When I graduated from high-school in '80 I mentioned them in my senior write-up. I still get a kick today, 25 years later, thumbing through high school yearbooks to see how many kids mention Led Zeppelin....
Posted on 10/13/2005 11:33:22 AM PDT by JZelle
It may be a 50 Cent, hip-hop world at most American high schools today, but Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Jethro Tull still rule at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax County. At least they do when the school's wildly popular Classic Rock Appreciation Club convenes its weekly meetings. The club's second year began with a bang and a wheeze yesterday when, speak of the devil, a very special musical guest came calling: Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson, 58, the flutist, singer and guitarist who has led the band through 21 studio albums and countless tours over 37 years. Tull is playing at Constitution Hall tonight, and Mr. Anderson accepted an invitation to pay his respects to the club, impressed that another generation of fans is growing up with an appreciation for music recorded long before they were even born. Thomas Jefferson High is often cited as the most academically advanced public high school in the nation, with virtually 100 percent of its students going to college. Mr. Anderson discussed his music and answered questions for students and faculty members who gathered in one of the school's lecture halls a few hours after students completed the PSAT college-entrance exam.
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Really don't mind if you sit this one out...
I heard "Aqualung" on the radio yesterday. That guy could play the heck out of a flute.
Ian Anderson is greatest rock flutist EVER!
Yes and Deep Purple are timeless. Kansas is timeless. Loggins and Messina are timeless. Jethro Tull does not translate too well in to the 21st century due to its blatant anti-Christian flavor. And I can't believe I even listed to America.
skating away on the thin ice of a new day
I saw Tull when they were touring "Heavy Horses" back in '78. Anderson had a bottle of Jack Daniels black label on a speaker, and would duck back and chug during Barre's guitar breaks, extended non-flute instrumentals, basically any time he wasn't singing, talking, or playing. I was amazed that he was still on his feet after the set. He may be a Bush-bashing liberal puke, but the dude could definitely hold his hooch.
Kids with good taste in music! Whoda thunk it?
--I heard "Aqualung" on the radio yesterday. That guy could play the heck out of a flute.---
But the song really could have used more cowbell.
I think we're talking classic rock, not classic elevator music! :) I loved those guys in their time...but would never include them in a classic rock category.
But the song really could have used more cowbell.
I'll bet Debbie Boone could really rock with Aqualung!!!
Did musicians do drugs in the `70s?
America: "He rides the sky like an eagle in the eye of a hurricane that's abandoned."
"Lizards and snakes in the air . ."
"Sorry Joe, but I ain't been hit by purple rain."
And Manfred Mann: "And little Hurley Gurley turned my anus curley-wurley, and asked me if I needed a ride."
Back then when you said "Hi!" to someone, they replied, "Yes". Series.
My favorite band since '73.
Yes, but, the mouse police never sleeps...
You can blame that one on Springsteen.
Francis Vincent Zappa Jr.
oh, your reference to "timeless" music explains some things about you! LOL! Kansas-timeless....*rolling eyes*
it was worth it.
Amazing that one of the most memorable SNL skits in 20 years revolve around chris walken and will farrell hitting a cowbell.
Ping, in light of this morning's interview with Ian Anderson...
I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell.
No and no. Springsteen lyrics
Some silicone sister with her manager's mister told me I got what it takes
She said, "I'll turn you on, sonny, to something strong if you play that song with the funky break"
And Go-Cart Mozart was checkin' out the weather chart to see if it was safe to go outside
And little Early-Pearly came by in her curly-wurly and asked me if I needed a ride
SD
....'blatant anti-Christian flavor'...? That's quite a stretch.
"you know what I mean"
http://www.fightinggravity.com.
One of the greatest guitar players ever.
Brucie wrote 'Go-cart Mozart (checkin out the weather charts)'? Live and learn . . .
I went to a Tull concert about that year where a `zebra' produced zebra-stipe balls from its south end, which were thrown to the crowd.
'Songs from the Wood', one of my favorites.
Fleetwood Mac!
[Before they went co-ed. Way before they went co-ed]
WOW!
OK smart guy. Give us the lyrics to:
the 'Cops' theme song;
and,
'Louie, Louie'.
dubble dog dare you.
Kansas??!!! Loggins and Messina????!!!! (retch!)
Hendrix, my man. Hendrix.
I went to a Tull concert at Virginia Tech when they were pushing " Thick As A Brick "...back in '71-'72.
They opening act was Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band.
Now there was a revolutionary act!
Check out their "Clear Spot" album...if you can find it.
Amazing stuff.
"Farm On The Freeway"
Nine miles of two-strand topped with barbed wire
laid by the father for the son.
Good shelter down there on the valley floor,
down by where the sweet stream run.
Now they might give me compensation...
That's not what I'm chasing. I was a rich man before yesterday.
Now all I have got is a cheque and a pickup truck.
I left my farm on the freeway.
Jethro Tull even sings songs about me. I'm pinging pissant to a Tull thread...I just can't help it.
You kiss the boots of death born out of fear?
I was an atheist when Tull was popular and I thought he was a god because he was so anti-Christian.
Blinded by the Light: one of those songs where the actual words are considered optional or badly mangled by the person singing along.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinded_By_The_Light
It would not have been as good, because David Gilmour is the supreme deity of the guitar. Plus, we would not have had The Wall.
Yes, and I can not stress this enough, the song is not about a douche.
SD
When I graduated from high-school in '80 I mentioned them in my senior write-up. I still get a kick today, 25 years later, thumbing through high school yearbooks to see how many kids mention Led Zeppelin....
And while Dark Side of the Moon is just brilliant, much of The Wall is self-indulgence that hasn't aged that well.
A few years ago I was at a restaurant that went karioke after dinner. The ladies I was with were bugging me to do it. I said I would if they had the words to "Louie, Louie".
They did.
I welched.
}:^)
...Feeling like a dead duck, spitting out pieces of his broken luck...
I met Ian Anderson in the parking lot of a Holiday Inn, many moons ago.
We were on our way into the concert venue when we learned the show had been cancelled at the last minute. I remembered reading that the Stones would stay at the nearest Holiday Inn. I figured if it was good enough for Mick and the boys, it was good enough for Tull and we hightailed it over there.
We found the band in the parking lot - they were there but the equipment truck had broken down on the road, ergo cancelled concert.
It was great meeting the guys - Ian is short, tho. I used to see Tull every time they came thru Detroit when I lived in Ann Arbor in the early 70s and was a big fan. I have to admit feeling very old when I heard a Tull song on an elevator.
Good on these kids for listening to some 'real music,' as I tell my son. : )
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