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@christopherstorz6184

3 жыл бұрын

Will do. Maybe you could do some compare and contrast videos of his playing before and after the "Roots to Branches" album. In the year or so before the recording of that album he actually took some lessons. I think that it is amazing that a person who had made a living playing a instrument for over 25 years can swallow their pride and say, "I could be better than I am."

@garylanzarone5842

3 жыл бұрын

It's unfortunate that that you have only begun to sample from Jethro Tull's 50+ year catalog of shear genius.7 time rolling stone magazine best instrumentalist Ian Anderson demonstrates his gift regularly in many genres and on varying instruments. His talents rate him as a true living Legend of music.

@ClownWhisper

Жыл бұрын

You say his name just fine? This is 2022 we've all been on the internet for many many years now at least those of us old enough I've traveled the world for companies in the pharmaceutical sector we are All One peoples

@ClownWhisper

Жыл бұрын

It's charming how you pronounce his name

@ClownWhisper

Жыл бұрын

I could listen to you talk all day I don't know what it is you're so intelligent and you remind me of one of my friends Larry from Dearborn Michigan in the United States we live together for a while he was a brilliant artist and when I say brilliant the words cannot even express the talent that this man possessed with a pen a pencil a piece of chalk a piece of broken glass anything he could look at you once and make a perfect photographic reproduction of you in black and white with a number two pencil it was absolutely spectacular I've been surrounded by artist my whole life my father was exactly the same and so is my grandfather and so is my son I'm somewhere in the middle not quite to that level not actually not anywhere near to that level if you're asking me but the intelligence seems to come with that and you remind me a lot of my friend Larry unfortunately Larry got sick in his passed away way way too young it is broke my heart. But the way you express yourself reminds me of him quite a bit I'd be curious to know if you adept at mathematics I have noted that accomplished musicians tend to be accomplished in mathematics as well I have been researching this for most of my adult life I have found that this paradigm seems to hold true in most cases and strictly true with guitar players especially and I don't know why guitar players tend to tighten up the statistic even to a greater extent perhaps I don't have enough numbers yet But at any rate I could listen to you talk all day you're just a wonderful person and I thoroughly enjoy your videos you are honest to a fault and that's where these days

He is playing the way he wants to sound

Ian Anderson is a very articulate, interesting and friendly interviewee - you ought to get in touch with him and see if he'll do an interview with you about his playing.

I like the fact Ian Anderson had been playing flute for a year. He still sounds professional and polished. It takes time to learn an instrument. This is also one of my favourite Jethro Tull/Ian Anderson songs.

Just for information. Jethro Tull was an 18th Century British Agronomist, credited with inventing the seed drill.

She is appreciating his performance and playing. She clearly appreciates various aspects of the performance not just his flute playing skills. 🎶👍

Maybe Ian has only been playing for a year or so, but he totally owns it right? He puts all of himself into it. It's like some other-worldly performance! Fantastic-still!

Tull was the first live band I ever saw and played along in the Led Zeppelin first concert. From my recollection, "Bourrée" won a classical music award which no other rock song ever won. This recording is bad. Listen to the first album release of this truly classic song and the difference is night & day. Ian, has always been, in my eyes, a composer from the days of Bach or Beethoven. Love your reactions!

The other flute was played by lead guitarist Martin Barre. He did this a few times on different tracks.

@09conrado

Жыл бұрын

Apparently Martin and Ian switched roles: Ian started as a guitarist and progressed to the flute, and Martin did it the other way around.

His improvising is really cool for being a new flute player, but that’s a reflection of his musicality. Bach with Jazz, very cool.

@TMJ0677

Жыл бұрын

Thats why this gurl will be forgoten in a year or two when she gets a large amount of YT copywright strikes and Ian Anerson will be remembered as prog rock genius for eternity.

The second flautist was Martin Barré, lead guitar player from 1968 to 2011. (Yes, the band recorded Kirk's _Serenade to a Cuckoo_ on their first album, _This Was._ )

@jaydenn1680

8 ай бұрын

Martin actually had played flute longer than Ian had...

