Anderson's greatness stems from his musical talent, of course. But many have musical talent. Ian has the X factor of refusal to conform and an urge to confront. That is creativity
Ian snapped back at the critics back in the 70s, and those critics are today very instrumental in deciding who gets in to that stupid pointless institution.
Yep. The hipster douchebags who run Rolling Stone magazine, who spent the entirety of the 70s bashing classic rock bands like Tull and Zeppelin are now in charge of a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. A gazillion rap and pop inductions later, and some people still give them credibility.
@@handebarlas6248 Yes the corruption of that whatever you call it in Cleveland runs deep. Finally they started putting in people who deserved it from the UK like TRex and Roxy Music but they have a long way to go to make amends . One English Artist did make that comment of it being an “ American “ bias institution. As far as the corruption , didn’t somebody who works there get accused of selling some Eagles lyric notebooks or something like that .
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame represents the greatest rock bands the same way that Cleveland epitomizes great American cities. It's laughable. Long after Jann Wenner has faded into oblivion, millions will still be listening to the music of Jethro Tull.
He was inducted as one of the Prog Rock Gods and indeed that is a worthy designation- artistic innovation. It would also make me barf to have IA sitting astride someone like Michael Jackson- it's like oil and vinegar from a music vantagepoint.
I’m a huge Jethro Tull/Ian Anderson fan and an American. Personally I have little regard for the “Rock and Roll Hall of Fame”. It seems they’ve gone the way of so many arts and entertainment award institutions. Politics and political correctness along with the fluff of commercialism have diluted their credibility, like the Academy Awards etc. I couldn’t help but notice the how a number of times Mr. Anderson went searching for words. That’s so uncharacteristic of him. He’s always been so spot on articulate.
RRHOF is not an American Institution. It's music politics. Always good to avoid politics in any discussion. Asking an artist about the Hall Of Fame is applying some value to the institution.
It's not the Rock and Roll hall of Fame, it's the Rolling Stone magazine Hall of Fame. If you stay in contact with Ian, please tell him in high school I was a flutist, (I still have my Gemeinhardt) and I would warm up to "Something's on the move" from the JT album "Stormwatch".
Saw the Tull in MLG in the '90's. Great show. Class act. Ian made it clear to the audience not to request songs... just sit back & be entertained... and we were.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has inducted Madonna and a slew of rappers but won't induct Jethro Tull mainly because the Hall looks down on white male progressive bands from the seventies and seeks to nominate recording artists of different backgrounds whose music is not rock and roll (and sometimes not even music) in the interest of "diversity." There, I said it.
Agree Passion Play was a top tier along with Benefit and Stand Up with Living in the Past..all great creative pieces of Unusual subject matter musically sound
Glad APP was brought up. It has become, hands down my favorite JT album- previously held by either TAAB or Stand Up. The musical complexity in APP is deeply involving and with my high end kit sounds fantastic- I particularly like the Steve Wilson MQA version.
The Wilson version is outright dreadful. Dry sound, wrong vocal track in one place, the Chateau recordings that were finished in 1993 reduced to the unfinished backing tracks of 1972.
Like I do of most bands...I prefer the early music the most. I saw Tull perform Passion Play in Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City NJ. The critics were very cinical of Passion Play at the time. Very hard on it. Said it was a big mistake. However I thoroughly enjoyed the show and the album. I always loved the artistry of the British bands. Quite a bit different from Americans. Early Genesis, Rick Wakeman, Moody Blues and the like. And as far as The Hall of Fame goes...it took what 30 years for the Moody Blues to get in? Please....Makes the organization rediculous in my opinion.
People who are called "critics" in any area of arts, but especially in rock music, are a bunch who have a very limited outlook, who cannot judge properly and have no idea about themselves, but just think they know the best!!!! Just like politicians!!! They are completely ridiculous and even more so because they take themselves seriously 🤣🤣🤣🤣 there are so many examples. Whoever does not appriciate what great music A Passion Play is, has absolutely no idea of what great art is. Then again, appreciation requires several criteria, the most important being true and genuine interest, and even passion, towards the work of art itself. These are hard to come by, and so history is full of unqualified people's wrong assumptions...Time almost always shows how wrong they were/are.
