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Post by ash on Mar 1, 2020 14:12:11 GMT
Everything you would like to know about the FLUTE but were afraid to ask I've started this thread so anyone with questions about flute playing in general or indeed anything about Ian and his flutes. In fact anything about the flute that may be of interest, bring it on
The easy link about Ian's flutes is This link
This was a good look at Ian's playing but I understand he was a disappointed there was a lack of questions about the flute. I had one but didn't get asked . Ian at All flutes Plus in 2014
It would be nice to hear from the folk that play or indeed those who have tried and the flute ended up in the attic or made into a lamp
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Post by ash on Mar 1, 2020 14:56:22 GMT
Lesson one for the day is how to dance to Bouree and not how to play it Lesson starts at 0.26 with the guy at the back
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 2, 2020 7:14:23 GMT
Lesson one for the day is how to dance to Bouree and not how to play it Lesson starts at 0.26 with the guy at the back Far too much blood in the alcohol stream perhaps ?
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 5, 2020 7:36:10 GMT
www.allaboutjazz.com/Five Artists: February 2020By C. MICHAEL BAILEY March 1, 2020 Andrea Brachfeld Brazilian Whispers Origin Records 2020 The flute as the lead instrument in any jazz combo relies on an empathic and sensitive rhythm section that will not overpower the wind instrument's delicate voice (Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson notwithstanding). Flautist Andrea Brachfeld happens upon a dandy rhythm section in pianist Bill O'Connell, bassist Harvie S and drummers Jason Tiemann and T Portinho. That said, Brachfeld is more than able to kick out the jams, evidenced by her barnburning solo on Jobim's "Waters of March." The flautist is perfectly capable of cooking things off, as she does with Jobim's lithesome "Amparo." "Never Let Me Go" is given careful consideration, O'Connell introducing the song quietly. allowing Brachfeld to switch to alto flute, summoning those dark colors that pitch provides. Brachfeld's "Girl from Ipanema" is performed at a brisk and precise pace, with velocity great enough to evaporate the humidity of the original Brachfeld's soloing is robust and forward-thinking. Guitarist Roni Ben-Hur sands the edges from the rush. The flautist's original compositions with pianist O'Connell, meld seamlessly with the Brazilian fare. "Triste E Solitaria" and "Espaço Aberto" reveal the balladic and heated command of composition possessed by Brachfeld. Brazilian Whispers is an exceptional Bossa Nova instrumental recording, well conceived and executed. Cecilia Bartoli, Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini Farinelli Decca 2020 There is an historic gravity to mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli's Farinelli. The release gives opportunity to educate on several different topics: 17th Century opera, castrati, composers Nicola Propora, Johann Adolph Hasse, Riccardo Broschi, Geminiano Giacomielli, and Antonio Caldara. What? No Handel or Vivaldi? No. The repertoire chosen for this recording concentrates on those composers most closely associated with Carlo Maria Michelangelo Nicola Broschi (1705 -1782), AKA Farinelli. Yes, the Riccardo Broschi mentioned above is Farinelli's brother. These men, with whom the singer collaborated closely, composed music specifically for Farinelli, the more scintillating, the better. This was music to show off the exceptional voice of an adult male castrated pre-puberty, who could sing with greater control and more power than mere, intact mortals. Enter the mezzo-soprano of my lifetime, Cecilia Bartoli. Mezzos and male countertenors are the closest modern equivalent to the castrati tonal pitch. In the movie Farinelli, Farinelli's singing voice was created by the Polish soprano Ewa Malas-Godlewska and countertenor Derek Lee Ragin, recording separately and then digitally merging their performances to recreate the sound of a castrato: an effective bit of trickery that provides an other-worldly vocal tone that piques the modern imagination. Bartoli throws herself head first into this repertoire, showing off her considerable breath control. At 53-years old, the singer is at the pinnacle of her vocal abilities and not afraid to show them off. She also possessed the carefree marketing acumen to populate the CD with gender-bending pictures of her fully bearded (something for which she has been roundly criticized by the humorless print press). Bravo, I say! Any recording by Bartoli is to be celebrated. Ann Hallenberg, Stile Galante, Stefano Aresi The Farinelli Manuscript Glossa 2019 Not allowing Bartoli the singular Farinelli spotlight, mezzo-soprano Ann Hallenberg offers her own vision of the great castrato, this one with a backstory. Farinelli, retired, living in Madrid, collects these arias, many