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Jethro Tull: This Was

 A l b u m   D e t a i l s


Label: Chrysalis Records
Released: 1968.09.10
Time:
 38:20
Category: Progressive Rock
Producer(s): See Artists ...
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.j-tull.com
Appears with: Ian Anderson, Martin Barre
Purchase date: 1994.03.12
Price in €: 6,99





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[1] My Sunday Feeling (I.Anderson) - 3:42
[2] Someday The Sun Won't Shine For You (I.Anderson) - 2:49
[3] Beggar's Farm (M.Abrahams/I.Anderson) - 4:20
[4] Move On Alone (M.Abrahams) - 1:59
[5] Serenade To A Cuckoo (R.Kirk) - 6:11
[6] Dharma For One (I.Anderson/C.Bunker) - 4:16
[7] It's Breaking Me Up (I.Anderson) - 5:05
[8] Cat's Squirrel (Trad., arr. by M.Abrahams) - 5:44
[9] A Song For Jeffrey (I.Anderson) - 3:23
[10] Round (I.Anderson/M.Abrahams/C.Bunker/G.Cornick/T.Ellis) - 0:4

 A r t i s t s ,   P e r s o n n e l


IAN ANDERSON - Lead Vocals, Flute, Mouth Organ, Claghorn on [6], Piano on [10], Producer, Cover Concept
MICK ABRAHAMS - Guitar, Nine-string Guitar, Lead vocal on [4], Producer
CLIVE BUNKER - Drums, Hooter, Charm Bracelet, Producer
GLENN CORNICK- Bass Guitar, Producer

DAVID PALMER - arrangement on "Move On Alone"

TERRY ELLIS - Producer, Cover Concept
VICTOR GAMM - Engineer
BRIAN WARD - Cover Photo

 C o m m e n t s ,   N o t e s


1969 LP Reprise 6336
1990 CS Chrysalis 21041
1990 CD Chrysalis 21041
1995 CS Chrysalis F4-21041
1995 CD Chrysalis F2-21041
1991 CS Alliance 21041
1996 CD Alliance 21041



1st LP released Oct. ’68 in the UK/ ’69 in the US. In ’64, Ian Anderson, John Evans and Jeffery Hammond-Hammond formed their first band. Named after the 18th century inventor of the seed drill, Jethro Tull was initially a strange kind of blues band. Their fist line-up included Mick Abrahams, Glen Cornick Clive Bunker, and vocalist /flautist / songwriter Ian Anderson. In June, just before this album was recorded, Jethro Tull began a residency at London’s famed Marquee Club (where the ‘Stones and The Who also launched their careers).
‘THIS WAS’, Jethro Tull’s debut album hit No.10 in the British charts. Just before the release in the US, guitarist Abrahams left to form ‘Blodwyn Pig. Tull began their first US tour in Jan ’69, immediately after securing the services of guitarist Martin Lancelot Barre.
The album had little commercial impact in the US charts (No.62) but the US tour did earn the band a strong cult following.

J-Tull.com



...It's a band escaping from its bedroom blues, experimenting with the free progressive vibe, dipping into some officially crazy jazz structures and coming up with a sound that's unique....THIS WAS caught [TULL] at the peak of their unbridled creativity.

Q Magazine (7/99, p.140) - 4 stars out of 5



Jethro Tull was very much a blues band on their debut album, vaguely reminiscent of the Graham Bond Organization only more cohesive, and with greater commercial sense. The revelations about the group's roots on This Was -- which was recorded during the summer of 1968--can be astonishing, even 30 years after the fact. Original lead guitarist Mick Abrahams contributed to the songwriting and the singing, and his presence as a serious bluesman is felt throughout, often for the better: "Some Day the Sun Won't Shine for You," an Ian Anderson original that could just as easily be credited to Big Bill Broonzy or Robert Johnson; "Cat's Squirrel" ( Abrahams' big showcase, where he ventures into Eric Clapton territory); and "It's Breaking Me Up," which also features some pretty hot guitar from Abrahams. Roland Kirk's "Serenade to a Cuckoo" (the first song Anderson learned to play on flute), their jazziest track ever, is one of the best parts of the album. The drum solo on "Dharma For One" now seems like a mistake, but is understandable in the context of the time in which it was done. The one number here that everybody knows, "A Song for Jeffrey," almost pales amid these surroundings, but at the time it was a superb example of commercial psychedelic blues. This would be the last album of its kind by the group, as Abrahams' departure and the lure of more fertile inspiration tugged them toward English folk music. Curiously, the audio mix here is better than that on their second album, with a much stronger, harder group sound overall.

Bruce Eder - All Music Guide



"'This Was' and 'Stand Up', both from 1969, present the group as jazz- and folk-influenced progressives; Anderson's rasping, melodramatic style of play takes off from Rashaan Roland Kirk's multi-reed explorations."

