Ian Anderson Jethro Tull interview 1982 part 1 rare!

[chancesareshewears]

ass

[gmd1417]

Mark Goodman seems to be a nice guy, but he is terrible at conducting an interview.

[schmorer]

Could it be you removed the further tales of this interview, or

will there be further parts in the future? Somewhere Ive seen further parts and they

seem to have been removed last night.

[scboy46]

I guarantee you there is weed in that pipe

[KicksMcgee23]

@scboy46 Probably not, anderson says he never was that big on drugs. I heard an interview where the band said that fans would throw bags of weed on stage and they would look down their noses at it and kick it off the stage.

[scboy46]

@KicksMcgee23 hmmm i just figured because i see how ian anderson acts onstage but i guess not

[jaxkkanoe]

I'm looking forward to see Jethro Tull this summer 2011 as I am planning to take my 15 year old daughter. Jethro Tull was the first live concert I attended when I was 15.

I hope that I can pass on my love for Ian Anderson and Jethro Tull's music and theatrical style to the next generation

[joeygsmom]

coolest interview ever--sitting back ,bantering, so casually lighting up the pipe .

what a speaking voice.

[bluerok1]

god waffle onnn

[jorgencream]

I didn't know Epstein had his own talk show.

[knelledkismet]

the est Heavy metal group of 1995 or whatever it was...tongue and cheek

[beeroosterm]

Mark Goodman is out of his depth here...It's like Anderson is saving Goodman's bacon after asking stupid questions rather than Goodman interviewing Anderson...

[Incubus32123]

ray thomas played the flute around the same time but he gets no credit cuz he wasnt a frontman

[physicsmusico]

Give me a hit off that pipe Ian!!! A true intellectual.

[elliotshulman]

ian anderson smoking a pipe!!!!! the coolest thing i have ever seen!

[elliotshulman]

@Dannymusic1999 yeah thats a big shame :(. still, its a cool pipe though :)

[jackal59]

@Dannymusic1999 I can find mention of Anderson's throat infection before what became the "A" album, but nothing about throat cancer. While I agree his voice has deteriorated over the years, I honestly (unless you can come up with a reliable source) think you pulled "throat cancer" out of your ass.

[jackal59]

@Dannymusic1999 : I have looked, and what you say can't be found in any of the places you're think (like, say, the band's official site, or even on Wikipedia). I even Googled +"Ian Anderson" and +"throat cancer" and found nothing except a mention of "benign throat cancer" by a review on a Web site. No mention of that in any legitimate source, though.

You probably shouldn't say things that clearly aren't true. It makes you look like an idiot.

[Dannymusic1999]

@jackal59 Your the man jackal59, I bow to your greatness. Oh... by the way I never leave derogatory comments towards total strangers on Youtube unlike yourself. How old are?

[jackal59]

@Dannymusic1999 : I'm old enough to have seen Jethro Tull twice in the decade before this interview was done, and I'm certainly old enough to get irritated at someone presenting rumor as fact on a public board.

I agree that Anderson's voice has deteriorated badly, judging from many concert reviews and recent clips here, and that makes me sad. He deserves far better. However, the observable (and painful) fact that his voice is pretty much gone does not justify guessing at a diagnosis.

[busterbone]

As a longtime Jethro Tull fan, I think the best music was from albums: "Stand Up" and "Benefit" from 1969-1971. Great flowing songs with the best lineup of Ian Anderson (vocals, flute), Martin Barre (lead guitar), Glenn Cornick (bass guitar) and Clive Bunker (drums). They had some later songs that were nice too, but they lost the simple beauty of early compositions overall in some later work.

Ian is just Ian. If you want less of an ego in just a skilled longtime musician-check out Steve Winwood

[gerhold101]

Prententious OMG yes, and that pipe - hah. I thrice saw them live in the early 70's - bought 'This Was', Stand Up, Benefit and Aqualung. I thought they were ace. But by Aqualung - a 'concept album' I began to lose interest -I had better LPs to buy than 'Thick as a...'. Then there was a greatest hits album by '72! Maybe 'they' all run out of creative steam at some point. I saw him 2 years ago warning of the dangers of DVT on long-haul flights! Too much standing on one leg and pipe-smoking, Ian.

