JETHRO TULL Minstrel In The Gallery 1975 UK CHRYSALIS 1st PRESS - ONCE PLAYED
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Oct 16, 2015 Sold Date
Oct 6, 2015 Start Date
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JETHRO TULL Minstrel In The Gallery 1975 UK CHRYSALIS 1st PRESS - ONCE PLAYED

JETHRO TULL
Minstrel In The Gallery

UK CHRYSALIS ?(CHR 1082) FIRST PRESSING (September 1975)

Minstrel in the Gallery was Tull's most artistically successful and elaborately produced album since Thick as a Brick and harkened back to that album with the inclusion of a 17-minute extended piece "Baker Street Muse".
Although English folk elements abound, this is really a hard rock showcase on a par with -- and perhaps even more aggressive than -- anything on Aqualung.
Martin Barre's attack on the guitar is as ferocious as anything in the band's history, and John Evan's organ matches him amp for amp, while Barriemore Barlow and Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond hold things together in a furious performance.
Anderson's flair for drama and melody come to the fore in "Cold Wind to Valhalla," and "Requiem" is the loveliest acoustic number in Tull's repertory, featuring nothing but Anderson's singing and acoustic guitar, Hammond-Hammond's bass, and a small string orchestra backing them.
"Baker Street Muse" recalls Thick as a Brick and A Passion Play, not only in its structure but a few passages; at slightly under 17 minutes, it's a tad more manageable than either of its conceptual predecessors, and it has all of their virtues, freely overlapping hard rock and folk material, classical arrangements (some of the most tasteful string playing on a Tull recording), surprising tempo shifts, and complex stream-of-consciousness lyrics into a compelling whole

Matrix Side One: CHR-1082 A-1U 31922 - F
Matrix Side Two: CHR-1082 B-1U 31923 - F
HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL MATT SINGLE SLEEVE “Printed in England by Robor Limited”
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL THICK CARD LYRIC INNER SLEEVE

LABELS: NEAR MINT clean, bright, fresh labels with just one spindle trace per side
VINYL Visual: NEAR MINT both surfaces shine like-new
VINYL Audio: EXCELLENT+ this barely used copy plays beautifully throughout - just the occasional low-level tick noted but these may well disappear after a clean/few spins - I did not clean this copy as it looks so immaculate
SLEEVE: EXCELLENT+ apart from a soft bump to one corner the cover is clean, sharp and unmarked
INNER SLEEVE: NEAR MINT as-new - no seam splits

Side A:
Minstrel In The Gallery (8:09)
Cold Wind To Valhalla (4:17)
Black Satin Dancer (6:51)
Requiem (3:41)
Side B:
One White Duck / 0¹? = Nothing At All (4:35)
Baker St. Muse (16:40)
a) Pig-Me And The Whore
b) Nice Little Tune
c) Crash-Barrier Waltzer
d) Mother England Reverie
Grace (0:37)

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