of which he sang to King Philip V, during a depressive period, as a gift to Empress Maria Theresa, in an elaborate, handwritten volume. Hallenberg's performances are buoyed by their excellent support by Stile Galante, who provide brisk and full-bodied accompaniment to the singer. This music was composed for singer's to show off. Well, at least one in particular. Hallenberg's age is in the same vicinity as Bartoli's and her tone relaxed and well-centered. Her coloratura fireworks show greater control than Bartoli's (which costs her in the change-taking department). Hallenberg stands and delivers marching through 'Son qual nave,' standing astride a two-and-a-half octave tonal range while navigating the seemingly impossible timbre-wise. Hallenberg is not better than Bartoli, just beautifully different. We should be grateful for both. Mick Kolassa Blind Lemon Sessions Endless Blues Records 2020 Bluesman Mississippi Mick Kolassa calls Taylor, MS home. Taylor is located southwest of Oxford, it is spit on a dirt road, famous for the Taylor Grocery and Restaurant, haunt of many an Ole Miss student. Kolassa has been a fixture on the Mississippi and international blues scene for the last number of years with CD Baby showing eight recordings released. Kolassa is a blues stylist with a rough-hewn unique approach to his performances. He has written scores of songs, has an encyclopedic blues knowledge, and sense-of-humor enough to cover non-blues material with a blues flair (like the laconic "Help!" he has included on The Blind Lemon Sessions. Recorded at the behest of Thomas Schleiken of Blind Lemon Records in Germany and Tennessee, The Blind Lemon Sessions is a collection of blues standards (Lonnie Johnson's "Jelly Roll Baker," Blind Blake's "Ditty Wah Ditty"), New Orleans fare ("St. James Infirmary," sounding suspiciously like Willie McTell's "Dyin' Crapshooter Blues) and the Beatles ("Help" Kolassa and Mark Telesca having recorded an entire album of Beatles's covers on You Can't Do That! -Acoustic Beatles Blues (Swing Suit Records, 2017)). Kolassa's guitar style is informed and humble as is his singing. His original compositions, "Text Me Baby" and "Mr. Right" are homespun and, at the same time, contemporary. He obviously enjoys what he is doing and is intent to keep on doing it. Sinne Eeg & the Danish Radio Big Band We've Just Begun BFM Jazz 2020 Danish singer and composer Sinne Eeg has had a good stretch. Her previous recordings Dreams (Artist Share, 2017) and Eeg-Fonnesbæk (Stunt Records/Sundance Music, 2016) were very well received, making several year's end lists. On We've Just Begun, Eeg pairs with the Danish Radio Big Band for a ten-song recital that swings with excitement and joy. The title track Eeg shares with Mark Winkler composing, setting the stage for the remainder of the program featuring the bright brass and woody reeds of the DRBB. Big band arrangements are shared between Jesper Riis, Peter Jensen , and Roger Neumann with the DRBB conducted by Nikolai Bøgelund. Eeg's own compositions: the title piece, "Like a Song," and "Samba Em Comun" all are delivered with a large ensemble brightness that helps showcase Eeg's superb delivery. Her treatment of "Detour Ahead" rates a revelation of what that warhorse still has to offer. Eeg has evolved into first a regional, then national, then international musical force just when we needed her. link
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 12, 2020 7:16:16 GMT
www.heraldscotland.com/2 hrs ago Scotland’s last flute maker fears the music will die on endangered craftBy Herald Scotland Online He is believed to be the last wooden flute maker in Scotland. So exquisite are George Ormiston’s instruments they are sold across the world, while musical luminaries such as Jethro Tull guitarist Ian Anderson and revered jazz saxophonist Tommy Smith are among his previous customers. But after the Heritage Crafts Association classified his trade as endangered, the 68-year-old is not confident the skills he has developed over a lifetime will survive north of the Border, despite a history stretching back centuries. And if they do disappear, the loss, he warns, will be significant. “I think I’m the only flute maker left in Scotland,” he said. “There are plastic ones and they’re just not that good. “In terms of wooden flutes, there’s less than 10 [makers] left in the UK.” Mr Ormiston has been producing flutes and piccolos for 42 years. A keen player of the flute as a teenager, he has two workshops – one in Bo’ness, Falkirk and another in Stirling – where he meticulously crafts the instruments. Mr Ormiston studied engineering at college in Edinburgh and Coventry, and began making woodwinds after he realised there was a demand for new flutes. He discovered most flutes in the late 1970s had been made in the 19th century and were in disrepair. After graduating from college at the age of 22, he moved to Ireland and then Bavaria, Germany, where he learned the ropes of woodwind-making