Best flute performance by Ian Anderson in Tull
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Topic: Best flute performance by Ian Anderson in Tull
Posted By: yesfan26
Subject: Best flute performance by Ian Anderson in Tull
Date Posted: August 25 2006 at 20:26
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Nothing Is Easy
Living In The Past
Locomotive Breath
Any more?
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Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: August 25 2006 at 20:28
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The whole Thick as a brick album
------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: August 25 2006 at 20:32
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Bouree. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: mukster
Date Posted: August 25 2006 at 22:57
i agree - off Bursting Out though  ------------- "Johnny calls the chemist, but the chemist doesn't come" |
The Miracle wrote:Posted By: Fassbinder
Date Posted: August 26 2006 at 01:06
Sorry for the pun -- many more!
It is just impossible to name all his beautiful flute passages... as Ian himself said (in different context, though) in Bursting Out: "...they are plural!.. plural..."
... "My God", "Pibroch", "Black Satin Dancer", "Weathercock"... the list is... well, not endless... but very, very long... |
Posted By: Speakerfish
Date Posted: August 26 2006 at 01:31
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Cross-Eyed Mary ------------- Dissonance; subtle harmonic dissonance Contemplating and completing the negative space Romantic symphonies left on the floodplains |
Posted By: video vertigo
Date Posted: August 26 2006 at 01:41
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pan dance ------------- "The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse." - Zappa |
Posted By: peppino
Date Posted: August 26 2006 at 02:01
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Many to choose from....almost too hard to narrow it down to a few.
"Flute solo improvisation" from Bursting Out is a fun listen.
"For a Thousand Mothers" features some really aggressive flute playing from Ian.
......ultimately, I think I'll go with "Witches Promise" ------------- (insert insightful statement here) |
Posted By: unforgivable74
Date Posted: August 26 2006 at 08:04
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I agree with the whole of 'Thick As A Brick'. I wish there was more flute in prog generally. http:// - http:// - ------------- Laughs as I clean my teeth, laughs as I rub at my eyes. |
Posted By: Australian
Date Posted: August 26 2006 at 08:16
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Yeah, Thick as a Brick. Songs From the Wood and Bungle in the Jungle are also good. ------------- 
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Posted By: Abalaea4
Date Posted: August 26 2006 at 09:17
| Actually everything from This Was to Stormwatch. |
Posted By: R_DeNIRO
Date Posted: August 26 2006 at 15:24
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All in "Thick as a Brick" and "A Passion Play". ------------- We were always be much human than we whish to be. |
Posted By: Liquid Len
Date Posted: August 26 2006 at 18:33
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Far too many to list.
Not nearly as good as that guy who plays the flute in Dancing With the Moonlit Knight though,
Now what's his name?
 ------------- Can you tell me where my country lies? |
Posted By: WaywardSon
Date Posted: August 26 2006 at 18:37
| On Blackmore´s Night-Shadow of the moon, the song "Play Minstrel Play" Ian does quite an amazing solo backed up by Blackmore on acoustic guitar. |
Posted By: Fusionman
Date Posted: August 26 2006 at 20:38
There's flute in a lot of prog. Good prog. ------------- 
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Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: August 26 2006 at 20:46
Bingo! ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: Beastie!
Date Posted: August 27 2006 at 08:21
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Black Satin Dancer! ------------- What would Neil Young do? |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: August 27 2006 at 08:51
| Besides all of "Thick as a Brick" (one of my all-time favourite albums), I'd mention "Living in the Past" and another great favourite of mine, "My God". |
Posted By: M. B. Zapelini
Date Posted: August 27 2006 at 11:23
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There's a lot of great performances, and I agree with most of you selections, but I'd like to add "With You There to Help Me" - love that intro... ------------- "He's a man of the past and one of the present" PETER HAMMILL |
Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: August 27 2006 at 11:28
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Bourre, Crossed Eye Mary, The Mose Police Never Sleeps...
+ 100 more!
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Posted By: acheron
Date Posted: August 27 2006 at 15:35
| i dont know much about flute, but i was talking to this flute major at my school who says that Ian is not a good flute player. I think he's great, but what do i know |
Posted By: gong
Date Posted: August 27 2006 at 15:58
| Songs From The Woods |
Posted By: Melomaniac
Date Posted: August 27 2006 at 16:47
What else to say?
 ------------- "One likes to believe in the freedom of Music" - Neil Peart, The Spirit of Radio |
Posted By: mrgd
Date Posted: August 29 2006 at 01:31
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Agree with 'For a Thousand Mothers'. Also the live versions of 'A New Day Yesterday'. He's not to shabby on them either.
