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Post by JTull 007 on Aug 31, 2022 22:37:49 GMT
The Lunchbox - Ian Anderson itvw pt1 26/08/2022 20:24
LINK 1 Steps chats with the enigmatic and truly fantastic front man of Jethro Tull
In the first of this two-part interview,
I get to spend time with the incredible Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull.
This interview is chock-a-block with anecdotes and stories that are truly amazing to hear,
from seeing cigarette ash falling on Led Zeppelin master vinyl pressing to what we can expect
from future material and just why Jethro Tull have endured so well. And away we go…. The Lunchbox - Ian Anderson itvw pt2 29/08/2022 20:22
 LINK 2 Jethro Tull - Tours - Modern Music - Radio Luxembourg
…this is the second chapter of our conversation with Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull and, well,
have we got some topics to cover here… we discuss Jethro Tull’s licensing to film and
advertising, why Ian has no time for current music trends, how easy it is to embark on tours
– despite what you may have heard. We also cover the Jethro Tull live experience in 2022
and how that differs from previous years. To top it all off,
Ian lets us know just how vital Radio Luxembourg was in his formative years.
This is quite some chat… (image: Crystal Spotlight - Rob Sarkin)
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Post by tullabye on Sept 1, 2022 3:39:16 GMT
I got what I wanted. Great to get confirmation on the new album due for release in April of 23. Working on last three tracks.
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Post by bunkerfan on Oct 10, 2022 8:55:09 GMT
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Post by steelmonkey on Oct 13, 2022 23:58:09 GMT
Hurry April.
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Post by JTull 007 on Oct 31, 2022 1:00:10 GMT
On the eve of the expected concerts in Switzerland
(Lugano on 27.11, Zurich on 28.11) Ian Anderson, historical leader
of the legendary Jethro Tull talks to Gian Luca Verga's microphone.
Over 50 years of artistic career underlined by epic records, such as "Aqualung" or "Thick as a brick",
interpreters of a very successful "progressive" that sinks into blues and folk, the artistic vitality
of Scottish artist and the band does not cease to appear both live and compositionally.
The last, excellent album "The Zealot gene" (others are in preparation) is in 2022,
just as the desire and need to be able to express themselves on the stages of the world
to share their fascinating sound universe is always incessant. Ian Anderson also talks about
the new album, concerts and music with that “British spirit” which is a true trademark.
By Gian Luca Verga
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Post by JTull 007 on Nov 10, 2022 11:51:44 GMT
 Interview with Ian Anderson - Montreal November 9th 1992 This is an interview with Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull recorded a few hours
before the band's show in Montreal, November 9th 1992 (30 years ago today). Report and review by Geneviève Borne on the Jethro Tull show that took place on
November 9, 1992, broadcast as part of the program Fax (MusiquePlus, November 10, 1992)
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Post by JTull 007 on Dec 7, 2022 18:37:59 GMT
Ready To Pounce -- Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull  LINK 1 LINK 2  There are relatively few songs in the world that bring a knowing smile to your face
in the first few notes, and Ian Anderson of legendary band Jethro Tull
has written and performed more than a few of them.
From the gallows humor of ‘Aqualung’ to the urgent, demanding cords of “Locomotive Breath”
Ian has sometimes been referred to as the ‘mad minstrel’ with a unique mix of hard rock,
epic-poem lyrics, and, of course, the flute. Probably one of the few—if only--bands that
can described as ‘Renaissance Rock’, Jethro Tull has been playing nonstop, worldwide,
for over 40 years, with Ian still at the helm.
Pets In the City spoke to Ian just a couple of weeks before his trip back to the ‘colonies’
this fall, where he will be playing a mix of classic Tull favorites as well as some of his solo works.
It turns out that not only does Ian love music, but cats as well.
And we mean really loves them, both domestic and wild, devoting efforts to the conservation
of some of these beasts in their natural habitats. You’re going to download this interview,
featuring both Jethro Tull and solo Ian Anderson song classics mixed throughout, right
on your playlist. Get ready, New Yorkers—he’ll be at the Beacon Theater live on October 13th. 
