S1E49: Ian Anderson

Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

Rhino UK

Pop, Interviews, Music, Rock

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Joining the Rockonteurs this week is Jethro Tull frontman, bandleader, song-writer and mainstay Ian Anderson. In a deep dive into Ian's career, Gary, Guy and Ian discuss how Jethro Tull grew out of the British blues boom to become one of the leading progressive rock bands, delivering huge selling concept albums like Aqualung and Thick As A Brick. The conversation also covers how and why such a strikingly unique band managed to conquer America (when many of their fellow British acts failed) and the iconic flute as part of the rock band.

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0:00.0	Hello Gary. Hey, have you had a nice break? I have had a nice break. I drove to Portugal in an electric car, so I'm feeling quite green.
0:08.9	And I'm green with envy. Because I think my carbon footprint's pretty bad right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, your carbon heels. But it was nice to take a break, but I've sort of felt weird that there was no new rock on tours and I like this new video thing that's been going on that our producer Ben has organized. You can watch us now some of the old ones up on on YouTube.
0:34.0	You can, yeah.
0:35.0	Which a lot of people were asking for.
0:36.8	They're not whole episodes.
0:37.8	I don't know how long are they?
0:38.8	They're 20 minutes, I think.
0:40.8	But some good stuff you get to see inside our boudoirs or our studios anyway so for today our first guest of season two
0:48.8	The first guest is Ian Anderson I mean come on I know Rotoll. What did he mean to you as a teenager?
0:55.7	One of the first sort of rock, things I saw on TV was too old to rock or old, too young to die.
0:59.6	It was in 1977, wasn't it? Some BBC thing, yeah.
1:02.3	I think as a brick was big in our house, my brother and I, we love that. I still love it. I think it's a fantastic record.
1:09.1	It's an incredibly complex record also with that incredible sleeve and I often wonder if I did if did you ever know the
1:13.9	family examiner the website it's the funniest thing I've ever seen it was it was a
1:18.7	spoof local paper and I just wonder if that came from Thick as a Brick.
1:23.4	Ah, yeah, maybe. I mean, there was so much to read. I don't know whether I read it all as a kid.
1:27.2	There's all every detail in it is written by, you know, included the small ads is
1:32.4	written by members of the band and it's an entire newspaper isn't it?
1:35.8	And of course that Qualong was massive and locomotive breath what a track that was.
1:39.7	Yeah, yeah. So yeah it's with great pleasure that we welcome in Anderson of Jeff Rotel.
1:45.3	Welcome to the rock on Ters.
1:49.5	Okay guys, I'm ready.
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