JETHRO TULL Guitarist Martin Barre Recalls Working On Aqualung – “Here Was JIMMY PAGE Waving Like Mad And I’m Thinking ‘I Can’t Wave Back, Or I’m Going To Blow The Solo”

December 30, 2015, 35 minutes ago

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Greg Prato has published a new article on Guitar Player talking to Jethro Tull guitarist Martin Barre and recalls when Jethro Tull was recording Aqualung at Island Studios, London while Led Zeppelin was recording Led Zeppelin IV.

“We’d locked ourselves away in the studio—us doing Aqualung, and them working on Led Zeppelin IV—and I hadn’t seen Jimmy Page at all,” explains Barre. “Finally, he walked into the control room to say hello, just as I was recording the solo to ‘Aqualung.’ Now, in those days, if you didn’t get a guitar solo in one or two takes, it might become a flute solo. It was, ‘Go in there and do it or else.’ And here was Jimmy waving like mad—‘Hey, Martin!’—and I’m thinking, ‘I can’t wave back, or I’m going to blow the solo!’”

2016 marks 45 years since the release of Aqualung.