Before Yes and Neil Young, my favorite band was Jethro Tull. The first album that I “owned” was The Beatles “Meet the Beatles” given to me by my Aunt Pat, the second was the Moody Blues “”Every Good Boy Deserves Favour” bought for me by my dad after getting clunked on the forehead by an errant shoe flying off the foot of someone ahead of me during a foot race at a Post Office picnic, but the first piece of vinyl that I purchased myself was Jethro Tull “Warchild”. The wild eyed and wild haired frontman for Jethro Tull was and is the extraordinary Ian Anderson famous for making the flute a lead instrument in a rock and roll band all the while singing and sometimes playing on one leg. While I have no specific recollection of the Tull/Uriah Heep concert, I am certain I was appropriately pumped up to see one of my musical heroes live at the venerable Madison Square Garden.

Bungle in the Jungle

Rock on!

GQ