said the Communist.

I had to check this one out, since in a way, my musical career was in part determined by this song. This is a well-done version, and I think you guys did a really good job.
 
My story with this song goes like this: I actually started off in music as a flutist. By 14, I was studying under Julius Baker and taking master classes at Julliard. And of course, what does a 14-year old flute player want to play? Yep - you guessed it. So, there I was, warming up with Bourrée in the practice room, and Prof. Baker walked in. He absolutely lost his cookies in that very uptight kind of classical musician way, and shouted that when I was ready to play some real music, he'd be outside waiting for me to come to my senses. I was already playing bass on the side and losing interest in going down the classical road, and that was pretty much the last straw. I switched my main instrument to bass, and never looked back.
 
So there you have it....despite Prof. Baker's dire warnings, Bourrée is at least partly responsible for me having a long, creative, and fun career
 
cheers!

Coolest story ever.
 
I switched from rhythm guitar to bass in 1968 when my friends playing a high school dance came up short and asked me to play bass on Sunshine of Your Love (on a Hofner no less). I was hooked even though I had never held a bass much less had never played that song before on guitar.
 
Footnote: I played it wrong in some spots but still had fun.
 
By senior year (1971) the band I was in already had Bouree, For A Thousand Mothers, New Day Yesterday and Nothing Is Easy in our set list.
 
Hence my desire to get some of these fine players in this cover the whole album project.
 
In case no on noticed, my son did the drum programming on this one.

Heh - thanks, Bapu. I got to work an Ian Anderson show a few years ago and had a chance to tell him that story. He wasn't in a good mood because of some production issues, so I'm not sure he saw the humor in it - he seemed more cranky about this world-class flutist not taking him seriously
 
I'll always have a soft spot for this song, so I appreciate the nice performance (including your son's programming).

Also one of my favorite Tull songs, evah.   Nice job all around and the mix is working nicely.    I do agree about the guitar tone being a little thin and/or bitey, but that's completely subjective.    Now if only there was some solid bass playing on this number...   
 

I hear that the guitar would have been better, but the guitarist was over pressed to release his track before it was completely ready.  I blame NagBap (v4 65-bit). 

Ja.  I'm liking it.  

There is still life in classical form IMO. 
 
Ben

very nice, gents!  mix sounds really good.
 
bass is tight
 
for a Tull song, this is good!