Tull's best instrumentalists

[yogibear]

the best was john evan

[Fracktured]

Glascock.

(Did he not die of abscessed gum infection?)

I thought he had a heart condition

[Watanabe]

Bunker
Barlow
Cornick
Evan
Glascock
abrahams

Barre good too, though not as individually distinctive a stylist as any of the above for me.

[Trane]

^ Hammond was tremendously unique. I know trained bassists who look up to him.

Not doubting your words, of course ... but I find that strange/odd

Word. Whoever thinks differently needs to check him out on Carmen's Fandangos in Space LP. Carmen's music, with its solid latin / flamenco foundation, had way more of a bass presence than Tull's in the first place, and that's where Glascock proved himself capable of really being that pivotal element on which the whole sound of the band could be based.

I also think Ian Anderson himself is fairly underrated as an acoustic guitar player - everyone focuses on his flute, but I just can't imagine Tull without Ian's 6-string (or was that 12-string?).

Yeah, for Anderson's guitar and flute... But I didn't think he was eligible (hors-concours), because too obvious a choice.

However if Glascock was clearly the better musician (IMHO, of course) in Carmen's pseudo flamenco-rock, he wasn't as impressive in Tull (IMHO again), probably because not allowed to be as upfront in Anderson's group...

Barrie Barlow, head-and-shoulders above them all.

Well, Bunker was definitely at least a head above him

[gregory]

I concur with those who mentioned Clive Bunker and John Evan. Two terrific instrumentalists.

Evan was more a supportive musician, than a bright soloist. His brightest moment on studio recordings IMHO was that short piano intro to Locomotive Breath. Another one was improvisation on hammond organ in TAAB. To think of his third bright moment, I have to ponder - hopelessly I'm afraid... There are many micro keyboards parts here and there, where he was quite convincing, like piano riff and reprise on APP, for instance. But anyway, he wasn't one of strongest instrumentalists who ever had played in JT.