Jethro tull not being in the hall along with grand funk railroad, steppenwolf, Tommy James, scorpions, Savoy brown, foghat, monkees,and pat benatar to name a few deserving acts
Ian is too polite and humble to state the real reasons why Jethro Tull probably won't be inducted, and it is because increasingly fewer rock acts are being added. We are seeing rappers like Jay-Z and Puff Daddy, as well as performers from other genres, like Whitney Houston, who may have been extremely talented but had absolutely no connection to rock music, and yet they've been inducted. That's less of a reflection of the wishes of Tull fans, and more the result of decisions by big money managers behind the institution. Perhaps some of them have never even heard of Tull! So for obvious reasons, I don't take the Hall of Fame too seriously, because it's certainly not an all-encompassing appreciation of the best of rock music. Either way, Tull remains one of my all-time favorite rock bands.
@@mapp4751 I agree with you, but at least these two artists had a slight crossover appeal. I actually really like Ordinary World, by Duran Duran- the guitar solo reminds me so much of Steve Hackett during the classic days of Genesis. And Madonna's Perfect Stranger has a flute solo ending that Ian Anderson probably likes! That doesn't qualify either of these groups for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but just sayin'...
@@stuarthecht8196 "Just sayin' "........one of the dumbest and annoying phrases used to qualify something that someone is......wait for it............... just saying
Many Americans, myself included, would be very pleased to find Jethro Tull and Ian Anderson nominated to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Failure of that to happen will have absolutely no effect on our appreciation of their music, which is quite high.
@Popeye - L.O.L!!!! I asked one of my nephews, who played trombone in High School band if rap required a lot of musical talent. His reply, " Not Really.".
He makes an interesting point. I guess it's easy to mindlessly believe anything from the USA is synonymous with your own identity or culture. For example in Australia most of our tv shows are American, so our whole lives we're immersed by an identity that isn't ours and insidiously adopt these into our image of the world and understanding of history. JT is bang on.
His point is the truth itself. I am saying this because I and people who think like me realised this few years back. They are promoting and honouring those who contribute to their own values. Well, it's their country and they can do as they wish. The problem is what you say next: mindlessly believe anything from the states....etc etc. This, ı belive is very unfortunate for the whole world. In my country, not so much now, but before, there used to be all sorts of american series and shows. However, there were also British series and documentaries. I grew up with them. We should all be selective as to what we read and watch, not be enslaved to just one cultures' dominance. I must say that it surprised me to learn most of your tv shows are american! I personally do not watch tv as it is anymore but choose what to watch myself online..youtube...etc..sorry for writing so much but what you said resonated with me..All the best.
That is strange,, here in the states, our television had very little foreign shows..I do remember benny hill, prisoner cell block h,, and hockey night in Canada..that's about it,, until cable and satellite came out.
When Rush, Genesis and Yes have to wait so long to get in, long after obscure and talentless American artists, you realise that the Hall of Fame is something of zero value.
Ian is pretty diplomatic about it, but I'm sure it pisses him off. For some reason, Rock historians look at Tull as kind of a joke. The hell with them, Tull is still my all-time favorite band. Ian and Martin (guitar player) were an iconic duo on stage and on record.
Hall of fame.....Hall of shame. Ian Anderson doesn't need the Hall! He's got a genuine fan base. I've been a Tull fan for over 50yrs and had the distinct pleasure of seeing Jethro Tull seven times in the 70's. Seen a lot of bands but nothing compares to Tull.
Ian probably voiced these before- in some other interviews but it's the first time I've heard him say this. So glad that he did, as it's exactly what happens at R&R hall of fame..ok, they can do what they like in their own country but they are in no way an authority on rock music. I, personally, don't give a toss about who they induct or not. In fact, yes, as Ian says, they should not induct JT because Tull encompasses too many genres and in general too much variety for what R&R Hall of Fame promotes. On top of that, the institution's main (if not only) motive is commercial. Good artists themselves know very well what is what, and so do some well-informed fans. It is critics who don't.
He's being incredibly modest and restrained. Jethro Tull not being in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, would be like Jimmie Foxx not being in the Baseball Hall of Fame. We all know the RRHOF is a political joke. The omission of Jethro Tull is proof in itself.
Ian is being way too nice about this, being more diplomatic than the "Hall of Fame" deserves. He should have just said "It's an absolute joke", and left it at that.
Simon Le Bon summed this up perfectly last year.. Every band that isn't in the Hall says it doesn't matter if they get in and it's stupid and they don't care at all about it.. But then you get nominated and it's the most important thing in the world and when you get inducted it's like getting knighted in music form.. Perfectly said 👍
Could you do an interview with Barriemore Barlow? The Tull Rhythm section of Barriemore and John Glascock was one of the scariest, most virtuosic in Rock. John Glascock RIP...
