Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson interview - RARE (1996)

Excerpts from the Ian Anderson interview on the 25th anniversary edition of Aqualung. Made by Mojo Magazine in 1996.
I added the songs on the background. Also, a slideshow with almost 105 pictures of him and the band.

Aqualung track listing
"Aqualung"
"Cross-Eyed Mary"
"Cheap Day Return"
"Mother Goose"
"Wond'ring Aloud"
"Up to Me"
"My God"
"Hymn 43"
"Slipstream"
"Locomotive Breath"
"Wind Up"
"Lick Your Fingers Clean"
"Song For Jeffrey"
"Fat Man"
"Bourée"

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[tmpeters]

John Bungey, the interviewer, appears to have re-written the Art of Interviewing by (a) hovering on a distinctly lower decibel track than his candidate (b) plugging into the matrix only to sneak in a question and perhaps find his own bearings and (c) generally stepping back to let the audience embrace the full fabric of Ian Anderson’s oral examination.

[oRISHI12]

@tmpeters Hahaha, that's true...thanks for posting!

[meowandmeow]

why did you put the song over it?

[beermeoff]

@beermeoff Sorry. I'm an illiterate.  I get it now, it's "pale imatation." lol

[beermeoff]

at 11:03 he uses a word that i cannot find the definition for: pallementation??sp...does anyone know how to spell or the definition of this word?? Thanks

By the way thanks for posting this! I was googling every possible spelling of this word and coming up empty. Since it's been 10 years since I've listened to that interview, I was starting to think I hadn't remembered it correctly or had invented the whole thing in my mind.

[sunboyfun]

He also mastered the art of stepping over Ian's replies with further questions in an extremely annoying mumbling interjection!

[tmpeters]

One of my favorite tracks Rish - the Interview itself. Tull stands alone in a corner of the musical landscape, where lyrics rather than melody characterize the band, where poetry rather than pungency characterizes its lyrics and where a grammarian characterizes its doctrine.

[tullist]

A moderately interesting interview with Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull from 96 on what was then the 25th anniversary of their, for better or worse, best known recording, Aqualung. Near as I can tell the only two tracks history cares to remember them by are Aqualung and Locomotive Breath, as they currently are in their 44th year of pretty much non stop activity.