I was 16 in 1969 when I first heard and bought the This Was album (still my favorite), they were advertised as "Jazz-Rock" on my local FM station. I loved Mick Abraham's playing and was really sorry to hear that he left. I liked Stand Up and liked Benefit but didn't like the production from album to album and pretty much lost interest by Aqualung and could definitely see they were going in a direction I didn't like. I loved Glenn Cornick's playing and learned the solo note for note to Bourée when it was new. I've never used it anywhere but can still play it. Even though there were some great jazzy tunes on Stand Up it was still a disappointment to me, I disliked the British folkie stuff, and thought his voice was mixed up too loud and wasn't crazy about the new guitarist even though he was a very good player. It was very obvious to me that Ian Anderson was the boss and was molding the band the way he wanted it to go, he wanted to be the star. I also really liked Clive Bunker's playing and though he was a perfect mix of playing loud like a rock drummer who was able to also play jazzy, kind of like Mitch Mitchell who I've also though was a great drummer. So anyway, in my old age I should probably investigate their later stuff and almost bought Aqualung several times but Snots Running Down His Nose always kind of turned me off
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