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Post by JTull 007 on Apr 16, 2014 12:54:15 GMT
Solo... So What?
This is 2014 and life is short. Let Martin be Jethro Tull's Martin Barre, let Ian be Mr. Tull.
I have no problems with either choices and always have more to choose from. Crank it up!
p.s. I can still call it TULL 2014 
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Post by rredmond on Apr 16, 2014 13:09:04 GMT
I guess I see them as two Jethro Tull groups now. But still I'd like to see Martin and Ian team up again someday... it just looks like that ever happening is becoming less and less of a possibility.  Not sure why that bothers me. --Ron-- |
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Post by Equus on Apr 16, 2014 17:30:13 GMT
Solo... So What?
This is 2014 and life is short. Let Martin be Jethro Tull's Martin Barre, let Ian be Mr. Tull.
I have no problems with either choices and always have more to choose from. Crank it up!
p.s. I can still call it TULL 2014 Not surprisingly I agree!  And sometimes wonderful people needs to part, in order to rediscover that precious spark of genius, and creativity again... and we can always call it Tull, even if Ian chooses to call it something else... |
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Post by nonrabbit on Apr 17, 2014 6:13:05 GMT
As things are moving at a fast pace in TullWorld my apologies if this has been posted recently. Skype interview with Ian www.etonline.com/music/145338_Jethro_Tull_Wandering_Walking_Dead_Connection_Homo_Erraticus/"There's clearly a Walking Dead influence on Anderson's new song Enter the Uninvited, which compares the European invasion of Romans, Saxons and Vikings to the omnipresent invasion of pop culture iconography, from current fast-food franchises to binge-watching TV.." |
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 17, 2014 9:42:22 GMT
www.welt.de/ and, wait for it . . . . . translated by our good friends @ google "The Pet Shop Boys should into the salt mine" Ian Anderson, frontman of Jethro Tull, backed with "Homo erraticus" once again a solo album before: it treats the British history. In the interview, Anderson explains why education is so important. Lösl By Michael 30 years ago, Ian Anderson wanted to sound contemporary, but synth- pop with flute nobody wanted to hear from Jethro Tull. On his new solo album "Homo erraticus" sounds without Anderson Jethro Tull, as if he were Jethro Tull on the track. His Übervölkerungs theories he set to music with progressive rock -mannerisms. Perhaps, in order to prevent forced labor in a Russian salt mine. The World: Where the English rock aristocracy lives presently preferred? Ian Anderson: I also like to know. In the relatively large county of Wiltshire only Peter Gabriel, Sting and I live. A tourism argument is not Rockstar population here. The World: You forgot Andy Partridge of XTC. Anderson: Yeah, who lives not far from me in Swindon. Certain phases of English pop music opened up to me 30 years later. The synth-pop phase of the very early 80s, I think in retrospect for a golden age of English pop music. The World: Really? The idea of the pipe-smoking Ian Anderson, who schwoft to "Tainted Love" by Soft Cell falls exceedingly difficult. Anderson: Just Marc Almond and Gary Numan's synthesized pop affinities I find really really good. A dancer I am therefore not yet become. That Pop can be understood only by pronounced dancers, I think is foolish. The World: Then you would have liked the Pet Shop Boys. Anderson: I wish that the Pet Shop Boys are sent to the office to work in a Russian salt mine. I like not the music. The World: Oh dear, what have you done? Anderson: The singer is unbearable. This whining and howling. Horrible. The World: Some people think the Pet Shop Boys for pop artists. Anderson: So the types of Duran Duran felt also determined. I understand art something other than pop with footnotes. The World: The started with you but already with the naming your band Jethro Tull on. Anderson: you mix the right moment to my guilt. I spent considerable time in the afternoon on Google and was looking for a copy of the book by the man who was called Jethro Tull and an agricultural pioneer was. His inventions take today, 270 years later. But the entry of his name on Google provides the ratio of 9 to 1 search results to me or the band. It is shameful. The World: In the Internet age is called your misdemeanor identity theft. Anderson: I found the credit card of Mr. Tull, got me his PIN and cleared their account yet. I have made tons of money with the theft of his name and I feel really bad about it more and more. The World: The name fit yet so wonderfully quirky to the timings that you had written for Jethro Tull. Anderson: "Living In The Past" was intended as a parody of a pop song and "Thick As A Brick" was a similar to the bombastic concept albums of the early 70s. Both were what they should not be. The World: Did Ian Anderson to be a millionaire business owner? Anderson: I admired as a teenager, old, sad men who complained and thereby accompanied on the guitar. Some of them were already dead when I heard their records for the first time. At that time I did not think to get rich. The World: Later you strutted very capricious with silver-colored jockstraps on the stage. Anderson: Still, I'm my wife's parents accepted as a future son. In retrospect, that was a performance of them. I was ... The World: An extremely vain peacock? Anderson: The vanity, the greedy vultures. The World: The fact that you are well versed in English literature, is not surprising. That you leave 8040 years history on your new album in nearly 53 minutes is bold. Anderson: So what can only be achieved with progressive rock. The World: Is the corresponding translation of Progressive Rock non-musical self-indulgence? Anderson: When you think of the early Yes and Genesis, one is with the definition probably not wrong. The World: And Ian Anderson? Anderson: I plead guilty in phases. With the flute, with intricate meters and with mandolins in complex time signatures. The World: Did not you sometimes feel to have become discounters your own musical trademark? Anderson: There were times when you wanted to persuade musicians of my generation, to have become redundant part of the music scene. The World: You mean punk ? Anderson: No, I mean the 80s with their mass dance videos. It was an epidemic and of course fit our band not in time. The World: 1989 Jethro Tull won a Grammy. Anderson: For the best Heavy Metal album of the year. Metallica fans hate Jethro Tull today for it. The World: For you, the circle around the English rock music recycling experts Steven Wilson won exceedingly fond. Anderson: I'm telling you, the encouragement of a young generation of rock musicians do well. Why should today be slightly worse than 40 years ago, when it follows the same quality? However, I have never really thought of myself as uninvited guest at the Music Circus. As long as there are people who buy concert tickets to want to hear your music, you wander around the world. The World: To the hiking you go to your new drive. If an album is not much to small for the migration? Anderson: I'm warning yes only of the danger that one day 70 million Britons will walk in your area, because they can not stand the ice that will cover their home. I tell you, that is not funny. The claw of sun spots of my compatriots on holiday islands will exclude, however harmless. The World: Access with your prophecies not that a bit high? Anderson: Look at the birth rates in Africa. Europe is its limits can not close forever because the standard of living beyond the Sahara the local birth rates simply can not withstand. The World: Tell the times your Prime Minister Cameron. Anderson: He, too, is up to the facts can not close, unless he is really stupid. The main weapon of Europe against overpopulation is education. With the we have to go through the world and educate women. Enlightened women opt usually for small families. They also insist on the respect due to them, rather than how children understand birthing machines in companies which hold at the Patriarchate. The World: Did you learn in the course of your historical research about your own background? Anderson: It would be presumptuous to claim that the Vikings, my ancestors, not just in Scotland appeared to kick the heads to which they entered upon their arrival. But I carry the genes in me. They brought their culture to Scotland. The name Anderson is Scandinavian. So I am one of the looters, the Scotland made their own. The World: Nevertheless, you are ashamed of the Namensklau to Mr Jethro Tull? Anderson: I was inattentive in history lessons, as our former agent suggested the band's name. The World: For now take it form now seemingly very seriously. Anderson: Because she is our only chance to live together reasonably civilized. But I can assure you, what you perceive when you listen to my new record, the educational opportunities that Wikipedia and Google are provide. While I do not believe everything we read there, but the great advantage of the Internet age is the extension of our knowledge at home. Education has always been my greatest pleasure. The World: Stand the Witty therefore in your music always above your belly feeling that ultimately makes up pop? Anderson: Perhaps the old dream of mankind, to find the means for immortality behind it. The World: Is music immortal? Anderson: Beethoven and I have at least made the right career choice. As a player of Bayern Munich, we could not possibly work as long as we did.
