Great interview with Ian who now resembles Walter White. I was lucky to see JT at least 6x mostly in Pittsburgh while sitting in the front rows back in the 70s. Mad crush on Ian back then who I found very sexy, 😍 although I consider myself a sapiosexual person. I remember a band called Steeleye Span opening for JT and I remember being very intrigued by their music. Great Memories from those concerts. Thank you Ian & band. 🎶🎵🎼❤
Very fun to listen to...thank you. I'm pleased to say I've been to seven Jethro Tull concerts since the initial one in 1971. I've always been intrigued by the way Anderson choreographed the music with his body - emphasizing, accenting, strutting in a most dramatic fashion . His performances were "one of a kind" and I'm just referring to the visual part... ...add in a few measures of Jethro Tull music and wow - it's all there!! Mick Jagger would be close in energizing a show but wasn't playing an instrument while strutting his stuff (usually). An element of Tull not well understood, by me, is the wonderful acoustic guitar playing of Anderson. Why has that been overlooked for so long by reviewers? His style is all his own essentially. Reminiscent of a minstrel 200 years past. He doesn't get credit for being a fantastic guitar player...I guess most attention was garnered by his wildass flute playing. Regarding the guitar wizardry do get another listen to the intro of Thick As a Brick - you'll hear what I'm referring to.
Not many interviewers are able to get Ian to lighten up and laugh like that. Despite his dry sense of humor he often comes across as rather dour. Well done.
The summer home of the Boston Symphony is in Lenox, Massachusetts, which must be the amphitheater that Ian was trying to recall. I've been to a classical concert there, and it must have been a great place to see Jethro Tull perform.
Always enjoy hearing Ian Anderson speak. Ask him a question and, as with everything he does, he will give more than you expect and answer quite thoroughly. Nice interview - thanks for it! It's funny; Look at old interviews he did and you get the feeling he just liked to screw with the interviewer. Not sure if he felt the questions were shallow and useless or some other reason, but he seems to really put serious thought into answers now. That, and now he decides who interviews him, and he seemed happy to be doing this one.
-fascinating and intelligent man (you too John)! In concert (and on record) Jethro Tull was consistently one of the tightest bands I've seen. Ian and the bands(s) puts so much energy into performances , never appearing to take the audience for granted. Of all progressive and rock bands I've seen, Tull always had the strongest/impressive bands opening their concerts (UK was my favorite). It goes to show how confident they were as a band! 🎤
Hi John. My favorite musician and legend I love to listen to him speak as much as listening to him sing and play flute.. thank you for this great interview. Cannot wait for broadsword and the Rest boxset. Thick as a Brick was immense like most of their sumptuous catalog
AMAZING NEW ZEALOT GENE ALBUM! Two song in and I'm sold... it's been a while Ian, but this has twists that you've lacked for for a few years... brings me back to the 60's and 70's even though it's also "NOW". ... I'm old also, and I know how easy it is to get caught up in our own "muscle memory" creations... third song now as I type this... fantastic! Chills run down my back! man oh Chevins... you've created another MASTERPIECE! Though I'm saddened by the departure of Marten (I love what he's doing now), I have to say, three songs in, and this is AMAZING! ... This album, now that I've gone futher, has so many twists and turns! ..Please Ian, what happened, you have been inspired by something that has reminded you of variation! Also, it's fantastic how your voice is featured more that ever... and that this "mastered recording" sounds natural and not "over mastered," ... yes, we all know that your voice, like many other aging professional vocalists has aged and has been through many abuses since the 70's... but what you've created here... bravo! ... lastly... MAJOR KEYS INVOLVED!!!! YES!!! Minor key rock is so over done, and much of your best work has incorporated both minor AND major key numbers... and this album has both and is BEAUTIFUL! Love the accordion and harmonica!
Brother John! Loving the full interviews. Got to see Jethro Tull in 72 on their Thick as a Brick 🧱 tour. Truly Devine!! Great job. Have a great Wednesday evening. God bless.
This is refreshing -- intelligent and interesting. (I'm very sorry to hear of the Shea Stadium incident, though Ian minimizes it in typical, graceful fashion.) Ian strikes one as a private man who skillfully manages a career that places him in the public eye.
I was at that concert at Shea Stadium in ‘76. It was raining that night and I think Ian said something about being wet, but I never realized that had happened to him. That show had Rory Gallagher open and then Robin Trower played before Tull. That was not the best I saw of Tull. Those shows get reserved for NYC Madison Square Garden.
Jonathan? Hardly ... he's rather straight-laced and a serious musician. The bassists Ian's referring to are undoubtedly Glenn Cornick (whom Ian fired cuz he got fed up with Glenn's habitual partying), John Glascock (another heavy partyer but a great bass player who died well before his time and whom Ian introduced in concert as "John Brittledick") and also Dave Pegg (quite the drinker as I've heard told).
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Great interview with Ian who now resembles Walter White. I was lucky to see JT at least 6x mostly in Pittsburgh while sitting in the front rows back in the 70s. Mad crush on Ian back then who I found very sexy, 😍 although I consider myself a sapiosexual person. I remember a band called Steeleye Span opening for JT and I remember being very intrigued by their music. Great Memories from those concerts. Thank you Ian & band. 🎶🎵🎼❤
I always enjoy Ian's interviews.
