Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13636 in DVD
• Released on: 2008-05-05
• Rating: Exempt
• Format: PAL
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 96 minutes

Video Description
TRACKLISTING: Rockpop In Concert 1982: Hard Times / Pussy Willow / Heavy Horses / Jack In The Green / Keyboard Solo / Sweet Dreams / Aqualung / Locomotive Breath / Cheerio. Rocksummer 1986: Hunting Girl. Out In The Green 1986: Thick As A Brick / Black Sunday / Improvisation II / Too Old To Rock 'n' Roll, Too Young To Die. Live In Germany 1993: My Sunday Feeling / So Much Trouble. Beat Club 1970/71: With You There To Help Me / Nothing Is Easy.

Synopsis
JACK IN THE GREEN features superb live performances from Grammy Award-winning rockers Jethro Tull, recorded in Germany between 1970 and 1993.

Customer Reviews

Excellent
Another great Tull DVD, keep them coming. You get 42 minutes of concert footage from 1982, coincidentally just over 2 weeks after I saw them live the first time at Wembley. Good to see the still shaggy haired Anderson and Martin Barre at an intermediate stage of his transformation, strutting their stuff. I needed to go to the reference books to work out exactly when and where these were filmed, info I would have liked to have seen in the notes. There is more live footage from 1986 and a tv set in 1993; some of my favourite tracks - Hunting Girl, Too Old to Rock and Roll, Too Young to Die, Black Sunday, before the Beat Club footage at the end including John Evan's superb Pathetique piano solo, and a strange, warts-and-all performance of Nothing Is Easy.

Have you seen Jack In The Green?
The idea of this DVD is almost strange, a collection of Jethro Tull's performances in Germany. In practice it does work, but more Like one concert with bonus material than as a complete collection.
What you get is one very good concert from 1982, during the Broadsword era with songs like 'Fallen On Hard Times,' and 'Pussy Willow,' mix it up with classic tracks like 'Heavy Horses,' 'Sweet Dream,' and the ever present concert closing duo of 'Aqualung,' and 'Locomotive Breath,' all performed effortlessly, with a pretty decent audio mix and visuals. This part of the DVD is where you feel you've got your money's worth, a well and recorded concert with enough classic material on it to keep you happy and Ian's voice is still at its best.
Then however, you get another concert which was worse audio, worse visuals and the performance feels a little flatter and less energetic, with Ian's voice not as strong as on the other concert. As a bonus this is fine but it doesn't stand up incredibly well on its own and while its certainly good, it doesn't exactly feel great. The performance of 'Thick as a Brick,' is interesting with some jamming and segments from the second half that the band usually don't play live and the version of 'Too Old To Rock and Roll...' is solid enough.
Then there is a kind of poorly recorded, filmed and mixed version of Hunting Girl that doesn't begin entirely at the beginning, followed by a well shot but very dull TV spot from the early nineties and then an absolutely fantastic 'Benefit,' era live spot where they play a haunting and fantastically recorded version of 'With You There To Help Me,' and a strange version of 'Nothing is Easy,' that's full of mistakes because it looks like Ian's ribs are injured. Then it ends, abruptly.
So, as a collection its rather strange. However, for a Tull fan I look at it as an Excellent concert from the Broadsword tour with an ecclectic collection of bonus material. The aforementioned versions of 'Too Old To Rock and Roll,' and 'With You There To Help Me,' are good enough to make the rest of the DVD feel worthwhile and the 1982 concert would stand up on its own, and you do get a booklet with detailed linear notes from Mr. Anderson as usual so there is a lot of Material here for a Tull fan to enjoy, however I feel it should lose at least one star for the flat sound in the second concert and the poorer moments of the additional material.
In conclusion its not perfect but there's a lot of good stuff for any Tull fan.