Ian Anderson Flute Unscripted Interview

[@RichardCowdrey]

What a unique soul Ian is, such a talent and an icon

[@robertcatesby8420]

"To play a wrong note is insignificant. To play without passion is inexcusable." - Beethoven

[@ejc8017]

"If you play a wrong note, play it loud so everybody notice it, but never play with fear" - Astor Piazzolla

[@arnoldwohler]

Ian Anderson has so much so say: he can talk ours - I never would get tired of it - its just like to hear him singing ...

[@Antuan_the_Swan]

Spellcheck

[@AJ-tp9bk]

At 31:14, the girl fell asleep.

[@johncollier9280]

Yo Ian-I saw Jethro Tull in Austin, Texas in 1970. Clouds was the opening act. That live performance was so amazing it was life changing. Thank you for all you have done-great to see you again!

[@shadowsdad903]

It was summer of 1970. I was a young Navy man working with the USAF in San Antonio. I was supposed to be listening to Morse code out of the receiver on my left, but it was a slow day and I had my headphones plugged into a reel to reel tape on my right. And someone had recorded a local FM station and I heard Jethro Tull’s Bouree. I was hooked!

[@pamelatrane9833]

I fell in love with Ian at 15 years old! I have loved him ever since . I have seen him several times live and its always been a new experience. He is a fantastic performer.

[@marktulk4225]

Not sure how far back you have known Ian, and Tull, but - like other Brit groups - they began by touring college towns, in US. THAT, COINCIDENTALLY, was the years, '68-70, when LSD ( the real thing) was readily, cheaply, and voluminously available. IAN UNDERSTOOD "SHOW BIZ", more than 95% of other rock performers. ( Hendrix paid his dues with Isley Brothers, on the "Chitlin' Circuit". Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce ( Cream) were formally taught, etc.) Thus Ian's STAGE PRESENCE, and MOVEMENT, MADE MICK JAGGER LOOK LIKE AN AMATEUR. I do not exaggerate. Wearing a cape, flute a magic wand - hippies and students in US were mesmerized. Ian has made it clear that he never used ANY drugs, except small amt. ale or brandy, well- aware that his bandmates DID, within reason. After 3 decades of "stadium gigs", the market has brought him back to smaller theaters, which I enjoy. He has always been open and generous about gear and tech stuff. Back around 2005,Tull did an "Aqualung" revival - AND GAVE FREE CDs OF IT TO EVERYONE, with tickets still $15-30 ( pre Ticketmaster )... I share your appreciation... - Mark T, Michigan USA

[@elisabethlinz4256]

Hopefully your husband has some resemblance with Ian, Pamela! That would be a dream have come true, am I right? Cheers!

[@pskemster]

Humble and absolutely Brilliant simultaneously. A true gift! We Love you Ian. All the best to ya!

[@serenityfields7514]

This is really great to hear him talk on like this in such a relaxed state.

[@davidlogan9777]

glad you picked up that flute in the music store Ian..great choice

[@OdysseyofAscension]

Outstanding! Thank you Ian and the Flute Center!

[@larrymcmonagle738]

I've been a fan of "Ian and the boys" and a major flute fan since the early 1970s...love hearing from him and seeing what he's been up to...

[@themikentimcomedyshow3343]

Great interview! Very much enjoyed hearing more about the flute in a rock context. good to hear some original questions as well

[@shuttledriver]

Can u imagine you're a kid going to school learning the flute and your dad is fricken the legendary Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull? Blows my mind!!

[@scumpert]

Melville Plaza in Bicton Wa, Australia I hear JT songs all the time,, Bloody awesome!

[@ChristianYunes]

Ian Anderson is great! A musician who stood out for his musicality and not for his technique! in fact, he developed a technique that worked much better for young Ian Anderson - who had a lot of breath - than any learned technique!

[@NuntiusLegis]

His flute skills are perfectly intact - it's the singing which gets harder for him to deliver, especially for an entire tour.

[@berniekellman405]

Although I promise I wish Ian Anderson many, many, many more years of health and happiness, I must admit, my true hope is to outlive him ( I am 10 years younger than him). I have been a studious fan for over 50 years and I simply don't want to miss out on any of his music.

[@charlychips]

Thanks for sharing this. Ian Anderson is such an Artist.

[@bobwallace9753]

Wise and articulate. Much appreciation.

