Ian talking about people having lived in that area of Scotland for over 3000 years. That he feels a sense of eyes watching over him, "awe-inspiring...to see if you're doing it right or you're doing wrong." This is the kind of human being (and one of y favorite artists since I was a kid) that I'd want to be inspired by, gives me hope. A rock star who could just live in plastic glamour and with every modern and latest gadgetry, grossly attentive to his media presence, public profile and status, but instead thinks of where he came from, as his role as caretaker of the land and the long line of antecedents who came before. Like Neil Young he has the kind of sense of his place in the world that makes you feel an even stringer connection with their music. This is what purpose through art looks like.
Anderson is a singularity. Nothing like other rock legends. No drugs or alcohol or wild spending splurges. I have been listening to Tull since the late 60s and own a lot of his music. There is nobody out there like Ian and certainly no other music like theirs. I am fortunate to have lived at a time that allows me to enjoy this. I have been going to his concerts since the did the Aqualung tour. I am ALWAYS entertained. God bless them all. And giving back to his community as well. Jagger could take some lessons.
Well said. Tull is a unique fellow. I love his music. I never get tired of it. Tull's solid stuff is very good, too. He's one of my Top 10 Favorites of All Time.
@@seeDiersoilcrossrowds absolutely true. I worked for Metallica in L.A. The Rose Bowl. And In Kirk Hammett’s dressing room was a Alter to Satan. Very Disturbing. 666 I saw It They Pray To Satan Before Every Show
The more that I see of this Ian Anderson, the more I love this guy. He is an all around guy, a common sense kind of fellow who has a wife just as industrious.....And his music is classic and a cut above.....So is his lifestyle and outlook.....A man who farms, raises fish, plays music, keeps others employed, and is a productive individual is to be greatly admired.......I'm sure he has his naysayers, but nuts to them....They know not what they say or believe.....What a guy! This is a great man.... He's shown what one can do if he puts his brain and talents to work for himself and others....
felix stinson yes mate, a true living legend, I have great admiration for the guy, and there's not many rock stars I can say that about, maybe Phil Collins and Steven Wilson are a couple of others but Ian tops them
He's a Scotsman for heavens sake. He's the highlands in his bones and the loch in his blood. A bit of a perfectionist mixed together with an iconoclast sensibility and with the steely endurance of a William Wallace. In fact I tend to sense a drop of that rebel spirit in Mr. Anderson. In any case, one would expect thrift and economy arising from that heritage, if a stranger may be permitted to make such an observation without giving offence, things being what they are today. Creatively? Well what can one say? I've always been envious of how, seemingly effortlessly, both Mr. Anderson and Mr. Barre appeared to be able to pick up multiple instruments and, if not master them, then to at least employ them successfully in the production and performance of commercially viable music. Of this I am certain, I have been entertained, enriched and enlightened by the mans lyrics, his music and his indomitable spirit. He surrounds himself with capable, singularly competent and highly talented folk both in his musical pursuits as well as his other endeavors and this quality, above all else, is an indication of his genius. Well done Mr. Anderson, kudos to you and keep on rockin'. From one of your fans but I'm no fanatic.
@@paultheroman6637 Calm down, Iberian popinjay. Take it out your mouth for a second. He went to a grammar school in England and Tull's discog is filled with English folk and progressive composition. Even Henry's madrigal. The fact he kicked out the best members and turned Tull into the Ian Anderson business-band, bothers a lot of fans.
A very heady & eclectic man Ian is. He does a brilliant balancing act between the excesses of show business & the ways of rural life. I have much respect for his love of the land & his music.
It is good to see someone who has been able to live and grow with their life. Living in the dream. Doing both with equal passion. Few ever have the chance, fewer still have the ability.
Ian Anderson is a very intelligent man, like so many in the music business he could've fallen to drugs and the rock lifestyle, but he diversified into farming , salmon growing biiz and still writes records and performs w/Jethro Tull over 40 yrs now,a rare feat among so many of his peers in rock now long gone
Ian Anderson es muyyyyyyy grande y ejemplo de persona en el que nos podemos mirar todos y aprender.A mayores tiene un talento que hay que nacer con el y a los demas lo que nos queda es darle las gracias por compartirlo con nosotros y disfrutarlo.
