The Jethro Tull Interview
Excerpt from Minds Behind the Music book
Excerpt from Minds Behind the Music book
Minds Behind the Music
Ian Anderson is an icon of folk-rock music the world over. His voice and flute go together like, well, like his voice and flute. There’s no comparison. For over fifty years he has been entertaining us, but it all started around 1968 when Jethro Tull rose out of the flames of two blues rock bands. Ian’s uniqueness is matched by his ability to play almost any instrument, write cross-genre hit songs and pull funny faces.
Since then Jethro Tull (or Tull for short) have released 30 studio and live albums, sold more than 60 million records, played more than 3000 concerts in 40 countries and have fans in every single country in the world and some on Mars, honest.
So it was with much trepidation that this thick as a brick author managed to ask him a few thick questions.
As an expressive artist in the music industry, how does the state of the planet make you feel?
Despairing. mostly. But I am an optimistic-enough soul to want to believe that humanity may adapt to survive and prosper. Eventually.
Do you think as a person of some influence that there is a duty on us to help influence humanity for the better?
Of course. In our daily lives, in the smallest of ways and through the kindest of acts.
What one cause would you say you feel most associated with and why? Whether it’s equality, poverty, politics, the environment or other?
The environment, primarily, since so many other "causes" have their profound effect ultimately on the physical state of the planet. Animal rights a close second.
If you were stood before the leaders of the world, what would you say to them?
OK - Let's take a vote.
And finally my last question is in fact one written by Freddie Mercury in the song “Is This the World We Created”:
If there's a God in the sky, looking down
What can he think of what we've done
To the world that He created?
He, She, It or whatever the primal force may wish itself to be called, probably needs a good holiday break from all of us. The last verse of a yet unreleased Tull track, "Mine Is The Mountain" reads:
So think of me fondly in spite of the raging,
the ranting, the raving, the threatening tone.
For I am the father, the power and the glory
and now, for God's sake, kindly leave me alone.
Mine is the mountain.
Excerpt from Minds Behind the Music book Minds Behind the Music Copyright 2021
Ian Anderson is an icon of folk-rock music the world over. His voice and flute go together like, well, like his voice and flute. There’s no comparison. For over fifty years he has been entertaining us, but it all started around 1968 when Jethro Tull rose out of the flames of two blues rock bands. Ian’s uniqueness is matched by his ability to play almost any instrument, write cross-genre hit songs and pull funny faces.
Since then Jethro Tull (or Tull for short) have released 30 studio and live albums, sold more than 60 million records, played more than 3000 concerts in 40 countries and have fans in every single country in the world and some on Mars, honest.
So it was with much trepidation that this thick as a brick author managed to ask him a few thick questions.
As an expressive artist in the music industry, how does the state of the planet make you feel?
Despairing. mostly. But I am an optimistic-enough soul to want to believe that humanity may adapt to survive and prosper. Eventually.
Do you think as a person of some influence that there is a duty on us to help influence humanity for the better?
Of course. In our daily lives, in the smallest of ways and through the kindest of acts.
The environment, primarily, since so many other "causes" have their profound effect ultimately on the physical state of the planet. Animal rights a close second.
If you were stood before the leaders of the world, what would you say to them?
OK - Let's take a vote.
And finally my last question is in fact one written by Freddie Mercury in the song “Is This the World We Created”:
If there's a God in the sky, looking down
What can he think of what we've done
To the world that He created?
He, She, It or whatever the primal force may wish itself to be called, probably needs a good holiday break from all of us. The last verse of a yet unreleased Tull track, "Mine Is The Mountain" reads:
So think of me fondly in spite of the raging,
the ranting, the raving, the threatening tone.
For I am the father, the power and the glory
and now, for God's sake, kindly leave me alone.
Mine is the mountain.
Excerpt from Minds Behind the Music book Minds Behind the Music Copyright 2021
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