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Steve Smith's avatar

“...an album I always consider a companion piece to the first Sabbath album.” Imagine what it might have been like if Tony Iommi had stayed in Tull for more than just one appearance?

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Chuck Mitchell's avatar

Indeed I’m an ultra grizzled Tullophile, having first heard them at the Kinetic Playground in Chicago in the summer of 1969 on a bill that included Led Zeppelin, Savoy Brown, and local garage band graduates The Litter. All for about three bucks. We didn’t know anything about Tull--in fact thought Ian’s name was Jethro Tull. His between-songs raps were incomprehensible and the music was like nothing else we’d heard. I went out the next day and bought This Was and I’m still listening at age 72, especially the first four or five albums and the sublime Songs From The Wood. Cheers!

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