Epic

Stewart, you are insanely talented. Your ability to figure out such complex music and then commit it to memory and render a near flawless performance in a short amount of time is just astounding. Thanks for the commentary and showing the "hinge" chord. As I've said on another post, I would love to see more in-depth tutorials on how you perform your favourite Tull tunes.

At 74 I still go back to this album and your rendition is amazing and I think you explained much of what this concept album was about. Good grief when this came out when i was in my 20s i had no idea of what it was about other than it was a jethro Tull album, okay not everyones taste, maybe just too clever for many, As I said at 74 it is clever and so magical for my ears today. I still have a very battered vinyl LP although now replaced by a new pressing. I will when we get to the UK next month go and buy the Cd version for myself. Again thankyou Stewart for a most magic rendition. I do love your great interpretations of Tulls work.

You certainly won’t find that anywhere else! Superb Stewart. Thank you very much!

Absolutely amazing cover.....

Thank you for the insight into the music of Ian Anderson!

Holy crap. You just get better and better.

Eres un crack amigo .no solo es un disco poco convencional sino que además hace falta mucha memoria y paciencia para tocarlo .enhorabuena

A masterpiece magnificently interpreted and delivered 👏. Enjoyed immensely!! Thanks for sharing Stewart!

Never enough! you could talk about passion play all day!! thank you!

Incredible. I grew up listening to Jethro Tull and this brings me back, and refreshes it.

crying now, thank you

Wow Stu, you are insane! Leveled up again:) It really is 50 years, omg..well, time to revisit APP!:

I'm a great admirer of your Tull cover performances, Stewart, and it always brings a decided lift to my day, whenever a new one graces my YT feed. I have to admit, "A Passion Play" remains my absolute favorite Tull album -- and given the creative brilliance of their sprawling discography, that's really saying something. Not a terribly popular stance for me to take, of course. But I can't be concerned with what anyone else thinks, or fret about the regrettable controversy surrounding the original release / reception of that album. Even Ian himself, I recall hearing an interview wherein someone suggested that APP was their personal favorite, and he was shall we say less than kind about the prospect of them singling out that work in that specific way. Again, as much as I respect and admire Ian, I can't help what my mind and my heart elects to cast into its most favored spotlight. I only know that I experience such an extraordinary charge of pure fascination and elation whenever I revisit that album. And I thank you for your incredibly fine and spirited performance above. It always does my heart good to occasionally hear someone else speak as appreciatively as you do about that timelessly amazing Tull offering.

Brilliant and thanks for the explanations on timing.

Hello Stewart- Thank you so much for sharing this. AS... i was digging around online for the chords/tabs for Memory Bank I came upon your fantastic video. Thank It was a beautiful rendition of my favorite parts of A Passion Play. Your comments after the music were enlightening & very enjoyable as well. I was lucky enough to be, at least, close to the perfect age to love, see & appreciate Jethro Tull in a their prime: twice in 1969, 1st opening for Led Zeppelin, then headlining for the original Fleetwood Mac with Peter Green. Then missed the Benefit & Aqualung tours but got back on board with Thick As A Brick then A Passion Play. Have caught them many a time since then including Ian Anderson's 2012 Thick As A Brick 2 concert sadly missing Martin Barre. In that show they performed the entire original TAAB followed by an enteretaining and completely Ian Anderson-ish promo recommending that moist of the guys in the audience be checked for prostate problems and then a performance of TAAB 2 with an encore of Locomotive Breath. Our then 19 year old son came with us for his intro into live JT. I'm stopping here-you've brought out some memories from my Memory Bank. Thanks,Scott

Just when I thought I had seen everything, you whip out this little masterpiece - alternating picking and strumming to perfectly capture the essence of a bizarrely complex, difficult, and utterly entertaining passage of music to blow your viewers away. I'll wager that no one on this planet has ever attempted this on an acoustic guitar, let alone nailed it like you did. Forever one of my favorite songs/passages from Tull's 'concept albums', what a treat this was!

