Jethro Tull is up there just a tier below The Beatles. Ian Anderson has continued for all these years exploring new styles, rewriting older music to fit classical styles and of course running through new musicians like a drunk w a six pack. Far too many bands not only play their same hits over and over, they play them the same way year after year. The Stones, Springsteen, etal offer no reason not to just stay at home and play their records.
Actually, Springstein does continue recording, doesn’t he? As does a real oldie but goodie act Dion DiMucci. Mick Jagger complained in a recent interview that the public doesn’t want to hear anything new, and that’s the reason why they won’t go in the studio. Pity.