LIVING IN THE PAST

I come not to bury Jethro Tull, but to praise them.

Well, not really. But I did hear the Tull parody No New Tale to Tell the other day...

And would anyone really be willing to join the argument that Love and Rockets were in some intrinsic, verifiable sense a “better” band than Tull?

I imagine that the mid 80s Love and Rockets kids were basically the same as the late 60s Tull kids: White, comfortably middle class, and longing to be a part of the Alternative or the Underground (take your pick). Just so long as the Alternative didn’t alternate too much, and the Underground didn’t run too deep...