In the Irish flute world we call his right hand position "piper's grip", it is often used by people with smaller hands or finger mobility/flexibility issues. Not sure what is wrong with his right hand that he would need to employ it on a Boehm flute as it has a much closer spacing than the simple system low D flute. It could be that--being of Scotts ancestry--he learned it from watching people play that style. A lot of Scottish trad flutists, back in the day, used pipers grip on flute because they were also pipers and it was the positioning they were accustom to.

@frandanco6289

2 жыл бұрын

I think I read somewhere, that Ian Anderson injured his right hand specifically his pinky finger and that is why it looks like it does...

In Sydney in the ‘90s I was one of maybe 20 people at a media call for JT. I can’t remember what question I asked Ian Anderson, but at the end he pull out his flute and played Bourree for us. I sure remember that

I get the technical analysis, but in the end, it's the musicality that counts. He also knew that straight flute playing would not go over without some theatrics, so that was necessary, and it worked. And he also went on to be a fine acoustic guitarist and an amazing composer. And yes, his flute playing has improved. Today, he can no longer sing, but his playing is better than ever.

@TMJ0677

Жыл бұрын

This is like if some mediocre classical guitarist starts complaining to Steve Vai's technique.

I love how much he amuses you - makes me smile every time :)

Ian is more than the sum of his parts. A big presence to be sure.

I saw Ian Anderson and his band Jethro Tull twice, 69 and 73. Their shows were amazing. We,the audience, were in a different mindset back then and I miss that. ✌

@NrthrnKnght

2 жыл бұрын

saw him in 76 do bongo in the jungle

I met ian backstage after crest of a knave in Tacoma, very humble and incredible .

JethromTull is just … amazing. Ive Seen him twice live, it’s brilliant. I do know his songs for over 40 years now, and I would be sad to miss just one day. Your reactions and your smiles are cool.. I like it. : ). Keep going on, Heline. Best wishes!

Long story short I interviewed him backstage after a show for high school paper. I told him my music teacher said he cant play the flute. He said " I know but I make a bloody monstrous racket ".

After Lizzo played James Madison's crystal flute at that recent concert, the first thing I thought was that she should have made it growl and snarl like Ian Anderson playing Bourrée!!!

Martin Barre (Lead guitar) is the other flute player.

@viennapalace

3 жыл бұрын

One of the most under-rated guitarists in the history of music!

@davebenjafield7037

3 жыл бұрын

THE most under-rated guitarist ever!

@fordp69

3 жыл бұрын

@@davebenjafield7037 No objection from me!

@ingomeyer4153

3 жыл бұрын

😊🤣❤👍

@ingomeyer4153

3 жыл бұрын

@@davebenjafield7037 🎸👍🎸

First saw Jethro Tull in 1968. Enjoyed their music ever since, especially with the early group members.

Other Flutist was Martin Barre - not known for his flute playing, so he plays it straight, but essential to Tull's hard rock guitar sound - few play guitar like Barre"

I've always admired Ian Anderson for bringing the flute into Rock music as a lead instrument.

Prince Albert Hall...Ian in the rough... but still a gem!! Now 50 years later totally ...prog god...

My daughter was learning the flute and wanted to join the school's jazz band. I picked up the album that this song is from, "Living in the Past", and a album from Moe Kaufmann. I wanted her to play these for the band leader to teach him he was wrong. The flute is a jazz instrument.

I saw an interview where he (Ian Anderson) admitted that being self-taught on the flute from the'60s, he learned in the '90s that his finger placement was incorrect. By that time he was living in an ancient English Manor house with his own recording studio, so probably too late to re-record all his songs. He is a legend now.

That one leg thing, I've heard, was something that in their early days he didn't even realize he was doing. When it was pointed out to him, he made it a trademark.

@richarddelgado2723

Жыл бұрын

It would seem he’s trying to look like a fairy from the fairytale 🧚‍♀️ renaissance with that look 👀

Jethro Tull during their greatest period 1968-1972

I think it would be interesting to play an early performance and follow it with a much later performance of the same song. I suspect there would be some real contrasts.

