Nothing Is Easy - Jethro Tull (cover by Martin Skews)

[@melissatyree566]

This is mind-blowing. I think that is a jethro tull tapestry behind you? I will be playing this over and over. Thank you, Melissa from ohio 🌷 ❤❤❤

[@patches181]

Totally amazing! Bravo. I really like how you capture Martin's tone. EXCELLENT!

[@planetlg]

Great job! I love Stand Up and Benefit.🤩

[@daviddavies2945]

Best cover ever. Thanks a bunch!!!!!!

[@markb1107]

Excellent!! Been seeing this band since 1976!! Great job on this!!!

[@michaelmclarney1994]

Excellent job guys, very well done and onw of the best Tull covers ive heard.

[@The_Weissman]

Why'd it take KZbin three years to recommend this to me? HFS!! Nice job Martin!

[@tao694t]

could not have enjoyed this more !! nice work

[@johncellario]

Awesome. Really hard song to cover, brilliant musicianship by you on all instruments plus vocals.

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

Extremly well done! You got in one of my playlists...

[@tom12ta]

Nice job 🍺🍺🍺😉🤘🎸

[@RalphSpoiledsport]

You have really listened to this piece. That's commitment. It's an excellent performance of one of my favorite songs.

[@laiqrauf6206]

Excellentull! You made it look Easy. I hope I get to hear and see more from you🎉

[@mattsta1964]

OMG, That is incredible!

[@edfederoff2679]

We are cut from the same musical cloth, my brother. I can't tell you how much I admire what you've accomplished! Taught myself flute in 1971 from Tull albums. Had never even heard of a Boehm chart, so just honked on the thing and twiddled with the trill keys until I figured out how to make every note of the upper register. With Ian's overblown style, it didn't matter if the tones weren't pure - in fact, it depended on it. I'd previously played guitar - coming from the early folk era - and had a vocal range and timbre that matched Ian's, so I played most of Tull's material. I performed in a 3-piece that did Nothing Is Easy - using a drum machine - that was freakin' wild! Took a long time to program it - LOL.

[@Jazz8]

Amazing rendition!!

[@mach.hinne.42]

I love these early Tull songs. Great interpretation!! More please! !

[@billryan6024]

To do everything yourself is simply biblical. This was extremely well done. You should be very proud.

[@johnconnolly3635]

Wow. Fantastic job.

[@jrockofages5413]

Twice in 12 hours! Must be good. Remarkable is a better word. This is so hard to do. Gotta lay the bass and drums down and then come back a rip. Levels adn great, edits are seemless. This is great on so many levels. Thank you

[@cortsway4]

Brilliant cover

[@BMcCue7]

Good Lord! What a cover. Love this song and it never had a better rendition.

[@ianlucas6615]

So good been a Tull fan since 1968 yep I'm old fantastic cover

[@richardpane7624]

. What a performance.! ...Take it from a guy who saw it live when Ian and the other band members were still in their twenties

[@robertosborne451]

Great cover

[@cosimodambra778]

grandeeeee complimenti

[@honey8784]

I saw Tull two times in Oklahoma City, Looks like a resurinterest in ian Anderson, Tull was an incredible band

[@axelheyst2397]

absolutely excellent

[@mlough21]

I’m blown away. Ian Anderson would definitely approve. That’s as near to seeing them live. Thanks you.

[@jeffkay2011]

Nice!!

[@St.IrenaeusOfLyons]

Bravo!

[@laiqrauf6206]

ExcellenTull ❤

[@zwichdrummer1]

WOW !!!! incredible

[@berndthiemann3463]

Great!

[@gregorystinette8271]

Nailed it

[@neonpark1874]

Nicely done sir! I really enjoyed that. I think I'll listen to it again right now.

[@marcodercole9577]

Wow! Bravissimo! I'm a 67 years old Jethro Tull fan from Italy and I say yes yes yes, it's ok!

[@sohamsarker]

This is so amazing. Truly wasn't expecting it to be this amazing. You absolutely nailed it !!!!

[@arcticflying]

Wow man, you didn't pick the easiest one didn't you? I am floored, this must be the most acurate cover ever. Congrats, this is just wonderful!

[@manfredmebert6461]

WOW!

[@norcoauctions]

He impressed you because Ian Anderson was THE GREATEST ROCK PERFORMER OF ALL TIME!. Great job, keep the music going. When you fully have matured in all things Tull, then A Passion Play will be waiting for you. Truly a marvellous job you did with this song...wow!

[@r.k.2000]

Fantastic. You even do the little vocal mutterings where Anderson's catching his breath before and after playing flute!

[@MrZepZep62]

great!

[@RaoniLima43]

This is so quality in so many levels man!!! So goood!!!

[@pierre2497]

This is one of the most incredible Jethro Tull coversI ever heard !! Oustanding job, man !

[@butterboydan]

this made me cry as to how accurate it is

[@stevenneil4998]

I'm not A Jethro Tull Fan; I'm THE Jethro Tull fan and I'm here to say that was terrific in every way. Gave me the chills. I also picked up the flute because of IA. Long time ago now. Keep it up, my friend. You have a real touch for this music.

[@williambaldridge1203]

If you think this is good check out Andrew tisbert. Andrew also has a band called Attic of Love. Check out a song called Bridge of Lost Desire by Attic of Love. Andrew does dozens of Tull covers. His flute playing is very much like Ian Anderson.

[@Broxin7]

Epic performance, even after watching it a gazillion times.

[@justgivemethetruth]

MORE JETHRO TULL .... this is fantastic!

[@craig0852]

I am a huge Tull fan and a huge JCS fan. Now I am a Martin Skews fan.

