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January 06 Ian Scot Anderson and company haven’t lost their touch – not even after 40 long years. Jethro Tull is vintage wineThe old rocker wore his hair too long / wore his trouser cuffs too tight /  unfashionable to the end – drank his ale too light / death’s head belt buckle – yesterday’s dreams – the transport caf’ prophet of doom / ringing no change in his double-sewn seams / in his post-war-babe gloom… That’s their Too Old to Rock n Roll: Too Young to Die classic. And so come the crowds, both young and old, many to listen to what was and still is, and so many to just find out what is, and, more importantly, could be. According to Levon Helm, drummer of The Band, the group that once played with Bob Dylan, there came a time when all kinds of music mixed, Bluegrass, Country, Blues… And what did they call it, asks the interviewer in the 1978 Martin Scorsese film “The Last Waltz”, the celluloid recording of The Band’s last concert together. “Rock n Roll,” says Helm. With bands such as Jethro Tull, apart from the genre getting more pleasantly complex and hard, Anderson’s repertoire perhaps does what many failed to do: take forward the great Rock movement even while staying distinctly apart in sound, and often thought. And, of course, versatility has its virtues. For some unexplained reason there seems to be a tradition of being the multitasking rocker among the maestros of the school. Anderson plays guitar, flute, mouth organ, his bassist also plays the xylophone, the keyboard man plays the accordion and piccolo…....Continue TrackbacksThe trackback URL for this entry is: http://iipm-management.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!1C6C0EC30CCB71E0!211.trak Weblogs that reference this entry
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