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Jethro Tull – Live At The Seaside!
Oil Well – RSC 049 CD

1 Nothing Is Easy 6:05
2 My God 11.10
3 With You There To Help Me 6:46
4 A Song For Jeffrey 5:45
5 To Cry You A Song 7:59
6 Sossity, You're A Woman 2:15
7 Reasons For Waiting 3:55
8 We Used To Know 3:18
9 Guitar Solo 8:23
10 For A Thousand Mothers 4:48

Note
All songs by Ian Anderson unless noted
~~Recorded live in Jacksonville, October 6, 1970~~
Live at Carnegie Hall, New York City, NY - November 04,1970.

Lineup:
Ian Anderson - voce, chitarra folk, chitarra elettrica, flauto
Martin Barre - chitarra elettrica, chitarra folk
John Evan - pianoforte, organo Hammond
Glenn Cornick - basso
Clive Bunker - batteria, percussioni

This bootleg is a pirate copy of Disc 2 of the official '25th Anniversary' box set; the Carnegie Hall concert has been released officially in 2025 in the: Still Living In The Past (Deluxe Edition).
Back cover says recorded in Jacksonville, October 6, 1970 but the Jacksonville show was on July 26th 1970. Anyway, that's the wrong information as the recording in fact is from the charity concert at Carnegie Hall, New York City, NY - November 4th 1970. Fantastic early Tull show, great sound and song list. On the front cover a picture of JT's line up of Stand Up period.
Please note that this bootleg is one of the rarest from this italian bootleg label!

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This concert has been released officially as: Live at Carnegie Hall 1970 and in: Still Living In The Past (Deluxe Edition).
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Live at Carnegie Hall 1970
Live at Carnegie Hall 1970 is a live album by Jethro Tull, released in vinyl LP on 18 April 2015, for Record Store Day. It was recorded on 4 November 1970 at Carnegie Hall, New York City.
It consists of a heavily-edited version of the complete show, previously issued on the 2CD/DVD deluxe edition of 'Stand Up.'

Preserved on a 16-track master tape, this benefit show for the drug rehabilitation program Phoenix House was the group's most prominent American gig up to that time. It's a good representation of what the band sounded like in its second incarnation, when they were still establishing themselves outside of England. The group had still not reached -- or even approached -- its progressive rock period, and the sound is very stripped down, a pounding mix of hard rock, acoustic folk music, jazz elements, and Ian Anderson's vocals, alternately sage-like and fierce; some of the flute acrobatics don't translate too well to tape, even in Carnegie Hall, but the transition from "Sossity, You're a Woman" into "Reasons for Waiting" -- featuring exquisite organ playing by John Evan -- is beautiful enough as to make up for the flaws elsewhere, as well as reminding listeners of one of the more hauntingly beautiful songs in the group's early repertory; they also unveil a song that was still, by Anderson's own account, a work-in-progress, entitled "My God."

25th Anniversary Box Set
25th Anniversary Box Set is a 1993 limited edition box set by Jethro Tull. It includes some of the band's best-known compositions from 1969 to 1992, many of them previously unavailable in the versions presented here.

The CDs are housed in a mock cigar-box, along with a booklet featuring extensive notes and photographs, sealed with a label bearing an image of Ian Anderson.
Where the first Jethro Tull box five years earlier, 20 Years of Jethro Tull, mostly traded on radio broadcast performances and rarities, a few outtakes, and a remastered collection of key songs, 25th Anniversary Boxed Set benefits from a more thorough raid on the vaults that has yielded up one essential addition to any Jethro Tull collection.

Disc two is the centerpiece of the set, containing an additional hour of the group's November 4, 1970 concert at Carnegie Hall in New York (two pieces were previously issued on Living in the Past).
A really nice box set, albeit for the hardcore fan and not the newbie. Disc One consists of more modern mixes of old standards, and while some (Minstrel, Life is a Long Song) are admirable, I can take or leave this disc. Disc two is the live show from 1970, absolute perfection!

There were 116 scheduled Jethro Tull concerts in 1970.
Carnegie Hall concrt was a Charity show in aid of the Phoenix House drug rehabilitation centre.
Support: McKendree Spring. Officially released as Disc 2 of the '25th Anniversary' box set, but pirate copies are circulating as Live At The Seaside or For Their Benefit. Avoid!
Nothing Is Easy, My God, With You There To Help Me/By Kind Permission Of..., A Song For Jeffrey, To Cry You A Song, Sossity: You're A Woman, Reasons For Waiting, Dharma For One, We Used To Know, Guitar Solo, For A Thousand Mothers http://jazz-rock-fusion-guitar.blogspot.com/2015/09/jethro-tull-1993-25th-anniversary-4-cd.html

Jethro Tull – Still Living In The Past (Review)

The Jethro Tull Super Deluxe editions have really become an “industry standard model” when it comes to content and packaging. With the studio albums up to 1982 covered, many would have assumed that a reassessment of Under Wraps would be next. Instead it’s the 1972 compilation album Living In The Past has been given this special treatment. The original was a double album, housed in an elaborate gatefold sleeve and appeared in the aftermath of Thick As A Brick. Its contents were: Sides A, B & D contained various single (non-album) and album tracks, some remixed in stereo for the first time, and some previously unreleased tracks; Side C contained two live tracks from 1970. Many of the songs had only appeared in the UK and so the compilation brought them to the wider world. So this compilation isn’t quite “Greatest Hits” (but one can only assume it got its title to help those looking for the hit single / non-album title track to find it) and it’s not quite “Past Masters” (the Beatles compilation of all the non album singles) – but it’s a substantial and valuable item in the catalogue, and perhaps like The Beatles Red and Blue compilations, hearing these tracks in this order/ sequence is very much part of Tull fans’ listening experience over the 50+ years since it was released. To quote the press advert of the time, reproduced in the book, “All the Jethro Tull singles collected together on an album with three previously unreleased tracks and a side recorded at Carnegie Hall, New York”.

With the extensive reissues from this era that have already come out, what’s of interest to deeper Tull fans is new material / remixes – so I’ll look at a few of those. The 2025 remix of Song For Jeffrey has all the elements we come to expect of a Steven Wilson remix, evident throughout the new versions, which is new levels of clarity but a mix that reproduces rather than deviates from the original. So – it’s sounds just like you remember it… only better! Rather than be fearful of AI, sensitive use of that technology means we now have a stereo version of the b-side of the Jeffrey single, Song for John Gee, created from the mono master. The 2025 remix of Love Story opens a window to the variety of instrumentation and nuance in that track – Mick Abraham’s swan song has mandolins, wah guitar, tabla drums, and flute which now leap from your speakers! An early version of My God featuring Glenn Cornick on bass has some different elements amongst what for many is a familiar track – the clarity of the acoustic guitar at the start of this version makes you feel you’re right there with the band!

The two live discs present the complete November 1970 Carnegie Hall show in a fresh 2025 remix. Featuring the Anderson / Barre / Bunker / Cornick / Evan line up which would not last much longer after this show and by the time Aqualung appeared in March 1971 and arguably took the band to a new level, Glenn Cornick had been fired. Martin Barre had been in the band less than 2 years at this point and had made 2 albums. In the sleeve notes Ian Anderson says that the band didn’t do anything special for this show which as well as being in a prestigious venue was also a benefit show for a drug and alcohol rehab centre. But take “special” as meaning: different from what we did at every show, because this performance is brilliant – and in this new mix you’re hearing it in its best form.