ROLLING STONE ALBUM GUIDE ***



This Was, das '68er Debütalbum der britischen Avantgarde-Folkrocker Jethro Tull, ist ein Stück Rock-Urgeschichte, denn obwohl die Scheibe längst nicht so bekannt ist wie die Tull-Bestseller Aqualung und Thick As A Brick, beschreibt sie doch wie kaum eine andere LP den zu neuen Ufern aufbrechenden musikalischen Spirit der späten 60er. Straighter, gefühlvoller Blues steht völlig selbstverständlich neben anspruchsvollem Progrock, der nicht ganz ohne Wirkung auf später startende Bands wie ELP oder Genesis blieb, und hippieskes Psychedelic-Aroma verträgt sich ganz hervorragend mit traditionellen britischen Folk-Elementen.
Bandleader Ian Anderson hält sich sowohl mit seiner Querflöte als auch mit seiner einzigartigen Stimme noch ein wenig zurück, aber wunderbar warme Klangschmeichler wie "Serenade To A Cuckoo" zeigen bereits das schier unerschöpfliche Potential dieser ebenso verschrobenen wie genialen Band, die wenig später die britischen Charts von ganz oben betrachtete. Aus musikhistorischer Sicht nicht ganz unwichtig ist auch die Tatsache, daß This Was die einzige Tull-Platte ist, auf der nicht Martin Barre, sondern der keinen Deut schlechtere Mick Abrahams für die Gitarrenparts zuständig ist. Unterm Strich ein Klassikeralbum reinsten Wassers.

Michael Rensen - Amazon.de
 

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My Sunday Feeling

My Sunday feeling is coming on over me.
My Sunday feeling is coming on over me,
Now that the night is over.
Got to clear my head so I can see.
Till I get to put together, that old feeling won't let me be.
Won't somebody tell me where I laid my head last night?
Won't somebody tell me where I laid my head last night?
I really don't remember, But with one more cigarette and I think I might.
Till I get to put together, well that old feeling can't get me right.

Need some assistance, have you listened to what I said?
Need some assistance, have you listened to what I said?
Oh, I don't feel so good. Need someone to help me to my bed.
Till I get to put together, that old feeling is in my head.


Some Day The Sun Won't Shine For You

In the morning - gonna get my things together.
Packing up and I'm leaving this place.
I don't believe you'll cry, there'll be a smile upon your face.

I didn't think how much you'd hurt me.
That's something that I laugh about.
Bring in the good times, baby.
And let the bad times out.

That old sun keeps on shining,
But someday it won't shine for you.
In the morning I'll be leaving.
I'll leave your mother too.


Beggar's Farm

You're taking chances. And your reputation's going down.
Going out in the night-time. You think you make no sound.
But you don't fool me. `Cos I know what you feel.
If you ignore the things I say --
someday soon's gonna find you
`way down on Beggar's Farm.

I pay my money for no returns.
I think I need you. Going to find someone.
Oh, you don't fool me. `Cos I know what you feel.
When you go out I ask you why.
And I won't worry when I see you lying
down on Beggar's Farm.

When you run to me, going to turn away.
Won't even listen when you try to say
that you were only fooling around --
`Cos I know what you feel.
But if you ask me nicely, woman --
I'll wake up early one day soon and
I'll visit you down on Beggar's Farm.


Move On Alone

I feel so sad now that she's gone,
I've been loving that woman too long.
There is no place to go because my friends have all moved,
Got nothing but sit in the sun.
Got tired of crying, guess I'll move on alone.

My bed is so empty and my heart is grown cold,
guess I'll just die before I grow old.
The place is untidy, that's `cos I ain't done my dirt,
I just grown tired of thinking.
Got tired of crying, guess I'll move on alone.


Serenade To A Cuckoo

Instrumental


Dharma For One

Instrumental


It's Breaking Me Up

So many long days. In so many ways.
I try to get through to what lies deep inside of you.
Oh, baby. I said, you're breaking me up, woman.
Yeah, you're breaking me down.
You're lying in little pieces --
scattered all around.

You're doing your worst to see me get hurt.
You're waiting to see the tears running out of me.
But, oh, baby, I said you're breaking me up, woman.
You're breaking me down.
You're lying in little pieces --
scattered all around.

My teares have run dry and you wonder why.
I've found a new woman who don't do the things you can.
Oh, baby, I said you're breaking me up, woman.
You're breaking me down.
You're lying in little pieces --
scattered all around.


Cat's Squirrel

Instrumental


A Song For Jeffrey

Gonna lose my way tomorrow,
gonna give away my car.
I'd take you along with me,
but you would not go so far.
Don't see what I do not want to see,
you don't hear what I don't say.
Won't be what I don't want to be,
I continue in my way.

Don't see, see, see where I'm goin',
Don't see, see, see where I'm goin',
Don't see, see, see where I'm goin' to,
I don't want to.

Everyday I see the mornin' come on in the same old way.
I tell myself tomorrow brings me things I would not dream today.


Round

Instrumental

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