Surprisingly positive Tull concert review from the latest issue of Prog Magazine:
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“Weird genius”: Ian Anderson’s favourite Pink Floyd song
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Interesting article. I was very familiar with The Scarecrow song but never saw the music video before. Thanks!
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The writer called The Scarecrow the most avant garde track on the album?! Haha!
Thanks for that posting, I really enjoyed reading it.
I'd be thrilled to see Ian's JT one more time before one of us moves
on to the other side.
Fingers crossed.
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MARCH 30, 2016Jethro Tull, an English agricultural reformer, was baptized Mar. 30, 1674. Tull has traditionally been hailed as a key figure in the launching of the English agricultural revolution; in fact, in older literature, it is often said that the revolution began with the...
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Jethro Tull, an English agricultural reformer, was baptized Mar. 30, 1674. Tull has traditionally been hailed as a key figure in the launching of the English agricultural revolution; in fact, in older literature, it is often said that the revolution began with the publication of Tull's book, The Horse-hoeing Industry (1731). Tull invented a horse-drawn seed drill (second image above) that allowed crops to be planted in rows, so they could be more easily weeded, and this is said to have been a key element in the mechanization of agriculture. However, it has been recently argued that the agricultural revolution owed little to farm machinery, being more the result of land enclosure, the institution of a four-crop rotation system, and the development of selective animal breeding. Tull lobbied against crop rotation, was opposed to letting fields lie fallow or be planted with clover to recover their fertility, and campaigned against the use of manure as a fertilizer (he said manure carries too many weeds). Tull maintained that a proper plow would pulverize the soil sufficiently for plant nutrition, and that was all that the crops needed. He was, in other words, somewhat of a reactionary, and since very few people adopted the seed-drill for another century, or gave up their crop rotation system, modern consensus is that Jethro Tull probably did not have much impact on the agricultural evolution. But he did have a great name, and so in 1968 he was granted a second life as a rock band, led by a wild flutist, Ian Anderson, who seems to have been just as gifted and just as eccentric as his band's namesake.
We have the 2nd and 3rd editions of Tull's Horse-Hoeing Industry in the History of Science Collection, but they have not been digitized. The images above are from the fourth edition (1762) at the Boston Public Library, which just happened to have been owned (and signed) by John Adams. There is only one portrait image of Tull, and that is generally unattributed, so we just hope it is a valid likeness (third image). We show his gravestone in St. Bartholomew’s Churchyard (fourth image), because it is the only source for his baptismal day of Mar. 30, his date of birth being unknown.
Dr. William B. Ashworth, Jr., Consultant for the History of Science, Linda Hall Library
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https://www.thoughtco.com/jethro-tull-seed-drill-1991640
Jethro Tull and the Invention of the Seed Drill
Tull was an instrumental figure in English agriculture
The greatest songwriter of all time, according to Ian Anderson
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/greatest-songwriter-of-all-time-according-to-ian-anderson/
Too Ordinary: the two classic rock bands Ian Anderson called “generic”
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/classic-rock-bands-ian-anderson-called-generic/I disagree with Ian. The Who and the Stones are certainly iconic bands with their share of brilliant music. Their bodies of work have their share of uninspired sounding tunes in which they appear to be phoning it in or otherwise producing filler tracks, and I can’t think of anything memorable (IMHO) that either band has produced in years. Fair enough, but “generic” they definitely are not. The Stones are still a great live band from what I hear, while The Who, in my estimation, should have hung it up when Moonie died. Led Zeppelin made the right decision.
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