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"Worst Band Ever"

Flute solos in rock and roll! In every song! ROFL!! And they dressed like wee English gnomes.

Spinal Tap had nothing on Jethro Tull. They were impossible to parody.

[bird4four4]

stopped playing all Jethro Tull

You mean there are stations that actually still are playing their music??

[bigfootbob]

Damn. Why can't these hasbeens and holdovers keep their mouths shut about political issues they know nothing about.

[OldFriend]

Guess he wanted for Iraq what the UN did for Rwanda.

[McGavin999]

Anderson/Jethro Tull is scheduled to play Saturday at the Count Basie Theater in Redbank and in Collingswood tomorrow at the Scottish Write Auditorium.

I think they meant Scottish RITE Auditorium. Too bad if there's some electrical problems etc. I can't imagine the men who are members of that particular organization would be too thrilled with having an anti-American performing on their stage.

If you don't like America, there's a whole big world out there where you can live. Don't think you can stay here, take advantage of all this country offers, and then bash it. These people make me sick.

[Michael.SF.]

These comments from the man who brought us this 'intelligent' dribble:

Aqualung

Sitting on a park bench
eyeing little girls with bad intent.
Snot running down his nose --
greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes.
Drying in the cold sun --
Watching as the frilly panties run.
Feeling like a dead duck --
spitting out pieces of his broken luck.

[Constitution Day]

"If you don’t wish to see our Flag, take your butt back to Great Britain ... (and) don’t let the door hit you on your way out," one anonymous critic known as Gunner Mike wrote last night on the popular political Web site, www.freerepublic.com.

PING!

[Tallguy]

As for containing Saddam Hussein, Anderson said that task should have been handled by the U.N. not the U.S. led coalition.

The UN couldn't prevent Ian Anderson's music from being broadcast of the airwaves, much less "contain Saddam Hussein." I never liked Jethro Tull's "music" so it would be no great loss to me if I never heard from him/them again...

[moodyskeptic]

Brit pop stars can't seem to shut their traps about politics. They don't know their place as shallow entertainers. I was at a Phil Collins concert when he stopped the show to exhort the audience to contribute to peace or homeless or some crap. I yelled out "shut up and sing"! and I got thousands of angry stares.

I did hear a few men laughing however. I'd do it again in a second. Someone needs to remind these fools that we choose to get our politics from sober adults, not spoiled Peter Pan burnouts.

[Paulus Invictus]

When they were getting the excrement beaten out of them twice by the Huns and the Nazis, who did they call on for help and what flag did our troops carry? At the cost of thousands of our troop's lives, we saved their collective behinds in both world wars. This comment goes for the cowardly Frenchies too! Send these anti-American rockers back to socialist England where their hate messages are accepted by even more Britidiots.

[hellinahandcart]

"It’s easy to confuse patriotism with nationalism," he added.

Easy for him, anyway.

As for containing Saddam Hussein, Anderson said that task should have been handled by the U.N. not the U.S. led coalition.

I really get tired of explaining this to people. We already HAD him contained. It was necessary to *remove* him.

The UN would have been happy to have him "contained" forever, so that they could continue to skim off the Oil for Food funds, Saddam could continue killing and starving people (not to mention sending bounty payments to the families of suicide bombers, and building tacky palaces with that same money), and the US and Great Britain could pay for the "containment" in perpetuity.

Thanks, but no thanks.

[stuartcr]

Just as with the Dixie Chicks...I could not care less what the individuals say or think...if I enjoy their music, I will continue to listen to/buy it.

[Billthedrill]

A pity, really - yet another aging musician who used to pride himself on independent thought turns out to have bought into conventional wisdom after all. If Ian and the lads ever do tour Iraq they might just have their eyes opened.

[mtbrandon49]

I have the same reaction that I did when they picked Jethro Tull over Metallica at the music awards several years back.

Who the H@ll is Jethro Tull?

[mtbrandon49]

Tell him what you think.

http://www.j-tull.com/musicians/emailband.cfm?member=Ian

[Question_Assumptions]

In the article, Anderson told Asbury Park Press reporter Mark Voger that he despises President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair so much for "invading" Iraq, but that he thinks we are despised by the world due to our "invasion."

Of course he doesn't despise the UN for giving Saddam more than a decade to put hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis through toture chambers and into mass graves.

And if that wasn't enough, Tull went on to express disgust in seeing "the American flag hanging out of every bloody station wagon, out of every SUV, every little Midwestern house" across the country.

There is an airport in Newark. Please buy a one-way ticket and don't come back.

I think I now understand why my grandfather always said, "If I loved Scotland so much, I would have stayed there." I'm beginning to think all of the smart inventive Scots left and all of the socialist losers stayed beyond.

[Quix]

I deplore violence.

And I'd hate to see the flag desecrated.

But it still could be construed at poetic justice

if

some red strips, some white strips and some blue strips of cloth were found to be stuffed in orifi on both ends of the Dull Tull

[RedWhiteBlue]

And if that wasn’t enough, Tull went on to express disgust in seeing "the American flag hanging out of every bloody station wagon, out of every SUV, every little Midwestern house" across the country. "Unfortunately, the way the world sees it, we don’t look kindly on the flag-waving stuff anymore. In Europe the only time you see flag-waving is at soccer games when people beat the (excrement) out of each other," Anderson told the Asbury Park Press. "But most of the time we keep the flag-waving out of normal society these days because we know that it just engenders old animosities.

Well, Ian. When we wave fly our flags on our homes or our cars here, we are not waving them in some other country's face. This is a big country, and unlike Europe, where alot of cars go from one country to the other with ease, 99% or our cars probably never even leave the US. And the flags on homes generally are never viewed by someone from a different country. So we generally do not engender animosity from foreigners by diplaying Old Glory, nor do we do it for that purpose. Get over it, you has-been.

I'll never understand why some people find it wrong to be proud of one's country. I don't find it in the least unnatural when someone from another country is proud of their homeland.

[BSunday]

And if that wasn’t enough, Tull went on to express disgust in seeing "the American flag hanging out of every bloody station wagon, out of every SUV, every little Midwestern house" across the country.

He's just mad because nobody knows what the Scottish flag looks like, but everyone knows Old Glory

[CaptRon]

In Europe the only time you see flag-waving is at soccer games when people beat the (excrement) out of each other," Anderson told the Asbury Park Press.

I guess the Europeans are right; they are more cultured than us. How could we have missed it?

I feel so ashamed.