Very fun to listen to...thank you. I'm pleased to say I've been to seven Jethro Tull concerts since the initial one in 1971. I've always been intrigued by the way Anderson choreographed the music with his body - emphasizing, accenting, strutting in a most dramatic fashion . His performances were "one of a kind" and I'm just referring to the visual part... ...add in a few measures of Jethro Tull music and wow - it's all there!! Mick Jagger would be close in energizing a show but wasn't playing an instrument while strutting his stuff (usually). An element of Tull not well understood, by me, is the wonderful acoustic guitar playing of Anderson. Why has that been overlooked for so long by reviewers? His style is all his own essentially. Reminiscent of a minstrel 200 years past. He doesn't get credit for being a fantastic guitar player...I guess most attention was garnered by his wildass flute playing. Regarding the guitar wizardry do get another listen to the intro of Thick As a Brick - you'll hear what I'm referring to.
Credit to you for getting your questions in! Ian talks!
Thank you for the full interviews!
Not many interviewers are able to get Ian to lighten up and laugh like that. Despite his dry sense of humor he often comes across as rather dour. Well done.
Thanks, great to see Ian laugh
I like the interviewer and the interviewee. Nice one.
Superb interview !
The summer home of the Boston Symphony is in Lenox, Massachusetts, which must be the amphitheater that Ian was trying to recall. I've been to a classical concert there, and it must have been a great place to see Jethro Tull perform.
Always enjoy hearing Ian Anderson speak. Ask him a question and, as with everything he does, he will give more than you expect and answer quite thoroughly. Nice interview - thanks for it! It's funny; Look at old interviews he did and you get the feeling he just liked to screw with the interviewer. Not sure if he felt the questions were shallow and useless or some other reason, but he seems to really put serious thought into answers now. That, and now he decides who interviews him, and he seemed happy to be doing this one.
-fascinating and intelligent man (you too John)! In concert (and on record) Jethro Tull was consistently one of the tightest bands I've seen. Ian and the bands(s) puts so much energy into performances , never appearing to take the audience for granted. Of all progressive and rock bands I've seen, Tull always had the strongest/impressive bands opening their concerts (UK was my favorite). It goes to show how confident they were as a band! 🎤
I love it that you’re doing these full interviews, i’ve got a lot of memories round Jethro Tull, thank you
Hi John. My favorite musician and legend I love to listen to him speak as much as listening to him sing and play flute.. thank you for this great interview. Cannot wait for broadsword and the Rest boxset. Thick as a Brick was immense like most of their sumptuous catalog
Ooohh broadsword and the rest...😆just a typo, I believe😉
AMAZING NEW ZEALOT GENE ALBUM! Two song in and I'm sold... it's been a while Ian, but this has twists that you've lacked for for a few years... brings me back to the 60's and 70's even though it's also "NOW". ... I'm old also, and I know how easy it is to get caught up in our own "muscle memory" creations... third song now as I type this... fantastic! Chills run down my back! man oh Chevins... you've created another MASTERPIECE!
Though I'm saddened by the departure of Marten (I love what he's doing now), I have to say, three songs in, and this is AMAZING!
... This album, now that I've gone futher, has so many twists and turns! ..Please Ian, what happened, you have been inspired by something that has reminded you of variation! Also, it's fantastic how your voice is featured more that ever... and that this "mastered recording" sounds natural and not "over mastered," ... yes, we all know that your voice, like many other aging professional vocalists has aged and has been through many abuses since the 70's... but what you've created here... bravo!
... lastly... MAJOR KEYS INVOLVED!!!! YES!!! Minor key rock is so over done, and much of your best work has incorporated both minor AND major key numbers... and this album has both and is BEAUTIFUL! Love the accordion and harmonica!
Brother John! Loving the full interviews. Got to see Jethro Tull in 72 on their Thick as a Brick 🧱 tour. Truly Devine!! Great job. Have a great Wednesday evening. God bless.
You are a master interviewer. Also, a storyteller par excellent. Great piece.
This is refreshing -- intelligent and interesting. (I'm very sorry to hear of the Shea Stadium incident, though Ian minimizes it in typical, graceful fashion.) Ian strikes one as a private man who skillfully manages a career that places him in the public eye.
Thanks very much for your fascinating interviews, John!🙏😉
Thanks again for a great interview !!!
I was at that concert at Shea Stadium in ‘76. It was raining that night and I think Ian said something about being wet, but I never realized that had happened to him. That show had Rory Gallagher open and then Robin Trower played before Tull. That was not the best I saw of Tull. Those shows get reserved for NYC Madison Square Garden.
the new record is great, go buy it..
Nice
Jonathan Noyce .... the one guy? ;-)
Jonathan? Hardly ... he's rather straight-laced and a serious musician. The bassists Ian's referring to are undoubtedly Glenn Cornick (whom Ian fired cuz he got fed up with Glenn's habitual partying), John Glascock (another heavy partyer but a great bass player who died well before his time and whom Ian introduced in concert as "John Brittledick") and also Dave Pegg (quite the drinker as I've heard told).
beautiful wife though
It's horrible!
What's horrible?