I used to like the band, a bunch of real musicians, tight and well balanced playing decent arrangements with an occasional touch of real inspiration - but that edgy head voice adopted by Rick Davies affected me like fingerrnails on a blackboard!
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Mick Abrahams, founding member and original guitarist of Jethro Tull dies aged 82.
Ah, Jethro Tull. Prog rock? Folk rock? Something rock! They have had just a few different styles and I like many of their varied tunes. From prog rock to just beautiful melodies. I started listening whilst studying A levels and seemed to hang around with people at Uni who were Tull fans too.
Mick was only on 1 album before leaving, their first album ‘This Was Jethro Tull’. He was much more blues based than Ian Anderson who wasn’t!
So here’s Mick playing away on a few songs.
My Sunday Feeling:
Beggar’s Farm:
And as it’s Christmas Eve…and what fine lyrics
‘You’re missing the point that does not need making,
That Christmas Spirit is…
… not what you drink.’
A Christmas Song:
I only got my own copy of This Was during COVID lockdown. Before then I always listened to university flatmate’s copies. I get transported back to 1981 when I listen to it and it was already 12 years old by then.
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…Andy, not seeing any videos, loved Jethro Tull; Merry Xmas to you too
cheers 
Geoff, vk3sq
Youtube is playing with how it responds to browsers that have adblockers etc. installed. I’ve tweaked the post so you can see the Youtube link. Cut and paste that into another tab and it should work. It’s misbehaving in Firefox for me now but wasn’t earlier. Working fine in Brave.
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Must get it on CD or download as the grooves on my vinyl copy are wearing thin. I must admit I did buy Stand Up, the second album, before I bought This Was. Tull was always played at parties late 60s / early 70s. Very popular amongst my circle of friends.
Although it was sad news to hear, it was good to see Mick’s passing got a mention on national TV… as indeed did Chris Rea.
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His reaction to this is priceless:
I don’t know if this stuff qualifies for this thread, but I like it all the same. 
This one by Charles Earland is a favourite. The track features trumpet legend Lee Morgan who was shot dead by his wife a couple of days after recording this track. A great loss, he was a great trumpet player:
This is one of my all-time time favourite tracks. The only version worth listening to is the extended version though. The bass on this track is phenomenal!
And this track, Pretty Sue by Japanese band Creation, is just a great driving song.The album artwork is disturbing though!
One last one is from his 1982 Guitar Fantasia concert (I have three different editions on Laserdisc it is that good in my opinion), Masayoshi Takanada and the great track Plastic Tears. The whole concert is ace, well worth watching.
This lot should keep you going for now.
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…there are no videos showing
Might be an ad blocker?
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As explained earlier… there is a constant battle between YouTube’s owners Google between themselves and the ad-blocker authors. YouTube changes it’s scripts to force people to watch the adverts and adblock authors change their code to bypass the changes put in place by YouTube. It’s a war that neither side will win as the adblock authors will change their code hours after YouTube changes their own. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
On Chrismas Eve when I posted those videos, Firefox + NoScript + uBlock Origin would not show anything when a link was posted. But Brave worked fine… I checked. Today, someone somewhere has changed something as Firefox + NoScript + uBlock Origin works fine once more.
Today it’s all working and I have replaced the full links to the videos in my post about Mick Abrahams. They play for me.
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…able to watch videos now by pausing Ghostery and Ublock.
Never needed to do this before! Thanks Andy and Ian for the hints 
Geoff vk3sq
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Phil Campbell, long time guitarist for Motorhead dead at 64.
It seems there is something about Motorhead members that means they tend to die young. Phil Campbell joined Motorhead after Brian Roberston left in 1984. Motorhead recruited two guitarists, Wurzel and Phil Campbel at this point with Phil Campbell staying till Motorhead disbanded with the death of frontman Lemmy in 2015. Wurzel died in 2011.
What is particularly scary is that Phil was only 5 months older than me.
A suitable celebration first and early video of Phil and Wurzel playing with Lemmy and Phil ‘Philthy Animal’ Taylor. Phil is playing the all black Les Paul. Sadly all of the musicians have now shuffled off their mortal coil and joined the choir invisible.
And this is a nice solo showing his skill was vastly greater than just a hard and heavy thrash guitarist.
RIP Phil
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‘Young’ is relative (and a state of mind). I wouldn’t describe Lemmy as young especially when considering his lifestyle. As Lemmy himself said (to Ozzy, I believe) “I’m probably going to die, I suppose. Never thought I’d make 70, so I did good. I could have lived a lot longer and taken care of myself, but I lived my life the way I wanted to live, and I ain’t got no regrets”
Just realised that I’m only 10 years younger than Lemmy when he died - and I’m still young!
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This seemed the most appropriate topic to put this without creating a new one :-
Chuck Norris could decode FT8 by ear and send by whistling.
Chuck Norris was always 59 +60db
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Chuck Norris doesn’t use ATUs, antennas match themselves to Chuck Norris.
Chuck Norris doesn’t climb a summit, the Earth rotates to bring him up.
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Yes indeed. I was a fully mature young man (hahahaha) when Chuck Norris came to his better fame in the 80s and onto to series like “Walker, Texas Ranger”. I was never a fan of the man but the Chuck Norris jokes are entertaining. And as I type Alex has added more.
There are so many:
Chuck Norris can win a game of Connect-4 in three moves.
Chuck Norris played Rock, Paper, Scissors in front of a mirror and won.
When Chuck Norris slices onions, the onions cry.
and so on…
Firstly I didn’t realise he was 86. I saw a picture in an obituary of Chuck aged 85 I thought “sheesh, to look that fit and healthy at 85 is outstanding.” I guess it’s the years of the memes and action films and seeing him look good when old that makes you start to think he’s immortal. Then what happens to all of us happened.
Vale Chuck, RIP.
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Chuck Norris can believe it’s not butter.
One of the best film fight scenes of all-time imho.
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Watch it with the sound down and the first minute or so is just two guys looking into each other’s eyes while they slowly undress. Needs some Barry White.
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Classic, Andy, just classic! I’m glad I put sweeteners in my tea nowadays, the keyboard won’t get sticky!
Chuck Norris CAN post more than 100 replies to a Reflector topic.
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