Post by TM on Mar 3, 2015 14:58:27 GMT -5
Ex-Jethro Tull frontman confirms he no longer intends to perform under that band’s name
Written by Raymond Johnston
Ian Anderson will forever be known as the man who brought the flute into the rock lineup. He plays other instruments as well, including the balalaika, but his signature flute style remains his trademark.
In recent years he has been revisiting the back catalog of his band Jethro Tull and will be in Prague to play some of that band’s hit songs with an orchestra. He has been performing variations on this Ian Anderson performs Orchestral Jethro Tull show for more than a decade.
Songs in previous tours included “Aqualung,” “Skating Away on the Thin Ice of the New Day,” “Locomotive Breath” and “Living in the Past.”
The show has already been released on CD and DVD, shouldn’t hold many surprises. It is also the sort of thing that is best appreciated live, however.
Oh his current tour schedule, he is only performing this show in Wuppertal, Germany, and Prague.
Anderson has also been busy recently with several other projects. In 2014 he released his sixth solo album, Homo Erraticus. Anderson toured throughout 2014 in support of the concept album, which draws on a fictional character from the 1972 Jethro Tull album Thick as a Brick. The show for that tour included the entire album plus some hits from Anderson’s Jetrho Tull era.
He will be performing this show in April and May, and a “Best Of” show in June and July.
Anderson is also working on an opera based on the historical figure that gave his famous band its name. Anderson announced at the end of February that Jethro Tull: The Rock Opera would have six dates at the end of the year. The opera uses classic Jethro Tull music to tell the story of the 18th century inventor and agriculturalist, but transplanted into the near future. The piece is billed as having a quasi-operatic structure and will include video elements.
Anderson says that he no longer wishes to tour or record under the Jethro Tull name, and as of 2011 the band has been considered defunct. Guitarist Martin Barre has been touring with his own band, playing his own versions of many Tull songs.
In an April 2014 interview for Billboard,Anderson said he intends in his twilight years, to use his own name for the most part “being composer of virtually all Tull songs and music since 1968.” He also stated that the band had been had been grinding to a halt for the past decade.
A reunion of any previous lineup is unlikely, Anderson said recently on his website. “I am rather bemused by the fan gossip surrounding who might be, or should be, at my side in concert,” Anderson said on the Tull website. “All of the musicians in the current band have performed as members of Jethro Tull during the last decade. They are fine musicians, wonderful people and my closest friends.”
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Written by Raymond Johnston
Ian Anderson will forever be known as the man who brought the flute into the rock lineup. He plays other instruments as well, including the balalaika, but his signature flute style remains his trademark.
In recent years he has been revisiting the back catalog of his band Jethro Tull and will be in Prague to play some of that band’s hit songs with an orchestra. He has been performing variations on this Ian Anderson performs Orchestral Jethro Tull show for more than a decade.
Songs in previous tours included “Aqualung,” “Skating Away on the Thin Ice of the New Day,” “Locomotive Breath” and “Living in the Past.”
The show has already been released on CD and DVD, shouldn’t hold many surprises. It is also the sort of thing that is best appreciated live, however.
Oh his current tour schedule, he is only performing this show in Wuppertal, Germany, and Prague.
Anderson has also been busy recently with several other projects. In 2014 he released his sixth solo album, Homo Erraticus. Anderson toured throughout 2014 in support of the concept album, which draws on a fictional character from the 1972 Jethro Tull album Thick as a Brick. The show for that tour included the entire album plus some hits from Anderson’s Jetrho Tull era.
He will be performing this show in April and May, and a “Best Of” show in June and July.
Anderson is also working on an opera based on the historical figure that gave his famous band its name. Anderson announced at the end of February that Jethro Tull: The Rock Opera would have six dates at the end of the year. The opera uses classic Jethro Tull music to tell the story of the 18th century inventor and agriculturalist, but transplanted into the near future. The piece is billed as having a quasi-operatic structure and will include video elements.
Anderson says that he no longer wishes to tour or record under the Jethro Tull name, and as of 2011 the band has been considered defunct. Guitarist Martin Barre has been touring with his own band, playing his own versions of many Tull songs.
In an April 2014 interview for Billboard,Anderson said he intends in his twilight years, to use his own name for the most part “being composer of virtually all Tull songs and music since 1968.” He also stated that the band had been had been grinding to a halt for the past decade.
A reunion of any previous lineup is unlikely, Anderson said recently on his website. “I am rather bemused by the fan gossip surrounding who might be, or should be, at my side in concert,” Anderson said on the Tull website. “All of the musicians in the current band have performed as members of Jethro Tull during the last decade. They are fine musicians, wonderful people and my closest friends.”
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