Jethro Live

Also known as Jethro Tull: This Is the First 20 Years. It consists of interviews with fans, record company executives and frontman Ian Anderson giving a rough chronology of the band, interspersed with clips from music videos and live performances…

Jethro Tull live at Dorothy Chandler Pavillion, Los Angeles, USA, 16th January 1977.

Jethro Tull live at Dorothy Chandler Pavillion, Los Angeles, USA, 16th January 1977.

This DVD/CD package is an absolute must have for any Jethro Tull fan; finally a concert DVD from the classic 1970s period and the closest thing possible to having a video version of Tull's live album `Bursting Out.'

Perhaps the most interesting and insightful of the individual films to come out of Murray Lerner's footage shot at the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival, Nothing Is Easy is also the most ambitious. Jumping between the 1970 events and a rather droll-humored Ian Anderson recalling the events from 2004, the film gives a lot more than an excellent account of the band's music and stage presentation of that era…

Jethro Tull - Live At Madison Square Garden 1978 (2009) [CD+DVD] {Chrysalis}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 529 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 188 Mb
DVD9 -> 4.43 Gb | All Regions | NTSC 4:3 | Dolby AC3, 6 ch / DTS, 6 ch / LPCM, 2 ch | ~ 94m | ISO Image
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (png) -> 265 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 2009 Chrysalis / EMI | 50999 9 67920 2 5
Rock / Prog Rock / Art Rock

Sporting the cover of the CD/DVD set is a very strange looking Ian Anderson with a typically normally looking Martin Barre. Anderson looks like he is getting ready to do something perverted with his flute again. Glad to know 31 years on nothing much has changed in that respect. Live At Madison Square Garden (CD/DVD) is one of several live Jethro Tull DVD's that have become available over the last few years. I am glad that I didn't miss this one because it's a real gem. It contains a 93 minute concert recording in 5.1 DTS (96/24) surround sound (+Dolby Digital 5.1 & LPCM 2.0) and within all of that is 50 minutes of video footage from the groundbreaking (an often over used term in music but in this case true) of an international broadcast via satellite on October 9, 1978. The CD is a 78 minute edited stereo version of the concert. The only difference in tracks between the two is the "Bagpipe Intro" on the DVD and obviously the visual impact of a live Jethro Tull performance that is so strikingly brought to life again.