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Post by JTull 007 on Feb 9, 2023 11:33:05 GMT
Ian Anderson in Mexico City (29, March 2004) Video by Mark Castle
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Post by JTull 007 on Feb 20, 2023 1:10:09 GMT
Free download on Mp3 LINK
The Blue Hour #267 GUEST Ian Anderson 1 hour 27 minutes  Serdar Somuncu has invited a very interesting guest this time:
Ian Anderson is primarily the front man, singer and flutist of the British rock band Jethro Tull.
But he is also an observer and a thoughtful person. But above all, as he says himself,
mentally he is still a seven-year-old boy. Serdar was about a year old when Ian made
his first trip to Germany. The two talk to each other about aging with dignity,
about music in the course of generations and about the times in which we live.
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Post by samatcn on Feb 20, 2023 21:57:43 GMT
This was well worth the listen! The scoop (or the tl;dr as the kids say) is that IA plans another album for october 2024. Also many tidbits on RökFlöte, including pronounciations!
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Post by jackinthegreen on Feb 21, 2023 0:21:26 GMT
Ian seemed pretty chilled, it was a not bad interview...... |
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Post by jackinthegreen on Feb 21, 2023 0:31:17 GMT
This was well worth the listen! The scoop (or the tl;dr as the kids say) is that IA plans another album for october 2024. Also many tidbits on RökFlöte, including pronounciations! Hmmmmm, I worry that all these things will start to sound the same  although there is usually something special there.......  If I think back to when I got into the band, the first album I bought, as it appeared, was Aqualung 1971......I then looked back in time and got the earlier ones......then when they came out all the rest. You know what?  ? They were all different!!! They were all amazing too.......but they took time to write, and the music has to come from somewhere else...... Don't rush out stuff Ian, you have already left a huge legacy |
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Post by bunkerfan on Feb 21, 2023 12:08:58 GMT
This was well worth the listen! The scoop (or the tl;dr as the kids say) is that IA plans another album for october 2024. Also many tidbits on RökFlöte, including pronounciations! Hmmmmm, I worry that all these things will start to sound the same although there is usually something special there....... If I think back to when I got into the band, the first album I bought, as it appeared, was Aqualung 1971......I then looked back in time and got the earlier ones......then when they came out all the rest. You know what? ? They were all different!!! They were all amazing too.......but they took time to write, and the music has to come from somewhere else...... Don't rush out stuff Ian, you have already left a huge legacy I agree jackinthegreen. Like you Aqualung was also the first Tull album I bought and then bought the previous LPs and you're right, in there own way they're all different. Now hearing the new stuff I can pick out sounds from recent albums like Homo Erraticus. Saying that, I'm still looking forward to the new album with a hope that I hear some new sounds that I don't compare with Ian's recent stuff  |
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Post by jackinthegreen on Feb 21, 2023 15:53:43 GMT
Hmmmmm, I worry that all these things will start to sound the same although there is usually something special there....... If I think back to when I got into the band, the first album I bought, as it appeared, was Aqualung 1971......I then looked back in time and got the earlier ones......then when they came out all the rest. You know what? ? They were all different!!! They were all amazing too.......but they took time to write, and the music has to come from somewhere else...... Don't rush out stuff Ian, you have already left a huge legacy I agree jackinthegreen. Like you Aqualung was also the first Tull album I bought and then bought the previous LPs and you're right, in there own way they're all different. Now hearing the new stuff I can pick out sounds from recent albums like Homo Erraticus. Saying that, I'm still looking forward to the new album with a hope that I hear some new sounds that I don't compare with Ian's recent stuff My thoughts exactly bunkerfan |
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Post by samatcn on Feb 22, 2023 14:35:47 GMT
