Aqualung Jethro Tull Bass Cover

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Cross Eyed Mary – Jethro Tull - FRANKS BASS COVERS #shorts v2 • Released March 1971 from the album “Aqualung” • Written by Ian Anderson • Any personal discussion of this band always is associated to the amazing cover band saw several times at the Rising Sun in Yonkers called “Rat Race Choir” • Seeing cover bands at that time was the closest one would get to seeing how the song was performed (no internet in the mid 70’s!) and RRC was the cream of the elite bands in the area. • Their bassist, Dave Chmela not only played flawlessly but, goodness, if you turned your back to the band, you would swear Jethro Tull was playing on stage. Dave can mimic the distinct nuance and sound of Ian Anderson precisely. • As a tribute in the cover video, RRC is pictured at the end of the video. • This picture was the one posted at the “Rising Sun” whenever they were billed so it clearly has those connective memories. • One other thing, if you are so inclined, check out the album cover for Ten Years After “A Space in Time”. Released in 1971 it predates that RRC band photo in the video but the RRC pose in the grass is quite similar to the Ten Years After album cover. Coincidence? • I honestly practiced this for a week before recording (and still fat fingered a couple of times) and am still so utterly impressed how Dave not only played it but sang it as well. • One of the reasons me and the packed audience would stand in one place for their entire show… many of the audience were musicians fixated on the band member playing the instrument they were playing. • Tull played Radio City Musical Hall, January 22 and 23 of 1977. I attended one of them. What I can recall is that the venue acoustics were, as expected, outstanding and the view and sightlines were perfect. • • Jethro Tull have sold an estimated 60 million albums worldwide, with 11 gold and five platinum albums among them. • Bassist • Jeffrey Hammond (b1946) played with Jethro Tull from 1971 to 1975.on the band’s most successful and well-known albums, including Aqualung (1971) and Thick as a Brick (1972). Hammond began to wear a black-and-white-striped suit (see his pic at the end of the video) and played a matching bass guitar; this became his trademark and a feature of the group's Thick as a Brick stage performance. • Personnel • Jethro Tull • Ian Anderson – vocals, acoustic guitar, flute • Martin Barre – electric guitar • John Evan – piano, organ, mellotron • Jeffrey Hammond – bass guitar • Clive Bunker – drums, percussion

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