[@mauriceboyle6923]

My favourite Tull song from my favourite Tull album covered absolutely brilliantly. Awesome musicianship. Respect.

[@justgivemethetruth]

More Jethro Tull !

[@luciusmichael]

Wow....this guy is seriously talented.

[@PaisleyPatchouli]

EXCELLENT cover of one of my all-time favorite Tull tunes!

[@robertduda6336]

👍 Brings me back to the Kinetic Playground in Chicago back in ‘69. You lads rocked it.

[@justgivemethetruth]

I was searching for this to hear it again and I thought it had been removed ... but I'm glad I finally found it. Just had to hear it again. A fantastic rendition, as I said before! Thanks.

[@justgivemethetruth]

This is just SO good! More TULL!

[@justgivemethetruth]

Still as good as I remember it. A lot of greatness in mining old Jethro Tull songs. A great rendition.

[@peteldoyle]

The great Clive Bunker

[@tribalflute3895]

That was one Joyful Celebration Sphere! And I know it wasn't Easy!

[@gripho3589]

This is the best jethro tull cover i've ever seen, extremely underrated! Good work man

[@tixximmi]

I didn't see you stand on one leg. But you picked one of the two greatest composer/singer/musician/etc. The other is Zappa. Great job. Impressive. Nailed it. Running out of words. :)

[@RodericSpode]

Great cover and I love the Stand Up wall covering. Stand Up was one of their best albums, and it also had a great album cover.

[@polzol1748]

Tull in every kind shape... forever..! Good job

[@angelokefalas3750]

Great job! You Fn Killed it! 👊🔥🤘

[@ThomasRogan-gc5pi]

Nothing is Easy but listening to Martin's great cover 😊

[@chrisfells6538]

WOW. absolutely WOW. Amazing cover. All instruments gloriously played. Well done. Been a JT fan since mid 70's. Keep up the great work, such energy, I'm sure IA would approve.

[@1whiteduck]

I've been a fanatical Ian Anderson / Tull fan since 1969. I've never heard a better cover of this great song. More please (but no Aqualung or Locomotive Breath).

[@stevejones1921]

Amen. You'd think they were the only 2 songs he ever wrote.

[@marielevine7757]

I'm quite impressed with this. Thank you! Jethro Tull has a unique sound that is very difficult to capture, and you did it really really well. The world needs a Tull tribute band. That could be you! Do you play acoustic guitar too?

[@justgivemethetruth]

Just gotta say that like most Jethro Tull songs from this era, every time I listen to this it gets better and I hear something I missed in the times before. Wonderful rendition.

[@philippecordier5990]

You give me goose bumps! waow.I'm a french fan of JT since 1973,and I have never seen a cover like your's.

[@justgivemethetruth]

I have to keep coming back here to listen to what is the best version of this song ... maybe even better than the original, though it's not fair to judge music that is 50 years old by contemporary standards ... but this is damn good and really has a to of energy in it ... superlative!!!

[@martinhayward4466]

Brilliantly done Mr. Martin Ian Clive & Glenn Skews.

[@bpwarrior53]

Nailed it. Fantastic! I have covered many Tull songs with various bands around the time this album came out. I wish you were around in those days to jam, but you probably weren't even born. Keep up the great work. Cheers from Australia.

[@annelouise4639]

Blimey, that was good! Incredible talent! I'm currently listening to Jethro Tull Live at the Isle of Wight in my car, and Nothing is Easy is the song that I play over and over again. Your version is just as exciting as theirs! 🎸🎵🎶

[@justgivemethetruth]

I'd have to say it's better because it is punchier and more energetic.

[@Broxin7]

SENSATIONAL!!!!!! Every bit of it.

[@uomotofu]

Just perfect, I'm blown away.

[@johnroberts3723]

Great job guys and thanks for sharing.

[@larrygonzales821]

Dude! That is off the hook!

[@shanir97]

P E R F E C T ! ! !

[@jamescarbono2227]

Ian himself would be just as floored as the rest of us!! Just tooooo good!!

[@justgivemethetruth]

This blows me away every time I hear it ... simply amazing!

[@javier.zelada]

It is the best tribute to Tull I have ever seen. Congratulations and thank you!

[@Ferretbomber]

Fantastic

[@nothing-b2n]

This is awesome..love this

[@lunamotionproductions9559]

AMAZING video. I'd love to see some Zappa covers. He's the most underappreciated composer of the 20th century because a bunch of humorless critic-idiots can't get past his lyrics. Anyway, well bloody done mate!

[@benliebrand5271]

Outstanding!!!

[@jamescarbono2227]

@Martin skew. you are awesome! Next one to cover would be "cry you a song"

[@jospina65]

Amazing, you are a genius.

[@BobC59]

Fantastic! Wish I had found this sooner and wondering why its only now come up in months of looking for and at Tull covers.

[@TA-zk7lr]

The best cover I heard of this song! You are very talented to play all this instruments so good. You made me want to play my flute now:)

[@kendetulio4009]

Marvelous

[@eribaldoyes3883]

Oh my, hands down pal, hands down! I discovered Tull when I was 8, back in 1991. I´m 38 now, still a hard a fan! Minstrel was my first, and remains my favourite album. Other than that, amazing cover dude, you are very talented!

[@tnickel2]

Well done!

[@mikunan]

Wow , incredible.

[@Narpets2112]

That was awesome.

[@justgivemethetruth]

wow, fantastic! like hearing that song for the first time ... thanks for the experience! I'm hesitant to say it, but you could remind jethro tull himself of a thing of two. fantastic improvising away from the expected ... blew me away.

[@scooterscottii]

outstanding job man☮️

[@lunatic7700]

One of my favorite songs from Jethro Tull

[@jenniferfranks491]

This kicks ass.