Hmmmmm, I worry that all these things will start to sound the same although there is usually something special there....... If I think back to when I got into the band, the first album I bought, as it appeared, was Aqualung 1971......I then looked back in time and got the earlier ones......then when they came out all the rest. You know what? ? They were all different!!! They were all amazing too.......but they took time to write, and the music has to come from somewhere else...... Don't rush out stuff Ian, you have already left a huge legacy I agree jackinthegreen. Like you Aqualung was also the first Tull album I bought and then bought the previous LPs and you're right, in there own way they're all different. Now hearing the new stuff I can pick out sounds from recent albums like Homo Erraticus. Saying that, I'm still looking forward to the new album with a hope that I hear some new sounds that I don't compare with Ian's recent stuff Well, I’m predisposed to liking the new stuff, I just find it so gladdening that he keeps on going in these painful times. I think RökFlöte sounds reasonably fresh so far, and I hope Ian gets his fill of rock so the next album can be a really different, acoustic one. With that said, you’re right of course that these later albums fall into a certain style. Part of that is the drummer I think. But the biggest part, obviously, is Ian’s vocal limitations. It’s like he has just a couple of melodic structures left that he can do, that end up being used in many songs. ”Fisherman of ephesus” sure sounds a lot like Homo Eratticus; the minor-key part of ”Ginnungagap” has a vocal melody that has been used with small variations countless times. But it is what it is, I don’t mind personally. |
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Post by tullabye on Feb 22, 2023 18:37:41 GMT
As Ian has mentioned, he really doesn’t have much time left to make albums so he has to get to work. I say “bring it on!” How lucky are we the fans to have been attracted to such a prolific artist. Nobody works harder.
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Post by JTull 007 on Mar 23, 2023 0:37:12 GMT
La Resistencia - Entrevista completa a Ian Anderson LINK    LINK 1 The first plaque to be installed in the show's history LINK 2 Jethro Tull tests oil and improvises with Grison in "The Resistance"
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Post by adospencer1 on Mar 23, 2023 7:05:26 GMT
Ten minutes wasted there for all of us. |
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Post by samatcn on Mar 23, 2023 19:28:02 GMT
Ten minutes wasted there for all of us. You know what, I was about to quibble with you again, but you’re spot-on. That was tough to sit through, not really Ian’s fault though. That’s exactly the kind of interview I would hate to be a part of 😅 |
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Post by JTull 007 on Mar 24, 2023 1:24:29 GMT
The first television late-late, with David Broncano
A Movistar Plus+ production in collaboration with El Terrat
David Broncano interviews the Scottish singer Ian Anderson who arrives
at La Resistencia to present his latest album after 20 years "The Zealot Gene'. ORIGINALLY AIRED March 17, 2022 LINK Although this is a Spanish tv show, I enjoyed the humour and improvisation which
Ian displays. The more I watch, the more Ian gets to show his own FUN SIDE
unlike other interviews
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Post by JTull 007 on Apr 2, 2023 14:31:31 GMT
Video by rendarte piaz
Ian Anderson(Jethro Tull) intervistato da Carlo Massarini
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Post by JTull 007 on Apr 4, 2023 1:05:24 GMT
Jethro Tull won’t be done any time soon, says Ian Anderson
They may have shot to fame 50 years ago with their unique sound and energy,
but frontman Ian Anderson tells Garry Bushell Jethro Tull won't be done any time soon.
By GARRY BUSHELL 00:01, Sun, Apr 2, 2023 LINK 
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Post by theothertull on Apr 7, 2023 21:23:07 GMT
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Post by JTull 007 on Apr 9, 2023 1:10:28 GMT
Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson:
‘If we appear bombastic and pompous, well — that’s OK’
LINK Ludovic Hunter-Tilney
 One of the creators of prog rock is returning with an ambitious album
about Norse mythology Ian Anderson won’t shake hands with me.
Professional caution is the reason, not haughtiness.
Jethro Tull’s leader, and rock’s most famous flautist, injured his hand
some years ago falling from a stage during a soundcheck.
Submit to the FT’s firm clasp and, ouch, flute fingering will be agony.
“A couple of burly Russians have done it in for a couple of days,”
he explains, holding up the delicate digits.