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 18, 2014 9:08:02 GMT
Apologies if a re-post Ian Anderson, by any other name
Is it time for Jethro Tull to live in the past?by Bill DeYoungwww.connectsavannah.com/Inexplicably ignored by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Britain's Jethro Tull made some of most innovative and sublime music of its generation. And Ian Anderson, from Day One the singing, songwriting and flute-playing centerpiece of all things Tull, has never stopped making music, despite the fact that his band will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2017. This week, Anderson releases a solo project, Homo Erraticus, that recalls that brief-but-successful period (1972 and ’73) when Jethro Tull was making “prog” (progressive) records alongside the noodling likes of Yes and Emerson, Lake and Palmer. Anderson, of course, quickly moved past those so-called concept albums (Thick As a Brick and A Passion Play) to make more conventional (for him, anyway) Tull records. This one follows 2012’s Thick As a Brick 2, which found Anderson writing, tongue once again in cheek, in the guise of Gerald Bostock, a character he’d created for the original TAAB. Then, Bostock was presented as a cynical 10-year-old poet. For the sequel, he’d grown up (as, presumably, has Anderson) but remained rather prickly. The fictional Mr. B “returns” for Homo Erraticus, which offers a themed series of songs —very “proggy,” as the English say—describing the various ages of man. All of this raises the question, what then of Jethro Tull? Although Anderson has been the only constant through many personnel changes over the years, he was always been quick to point out that Jethro Tull, the band, was a separate entity entirely. Particularly crucial were the playing talents of lead guitarist Martin Barre, who took his place at Anderson’s side in 1969, for the second Tull album, and never left. To bring you up to date, Jethro Tull hasn’t made an album of new material since 1999, the market for such things not being what it once was. Touring has long been the band’s bread and butter, with Anderson, Barre and an evolving cast of characters revisiting “Aqualung,” “Living in the Past,” “Locomotive Breath” and “Skating Away” for dedicated and adoring crowds everywhere. Barre has of late been openly critical of Anderson’s “safe” song choices for Tull tours, and has started a band called New Day, which focuses on “deep cuts” for the hardcore fans. As for Anderson ... You used to make fun of prog rock, and concept albums. Onstage. Ian Anderson: Jethro Tull, we did that in '72 and '73, we were deliberately courting that disaster which became prog by making a little fun of it, in the case of Thick As a Brick. In the case of A Passion Play, my guilt was that I took it all a bit seriously and thought "Maybe we should really be playing this kind of thing. Maybe that should be our calling card." Because Thick As a Brick had been so hugely successful, having begun as being a bit more satirical. A bit more of a pastiche, in terms of the concept. The music behind it, of course, was often quite serious and quite dark. It’s not something that over the years I felt I wanted to dwell on overly, but we’ve always continued to play excerpts from Thick As a Brick since then. So why is Homo Erraticus a concept album? IA: After the TAAB2 piece, which was very much written as a 40-year sequel to Thick As a Brick 1, I thought "Well, I'm not going to make a trilogy here, but let me have a little bit of continuity with Gerald Bostock coming back to write lyrics again." That was already in my head in late 2012. To be precise, at 9 o'clock in the morning on January the 1st, 2013, I set myself the very deliberate challenge of beginning to write an album. And very specifically, from an empty head, from having no preconceived bits stashed away. It was literally going from a clean sheet and seeing what happened. That evolved, over the next couple of days, into the first track, "Doggerland." Very quickly I then started to say "Where is this taking me?" On Day Two, I probably had the bullet points of the elements that would be the rest of the album. Then I had to develop those into real music and lyrics. It was always the intention that it would be a rather rocky album, rather than so much acoustic music. That’s the way I wanted it to turn out, and I deliberately played acoustic guitar only in a couple of places. But of course, all the music was written with the acoustic guitar and the flute. All the demos were made on a laptop in a hotel room, strumming a treble guitar and singing very quietly so as not to disturb the other guests. You’ve been performing as the Ian Anderson Band for several years now. Is this more satisfying for you than the latter-day Tull concerts? IA: For me, the name means nothing at all, whether it's Jethro Tull or Ian Anderson. I'm still singing my songs and playing my music. Nothing changes, except there are some personnel differences. And that's the nub of the issue. That's the question that I suppose has to be asked. It's not about solo albums versus Jethro Tull albums. To me, there's no difference. It's just me turning up for another day at the office, really. Doane Perry, who’d been our American drummer since ’84, ’85, he was in the band for a long time. Whenever it was major tours in Europe or the USA, he’d be the drummer. For the odd show, or whenever Doane sometimes was not feeling terribly well, someone else would be the drummer. Just as Martin Barre once or twice, or three or four times, was not always the guitar player when he wasn’t feeling terribly well, or didn’t want to go to a particular exotic location where he thought he might get food poisoning. But most of the time, those two guys were in the band. In deference to those two—apart from the 26 other ones who were also in Jethro Tull over the years—I just felt that maybe we should just leave this Jethro Tull description out of it, and it’s just me carrying on until I can’t do it any more. Using my own name, rather than the Tull name. I say in the album artwork, this is a Jethro Tull album in all but name. That comes from people who’ve heard it saying “As soon as I heard the opening bars, I knew it was a Jethro Tull album,” then saying “Oops” when they’ve realized what they said. Of course it’s going to sound the same, because it’s me. Is there still a Jethro Tull? IA: There are essentially three Jethro Tulls. There's Jethro Tull, the 18th-century agriculturalist, If you Google the name Jethro Tull, you'll see him in there. I think he's currently Number Three. The other nine are me, and the band Jethro Tull. There’s Jethro Tull, that vast repertoire of music released under the name Jethro Tull, through 2005-ish. And there’s Jethro Tull, the 28 members of Jethro Tull over the years who’ve been in the band. Obviously me, but under that band identity, many other people. All the members of the band I currently play with have performed as members of, simply, Jethro Tull. So the question is, really, am I gonna play with Martin again? There’s no reason that won’t happen, it’s just that it’s not something that’s currently scheduled to result in a concert or tours in the next 12 months. Because I know what I’m doing for the next 12 months, and I’m sure Martin does as well. He said some unkind things about you. IA: I don't pay any attention to that. When I talk about Martin, it might sometimes be with a little frustration, in that he left it so long in his life to do the things I tried to suggest to him he ought to have done 10 years ago. Martin for a long time was just following his own pattern of doing the odd little bit of solo stuff. He made a few records and did the odd few dates, but he never really got to grips with it until two years ago. In June 2011 I had a meeting with Martin and Doane Perry, about the future, and I said “Good time to start thinking about other options.” In Doane’s case, it was going to be inevitable because of health issues. He’s long been entertaining some fairly serious surgery, which was going to take him out of action for many months. He limps along, literally, and I think he’s happy doing what he’s doing. Not to flog a dead horse, but there are loads of people who love and follow you, and they’ll say if it’s not Ian and Martin, it’s not Jethro Tull. IA: Well, they're in absolutely safe territory, because it's not Jethro Tull right now. I'm busy doing stuff under my own name, and so is Martin. But that doesn't mean that we won't work again and call it Jethro Tull in the future. Or it might be Anderson, Barre and Palmer! Who knows? People want to think that relationships like that go on forever, and unwaveringly to the bitter end. But life is too short, you know? I think it’s very important that people do try other things and play with other people. I know for a fact Martin’s having a great time doing what he’s doing. I’m so pleased that he is actually doing it. He has revolving door of musicians playing in his own band, and plans to do this, that and whatever. This issue of solo-versus-whatever is, to me, kind of missing the point. The music, ultimately, is what people like. If they want you to stay married forever, I can only suggest they direct themselves to the 50 percent likelihood that their own marriages will fail. That seems to be the international statistic in the western world. Going on for a lifetime, most of a lifetime or half a lifetime, is something to feel—as I do—really good about. I don’t feel bad about it. And I certainly don’t put behind me the possibility or even the likelihood that Martin and I will be on the stage together sometime before we actually can’t do it any more. |