It's sad but I feel the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has gone down the same road as the Grammy yes I played guitar mandolin violin dream someday of writing a song worthy enough to be nominated on the Grammys. But anymore it seems it's gotten so bad I don't even watch it. To me most of the songs that are nominated are not even music. I'm sorry I don't mean to hurt anyone's feelings. But I have to say what I feel...
I've been following Ian Anderson and listening to Jethro Tull for 50 years and it's sad to say that looks Ian Anderson's grandfather. He is really on the decline. He is one of the greatest composers of the 20th century and Passion Play may be my favorite album. The construction of the passages and how they transition from one theme to the next is so beautiful. It takes an enormous amount of talent to write something like that.
For some reason I really love this. Ian Anderson is one of the few smart people in music when it comes to his view of the Hall of Fame. Granted I have some of my favorite bands in the Hof but sadly it has become too politicized and seems to only let in members who line up with their political ideology. Ian Anderson seems to rub against this and the notion that it is only for American music. I've never been a big Jethro Tull fan except for a few songs, but Ian is spot on here.
The Rock Hall has certainly lost much of its luster and street-cred with tried and true Rock purists in recent years I would disagree that the Hall is American bands-biased, however being in Cleveland, American bands and artists dominate the inductions. British groups are well very well represented as well and, in my opinion, Jethro Tull/Ian Anderson should have a seat with the group of elite bands.
To have thought, wrote, & sung Like ''The Tull'' well now... ''There are artists who'll wrest us up & place us into themselves; into their works. These are the very One's who'll continue wresting us up... Far and beyond their appointed rests in peace; period!'' -gilpin 42621
rr hof is a joke, no tull, no j geils, no marshall tucker, no grand fuNk but cheap trick, the police and donna summer? I WOULD NOT GO TO THE 'RR' HOF FOR ALL THE TEA..
Jethro Tull? 3 of the best shows I ever saw and heard. R&R Hall of Fame? Just a commercial endeavor. Never thought of it as American. Thought of it as participants in Rock and Roll. Wrong about that I guess.
Jethro Tull, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Foreigner, Kansas- we could be hear all day the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a joke it's a joke. When you have Jay-Z who was last in the fan voting for the whole time and yet he gets in over Iron Maiden you know it's corrupt.
The Brits lit a flame under the butts of American Rock and Roll who were stuck on Elvis and it's type. Black Rhythm and Blues was an influence on the Brits who were more open minded when it came to LISTENING to all types of music.
Joe Cocker, Jethro Tull, Ozzy, ELP, Spirit, Judas Priest, Soundgarden, Warren Zevon, Mott The Hoople, Johnny and Edgar Winter, UFO...all nays. But Donna Summer and Whitney Houston? HELL YEAH!!! They were ROCKERS!!!
I would say Ian and Jethro Tull being in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame should be an insult to Ian and Jethro Tull. Some of the garbage honored in that institution can't hold a candle to Tull. Tull is way above them and way beyond their musical abilities.
It doesn't make any sense to me that Jethro Tull isn't in the R&R Hall of Fame! I think it's a huge oversight! They've sold 60 million albums worldwide, with 11 gold and five platinum! That alone should be enough, but I also think the fact that they had such a unique sound should give them an edge too! The R&R Hall loses respect by omitting J.T.!
Jethro Tull, King Crimson, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, VDGG, Bowie, Velvet Underground, Traffic, Who, John Mayall, Johnny Cash, Stones, Roxy Music, Dire Straits..... MUSIC
Ian was very kind here. The RR HOF people who decide who gets in are idiots. But no matter, Ian and the band do not need validation from them. They get it from us fans and their own enjoyment. They are and will always be my favorite band. iarocks = Ian Anderson Rocks. LOL
To my knowledge JT has only played APP one other time and that was the Minstrel in the Gallery tour. Little wonder....Ian you were being kind. APP should be in tier 4. Songs to be forgotten much less ever played. After This Was, Stand Up, Benefit, Aqualung, and Thick as a Brick we got this ice pick to the ear drums known as APP.
Why is he dissing his fellow English musicians when Pink Floyd is in the Rock hall of fame? They don’t sing about “Americana”. Jethro Tull / Ian Anderson should definitely be in the RnR hall of fame.
