Jethro Tull - Minstrel In The Gallery Lyrics
The minstrel in the gallery looked down upon the
smiling faces.
He met the gazes --- observed the spaces between the
old men's cackle.
He brewed a song of love and hatred --- oblique
He polarized the pumpkin-eaters --- static-humming
panel-beaters --- freshly day-glow'd factory cheaters
(salaried and collar-scrubbing).
He titillated men-of-action --- belly warming, hands
still rubbing on the parts they never mention.
He pacified the nappy-suffering, infant-bleating
one-line jokers --- T.V. documentary makers
(overfed and undertakers).
Sunday paper backgammon players --- family-scarred
and women-haters.
looked at all the friends he'd made.
The minstrel in the gallery looked down on the
rabbit-run.
And threw away his looking-glass - saw his face in
everyone.
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Jethro Tull Minstrel In The Gallery Comments
baker street muse is another nice treat from this album.
No better showman in the 70s,, saw the boys in '73 in Iowa City and later in '17 Chicago. The years have treated him very well. I know of no better winter music than Tull (and Led Zep) from the 70s. I grew up with them and grew old with them. THIS is one of the best recroded.
1976, took my dad's 64 nova into a piece of wet wilderness to deer hunt. A harvest would have been consumed by the family and neighbors but I was listening to minstrel on an 8 track player
It was fabulous and I eased through the woods, observed the wildlife, smoked a small doob, returned to the nova and listened to one white duck. Quite the time. Wonderful music.
Musicians are judged not by technique but by how they use melodic, harmonic, rhythmic and structural organization. That is equate to "rocking good musical performance!"
Diminished chords are a staple of Euro-based Classical-Progressive Rock!
after the intro: what is "nuts" is the extensive use of "diminished chords and tri-tone chord progressions" until the vocals come back!
Song writing credit should be ( I Anderson/M Barre ). Martin wrote a large portion of the electrical section.
I have seen Martin Barre several times with his new band. I had great seats in a very small venue so I was literally 10 feet away watching him play. Excellent musicianship! Jethro Tull may have been Ian Anderson’s baby but Martin Barre was it’s father!
Barrie Barlow, ladies and gentlemen!!!
Einer meiner Liblingsalben
Still awesome.
4:50 Do that again!
Feels like it's taking you somewhere
Fantastica canzone... Il 27.03.2020 concerto a Legnano (MI) 🇮🇹 italy
Barry Barlow greatest drummer in the world
At 2:19 - HERE WE GO!!!!! Go! Go! GO!
I this Prog Rock ? or Jethro Tull? Oh.....both. I'm good with that.
At their best here.
How the hell did they learn this???? Sounds like a Zappa tune in 9/13, 7/12.5 or both.
The first funk. "One day as a lion " sure ly loves tull
Saw them live in London in 2004, absolutely brilliant!!
That double bass!
JT defined prog-folk as a genre. Genius!
Before Martin, Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath) was the guitarist. Check out Rolling Stones "Rock and Roll Circus"
Medieval rock and roll, I like it!
I watched Ian Anderson yesterday in Luebeck; sometimes I was 12, than 16, sometimes 80 - it was great!!!!!
Their road crew were so underrated.
People, please stop using the term underrated! At their height, Jethro Tull sold millions of albums worldwide and sold out massive tours around the planet. What’s to underrate?
How old are you...I doesn’t make you nuts either way, but if you’re in your 20’s most have never heard Tull, unless parents played them
Seen them twice 1975 1982 badass😎
Donna Summer and ABBA are in the R&R Hall of Fame but not Jethro Tull. Pretty much sums up how pathetic an organization the Hall of Fame really is.
Well it certainly isn't,t run by anyone with any knowledge of rock music.
Yes...right from the start...
Who'd have thought then that the cover art would end up as a representative meme of the US government. Oh well.................
It is just a fantastic song and it is still as incredible in 2019, as it was when it first came out in the 1970's!!! This is timeless music!!!
Absolute Tull!! R & R Hall of fame, brilliant!!!
every instrument is a heavy metal instrument DA!!! Larry
I first saw Jethro Tull in concert when they played backup for the Moody Blues. Tull played first, Yes played second and then the Moodies came out.
I went to see them with every tour that came through Houston after that. The last show I saw was Thick as a Brick. I had tried various seats in the Houston Coliseum over the years and found the very back, half way up in the center, with good ear plugs was the. Best place for a concert there.
Excellent musicians, intelligent song writing and an amusing stage show.
They were great then and the music stands the test of time.
Very interesting, I was introduced to tull along with jimi Hendrix when I was about 12 in 75 by my late cousin who was 8 years older than me , and never looked back, one of my regrets is being too young to have seen them in their hay day, so you are very lucky indeed.
I saw Jethro Tull at the LA Coliseum in the "70" Ian is a wild man with great stage presence.......We danced the night away !
I would love to hear Anderson and Iommi work together they've been friends for decades.
Gosto que me enrosco.....JT
WAKE UP Rock n Roll Hall of Fame!!!!
JETHRO TULL BELONGS!!
Barrie Barlow is awesome, Martin Barre on guitar amazing.
this song sounds like the picture.....Crazy !
The Us Congress at work. Or not!
He is brilliant!!!
Early Tull captures feelings and atmospheres of England back then.
Or Merica now
I like this track and I like side B but as an album I was never impressed with it as a whole. WarChild was much much better.
What a joke that Tull is not in the rock and roll hall of fame. Bunch of rock critic snobs.
Your comment reminded me of this... enjoy... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i2ZbJnkFEY
Please tell me your comments concerning this song. (Derisive laughter) piss off, assholes.😜
VAÑGAURD SECURE. Sleep well.