Remarkable interpretation and love the commentary. Thank you, Stewart.

I am not a guitar player, but for you to translate this bit of music to an acoustic guitar so flawlessly is immensely impresive to me. Bravo!

This may be your most ambitious effort yet - well done, sir. As always, I truly appreciate the insights you add before and after. I’ve been listening to this album for nearly 50 years, and I still learned a lot from your video.

Fantastic Steward. I saw you in Tullianos and your performance was great!!!!. Looking good with Tullianos T shirt😎😎😎

Not only is it so fantastic to hear any part of "A Passion Play" played live, but the music theory explanation and analysis of one of my favorite pieces of work is really, really, really interesting! Thanks!

Spectacular guitar playing and vocals on all your JT videos Stewart but this one is mind blowing. I always love the end chats as well even when I watch on repeat. GOAT.

Wow Stewart. I wondered if you would return to A Passion Play, hoping you would do this teeth gnashingly tricky section, but thinking it might not translate so well to acoustic. How wrong I was! So complex, so brilliantly played. Loved your commentary around the classical link into the blues riff of Best Friends. Time to dig the capo out again. Bravo Stewart.

Wow! Perfection! And we get to learn so much afterwards. You indeed have the "Memory Bank". I hope you will donate your brain one day to science. Will change the world.

wow, this must be your most challenging arrangement so far, good Sir... that little ditty starting 4:13 is really demented (in a good way!!)...

Wow

Thank you, Stewart. Managed to follow along and hear in my head all the other instrumentation from the actual recording. Very joyful indeed to revisit A Passion Play through your wonderful cover!

So breathtaking , passionately played . Stewart , so happy to listen to your genius every post ! Cheers!

Nice! I had stumbled upon your critique oblique and silver chord covers a couple months ago and wondered why you hadn't done this part yet, nice work!

Jaw dropping! Just wow - thank you Stewart

Terrific arrangement and execution Stewart!

You nail everything you do. I love this segment of passion play..and could never dream of how to play this! Kudos to you 👏👏

That was amazing, Stewart.

What a joy to hear your playing and your insightful comments. There's so much to talk about Passion Play, as is the case with many Tull albums. Please consider writing a book on JT. Thank you!

Stunning absolute brilliance thanks love Passion Play and this section great as always.

Fabulous!

PHEW! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 One of my favorite albums. Amazingly done. I have to wonder if you do retakes. The things you play seem just too difficult to get through without a mistake. (Your secret's good with me. 😉)

That’s was brilliant, Stewart!

Awesome as always!

Gracias por esta gran interpretación! Y lucir con orgullo la camiseta de "TULLIANOS". Saludos desde Barcelona.

Oh, Stewart, this is so fine, including your commentary as usual. Particularly so after a Music party last night at the end of which I chatted with a woman and advocated for Passion Play, she being mostly familiar with Aqualung yet attentive to my enthusiastic ramblings.

Wow! Stewart! Massively impressive!

excellent, you should make a new video with a tutorial of this song

Wow great job !!! How the hell did you figure all that out ??? (and how long did it take you ??? hahaha). I agree with all your comments relating to Passion Play - yes Ian has it wrong hahaha. Probably my favourite JT album for all those points you note

Great performance! I noticed you haven't done Flying Colours, one of my favourite tracks from Broadsword and the Beast! A challenge to do just with guitar, I'm sure, but you did The Clasp, so it should be possible (for you!).

Hey Stewart. , I like A Pasión play and your guitar play ,where do you get that T-shirt? Kind Regards from Paco of Tullianos

Wonderful. As a fellow Tull playing (but not so adept guitarist) can you please tell me how long that took you to learn?

You deserve a better acoustic guitar!

All his hard work ruined by that Anfield Road sign behind him.

All I can say is "Yikes"