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 22, 2014 10:30:59 GMT
A fairly long interview. Ian Anderson: Erratically Humanwww.classicrockrevisited.com/show_interview.php?id=1038Interesting story about the cover Ian: The cover was presented as a brief, in a reasonable degree of detail, to a graphic artist who embarked upon the front and back cover artwork. He was on the right track at first, but after about a week he was getting father away from it and not getting closer to it in spite of trying to slightly redefine and be more specific. He got further away with his subsequent rough presentations. We had to pay him off and ask him to go away.
We were running out of time so we decided it would have to be photographic. We got in touch with Carl Glover, who had done some covers for various other bands in that sort of general genre of contemporary Prog Metal, or what have you. He came out for a photo session that we set up in the way that the original brief was.
He has a vast assemblage of stock material, some of which are photographs has taken on his journeys around the world, and some of which are old photographs he’s purchased; photographs going back fifty, sixty and even a hundred years. Some of those he, in fact, used on the album cover and some of them he didn’t because I told him that they didn’t work. They were nice pictures, but some were irrelevant. We had to whittle it down to the ones that work, especially for the 64-page deluxe version which is the limited edition grand box-set sort of thing. I have yet to see it, because in manufacturing terms, the first one will roll off the presses in a couple of weeks’ time. I have got the other packages and he seemed to do the job. It was a fairly tightly defined thing, and as always when you work with a photographer, you try to give him what you are looking for. |
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Post by maddogfagin on May 9, 2014 9:23:26 GMT
Scots flautist Ian Anderson on successful career as leader of Jethro Tull
and why he'd be sad to see the end of the unionMay 09, 2014 00:01 By Rick Fultonwww.dailyrecord.co.uk/ Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull performs on stage at the Royal Albert Hall, London, 21st March 1972.
(Photo by Michael Putland/Getty Images)THE 66-year-old, who is famous for playing the flute on one leg, talks passionately about his homeland and the impending independence referendum. HE is arguably the world’s most famous flautist – and yet Ian Anderson doesn’t think he’s that good. The 66-year-old Scot and leader of Jethro Tull is famous for playing the flute on one leg. He and his band have been name-checked in television shows including Breaking Bad, The Simpsons and Life of Mars, as well as films such as Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy and Almost Famous. But, as he prepares to play his homeland again for four shows, Ian said: “I’m certainly not the best flute player in the world – just arguably the loudest.” Jethro Tull, who in the 60s opened for Jimi Hendrix and starred in the Rolling Stones film Rock and Roll Circus, were a massive act in the 70s, scoring six top 10 albums in America, including two No1s – Thick as a Brick and A Passion Play – plus a UK No1 in 1969 with Stand Up. Their classic 1971 album Aqualung sold seven million copies worldwide. Interest in Ian, as the television shows attest, hasn’t dimmed over time and, since claiming an end to Jethro Tull, his solo album, Homo Erraticus, went to No14 only last month. While Sir James Galway is the best known classical flutist, Ian made the instrument something cool to play in the rock world. But while Sir James is known for his solid gold flute, Ian is less pretentious. He said: “The flutes I play are advanced student model flutes. They are certainly not James Galway’s solid gold, diamond-encrusted ones. “In most capital cities you can find the flute I play. My flute is the kind that if you were thinking of turning pro, it’s that flute. And, yes, I’m thinking of turning pro.” Ian was born in Dunfermline and moved to Edinburgh with his family when he was five. He will be returning to his childhood haunts on May 18 when his current live tour comes to Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre. He is also playing Perth Concert Hall on May 19, Aberdeen Music Hall on May 20 and Inverness Eden Court on May 21. Ian said: “I have one day off when I’m in Edinburgh. “I’m going to see if there is still a hole in the wrought iron railings down in Roseburn where I can crawl through and walk along the side of the waters of Leith, which as a child I did. “It was completely forbidden, of course, but there was a hole there. “I might not fit through it now, though. It was a tight squeeze at the time.” It will be the first time in many years that he’s been back to visit those streets he walked during his childhood. He did visit Dunfermline a few years ago with his surviving brother (his other died of colon cancer, prompting Ian to have yearly check-ups) to look at the houses his parents lived in. It was a mixed bag of emotions. He said: “It was a bit of a grey experience. These are probably homes lived in by a succession of owners since then. It’s their house. “It may have been where I was born or spent the first few years of my life but it’s someone’s else’s house. I always feel there’s a sadness and detachment. “It almost allows you to let go of something and puts it in a more healthy perspective. It’s not that I don’t care but, just because it’s somewhere my parents lived for a few years, it shouldn’t be that special somehow.” As well as being a Scot who found fame around the world, he also returned here to run a successful salmon farm business based at his former estate Strahaird on the Isle of Skye. Turning over £12million a year in the late 90s, it employed 400 people before he sold it in 1994. He soon realised that if things went wrong with the business, he could lose anything, so he sold off parts of the company, getting out without losing anything but not making anything, either. Talking of this and his childhood in Scotland leads Ian into a lengthy discussion about the upcoming independence vote. Like many Scots who have moved away, he feels aggrieved that, despite being born here and being an employer for many years, he has no say in the direction of Scotland’s future. He said: “Alex Salmond was being interviewed by Gavin Esler who, like me, is from Edinburgh. “Gavin said to him, ‘I’m a Scotsman, what do I have to do to be able to vote?’