Have you listened to the studio recorded version on their second album “Stand Up”. You can easily hear Ian Anderson’s progression in terms of technique and breathing control. FWIW I think their best album was the third one named “Benefit”. At the time those albums were released I played clarinet as well as flute and was always impressed with how quickly he improved and kept his flute as an important element in the music of Jethro Tull.

Heline, I can tell you dig it. That's cool I like seeing you smile. I saw them in concert in Seattle in 1969. Awesome

Oh no young lady! You are saying their name right! Better than all of us native English speakers. We're the ones who have to get up to speed! Your videos are great, thank you

Well I would love to ply like that after 10 years of flute.

Martin Barre the guitarist occasionally plays the flute. The Drummer on the Thick as a Brick videos plays the flute too. Very skillful group of musicians. Helene, please write Ian and ask him to play flute with you. He plays with other artists all the time. I bet he would do it. It would be fun to watch. I absolutely love you. Much success.

@rabfallon4507

2 жыл бұрын

No secret . Martin is the flute player on Reason For Waiting and Jeffrey Goes to Leicester Square

Ian is just straight up awesome!! I love the music, the outfits and Ian's whole style.

Remember his target audience was not the classical music crowd but the heavy rock crowd and IMO he hit a bullseye

His technique then might not have been honed, but his style was definitely avant-garde

was an English agriculturist from Berkshire who helped to bring about the British Agricultural Revolution of the 18th century.

Ian is very young in this video.If this video is from 1969 I was a teenager then.I am 70 now

A classical musician will never experience the joy of improvising a rock musician until he begins to feel like a rock musician 😉

He is the master. Watch his other stuff.

It's only Rock and Roll from the best years in music creativity.

I think she concerns herself too much with technicality and the classical style. This is rock improvisation! Ian's inherent musicianship and his passion and sheer exuberance is what comes over and makes this such great music.

@johnrobertson7583

3 жыл бұрын

I hope she never watches the Jimi Hendrix video of him playing left-handed guitar, and then finding out later on he taught himself to play on a right handed guitar!

@charlesarturo7718

3 жыл бұрын

Sheer exuberance was exactly my thought, what he lacks in classical technique, he more than makes up with passion....

@geigenatelierbrusch469

3 жыл бұрын

Completely right!

@haeuptlingaberja4927

2 жыл бұрын

She is far more critical of Ian in this reaction than she has been in many others. Possibly it's partially a subconscious reaction to the very idea that such a novice upstart should be rocking Bach on her instrument...

@RobBCactive

2 жыл бұрын

@@haeuptlingaberja4927 Or how many flautists are treated like guitar gods?

That live version is insane,,,but make sure to hear the official album cut,,,,hi from ohio

Love to see Her Play Bouree just like Ian Anderson does here. Good luck. Understand, He was self taught. For only being 1 year in on the Flute , He’s incredible. Pinky or not. 😂

I watched Ian play standing on one leg in 2018 in Woodenville, Washington.

@frandanco6289

2 жыл бұрын

Woodinville..

The Minstrel is in the gallery!

I got a lot of knowledge from just one video. Thank you !

Fun fact about their name. In the beginning they sounded so bad that they literally were getting banned from performing in certain venues, so the only way for them to perform somewhere again was to change the band name. They sometimes had to change it once a week. Eventually they got good, and that time they were Jethro Tull. And then I guess it felt bad for them to change it. So I totally understand how it feels bad for you to change it now. :D That being said, there is no shame to admit that you were at some point less informed. Especially as a teacher. Integrity doesn't come from sticking to your guns no matter what, but from sticking to the truth whenever there is new evidence, even when it contradicts something you thought you've known for years. As a teacher you owe it to everyone you teach, and everyone your students pass the knowledge you gave them to other people.

@mistie710

3 жыл бұрын

It could have been worse. One name they performed under was "Candy Coloured Rain"! Cringe!

