When Jethro Tull Concert Tour?
Jethro Tull is an English rock band, originating from Blackpool, Lancashire in 1967. Beginning as a blues rock and jazz fusion band, the group later adopted elements of hard and folk rock music. Singer Ian Anderson is the only founding member still with the group which has had a series of lineup changes, Jethro Tull has continued to tour and release new albums.
Their concert tours have continued for over five decades. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Jethro Tull started touring to promote their albums and this included the famous ‘Aqualung’ that was released in 1971. They also became a very popular live band due to Ian Anderson who would often perform standing on one leg and playing the flute at the same time. In the year 1972, the band went on their first American tour with cities such as New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago on their list. By the seventies, Jethro Tull had toured Europe, the UK, the USA, and Canada several times, many college concerts, and big festivals such as the California Jam in 1974.
One of the famous tours that Jethro Tull undertook was in 1977 and was referred to as the ‘Songs from the Wood’ tour. As expected from a tour with the said name, the concerts included songs from the folk rock-influenced album, Songs from the Wood. The fans liked the direction back to a stripped-down acoustic style after JT’s adventurous explorations. Such songs as “Jack-in-the-Green,” “Cup of Wonder,” and the title track were performed live well into the 1970s. Even larger world tours were mounted for the backing of other albums such as Heavy Horses (1978) and Stormwatch (1979).
The decade of the eighties found Jethro Tull persistently touring while undergoing some changes in members. Of these, perhaps the most significant was the 1980 tour in support of the album A, which was their first studio album recorded digitally. The technical advancement in the production was equal to the laser lighting and projections that supplemented the tour’s visuals. Fans got to watch early live renditions of some of the songs that would later on form part of the Tull discography such as “Black Sunday” and “Cross-Eyed Mary”. Jethro Tull also began to inject some classical influences at live performances, most notably through the use of a synthesizer. An especially unique show in 1981 at the Hammersmith Odeon had the band supported by a symphony orchestra!
When classic rock was approaching its high in the late 80s Jethro Tull continued to be an active concert band, often filling up the large arenas and stadiums in North America with over 20,000 seats. With tunes like ‘Locomotive Breath’ and ‘Bungle in the Jungle’, concerts exposed the commanding presence of Ian Anderson on stage accompanied by the fiery guitar of Martin Barre. Rock Island tour proved that the band was still inventive as they had entered their third decade; the group began the Celtic-tinged album with a series of grand live shows in Europe and America through 1990.
Eventually, Jethro Tull reduced their touring frequency in the ‘90s and the ‘00s, especially in North America. But the Roots to Branches (1995) and the J-Tull Dot Com (1999) tours proved that Anderson & co. could still make demands of fans. Forced to abandon the arena shows, they modified to less hectic schedules playing in people’s houses and their arena-centered rock festivals. Despite this Jethro Tull was still able to maintain their status as a popular live attraction at summer festivals across Europe such as the Bang Your Head Festival in Germany (2005) or the Isle of Wight Festival in the UK (2009). Old-school fans relished what they could hear from the bands during these shows which included even obscure tracks.
Surprisingly, Jethro Tull started touring in 2011, introducing the acclaimed Ian Anderson Plays Thick As a Brick tour of more than 2 years. Facilitating new arrangements of their hit 1972 album, which they recreated live in full, it was the band’s most lucrative tour in years, thanks to shows that were selling out across the globe. The audience was given bright colors and sparkles while Anderson restored the youth and passion that he used to have much to the joy of his fans. Following this tour, a new series of compilation records and a concert reviewing Thick as a Brick’s history and ASL implications were issued by Jethro Tull.
In 2017, for their fiftieth anniversary, Jethro Tull embarked on another global tour called the ‘The String Quartets’ together with the Carducci String Quartet. At these concerts, Tull changed his rock songs by adding strings and thus made many of them sound even more profound than before. First, old songs were revisited while new songs were introduced throughout the UK, Europe, and Canada in more than fifty performances ranging from small theatres to large concert halls. Reviews paid tribute to Anderson’s creativity and musicianship of other band members simultaneously. To document the tour, a live album along with a concert film was released.
Most recently in 2019, Ian Anderson toured the history of Jethro Tull to US fans in the Prog Years tour using videos, stories, and curiosities about 50 years of progressive hard rock. Hence, in the early years of the 2020s, one can personally expect the edgy vanguard to remain musically and creatively productive while recording albums and performing live. To get more information on the tours and concerts to be conducted by Jethro Tull, one can always visit the official website of the band which is www. Jethro Tull. com. Despite the potential that they may only perform in rather smaller halls, one is confident that in terms of attitude and drama, Jethro Tull will continue to roll on, like the steam that fuels the locomotive depicted in their song, forever.
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