He may not be the most technically proficient flute player but I don't know too many flute majors who have done for the flute in rock/prog. music what Ian has done. I dare say there would not be quite so many flute majors out there had it not been for him either[?] ------------- Looking still the same after all these years... mrgd |
Posted By: gong
Date Posted: August 29 2006 at 03:28
of corse that flute major at your school said this, coz Ian never had classic music education - he went to play that flute as the leader of the prog rock band in the year of 1967; ok, in the very beginning he played his flute not so fantastic, but Ian add his great enthusiasm and his own bursting energy to become one of the LEGENDS of ROCK, together with his flute; so, Ian dont need to gives any report to flute major at your school/lol/.
rgds
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Posted By: mr_johnny_lee
Date Posted: August 30 2006 at 15:42
| Martin Prince from the Simpsons did a rendition of Jethro Tull's Thick As A Brick on the flute, I can't remember the episode but I downloaded the sound clip from a website and it's pretty funny. |
Posted By: bundy
Date Posted: August 31 2006 at 02:48
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Hunting Girl ------------- They who know do not speak! They who talk do not know! |
Posted By: The Whistler
Date Posted: August 31 2006 at 02:54
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Uhhh...all of them? No, wait, hmm. I gotta think about this'n. I like Tull, by the way. Can you tell? ------------- "There seem to be quite a large percentage of young American boys out there tonight. A long way from home, eh? Well so are we... Gotta stick together." -I. Anderson |
Posted By: Fassbinder
Date Posted: August 31 2006 at 03:06
If not all of them then most of them...
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Posted By: Pyk Owrno Zes
Date Posted: June 16 2008 at 08:42
| Him with Tull live now. He's gotten even better. |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: June 16 2008 at 12:32
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If you like the flute as an instrument in prog then I highly recommend Mother Gong's album "Fairy Tales" to you. The flute on this album is in my opinion even better than the flute of Ian Anderson. Didier Malherbe is simply an excellent woodwind player, especially on the flute.
-------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: June 16 2008 at 12:33
My sister-in-law, who is a flute player herself, says the same. ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: Pyk Owrno Zes
Date Posted: June 16 2008 at 17:15
| Well, back then he technically didn't play correctly, cos he learned by ear, but he completely relearned awhile ago. |
Posted By: grahawk
Date Posted: June 17 2008 at 12:37
| Fallen on Hard Times probably. |
Posted By: Jaydubz
Date Posted: June 17 2008 at 19:14
You are entirely correct, acheron - Anderson is a good flautist - good in that he created something unique with the instrument and has become a legend within the genre. Is he a Hubert Laws? No. Is he a Jean-Pierrel Rampal? No. Did he cop the seeds of his original style from another artist (Raashan Roland Kirk)? Yes.
I remember a James Galloway radio interview years ago, he called Anderson an "accomplished player" and said he loved what he'd done with (and for) the instrument. As a flautist of 46 years (with a composition/flute degree - Anderson was one of the artists who inspired me to study music), I have to agree with Galloway. Tell your friend to quit being a snob....
Oh yeah..."Cross-eyed Mary" is my fav solo! ------------- "Music is the best." ~ FZ |
Posted By: USAGirl
Date Posted: June 18 2008 at 01:56
Being a flautist myself (I am the sister-in-law BaldFriede spoke of) I have to say that Didier Malherbe is by far the superior flautist. Anderson's improvisational skills are rather limited; he repeats himself quite often. It has to be said though that it was definitely Anderson who made the flute popular in rock, and his importance can't be underestimated; when someone thinks of flute in rock it usually will be Anderson who comes to mind, and rightly so. But there are better flautists around in prog, trust me on that ------------- Peace on Earth |
Posted By: Prof.
Date Posted: June 19 2008 at 00:52
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Bouree hands down, its tied for my favorite instrumental with Peaches En Regalia.
Although best live would be this amazing little diddy:
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/jethro-tull-ian-anderson-s-flute-solo-0731197/3240344262 - http://video.aol.com/video-detail/jethro-tull-ian-anderson-s-flute-solo-0731197/3240344262
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Posted By: Alberto Muñoz
Date Posted: September 10 2008 at 18:15
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Bouree, live version of Dharma for One.
And agree with the whole, are many many more. -------------  |
Posted By: omri
Date Posted: September 11 2008 at 03:53
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Ghost rider, as allways you keep saying my thoughts before me. I find "My god" one of the mot amazing tracks in prog. I was more than happy to see yesterday that it easily wins the poll of the best song in "Aqualung" (I added my vote ofcorse).
I am not a musician so I can not judge the virtuosity of playing and I trust Usagirl (being the sister in law of Baldfreide is all the recommendations I need) but what I care about is how do I feel while listening to the music and in that old Ian does it right for me.
Now, to few other great flutes in prog :
King crimson - I talk to the wind.
Focus - I forgot the name of the song from "In and out of Focus", realy sounds somewhat like Tull.
Comus - Bite.
Trafic - Freedom rider & John Barlycorn (must die).
The moody blues - Legend of a mind.
Gnidrolog - I could never be a soldier. ------------- omri |