We're still unsure of several setlists - can you help?
Please also let us know if you can identify the sole unidentified venue.
As quoted by the 'Aqualung' 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition, though still being updated... sorry, guys!
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3/7/70 | The Alley | Southampton, NY. USA |
4/7/70 | Middle Georgia Raceway | Byron, Ga. USA |
| Atlanta International Pop Festival
Attendance of the three-day festival estimated at 500,000.
Glenn Cornick recalls that Tull cancelled their appearence; another source blames laryngitis. |
7/7/70 | Tanglewood Festival | Lenox, Ma. USA |
| Tanglewood 1970
The Who were the headline act. Support: It's A Beautiful Day.
Nothing Is Easy, My God (incl. flute solo), With You There To Help Me/By Kind Permission Of..., Dharma For One (incl. extended drum solo), We Used To Know, For A Thousand Mothers |
8/7/70 | Spectrum | Philadelphia, Pa. USA |
| Support: Cactus, Blodwyn Pig |
10/7/70 | Tea Party | Boston, Ma. USA |
| Support: Cactus
Nothing Is Easy, My God, With You There To Help Me/By Kind Permission Of..., Dharma For One (incl. extended drum solo), We Used To Know, Guitar Solo, For A Thousand Mothers |
11/7/70 | Tea Party | Boston, Ma. USA |
| Support: Cactus |
13/7/70 | Shady Grove Music Fair | Gaithersburg, Md. USA |
| Support: Livingston Taylor |
14/7/70 | Eastown Theater | Detroit, Mi. USA |
| Support: Cactus, Justice |
15/7/70 | Aragon Ballroom | Chicago, Il. USA |
| Cancelled.
Support: Cactus, White Lightning |
16/7/70 | Spectrum | Philadelphia Pa. USA |
| Support: Mott The Hoople. |
17/7/70 | Downing Stadium | NYC, NY. USA |
| Randall's Island Festival
Randall's Island, New York 1970
Also appearing: Jimi Hendrix, Steppenwolf, John Sebastian, Grand Funk Railroad
Nothing Is Easy, My God, With You There To Help Me/By Kind Permission Of..., Dharma For One (incl. extended drum solo), We Used To Know, Guitar Solo, For A Thousand Mothers |
18/7/70 | Warehouse | New Orleans, La. USA |
| Support: Mott the Hoople. |
22/7/70 | Municipal Auditorium | West Palm Beach, Fl. USA |
| Also appearing: Mountain.
For these few shows, Tull & Mountain were joint headline acts, taking turns to close shows. |
24/7/70 | Curtis Hixon Hall | Tampa, Fl. USA |
| Also appearing: Mountain. |
25/7/70 | Convention Hall | Miami Beach, Fl. USA |
| Also appearing: Mountain.
Ian briefly stopped the performance, to collect donations towards bail for fans arrested by the police. |
26/7/70 | Coliseum | Jacksonville, Fl. USA |
| Also appearing: Mountain.
Live At The Seaside is not from this concert; it is a pirate copy of Disc 2 of the official '25th Anniversary' box set. Avoid! |
27/7/70 | Music Fair | Westbury, NY. USA |
| Support: Livingston Taylor.
On a rotating stage in the middle of the audience, but the mechanism had broken, so some had poor views. Ian went into the audience, playing in the aisles. |
28/7/70 | Capitol Theatre | Port Chester, NY. USA |
| Support: Livingston Taylor.
To Cry You A Song, My God, With You There To Help Me/By Kind Permission Of..., Dharma For One, We Used To Know, Guitar Solo, For A Thousand Mothers |
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1/8/70 | Powder Ridge Ski Area | Middlefield, Ct. USA |
| Cancelled, by court injunction. |
3/8/70 | Central Park | NYC, NY. USA |
| Support: Haystacks Balboa.
Tull set included 'My God'. |
5/8/70 | Fillmore East | NYC, NY. USA |
| Support: Cactus. |
6/8/70 | Fillmore East | NYC, NY. USA |
7/8/70 | Strawberry Fields Festival | Mosport Park, Canada |
| Originally scheduled to be held in Moncton, New Brunswick, but moved to Mosport Park, Ontario when Moncton refused permission for the festival.
Also appearing (7-9/8): Mountain, Melanie, Ten Years After, Procol Harum, Sly & The Family Stone, and others. |
9/8/70 | Goose Lake Park Music Festival | Jackson, Mi. USA |
| Tull headlined the Sunday (i.e. closed the festival).