“And curiously enough, a lady oboist.
You might’ve thought she’d have known better.” We touch elbows instead.
Our location is the handsome 18th-century manor house in Wiltshire with
400 acres of land where Anderson lives with his wife, Shona.
We install ourselves at a dining table in a wood-panelled room lined with
framed antique prints of fish. Opposite me in this old-school tableau of rock
squirearchy sits the mastermind of one of the most successful British bands
from the 1970s — and also one of the most unfairly treated.
Founded in 1967, Jethro Tull were among the first wave of acts to be
dubbed “progressive rock”. Their setup was eccentric even by prog’s standards.
Anderson capered around the stage like a jester, pausing to play vigorous
flute solos standing on one leg. “A stork with St Vitus’s dance,”
the music press called him. His costumes involved faux-medieval garb including
a codpiece and an old overcoat his father had given him.
Untrained in music, the former art student was an inventive instrumentalist,
blowing riffs and solos on his flute as though it were an electric guitar.
He was also a fine vocalist, investing his erudite lyrics with baritone vibrancy.
Songs tackled ambitious concepts such as the themes of spiritual faith and
hypocrisy that Anderson addressed in 1971’s Aqualung, a big hit on both sides
of the Atlantic. Those were the days when a codpiece-wearing rocker with a line
in ribald stage chat could turn a fascination for comparative religion into
platinum records. “It’s dirty work but someone’s got to do it,” Anderson says jovially.
With an estimated 60mn album sales, Tull —
named after an Enlightenment-era agriculturist: a misprint made them “Jethro Toe”
for their first single — are still active. The bespectacled, goatee-bearded Anderson, 75,
is the only remaining original member. Last year’s The Zealot Gene was the first
Jethro Tull album to enter the UK top 10 since 1972.
And now comes a follow-up, RökFlöte.
“To go in with a blank canvas, or a blank mind, with no real idea of what’s going
to ooze out, is a good test to see if you have that stuff still flowing, or oozing,
as it comes rather slowly,” he says. His richly oratorical voice, a thing that both
oozes and flows, bears scant trace of the accents of his upbringing, first in Scotland,
then from the age of 12 in Blackpool, the Lancashire seaside resort.
“Let’s make a real rock-flute album,” he told himself when he began his new songs.
A day later, the idea had shifted to “Rök” — “meaning, in Old Icelandic, destiny” —
and “Flöte”, the German pronunciation of flute. “So you could be clever about it and
describe it as ‘The Flute of Destiny’, but I think that’s more of a Rick Wakeman
kind of thing,” he chuckles, tweaking the nose of his fellow prog grandee.
RökFlöte reverts to the classic sound of early 1970s Tull, before they took
a folkier turn, and then an electronic synthesiser-led one in the 1980s.
It’s inspired by Norse mythology, a topic he felt inhibited from writing about
because of their “heavy metal and ultra-right-wing associations,
complete with umlauts flying left, right and centre”.
But he came to realise that was a challenge, not an obstacle.
His own politics are hard to pin down. He’s a member of the Labour party,
he tells me, and also the Scottish National party. Hang on, I protest: you
can’t be a member of more than one. “Well, they don’t stop you,” he ripostes.
He’s also a member of the Liberal Democrats, and was a member of the
Conservative party until Boris Johnson’s 2019 election triumph, when his wife
“in a fury took the scissors to both of our Conservative party cards”.
Anderson is droll yet also takes himself seriously, a combination apt to
wrongfoot people. “As a songwriter I like words and I like having fun with words,”
he says. He distinguishes his tone from what he calls “Prince Harry songs” —
“rather introverted, pouring out of the soul, heart-on-sleeve stuff that
I’m not very good at doing because I’m not that kind of a person”.
Back when they were riding high with Aqualung, Jethro Tull attracted high praise
from critics. Anderson was compared to Mick Jagger for his onstage antics,
while the group’s combination of intelligence and zaniness was judged the equal
of Frank Zappa’s band The Mothers of Invention.