@prestonnorris1655

3 жыл бұрын

Jethro Tull was a 18th century agriculturalist and inventor: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jethro_Tull_(agriculturist)

@m1nn1s

3 жыл бұрын

@@mistie710 the 'hippie sixties' 😎

@marybethbrockman976

2 жыл бұрын

Yyh uhhh

Im here for the first time and i dont know if you had them on your other video's, but Thijs van Leer on his soloalbums (Introspection) and with Focus (Hocus Spocus and House of The King) and Chris Hinze are also worth while to mention. Nice channel by the way.

The music, the man, the maestro.......... Johann Sebastian Bach

I posted this elsewhere but re post it here: "I listen to music I don't play it. And I don't give a ... how someone plays their instrument. What matters is if I LIKE it! Does it appeal to me musically, aesthetically, artistically? If so then they are playing their instrument correctly to evoke that response. Ian's technique appeals to me enormously, I like it. Same with Jean-Pierre Rampal, his technique was irrelevant to me, I just liked what I heard. Did Stephane Grappelli play "correctly"? Yeah, because I love his music, just as much as Itzhak Perlman. Technique schmeqnique, does the music evoke joy? That's all." No way a trained flautist will react the same way. You see it with different eyes and hear it with different ears. And I find it fascinating to hear your take on it! BTW great to see some video with Glen Cornick on bass.

Ian Anderson never worried about classical teaching approach to flute, he just found his own approach. If Pianist criticize Jon Lord, or Emerson playing for example.

Very enjoyable!

Take a listen to the album version. It’s so much cleaner. Much much later there is a stunning live version from a concert CD called A Little Light Music. All his playing is wonderful. There is no video that I know of but it’s worth a look.

She's a hardcore Tully.

I had always thought that Ian Anderson had exposure to Scottish folk music and, if so, the Highland pipes use a finger style much like he is exhibiting on the flute.

The Cortina mk3 advert musiv of the 1970s for British TV

He isn't a classical flute player. And you could say he has his own style.

Did you start the whole Flutist reacts to Jethro Tull thing? Kudos to you if you did.

Check out the version from Jethro Tull Christmas Album. Best version.

Wow he’s pretty good for playing for only 1 year?!! You must know some really great people if this is about what you expect from a 1 year player lol 😂 To me it sounds like he’s been doing it for a-hundred years but what do I know about flute lol

@MarkLewis-sl5tk

26 күн бұрын

you and I know nothing about the flute but we both know this sounds great.

Check out his videos of his playing now in his 60's....he is a master artist with the flute in his later years.

@martinjude66

2 жыл бұрын

70s

I wish you could play flute and practice all day in my home! ❤

Thank you!

I got a flute to make a flute noise once, but then I couldn't seem to figure out how to make the noise change.

he is a good on the gutter singing and writes awesome

Yes we know this a lesson for you thanks.

I think this is very much: "performing art": to not care about: "how it should be played". To just use this tool in his own way.

@layton3503

3 жыл бұрын

Jethro Tull, Ian Anderson, and the The Flute - Something that was just meant to be.

@hodgepodgefor9022

Жыл бұрын

Great showman fantastic song writer and musician

The other flutist is the guitarplayer Martin Barr (member of the bsnd for more than 40 years.Barr was also a good saxplayer.Maybee this overblowing helped Ian get a rich tone and i"ts yoused in saxofon pratic"ing believe me. Bedst from Copenhagen Denmark

@frandanco6289

2 жыл бұрын

Martin Barre'

A very jazz interpretation of a Bach classic.

"Ian, just how much flute do you intend to incorporate in to your music?" "Yes"

Hi Heline!! I heard in a live interview with Ian Anderson, that even though he's a rock star with an unlimited budget for instruments, he doesn't use the expensive, high end open hole flutes, rather he uses the cheap, student line flutes like you would purchase for a junior high beginning band student. Why?? He said... "I'm too rough on my flutes". That might explain the lack of his fingertip fingering technique, and uses the flats of his fingers. The guy probably never re-pads or realigns an older flute. Probably pitches it in the trash and grabs another!!!