[cell9song]

jesus, I love Ian and Tull but what a pretentious prick he was at this point

[fantastik59]

jethro tull , anderson que duo, que musicos, que grandes felicitaciones

[disraeligears13]

"You had a very distinct sound, a very distinct time signature..." lol

[rockyljp]

His speaking is as mesmerising as his music.

[Zardoz151]

Where's part 3?

[oldworms]

Who the fuck is the wanker doing the interview? Anderson loses the guy in the first few seconds

[Kohntarkosz]

Does Mark Goodman actually refer to the back cover as the "backbone"?! DORK!!!!!!!!!!

[joemav57]

@Kohntarkosz He's refering to the album cover's "Spine" not the the back cover. The "spine" in the narrow edge of the cover where it says the album's name and band.

[Kohntarkosz]

Then he should have said spine, so that everyone watching the interview would know what he's talking about.

[hjabboud]

você é luz...

[dwilmer7]

beard and pipe = SPINAL TAP 100%

lol

[Nioerd]

Ian looks like Karl Marx xDD

[imdamngood]

What a beast with that big ass beard and smoking a pipe in the middle of the interview.

[peter2360]

@imdamngood yeah the guy is great:D

[BlackChristmas283]

Well, I goy my information from Ian anderson himself lol

He confirms what ive wrote in an interview on TV. THeres a vid of it on youtube. I think its the letterman video but I could be wrong.

[nucleardude11]

ha, look at ian with the pipe, and the beard and the fancy outfit, he looks like jethro tull himself

[steveziv]

LOL! - Ian Anderson calls dimwit Mark Goodman on his BS "different beat" question. I wonder if he even listened to the album.

[Kohntarkosz]

Mark Goodman was a boob. I still remember when Andy Taylor opened his set at one of the New Year's Eve concerts with a Thin Lizzy cover, Rosalie/The Cowgirl Song. After Andy's set, Mark says "Oh, Andy opened with a rare Bob Seger song, Rosalie!". While what Mark said was true, it was obvious Andy knew it as a Thin Lizzy song, because he played virtually the same arrangement that's on Live And Dangerous. And this was the year Phil Lynott had passed away, so it struck me as a massive insult.

[JimboWHO]

This Goodman was a dull one.

[kirkwanglers32]

Ian Anderson Dose have a Phd in Pholicciphy.

[tjrxk7]

I remember doing an assigment for school on my favorite rock group which was Jethro Tull. Anyone who gets an album knows enough to at least read what the album cover says. I never found Jethro Tull so I looked him up in the encyclopedia. He was an English botanist that developed 'soil conservation'. An interesting chap that Ian Anderson chose to honor by naming his band after. Funny how it's not mentioned in this interview.

[BlackChristmas283]

um...hate to nit pick but Ian anderson didnt name the band after the english agriculturalist. The true story of how the band got its name is the fact that when the band first began playing gigs, they were terrible. In fact, they were so bad that the band's manager was forced to change the bands name on the listing for each gig, so noone would know it was them. On the night the band finally played successfully, they were listed as "Jethro Tull". They've kept the name since.

[Fangalatic]

There you have: the beard of a genius.

[acerb45666555]

was the host a musician? i think only a musician can properly interview another musician!

[kanemura93]

Very well said!

[acerb45666555]

i thought his name was Jethro Tull for years! he should use it as his name legally, its a cool name!

[decapitatespammers]

This is one of the more fascinating rock interviews I've ever seen. Ian is captivating even sitting still.

[JackHauss]

Kids today have no idea how intense music can be. They see something like Coldplay and think it`s as mindblowing as it can get, but they`ve never heard something like "Thick as a brick". What ticks me off is there ARE bands just as good as Tul out there today but they can`t get anywhere because of the vice like grip rap has on the industry thanks to mid western gay boys in the closet, or that a band doesn`t have an actress from nepotism in their pocket.

