The idea of listening once again after many, many years to the Jethro Tull piece Thick as a Brick seemed absolutely imperative today. Inspired, I am guessing, by the incredibly tedious stuff spiraling ad nauseum out of the state and national political campaigns, by almost every political candidate’s personal perfidy, by the apparent lack of real public concern or even expectation of anything approaching consistency, honesty, truth, or any of those other ‘extreme’ values civic leaders once upon a time were asked to uphold?or even seriously pretend to embrace.
YouTube was entirely accommodating, with this Madison Square Garden performance. Sometimes you just gotta sing it out [apologies to “Grey’s Anatomy” for the reference shamelessly swiped from their “dance it out” idea] and make the nonsense and disappointment into a long musical ode.
Watched it. OK, that’s better.
