Jethro Tulls in Bangalore

I am sharing the experience of attending the Jethro Tull concert which I attended on Feb3 2006, Jethro Tull is one of my favourite bands and I used to wake up for Tulls, still do.

The stage was set in the IIM grounds, did experience the joy of driving amidst a cool campus surrounded by quality students, teachers and music lovers[includes me too..]. I was in the campus by 6pm and it took me almost 2hrs to get to the concert ground. The stage was a neat setup, the acoustics were simply perfect, the crowd asusual were musical zombies of Bangalore, Bangalore needs a reason to party and the crowd is formed gathering people flooding from all corners of Bangalore. My 2 hour long wait came to an end once I was in the concert ground, we had a local band called the 'Thermal and a Quarter' warm up the drums [our ear drums too :-)], had to digest their music keeping Tulls in mind. Their opening song was that of Queen [thermal and quarter were not even close to Queen], the rest of their songs made me lie on the ground. Thermal and Quarter gave up after an hour, the whole crowd gave them a round of applause [probably welcoming the Tulls group], lights on the stage were turned off.




Turn on the lights !! Jethro Tulls started their first number, there was no tuning no nor any time wasting crap. Ian Anderson dressed in a typical English attire [some what like the pied piper in our old text books]pulled out his silver flute and cast his Mellifluous spell on the audience who were waiting for this moment. Think of the Snake Charmer antazonizing and challenging the snake with his flute, we were all mesmerized and been obeying our master's musical message.
Some of the songs sung were, Life is a Song, Locomotive Breath, Budapest, Bouree, Aqualung, Living in the past,Songs from the wood, Thick as a brick.. Ian Anderson was all over the stage, this guy was continuously doing something or the other, play the flute, dance while playing the flute, once he was done with the flute, he was singing the song and sometimes Ian played flute, did the vocals, and guitared, all in tandem, non-stop enigmatic exhibitance of his extraordinary musical brilliance.

The show came to an end with the Aqualung song, thanks to IIM for bringing good music to Bangalore.
I am sure we would have had 'The Doors' play in Bangalore if Jim Morrison was alive !