{{more citations needed|date=June 2016}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox album | name = Slipstream | type = video | artist = [[Jethro Tull (band)|Jethro Tull]] | cover = Jethro-Tull-Slipstream.jpg | alt = | released = 18 July 1981 | recorded = 1980 | venue = | studio = | genre = [[Progressive rock]]; [[art rock]] | length = 57:14 | label = Polygram Video; [[Chrysalis Records|Chrysalis]] | director = [[David Mallet (director)]] | producer = | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = [[20 Years of Jethro Tull (video)|20 Years of Jethro Tull]] | next_year = 1988 }} {{Music ratings |rev1=[[AllMusic]] |rev1score={{Rating|2.5|5}}<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/v26124|title=Jethro Tull: Slipstream (1981) – | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie|access-date=19 May 2021|website=Allmovie.com}}</ref> }} '''''Slipstream''''' is a video by [[Jethro Tull (band)|Jethro Tull]], recorded during the 1980 ''[[A (Jethro Tull album)|A]]'' tour, released in 1981. It was originally released on [[VHS]], [[Capacitance Electronic Disc]], and [[laserdisc]], and was released as a (bootleg) [[DVD]] in [[Brazil]] (as seen in the cover on the right) in 2003.<ref name="auto"/> It is also included in the (2004) '''bonus DVD''' edition of ''[[A (Jethro Tull album)|A]]''. This bonus DVD was the only official release on DVD until it was released as part of the 40th anniversary box set of [[A (Jethro Tull album)|''A'']] in April 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://jethrotull.com/jethro-tull-a-40th-anniversary-edition/|title=Jethro Tull 'A' 40th Anniversary Edition|date=17 February 2021|website=Jethrotull.com|access-date=19 May 2021}}</ref>
The video shares its title with a song of the same name on the group's landmark 1971 album ''[[Aqualung (album)|Aqualung]]''.
== Music videos == ''Slipstream'' mixed the concert tour with the videos recorded and directed by [[David Mallet (director)|David Mallett]]. London's [[Hammersmith Odeon]] was used for exterior scenes, but the main concert footage was actually from a performance at the [[Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena|Los Angeles Sports Arena]] (as heard on the Magic Piper ROIO), filmed in November 1980. The music videos are: * "[[Dun Ringill (song)|Dun Ringill]]" :A video inspired by the ''[[Stormwatch (album)|Stormwatch]]'' album cover, filmed at a beach near [[Beachy Head]]. * "Sweet Dream" :In this a [[vampire]]-themed [[Homage (arts)|homage]] to [[horror movies]], Aqualung is pursued by a vampire and—like the [[The Prisoner|Prisoner]]—giant pink balloons. Meanwhile, a [[ballerina]] pirouettes (recalling ''[[A Passion Play]]''), a giant [[tarantula]] emits death rays, and an evil [[projectionist]] starts his movie. A [[nun]] supplies the right equipment to defeat the vampire. * "[[Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die (song)|Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll]]" :The elderly band is in a giant [[pinball]] machine, drinking their tea like the [[Alice in Wonderland]] tea party. Features [[Hot Gossip]] dancer [[Perri Lister]]. * "Fylingdale Flyer" :The band is in an [[air traffic control]] tower, when they see some impending disaster. The cover of ''A'' is taken from this video. [[RAF Fylingdales]] (note the 's') is the site of a [[Ballistic Missile Early Warning System]] radar situated in the [[North York Moors]] National Park, which explains the lyric to the song.
== Track list == {{track listing | all_writing = [[Ian Anderson (musician)|Ian Anderson]] with additional music material from Eddie Jobson; arranged by Jethro Tull | title1 = Introduction | length1 = 3:27 | title2 = Black Sunday | length2 = 6:23 | title3 = [[Dun Ringill (song)|Dun Ringill]] | note3 = [[music video]] | length3 = 2:37 | title4 = Fylingdale Flyer | note4 = [[music video]] | length4 = 4:03 | title5 = [[Songs from the Wood (song)|Songs from the Wood]] | length5 = 3:35 | title6 = [[Heavy Horses (song)|Heavy Horses]] | length6 = 7:25 | title7 = [[Sweet Dream (Jethro Tull song)|Sweet Dream]] | note7 = [[music video]] | length7 = 4:04 | title8 = [[Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die (song)|Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll]] | note8 = [[music video]] | length8 = 5:37 | title9 = [[Skating Away on the Thin Ice of the New Day|Skating Away]] | length9 = 3:36 | title10 = [[Aqualung (song)|Aqualung]] | length10 = 8:57 | title11 = [[Locomotive Breath]]-Black Sunday (reprise) | length11 = 6:25 | title12 = Credits | length12 = 1:05 }}
== Personnel == ;Jethro Tull *[[Ian Anderson (singer and musician)|Ian Anderson]] – [[flute]], [[vocal]]s *[[Martin Barre]] – [[electric guitar]] *[[Mark Craney]] – [[drum]]s; [[bass guitar|bass]] in "Skating Away" *[[Dave Pegg]] – [[bass guitar|bass]]; [[bouzouki]] in "Skating Away" *[[Eddie Jobson]] – [[Keyboard instrument|keyboards]], [[electric violin]]; [[electric mandolin]] in "Skating Away"
== See also == * ''[[A (Jethro Tull album)|A]]'' (1980 album)
==References== {{Reflist}}
== External links == * {{AllMusic|class=album|id=r86447|label=''Slipstream''}} * [https://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:26124 ''Slipstream''] (1981) at [[Allmovie]] * {{AllMusic|class=album|id=r686338|label=''A'' (2004)}} (Bonus [[DVD]]) * [https://web.archive.org/web/20050414130827/http://progressiveworld.net/jethrotull21.html ''A'' at Progressive World] * [http://www.ministry-of-information.co.uk/setlist/80.htm 1980 ''A'' Concert Tour]
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