[@brentmoreland8613]

What a wonderful human being!

[@johncase2408]

I would have loved to have seen Ian Anderson starring in a Broadway musical. His gift for stage craft is so unique and naturally theatrical.

[@olafsrensen9578]

When I was in Newyork I herd a Altofluteplayer in the subway .I sounded orsom. I have played the C flute but hearing the alto make me bying one comming back to Denmark.

[@Mr.Altavoz]

Love this man ❤️❤️ such a interesting character and wonderful musician

[@leftypick4854]

Ian also plays some badass geetar too, never forget that.

[@eduardocarreirodacruz8021]

IAN ANDERSON ... The BEST !!!!

[@cordeliakates6044]

But I do so miss his knee kick, I guess he is just to old like me and I understand ! His wonderful music more than makes up for it. I must list him to him weekly! I am seventy now and will never stop! His music just speaks to my soul! TKS DEAR SIR!

[@TIMSTRUMENT]

I love this dude 🎶

[@laurencepreston2939]

What an eloquent and intelligent man.

[@NefariousEnough]

Extraordinary!! Thank you.

[@peterszewzek4167]

Great interview. I first saw Tull back in 1970 at The Fillmore East,NYC. Ian and I have had two conversations on the early Fillmore East days. Great interview.

[@davidmcdowell5492]

Well, I don't feel so bad now... I've had my flute now for a month and I get very little that sound like notes out of it. I was convinced it was a lemon. I will keep plodding along for another few months to see where it takes me...

[@fernandodelgado1680]

Hola soy de uruguay son fanatico de jehtro tull x eso toco flauta traversa ian anderson genio total 💪🎶🎵🎼👍👏👏👏👏👏

[@lordkirbyray]

So cool!

[@BaronMichaelDeBlone1066]

I often wondered if Ian ever met Harold McNair who did a lot of session work also Chris Wood of Traffic. Both of them doubled up as sax men but died early. If I am not mistaken all three were signed to Island Records at some point.

[@justgivemethetruth]

Ian was signed to Island Records? When? I thought he started with Reprise Records and then went to their own Chrysalis records?

[@BaronMichaelDeBlone1066]

@@justgivemethetruth My error. Island was the distributor for Chrysalis. Tull were signed to Reprise in the States were Warner Bros (parent company of Reprise) was the distributor until 1976.

[@justgivemethetruth]

@@BaronMichaelDeBlone1066 That sounds about right. I just had a picture of the record label from the early Tull albums before they become the blue labels of Chrysalis.

[@scumpert]

Things have changed so much in a year!

[@DEADLIESTMAN1]

very fresh interview.

[@jameschristiansson3137]

Subscribed. Caity, I'd say you have a knack for this !

[@kramkalisthenics]

"Granddad went to your concert and had a heart attack and died." That's pretty rock and roll.

[@cordeliakates6044]

Can’t think of a better way to go!

[@RikDahlstrom]

Ian .. you’re an amazing guitarist too..

[@CaliforniaBushman]

Very, very good point. Successful British musicians went to art school! Pink Floyd is a prime example.

[@Yosemite-George-61]

Y'all need to get one thing clear... Classical, or so called "real" flute players are nothing more than "repeaters" of somebody else's work. They spend most of their life practicing the same songs (excuse me, "symphonies") over and over in hopes to be accepted by their peers all the while blowing away without CREATING anything. This man created a new type of music, to this day the only traverse flute player in progressive rock worth noting. HE DOES NOT NEED "FORMAL" TRAINING ! Nor the "visto bueno" of the "real" flute community... he has us, the millions of fans that acceped him and bought his records...

[@BaronMichaelDeBlone1066]

Well said Jorge!

[@pCeLobster]

I feel on one hand that this is eminently worth noting, but only in the case of someone like Ian whose creativity is actually good and coupled with a strong overall sense for music. A large amount of self taught players hide behind their "creativity" as an excuse for poor technique or just never fully understanding their instrument. The self taught musicians are the ones that move us forward, but only the very best of them. Most of them just play wrong notes and annoy their bandmates with incompetence.

[@justgivemethetruth]

Do you actually know any classical musicians? Many if not most of them have other interests. Why do you have some perverse need to denigrate classical players? it is just as bad as classical players denigrating Ian or Roland Kirk. Live and let live and appreciate what all musicians do I say!

