Ian Anderson + Cady Coleman flute duet in space

[Knuckles194]

i just saw ms. Coleman at my school in pittsburgh, and I'm truly inspired.

[ArabAstronomy]

Alright now play songs from the woods... I mean from the ISS!

[reginaldrenoir]

I LOVE THIS!!! Perfect combination of what humans can achieve. Technology to explore space, the heart and soul of art to provide the soundtrack.

[ziight]

did Ian forget himself out in the sun?

[HughGarrette]

hilarious- just seen this on 'have i got news for you.'

[moetyman]

@1:14 wtffffffffffffffffffffffffff is that called

[CeddyTeddyBear]

Ian's head looks like a tomato.

[SwedeBoy27]

Her hair in zero gravity looks alot like Ian's did naturally back in the days before he got bald :P

[SpachilOlga]

I love this duet!

[MillionthUsername]

They can send a man to the moon but they can't fix zero-gravity hair.

[KyBoy2999]

Hey Ian...remember Tuscaloosa in 1972, you and the boys brought the house down.....thanks for all the music through out my life.......

[samanthaelvish]

wow!!!!!!!

[cdoria]

I am sure Ian would love to have that hair. Lol

[CUBALAW]

Love the hair!! Ian, what the hell happened to you? Stay out of that sun man!!!

[CUBALAW]

Love the hair!!

[kpsars]

To infinity and beyond!

[fabrikk60]

Being that there was a 1970 Jethro Tull song about US astronaut Michael Collins, will Ian Anderson now write an updated one called "For Cady Coleman, Jeffrey and Me"?

[arpali18]

why is Ian so red?

[Pasalaqcua]

@arpali18 Most likely a sun burn, either that he was nervous seeing as he was playing with NASA.

[123abc45685]

Just been on a concert of jethro tull a view hours ago. This old man is still able to rock!! He is amazing and he has an unbelievable feeling for the flute.

Absolutely fantastic!!!

[Utremervarna]

Amazing :)))



[Liknice88]

So great, I miss playing flute

[lickurbass]

I'm so jelly.

[grovevilla]

thank you XFM for the link...

[sniper50dd]

i am just coame home from a Jethro Tull concert in a very small italian city, Boretto, and, surprise, there was Cady Coleman and they performed some duets!!!

[NorwegianBassoonist7]

Love the hair!

[spacecape]

rock on,Ian!

[XxXxXJonathanXxXxX]

ian is probably sick of this song

[Illuminato2]

Great! Tulls rulez!

[ccdesan]

Couldn't help but bring to mind images of Picard and Daren doing their piano/flute duet on the Enterprise. This is so much nicer, because it's the real thing. Huge respect!

[htuah1]

Thanks Cady. Great music. A bit of a flute player myself and can tell from you and Ian Anderson that clearly he's been off the planet before. Maybe he's not even from this one.

Keep up the playing. Would love to play a duet with you too (I know that tune), although I'm a little underqualified.

Fly safe.

All the Best

[Cosmoraptor]

What idiots would dislike this?

[lucky35812]

Can anyone tell me why they are doing this?

[janllotube]

@lucky35812 Because they can

[yvettegr]

The flute floating down followed by Astronaut Cady. Best instrument/musician entrance ever.

[pounder2day]

showing off like "yea you might play better, but I can make mine float lol" love it haha

[siddepoo]

space hair :D

[rickrussell]

@siddepoo How does the hair not get sucked into ventilation fans? Surely some kind of hairnet would be in order.

[forglegorktheork]

I don't like how she's playing it staccato.

[NOBURANGE]

なにいってんのか

あんま理解できなかったけど、

最後のおっさんのセリフ

かっけぇ！！

Go safely!!!!

[HelterSkelterForum]

Could watch this all day

[siggevid]

i wonder what its like having your period in space, and im a man!

[Kerussk]

I'm reminded of Challenger. See, on that space shuttle there was a man named Ron. Ron was going to perform a piece in space on his saxophone that his friend had composed for him. Sadly, Challenger exploded in mid-flight while ascending and he never got the chance to. Now the song is known as Last Rendez-vous (Ron's Piece), as played by his friend: Jean Michel Jarre.

[DehnusNorder]

Oh dear he Saluted a Space Communist, the Space Capitalists won't like that. :P.

