Time Well Spent

I missed a few concerts in the first couple of weeks of this month. My friends thought I was crazy and that I had missed some of the best concerts ever. Namely Uriah Heep with Indus Creed, Walter Trout and the Blues Brothers. I was in Jamshedpur from the 3rd to the 17th. There are a couple of people who mean the world to me and when they smile I'll willingly ditch most concerts. I spent 2 weeks in the company of just such a person. Not a couple of hours or days. Two whole weeks!

My Date With The One Legged Flautist

It's 2:50 AM. I got home from the Jethro Tull concert a couple of hours back. What can I say?? Amazing, brilliant, mindblowing, stellar musicmanship.. All that and more. Heck if I wasn't a die hard Floyd fan I'd say it was better than the Roger Waters show at Banglore. It was certainly better than Mark Knopfler. Although Mark was amazing.. it was a bit like listening to his studio stuff with a few changes in the guitar solos.

Ian Anderson is a showman par excellence. He knows how to read the crowd well, makes jokes and boy can he play the flute! Alms for Shanti were the opening act. Sort of a fusion between rock and Indian classical. Not bad on the whole. Things got better when Anderson played the flute on a couple of their tracks. They returned the favour by jamming along with Tull on Mother Goose. Today was Mozart's birth anniversary. Tull celebrated that in their own style. They played a medley of Mozart's stuff and some of Anderson's own noodling. Creatively called Moz-art (figure out where to put the apostrophe hehe).

There was a reason why I said this concert was almost as good as the Waters show (if not better). I sort of knew what to expect at the Waters gig. Also there was no Gilmour :(.
Roger Waters is one of the best songwriters around. But in a live setting Floyd songs need David, Rick and Nick to sound their best.

At today's concert I had no idea what to expect. There was a lot of improvisation, impromptu stuff. Stuff you won't hear on ANY tull album. And that's what concerts should be about.

If you love music, not just rock music do yourself a favour and check out Jethro Tull if they are playing anywhere close by