[@williambaldridge1203]

Jorge, Well said

[@datapolo]

So Thijs van Leer of Focus is not worth noting? Andrew Latimer of Camel? Interesting viewpoint....

[@robertjohnston5011]

The end of the interview gets back around to some very important points that affected my musical experiences (and still does). I originally became a flute player precisely because this Jethro Tull guy I heard on albums borrowed from friends was being so interesting, expressive, fun, creative and convincing. I'd only heard a few musicians do that regularly, such as Jeff Beck as an instrumentalist, and with creative and evolving songwriting, Gordon Lightfoot. The end results reached great accomplishment, but the styles varied a great deal. I also like Gamelan, Thelonius Monk and Carl Stalling music, so there ya go. But Ian Anderson's point about reserving some time to play much more spontaneously, to discover your own performance and creative possibilities, makes utmost sense. It works wonders for performance ability and for expanding the musical awareness and imagination. And there are ways to explore that with some structure around when helpful. For instance, once I'd played flute along to every Tull song recorded, many times, I found myself some years later much more experienced on the flute and then I would use Tull flute music parts as a launching pad, and I'd play invented riffs and harmony parts made up in the moment, along to the Tull music. Then I did the same with Herbie Mann, Renaissance music, Moe Koffman, the Chieftains, and music from others. I wasn't "as good" as those performers, I was just avoiding "repetition". It was improvisation, but trying to make it feel worthwhile. But then time came to sometimes run my playing at 100% invention, pure creativity, spontaneously. And that kind of playing, I'm convinced, opens the imagination up clearly to start trying new playing techniques, imagine new riffs, new senses of music, new dimensions, new instruments, new purposes, and certainly, my own playing techniques explored many kinds of possibilities. I never could get circular breathing going, but out of all that exploration, I rediscovered simple spontaneous whistling as another method of extensive, natural and free-flowing creativity. Things I've whistled and recorded in a little portable digital voice recorder at the time, I take everywhere, I've then turned into some new music. Create content first, arrange much later, at a 10/1 ratio. Here's to avoiding analysis paralysis. Thanks for the interview, and best wishes for a great 2023 to Ian, the band and flute players everywhere.

[@mb13972]

"It was an unusual thing to have a flute in a blues band". But around that same time a small group from NYC's Greenwich Village was forming. They called themselves the Blues Project.

[@christopherstorz6184]

Also Canned Heat

[@michielvdvlies3315]

the only flute player i know in rock music beside Ian Anderson is Peter Gabriel in his Genesis period

[@elisabethlinz4256]

Ian is absolutely right. The flute is undoubtedly easier than many other instruments (cello, Violine, guitar..)

[@maryscaggsdane1978]

Artley!! WOOT! :-)

[@maryscaggsdane1978]

Over a decade ago I had the amazing opportunity to to visit with Tull's drummer backstage in Fort Worth, TX. Ian joined us. We shared Indian food and talked about gardens and peppers. I was too star struck to chat intelligently about music. I played flute for many years. I have several Artley's. This was a great interview. Thank you!

[@justgivemethetruth]

Ian is so heavy-handed and dominating the conversation. She is a really good interviewer. I love that Ian is talking about his repertoire of 360 songs ... that is so outrageous, and the vast majority of them are decent if not really good and have some kind of unique inventiveness about them.

[@HippitusHoppitus]

The podcast is back!

[@AJ-tp9bk]

I've been a fan of skin flute since '69.

[@sid7088]

And trombone? 😂😂

[@AJ-tp9bk]

@@sid7088😁🤣🤣😉👌

[@anthonysilva5312]

Think of rock bands that had flute in a prominent role: Tull Heart Genesis The Guess Who Right? All incredibly musical.

[@smitbar11]

Focus from Holland too, Thijs Van Leer....

[@cdstoc]

Chicago often featured flute, too.

[@NuntiusLegis]

Correction concerning the prominence and brilliance of the flute in a rock context: Tull . . . (several light years) . . the others.

[@Mr.Altavoz]

Hehehe I love his humor 😂😂

[@elisabethlinz4256]

"VACCINATION" (the mRna shot) .... Has Ian got it? (once... or perhaps twice or more) ?

[@gsaugust]

masks work, 6 feet distance, booster after booster after booster, hahahahahah tell em Ian

[@lucadibranco380]

un ipocondrico di livello assoluto!