RRHoF is An American Institution? I thought they were there to cover ALL Of It From Everywhere ! Especially Great Brittian. Tull Is Classic Rock as much as Zeppelin, Sabbath, Bowie and Aerosmith.
The hall of fame has little to do with quality of an artist, number of records sold, longevity, how many songs written, or how hard an artists works, or how many live performances they have given ...and even has little to do with the rock genre! What a meaningless organization.
It doesn't really matter if JT is inducted or not. I do think there is a level of disappointment on Ian's part, no matter what he says. I can hear it in his voice. But maybe he's also resigned and happy where they are at and he should be. His band is renowned. And always will be. I was at the RRHF years ago myself and they did have some Jethro Tull memorabilia and mentioned Ian's flute playing. Not sure if they have that anymore.
Tull is famous where it matters.
Anderson's greatness stems from his musical talent, of course. But many have musical talent. Ian has the X factor of refusal to conform and an urge to confront. That is creativity
We know full well that Jethro Tull is the best Rock band of all time.
Ian snapped back at the critics back in the 70s, and those critics are today very instrumental in deciding who gets in to that stupid pointless institution.
Yep. The hipster douchebags who run Rolling Stone magazine, who spent the entirety of the 70s bashing classic rock bands like Tull and Zeppelin are now in charge of a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. A gazillion rap and pop inductions later, and some people still give them credibility.
The only true hall's of fame are in each of our minds. Tull is there for most of us.
He's a legend and a genius singer/musician. There should be a hall of fame for the greatest front men in rock history. He'd be immediately nominated.
...unless that institution is a commercial American one!
@@handebarlas6248 Yes the corruption of that whatever you call it in Cleveland runs deep. Finally they started putting in people who deserved it from the UK like TRex and Roxy Music but they have a long way to go to make amends . One English Artist did make that comment of it being an “ American “ bias institution. As far as the corruption , didn’t somebody who works there get accused of selling some Eagles lyric notebooks or something like that .
Absolutely!!! Ian Anderson IS the Greatest front man in music of all time!!!👍👍
Tull may not be from America, but their music was and still is very much a part of the American music scene. Very very much a hall of fame band.
Jethro Tull;s Music made us Rock our asses of every time they played in Detroit, since Day One, in 1970, thank You Ian for the Music, Cousin Figel
Cobo Hall...the grande ballroom,, ?.
A Passion Play is tier 1 for me.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame represents the greatest rock bands the same way that Cleveland epitomizes great American cities. It's laughable. Long after Jann Wenner has faded into oblivion, millions will still be listening to the music of Jethro Tull.
You don't need the hall Ian.you're talent is astronomically above and beyond American guitar based rock.
One: he’s British, Two: he’s not American, Three: he didn’t compose American guitar based rock.
He was inducted as one of the Prog Rock Gods and indeed that is a worthy designation- artistic innovation. It would also make me barf to have IA sitting astride someone like Michael Jackson- it's like oil and vinegar from a music vantagepoint.
@@dwightballard3868 I've never heard oil and vinegar used in that analogy oil and vinegar go together quite well
@@dwightballard3868 - Ian Anderson is far, far too old to sit astride Michael Jackson, even if Jackson was still alive. Come on now!
@@tarkusmjg - Your reading comprehension is exactly zero.
The heads at Rock and Roll Hall of fame are Thick as a Brick.
Annually Bungle in the jungle as well
@@jimcoleman598 JT doesn't need the RRHOF/he composed better songs than most in there . . . "and that's the honest measure of (his) worth"
Yes, and they make all their animal deals but they still don't know how it feels --- wait, they do know! -- to be thick as a brick.
One of my favorite albums!!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💪💪💪💪💪💪😉
Jethro Tull should have been in the Rock and roll hall of fame years ago.
Wow, it's not the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame if you leave Ian and or Jethro Tull out. Ian Anderson is one of the top show men of all time.
Indeed! JT is far from the American definition of R&R and among a greater art expressed musically and lyrically + comedy and tragedy. Great reply Ian!
Love Jethro Tull music !!!!!!!!!!
Ian Anderson is !!!! rock ‘n’ roll Hall of Fame !!!!!!!!
I’m a huge Jethro Tull/Ian Anderson fan and an American. Personally I have little regard for the
“Rock and Roll Hall of Fame”. It seems they’ve gone the way of so many arts and entertainment
award institutions. Politics and political correctness along with the fluff of commercialism have
diluted their credibility, like the Academy Awards etc.