while working at a recorder manufacturer. The father-of-two said: “I played the flute and at 16 I started working and going to college studying engineering and put the two together. “There was a lack of good quality wooden flutes. Most were made in the 19th century so there was a bit of an opening for re-making.” Following the technical specifications of pioneering Edinburgh flute-maker John Mitchell Rose, Mr Ormiston began crafting his own instruments in 1978. Over the last 42 years, he has made more than 1,000 flutes. Unlike other instruments, such as guitars, which are made by hand, he uses machinery in only a tiny portion of his work on flutes, with the keys produced from air-dried African Blackwood and Sterling Silver. He has even made flutes for British rock band Jethro Tull’s guitarist, Ian Anderson, and jazz saxophonist Tommy Smith. It takes Mr Ormiston up to four weeks to make a flute, but preparation of the wood happens over several years. Weeks are also needed to craft the elegant silverwork and head-joints. The elegant silverwork and headjoints can take weeks to craft. “We leave the wood for a year to dry, then we rough train and bore the wood, putting a hole all the way through it,” he said. “Then we second train it, finish train it, then use it to make a flute. “If somebody wants keys then they can be put on – that can take much longer than the actual woodwork. It can take two to three weeks to do the silverwork. “We also make wooden head-joints that are very sought after by classical players.” Thanks to their quality of his work, there is no shortage of customers queuing up to buy his wares. From Belgium and Spain’s Basque Country to Manchester and Missouri, he has sent his handcrafted instruments all over the world. Some of them sell for more than £4,000. Today, the flute, which previously had a relatively marginal role in Scottish traditional music, is enjoying something of a revival as an increasing number of younger players across the country pick it up. And yet there is no guarantee the expertise built up by Mr Ormiston over decades will be preserved and developed. He hopes someone will take over the business from him when he eventually decides to hang up his tools and retire. But, he admits, there is little ground for certainty. “I hope it continues because there’s an immense tradition of flute making in Scotland, going back to the 17th century,” he said. “Who knows what the future holds?” link
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Post by ash on Mar 13, 2020 23:16:40 GMT
John Lunn Flutes must be the most beautiful handmade flutes on the market
Here's just one of his fantastic designs
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 22, 2020 7:18:13 GMT
oklahoman.com/Jethro Tull Flutist Reforms TechniqueSANDI DAVIS Published: Fri, November 12, 1993 12:00 AM As any budding flutist knew 25 years ago, the guy who played the flute in the band Jethro Tull played differently than any other flutist they'd seen. He hunched over and he held the flute funny. Turns out, Ian Anderson didn't know what he was doing. The newly reformed flutist who is also the vocalist for Jethro Tull will be in concert with the band at 8 p.m. Sunday at the Civic Center Music Hall. After remarking that most flutists learn with books and a fingering chart, he told about his transformation. "I bought a flute with no instructions, either in English or Japanese," Anderson said in a telephone interview. "I invented my own technique and own way of holding my flute. "My daughter is playing flute now, and she came home and said 'Daddy, you're doing it all wrong,' " he explained. "She gave me a fingering chart and showed me how to hold it. I was amazed," he continued. "I was not only wrong, but to a degree it was causing me serious problems. " Anderson took six weeks to relearn his instrument, and he said the change was readily apparent. "I'm more relaxed and I have a decent sound," he confessed. "For the first time I like to have a flute with me, at home, in the dressing room, I like to privately play it, to see how it sounds in different rooms. It was a reinvention of the instrument to me. " Aside from that, the Jethro Tull that will be in concert will celebrate 25 years in the business. They'll do it with a wide range of songs. "Fans expect to hear some things, we have a bit of an obligation," Anderson said. "We give most of them some of what they want to hear and some they don't expect to hear. " He also said that two or three things they'll do at the show won't have been recorded yet. "We'll ask for the audience's tolerance, sensitivity and politeness," he said humorously. He went on to say, without mentioning names, that he is quite happy to play five or six of his biggest hits, but there are some songs he'd love to do that they can't do because they don't have the technology. He added that the band won't play anything they can't enjoy. The current incarnation of Jethro Tull is capable of playing 150 of the 250 songs recorded by the band, but each concert can only hold about 25 songs, so the tour does change from year to year. About the songs they don't - or haven't - ever played in concert Anderson grew almost poetic. "Some songs are only made love to once. Their virginity is almost intact," he said. "Sometimes they're too perfect to change, that somehow to do them again would be wrong. On other songs, you say 'I can do that better, I can put it across another way. ' " Tickets for Jethro Tull are $19.50 and $22.50 and are available from Ticket Source. For information, call 297-3000. BIOG: NAME: Archive ID: 557025 link
