While browsing Affordable Music, our favorite record store in Summit County, Colorado, we found an old copy of Jethro Tull's Aqualung and noticed a strange little blurb about skiing on the cover. We've owned copies of this album, but strangely, never noticed the lettering on the handbill above Aqualung's left shouder. It's a little hard to read, but it says: "Spend Christmas Skiing." Click on the image for a larger view. And we here at Copper Colorado Condos could not agree more, and we'd love to help you plan your ski vacation in Colorado.
Yesterday we asked if anyone could identify a classic 1971 rock album with an interesting ski reference. The album, of course, is Jethro Tull’s Aqualung (look closely at the photo), and we here at Copper Colorado Condos are left wondering whether Ian Anderson, the band’s flute-playing front man, had a thing for skiing.
What gives with Jethro Tull and snow sports? After we noticed this little blurb on the album cover, we quickly cruised over to YouTube and watched an old video of the band performing Aqualung in concert, and we must say that, while the guys were stylish in their striped pants and fringed leather vests, they didn’t exactly look like they’d be found anywhere near a chairlift – but who knows, we could be totally wrong. If anything, we’d say that Ian and the crew would be into snowboarding, except that wasn’t really happening back in that era.
Hmmm, maybe it’s just part of the album’s theme of social commentary about the disconnect between affluence and abject poverty, often to be found on the same street in most major cities of the world, or maybe the artist who did the cover was a skier. Then again, maybe not. Maybe it’s just one of those totally random cosmic coincidences. In either case, we agree, and would like to help you plan your best-ever Christmas ski vacation.
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