I couldn’t help but notice the how a number of times Mr. Anderson went searching for words.
That’s so uncharacteristic of him. He’s always been so spot on articulate.
Passion Play is only a Cig paper width behind Brick and Aqualung...great album
i love stand up , benefit
He should be in the R&R hall of fame a long time ago!!
Jethro Tull rich legacy speaks/sounds for itself. One of the major Rock/Progressive bands ever.
When the album aqualung came out it really impressed me from its acoustic lean to the electric sound I thought act along with a masterpiece
Jethro Tull has to be in the hall of fame even if Ian Anderson doesn't want to but his fans want it 🙏🏽👍🏾
RRHOF is not an American Institution. It's music politics. Always good to avoid politics in any discussion. Asking an artist about the Hall Of Fame is applying some value to the institution.
Agreed, it goes right along with the totalitarianism of woke politics. I will never watch their show again or pay any attention to their nonsense
It's not the Rock and Roll hall of Fame, it's the Rolling Stone magazine Hall of Fame. If you stay in contact with Ian, please tell him in high school I was a flutist, (I still have my Gemeinhardt) and I would warm up to "Something's on the move" from the JT album "Stormwatch".
I’ve said that very same thing
They've never warmed up the kind of music that Jethro Tull plays for the most part.
That is an incredible album.
Saw the Tull in MLG in the '90's. Great show. Class act. Ian made it clear to the audience not to request songs... just sit back & be entertained... and we were.
Can’t take away from tulls greatness.
They should have been in there years ago.
Ian y our music is so great.. Long time fan.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has inducted Madonna and a slew of rappers but won't induct Jethro Tull mainly because the Hall looks down on white male progressive bands from the seventies and seeks to nominate recording artists of different backgrounds whose music is not rock and roll (and sometimes not even music) in the interest of "diversity." There, I said it.
Well said
And you would be right, salute to you my friend
what a hateful comment! but expected in this day and age!
Madonna was a force at one time, but rappers? Their crap all sounds the same
@@mapp4751 truth sometimes sounds hateful
Agree Passion Play was a top tier along with Benefit and Stand Up with Living in the Past..all great creative pieces of Unusual subject matter musically sound
Glad APP was brought up. It has become, hands down my favorite JT album- previously held by either TAAB or Stand Up. The musical complexity in APP is deeply involving and with my high end kit sounds fantastic- I particularly like the Steve Wilson MQA version.
My favorite too. Brilliant, underrated masterpiece.
The Wilson version is outright dreadful. Dry sound, wrong vocal track in one place, the Chateau recordings that were finished in 1993 reduced to the unfinished backing tracks of 1972.
I saw jethro tull live in about 2004...amazing
Like I do of most bands...I prefer the early music the most. I saw Tull perform Passion Play in Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City NJ. The critics were very cinical of Passion Play at the time. Very hard on it. Said it was a big mistake. However I thoroughly enjoyed the show and the album. I always loved the artistry of the British bands. Quite a bit different from Americans. Early Genesis, Rick Wakeman, Moody Blues and the like. And as far as The Hall of Fame goes...it took what 30 years for the Moody Blues to get in? Please....Makes the organization rediculous in my opinion.
People who are called "critics" in any area of arts, but especially in rock music, are a bunch who have a very limited outlook, who cannot judge properly and have no idea about themselves, but just think they know the best!!!! Just like politicians!!! They are completely ridiculous and even more so because they take themselves seriously 🤣🤣🤣🤣 there are so many examples. Whoever does not appriciate what great music A Passion Play is, has absolutely no idea of what great art is. Then again, appreciation requires several criteria, the most important being true and genuine interest, and even passion, towards the work of art itself. These are hard to come by, and so history is full of unqualified people's wrong assumptions...Time almost always shows how wrong they were/are.
Jethro tull not being in the hall along with grand funk railroad, steppenwolf, Tommy James, scorpions, Savoy brown, foghat, monkees,and pat benatar to name a few deserving acts
scratching my head at this one.
Ian is too polite and humble to state the real reasons why Jethro Tull probably won't be inducted, and it is because increasingly fewer rock acts are being added. We are seeing rappers like Jay-Z and Puff Daddy, as well as performers from other genres, like Whitney Houston, who may have been extremely talented but had absolutely no connection to rock music, and yet they've been inducted. That's less of a reflection of the wishes of Tull fans, and more the result of decisions by big money managers behind the institution. Perhaps some of them have never even heard of Tull! So for obvious reasons, I don't take the Hall of Fame too seriously, because it's certainly not an all-encompassing appreciation of the best of rock music. Either way, Tull remains one of my all-time favorite rock bands.