[sbseed]

incredibly awesome

[arnewisQue]

in space, no one can hear you play bourée with ian anderson :P

[JacksInn]

"I hear no notes up here."

[spiritlevel8]

ian's still as cool as ever!

[Cochituate7Lake]

Thank you for doing this, and thank you for sharing it with us.

[Fortigurn]

I see big hair is back.

[62maybiesjr]

Thanks for posting. This is really cool to stumble across today. I'll repost it right away on my FaceBook wall.

[1HarryH]

Awesome !

[TommyTheT5]

No offence but. I just did an image search for Ian Anderson and he looks significantly different....why so red o.O?

[SnakeladyGreta]

@TommyTheT5 He's getting older. But he's still as cool as ever! :)

[SnakeladyGreta]

@TommyTheT5 Actually... I just looked again. He does look sunburned. :) OOPS! hahaha it happens.

[FIGHTFANNERD3]

respect lol love the hair

[g0tcadaver]

captain red face

[dustinmarsh40]

She just couldn't leave Earth without her flute.

[cdvpip]

Well that was just plain cool!

[iamevolved]

6 people should be shot into space without the benefit of a rocket.

[merstrand]

Bad hairday

[HSMagnet]

@merstrand i beg to differ. 0-G gives amazing body to her hair

[rafiaharon]

Ian, you always was the greatest

[sffilk]

THIS IS SO COOL!!!!

[bstensland]

SUPER!!!!



[zev007]

1:15 for the win.

[SamuRlz]

soo goodd !!!

[xQueenKristinx]

in space, no one can hear you play flute....

unless youre on youtube. then about 55 thousand people will hear you.

[htq70]

Marvellous tribute!

[Zat01ch1]

And one time, at space camp...

[groov539]

Growing up, we had Jethro Tull's (Ian Anderson) music. Today's youth have Justin Beiber? Hahaaahaahaaaaa Okay kids, watch the Jethro Tull vids on youtube and live and learn how music is SUPPOSED TO BE!

[progrockertom]

brilliant! Ian's always been an eccentric, vibrant musician and this is just another great feat

[flamincow11]

Thats awesome, but it looks like Ian got some major sunburn.

[ayelvington]

I just got chills. So grateful for people like these!

[madperson42]

wow, super awesome

[Winston2004]

loved it

[YoXxUs]

cool

[atalasfarted]

now do it outside the station

[alsandor]

Oddly enough, no Soviet flag to mark the occasion...

[Winston2004]

@alsandor that country doesn't exist, moron

[tankitiong]

@alsandor XDDDDD

[neohip]

This is wonderful!.

Ian was masterful.

Cady kept up with him!.

I understand she is using one of Ians flutes.

She didn't have to borrow Ians old wig though.

It looks silly withough the beard!.

[newellgirl]

such a cool piece..Cady & ian you both Rock!

[00bikeboy]

Wonderful!

[ArkBlitz]

How in the world could you sync the song when there's that pair of seconds of lag between Earth and Space?

[realdoctormo]

@ArkBlitz Mathematics!

[newellgirl]

@ArkBlitz they pre-recorded it to counter lag..

[orlindan]

@ArkBlitz its not real-time.. it's been edited. probably :P

[Bloodgod40]

@ArkBlitz

I thikn the 2 seconds thing was just for the moon. The space station is much closer, 200 or so miles up.

If they are communicating via intermediary satellites in a higher orbit there would still be a lag - not 2 seconds, but enough to throw them off synch on the flutes. But if they simply used a direct ground to ISS link during a horizon-to-horizon pass which can last up to 5 minutes, there would be no lag pretty much.

[boydman117]

Best....Job....EVER!

[Tovkal]

1:14, epic, I always love doing that.

[MsGingergingercat]

Most most most EXCELLENT!!! 

[toenailclipping]

Amazing!

[Ash1955]

Great and the high notes were very high indeed! Sorry for the pun ;-)

[arnaud360]

Wow!!

[kenlo11]

really great

[Kintail5]

The old man and his crew---

After all these years,

It's apogee.

Pilot training and remorse---

Spirit friends fly too,

At apogee.

[skipmendler]

INTERPLANETARY BOUREE!

[fedorov64]

Слава Советскому космонавту Юрию Гагарину и Великому Яну Андерсону !!! Привет из Москвы!!!