[TheHealerShannon]

I'm only 15 and I swear I feel the same way you do.

[666danielclark666]

@JackHauss Dont worry man, I'm a kid. and i'm well aware of how intense music can be :)

[Rimmez]

@JackHauss Well, at least Coldplay aren't JLS.

[fuzzleredmenn]

@Rimmez They are both contrived, bland, mediocre and devoid of passion, so same difference really.

[spacepatrolman]

@JackHauss Thick as a brick was one song that takes up a whole album there have been some jazz records when one song goes on for a whole side or album ian has salmon farms salmon is the best thing foryou it has omega oil good for your heaert and circulation this kid that won all the scholorships in new york eats fish for breakfast

[Funmanbob]

The band Yes was a great band before Rick Wakeman Left but after that they were shit

[kirkwanglers32]

Go feck your self Dopey, Your a Yank Righ.

Not like Canadians that have a Brain if you have the balls to e-mail me.

Do it at Your PERRAL dude.

[GestureStew]

I like the interviewer actually, he's not the most well informed about musical technicalities but he's allowing for Ian to speak his mind, fueling it well with interested gestures and I think he respects Ian

[gtrrobster]

@GestureStew

True re: MArk Goodman, the interviewer. I do not know much about how informed he is....but at the very least he does let IA speak at length w/o interupting him...hey when you have a guy like Anderson or Roger WAters etc etc....just let them speak what is on their mind.  Most lkely it is more interesting and pertient than a pre-det'd question. Goodman was one of the orig MTV VJs.....he was alright from my memory as a HS kid.

[jbharuch]

Hallow...

[alwayssme]

mark goodman was one of the best promoters out there in the late 6os etc never saw him b4

[bagOprions]

there are about 50 IQ points and a pipe between these guys

[badumpy]

bag....what a perfect comment!

[BARRIEMOREBARLOW]

You're being generous

[greeneyefull]

I heard the name Jethro Tull came from the inventor of the seed drill who had that name

[Ash1955]

@greeneyefull Correct , born in Basildon, Berkshire near me. LOL

[jjparr934]

Ian looks like a bum that got picked up off the street, showered, then got thrown in a suit and given a pipe. Then he talks and unleashes one of the most sophisticated and cool voices on the planet. Much like a white Billy Dee Williams.

Anywhoo, this is a great interview and Ian is one of the ballers of progressive rock because he can be completely outlandish, witty, and sophisticated.

[humbleradio]

Ian speaks more eloquently and intelligently than most so-called intellectuals today. God, I miss times pre hip hop. What a different world it was.

[superszasz]

@humbleradio He is an intellectuel as Real musicians are! and that goes way back not only pre hip hop but centuries,but they do the "clown" too ,Unfortunately they have to"to fit" ! .

[theschizoidman]

@superszasz true, but the recent shift in music and the public's mirroring of it, is a clown of a different hat.

[superszasz]

@theschizoidman My Man!You're right about recent shift..,but what it is really?public response, U mean?/ mirroring is not an option,I do not make music thinking about if people gonna like it or not (I just hope it's gonna touch them some way)So,the "clown" in the different hat it's the same.It's fashion!(ie:Jay Kay anyone?)Literally too.Show me something New,that's not Old already,I'm all the way with U!!

[twochaudio]

,is that the TV producer goodman....

[foxfire180]

Smoking a pipe? O_o

Jethro Tull, one of the greatest bands. Thanks for the video :)

[rrusiejr]

4:18 flipping the bird.

[weezadam]

he has the coolest beard in this vid

[Warchild281]

so when he gave the band his one year notice of saying he didnt want to keep playing with the people was he firing them?(which seems kind of harsh, but also was the mainstream rumor) or was he saying he wanted to play with different people like working on a solo album? because anywhere you look online it say that after Martin Glascock died, pretty much all hell broke loose. so im confused as to what really happened.

[themountainviewguy]

you mean john glascock?

[kjkj74]

martin barre and john glascock

[pythonflying]

saw them on the beastie tour, at oakland colloseum. Great show. I remember sitting around waiting for decent video on MTV and when Sweet Dream came on we all went "whoooo", heh.