. Salmond said, ‘Buy a hoose’.” Ian almost spits out the sentence. For him, it comes down to a utility bill. He points out that, by the end of his fish farm business, many of his workers didn’t speak English, yet they would be eligible to vote. But someone born and raised in Scotland but not living here now is not. Ian added: “It strikes me as a little odd that, with a long history of working and providing a little employment, I’m not eligible to vote. “Me and others like Gavin carry the Scots flag in our hearts. “We don’t have to wave it about and do this nationalism thing. “We know who we are. We’ve long had a union with the rest of the British isles, which personally speaking I’m sad to lose. “I’m not telling people how to vote but I’ll be sad if that happens. “I had a Scottish father and an English mother. I’m a Brit. I see myself as a product of that union, literally because of my parents.” Ian has recorded Harry Lauder’s A Wee Deoch an’ Doris for a new album of Scottish songs. He has rewritten the second verse of the famous nightcap song to talk about the potential end of the union. Ian said: “I’m expressing sadness in a farewell drink at the door kind of a way. The producer won’t release it until after the vote, as he doesn’t want to get involved. “I, on the other hand, feel that if it focuses on the enormity of what they are voting on, releasing it would be a good thing. “I’m not telling people how to vote, I’m just asking people to think.” Ian Anderson with his band Jethro TullIan Anderson with his band Jethro Tull Ian isn’t brooding. There is always a matter-of-fact way about Ian, who has taken chances and found luck throughout his life. His first instrument was a plastic ukulele bearing Elvis Presley’s autograph before getting a proper acoustic guitar aged 15. By this time the family had moved again, to Blackpool, and the young Ian wanted to be in a band. One group were looking for a bass player, so he traded his guitar for a bass. He found the original members of Jethro Tull in the seaside town before they moved to London in 1967. He turned to the flute after giving up on being a guitarist, as he realised he’d never “be as good as Eric Clapton”. It was a lucky move that gave him something different that the other big bands of the 70s didn’t. His habit of standing on one leg has become an iconic part of rock’s history – an instantly recognisable (and copied) image. This year, he revealed he was now going to release music under his own name but he’ll always be Jethro Tull to his fans. He said: “Jethro Tull is not a big legend like the Rolling Stones or The Who or Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd. “We are a minor legend in second or third rank. It’s a good place to be. “You aren’t always being held up for ridicule when someone wants to have a go at prog rock or old rock musicians. “They have others they can pick on before me.”
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Post by maddogfagin on May 9, 2014 9:38:49 GMT
A 'Downton Abbey' With Added SpiceThe Jethro Tull founder and flutist enjoys pastoral privacy in his manor on 400 acres in the English countryside; tending to red-hot chilies. Updated May 8, 2014 7:26 p.m. ETonline.wsj.com/ Ian Anderson's chores are to make music, grow chilies and carry eggs. Dylan Thomas for The Wall Street JournalSinger-songwriter Ian Anderson, 66, is best known as Jethro Tull's founder, lead vocalist, flutist and acoustic guitarist. His new solo album is "Homo Erraticus" (Kscope). He spoke with reporter Marc Myers. For years, my wife, Shona, and I lived in a 16th-century house west of London in Buckinghamshire, but we always felt a little imposed upon. Stalkers managed to find their way to us, and strangers would wander our property. So in 1994, we moved to the county of Wiltshire a couple of hours away. Stonehenge is in Wiltshire, so the region has its share of crop circles and mysterious wild beasts roaming the countryside. If you go for a walk, you have to be ready for anything. Our home was built in 1753—which ranks as a new house here—and it's remarkably free of weird stuff. It's a friendly house and much too big for the two of us. There are 11 bedrooms and 15 bathrooms between the main house and adjoining stables and offices. It's a 400-acre property that is technically a farm, but we've planted 30,000 oak and ash trees over the past five years to renovate the ancient woodlands that were cleared over the centuries for building and firewood. What's nice about our place is the atmosphere. The area isn't particularly remote but it's in the countryside and it's convenient. When we originally went looking for a home, we drew an hour-and-a-half travel-time circle around Heathrow Airport to ensure that my trips back and forth weren't too long when heading out on tours or returning home. As you pull up to our house, your first impression might be "Downton Abbey," but it's really a fraction of the size. The three-story manor house has 18th-century pretensions. As for a style, it's not really anything. It goes back to the post-Elizabethan period for sure, but subsequent generations of bits and bobs have changed it. It's not a mishmash—it's just not highly original. The facade was added in the 1800s and then extensions were built in a couple of places in the 1920s. Over the years, a succession of owners elaborated upon the house. For instance, the owners in the 1980s built an extension with an indoor swimming pool, whirlpool, sauna, solarium and gym. I don't swim there, but it's one of the most used areas of the house. The temperature is even throughout the year, and I like to go in to practice the flute and write music because it's warm, relatively humid and kind of big and echoey. We also have four cottages on the property and another block of buildings for stables, offices and greenhouses. My days in the home office that I share with my wife are blissful. If you have to go to work and do clerical things, this is a nice place to be doing them. I'm only a short stroll to the kitchen and the espresso machine, and a slightly longer stroll to my recording studio and warehouse where my musical instruments are stored. I have staff that comes in and looks after the accounting and those sorts of things. My wife looks out for the personal side of our lives, from banking to accounting with tour promoters. There are a couple of ladies who come in each day to clean, a few gardeners and a couple of other staffers that do other things. I pretend to be hands-on and interested in gardening, but my role is basically to grow chilies and carry chicken eggs. We have a generous 12 acres of managed gardens before you go into the open fields and woodlands, and my wife works in the vegetable gardens and directs the gardeners with precision and a good amount of knowledge. One of two areas of the house that's special to me is our bedroom. It has a reasonable degree of coziness, but it's a big room with an adjoining bathroom with a vast amount of Italian marble installed before we moved in, so it's a bit "Dynasty" and over the top. From the bed, our view looks east, giving us the sunrise and a nice vista. You wake up in the morning and look out over England's green and pleasant land. You don't see anything other than trees and fields and the morning sun. The other room where I feel most comfortable is the kitchen. The first thing we did when we moved in was to gut that end of the house and put in modern equipment. We turned a mess into a large family kitchen and dining area. It still retains all of its leaded windows and stone mullions outside, but inside it's up-to-date and practical—at least it was 20 years ago when we moved in. The kitchen has a cast-iron stove and range that stays on 24 hours a day with a trickle of fuel. Because the stove is huge, the room is always warm. Our dogs and cats come to lie in the kitchen, and the chickens and sheep would be in there like a shot if you left the door open. The kitchen is the hearth of the house and we use it not only to sit and talk, but also to eat most of our meals—despite having a wood-paneled dining room. I use the warm solarium to germinate my exotic habanero, naga and bhut jolokia chili seedlings, but I grow the plants in the Victorian greenhouses. When I roast the chilies in the kitchen to prepare them for grinding and storage as dried powder, the space becomes uninhabitable. I try to remember to put on rubber gloves when handling them. Ever since I was young, I've had a taste for very hot, spicy food, and I use the powder to flavor soups and stews to give them a semblance of taste. I think part of my chili fetish is the challenge of growing hard-to-germinate varieties. I used to grow a couple of hundred plants but I've since cut down to about 50. Now I give away a few young plants to friends and members of the band. Another reason I practice the flute in the pool house is to keep the peace. If I play in the kitchen or living rooms, my wife and our dogs will tend to leave as soon as possible. The cats, however, are unfazed and will open an eye and go back to sleep, so I've convinced myself they rather like it. I also fancy that my chili seedlings respond positively to the seductive sound. Primitive flutes were on the rise in South America right around the time chilies were first planted for human consumption, so I play to them.
