Oddly, in the past two days, I heard a couple songs featuring the flute and neither were by Jethro Tull.
Men At Work: Down Under
Focus: Hocus Pocus

Oh yeah, the flute line that later caused a copyright trolling sack of shit in a suit to destroy the band's lives. That'll teach them for making a lasting contribution to Australian culture.

I can't imagine another instrument replacing it in this weird little song:

yngwie einstein wrote: Fri Apr 08, 2022 3:35 pm Oddly, in the past two days, I heard a couple songs featuring the flute and neither were by Jethro Tull.
Men At Work: Down Under
Focus: Hocus Pocus

I came here to post this motherfucking gem:


("Focus - Hocus Pocus Live '73" on youtube in case it won't work)


I can't vote 'crap' in good conscience with that it mind, but it can be pure crapola.

How about mutlitracked flutes?

mark76 wrote: Mon Oct 03, 2022 10:28 pm How about mutlitracked flutes?

Fuckin' love VDGG.

Wow. Never thought I'd find myself defending the flute but here I am.

First of all, what do you mean you can't rock on the flute? YOU CAN ROCK ON ANY INSTRUMENT, better believe it bub. Florian Schneider's rapid fire chuff-chuffa-chuffa-chuffa licks on Kraftwerk's Ruckzuck is the flute equivalent of power chords.

Yes Focus. Yes War. Yes King Crimson. Yes Kraftwerk. Yes Blues Project (source of the Beastie Boys sample) Yes Mercury Rev. Yes Hawkwind (oh yeah, the flute definitely makes Hawkwind rock less). Yes Eric Dolphy. Yes Pharaoh Sanders. Yes John Coltrane. Yes Peter Gabriel. Yes John Mayall. Yes Van Der Graaf. Yes Astral Weeks and Moondance. Yes Moody Blues. Yes Traffic. Yes Heart. And yes Jethro Tull.

You can't rock on the flute? Eat this:

A little history lesson:

Best one yet

Not a fan per se, but there are some great tracks that make fine use of it, like the ones posted here, some Mercury rev's...