What about Madonna,Duran Duran,and so many others that have no connection to Rock and Roll directly or indirectly?
@@mapp4751 I agree with you, but at least these two artists had a slight crossover appeal. I actually really like Ordinary World, by Duran Duran- the guitar solo reminds me so much of Steve Hackett during the classic days of Genesis. And Madonna's Perfect Stranger has a flute solo ending that Ian Anderson probably likes! That doesn't qualify either of these groups for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but just sayin'...
@@stuarthecht8196 "Just sayin' "........one of the dumbest and annoying phrases used to qualify something that someone is......wait for it............... just saying
I had no idea Tull wasn't in the Hall of Fame. They should have been inducted decades ago. WTF???
Brilliant, ANDERSONS ROCK thats why.
Jethro Tull is a band from other galaxy , the RRHF is just for bands in the Earth planet . At Andromeda Galaxy the Rock Hall Jethro Tull is number 1.
Many Americans, myself included, would be very pleased to find Jethro Tull and Ian Anderson nominated to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Failure of that to happen will have absolutely no effect on our appreciation of their music, which is quite high.
I’m with Steve Miller on the RRHOF
"Stand Up " is my favorites Lp.
Ian pissed off the critics back in the 70's and those people are keeping them out of the hall of fame.
Rock and roll hall of fame lost all credibility the minute the first Rap or Pop act was inducted.
yes sir!
Rock&roll is pop music rap is garbage
@Popeye - L.O.L!!!! I asked one of my nephews, who played trombone in High School band if rap required a lot of musical talent. His reply, " Not Really.".
There are now people in the RRHOF who can't sing or play a musical instrument.
@@markl8307 or write !
He makes an interesting point. I guess it's easy to mindlessly believe anything from the USA is synonymous with your own identity or culture. For example in Australia most of our tv shows are American, so our whole lives we're immersed by an identity that isn't ours and insidiously adopt these into our image of the world and understanding of history. JT is bang on.
His point is the truth itself. I am saying this because I and people who think like me realised this few years back. They are promoting and honouring those who contribute to their own values. Well, it's their country and they can do as they wish. The problem is what you say next: mindlessly believe anything from the states....etc etc. This, ı belive is very unfortunate for the whole world. In my country, not so much now, but before, there used to be all sorts of american series and shows. However, there were also British series and documentaries. I grew up with them. We should all be selective as to what we read and watch, not be enslaved to just one cultures' dominance. I must say that it surprised me to learn most of your tv shows are american! I personally do not watch tv as it is anymore but choose what to watch myself online..youtube...etc..sorry for writing so much but what you said resonated with me..All the best.
I agree with you completely.
Imagine how is it in a no english language country...
That is strange,, here in the states, our television had very little foreign shows..I do remember benny hill, prisoner cell block h,, and hockey night in Canada..that's about it,, until cable and satellite came out.
When Rush, Genesis and Yes have to wait so long to get in, long after obscure and talentless American artists, you realise that the Hall of Fame is something of zero value.
Bands like Kansas, Styx and Boston are still not in, so it’s not just U.K. bands who are ignored also!
Ian is pretty diplomatic about it, but I'm sure it pisses him off. For some reason, Rock historians look at Tull as kind of a joke. The hell with them, Tull is still my all-time favorite band. Ian and Martin (guitar player) were an iconic duo on stage and on record.
Each year I check to see who’s inducted, and each year it becomes more and more clear…. Tull is, and always will be, the biggest snub of all time
I never met a JT fan who didn't think Passion Play was just incredible and a favorite.
Passion Play is a MASTERPIECE.
But I almost shit when he said 'Aqualung' was a tier 2... then corrected himself.
When you see some of the Shite that are in the RRHF it's criminal that the Brilliant Ian Anderson and Jethro Tull are not.
A true artist, performer, and alright dude! Who is Run DMZ? A rock band?
Hall of fame.....Hall of shame. Ian Anderson doesn't need the Hall! He's got a genuine fan base. I've been a Tull fan for over 50yrs and had the distinct pleasure of seeing Jethro Tull seven times in the 70's. Seen a lot of bands but nothing compares to Tull.
