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  • čas přidán 14. 03. 2021
  • Flute Center of New York presents Flute Unscripted with Caity Massoud, featuring Ian Anderson.
    See Ian Anderson discuss his relationship with the flute over the years and his plans for the future of live music.
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    Flute Unscripted is available on iTunes, Libsyn, Soundcloud, Spotify, CZcams or Google Play: mailchi.mp/970...
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Komentáře • 111

  • @robertcatesby8420
    @robertcatesby8420 Před 3 lety +33

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

    • @ejc8017
      @ejc8017 Před rokem +4

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

  • @RichardCowdrey
    @RichardCowdrey Před 3 lety +36

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

  • @arnoldwohler
    @arnoldwohler Před 3 lety +29

    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 ...

  • @pamelatrane9833
    @pamelatrane9833 Před 2 lety +6

    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
      @marktulk4225 Před rokem +3

      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
      @elisabethlinz4256 Před rokem +2

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

  • @davidlogan9777
    @davidlogan9777 Před 2 lety +4

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

  • @johncollier9280
    @johncollier9280 Před 3 lety +30

    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
      @shadowsdad903 Před 2 lety +6

      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!

  • @shuttledriver
    @shuttledriver Před rokem +1

    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!!

  • @pskemster
    @pskemster Před 2 lety +7

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

  • @OdysseyofAscension
    @OdysseyofAscension Před 2 lety +8

    Outstanding! Thank you Ian and the Flute Center!

  • @serenityfields7514
    @serenityfields7514 Před 3 lety +14

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

  • @berniekellman405
    @berniekellman405 Před rokem +2

    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.

  • @brentmoreland8613
    @brentmoreland8613 Před 10 měsíci

    What a wonderful human being!

  • @johncase2408
    @johncase2408 Před 2 lety +3

    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.

  • @larrymcmonagle738
    @larrymcmonagle738 Před 3 lety +11

    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...

  • @eduardocarreirodacruz8021

    IAN ANDERSON ... The BEST !!!!

    • @cordeliakates6044
      @cordeliakates6044 Před 2 lety +1

      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!

  • @ChristianYunes
    @ChristianYunes Před 3 lety +21

    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
      @NuntiusLegis Před 3 lety +5

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

  • @scumpert
    @scumpert Před 2 lety +2

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

  • @fernandodelgado1680
    @fernandodelgado1680 Před 5 měsíci

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

  • @bobwallace9753
    @bobwallace9753 Před 3 lety +6

    Wise and articulate. Much appreciation.

  • @olafsrensen9578
    @olafsrensen9578 Před 3 lety +5

    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.

  • @laurencepreston2939
    @laurencepreston2939 Před 2 lety +2

    What an eloquent and intelligent man.

  • @leftypick4854
    @leftypick4854 Před 3 lety +8

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

  • @charlychips
    @charlychips Před 3 lety +9

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

  • @davidmcdowell5492
    @davidmcdowell5492 Před 2 lety +3

    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...

  • @themikentimcomedyshow3343
    @themikentimcomedyshow3343 Před 3 lety +17

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

  • @jameschristiansson3137

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

  • @Mr.Altavoz
    @Mr.Altavoz Před rokem +1

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

  • @TIMSTRUMENT
    @TIMSTRUMENT Před 3 lety +7

    I love this dude 🎶

  • @peterszewzek4167
    @peterszewzek4167 Před 3 lety +5

    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.

  • @elisabethlinz4256
    @elisabethlinz4256 Před měsícem

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

  • @user-rt9ec8bh5b
    @user-rt9ec8bh5b Před rokem +1

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

  • @NefariousEnough
    @NefariousEnough Před rokem +1

    Extraordinary!! Thank you.

  • @scumpert
    @scumpert Před 2 lety +1

    Things have changed so much in a year!

  • @CaliforniaBushman
    @CaliforniaBushman Před 3 lety +3

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

  • @lordkirbyray
    @lordkirbyray Před 3 lety +4

    So cool!

  • @mb13972
    @mb13972 Před 3 lety +5

    "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.

  • @BaronMichaelDeBlone1066
    @BaronMichaelDeBlone1066 Před 3 lety +7

    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
      @justgivemethetruth Před 3 lety +1

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

    • @BaronMichaelDeBlone1066
      @BaronMichaelDeBlone1066 Před 3 lety +1

      @@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
      @justgivemethetruth Před 3 lety +1

      @@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.

  • @DEADLIESTMAN1
    @DEADLIESTMAN1 Před 3 lety +3

    very fresh interview.

  • @robertjohnston5011
    @robertjohnston5011 Před rokem +1

    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.