[brokenheart6777]

This is so awesome! Everything Ian does makes me love him more!

[bshook105]

BEAUTIFUL! Thanks for sharing. I have always been a big fan of Ian and J.T. This was a fitting celebration!!

[RossiniSoprano]

I love that they played Bach!

[Zurkhardo7]

Five people are terrified of space exploration.

[jeff2899]

I just want to rub her hair all around. 

[xucaen]

That was awesome!

[CakeFace579]

5 people disliked this?? How does that happen?

[digitaldoodler7]

Thank you Cady for making this possible. Mr. Anderson is one of my all time heroes- This was absolutely incredible.

[SeamusCallan1]

I love what Ian Anderson has done with his head.......Is that magenta???..fuchsia???

[KingHellstrings]

@SeamusCallan1 I noticed that too... either that's some really funny Russian sunburn, or he's got some bad high blood pressure.

[abbylane7]

Fantastic!

[medsunny]

It's fantastic!

[masterj345]

how could anyone not like this?

[HallOfHokum]

I'm too young to remember Tull's heyday, but they're still one of my favourite bands. Only thing to beat this would be Ron McNair performing Jean Michel Jarre's Last Rendez-Vous. But sadly...

[ACVB2006]

Nice hair

[Realbillball]

Juri would have loved that! What a great duet!

[jkfan2005]

Remember when McCartney did a couple live songs for a space crew? They loved the Beatles hit, but when he did the one from the new album they got up and went to the restroom.

[gpetrov01]

By far the best celebration of the great anniversary that I've seen today!

Fantastic!!

[missgreasedlightning]

Sorry I have just noticed I spelt the Great Man's name wrongly Yuri - thanks again .

[johnlcallaway]

Bravo!. Always a pleasure to listen to Ian play. And what a great intro ... very reminiscent of 2001, A Space Odyssey.

Bravo!!

[missgreasedlightning]

Wonderful music, fantastic feat, thanks to the musicians, and of course a huge thankyou to Uri for all you have achieved.

[drummerjohn49]

Brilliant flute playing to mark a very special historical event.

[RandomRockets]

Two of my favorite things; Human Space Flight and Jethro Tull...AWESOME!

[LongTomH]

Beautiful duet! And a beautiful reminder of Col. Yuri Gagarin's flight. Tomorrow is Yuri's Night, the worldwide celebration of Yuri's flight and space achievement in general. Google on 'Yuri's Night.'

[RayTull]

Absolutely phenomenal. Technology and musicality at its finest. Thanks for posting this.

Ray - Universe Records

[MorningsideAcademy]

So now we need to get Ian up there to perform it live......

[MrMekhall]

Funny thing: Her hair looks precisely as we used to know Ian's hair back in the old days.

But where is the beard?



[Tubeistdan]

Elegant down-floating flute intro. Absolutely unique stage-craft.

[ReverendBastien]

Cady looks like she's rocking it on one foot. Only appropriate. Great video!

[therealpbristow]

gabrielkoritzky: The transmission delay between earth and the ISS (assuming it's somewhere overhead where Ian is performing) is tiny, less than a millisecond, so it wouldn't be a problem. Any digital equipment used in the transmission chain probably adds more delay than the actual transmission delay.

[iMensah81]

@therealpbristow & gabrielkoritzky: While there is about a second transmission delay between the ISS and the ground via the TDRS (Air Force Comm Sats), the reall issue is the sleep schedule. The crew has their sleep scheduled defined by when they launch and where they launch from. Currently the crew wakes up around 1:00am CDT. This does change some, but not by much during their stay on orbit. So yes, this was probably recorded on the ground first, then sent to Cady for her to add her piece.

[therealpbristow]

@iMensah81

[HEAD DESK] Why do you assume Ian wouldn't bother to stay up until 1:00am CDT for this? Why do you assume he's even in that (or any similar) time zone?!?

[iMensah81]

@therealpbristow I assume that Ian wouldn't bother to stay up until 1:00am because even if he did, there would be a time delay making real-time collaboration virtually impossible. Besides, it's not like you can just set up a video camera with a wi-fi router and stream directly to the ISS. Ian's piece was recorded. Cady's piece was recorded. Who did the recording first, I have no idea, but it's not a real-time collaboration.

