Love that track 'Some day the sun won't shine for you'! Originally in B if I'm not mistaken... It's a nice excuse to take my Manji in E out for 'a run' every now and then! Thanx Jehosaphat for the later version, he really is a great player. ---------- One of Rubes's bands, DadsinSpace-MySpace Old Man Rubes at Reverbnation
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This is great, I've been a fan of the man for 40 years or so and this is the first time I've seen him playing real Bluesy Harp so thanks for posting. P.S. how do I capture and keep this vid,if I favourities it I just get a link to the Forum and not to this video,can anyone advise?
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I was thinking that it was some very clean playing and I didn't expect that. But now that I learned he was a floutist, it makes sense.
Geordie: I download YouTube videos by using any one of a number of youtube download extensions for Firefox or Chrome. Once you install the extension, every time you watch a youtube video on the tyoutube website (doesn't work for embedded videos - you have to click on the video's title to be taken to the youtube page) a download button appears and gives you the option of saving the video to your hard drive in various formats.
I have been a fan of Jethro Tull since 1972. I have seen them live seven or eight times, but I have never seen him play harp on stage.
Also check out his playing on the live album "A Little Light Music", particularly on the track "A New Day Yesterday" which has the added bonus of some tasty flute playing and of being perhaps the only blues number ever written in 5/8 time (unless any of you know better) ---------- Greeno
If I'm not mistaken, Ian Anderson learned how to play harmonica before he learned how to play the flute. I read somewhere that he didn't pick up the flute until after Jethro Tull was formed. If true, that makes his flute playing all the more remarkable.
If I am not mistaken this is Ian sitting in with his old partner Mick Abrahams and not Jethro Tull. Mick was the guitarist on the "This Was" album, which according to the liner notes on my LP was actually released originally in the UK as the Abrahams-Anderson Band, then released in the US after success with Stand Up as a Jethro Tull album. Martin Barre was the guitarist in Tull by the time we were listening to them here in the US and I have never known of Mick playing in Tull since then, He has his own band, and I suspect that this is Ian Anderson sitting in with Mick's band or some other sort of friendly reunion.
@ WVT, Anderson was playing flute in The Abrahams`Anderson Band, and I think he said in interviews that he started playing flute in the Ian Andrson Blues Band, before they used the name of the inventor Jethro Tull, or had formed The Abrahams-Andrson Band. He was certainly playing harp first. Anderson has never been the same without his hobo personna.
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Mick Abrahams wanted the "Tull" band to lean more towards blues/jazz and Ian had his new direction, so they parted company and Mick formed a cool band called "Bloodwyn Pig" back then. Their first album, "Ahead Rings Out" has some great material and the album cover had a pig's head w/pig wearing headphones and smoking a cigarette. Pretty amusing. ---------- The Iceman