Also playing that day: Bob Seger System, Mitch Ryder & Detroit, Frost, Flock, Savage Grace, James Gang
Also appearing at the festival (7&8/8): John Drake Shakedown, The Mighty Quick, SRC, NY Rock & Roll Ensemble, Flying Burrito Brothers, John Sebastian, MC5, Chicago, The Faces, Ten Years After, Brownsville Station, Litter, Third Power, Mountain
Alice Cooper, Joe Cocker & Savoy Brown were scheduled to appear (on the Saturday?), but didn't. |
10/8/70 | Red Rocks Amphitheater | Morrison (Denver), Co. USA |
| Also appearing: Mountain.
Ian's birthday. |
11/8/70 | Pacific National Exhibition Coliseum | Vancouver, Canada |
| Also appearing: Fleetwood Mac.
Audience: 12,000.
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Aug. '70 | Tull's plans were to fly to Japan on 14/8/70 to headline a music festival at Expo '70. After 11 days in Japan, they were to travel to Australia
& New Zealand for a week of major concert appearances. However, these plans failed to materialise, and the subsequent three US dates were presumably added at a late stage
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15/8/70 | Majestic Hills Theater | Lake Geneva, Wi. USA |
16/8/70 | Aragon Ballroom | Chicago, Il. USA |
| Blues From Chicago or Aragon Ballroom or Live In Chicago
B.cast by WXRT-FM.
Support: Cactus.
My Sunday Feeling, My God, To Cry You A Song, With You There To Help Me/By Kind Permission Of..., Sossity: You're A Woman/Reasons For Waiting, Nothing Is Easy, For A Thousand Mothers/Dharma For One |
17/8/70 | ? | Council Bluffs, Ia. USA |
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30/8/70 | East Afton Farm, Godshill | Isle Of Wight, UK |
| Isle Of Wight or By A Benefit Of Wight
Day five of the Isle Of Wight Festival.
Playing on this day (in this order?): Good News, Kris Kristofferson, Ralph McTell, Heaven, Free, Donovan, Pentangle, Moody Blues, Jethro Tull, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Joan Baez, Leonard Cohen, Richie Havens, Hawkwind.
Tull set released officially in 2004, in an edited form.
My Sunday Feeling, My God (incl. flute solo), With You There To Help Me/With Kind Permission Of..., To Cry You A Song, Bourée, Dharma For One, Nothing Is Easy, We Used to Know/For a Thousand Mothers |
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| UK tour support: Procol Harum & Tír na nÓg. |
23/9/70 | City Hall | Sheffield, UK |
24/9/70 | Albert Hall | Nottingham, UK |
25/9/70 | Town Hall | Birmingham, UK |
| Two shows; second beginning at midnight. Still with both tour support bands! Audience: ~2000 per show.
Set included: Nothing Is Easy, My God, A Song For Jeffrey, We Used To Know |
27/9/70 | City Hall | Newcastle, UK |
28/9/70 | De Montfort Hall | Leicester, UK |
30/9/70 | Music Hall | Aberdeen, UK |
1/10/70 | Caird Hall | Dundee, UK |
| Support: Tír na nÓg & Procol Harum (allegedly their first appearence in Scotland, and with an encore).
Tull set included 'Dharma For One' and associated drum solo. |
2/10/70 | Greens Playhouse | Glasgow, UK |
3/10/70 | Free Trade Hall | Manchester, UK |
4/10/70 | Colston Hall | Bristol, UK |
9/10/70 | Guildhall | Southampton, UK |
10/10/70 | Olympia | Paris, France |
13/10/70 | Royal Albert Hall | London, UK |
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16/10/70 | Memorial Auditorium | Sacramento, Ca. USA |
| Support: Charles Lloyd. |
17/10/70 | Community Theater | Berkeley, Ca. USA |
| Support: Charles Lloyd.
Nothing Is Easy, My God, With You There To Help Me/By Kind Permission Of..., A Song For Jeffrey, Sossity: You're A Woman/Reasons For Waiting, Dharma For One, Encore: We Used To Know, Guitar Solo, For A Thousand Mothers |
18/10/70 | LA Forum | Inglewood, Ca. USA |
| Sold-out show (audience: 18,600).
Support: Charles Lloyd, It's A Beautiful Day.