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2014 15:17:49 GMT
A 'Downton Abbey' With Added SpiceThe Jethro Tull founder and flutist enjoys pastoral privacy in his manor on 400 acres in the English countryside; tending to red-hot chilies. Updated May 8, 2014 7:26 p.m. ETonline.wsj.com/Ian Anderson's chores are to make music, grow chilies and carry eggs. Dylan Thomas for The Wall Street JournalSinger-songwriter Ian Anderson, 66, is best known as Jethro Tull's founder, lead vocalist, flutist and acoustic guitarist. His new solo album is "Homo Erraticus" (Kscope). He spoke with reporter Marc Myers. For years, my wife, Shona, and I lived in a 16th-century house west of London in Buckinghamshire, but we always felt a little imposed upon. Stalkers managed to find their way to us, and strangers would wander our property. So in 1994, we moved to the county of Wiltshire a couple of hours away. Stonehenge is in Wiltshire, so the region has its share of crop circles and mysterious wild beasts roaming the countryside. If you go for a walk, you have to be ready for anything. Our home was built in 1753—which ranks as a new house here—and it's remarkably free of weird stuff. It's a friendly house and much too big for the two of us. There are 11 bedrooms and 15 bathrooms between the main house and adjoining stables and offices. It's a 400-acre property that is technically a farm, but we've planted 30,000 oak and ash trees over the past five years to renovate the ancient woodlands that were cleared over the centuries for building and firewood. What's nice about our place is the atmosphere. The area isn't particularly remote but it's in the countryside and it's convenient. When we originally went looking for a home, we drew an hour-and-a-half travel-time circle around Heathrow Airport to ensure that my trips back and forth weren't too long when heading out on tours or returning home. As you pull up to our house, your first impression might be "Downton Abbey," but it's really a fraction of the size. The three-story manor house has 18th-century pretensions. As for a style, it's not really anything. It goes back to the post-Elizabethan period for sure, but subsequent generations of bits and bobs have changed it. It's not a mishmash—it's just not highly original. The facade was added in the 1800s and then extensions were built in a couple of places in the 1920s. Over the years, a succession of owners elaborated upon the house. For instance, the owners in the 1980s built an extension with an indoor swimming pool, whirlpool, sauna, solarium and gym. I don't swim there, but it's one of the most used areas of the house. The temperature is even throughout the year, and I like to go in to practice the flute and write music because it's warm, relatively humid and kind of big and echoey. We also have four cottages on the property and another block of buildings for stables, offices and greenhouses. My days in the home office that I share with my wife are blissful. If you have to go to work and do clerical things, this is a nice place to be doing them. I'm only a short stroll to the kitchen and the espresso machine, and a slightly longer stroll to my recording studio and warehouse where my musical instruments are stored. I have staff that comes in and looks after the accounting and those sorts of things. My wife looks out for the personal side of our lives, from banking to accounting with tour promoters. There are a couple of ladies who come in each day to clean, a few gardeners and a couple of other staffers that do other things. I pretend to be hands-on and interested in gardening, but my role is basically to grow chilies and carry chicken eggs. We have a generous 12 acres of managed gardens before you go into the open fields and woodlands, and my wife works in the vegetable gardens and directs the gardeners with precision and a good amount of knowledge. One of two areas of the house that's special to me is our bedroom. It has a reasonable degree of coziness, but it's a big room with an adjoining bathroom with a vast amount of Italian marble installed before we moved in, so it's a bit "Dynasty" and over the top. From the bed, our view looks east, giving us the sunrise and a nice vista. You wake up in the morning and look out over England's green and pleasant land. You don't see anything other than trees and fields and the morning sun. The other room where I feel most comfortable is the kitchen. The first thing we did when we moved in was to gut that end of the house and put in modern equipment. We turned a mess into a large family kitchen and dining area. It still retains all of its leaded windows and stone mullions outside, but inside it's up-to-date and practical—at least it was 20 years ago when we moved in. The kitchen has a cast-iron stove and range that stays on 24 hours a day with a trickle of fuel. Because the stove is huge, the room is always warm. Our dogs and cats come to lie in the kitchen, and the chickens and sheep would be in there like a shot if you left the door open. The kitchen is the hearth of the house and we use it not only to sit and talk, but also to eat most of our meals—despite having a wood-paneled dining room. I use the warm solarium to germinate my exotic habanero, naga and bhut jolokia chili seedlings, but I grow the plants in the Victorian greenhouses. When I roast the chilies in the kitchen to prepare them for grinding and storage as dried powder, the space becomes uninhabitable. I try to remember to put on rubber gloves when handling them. Ever since I was young, I've had a taste for very hot, spicy food, and I use the powder to flavor soups and stews to give them a semblance of taste. I think part of my chili fetish is the challenge of growing hard-to-germinate varieties. I used to grow a couple of hundred plants but I've since cut down to about 50. Now I give away a few young plants to friends and members of the band. Another reason I practice the flute in the pool house is to keep the peace. If I play in the kitchen or living rooms, my wife and our dogs will tend to leave as soon as possible. The cats, however, are unfazed and will open an eye and go back to sleep, so I've convinced myself they rather like it. I also fancy that my chili seedlings respond positively to the seductive sound. Primitive flutes were on the rise in South America right around the time chilies were first planted for human consumption, so I play to them. 16 photos: A British Rocker's Historical Wiltshire Mansion: online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304885404579547683044641894?KEYWORDS=Ian+Anderson&mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702304885404579547683044641894.html%3FKEYWORDS%3DIan%2BAnderson |
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Post by ash on May 9, 2014 17:19:21 GMT
Very nice indeed! I was going to say lucky man but if you work of it and have a great talent then why not. |
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Post by maddogfagin on May 9, 2014 18:14:15 GMT
Ian Anderson's Scottish Vote Song Delayed To Avoid Controversyby WENN | 09 May 2014www.contactmusic.com/Folk rocker Ian Anderson has recorded a song to mark the upcoming independence vote in his native Scotland, but his producer has refused to release it until after the ballot takes place. Scots are due to go to the polls in September (14) to vote on whether the country should break away from the U.K. to form an independent nation. Former Jethro Tull frontman Anderson has recorded a cover version of traditional Scottish song A Wee Deoch an' Doris to mark the occasion, but a studio producer is holding it back until after the election as he doesn't want to be accused of influencing the vote. Proud Scot Anderson tells the Daily Record newspaper, "(In the song) I'm expressing sadness in a 'farewell drink at the door' kind of way. The producer won't release it until after the vote, as he doesn't want to get involved. I, on the other hand, feel that if it focuses on the enormity of what they are voting on, releasing it would be a good thing. I'm not telling people how to vote, I'm just asking people to think."