[jc333jc]

Ian is, and remains a great musician.

Try playing his stuff....then be critical

love you Babes xxx

[spartaeus]

He is so clever and talented.

[markootchie]

that vj is mark goodman.

[LaTishaLouise]

Who is the douchebag interviewing Ian Anderson?...anyone know? How did he [Anderson]keep from laughing his ass off??

[lulubell58]

I do not remember his name but he was the VJ on MTV in the late 80's.

[teflonmagnet]

early 80s to mid 80s vj--not gabe kaplan but tall, friendly jew precursor to david schwimmer, marc goodman. the pipe is a great prop. i think ian was a big stanshall fan (and vice versa). the bowl probably harbored a strongly fermented perique virginia tobacco.

[WlSEGUY]

you think there is hash in that pipe?

[seethootss]

judging by the way the interviewer looked when he lit the pipe and how quick it lit i believe it might be.

[lizaelliot]

No way, he was far too sanctimonious about never taking drugs.

[details78]

I thought Ian had less hair by then.  Is he wearing a hair piece?

[allanhold]

no, now he's completely bald but on 1982 the hair you see are real...for many of rockstars like Townshend and Blackmore to become bald it was a sort of tragedy. Blackmore had a massive hair transplant starting from 1977....

[LaTishaLouise]

I just saw them in August in San Diego. He actually looks good sporting his bald head covered with a "dew rag." The guy is 60 and a lot of musicians are shaving their heads. So he fit right in because a lot of guys in California, young and old, have taken on the shaved head look. Started several years ago. Great performance as always. When the concert was over, and they finished their encore they put the recording of Satchmo's "It's A Wonderful World" on speakers. I loved it.

[RobindeValkNL]

You can see he's somewhat annoyed by the guy. I wish they're coming to The Netherlands one of these days. Ian is such a unique human being.

[baka6660]

iono why but he seems so much cooler on stage

[pocogirl]

Mark Goodman was one of the first "VJ"s on MTV along with Martha Quinn, and J.J. Jackson. All were very good about knowing their rock facts, and the earlier shows were filled with 'tidbits' about the bands and their history. I agree this is a great interview. Mark throws a topic out there and lets Ian run with it. Thanks for posting these TullTapes!

[duncanstpt2]

Ian needs to give Roy Rogers his clothes back.

[duncanstpt2]

Who is this idiot doing the interviewing? (And why is he doing the interviewing?).

[samsombersimba]

I dunno man. He definately sounds like a huge fan. I think it's probably the best Tull interview i've seen. He may not be so great of an interviewer, but he seems to love Tull. I doubt your average interviewer wouldn't be interested in comparing Broadsword and the Beast to Stormwatch. Heck I doubt they'd even know what Stormwatch was!

[dirtyflute]

Surely the inspiration for Spinal Tap's Derek Smalls?

[Zuddybear]

lol at the hair of the interviewer

[Stormwatch153]

Jethro Tull is NO MORE after Stormwatch! That band simply does not exist after 1979.

[CzechGuardian]

Sorry, but this is bullshit!

[Stormwatch153]

No...tull is bullshit after the Stormwatch. You sorry!

[Zeld1122]

Its not like that. They made many great albums and stuff, at least their 80'stuff ain't shit like Yes, Gentle Giant etc.

[Stormwatch153]

A and Broadsword are not bad albums but everything after that is pure comercial and uninventive.

[TheBigDeeper]

you're not a fan of tull, you're just an idiot who thinks that knows the band enough to say this kind of bullshit.

[canley1]

No you are the idiot here cos you obviously know nothing about Jethro Tull. Peacejones knows what he is talking about and so so I!!

[canley1]

No you are the idiot here cos you obviously know nothing about Jethro Tull. Peacejones knows what he is talking about and so so I!!

[TheBigDeeper]

By idiot I mean stormwatch153, and now you too, that can't even read an answer correctly...