Nothing Is Easy, My God (incl. flute solo), With You There To Help Me/By Kind Permission Of..., A Song For Jeffrey, Sossity: You're A Woman/Reasons For Waiting, Dharma For One (w. drum solo), We Used To Know, Guitar Solo, For A Thousand Mothers |
19/10/70 | Anaheim Convention Center | Anaheim, Ca. USA |
| Flute Cake
Nothing Is Easy, My God, With You There To Help Me/By Kind Permission Of..., A Song For Jeffrey, Sossity: You're A Woman/Reasons For Waiting, We Used To Know
Incomplete? |
20/10/70 | Coliseum | Phoenix, Az. USA |
| Support: Leon Russell. |
22/10/70 | Swing Auditorium | San Bernardeno, Ca. USA |
| Support: It's A Beautiful Day. |
23/10/70 | Gill Coliseum, Or. State U. | Corvallis, Or. USA |
24/10/70 | Seattle Center Arena | Seattle, Wa. USA |
28/10/70 | Eastown Theater | Detroit, Mi. USA |
30/10/70 | Civic Arena | Pittsburgh, Pa. USA |
| Also playing: Mountain. |
31/10/70 | War Memorial Auditorium | Syracuse, NY. USA |
| Support: Bob Seger System. |
1/11/70 | Mosque | Richmond, Va. USA |
3/11/70 | Comerford Theater | Wilkes-Barre, Pa. USA |
| Two shows (19:30 & 22:30).
Support: Bob Seger System. |
4/11/70 | Carnegie Hall | NYC, NY. USA |
| Charity concert in aid of the Phoenix House drug rehabilitation centre.
Support: McKendree Spring.
Officially released as Disc 2 of the '25th Anniversary' box set, but pirate copies are circulating as Live At The Seaside or For Their Benefit. Avoid!
Nothing Is Easy, My God, With You There To Help Me/By Kind Permission Of..., A Song For Jeffrey, To Cry You A Song, Sossity: You're A Woman, Reasons For Waiting, Dharma For One, We Used To Know, Guitar Solo, For A Thousand Mothers |
5/11/70 | Rhode Island College | Providence, RI. USA |
| Previously listed as having been at the Rhode Island Auditorium. However, an audience member recalls a concert at Rhode Island College gymnasium in 1970 or '71, and a student newspaper reviews this show as having been at Walsh Gym, part of Rhode Island College until being destroyed by fire in 1992.
Nothing Is Easy, My God, To Cry You A Song, With You There To Help Me/By Kind Permission Of..., Sossity: You're A Woman/Reasons For Waiting, Dharma For One (incl. drum solo), We Used To Know, Guitar solo, For A Thousand Mothers |
6/11/70 | St Anselms College | Manchester, NH. USA |
7/11/70 | Jenison Fieldhouse, MSU | East Lansing, Mi. USA |
| Support: Catfish. |
8/11/70 | Kiel Opera House | St Louis, Mo. USA |
| Two shows: 15:00 & 19:30.
Support: Mott the Hoople. |
9/11/70 | Ohio Theater | Columbus, Oh. USA |
| Support: Black Sabbath.
A contemporary press report, almost certainly describing this show, states that this was the first time the newly-built '10,500 seat arena' at Ohio State University had sold out.
However, the Theater isn't part of the University, and was built at the turn of the 19th/20th Century - it was newly renovated in 1970.
Nothing Is Easy, My God, With You There To Help Me/By Kind Permission Of..., A Song For Jeffrey, Sossity: You're A Woman, Reasons For Waiting, Dharma For One, We Used To Know, Guitar Solo, For A Thousand Mothers |
10/11/70 | Baldwin-Wallace College Gymnasium | Berea (Cleveland), Oh. USA |
| Support unknown; "very loud and shrill".
Nothing Is Easy, My God [power failure] My God resumed, With You There To Help Me/By Kind Permission Of..., A Song For Jeffrey, Sossity: You're A Woman, Reasons For Waiting, Dharma For One, We Used To Know, Guitar Solo, For A Thousand Mothers
Italicised tracks unconfirmed.
Ian introduced the concert by saying that the stage was make-shift. with only one power cable. Unsurprisingly, the power ailed for 15 minutes during the second song; Ian entertained the audience with stories and jokes in the dark whilst a replacement cable was installed. |
11/11/70 | St. Lawrence University | Canton, NY. USA |
12/11/70 | Memorial Auditorium | Buffalo, NY. USA |
| Support: Livingston Taylor. |
13/11/70 | Union College | Schenectady, NY. USA |
14/11/70 | War Memorial Auditorium | Rochester, NY. USA |
15/11/70 | State University Of New York | Plattsburgh, NY. USA |
| The last show with Glenn Cornick. |
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Dec '70 | Island Studios | London, UK |
| Recording 'Aqualung', with new bassist Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond.
13/12: Wond'ring Aloud (second version), Cheap Day Return (master), Up The 'Pool (early version).
15/12: Aqualung, Cross-Eyed Mary.
16/12: Locomotive Breath, Wind-Up
?/12: Hymn 43
17/12: Pancake Domesday (unreleased track!), My God.
20/12: Wind-Up, Lick Your Fingers Clean (master), Up To Me (master). |
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