Drummer reacts to "Dark Ages" & "Warm Sporran" by Jethro Tull

Thank you to our alpha patron Cora as always for sponsoring these Tull videos. I heard a live version of "Dark Ages" MANY moons ago and basically forgot it... but the studio is a totally different animal anyways. Martin and Barrymore SHINED on that track. So damn good. I can't wait to hear the rest! "Warm Sporran" felt more dark age-y then "Dark Ages" lol
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[@joeyblowey123456]

Most people claim either Aqualung or Thick as a Brick as their favorite Tull albums. My favorite are Songs from the Wood, Heavy Horses and Stormwatch. All 3 are so damn good.

[@Hartlor_Tayley]

More incredible Tull music I’ve never heard

[@jstock2317]

is there anything better???

[@Hartlor_Tayley]

@@jstock2317 the quality over so many albums is just amazing to discover

[@craigryan3069]

JT were (IMHO) the greatest rock band to meld their music so perfectly with orchestral arrangements. Sheer genius. You need to listen to the original version of Dark Ages (it's nearly 12 minutes long, so was too big to fit on the original LP) which is on the 40th Anniversary Boxed set of Stormwatch.

[@TheRKae]

This is my favorite Tull album! Everything works. Even the b-sides and leftovers are excellent!

[@BigC.]

Saw them perform this in 1979 in support of the Stormwatch album. Incredible show.

[@dunringill1747]

It's awesome seeing a Jethro Tull fan in the making as you continue your Tull journey.

[@robertjewell9727]

Definitely throw in Dun Ribgill next week.

[@dunringill1747]

👍🍻

[@garysexton8840]

Warm Sporran is like a Scottish battle song as it suggests a marching song. Such a unique song of the Tull catalog

[@jstock2317]

these are two of my favorite songs in music. Dark Ages with one of the best guitar solos ever, and Warm Sporran with my favorite flute solo. and the drum solo! THE DRUM SOLO! peak Tull!

[@L33Reacts]

Yeah this is easy top 10 tull track for me. Martin went completely bananas

[@sharondavid-melly1498]

Revisiting Tull is always a secret corridor. Thanks

[@bobcorbin3294]

The 1970's version of Tull"s Swansong...I was lucky to to see this tour in '79 with UK as the opening act...What a show!

[@Rock_Snob]

Same here… Long Beach Arena, California. Allan Holdsworth was the guitarist for UK back then.

[@bobcorbin3294]

@@Rock_Snob when I saw them here in Nashville in 79 it was just Eddie Johnson, John Wetton and Terry Bozzio

[@corawheeler9355]

This album is a favorite and always in a cd slot when I travel. I enjoy the complexity of Tull's music. Ian Anderson is a musical genius.

[@nyrocks5580]

'CD slot' - I love it! It's very nice to have physical tech available when traveling.

[@corawheeler9355]

@@nyrocks5580 Me and my '08 F350 are technology challenged. lol

[@nyrocks5580]

​@corawheeler9355 haha! It's one of the things we like about our 16 Fusion, even though it has SiriusXM. Subaru is offering a CD player as an option. Methinks a lot of people see the need for it, so they dont have to depend on a signal...or perhaps feel tech challenged. I still use iPods, because I don't want the streaming choices. It's nice to disconnect, plus 'they' know enough about us. LOL

[@user-hy4ny8uk2m]

I was too high to remember this album until I saw this

[@jermaschinot]

let's go! Damn straight! I saw this in 19 79 AND twice in 2023. very moving last year with the contempory video so apropo

[@goodphotoideas]

The long hard-rocking Tull songs of old are my personal favorite, and Dark Ages is a prime example. And it's one of the few where Ian Anderson is playing bass, in addition to his usual instruments.

[@theeloquentbaby]

I enjoyed these, Cora. Thank you! Thank you, Lee!

[@realbser1956]

Dark Ages was a great throwback song to earlier Tull albums, loved it, Cora. Thanks. ❤

[@dionisioiacobelli6689]

They played warm sporran over the PA before they came on stage at Madison Square Garden.

[@nyrocks5580]

Time to ride the Tullercoaster.

[@lauriehutchison449]

BTW, your second guess on how to pronounce sporran is the right one - like SPORE-un. A sporran is the thing that looks sorta like a purse, worn with a Scottish kilt. I think another thing that adds a little more darkness to Ian around this time is that his father died, a bit before John Glascock’s passing. There’s a video of one of their last concerts, just weeks after Glascock passed, where you can really see the strain on Barrimore’s face, as they carried on with the end of their tour. Such great music. So happy to see some of the new generation discovering it. Also glad that in my 70s I can enjoy reliving so many of their concerts and albums- it’s a deep well, you still have a long wonderful way to go - enjoy!

[@whiskytalkauspetersschrank]

Usualy there is one great longer song on a record - Stormwatch got 2 of the best with Dark Ages and Flying Dutchman - both very different but both fill there place on a record without misses perfect. Warm Sporran is a strange one, very folky, while the sound in the backround leeds already in the 80s I love the mood, even in this one, there is something dark, gloomy - I think the olny song on the record without this darkness is Home... Home, where you feel save

[@carlomercorio1250]

Thanks, Cora. Good stuff from the band. Did not realise Tull was on at 4pm (SA time) and was 30 minutes late. See the gang for the Kate Bush number.

[@jermaschinot]

from hardest rock to funk infused celtic march music all on the same record

[@johncollins2834]

You want to know if Ian plays flute on Dark Ages well check out the BBC tv Lively Arts documentary on Jethro Tull on their tour of North America in 1979. Refers to the ‘Winter of discontent’ in Britain in 1978/79 where there was industrial action by the trades unions following 3 years of pay restraint imposed by the Labour Government. This was exacerbated by the coldest winter in 16 years. There was snow still lying in towns in Scotland if I remember right up to Easter.

[@user-gb3in5wd1u]

Love Dark Ages, strangely always seem to forget Warm Sporran - I think I just think of it as part of 'Somethings on the Move' (there are similar themes and those 2 seem to go together well).

[@johnclibbens6803]

Wonderful stuff - the emphasis is on the first syllable in sporran.

[@jeffmartin1026]

Dark Ages always has and still sounds to me like a Greatest Hits LP distilled down to a single song, not my favorite. Warm Sporran is a fun tune!

[@garysexton8840]

As the Title suggests it is an ominous song pointing how our present era of living is so negative as heard in the lyrics and the instruments convey the feeling that goes with it

[@garysexton8840]

Warm Sporran is like a

[@jamesadkisson7510]

This album was like the band came out of the woods. More about fishing boats and coastal towns, deep sea oil, and climate change.

[@P.Galore]

Love Dun Ringill but not a fan of the start and stop production on this album.

[@davidkeller6156]

Dun Ringill one of the best Tull acoustic songs.❤ Pure poetry.

[@dunringill1747]

I feel the love