r/jethrotull

Hello

Yesterday I came across the 1984 performance of Locomotive Breath at Capitol Theatre, on YouTube. I think this was on the Under Wraps tour, since the song had been "embellished" with a lot of synth.

When the song gets going into the main refrain, Vitesse plays a keyboard "riff" that sound a lot, a mean a lot, like Relax, from Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Do you think it likely that this was done knowingly? Or pure coincidence?

There has been a recent uptick in low effort posts where it’s just a photo of the band/an album/Ian Anderson/etc with no accompanying text beyond the title. Some of these are quite clearly karma farming bots and I delete them as I see them whereas others do seem to encourage discussion about a particular moment in Tull history.

I’ve made a poll to get the opinion of the community regarding how to handle these. Should they be deleted/banned or regulated in some way? Please vote and let me know. Also please report any obvious spam from suspicious accounts. You guys make this little sub great and I want to keep it that way. If this is becoming a problem we’ll fix it.

Thank you

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I listen almost exclusively to Power Metal. But whenever someone asks me "who is your favorite band?" I always answer Jethro Tull. What is it with them that gives them this power?