Jethro Tull
Ian Anderson- flute and vocals
Martin Barre- guitar
John Evan- keyboards
Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond- bass
Barriemore Barlow- drums
Civic Arena
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
September 11, 1973
performance quality: B+ to A- pretty good
recording quality: B (not bad for this era)
source: audience tape (unknown gen.)
a tullnut production.
(yeah, another one.
another production
and another tullnut)
runtime: 103:56
setlist:
disc 1: 58:27

1: a passion play (part I) 31:24
2: the hare who lost his spectacles 5:44 (very short gap spliced)
3: my god 5:38
4: a passion play (part II) 15:44

disc 2: 45:28

5: thick as a brick 16:37 (problems in 1:36 section)
6: cross-eyed Mary 3:48
7: no rehearsal 1:28
8: thick as a brick > drum solo 9:40
9: jam > 218 babies 5:55
10: aqualung 7:58

comments:
the passion play goes all the way... through the U.S.A.
it was one of Tull's longer tours. not a great recording,
but listenable, the Passion Play part is complete except
about 2 seconds of the hare, and this is a show I haven't
seen posted yet. the track 6 has a section of 1:36 where
the sound cuts out completely which is quite annoying, but
the rest of it is consistent sound quality. I recieved it
in a snail trade dated as april 11th but etree lists it as
9/11/73, which sounds more likely.
there's not too much crowd noise in here, those who may
think American rock concert audiences are the rudest in
the world probably missed this tour. I've heard a few
and the crowds were pretty respectful at these shows.
I guess that will happen more when "something wonderful's
happening" (even when Ian screws up the lyrics in Aqualung),
and I wouldn't upload 4 shows that are basically
all the same set if I didn't love this tour so much.
People who go to shows to throw shoes or bottles on the stage
if they don't hear aqualung or locomotive breath in the 1st
15 minutes don't seem as interested in seeing a show that
opens with a ballerina sequence.
I didn't see this show, and it's hard to imagine how
steel workers would take to this stuff (there are alot of
those in the city of three rivers), but they got passion too
and they got plenty of it in Pittsburgh from tull. An average
length Passion Play show with a full length Passion Play.
What would be the rarest tull show of all?
a bad Passion Play concert. I haven't heard one yet,
and I'll bet that's because there aren't any to hear.
this one is toward the end of the tour, but they still have
some of that "metal" in them (?)
This was when tull was trying to convince everyone that
they weren't trying to compete with Black Sabbath and Deep
Purple for attention (even though they were- also with Pink
Floyd, Genesis, Yes, Traffic, King Crimson and Mahavishnu
Orchestra. this was not an easy thing for a rock band to do,
even a real good one like tull.)
do not sell this recording.
(if you want to put it onto steel tape, that's OK)
trade freely and losslessly.
this thing's lost enough already.