Wow great interview!! Why didn't we see this back then, I wonder...Thanks for sharing. I'm so relieved to hear Ian got both of his flutes back. Lucky !!
Every interview that I have seen Ian Anderson in he is very intelligent straight forward answers and down to Earth to seen TULL numerous times and they never play the same song to the same always a different twist
@@justgivemethetruth Oh, I don’t know. That might very well have worked. (Think of the expressive tuba solos in Bacharach’s “What the World Needs Now” or David Bowie’s “The Little Bombardier”.)
I’m always frustrated when I hear Ian Anderson asseverating that Aqualung is not a concept album because all the songs on it were not consciously constructed with a single idea in mind. The point of a concept album is to suggest a concept then let the imaginations of the listeners fill in the dots. The concept can’t be rigid; it has to breathe. The first album that I know of that was called a concept album is the Beatle’s Pepper. What is its concept? That the Beatles are pretending to be another band. There is only one song on the album (reprised toward the end) that specifically refers to this concept, with a few other nudges, such as audience noises, along the way. Nevertheless themes emerge. Many of the songs,in various guises, turn out to be about running away, for example. The Beatles didn’t put that in consciously. No, The Beatles didn’t cram the notion that Pepper represents a single coherent work down the listener’s throat; they gently guided the listener and the material, but largely let both fend for themselves. This is precisely why it’s a superior record and it works so well as a concept album. The same can be said for Aqualung.
Personally, I'm not a fan of Eric Clapton's, and I'd rather hear Martin Barre, or even Florian Opahle. Not sure about the newest guy yet, but all Eric Clapton can play is blues. He does it well, but honestly I'd rather listen to Ian.
ABSOLUT JETHRO TULL KAMEN UND WURDEN BEKANNT MIT BLUES UND JAZZ UND ROCK GEMISCHT MIT KLASSIK.MICK ABRAHAMS SPIELTE NUR BLUES. DANN KAM MARTIN BARRE UND SIE SPIELTEN PROG.ROCK.GREAT😊
Wow great interview!! Why didn't we see this back then, I wonder...Thanks for sharing. I'm so relieved to hear Ian got both of his flutes back. Lucky !!
Every interview that I have seen Ian Anderson in he is very intelligent straight forward answers and down to Earth to seen TULL numerous times and they never play the same song to the same always a different twist
7:15 -- Thank God it was a sunny day in Blackpool when Ian traded in his electric guitar and the clouds parted! ;-)
Good thing those rays of sunshine did not shine on a Tuba
@@justgivemethetruthThat’s hilarious. I can see it now: My God with an aggressive tuba solo. I wouldn’t mind hearing that.
@@justgivemethetruth Oh, I don’t know. That might very well have worked. (Think of the expressive tuba solos in Bacharach’s “What the World Needs Now” or David Bowie’s “The Little Bombardier”.)
@@jeffryphillipsburns
LOL
Great interview, thanks for sharing! If I’ve learnt anything it’s that I’ll try not to leave my flute in any restaurants 🤣
But he found both flutes!! İsn't it great?😊
1. A Passion Play
2. Aqualang
3. Stand Up
4. Minstrel Gallery
5. Storm Watch / Heavy Horses
Nice interview, thanks.
Wow!
Have Always been completely Awed by 70's 80's JT music. Encouraged me to push it to grow. Thank you to all JT.
Ian's flute, at least the one he has here is handicapped .... it's missing its foot.
Its C foot too or just its B foot?
@@jeffryphillipsburns
No idea, but I think flutes are supposed to have 3 parts, right?
I’m always frustrated when I hear Ian Anderson asseverating that Aqualung is not a concept album because all the songs on it were not consciously constructed with a single idea in mind. The point of a concept album is to suggest a concept then let the imaginations of the listeners fill in the dots. The concept can’t be rigid; it has to breathe.
The first album that I know of that was called a concept album is the Beatle’s Pepper. What is its concept? That the Beatles are pretending to be another band. There is only one song on the album (reprised toward the end) that specifically refers to this concept, with a few other nudges, such as audience noises, along the way. Nevertheless themes emerge. Many of the songs,in various guises, turn out to be about running away, for example. The Beatles didn’t put that in consciously.
No, The Beatles didn’t cram the notion that Pepper represents a single coherent work down the listener’s throat; they gently guided the listener and the material, but largely let both fend for themselves. This is precisely why it’s a superior record and it works so well as a concept album. The same can be said for Aqualung.
Personally, I'm not a fan of Eric Clapton's, and I'd rather hear Martin Barre, or even Florian Opahle. Not sure about the newest guy yet, but all Eric Clapton can play is blues. He does it well, but honestly I'd rather listen to Ian.
Jethro Tull-like many British rock groups of the period-was originally a blues group.
@@jeffryphillipsburns
Uh, so? Blues are simple I-IV-V chords and great for learning music, unless you are tone deaf like me! ;-)
Same here.
@@jeffryphillipsburns Only briefly!! Hence "This WAS".
ABSOLUT JETHRO TULL KAMEN UND WURDEN BEKANNT MIT BLUES UND JAZZ UND ROCK GEMISCHT MIT KLASSIK.MICK ABRAHAMS SPIELTE NUR BLUES. DANN KAM MARTIN BARRE UND SIE SPIELTEN PROG.ROCK.GREAT😊
Articulate
Do you mean that Ian Anderson expresses himself in complete sentences?