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Post by jackinthegreen on Mar 26, 2020 1:13:45 GMT
Everything you would like to know about the FLUTE but were afraid to ask I've started this thread so anyone with questions about flute playing in general or indeed anything about Ian and his flutes. In fact anything about the flute that may be of interest, bring it on
The easy link about Ian's flutes is This link
This was a good look at Ian's playing but I understand he was a disappointed there was a lack of questions about the flute. I had one but didn't get asked . Ian at All flutes Plus in 2014
It would be nice to hear from the folk that play or indeed those who have tried and the flute ended up in the attic or made into a lamp
Have you tried a wooden flute, I would love to have one, I play the flute but never have I managed to get my hands on a wooden flute.....
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Post by Equus on Mar 26, 2020 8:06:30 GMT
The flute is a very interesting instrument. I think that Ian Anderson is the only one who really understands it's potential. Maybe there is someone else out there, they are just not famous, but even though he has set an example to strive for and follow, all of the flute players I have listened to just doesn't get it "right." They produce shrill sounds, and it just doesn't inspire to much. Even the so called best flute players, are not very good compared to Ian Anderson. I play the flute too, and I got my first flute when I was 18, or 19 years old... I visited one of my friends, and we listened to some music. I started to whistle, and my friend asked me why I didn't play any instrument. I told him that I would like to play the flute... Dan, my friend, who had been to South America for a year, or so, sailing on the amazon river together with Indians... (a dangerous adventure) came to panama at one point, he then bought a flute... A Camelot flute... I didn't know anything about the flute, but the moment I told him I wanted to play the flute, he reached under the bed, and gave it to me with the words: "You can borrow mine". I still have it... Bought it from him...
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Post by ash on Mar 26, 2020 12:28:13 GMT
The flute is a very interesting instrument. I think that Ian Anderson is the only one who really understands it's potential. Maybe there is someone else out there, they are just not famous, but even though he has set an example to strive for and follow, all of the flute players I have listened to just doesn't get it "right." They produce shrill sounds, and it just doesn't inspire to much. Even the so called best flute players, are not very good compared to Ian Anderson. I play the flute too, and I got my first flute when I was 18, or 19 years old... I visited one of my friends, and we listened to some music. I started to whistle, and my friend asked me why I didn't play any instrument. I told him that I would like to play the flute... Dan, my friend, who had been to South America for a year, or so, sailing on the amazon river together with Indians... (a dangerous adventure) came to panama at one point, he then bought a flute... A Camelot flute... I didn't know anything about the flute, but the moment I told him I wanted to play the flute, he reached under the bed, and gave it to me with the words: "You can borrow mine". I still have it... Bought it from him... Ian Clarke is a very interesting player. It hard to find any YouTube of him playing. I do one of his albums Within. He does use a lot of extended techniques as they are called in the flute world. Also the band project Trio with Greg Pattillo (flute) is good fun. I can't say I'm a lover of beatbox but on the flute it's very different. I like the bottom video
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Post by nonrabbit on Mar 26, 2020 18:39:45 GMT
Love this If you do a Search here on the Forum there's a fair few posts about Ian Clarke. Ash: You can see what you were saying years ago
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Post by ash on Mar 27, 2020 8:45:28 GMT
Love this If you do a Search here on the Forum there's a fair few posts about Ian Clarke. Ash: You can see what you were saying years ago Me? When? Where did I leave those brain cells . That is nice. Very few are actually played by Ian C on YouTube, which is a pity.