  • @michielvdvlies3315
    @michielvdvlies3315 Před 3 lety +4

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

  • @kramkalisthenics
    @kramkalisthenics Před 3 lety +7

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

  • @Yosemite-George-61
    @Yosemite-George-61 Před 3 lety +21

    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
      @BaronMichaelDeBlone1066 Před 3 lety +2

      Well said Jorge!

    • @pCeLobster
      @pCeLobster Před 3 lety +5

      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
      @justgivemethetruth Před 3 lety +5

      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
      @williambaldridge1203 Před 2 lety +2

      Jorge, Well said

    • @datapolo
      @datapolo Před 2 lety +3

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

  • @AJ-tp9bk
    @AJ-tp9bk Před 11 měsíci

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

    • @sid7088
      @sid7088 Před 10 měsíci +1

      And trombone? 😂😂

    • @AJ-tp9bk
      @AJ-tp9bk Před 10 měsíci +1

      @@sid7088😁🤣🤣😉👌

  • @justgivemethetruth
    @justgivemethetruth Před 3 lety +1

    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.

  • @maryscaggsdane1978
    @maryscaggsdane1978 Před 3 lety +2

    Artley!! WOOT! :-)

    • @maryscaggsdane1978
      @maryscaggsdane1978 Před 3 lety +4

      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!

  • @anthonysilva5312
    @anthonysilva5312 Před 3 lety +3

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

    • @smitbar11
      @smitbar11 Před 3 lety +1

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

    • @cdstoc
      @cdstoc Před 3 lety +1

      Chicago often featured flute, too.

    • @NuntiusLegis
      @NuntiusLegis Před 3 lety +2

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

  • @HippitusHoppitus
    @HippitusHoppitus Před 3 lety +3

    The podcast is back!

  • @Mr.Altavoz
    @Mr.Altavoz Před rokem

    Hehehe I love his humor 😂😂

  • @lucadibranco380
    @lucadibranco380 Před 9 měsíci

    un ipocondrico di livello assoluto!

  • @elisabethlinz4256
    @elisabethlinz4256 Před rokem +1

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

    • @gsaugust
      @gsaugust Před měsícem

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

  • @aliengrey6052
    @aliengrey6052 Před 3 lety

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

  • @sampalermo123
    @sampalermo123 Před 3 lety +1

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

  • @smitskee
    @smitskee Před 9 měsíci

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

  • @neilrobinson9806
    @neilrobinson9806 Před rokem

    Still love your music stick to that

  • @nigelstansfield1644
    @nigelstansfield1644 Před 3 lety +1

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

  • @robertcatesby8420
    @robertcatesby8420 Před 3 lety +5

    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
      @justgivemethetruth Před 3 lety +3

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

  • @justgivemethetruth
    @justgivemethetruth Před 3 lety +1

    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 ;-)

  • @justgivemethetruth
    @justgivemethetruth Před 3 lety +1

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

  • @paulcrawford5153
    @paulcrawford5153 Před 10 měsíci

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

  • @susiewheeler8197
    @susiewheeler8197 Před 3 lety

    Is he related to Richard Dean Anderson aka MacGuyver?

  • @susiewheeler8197
    @susiewheeler8197 Před 3 lety

    LOved him with Bruce Dickinson

  • @ilabelle1
    @ilabelle1 Před rokem

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

  • @daverigby23
    @daverigby23 Před 3 lety +5

    Ian - you're rambling

    • @Yosemite-George-61
      @Yosemite-George-61 Před 3 lety +2

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

    • @daverigby23
      @daverigby23 Před 3 lety +4

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

    • @justgivemethetruth
      @justgivemethetruth Před 3 lety +1

      LOL ... always! ;-)

  • @littleandy1209
    @littleandy1209 Před rokem

    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
    @kramkalisthenics Před 3 lety

    Rashan Roland Kirk: czcams.com/video/BsaxODHI3fA/video.html

    • @robertblaisdell6555
      @robertblaisdell6555 Před 3 lety +1

      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 .

  • @naamanpratt
    @naamanpratt Před rokem +1

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

  • @JSTNtheWZRD
    @JSTNtheWZRD Před 3 lety +4

    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
      @NuntiusLegis Před 3 lety +1

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

    • @JSTNtheWZRD
      @JSTNtheWZRD Před 3 lety +2

      @@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

  • @justgivemethetruth
    @justgivemethetruth Před 3 lety +2

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

  • @justgivemethetruth
    @justgivemethetruth Před 3 lety +3

    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?

  • @justgivemethetruth
    @justgivemethetruth Před 3 lety

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

  • @dominiclarosa6731
    @dominiclarosa6731 Před 3 lety +2

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

    • @Yosemite-George-61
      @Yosemite-George-61 Před 3 lety +2

      ..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
      @justgivemethetruth Před 3 lety +2

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

    • @derwahreguetige
      @derwahreguetige Před rokem

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