Ian probably voiced these before- in some other interviews but it's the first time I've heard him say this. So glad that he did, as it's exactly what happens at R&R hall of fame..ok, they can do what they like in their own country but they are in no way an authority on rock music. I, personally, don't give a toss about who they induct or not. In fact, yes, as Ian says, they should not induct JT because Tull encompasses too many genres and in general too much variety for what R&R Hall of Fame promotes. On top of that, the institution's main (if not only) motive is commercial. Good artists themselves know very well what is what, and so do some well-informed fans. It is critics who don't.
I can say, Mr. Anderson. As an American born in '64, your music (Living in the Past, Bungle..., Aqualung) was all over USA radio!🗿
He's being incredibly modest and restrained. Jethro Tull not being in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, would be like Jimmie Foxx not being in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
We all know the RRHOF is a political joke. The omission of Jethro Tull is proof in itself.
Ian is being way too nice about this, being more diplomatic than the "Hall of Fame" deserves. He should have just said "It's an absolute joke", and left it at that.
Well, in a way he did, his body language spoke volumes. Many of his British colleagues have been inducted and diplomacy is understandable.
It's sad that the Hall will only nominate artists if they are interested. It should be a surprise.
But you see, you see Steve, it’s only Solitaire................ They should have been in the Rock n Roll hall of fame years ago.
But, you see, you’re wrong, Stevens.
Simon Le Bon summed this up perfectly last year.. Every band that isn't in the Hall says it doesn't matter if they get in and it's stupid and they don't care at all about it.. But then you get nominated and it's the most important thing in the world and when you get inducted it's like getting knighted in music form.. Perfectly said 👍
Could you do an interview with Barriemore Barlow? The Tull Rhythm section of Barriemore and John Glascock was one of the scariest, most virtuosic in Rock. John Glascock RIP...
It's sad but I feel the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has gone down the same road as the Grammy yes I played guitar mandolin violin dream someday of writing a song worthy enough to be nominated on the Grammys. But anymore it seems it's gotten so bad I don't even watch it. To me most of the songs that are nominated are not even music. I'm sorry I don't mean to hurt anyone's feelings. But I have to say what I feel...
I've been following Ian Anderson and listening to Jethro Tull for 50 years and it's sad to say that looks Ian Anderson's grandfather. He is really on the decline. He is one of the greatest composers of the 20th century and Passion Play may be my favorite album. The construction of the passages and how they transition from one theme to the next is so beautiful. It takes an enormous amount of talent to write something like that.
Correction: He is one of the greatest yet underappreciated composers of the 20th century.
50 years makes you look like a grandfather
@@markl8307Plus, a bunch of other guys that make up a band.
They all say they don't care about the hall of fame and yet when they're voted in they all show up. With maybe a couple of exceptions.
For some reason I really love this. Ian Anderson is one of the few smart people in music when it comes to his view of the Hall of Fame. Granted I have some of my favorite bands in the Hof but sadly it has become too politicized and seems to only let in members who line up with their political ideology. Ian Anderson seems to rub against this and the notion that it is only for American music. I've never been a big Jethro Tull fan except for a few songs, but Ian is spot on here.
" I have no time for Time Magazine or Rolling Stone".....Not even for Hall of Fame.
Well put
Let’s call the rock n roll hall of fame what it is....it’s the rolling stone magazine hall of fame.
Almost all British rock vocalists sound American when they sing - including Ian Anderson, much to his delight.
The Rock Hall has certainly lost much of its luster and street-cred with tried and true Rock purists in recent years
I would disagree that the Hall is American bands-biased, however being in Cleveland, American bands and artists dominate the inductions. British groups are well very well represented as well and, in my opinion, Jethro Tull/Ian Anderson should have a seat with the group of elite bands.
The outfits are so small was the same reaction I had. I also find his idea of what the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is about odd.
A Passion Play is solidly tier1 prog album, the best Tull ever made.
To have thought, wrote, & sung Like ''The Tull'' well now...
''There are artists who'll wrest us up & place us into themselves; into their works.
These are the very One's who'll continue wresting us up...
Far and beyond their appointed rests in peace; period!''
-gilpin 42621
It’s not entirely about Americana. It’s mostly politics. No Johnny Rivers. No Grand Funk. No Ted Nugent.
Ted is in the deluded, bucktoothed douchebag hall of fame.
rr hof is a joke, no tull, no j geils, no marshall tucker, no grand fuNk but cheap trick, the police and donna summer? I WOULD NOT GO TO THE 'RR' HOF FOR ALL THE TEA..
