Live Performances
Beginning in March 1972, the band performed most of the album (excluding some of the edits on side 2) on tour for nearly a year. The performances grew in length to about 90 minutes, as the original piece was expanded with additional instrumental interludes and the instrumentals "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" and "Bouree." At the conclusion of what was side one of the LP, a 5-minute "news and weather" comedy routine was inserted, giving the band (and audience) a break from the non-stop music. At concerts in Germany and Italy, the routine was presented in the native language. The performance of side two of the LP was expanded with the addition of a long drum solo. The remainder of the set list (with occasional changes throughout the tour) consisted of "Cross-Eyed Mary", "A New Day Yesterday", "Aqualung", "Wind-Up", "Martin's Guitar Solo", "Locomotive Breath" and "Wind-Up (Reprise)." "Wind-up" included an unreleased piece referred to by bootleg fans as "The Hard Headed English General". Later live performances of "Thick as a Brick" were a shortened version of the first side, as heard on the live album Bursting Out (1978).
Ian Anderson performed the entire album live on tour in 2012, the first complete performances since the 1972 tour.
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