But the qualities that elevated Tull to the top tier were turned against them.
Ian Anderson won’t shake hands with me. Professional caution is the reason,
not haughtiness. Jethro Tull’s leader, and rock’s most famous flautist,
injured his hand some years ago falling from a stage during a soundcheck.
Submit to the FT’s firm clasp and, ouch, flute fingering will be agony.
“A couple of burly Russians have done it in for a couple of days,”
he explains, holding up the delicate digits. “And curiously enough, a lady oboist.
You might’ve thought she’d have known better.” We touch elbows instead.
Our location is the handsome 18th-century manor house in Wiltshire with
400 acres of land where Anderson lives with his wife, Shona.
We install ourselves at a dining table in a wood-panelled room lined with
framed antique prints of fish. Opposite me in this old-school tableau of
rock squirearchy sits the mastermind of one of the most successful
British bands from the 1970s — and also one of the most unfairly treated.
Founded in 1967, Jethro Tull were among the first wave of acts to be dubbed
“progressive rock”. Their setup was eccentric even by prog’s standards.
Anderson capered around the stage like a jester, pausing to play vigorous
flute solos standing on one leg. “A stork with St Vitus’s dance,”
the music press called him. His costumes involved faux-medieval garb
including a codpiece and an old overcoat his father had given him.
Untrained in music, the former art student was an inventive instrumentalist,
blowing riffs and solos on his flute as though it were an electric guitar.
He was also a fine vocalist, investing his erudite lyrics with baritone vibrancy.
Songs tackled ambitious concepts such as the themes of spiritual faith and
hypocrisy that Anderson addressed in 1971’s Aqualung, a big hit on both sides
of the Atlantic. Those were the days when a codpiece-wearing rocker with
a line in ribald stage chat could turn a fascination for comparative religion into
platinum records. “It’s dirty work but someone’s got to do it,” Anderson says jovially.
With an estimated 60mn album sales, Tull — named after an
Enlightenment-era agriculturist: a misprint made them “Jethro Toe”
for their first single — are still active. The bespectacled, goatee-bearded Anderson,
75, is the only remaining original member.
Last year’s The Zealot Gene was the first Jethro Tull album to enter
the UK top 10 since 1972. And now comes a follow-up, RökFlöte.
“To go in with a blank canvas, or a blank mind, with no real idea of what’s going
to ooze out, is a good test to see if you have that stuff still flowing, or oozing,
as it comes rather slowly,” he says. His richly oratorical voice, a thing that both
oozes and flows, bears scant trace of the accents of his upbringing,
first in Scotland, then from the age of 12 in Blackpool, the Lancashire seaside resort.
“Let’s make a real rock-flute album,” he told himself when he began his new songs.
A day later, the idea had shifted to “Rök” — “meaning, in Old Icelandic,
destiny” — and “Flöte”, the German pronunciation of flute.
“So you could be clever about it and describe it as ‘The Flute of Destiny’,
but I think that’s more of a Rick Wakeman kind of thing,”
he chuckles, tweaking the nose of his fellow prog grandee.
RökFlöte reverts to the classic sound of early 1970s Tull, before they took a
folkier turn, and then an electronic synthesiser-led one in the 1980s.
It’s inspired by Norse mythology, a topic he felt inhibited from writing about
because of their “heavy metal and ultra-right-wing associations,
complete with umlauts flying left, right and centre”.
But he came to realise that was a challenge, not an obstacle.
His own politics are hard to pin down. He’s a member of the Labour party,
he tells me, and also the Scottish National party. Hang on, I protest:
you can’t be a member of more than one. “Well, they don’t stop you,” he ripostes.
He’s also a member of the Liberal Democrats, and was a member of
the Conservative party until Boris Johnson’s 2019 election triumph,
when his wife “in a fury took the scissors to both of our Conservative party cards”.
Anderson is droll yet also takes himself seriously, a combination apt to wrongfoot people.
“As a songwriter I like words and I like having fun with words,” he says.
