Classical flutist reacts to Jethro Tull

 

 

 

 

 

Classical flutist reacts: Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick // POOR FLUTE!
 

 

 

 

Hi,

There are some players out there, that are way beyond what music teaches ... one other example, would be Keith Emerson ... imagine a 23 year old going to a professor and show them all the piano parts on the last NICE album or first two ELP albums ... just about every professor would say ... not classical enough, or worse ... when you grow up to create music, let me know!

And rock music, in those days, made a perfect allowance for this freedom. You could say that a lot of it started a good 10 years earlier when the electric guitar also wanted "some freedom" but couldn't ... you can easily remember that bit in the movie ... "I guess they are not ready for that yet!" ... which was turned down, and kept out of the stuff being recorded, specially as the recording straight to a platter in those days was very difficult and expensive and you would not want to waste a platter ... there was no way to edit it! So you had to play straight for a long time!

There are others ... Peter Michael Hamel, became a professor of music, and wrote several books trashing rock music. Eberhard Schoenner started as a classical musician that would rather spend his time with electronics, and later became a well known composer of classical music. Edgar Froese belongs here for his classical training, although from a compositional sense, his electronic music is very much like classical music with different/other themes also playing above or below the current part, and/or going around it. Ryuichi Sakamoto, was better known in the early days for his synthesizer work ... and after so many soundtracks and albums is now one of the better known music composers out there ... All of these started from their "wild side" and became really well seasoned ...

The one family that is different ... Jean Michel Jarre started on electronics, because his famous dad (Maurice Jarre) was already doing classical stuff ... so the kid goes ... hey that ... take a look at this!!! ... and for all of us that think that people don't learn anything in their later years, make sure you jot down that Maurice Jarre is the only composer to win two Oscars ... one with an orchestra and the other ... done electronically later in his life! 

So you want to talk TALENT?

Ian is special in many ways ... for my own self, I just got tired of the lyrics and the songs ... I wanted more stuff like PP and TAAB ... which was not going to come because at the time, these albums were not appreciated for the incredible work that went into it! Over the years we have come to acknowledge it, but it was sad to see people get upset with the long cuts, and then an album that defied the FM radio standard with a huge finger ... and a song, that the Vatican would love to ban ... were it not known by then that they saying anything made an album bigger than it deserved to be!

I prophesy disaster wrote: I came across the following two YouTube videos of a classical flutist reacting to Ian Anderson's flute playing. I post them here mainly for fun:

Well, thanks! These reaction videos were really fun and interesting to watch. Also because they led me to some hilarious reaction videos on Focus's Hocus Pocus (check them out!).