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Post by maddogfagin on May 9, 2014 18:21:00 GMT
Very nice indeed! I was going to say lucky man but if you work of it and have a great talent then why not. I suppose when you think about it logically, and no doubt IA has done just that, he has his working office ie his recording studio onsite which means as the muse takes him he can go in and record demos. He's got to have accommodation for members of the band, whether its JT or the IA Band, and all the facilities on hand for their welfare such as washing, food, leisure pursuits (hence the swimming pool etc) and the same facilities when his family come to stay. So I would imagine it's probably quite a rare event when it's just IA and Shona alone in the house. No doubt there must also be someone employed to look after the place when the Andersons are off on tour so a housekeeper will need accommodation to keep things running OK and also the gardener to look after the chillis and mow the lawns. Wouldn't like to have his utilities bills though or his rates. |
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Post by ash on May 9, 2014 18:53:06 GMT
Very nice indeed! I was going to say lucky man but if you work of it and have a great talent then why not. I suppose when you think about it logically, and no doubt IA has done just that, he has his working office ie his recording studio onsite which means as the muse takes him he can go in and record demos. He's got to have accommodation for members of the band, whether its JT or the IA Band, and all the facilities on hand for their welfare such as washing, food, leisure pursuits (hence the swimming pool etc) and the same facilities when his family come to stay. So I would imagine it's probably quite a rare event when it's just IA and Shona alone in the house. No doubt there must also be someone employed to look after the place when the Andersons are off on tour so a housekeeper will need accommodation to keep things running OK and also the gardener to look after the chillis and mow the lawns. Wouldn't like to have his utilities bills though or his rates. Indeed it seems like the perfect place for the Anderson's . Hang on don't forget someone needs to feed the cats and walk the dogs  |
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Post by bunkerfan on May 9, 2014 19:21:24 GMT
Very nice indeed! I was going to say lucky man but if you work of it and have a great talent then why not. I showed the pictures of Ian's mansion to my dear wife and she said "it looks like the home of an old man but the kitchen's ok". And of course she's always right. |
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Post by bunkerfan on May 9, 2014 19:30:33 GMT
Ian Anderson's Scottish Vote Song Delayed To Avoid Controversyby WENN | 09 May 2014www.contactmusic.com/Folk rocker Ian Anderson has recorded a song to mark the upcoming independence vote in his native Scotland, but his producer has refused to release it until after the ballot takes place. Scots are due to go to the polls in September (14) to vote on whether the country should break away from the U.K. to form an independent nation. Former Jethro Tull frontman Anderson has recorded a cover version of traditional Scottish song A Wee Deoch an' Doris to mark the occasion, but a studio producer is holding it back until after the election as he doesn't want to be accused of influencing the vote. Proud Scot Anderson tells the Daily Record newspaper, "(In the song) I'm expressing sadness in a 'farewell drink at the door' kind of way. The producer won't release it until after the vote, as he doesn't want to get involved. I, on the other hand, feel that if it focuses on the enormity of what they are voting on, releasing it would be a good thing. I'm not telling people how to vote, I'm just asking people to think." I wonder if Ian's version is anything like the original song? A wee deoch an' doris - Harry Lauder |
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Post by jackinthegreen on May 9, 2014 21:28:14 GMT
Scots flautist Ian Anderson on successful career as leader of Jethro Tull
and why he'd be sad to see the end of the unionMay 09, 2014 00:01 By Rick Fultonwww.dailyrecord.co.uk/Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull performs on stage at the Royal Albert Hall, London, 21st March 1972.
(Photo by Michael Putland/Getty Images)THE 66-year-old, who is famous for playing the flute on one leg, talks passionately about his homeland and the impending independence referendum. HE is arguably the world’s most famous flautist – and yet Ian Anderson doesn’t think he’s that good. The 66-year-old Scot and leader of Jethro Tull is famous for playing the flute on one leg. He and his band have been name-checked in television shows including Breaking Bad, The Simpsons and Life of Mars, as well as films such as Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy and Almost Famous. But, as he prepares to play his homeland again for four shows, Ian said: “I’m certainly not the best flute player in the world – just arguably the loudest.” Jethro Tull, who in the 60s opened for Jimi Hendrix and starred in the Rolling Stones film Rock and Roll Circus, were a massive act in the 70s, scoring six top 10 albums in America, including two No1s – Thick as a Brick and A Passion Play – plus a UK No1 in 1969 with Stand Up. Their classic 1971 album Aqualung sold seven million copies worldwide. Interest in Ian, as the television shows attest, hasn’t dimmed over time and, since claiming an end to Jethro Tull, his solo album, Homo Erraticus, went to No14 only last month. While Sir James Galway is the best known classical flutist, Ian made the instrument something cool to play in the rock world. But while Sir James is known for his solid gold flute, Ian is less pretentious. He said: “The flutes I play are advanced student model flutes. They are certainly not James Galway’s solid gold, diamond-encrusted ones. “In most capital cities you can find the flute I play. My flute is the kind that if you were thinking of turning pro, it’s that flute. And, yes, I’m thinking of turning pro.” Ian was born in Dunfermline and moved to Edinburgh with his family when he was five. He will be returning to his childhood haunts on May 18 when his current live tour comes to Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre. He is also playing Perth Concert Hall on May 19, Aberdeen Music Hall on May 20 and Inverness Eden Court on May 21. Ian said: “I have one day off when I’m in Edinburgh. “I’m going to see if there is still a hole in the wrought iron railings down in Roseburn where I can crawl through and walk along the side of the waters of Leith, which as a child I did. “It was completely forbidden, of course, but there was a hole there. “I might not fit through it now, though. It was a tight squeeze at the time.” It will be the first time in many years that he’s been back to visit those streets he walked during his childhood. He did visit Dunfermline a few years ago with his surviving brother (his other died of colon cancer, prompting Ian to have yearly check-ups) to look at the houses his parents lived in. It was a mixed bag of emotions. He said: “It was a bit of a grey experience. These are probably homes lived in by a succession of owners since then. It’s their house. “It may have been where I was born or spent the first few years of my life but it’s someone’s else’s house. I always feel there’s a sadness and detachment. “It almost allows you to let go of something and puts it in a more healthy perspective. It’s not that I don’t care but, just because it’s somewhere my parents lived for a few years, it shouldn’t be that special somehow.” As well as being a Scot who found fame around the world, he also returned here to run a successful salmon farm business based at his former estate Strahaird on the Isle of Skye. Turning over £12million a year in the late 90s, it employed 400 people before he sold it in 1994. He soon realised that if things went wrong with the business, he could lose anything, so he sold off parts of the company, getting out without losing anything but not making anything, either. Talking of this and his childhood in Scotland leads Ian into a lengthy discussion about the upcoming independence vote. Like many Scots who have moved away, he feels aggrieved that, despite being born here and being an employer for many years, he has no say in the direction of Scotland’s future. He said: “Alex Salmond was being interviewed by Gavin Esler who, like me, is from Edinburgh. “Gavin said to him, ‘I’m a Scotsman, what do I have to do to be able to vote?’