[canley1]

You tube put the comments in the wrong place,oops!! (Not our fault)

[Stormwatch153]

No...you're more than an idiot because you're probably deaf and cannot hear the junk coming from JT lp's after the seventies. The True Jethro Tull fan isn't someone who is licking Ian's commercial shit albums even if they're just a piece of crap (as they are lately).

[Aqualung71]

Ian has never made a commercial album so to speak. Aqualung was actually the most commercial one.

[delpieric]

Wait, excuse me... Did you just call Yes shit? Please develop...

[Zeld1122]

I love Yes! I ment that the music that Yes made in 80's was pretty terrible (at least when comparing to the masterpieces that they did in 70's).

[delpieric]

Ah, right. You got me rather upset then. Perhaps you should've added an apostrophe after Yes, to make it clear that you meant Yes' music during that time and not the actual band. ;)

[gtrrobster]

@delpieric

haha!  YES...please do......YES SHIT...an album of their worst tunes.....

[Joopson]

some of there best work was after '79

[pocogirl]

bakerstreetmuse (great name btw!) I stand corrected and horrified! I can't believe I said 'John' Palmer instead of David Palmer, or 'DT'. The brain does get fuzzy at times~ sorry` !

[CarlssonRublev]

Don't you mean Dee Palmer ;)

[pocogirl]

Ian is often assumed to have been an egotistic S.O.B. who heartless dumped his loyal bandmates on a whim, but there is always two sides to a story. John Evans, John Palmer, and Barry Barlow were extremely wealthy by this time and could have still continued with their careers if they chose to do so. Only Ian knows what really happened, and he appears to be able to live with himself so I will give him the benefit of the doubt. After all, his ex-wife Jenny still gets royality checks for Aqualung!

[bakerstreetmuse]

I think what you are saying is true. May I point out that its not John Palmer its David Palmer.

[pocogirl]

Ian said that he wanted to try some solo writing but Barry told him that he "expected to be paid whether he played on this album or not." (Ian said this in an interview years later) This enraged him, and he said he started to look at the band differently then with some being in it strickly for the paycheck, and he was offended. I guess this might have sparked the begining of the end because obviously he disbanded the group right after 1980. Anyway, I just thought I would offer this information.

[peacejones]

I wouldn't put too much stock in the 'in it for the money' info, because any pro that far into their career HAS to be paid, that's obvious. BB, JE, MB, DP and of course JGlascock all played heavy roles in Ian's cash-juggernaut of the 70s, and probably were justified when the first disparaging of their positions came about in 1980. They were essentially under independent contract from Ian, they realized, and their work was considered paid after performance. Wonder what royalty checks look like

[pocogirl]

I read that Barry's accountant would ring up Ian and expect Ian to give him an estimate of how much money his client (Barry) would be earning for the upcoming year. Often, Ian had not even written the songs for the next album, let alone set about with tour arrangements. By this time the 70's band members were wealthy, had families and estates to manage and Ian felt pressure to write songs, record, and tour just to keep everyone's bank accounts full.

[a7om0]

thats is good info thx

[Emptyspacefloyd]

I Know I'm Changing the subject but does the beginning guy look like Jim Morrison?

[daltsman]

Broadsword was a Great Album. And I know my Tull !

[Nami56]

Ian said he wrote about the things that surround him in life. After he got married and moved to a 500 yr old farmhouse in Scotland and started his salmon fishing business, his maturity, and his new found domestic lifestyle changed the subject matter of his songs completely. He once said he would feel silly writing about the torments of being 20 when he was in his mid thirties and so he re-directed his music to reflect his life changes.

[Chrisdrumz]

Bullshit. Ian WANTED to be Jethro Tull. He saw that Barrie,John E.,and David as a threat and feared that people were associating them with Tull as well. Ian wanted background musicians,and none of those guys could(or would)ever be. He knew it,so he ended it. Tull was never the same after 1980. I think he also realized he didn't need to be paying those guys as much as he was so why not just fire them and start hiring temps.

[mineheadX1]

I think that Ian Anderson was a realist who wanted to dump the 70's Tull sound more so than the actual bandmates...he's very good at adapting to trends, and the old band was just played out...

