All Wound Up again in Worcester
Jethro Tull
Ian Anderson: flute and vocals
Martin Barre: guitar
Maartin Allcock: keyboards
David Pegg: bass
Doane Perry: drums

The Centrum
Worcester, Mass. U.S.A.
November 16, 1991
performance quality: A (the catfish were jumping very high in Worcester this night...)
recording quality: B (a pretty good D-6 recording, no major issues or problems)
source: master audience tape
runtime: 107:52 (minutes/seconds)

setlist:
disc 1 62:49
1: intro walkon music 1:36
2: minstrel tease > cross eyed Mary 4:11
3: living in the past 3:59
4: rocks on the road 7:56
5: this is not love (and talk) 5:29
6: serenade to a cuckoo 5:01
7: like a tall thin girl 4:44
8: the whistler 3:31
9: white innocence 8:16 (end applause spliced, tape flip)
10: talk, mother goose > 3:08
11: thick as a brick 6:56
12: paparazzi 3:24
13: doctor to my disease 4:34

disc 2 45:03
14: a new day yesterday > (with part of bouree) 8:19
15: reasons for waiting 4:08
16: farm on the freeway 6:35 (end applause spliced, tape flip)
17: jumpstart 7:23
18: aqualung 7:51
19: band introductions and encore break 2:07
20: locomotive breath >
black sunday (instrumental middle bit) >
thick as a brick reprise and outro music 8:39

lineage: Realistic mini-mikes >
Sony D-6 cassette deck (dolby off) >
Maxell XLII-S 90 min. master cassettes >
played on Tascam 112 into soundforge (wav) >
flac (sb's aligned) > torrentially yours.
A this and that, tullnut, Glasnost Radio Productions with training wheels production.
do not sell this recording.
share freely and losslessly.

comments:
this concert happened just weeks before Freddie Mercury died from AIDS infection, and
Ian Anderson and his band were among the many deeply saddened by his loss, but once
again Jethro Tull showed why they have been one of Boston's (in the 70's) and Worcester's
(80's and early 90's) most consistent deliverers of musical live goods. After a sizzling
streak of Boston Garden concerts all throught the 70's, when the Boston Garden closed up
shop for concerts, Tull had moved their barbecue about 30 miles west and played 5 very
inspired shows in Worcester. This is the last of them, and along with the 87, my favorite
Tull Centrum show of the post-Mark Craney-Eddie Jobson era. During this time Perry and Pegg
became regulars in Jethro Tull, and by this point were sounding like Jethro Tull regulars.
Martin Barre has never been less than an A performer all of the 12 times I've seen him
from 1973 to 1995. Same here. Catfish Rising was a very nice show in Worcester, despite
the gloomy mood backdrop, it was anything but a gloomy concert. In all the Worcester
shows (I saw all 5 from 82 to this one) the current music was the best part of the concert,
a sign of a band that has a great knack for songwriting. All the Catfish songs here
are hot, very good songs. The crowd loved it- Boston and Worcester Tull shows always
come with loud appreciation, something Jethro Tull's been hearing alot of for about
37 of their 40 (gasp!) years now. There is a very good reason why Tull is now up there
with the Who, Led Zep, the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd as one of the most collected bands
ever for their live concerts. They love playing concerts, and they sound great at it most of the time.
Every band has that one weak show of a long stretch, if not several. I've yet to see anything
like that at a Tull show. They're always ready to rock, and they are every bit as significant
to me as Elvis Presley, or the Beatles, or Led Zeppelin in terms of musical importance.
like with any great live band you have to be there to really know what I'm saying, but
this recording gives you a nice feel of the high octane Tull concert energy in Worcester.
I don't think Jethro Tull has ever been inducted into the R & R Hall of Fame, but when I
started doing my own radio show was not long before this concert, and one of the first
things I did was air an aproximately 25 hour long "Live Jethro Tull Retrospective" mainly
to point out how long this band has been cranking out great music, and how much there is.
It still only covered about half their good songs, and I only duplicated 2 songs,
out of about 60. They added several more on this tour too, and this was one of their
better tours. The Glasnost Radio Hall of Fame is hardly a household word, but Jethro Tull
and John McLaughlin were its first inductees ever for in concert excellence. some of the
others to follow them include David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, King Crimson, Oregon, Shakti,
Miles Davis, Carlos Santana, C.S.N. & Y., the Allman brothers and Jack DeJohnette.
Every time I've seen Tull in Boston or Worcester, it's been a very good concert.
No exceptions in 12 concerts (one per tour only, I'm no groupie, even for these guys).
If David Ortiz could hit like that, he'd have a 1.000 batting avg. this year,
With 145 home runs and 1229 RBI's.
at the end of this one, Ian thanks everyone for a very nice concert.
Jethro Tull set the standard of excellence to me for live rock performance in 1968-1995,
and this show is a significant part of why I feel that way. Lots of energy. I love the
Catfish Rising tour, very nice music in it, much of it never heard again in later shows.
That's what happens to a band whose "Glasnost Radio Hall of Fame" songlist (without any
extended versions at all) runs about 14 hours, and if that sounds like alot, it's about
equal to Elvis Presley, the Who, and Led Zeppelin. Combined. No offense to any of them,
they'real legends too, but there are some things Tull does better than anyone (again imho),
they are the most enduring songwriters in rock and they sure know how to put on a live show.
They weren't too old to rock and roll this night either. I think they even left that one out.
(good, I don't care for it much). Of course you get the aqualung, that thing's been played
about 7X more than Stairway to Heaven live. Can you say burned to a frazzle? It actually sounded
pretty decent here. You can put frosting on it, frizz it up with that 80's sounding keyboard
that became so popular around this time, bend it shake it, mutate it, aqualung is still Tull's
Stairway, it was pretty cool the 1st 50 times I heard it but I'm sick to death of both of them now.
Locomotive Breath must be going on about 9,000 plays now, and the reader's digest brick says it
all after playing that maybe about 2,500 times live (before resorting to RD version which has
seen the next 5000 plays or so for TAAB live). But that's all for burnout Tull songs in this setlist.
The rest sound fresh and hot, like they haven't been played 14,000 times before in concert.
What I'm trying to say, Tull is the Cal Ripken Jr. (or the mailman) of rock concerts. Come rain,
or cold, or hoarse throat, or death from AIDS of a close friend just days before this show,
the motto with Jethro Tull shows in Boston and Worcester, is the show WILL go on, no matter what,
unless someone blows the building up,(maybe even still then) if it's a Jethro Tull concert.
And it will sound like a Jethro Tull concert. Nothing less will be accepted. Ian even remarks
in this show of yet another Rod Stwewart concert cancellation and takes a jab at him for it...
has Tull EVER cancelled a concert? Even when a band member is sick? If so, not here!!! (thankfully!)
They like playing here. No doubt about that. And Boston AND Worcester, love Tull. Can't get enough!
1st time I saw Tull live was the end of Passion Play tour. It was love at first note.
No passion play here, but plenty of passion to go around in this show.
I'm pretty sure both tape flips are between songs and nothing is missing at all.
How about some catfish for dinner tonight?