. Salmond said, ‘Buy a hoose’.” Ian almost spits out the sentence. For him, it comes down to a utility bill. He points out that, by the end of his fish farm business, many of his workers didn’t speak English, yet they would be eligible to vote. But someone born and raised in Scotland but not living here now is not. Ian added: “It strikes me as a little odd that, with a long history of working and providing a little employment, I’m not eligible to vote. “Me and others like Gavin carry the Scots flag in our hearts. “We don’t have to wave it about and do this nationalism thing. “We know who we are. We’ve long had a union with the rest of the British isles, which personally speaking I’m sad to lose. “I’m not telling people how to vote but I’ll be sad if that happens. “I had a Scottish father and an English mother. I’m a Brit. I see myself as a product of that union, literally because of my parents.” Ian has recorded Harry Lauder’s A Wee Deoch an’ Doris for a new album of Scottish songs. He has rewritten the second verse of the famous nightcap song to talk about the potential end of the union. Ian said: “I’m expressing sadness in a farewell drink at the door kind of a way. The producer won’t release it until after the vote, as he doesn’t want to get involved. “I, on the other hand, feel that if it focuses on the enormity of what they are voting on, releasing it would be a good thing. “I’m not telling people how to vote, I’m just asking people to think.” Ian Anderson with his band Jethro TullIan Anderson with his band Jethro Tull Ian isn’t brooding. There is always a matter-of-fact way about Ian, who has taken chances and found luck throughout his life. His first instrument was a plastic ukulele bearing Elvis Presley’s autograph before getting a proper acoustic guitar aged 15. By this time the family had moved again, to Blackpool, and the young Ian wanted to be in a band. One group were looking for a bass player, so he traded his guitar for a bass. He found the original members of Jethro Tull in the seaside town before they moved to London in 1967. He turned to the flute after giving up on being a guitarist, as he realised he’d never “be as good as Eric Clapton”. It was a lucky move that gave him something different that the other big bands of the 70s didn’t. His habit of standing on one leg has become an iconic part of rock’s history – an instantly recognisable (and copied) image. This year, he revealed he was now going to release music under his own name but he’ll always be Jethro Tull to his fans. He said: “Jethro Tull is not a big legend like the Rolling Stones or The Who or Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd. “We are a minor legend in second or third rank. It’s a good place to be. “You aren’t always being held up for ridicule when someone wants to have a go at prog rock or old rock musicians. “They have others they can pick on before me.” Well said Ian, I agree totally with your views on Independance.  |
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Post by jackinthegreen on May 9, 2014 21:32:11 GMT
A 'Downton Abbey' With Added SpiceThe Jethro Tull founder and flutist enjoys pastoral privacy in his manor on 400 acres in the English countryside; tending to red-hot chilies. Updated May 8, 2014 7:26 p.m. ETonline.wsj.com/Ian Anderson's chores are to make music, grow chilies and carry eggs. Dylan Thomas for The Wall Street JournalSinger-songwriter Ian Anderson, 66, is best known as Jethro Tull's founder, lead vocalist, flutist and acoustic guitarist. His new solo album is "Homo Erraticus" (Kscope). He spoke with reporter Marc Myers. For years, my wife, Shona, and I lived in a 16th-century house west of London in Buckinghamshire, but we always felt a little imposed upon. Stalkers managed to find their way to us, and strangers would wander our property. So in 1994, we moved to the county of Wiltshire a couple of hours away. Stonehenge is in Wiltshire, so the region has its share of crop circles and mysterious wild beasts roaming the countryside. If you go for a walk, you have to be ready for anything. Our home was built in 1753—which ranks as a new house here—and it's remarkably free of weird stuff. It's a friendly house and much too big for the two of us. There are 11 bedrooms and 15 bathrooms between the main house and adjoining stables and offices. It's a 400-acre property that is technically a farm, but we've planted 30,000 oak and ash trees over the past five years to renovate the ancient woodlands that were cleared over the centuries for building and firewood. What's nice about our place is the atmosphere. The area isn't particularly remote but it's in the countryside and it's convenient. When we originally went looking for a home, we drew an hour-and-a-half travel-time circle around Heathrow Airport to ensure that my trips back and forth weren't too long when heading out on tours or returning home. As you pull up to our house, your first impression might be "Downton Abbey," but it's really a fraction of the size. The three-story manor house has 18th-century pretensions. As for a style, it's not really anything. It goes back to the post-Elizabethan period for sure, but subsequent generations of bits and bobs have changed it. It's not a mishmash—it's just not highly original. The facade was added in the 1800s and then extensions were built in a couple of places in the 1920s. Over the years, a succession of owners elaborated upon the house. For instance, the owners in the 1980s built an extension with an indoor swimming pool, whirlpool, sauna, solarium and gym. I don't swim there, but it's one of the most used areas of the house. The temperature is even throughout the year, and I like to go in to practice the flute and write music because it's warm, relatively humid and kind of big and echoey. We also have four cottages on the property and another block of buildings for stables, offices and greenhouses. My days in the home office that I share with my wife are blissful. If you have to go to work and do clerical things, this is a nice place to be doing them. I'm only a short stroll to the kitchen and the espresso machine, and a slightly longer stroll to my recording studio and warehouse where my musical instruments are stored. I have staff that comes in and looks after the accounting and those sorts of things. My wife looks out for the personal side of our lives, from banking to accounting with tour promoters. There are a couple of ladies who come in each day to clean, a few gardeners and a couple of other staffers that do other things. I pretend to be hands-on and interested in gardening, but my role is basically to grow chilies and carry chicken eggs. We have a generous 12 acres of managed gardens before you go into the open fields and woodlands, and my wife works in the vegetable gardens and directs the gardeners with precision and a good amount of knowledge. One of two areas of the house that's special to me is our bedroom. It has a reasonable degree of coziness, but it's a big room with an adjoining bathroom with a vast amount of Italian marble installed before we moved in, so it's a bit "Dynasty" and over the top. From the bed, our view looks east, giving us the sunrise and a nice vista. You wake up in the morning and look out over England's green and pleasant land. You don't see anything other than trees and fields and the morning sun. The other room where I feel most comfortable is the kitchen. The first thing we did when we moved in was to gut that end of the house and put in modern equipment. We turned a mess into a large family kitchen and dining area. It still retains all of its leaded windows and stone mullions outside, but inside it's up-to-date and practical—at least it was 20 years ago when we moved in. The kitchen has a cast-iron stove and range that stays on 24 hours a day with a trickle of fuel. Because the stove is huge, the room is always warm. Our dogs and cats come to lie in the kitchen, and the chickens and sheep would be in there like a shot if you left the door open. The kitchen is the hearth of the house and we use it not only to sit and talk, but also to eat most of our meals—despite having a wood-paneled dining room. I use the warm solarium to germinate my exotic habanero, naga and bhut jolokia chili seedlings, but I grow the plants in the Victorian greenhouses. When I roast the chilies in the kitchen to prepare them for grinding and storage as dried powder, the space becomes uninhabitable. I try to remember to put on rubber gloves when handling them. Ever since I was young, I've had a taste for very hot, spicy food, and I use the powder to flavor soups and stews to give them a semblance of taste. I think part of my chili fetish is the challenge of growing hard-to-germinate varieties. I used to grow a couple of hundred plants but I've since cut down to about 50. Now I give away a few young plants to friends and members of the band. Another reason I practice the flute in the pool house is to keep the peace. If I play in the kitchen or living rooms, my wife and our dogs will tend to leave as soon as possible. The cats, however, are unfazed and will open an eye and go back to sleep, so I've convinced myself they rather like it. I also fancy that my chili seedlings respond positively to the seductive sound. Primitive flutes were on the rise in South America right around the time chilies were first planted for human consumption, so I play to them. 16 photos: A British Rocker's Historical Wiltshire Mansion: online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304885404579547683044641894?KEYWORDS=Ian+Anderson&mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702304885404579547683044641894.html%3FKEYWORDS%3DIan%2BAndersonWhat an amazing house  Ian has totally earned every inch of this, well done Ian, enjoy with all your friends and family.... |
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Post by JTull 007 on May 9, 2014 22:46:42 GMT
Love this slideshow of Ian's beautiful home. Especially the room with acoustic guitars hanging.
