I'm listening to 'Reason For Waiting' from Jethro Tull's second LP (and I mean LP, and vinyl) - that sunrise flute at the start and then the gentle-strong Anderson vocal 'What a sight for my eyes to see you in sleep/ Could it stop the sun rise hearing you weep...' I'm listening to it for the fourth time in succession and I have done this many times in the past. As the man sings, 'The memory stays clear'. It's 1971. I'm 14, listening to my first 'heavy' 'progressive' (folk) (blues) rock album, bought second hand. The first glimpse maybe of life beyond the bedroom I was in in my parents' big old Victorian house on the mighty (though westering and rusting) heavy metal Welsh coalfield. Wanting to be wherever Anderson was; to be in the band he was in; to be with the girl he was singing about...
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A great song and my favourite JT song, partly, well maybe entirely, because of the associations it has for me. Sometime in the early 1970s, walking home past midnight on a clear, frosty night from my then girlfriend's house towards home, in love and deliriously happy, humming this song and meaning every word. Indeed, she is sitting across the room from me as I write this.
I bought my copy of Stand Up second hand but I can't quite remember who sold it to me......!
You are always ahead of me Kevin (and Mandy)! But I got to the same place eventually! Melanie says hi.
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