Jethro Tull
Ian Anderson: vocals, flute and acoustic guitar
Martin Barre: electric guitar
John Evan: keyboards
David Palmer: keyboards
Tony Williams: bass (filling in for a sick John Glascock)
Barriemore Barlow: drums
Chicago Stadium
Chicago, Illinois, USA
October 23, 1978
runtime: 88:06 (minutes/seconds)
setlist:
1: no lullaby (flaw spliced) 5:09
2: sweet dream 5:12
3: thick as a brick 13:31
4: one brown mouse 3:56
5: band introductions 1:33
6: heavy horses 7:28
7: my god w/God rest ye merry gentlemen and bouree, (cuts near end, spliced) 10:27
8: one white duck? (instrumental) 1:58 >
9: songs from the wood 4:15
10: too old to rock and roll 4:30
11: conundrum (with drum solo) 8:01
12: pop goes the weasel > cross-eyed Mary 4:26
13: quatrain 2:20
14: aqualung 8:25
15: locomotive breath (end cuts) 6:50
lineage:
audience tape > unknown analog tape generations? >
trade cassette (Maxell XLII 90 min.) >
played on nak. bx 300 into soundforge (wav) >
flac (sb's aligned) > torrentially yours.
a this and that (and a few of those) production.
Do not sell this recording.
always share the tull freely, losslessly and gaplessly.

notes:
"quatrain" is interrupted in this show by Ian after objects are
thrown by fans at the drummer Barriemore Barlow.
Ian is quite pissed and says he wants to hit the person very hard.
this is not like him at all, a side rarely seen of a rock warrior
who has seen it all onstage at rock concerts. then again, even when mad,
Ian Anderson doesn't lose his cool in concert (ever).
but as is usual at tull shows, order is restored and the concert continues on.
according to the "ministry of information" website,
the show ends with locomptive breath and a reprise of aqualung,
so there's probably no more than about 5 minutes missing of this show here.
the bursting out live album was released before the US part of this tour,
and the only official release from the 1978 US part of the Jethro Tull
heavy horses/bursting out tour was a CD and DVD from the NYC (Mad. Sq. Garden)
show of October 9, 1978 (one of at least 2 shows at MSG on that tour, Oct. 8-9)
which was originally a sattelite TV broadcast.
the official release (and broadcast) includes just 45 minutes of that show.