Overall, I never feel uneasy about those who are successful rock stars or celebrities that have such opulence.
Back in the mid 70's Ian may have felt annoyed at those like Elton John and others that had so much bling.
Now in later years, he is more comfortable and needs his privacy too. Security is always a concern.
With so many weird people out there, I am glad he has a place he feels safe in.
Do I feel envy? Nope. Just satisfaction in knowing my money helped in a small way to make this happen.
This beautiful place in such a beautiful country, partially thanks to me. Rock On Sir Ian Anderson !
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Post by JTull 007 on May 10, 2014 0:00:57 GMT
I wonder if Ian's version is anything like the original song?
A wee deoch an' doris - Harry Lauder www.darachweb.net/SongLyrics/WeeDeochAnDorus.html
There's a good old Scottish custom that has stood the test o'time,
It's a custom that's been carried out in every land and clime.
When brother Scots are gathered, it's aye the usual thing,
Just before we say good night, we fill our cups and sing...
Chorus
Now I like a man that is a man; a man that's straight and fair.
The kind of man that will and can, in all things do his share.
Och, I like a man a jolly man, the kind of man, you know,
The chap that slaps your back and says, "Jock, just before ye go..."
Glossary 'aye': always 'but and ben': a two-roomed cottage 'deoch an doris': a drink at the door (Gaelic) 'gang': 'go ken': know
I'll bet North Sea Gas knows this tune. On June 1st I will ask them.
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Post by maddogfagin on May 10, 2014 8:11:30 GMT
I suppose when you think about it logically, and no doubt IA has done just that, he has his working office ie his recording studio onsite which means as the muse takes him he can go in and record demos. He's got to have accommodation for members of the band, whether its JT or the IA Band, and all the facilities on hand for their welfare such as washing, food, leisure pursuits (hence the swimming pool etc) and the same facilities when his family come to stay. So I would imagine it's probably quite a rare event when it's just IA and Shona alone in the house. No doubt there must also be someone employed to look after the place when the Andersons are off on tour so a housekeeper will need accommodation to keep things running OK and also the gardener to look after the chillis and mow the lawns. Wouldn't like to have his utilities bills though or his rates. Indeed it seems like the perfect place for the Anderson's . Hang on don't forget someone needs to feed the cats and walk the dogs The vet's bills would be something. Probably has more than one gardener in to prune the roses. And . . . seeing there's an apple orchard how about "Tull Cider" ? Just a thought |
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Post by Equus on May 10, 2014 10:36:15 GMT
Fantastic as always! Ian Anderson perfects everything he touches... and while you're sitting there... Ian... at The Water's Edge... Could you maybe be persuaded to relies the "lost" recordings of The Water's Edge? It could be very interesting...  |
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Post by nonrabbit on May 10, 2014 12:42:54 GMT
Beautiful home and it looks like a home and not a show house.
Had an idea for the four cottages if they're not being used - accommodation and Offices for the Forum - makes sense to me.
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Post by nonrabbit on May 10, 2014 12:57:40 GMT
I wonder if he thinks a Yes vote is on the cards if he's writing a song about the separation?
As an exiled Scot myself I was peeved that I wouldn't have a postal vote especially since I'm only MIA and will be returning home in the future - for good. I remember reading that Salmond said that the cost would have been phenomenal and I suppose it's only really relevant if you are actually living in the country that may be affected. Exiled Scots can have an opinion rather than a vote.
Not getting too personal but don't you think Ian already has a home in Scotland? I don't believe the Wiltshire gaff is his only home.
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Post by maddogfagin on May 10, 2014 14:15:40 GMT
I wonder if he thinks a Yes vote is on the cards if he's writing a song about the separation? As an exiled Scot myself I was peeved that I wouldn't have a postal vote especially since I'm only MIA and will be returning home in the future - for good. I remember reading that Salmond said that the cost would have been phenomenal and I suppose it's only really relevant if you are actually living in the country that may be affected. Exiled Scots can have an opinion rather than a vote. Not getting too personal but don't you think Ian already has a home in Scotland? I don't believe the Wiltshire gaff is his only home. The Wiltshire place is IA's main home, so I'm led to believe. As for his political views on Independence for Scotland I think he's being realistic in his comments, after all he's only part Scottish (his Mum was English) and since the house on Skye was sold his main abode has been in England. At least he hasn't gone down the route of Rod Stewart who was born in the quaint Scottish village of Highgate in north London of both English and Scottish parents but who has claimed 100% Scottish ancestry. As usual with our Mr IA, his views are well thought out and he has put over the case for a No vote quite well I thought. |
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Post by JTull 007 on May 10, 2014 14:57:56 GMT
Holy Tull Plates!  3 in Ian's Kitchen...Florida, Michigan, New Mexico  I wonder if he's got a garage filled up with even more? I would hate to part with mine.
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Post by bassackwards on May 10, 2014 16:11:40 GMT
I did just that and listened to both on a 4 hour road trip. 2 exceptional works! |
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Post by Equus on May 10, 2014 17:20:09 GMT
Good to see! Something to be proud of! Thanks to everyone who have played in Jethro Tull! Rock on Ian!! With kitchen prose, and gutter rhymes! |
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And sometimes wonderful people needs to part, in order to rediscover that precious spark of genius, and creativity again... and we can always call it Tull, even if Ian chooses to call it something else... 
3 in Ian's Kitchen...Florida, Michigan, New Mexico 
