Editorial Review:Description:Just three years after their founding, Jethro Tull played the final day of the legendary Isle of Wight festival in 1970. With the crowd estimated at close to 600,000 people, the band was one of many impressive acts on this day, including The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Moody Blues, Free, and many more. The set mostly contains material from their first three albums, with the exception of 'My God', which would appear several months later on their legendary 'Aqualung' album.
In this stunning snapshot of the last hurrah of the hippie movement, Award Winning Directo Murray Lerner captures the tension between the crowd and organizers for the final day of the festival. Ian Anderson provides his thoughts throughout the program as well, to give the viewer a unique perspective on what Jethro Tull was about at this moment in time. They were still a relatively new band, yet superstardom was in the near future. The band lineup for this show consists of: Ian Anderson (vocals, flute, acoustic guitar), Martin Barre (electric guitar), Clive Bunker (drums), Glen Cornick (bass), and John Evan (keyboards).
Jethro Tull has earned 11 gold and 5 platinum albums over the course of their 37-year history.
Set List:
1. My Sunday Feeling
2. My God
3. Bouree
4. Dharma For One
5. Nothing Is Easy
6. Medley (We Used To Know/For A Thousand Mothers)
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True Classic Rock...Jethro Tull Live!
This is a great video in terms of historical value and musicianship. All of the band members were extremely talented. Unfortunately, we get just a few glimpses of the lead guitar player in action. The commentary was interesting, but less dialogue and more music footage would be preferable.
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Prime Tull
I have no actual full concert of Tull in their early days.
I always wanted to see Ian Anderson in his prime w/ the long hair and coat performing on stage being back up by Martin Barre, Glenn Cornick, John Evan & Clive Bunker.
Isle of Wight is the closest thing of early footage even though it's a very brief concert.
Isle of Wight is like UK version of Woodstock. Some of the big performers were Hendrix, Doors, and The Who. I remembering reading interviews which Ian Anderson dreaded this concert. Now in hindsight w/ many years behind him he gives it a better review on this DVD calling it "a watershed time". He does mention the chaos & "hoolaginism".
This concert consist of 6 songs plus one song "A Song For Jeffrey" from The Rolling Stones Rock & Roll Circus. This included a brief Tull member Tony Iommi from Black Sabbath on guitar. It's a good number but don't know why they stuck it in the middle of the DVD. This should have been before or after the Isle of Wight performance.
As for The Isle of Wight concert it was excellent. The songs included Bouree, My Sunday Feeling, a new song introduced by Ian titled My God from Aqualung. Dhrama For One, the Moby Dick version for their band. Nothing Is Easy and the encore We Used To Know/For A Thousand Mothers that was an excellent number which Martin Barre provides a mini solo.
Since Tull's time is pretty short this DVD includes Ian's accounts of the time and history on why he chose the flute, the one legged stand, the tension behind & on stage and just interesting filler between the songs. Ian also comments the making of the songs that he plays during this concert.
There is also a DVD/CD package out that includes "Cry You A Song" only on the CD. I just question why didn't they include this on the DVD. They had plenty of room and are there any other songs that Tull performed that night that are not on the DVD?
If anything I would of love to have a menu on the DVD to just see the Isle of Wight songs w/out the comments in between. I mean I enjoy the critique but if I just want to watch the concert itself I have to go back to menu & select the songs.
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a great combination of a documentary and a live show
I usually wish for more music and less talk, but this DVD I gets the balance right. It's got everything, hilarious hippie stereotypes abound when the festival organizers start freaking out about stupid stuff and acting like general morons. This is more of a documentary than a live DVD but that's pretty obvious from reading the description on the back before buying it. Of course Ian Anderson provides quality commentary and the whole thing is really funny from start to finish. I understand someone people would like an unedited performance without the documentary, but if that's the case don't buy something that's obviously more documentary than concert.
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Worth the price
The few good cuts make the DVD worthwhile: Nothing is Easy, My Sunday Feeling, We Used to Know, My God.
Alas the movie focuses on annoying crowd complaints in the middle of other songs. To Cry You a Song is left to play behind the end credits. Dharma for one is boring.
I enjoyed Ian Anderson's comments throughout, though they should have been reserved for another part of the DVD.
Worst part? Inserting Song For Jeffrey from the Rolling Stones' Circus concert (or whatever it was called) right into the middle of the Isle of Wight concert. The song is atrocious - at least in this rendition. Jeffrey, you deserved better.
All in all you get your money's worth, and unless you find other live footage of Tull, this is a must.
Just play Nothing is Easy or My Sunday Feeling to anyone who thinks of Tull as a little weenie Bungle in the Jungle studio band.
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Jethro Tull-'Nothing Is Easy:Live At The Isle Of Wight,1970' (Eagle Vision)
Personally,I liked the audio CD of the same title better(see my review).I've waited a little while to see this DVD of vintage Tull and even though the live footage of the songs are great,the overall editing job of this music DVD should have been done differently.Whoever put this retrospect together should have put the seven songs FIRST,then put the interviews with Ian Anderson,which provided some super nice 'words of thought' and perhaps facts about Tull that many of you didn't already know.Also dug the footage of the angered fans that were speaking their mind about the famed Isle Of Wight event.Had a fantastic time checking out the perfectly focused(sometimes that doesn't happen with old concert films as such)and never off centered performances of "My Sunday Feeling","Bouree","Dharma For One" and "Nothing Is Easy".If you're an old school Jethro Tull fan,with some time AND patience,do check this DVD out when you can.