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Post by ash on Mar 27, 2020 9:05:30 GMT
Everything you would like to know about the FLUTE but were afraid to ask I've started this thread so anyone with questions about flute playing in general or indeed anything about Ian and his flutes. In fact anything about the flute that may be of interest, bring it on
The easy link about Ian's flutes is This link
This was a good look at Ian's playing but I understand he was a disappointed there was a lack of questions about the flute. I had one but didn't get asked . Ian at All flutes Plus in 2014
It would be nice to hear from the folk that play or indeed those who have tried and the flute ended up in the attic or made into a lamp
Have you tried a wooden flute, I would love to have one, I play the flute but never have I managed to get my hands on a wooden flute..... Once a very long time ago for a few minutes. Not really long enough to get into it, mores the pity. A much more mellow sound than metal. I did try a Guo Grenaditte Flute which is the grey coloured flute Ian played for a short time and there are photos around with him holding one.They are very much like a wooden flute in sound and none of the high maintenance. Pity these are not cheaper link. I do have one very nice bamboo flute that doesn't get much use but it looks nice and sits in front of me by my monitor
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 10, 2020 6:36:56 GMT
bluesfestivalguide.com/Why Ian Anderson Gave Up the Guitar for the FlutePosted: Apr 09, 2020 Jethro Tull leader Ian Anderson recalled the reasons he abandoned guitar and bought a flute in 1967. He’d already formed an early version of his band, but at the time they were performing regular blues songs, because he didn’t believe there were many other options. “We came out of that period where to get a gig – let alone get a record deal – you had to be in a blues band or an out-and-out pop group,” Anderson told Classic Rock in a recent interview. “But on the periphery, there was Captain Beefheart and the Graham Bond Organization – very different to purist black American blues – which was important to the development of Jethro Tull.” Anderson noted “that signpost got bigger in the summer of ’67 when Pink Floyd had The Piper at the Gates of Dawn and the Beatles had Sgt. Pepper. Those records energized me – you could step outside the comfort zone of 12-bar blues or pop music and you could do something different.” It was around that time he decided to change instruments. “I’d been playing guitar and harmonica, but as a guitarist I was never going to be as good as Eric Clapton, simple as that,” he reflected. “So I parted company with my Fender Strat, whose previous owner was Lemmy Kilmister, who was then the rhythm guitar player for the Rockin’ Vickers, and I bought a flute, for no good reason. It just looked nice and shiny.” Anderson admitted he struggled to settle with the new instrument, and ignored it for six months after he purchased it, until “somebody said to me, ‘You don’t blow into the hole, you blow across it.’ Oh, okay. Suddenly I got a note, then another and another. Within a week I was playing blues solos, and it became part of our gig. That was the beginning of the Jethro Tull with the guy who stands in the middle playing the flute while standing on one leg.” ultimateclassicrock.com/ian-anderson-flute/
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Post by jackinthegreen on Apr 11, 2020 20:09:00 GMT
Have you tried a wooden flute, I would love to have one, I play the flute but never have I managed to get my hands on a wooden flute..... Once a very long time ago for a few minutes. Not really long enough to get into it, mores the pity. A much more mellow sound than metal. I did try a Guo Grenaditte Flute which is the grey coloured flute Ian played for a short time and there are photos around with him holding one.They are very much like a wooden flute in sound and none of the high maintenance. Pity these are not cheaper link. I do have one very nice bamboo flute that doesn't get much use but it looks nice and sits in front of me by my monitor Yes Ash, I looked at the Grenaditte flutes online, never picked one up though, they are expensive as you say. I have a nice book of Irish Airs, jigs, reels etc, have you tried playing that stuff, I love bands like Lunasa etc who play some nice bits and pieces of Irish stuff.