He distinguishes his tone from what he calls “Prince Harry songs” —
“rather introverted, pouring out of the soul, heart-on-sleeve stuff that
I’m not very good at doing because I’m not that kind of a person”.
Back when they were riding high with Aqualung, Jethro Tull attracted high praise
from critics. Anderson was compared to Mick Jagger for his onstage antics,
while the group’s combination of intelligence and zaniness was judged the equal
of Frank Zappa’s band The Mothers of Invention.
But the qualities that elevated Tull to the top tier were turned against them.
The abuse meted out to 1973’s A Passion Play marked the turning point.
The story of a dead man in the afterlife, it reached number one in the US but was
assailed by reviewers, capriciously attacking the same dauntlessness that they
had before applauded. A few years later, punk’s Jacobins administered a further kicking.
Anderson and his merry band were caricatured
as all that was most absurd and contemptible about prog rock.
“I got used to being hammered by the press,” he says. The vitriol was particularly
pointed in his case, however. “The man’s ego and pretensions are staggering,”
one of A Passion Play’s reviewers sniped. “He doesn’t write mere songs anymore,
he writes Homeric legends. Except he’s not Homer.” Anderson professes equanimity
about these rhetorical assaults. “Some of the worst reviews I’ve ever had I thought,
well, yup, fair point,” he says. “That’s not a difficult thing for me.
I’m not one of those people who finds it difficult to apologise or admit to making mistakes.”
In 2011, he parted ways with Jethro Tull’s other longest-serving member,
the guitarist Martin Barre. It seemed as though the band was at an end,
until Anderson reactivated it without Barre later in the 2010s.
Purists rue the absence of his former foil, but Anderson shrugs off their concerns.
“It’s a very important relationship that we had for a very long time,” he says.
“But Martin has been doing what I was telling him to do for I don’t know how long,
trying to develop his own career and songwriting. It’s a thankless job spending your
entire life being the equivalent of first violinist in a symphony orchestra.
You may be a really important guy but you’re just playing what somebody else has written.”
He recognises that his voice isn’t what it was.
A rationed high E is the uppermost note he can reach in gigs these days.
“I get it most of the time!” But the questing spirit of Jethro Tull endures.
“It would be a very dull world if people like me didn’t just push things
a bit too far for our own good,” Anderson says. “If we appear bombastic
and pompous and arrogant and self-indulgent, well — that’s OK,
I don’t have a problem with that, just let me get on with it. I haven’t got long
to go. We’re near the end! ‘RökFlöte’ is released on April 21 by Inside Out Music.
Jethro Tull play Shepherd’s Bush Empire in London on May 23, jethrotull.com
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Post by JTull 007 on Apr 13, 2023 1:11:08 GMT
Interview with Ian Anderson about the upcoming Jethro Tull album "Rökflöte" Successful press day for Jethro Tull's upcoming album "RökFlöte" is in the books 🙌
Thanks to all media involved and of course to Mr Ian Anderson for coming down
to Berlin to do this! The album will drop on April 21 via Inside Out Music🧢
📷Markus Brandstetter Fb LINK 
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Post by bunkerfan on Apr 19, 2023 9:47:29 GMT
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Post by jackinthegreen on Apr 19, 2023 13:19:07 GMT
Nice interview |
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Post by samatcn on Apr 19, 2023 15:49:59 GMT
This is a good one I think!
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Post by woodsongs on Apr 19, 2023 17:24:43 GMT
This is a good one I think! Barry from 'Classic Album Review' is a massive Tull fan. That's a great interview. |
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Post by JTull 007 on Jul 26, 2023 10:36:34 GMT
Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson: TIDAL Backstory Interview LINKNorse mythology! Marathon writing and recording sessions! Dysentery and scabies and
bed bugs! The legendary prog-rocker tells the tales behind his essential music —
from Aqualung and Thick as a Brick to this year’s RökFlöte.
July 14, 2023 by Morgan Enos
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Interview with Ian Anderson - Montreal November 9th 1992 
although there is usually something special there....... 
? They were all different!!!