[Chrisdrumz]

"played out"? Adapting to WHAT trends? Look at what he did with UNDER WRAPS. Its horrible. No,Ian was a trailblazer and should've stuck to what he did best. Look what happened to Tull after 1980. They just slowly faded away. Eah album becoming less received than the previous. Each tour playing to less people. Tull was very much a BAND before the 1980 shake up. After that it was Ian and his buddy Martin surrounded by studio guys.

[mineheadX1]

TOTRAR is horrible also, Stormwatch was also a dud, but had several great songs..."A" was possibly the best Tull album IMO, musically it's far more energetic and satisfying than many of the 70's albums...Blame the technology, Anderson was bored with the 70's sound of Tull...every band that survived the 70's went through a transformation with the technology and MTV/video...YES' "DRAMA", another complete departure that ended up a masterpiece...

[Chrisdrumz]

TOTRAR horrible? Yikes! I dont know so many Tull fans dislike that album. I think its great. You feel they peaked with HORSES,but there was no need to shake it up the way Ian did. They've never had a drummer since who has come close to Barrie and no keyboardist has infused as much personality into his playing or the band the way John did,and of course Davids arrangements go without saying. It was the lack of those 3 components that hurt the band greatly.

[canley1]

'A' was far weaker than 'Stormwatch' IMO. But Ian needed to freshen things up so he split the great late 70's line-up, which enraged the fan base.

[mineheadX1]

that 70's Tull line up peaked with Heavy Horses, where were they gonna' go after that ? they had reached their apogee...

[CrazedCommando]

"where were they gonna go after that?" Good question. They COULD have continued to make music that rivaled Led Zeppelin ant certainly topped every other band from the era; apparently Ian Anderson was such a frustrated artist that he needed to see who his true fans were. Those fans knew what shit his 80's output was, and the rest bought A, B&theB, Under Wraps, Crest of a Knave and Rock Island. You should be ashamed.

[Joopson]

NO TULL albums are horrible

[Chrisdrumz]

Ian looks like he's 50 years old here yet he was only 35.

[lienzosttirol]

Hahaha, I thought the same... he was always older looking then he was, but I like him very much and will always be a fan of him!

[Chrisdrumz]

Ian looks younger NOW with his baldness and trimmed goatee.

[lienzosttirol]

I agree, NOW he looks younger than at the time when he was really young...

But in the videos from 1976 he looked quite good and not so old - and he always had POWER and APPEAL.

[Chrisdrumz]

Are you talking about the Tampa show? Yeah,he did look younger. He cut his hair and shaved. No one can deny his POWER and APPEAL and his ever present WIT.

[lienzosttirol]

Yes, the Tampa show, he looked really good at this time, but a short time after it old again, haha.

But it doesn't matter, he is a fantastic man and I like him more than some very good looking men!

[GeeMeddowsTaylor]

What always struck me about Ian was that, even in the early years when many associated him with the hippies due to the long hair, beard, clothes,- is that he had/has such a brilliant unmarked RP, he sounds very posh. Sure there are many who can can speak with the received prononciation, but the difference is that Ian actually makes sense in what he is saying! He has a very aristocratic allure. love him! Thanks for uploading this!

[lizaelliot]

It's not a true RP, there is a definite Scottish tinge to a lot of his vowels. RP would be more like prince William. (Ahhh, dialect training in acting school) But, yes, I love that he's probably the most consistently articulate rocker, with always something wonderfully interesting.

[GeeMeddowsTaylor]

Hmmm, I thought that the British royal family and the aristocrats would speak with a marked RP, unmarked RP being synonymous with standard English. Or am I wrong? He he, anyway whether this is marked or unmarked RP, Scottish tinge or not, it is music to my ears -his talking that is! His singing at this point became very nasal :( What a pity. you can check out my videos from the Broadsword tour. - they make me sad in a way.

[underwwraps2]

you are awsome man!!!

[bekzzo]

I think I've never seen Ian with a beard this long before.