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djwayne · Location: USA

I recently bought Jethro Tull's video DVD "Living With The Past", and had some questions on the acoustic guitar used, and checked out the JT website. I found this article by Ian Anderson with regards to instruments, and miking techiniques for the flute, vocals and guitar. I found it to be a very interesting and well written article.

Enjoy !!

http://jethrotull.com/musicians/iananderson/equipment.html

I'm hoping they'll do some 5.1 re-mixes of his music, it rocks !!

kylen · Posted - Tue Jul 01, 2003 11:56 am

Thanks dj,
I've always loved Ian A's acoustic guitar playing. It sounds as good live as on CD too Approve

(in the 70's-80's anyway when I heard him) with none of that stupid piezo transducer sound I really hate.

A very interesting web site.

kylen

djwayne · Location: USA

I'm glad somebody enjoyed that. I too am a big fan of his acoustic guitar sound, and just yesterday, started to learn how to play the acoustic guitar parts on a couple of his songs, Aqualung and Thick As A Brick. I did a search on his songs and chords, and found a website with some chords, I never dreamed he was using a capo on the third fret to get his sound, but that's what get its !!!

finnegan · Posted - Fri Jul 18, 2003 9:46 am

I saw Ian Anderson several years ago, and he had achieved this same great sound using a Martin Backpacker, clear as a bell in a 8000 seat arena. He would fling it over his neck and then fling the flute around to switch instruments, very cool to see and hear.

DeluXMan · Location: Canada

He was real scary [and good] when i saw JT in a 25,000 person auditorium many many years ago. Of coarse he wasn't the only thing messin with my head that night, but i did find him a odd sort in general. Big Grin

The music was awsum of coarse.

djwayne · Location: USA

I saw JT during the Passion Play & Thick As A Brick era. One concert was fabulous the other was in a caverous sounding place and echoes were drowning out the band !! A couple of years ago Ian was at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame signing autograpghs, of course I went and had my Taylor 12 string signed by him. He was a totaly different looking guy with very short hair, but after seeing the dvd, he obviously hasn't changed much over the years. He's still nuts !! I've been a JT fan since the very first time I heard Aqualung. Smile

kylen · Posted - Sat Jul 19, 2003 12:21 am

...ever since "It was a new day Yesterday" the album cover where the simulated wood carvings popped up !8)

Those were the days...that sat next to my "Lothar and the Hand People" but that's another thread!

Ian Anderson's guitar playing , and flute playing, are very distinctive - artist class indeed!

kylen

Craig Jackman · Location: Canada

I had the opportunity a couple of years back to have half of JT record in the radio station I work at for a "live to air unplugged" broadcast. Ian, Martin, and the keyboard player at the time. So Cool. So Professional. Even using more rudimentary equipment than what they'd use in a recording studio setting, it still sounded like Jethro Tull. Shows it's the musicians making the music that is the important part, not the instruments or other gear.

... and in a totally non-homosexual context, I got to carry Ian's and Martin's flutes down the hall from where they were setting up and into the studio. They were carring the guitars and their tea.

djwayne · Location: USA

On the DVD, there's a bunch of old footage of Ian playing harmonica to some blues stuff, that looks just like your typical barroom blues band. I know he's known for flute playing, but he also jams out the blues very nicely.

Now he's got me started, I went out and bought a Lee Oskar Harmonica for the key of A. 8)

As Ian would say--- "Puff On !!"

VoodooRadio · Location: USA

Craig Jackman · Location: Canada