[strathsail]

"by kind permission of":

Hey Ian...give the NASA the license to send more JTull-music in outer space to the other human race....

[brudicchio25]

Ciao Cady, sei brava, simpatica e molto carina!

[Yithmas]

Wonderful!

[Winston2004]

@Monir1993 too much sun?

[Rusty626]

Ian Anderson has always been one of my inspirations on the flute! This combines two of my greatest wishes. Wonderful!

[gabrielkoritzky]

I don't mean to ruin the fun (or the awesomeness) of this video, but I have to state the obvious: There's a transmission delay between earth and space, so it's likely Ian recorded this before Cady. Still, this is freaking mindblowing awesome

[TheFrankFactor]

Beauty!

[1990ReattaOwner]

Winning!

[marymactavish]

There aren't enough Likes in the world.

[MLampner]

Truly far out.

[MarkRosengarten]

Actually, the most amazing Ian Anderson flute piece I have ever heard is "Griminelli's Lament" off of "Rupi's Dance"...one of the most beautiful pieces of music I have ever heard anywhere. Not as recognizable as "Bouree", though.

[MarkRosengarten]

This is my favorite tune...stands for my whole life. It will be played at my funeral.

[gazojka]

Why the dislikes for an honorable thing?? :S

[MMICKELS1]

That was awesome! Thanks for posting this NASA!!!

[Br2veHe2rt]

How come no one ever mentions/remembers Valentina Tereshkova?  :-<

[krautball]

@Br2veHe2rt

This was about Yuri Gagarin's flight on April 12, 1961, the first manned space flight, exactly 50 years ago on the day they recorded this. Gagarin unfortunately is no longer with us.

As for Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, her Vostok 6 mission commenced on June 16, 1963, and I'm sure there will be some sort of celebration in June 2013.

[MrBeethovenfan]

As I am a life long space fanatic AND a life long Jethro Tull fan, this brought tears to my eyes. Anderson looks great!  He's loosing weight again or something. Thanks so much for posting.

[AlexandruUrsachi]

This is awesomeness at work

[tefislima]

I´m a flutist and is so amazing see the instrument that I love been played for a Astronaut on the space! I love it, congratulations!

[chopperdod]

Which two nob's disliked this? 

[cfrjlr]

Jeez I am so glad I lived to experience this. Juxtaposition of two of my passions, popular music and astronautics. The quality of audio and video are excellent. They play a few stanzas from a JT classic track. Anderson is one of my childhood heroes. I saw him live in Germany a couple of decades ago. Coleman is a great performer too.

[JonGrant4472]

Should have played 'For Michael Collins, Jeffrey and Me' 

[MarkRosengarten]

@JonGrant4472 Or "My Aeroplane"! :)

[JonGrant4472]

@MarkRosengarten Just realised - no flute in 'For Michael Collins......' D'oh!

[MarkRosengarten]

@JonGrant4472 Nor in "My Aeroplane". How about "Dharma for One"?

[CaptainMetalMighty]

Is this song original or a song written before? I'd be interested in listening to it in a longer version.

[gazojka]

@CaptainMetalMighty Write on youtube Jethro Tull - Bouree ... song from the album Stand up which was released in 1969, enjoy the flute, the bass and the drums of course =)

[CaptainMetalMighty]

@gazojka Thanks a lot!

[gazojka]

@CaptainMetalMighty no problem =), any time

[ColdSkyGuy]

Cady has one of Ian's flutes with her on the ISS. Was she playing that one or her own?

What a great celebration of Yuri's Night on April 12!

[EcoMoneySaving]

Wonderful! Wonder what Bach would have made about that.

Ian Anderson is one of the greatest musicians and song writers of our age, and as for the astronauts - I envy their careers. I

[kleijssen]

I love the hair :p

[BaxFamilylife]

Thanks Dave.....



[ylp55]

a great tune!!!

[ylp55]

a great tune that i never get tired of hearing.

[eyeno]

Ian Anderson performing weightless would be a heck of a show.

[ranma763]

OH NO YOU'RE WASTING AIR!

[TheGrownMen]

Bravo to both! Now "Bouree'" will forever remain one of the best trivia questions in the annals of Space exploration :)

[Baggs4299]

Well done Ian and Cady. This will create some great buzz.