fun and are happy to be there for their fans.