JETHRO TULL ROCKS YEREVAN
Hrant Katarikyan

2009/ 05/22 | 22:57

Culture

Jethro Tull rocked the Karen Demirchyan Sports-Concert Complex tonight
with a two hour set that included songs ranging from the band’s
beginnings in 1968 through its 41 year life as a musical phenomenon
that is hard to define.

Audience favorites like Aqualung and Cross Eyed Mary were interspersed
with golden oldies like Farm on the Freeway and Sweet Dreams. There
were even a few numbers that the band hardly play live at all like
Hymn 43 and Heavy Horses.

Ian Anderson and the lads were in fine form and once again proved they
they could still rock even after 60. I could even see more than a few
in the audience that were soon approaching their "golden years" as
well. However, I wouldn’t advise them to try and copy Ian’s one-legged
acrobatics while playing the flute to a stuttering staccato.

In the second set, Ian was momentarily phased when a young Tull
fan got up on the stage and started to bow down before the prancing
flutist. Security immediately ushered him off, stage left.

The organizers must be congratulated for bringing Tull to Armenia.

Locomotive Breath was the encore piece and by that point the crowd
was up on its feet cheering Ian, Martin and the rest of the band.

It was truly a remarkable performance.