[@sampalermo123]

Caity has to be one of the more beautiful interviewers I have seen apart from the content of Ian.

[@aliengrey6052]

Get a word in edge ways!!!!!!! Bloody hell

[@nigelstansfield1644]

Weirdly they could be in the same room avoiding eye contact.

[@neilrobinson9806]

Still love your music stick to that

[@robertcatesby8420]

The young lady seemed a bit hesitant to break in and Mr. A was on quite a roll. I feel a bit sorry for her.

[@justgivemethetruth]

There is another video of her interviewing Ian a few years ago.

[@justgivemethetruth]

36:53 - Ian's deadly concerts! ;-)

[@susiewheeler8197]

Is he related to Richard Dean Anderson aka MacGuyver?

[@leftypick4854]

Poldark the foist! Gotta love sci-fi.

[@CamarimPrograma]

Pobre entrevistadora, o Ian não coloca ponto final em nenhuma de suas falas, ela tem que tentar inserir as perguntas no meio das intermináveis frases dele, e fez isso com muita delicadeza.

[@justgivemethetruth]

It's too bad that Ian could not take this time to compose more studio music and come out with another album. Waiting for Thick As A Brick III ;-)

[@smitskee]

The embachure of blowing a flute is not a lead pipe synch. It takes practice and finesse.

[@ilabelle1]

Imagine if Ian saw a tuba hanging on the wall instead of a flute! Hmmmm….

[@paulcrawford5153]

she doesn't know much about tull or she would have known Ian has played other wind instruments on his earlier albums

[@daverigby23]

Ian - you're rambling

[@Yosemite-George-61]

let him ramble... his life is interesting...

[@daverigby23]

@@Yosemite-George-61 Agrred, his life is interesting, but all that about COVID 19 zzzzzzzzzzzz

[@justgivemethetruth]

LOL ... always! ;-)

[@littleandy1209]

If you don't dress up properly during a Jethro Tull concert you might catch a cold and die from it! It's no joke! Serious shit!

[@kramkalisthenics]

Rashan Roland Kirk: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eKTEqYJ6fa5mnKM

[@robertblaisdell6555]

I can't remember in the mid 70s Kirk was on Mike Douglas or Merv Griffen actually caught his act 2 or 3 times on those shows , it was good .

[@susiewheeler8197]

LOved him with Bruce Dickinson

[@justgivemethetruth]

44:05 - Jethro Tull Anti-Covid-19 Seaweed Nasal Inhaler .... $49.95 per bottle. ;-)

[@JSTNtheWZRD]

I don't think she knows how big a rock star he is. Like having mick jagger or jimi hendrix there. But maybe she rocks Tull cleaning up the house.👁🍄👁👂

[@NuntiusLegis]

It became perfectly clear that she knows who he is. And that house cleaning remark - really?

[@JSTNtheWZRD]

@@NuntiusLegis if I had ian anderson on the other line, it would be for me like the Beatles would be for most people. I'd stumble all over the place, or be on the other end smiling, sweating - and I'm 36. His progressive folk stuff after Tull as Tull and himself was way ahead of his time. He worked with or knew or knows every major musician that changed music over the last 50 + years. Not to mention being the humble madman that he is. In the states I struggle to find the origional albums on disc. Strange world - Is it not

[@naamanpratt]

I wonder if Ian still believes what he believed then about Covid, and still a sheep. 🙄

[@justgivemethetruth]

Awwww, poor Ian, no income! The bloody loon, I just paid $50 for his A la Mode 40th Anniversary issue of his "A" album ... WTF does he call that? Not to mention all the other albums, books, and memorabilia. How much income does he need anyway?

[@dominiclarosa6731]

Ian . . Stop talking let her have a word in . . she hasn't ask any questions yet . .

[@Yosemite-George-61]

..she may be "somebody" in NY but for us, Tull fans... what she has to say or ask is not that important... besides, with the first 2 or 3 questions se put he foot in her mouth.

[@justgivemethetruth]

@@Yosemite-George-61 Your the kind of unpleasant Tull fan that Ian talks about not really respecting.

[@derwahreguetige]

​@@justgivemethetruth Du hast Ian weiter Oben ua einen ''Idioten '' genannt ,obwohl du ihn so respektierst?

[@justgivemethetruth]

Geezus God this guy likes to just talk and talk and talk ... this flute was built in Chicago Illinois, etc, etc, etc