The Rock n Roll Hall of Fame has got zero credibility. Full Stop.
Jethro Tull rules!!!
Jethro Tull? 3 of the best shows I ever saw and heard. R&R Hall of Fame? Just a commercial endeavor. Never thought of it as American. Thought of it as participants in Rock and Roll. Wrong about that I guess.
Jethro Tull, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Foreigner, Kansas- we could be hear all day the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a joke it's a joke. When you have Jay-Z who was last in the fan voting for the whole time and yet he gets in over Iron Maiden you know it's corrupt.
It’s not corrupt - it’s run by dudes who have no clue what rock ‘n’ roll is.
The Brits lit a flame under the butts of American Rock and Roll who were stuck on Elvis and it's type. Black Rhythm and Blues was an influence on the Brits who were more open minded when it came to LISTENING to all types of music.
Joe Cocker, Jethro Tull, Ozzy, ELP, Spirit, Judas Priest, Soundgarden, Warren Zevon, Mott The Hoople, Johnny and Edgar Winter, UFO...all nays.
But Donna Summer and Whitney Houston? HELL YEAH!!! They were ROCKERS!!!
I would say Ian and Jethro Tull being in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame should be an insult to Ian and Jethro Tull. Some of the garbage honored in that institution can't hold a candle to Tull. Tull is way above them and way beyond their musical abilities.
Translation: Tull is not liked by the business people who really make up the RR HOF’s decisions. Ian will therefore say he really doesn’t care.
Which is why they are not in the Hall
Nice how you interpret what Ian Anderson has to say about being inducted into the RRHF to suit the way YOU would feel about it.
It doesn't make any sense to me that Jethro Tull isn't in the R&R Hall of Fame! I think it's a huge oversight!
They've sold 60 million albums worldwide, with 11 gold and five platinum! That alone should be enough, but I also think the fact that they had such a unique sound should give them an edge too! The R&R Hall loses respect by omitting J.T.!
Tull catalogue is better than the Beatles.
Anderson is a genius.
He is bigger than to be lumped in with rappers.
It took the Rock and Roll hall of Fame nearly 15 years of eligibility to induct Rush. Piss on them. Who cares?
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is not good enough for Jethro Tull. They're too good for that trivial institution.
Jethro Tull, King Crimson, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, VDGG, Bowie, Velvet Underground, Traffic, Who, John Mayall, Johnny Cash, Stones, Roxy Music, Dire Straits..... MUSIC
Ian was very kind here. The RR HOF people who decide who gets in are idiots. But no matter, Ian and the band do not need validation from them. They get it from us fans and their own enjoyment. They are and will always be my favorite band. iarocks = Ian Anderson Rocks. LOL
The Rock and Roll Hall of Shame
😅a so-called band like bon Jovi is in the RHF,there is no more to say
To my knowledge JT has only played APP one other time and that was the Minstrel in the Gallery tour. Little wonder....Ian you were being kind. APP should be in tier 4. Songs to be forgotten much less ever played. After This Was, Stand Up, Benefit, Aqualung, and Thick as a Brick we got this ice pick to the ear drums known as APP.
Why is he dissing his fellow English musicians when Pink Floyd is in the Rock hall of fame? They don’t sing about “Americana”. Jethro Tull / Ian Anderson should definitely be in the RnR hall of fame.
RRHoF is An American Institution? I thought they were there to cover ALL Of It From Everywhere ! Especially Great Brittian. Tull Is Classic Rock as much as Zeppelin, Sabbath, Bowie and Aerosmith.
The hall of fame has little to do with quality of an artist, number of records sold, longevity, how many songs written, or how hard an artists works, or how many live performances they have given ...and even has little to do with the rock genre! What a meaningless organization.
Four shows hav been
Sex Pistols gave the best response to the rock n roll hall of shame
The R&R hall of fame is a joke
The Rock n' Roll HOF is an utter joke, been there and it was a complete waste of time and money. Even the building is a joke....it looks ridiculous.
It doesn't really matter if JT is inducted or not. I do think there is a level of disappointment on Ian's part, no matter what he says. I can hear it in his voice. But maybe he's also resigned and happy where they are at and he should be. His band is renowned. And always will be.
I was at the RRHF years ago myself and they did have some Jethro Tull memorabilia and mentioned Ian's flute playing. Not sure if they have that anymore.
Ask him about the Jethro Tull song The Eagles stole for Hotel California! Open that can of worms!
We use to know!
The RnR HoF is not real.