@imitsi

Жыл бұрын

Are you from America? It's usually there that closed-hole flutes are considered "cheap, student-line" by default. :) In reality they can be high-end, too, and they're acoustically better than open-hole for classical music. Marcel Moyse's flute was always plateau, and many acousticians such as Dayton C. Miller and Arthur Benade consider open holes a significant flaw. In Miller's words, it's "the one acoustical crime that has been perpetrated against the Boehm flute".

All the artist's in The band Jethro Tull were classically trained before they formed the group.

@mikesimonian484

3 жыл бұрын

Except Ian.

Hi Heline, your critique is both correct and wrong. It's correct about technicality (embouchure, fingering, etc) probably partly due to how recently he started learning the flute from the time of that video's recording. Your wrong however, in that just as guitar distortion is not wrong in Rock Music and Blues Rock neither is breathy distortion on Rock-Blues Flute. "This Was.." Jethro Tull was mostly a blues album and "Stand-up" was more Rock yet still bluesy so a beautiful clean embouchure would have sounded ridiculous on those albums - which is why he probably didn't give it a 3rd thought to clean it up. Before you check out his recent music were he proves he chose to learn clean playing and accomplished technique (playing for example with an Orchestra), you should listen to Jethro Tull "Benefit" on one of those Sundays that seems to go on forever. You'll hear beautiful flute and compositions, and an eternal nostalgia that you'll fall in love with even if you have to hide the fact from you classical professional peer group. 🙂

I believe Rahsaan Roland Kirk was a great saxophone player, a legend... If he also played the flute, it would also have been amazing..

"A bit flat" it's rock!

Would you say that this is a beginning, intermediate, or advanced piece for a flute student?

Do a video of you covering bouree

Aguante jethroooo

His embouchure is fairly crude but the level of difficulty and execution of just the fingerings is pretty remarkable for someone who'd only played less than two years

2:17 There's NO EFFING WAY Ian only played a year. He is a master of masters. How could he compose ANY of this if he was a noob?

Try almost any Moody Blues song. Maybe start with "The Actor?"

Just a consideration, you might look to listen to the album from them called "Crest of Knave" late 80's album. Maybe a reaction? Unless you have grown bored of them LOL. Out of all the vids the Tull reactions too me are tops. Take care best wishes.

@ronalddarnell9677

2 жыл бұрын

That album is great the sound when it came out on CD was something I never heard. Tull was it love it all. I saw the once in the mid 80s open for Crimson . What a show

Do it or create it. That's the only question. They don't need a square vision. He plays more than technical or standars.

You say his name just fine? This is 2022 we've all been on the internet for many many years now at least those of us old enough I've traveled the world for companies in the pharmaceutical sector we are All One people

Slightly envious commentary.

The other flute was the drummer.

Would you consider to make a reaction to Piirpauke? Sakari Kukko does not only play all saxophones but also the flute. Piirpauke is a band from the 1070ies playing all kind of world music, I think they played world music before this word was even invented. There are also jazz elements in it. It would be great if you could bring it back to public. And people out there in the world could learn about great bands coming from Finland. Olisi erittäin mukavaa. Kiitoksia ja terkkuja Saksasta

Yes you pointed it : all pop and rock flute players who put gimmicks like screaming and singing while blowing their horn, owe a tribute to Rahsan Roland Kirk, jazz genius from the hard-bop and post-bop era. Died too young. I just discover your work so i didn't hear you further ; but I guess you noticed some CURRENT flute players who have integrated the BEAT BOX in their game, and how they are otherwise interesting... without denying the contribution of Ian Anderson, who had the distinction of innovating in his time.

GOOD LOOK

I fear you may be falling for Ian.

Hienoa! Suosittelen Slipstream-konsertin kappaletta Black Sunday.

What happened at the bass solo? That was weird

💙☮️☮️☮️Ian Anderson!

Ian is a god.

"His sound is not that great"......good LORD, woman, do you not appreciate the mad skill and audacity of Ian Anderson's flute playing? He is the one and only rock flautist, and the fact tht he taught himself to play makes it all the more impressive. The man is a muciscal genius!

Ondanks wat je zegt trekt hij het grote publiek.