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Post by ash on Apr 19, 2020 8:59:53 GMT
Once a very long time ago for a few minutes. Not really long enough to get into it, mores the pity. A much more mellow sound than metal. I did try a Guo Grenaditte Flute which is the grey coloured flute Ian played for a short time and there are photos around with him holding one.They are very much like a wooden flute in sound and none of the high maintenance. Pity these are not cheaper link. I do have one very nice bamboo flute that doesn't get much use but it looks nice and sits in front of me by my monitor Yes Ash, I looked at the Grenaditte flutes online, never picked one up though, they are expensive as you say. I have a nice book of Irish Airs, jigs, reels etc, have you tried playing that stuff, I love bands like Lunasa etc who play some nice bits and pieces of Irish stuff. I have tied the odd Irish (Celtic) stuff but not really with any great enthusiasm. Does playing In The Grip Of Stronger Stuff count
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Post by ash on Apr 19, 2020 9:12:23 GMT
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Post by JTull 007 on Apr 26, 2020 17:07:31 GMT
This is a wonderful moment to behold... LINK The flute playing young lady Heline Fay just became a TULL Chick
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Post by JTull 007 on Apr 30, 2020 0:54:29 GMT
A somewhat critical opinion... Classical Flutist Reacts: Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick // POOR FLUTE! I'm a flutist and this is my first time watching and listening to Jethro Tull perform Thick as a Brick live at Madison Square Garden 1978. I'm really getting interested in his style and can't wait to see more! As a flutist, I'm only including the flute parts as on the video, even though I listened to the whole video.
This was my most requested reaction so I decided to do it right away ! I'm kinda shocked what the flute had to go through haha! First I thought it was mic or cable or something but urrrrh..
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Post by maddogfagin on May 9, 2020 7:01:16 GMT
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Post by ash on May 9, 2020 18:36:16 GMT
Lots of folk on Facebook are getting upset with her videos. Me not so. She is just hamming it up to get hits on her posts and I have no problem with that. If you are classically trained then that is what you do. I bet she knows all about extended flute techniques that are used by players who don't play classical music .
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Post by jackinthegreen on May 9, 2020 23:52:37 GMT
Lots of folk on Facebook are getting upset with her videos. Me not so. She is just hamming it up to get hits on her posts and I have no problem with that. If you are classically trained then that is what you do. I bet she knows all about extended flute techniques that are used by players who don't play classical music . I don't do Facebook, but why would anyone get uptight about her vids, she is what she is, a classical player who is trained to play a certain way. Ian would agree with what she says totally in my opinion, he has admitted that he was learning to play and didn't really know what he was doing, and even using the wrong fingering back then. But what he was doing sounded cool in a rock concept, it was bringing a different sound into the rock genre, maybe the young lady doesn't get that, being from a different era and perspective, but I get what she is saying, and I love her comments. If Ian had been a classic trained flautist it would not have worked, the fact he was doing the overblown stuff made it appealing. It does not appeal to the average classical musician but it does to Jethro Tull fans But I like what she has to say
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Post by JTull 007 on May 10, 2020 1:55:40 GMT
Download this Pdf File and read more ... Page 20 Learning by Doing : Ian Anderson Pdf LINK by David Westcombe Ian Anderson, one of the best-known flutists of the classic rock-and-roll era, has performed with Jethro Tull for more than 50 years and has made his mark both in the band and as a soloist. His band had already cut a commercially successful album and enjoyed considerable success before the famous flutist’s daughter informed him he was “playing it all wrong.”
