Fave song: Songs Fron the Wood
Fave album: Songs From the Wood

and yes, there are west coast dates playing right now.
Go to jtull.com for dates
I'm seeing them in oakland on Nov 11

I can relate; much of my fave electric music has, as its roots, olde balladry that contains delvings into american jazz traditions (I get it from my grandfather...) within the improvs...suites and dynamic bridges....something Ian uses copiously, bless 'im.

Difficult. I'm up there with the overall "Country Gentlemen" side of Tull as overall "favourite style" but even on the likes of "Pibroch" Martin can make his geetar scream and moan, and that is still one of my biggest loves of Tull is the blend of sweet thoughtfulness and blistering rock'n'roll.
I've followed them all the way from first hearing Aqualung in '71 (when I was 11) to present day; actually, not quite, still missing Rupi's Dance. My "favourite album" is a mix I put together I call "Songs from the Green Isle" which is made up of selections from Songs from the Wood, Heavy Horses, Stormwatch, Broadsword, and the various celtic/pagan tunes from the 20th and 25th Anniversary albums (Beltane, Mayhem Maybe etc). As far as "as recorded" go, that changes with my moods but even then my "most played" is an odd choice; disk 1 of "Nightcap" as it too seems to be all outakes from the late 70's early 80's period. I love Ians Divinities album and would love to hear him do another entirely instrumental album; was so totally pissed when the tour for that was cancelled in Vancouver.
For single songs... Fire at Midnight, A Small Cigar, Son, Inside, From a Deadbeat to an Old Greaser, Baker Street Muse, Budepest, Later that same Evening, Mountain Men, Jack-a-Lynn, Watching Me Watching You...christ, there really is no end to the list
Favourite concert moments? I've seen them more than a dozen times, so many...Toronto in 86 or so; Broadsword tour; Amazing solo/duet introducing Doane Perry and Peter John Vetese. The two of them battled out keyboards versus drums for 10 or 15 minutes and sounded like an ELP concert. Various concerts as whatever that tours "special treats" turned out to be in the way of on-stage props and costumes; Ians ever spiffy array of cod-pices and vests...

I always love that they often invite folk up onstage and have always hoped to be asked...but as I tend to be in full cape, purple and scarlet velvet cut away coat and codpiece and kneeboots myself I guess they feel one Minstrel In The Gallery is enough.

My first concert was in Toronto in 1980; Stormwatch tour. We'd taken a "concert bus tour" from London ON which involved much passing of bongs and a few hits of blotter. Got in as UK finished. I remember the lights going down, pin spots following Ian as he "cranked up" all the ships rigging as the fogs rolled in amidst spooky keyboard intro...then... . . . .

Don't do that for concerts anymore...*grin*

Beautiful song. I love this album so much.

"kindled by the dying embers of another working day.
Go upstairs ... take off your makeup ---
fold your clothes neatly away.
Me, I'll sit and write this love song
as I all too seldom do ---
build a little fire this midnight.
It's good to be back home with you."

Nothing is Easy -Album Stand Up

First time I heard that song it took me away, how different the band was to other bands of those days, the really early 70s,

I have seen Tull 26 times since then and still look forward to there music live on stage. When you hit a Tull concert in the early days the crowd would have been mesmerized by Ian Andersons Rock Ballet that he mastered to a point of conducting the band with his body. It was masterfull in intensity, always a double standing ovation and the band never quites.

Favourite Album --Aqualung because its border Gnostic belief that I think Anderson is into which I am into. My God and Wind up support that claim. I have all the albums and all of them are great to execellent. I get a daily dose of Tull to start my day off, usually Mother Goose or Inside to start.