Ian Anderson Voted Best Rock n Roll Flautist For 55th Year in a Row

16 Dec 2023 Leave a comment

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(via Madhouse magazine)

Ian Anderson, of the band Jethro Tull has been named the best Rock n Roll flute player aka flautist for the 55th consecutive year. The honor was unanimous and Anderson also came in second and third. 

Anderson first won the award in 1967 when Jethro Tull first formed. “In the 1960s I actually had a little competition” said Ian. “There were a few bands here and there that incorporated a flute in a song or two. Honestly they were all hippie hacks. Over time though there was less and less competition and eventually I was the only nominee. Go ahead name another Rock n Roll flute player, I dare you. I double dog dare you. See, exactly as I thought.”

Read more: https://www.madhousemagazine.com/ian-anderson-voted-best-rock-n-roll-flautist-for-55th-year-in-a-row/

Quora: Is it true that Jimi Hendrix inspired the song ‘Sunshine of Your Love’ by the band Cream?

14 Dec 2023 Leave a comment

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Answered by Phillip Coory

In January 1967, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, played their first date at Brian Epstein’s Saville Theatre on Shaftsbury Avenue. Cream were in the audience that night listening to Jimi do a souped-up rock’n’roll version of B.B. King’s ‘Rock Me bay’, ‘Like a Rolling Stone’, ‘Wild Thing’, ‘Hey Joe’ and one of Jimi’s compositions, ‘Can You See Me?’ Eric Clapton later related to Rolling Stone how Jimi’s performance that night inspired Cream’s most famous song, ‘Sunshine of Your Love’:

“He played this gig that was blinding. I don’t think Jack [Bruce] had really taken him in before. I knew what the guy was capable of from the minute I met him. It was the complete embodiment of all aspects of rock guitar rolled into one. I could sense it coming off the guy. And when he [Jack] did see it that night, after the gig he went home and came up with the riff. It was strictly a dedication to Jimi. And then we wrote the song on top of it.”

Coincidently, Jimi used to play this same song as a dedication to Cream, one of his favourite bands, unaware that he was in fact playing his own dedication.

Source: Jimi Hendrix – Electric Gypsy by Harry Shapiro & Caesar Glebbeek, Heinemann 1990.

Amazing Vintage Photos Of Bob Dylan’s Legendary Life And Career

14 Dec 2023 Leave a comment

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The name Bob Dylan conjures up images of the 1960s and a legendary back catalog of music. Mind you, we don’t need to conjure: we’ve got an amazing selection of vintage pictures right here. From obscure details blowin’ in the wind, to Dylan’s fascinating personal and creative life that keep him forever young, here’s the electrifying lowdown on the timeless strummer, told through stunning photography.

Zimmerman into Dylan

Born Robert Zimmerman, he entered the world on May 24, 1941, growing up in the port city of Duluth, as well as Hibbing, Minnesota. Zimmerman changed his name in 1962, but why? “Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, Marshall Matt Dillon of TV’s iconic western Gunsmoke, and Dillon Road in Hibbing have all been suggested as possible sources,” noted an article on the website of Marquette University Law School…

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09 Dec 2023 Leave a comment

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Car Enthusiasts In New Zealand Are Blaring Celine Dion Songs In ‘Siren Battles’

11 Nov 2023 Leave a comment

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By José Rodríguez Jr. via Jalopnik

Residents of a small city in New Zealand are beset by drivers blasting Celine Dion songs late into the night. The loud music comes from cars that have been modified by local enthusiasts who participate in “siren battles” that run on any given day of the week from 07:00 PM to 02:00 AM, according to the AFP.

The siren battles are part of the car culture in Porirua, where enthusiasts gather to compete and drivers win by playing music at ear-splitting levels that can drown out rivals. A “siren king” is crowned at the end of the battles, but the object is not to outdo opponents simply by outputting the most sound…

Read more: https://jalopnik.com/celine-dion-songs-are-keeping-new-zealand-city-awake-1850962798

“The day I ask the audience to sing my songs I might as well go home. It’s hard enough for trained singers, let alone an audience who will massacre it”: How Ian Anderson refined Jethro Tull stage shows

07 Nov 2023 Leave a comment

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When Jethro Tull released The Broadsword And The Beast in 1982, many of their fans breathed a sigh of relief: it seemed their favourite band had returned to their more traditional folk rock roots. Ian Anderson reveals the story behind the recently reissued and expanded album that he reckons contains some of Tull’s best music.

If ever Ian Anderson were to doubt the enduring popularity of Jethro Tull’s 1982 album The Broadsword And The Beast, he gets regular reminders of it when he meets long-time fans of the band. Perhaps not actually written all over their faces, but close enough.

“I’ve been asked to sign many an album-sized tattoo of the album cover on somebody’s back,” he says, “which is embarrassing, but I’ve seen very good likenesses of the album cover in glorious colour on the flesh of human beings. It’s beyond me why people do that sort of thing, but perhaps that’s a reflection of the affinity some fans feel to it.”

They can immerse themselves even more fully in it as the 40th anniversary edition (slightly delayed thanks to that pesky pandemic) has been released, offering an 81-track expanded version of the album replete with Steven Wilson remixes, live renditions, and a handful of previously unreleased tracks…

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/the-day-i-ask-the-audience-to-sing-my-songs-i-might-as-well-go-home-it-s-hard-enough-for-trained-singers-let-alone-an-audience-who-will-massacre-it-how-ian-anderson-refined-jethro-tull-stage-shows/ar-AA1jwEBP

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