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Post by maddogfagin on May 10, 2020 6:26:26 GMT
boingboing.net/GARETH BRANWYN / 10:22 AM SAT MAY 9, 2020 A classical flutist listens to Ian Anderson in 1969 and 1976I have a love/hate relationship with musical reaction videos. There are kids reacting to heavy metal (or The Beatles), vocal teachers and opera singers reacting to rock vocalists, millennials reacting to classic rock, and on and on. Some of these are quite moving, for instance, a 20-something hearing Zep's "Since I've Been Loving You" for the first time or a vocal teacher reacting to a Black Metal vocalist's cookie monster growl. In these two videos, Heline, a classical flutist and music teacher, listens to Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson performing "Bouree" at a 1969 concert and then she listens and reacts to a performance from 1976. I didn't realize that Anderson had only been playing the flute for a year and had no formal training at the time of the 69 video (their first tour). Heline can appreciate his chutzpah in the first performance and the fact that he's only been playing for a year(!), but is perhaps predictably critical of his playing. She is more impressed with what she sees and hears in the 76 performance. Personally, I always thought his playing was inspired and his playing, vocalizing, singing and playing, and his other stage antics (the goofy one-legged stance) were a perfect example of "the street finding its own uses for things," using technology in ways in which it was never intended. As with all things artistic, your mileage may vary. Image: YouTube 14 commentslink
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Post by ash on May 11, 2020 15:09:46 GMT
Good read and a nice magazine to boot.Thank you Sir
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Post by ash on May 11, 2020 15:17:21 GMT
Lots of folk on Facebook are getting upset with her videos. Me not so. She is just hamming it up to get hits on her posts and I have no problem with that. If you are classically trained then that is what you do. I bet she knows all about extended flute techniques that are used by players who don't play classical music . I don't do Facebook, but why would anyone get uptight about her vids, she is what she is, a classical player who is trained to play a certain way. Ian would agree with what she says totally in my opinion, he has admitted that he was learning to play and didn't really know what he was doing, and even using the wrong fingering back then. But what he was doing sounded cool in a rock concept, it was bringing a different sound into the rock genre, maybe the young lady doesn't get that, being from a different era and perspective, but I get what she is saying, and I love her comments. If Ian had been a classic trained flautist it would not have worked, the fact he was doing the overblown stuff made it appealing. It does not appeal to the average classical musician but it does to Jethro Tull fans But I like what she has to say I guess some fans get upset because they see it as attacking Ian's playing . I think videos like this are just a bit of fun and I can't take them too seriously.
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Post by jackinthegreen on May 12, 2020 0:31:51 GMT
That's my point Ash...some fans (who know nothing about the flute playing) would think she is doing so, (attacking Ian), b*****s, ...……..but she is just being honest. I think the video is more than a piece of fun and take it she is taking it seriously, I'm surprised you don't, or are you talking about the fans...... A classically trained flautist could not have played "Bouree" like Ian played it on the "Stand Up " album, but he did...……..and so we love it.. Ian's flute playing back then was unique, but the average Tull fan , 99% didn't even hear the flute.....
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Post by jackinthegreen on May 12, 2020 0:36:40 GMT
That's my point Ash...some fans (who know nothing about the flute playing) would think she is doing so, (attacking Ian), b*****s, ...……..but she is just being honest. I think the video is more than a piece of fun and take it she is taking it seriously, I'm surprised you don't, or are you talking about the fans...... A classically trained flautist could not have played "Bouree" like Ian played it on the "Stand Up " album, but he did...……..and so we love it.. Ian's flute playing back then was unique, but the average Tull fan , 99% didn't even hear the flute..... In the early days, lets be honest folks who were hearing the early Tull stuff wouldn't know a flute if you hit them up the arse with it...…..
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Post by ash on May 16, 2020 8:13:10 GMT
That's my point Ash...some fans (who know nothing about the flute playing) would think she is doing so, (attacking Ian), b*****s, ...……..but she is just being honest. I think the video is more than a piece of fun and take it she is taking it seriously, I'm surprised you don't, or are you talking about the fans...... A classically trained flautist could not have played "Bouree" like Ian played it on the "Stand Up " album, but he did...……..and so we love it.. Ian's flute playing back then was unique, but the average Tull fan , 99% didn't even hear the flute..... I must have been the 1%. I went out and got myself a flute within a year of first hearing Tull.
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Post by ash on May 16, 2020 8:18:25 GMT
Well here is something to brighten up a flute concert . Trevor Wye Does some odd things and he is Classically trained
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