From that 2:14 mark onward it's just pure Blitzkrieg.
incredible song always loved it. i do believe the GoT writers got some inspiration for the red wedding with this old lithograph and perhaps this song
It's cool 😎 as fuck going from the songs like witches promise to songs like this one of the best transition rock bands no hippy stuff on this one
Great example of Tull's capabilities right here .. hard to depict the meaning my interpretation of. It is the music appealing to all walks of life & the "minstrel" is entered by his audience as they are by him !!??
just enough cow bell lol
Quieren escuchar rock progresivo, 100% PURO, BUENO, y de gran calidad?.....escuchen esto.
A Jethro Tull song is more than a song, its an experience, like this song so amazingly proves.
The best Tull song ever written, imo.
some off us still listen to the classics,Thank you for the post.
This song summed up the best of Jethro Tull.
3:57 Another song.
the best ever
Ok sing it!
Not many people know that the guitarist Tommi Iommi from Black Sabbath was originally in Jethro Tull.
You can see him playing with them on the Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus.
Not much longer than 5 minutes though!
I didn't know this
@Marsha Pieroni True, but effectively for only " 5 minutes".
I bought this album the week it was released, I was 15 years old.
Always fell for the voice of Robert plant-but now I must say Ian's voice is more convincing,more soothing.although technically minor,it's just artistically supirior.
You don't have impostors of him, it's to hard to imitate.of cause I like both.
like a time traveler from the Renaissance with a lotta DNA from the Picts !!!
I remember as a teenager getting the "Original Masters" album on vinyl from Columbia House mail-order service (still have that very worn copy somewhere). Like most guys my age at the time, I only knew "Aqualung", "Locomotive Breath", and the snippet of "Thick as a Brick" from the radio. When I first heard "Minstrel" and that transition from Ian's singing and acoustic strumming to Martin's blistering solo to full-blown kick-ass hard/prog rock ecstasy led by Barlow's thunderous drumming, you could have knocked me over with a goose feather. At that point, I became an unrepentant Tull fan for life.
I'm glad you finally woke up to what they were capable of!!! They are incredible!
my favorite
I am amazed now as an adult listening to this music almost 45 years after it was created and I am still just blown away!! Prog rock of the 70s was just so far ahead of anything these days!!
My #1 Jethro Tull song.
Loved this song the first time I heard back in the early 70s
Hey holla back ladies and tell your dad I said Hi & Hey !
THE BEST AND LONG RIFF IM HISTORY OF ROCK!
A masterpiece!! 💜💜💜
Ian Anderson not exactly bigging up his audience in this song, probably exactly what he thought of them as well...
F'n Tull man !!!!! Great sounds!!! Diminished badass Barre!!
This song would've been good, if it started at 2:18 and ended at 4:37.
Tull is the best.
could someone tell me why led zeppelin bigger than jethro tull?
More accessible?
Magnificent album, prog'n' hard
They integrated folkiness and heaviness perfectly on the album. Their best along with Heavy Horses!
Escuchar a esta maravillosa banda es lo mas parecido a tener un orgasmo
Muy buen comentario....FELICIDADES!!!!
Que bueno encontrarse comentarios en español jeje saludos hermanos🇻🇪
One of my favorite JT songs. Jeffery Hammond never got much respect for his bass playing and I have to disagree. I personally really liked Jeffery's booming bass tone and rhythmic playing, which I think helped define this song as well as many of Tulls most memorable songs. Loved is his stage presence as well. That black and white striped suit and guitar was classic!
Barriemore Barlow never got over Hammond's death & Anderson's reaction to it.
That would be John Glascocks death
@Kramo Hoop oops you're right.
Ah the 70's , well composed music with good lyrics and skilled Musician's , Jethro Tull albums were always well recorded and sound clean and clear.
lo escucho de uvas a peras y cada vez se me ponen los pelos de punta!!
perfect john on bass; perfect barrie on drums; and john on piano and martin on guitar, and him: mr. grenius. PERFECT JETHRO TULL
Unique so English so cool Jethro Tull and they don't sound like Led Zeppelin
Frederick Green Yep, so English, all of them. Apart from Ian of course!
I saw Jethro Tull in 1977 and it was one of the best concerts I have ever seen. What a show!!!
Klasika, krásná klasika, děkuju, panebože, DĚKUJU!!!
i do! Jethro Tull Songs from the Wood ... I once loved my hunting girl... Barrimore Barlow one of the most under rated drummers man...
Not underrated at the time my friend - everyone was in awe of him.
Is the singer's name really Jethro Tull?
Jethro Tull is historically known for revolutionizing British agriculture, with the invention of the seed drill and the horse drawn hoe, circa 1700. Ian Anderson is the frontman for the band, Jethro Tull.
Apparently, the name came about in Tull's early days, when the manager of the place they were playing at gave them a new name every week (to make sure the punters came back). Jethro Tull was the last name they had and it just stuck.
You can't be serious!!!!!!
Barriemore Barlow's contribution to prog rock is huge!
Bass ass Guitarist!!🔥🔥
His greatest song! or My Favorite ..yea!!!
A last gasp of early Tull, in a later album, before Ian took them all Fancy Pants. Still love Tull. Been rediscovering it lately and it was much more ingenious stuff than I realized so long ago. Farm on the Freeway is another one like this, early motif in a later mode.
Great song!....
excellent Tull tune !! Sounds especially good while peakin out on good A.
Mytical barrie on drums...
the. best flute playerof the fanominal 70s. the British BomB
Heavy as fuck for 1975