I was lucky to see Jethro Tull 1st 6 Tours each one after a release of six incredible LP s. Best 1st five LP s in rock and roll history . A witches promise came true
In 1978, a friend and I went to the box office at the Capital Centre (Landover, MD) about 1/2 hour before the 'Bursting Out Tour' concert was to begin. As luck would have it, about 100 radio station promotional tickets had been released for sale. We got 2nd row center stage tickets. Top 3 concerts I've ever seen.
OMG - I was at the Milton Keynes Festival in 1986 - the first time I ever saw Ian and the guys live - I have lost count of the number of times I have seen Jethro Tull in concert since, including the "Thick as a Brick 2" concert in Birmingham in 2012, the "Orchestral Tull" concert in Prague in 2015 and the extension to the 50th Anniversary tour in San Diego (I was lucky enough to be working there) in 2019. Long may they continue to reign surpeme over their genre.......simply awesome!!
thank you for this interesting documentary! I'm a great fan of Tull since I was sixteen, that's so long ago, in the early seventies. Like myself, there's a huge fan community in Germany who admires this awesome group and its frontman, Ian Anderson. I remember that I improved my skills in English language at school by translating the song texts, which are masterpieces of poetry.
@@andycleeter I Think the popularity was mainly the result of young people's desire towards an alternative draft to the prissy taste of their parents concerning not only music, so Ian and Glenn Cornick in particular were the rebellious answer to the outmoded principles of bourgeois behaviour, especially Live in Stage!
Great man have loved his music since I first heard Stand Up in 1969. Married him a beautiful and intelligent lady. I believe Shona was the ballerina on the cover of A Passion Play. Said She Was a Dancer in an interview I once heard him give back in the seventies. Thanks for posting this, even though it was years ago.
Ian is a driven individual, he pushes himself, his band, and most likely his employees and family to some perceived notion of how he thinks things should be. This has resulted in much success, however at a cost.
That song Ian was writting at 36:15 - which I'm almost certain never made it's way onto a Jehtro Tull album - would have been a "thing of beauty & a JOY forever" had he gone on to complete it and release it as a "bonus track" on a future "Crest of a Knave" release... and I'm STILL waiting to hear it!
First saw this in 1990 on the Discovery Channel when I was 17. At that time I was attempting to get familiar with Tull as Aqualung was the only album my father owned from them that he bought in 1979 when I was a small child. I knew this wasn't about the history of the band but what Ian Anderson was up to doing as of 1986/'87. That was cool to see him working on Crest of a Knave.
I knew from the late sixties the man was special.I was one of the lucky people to meet Ian, I was a Teamster at Nassau Coliseum Long Island, N>Y> Loading and unloading equipment trucks for bands that played their.. . Tull to this day my favorite band.
Tull is so unassuming, Driving around in a Volvo Station Wagon ! 😄 Just a regular guy. Tull goes to the market, like anybody else, for bread & wine, raspberry jam ! I saw Tull on Dan Rather, he was intelligent, but humble & grounded.
I love Jethro Tull with all my heart. And Ian is a musical hero, his early compositions I'd defend to the death. But I also know he's one of the great jerks of all time. Treated his bandmates horribly, broke many of their hearts, treated so poorly after years of loyal service. And he wore a cod piece, setting prog back decades after initially propelling it forward. He's veering into Spinal Tap here, so self important. C'mon Ian
The footage of the band's performance at Milton Keynes Bowl and Anderson recording vocal tracks in his home studio for "Crest of a Knave" is phenomenal.
Look how he brings people together - a Celtic flag and an Ulster Loyalist flag in the same audience! In 1986! *Everybody* loves the Tull! Brilliant music and really interesting insight into his other life.
The concert footage is from my 18th birthday. Too bad I did not get to see Jethro Tull that day, I would have loved it! I got to see the Grateful Dead play a week later, though!
Today I realise for the first time I once actually came quite close to Strathaird, going to Elgol, on a walking trip across Scotland/Skye in 1999. Never knew this then. LOL.
I somehow lucked out and caught this show in 1989 on an obscure cable station. I've tried dozens of times since to find it. Thank you so much for sharing!
Caressing an animal and feeling its warmth is one of the best thing i have ever tried. Caressing my guitar and feeling the vibing of the strings under my fingers is another of the things i like best.Music and animals, Animals and music, i don't need anything else. I never received a trick or a fraud or a damage from animals, neither from my guitar. i have received many from men.
Nicely done- enjoyed this on its own, but also as a lifetime fan of Ian and the band. Thank you for this lovely view of a bit of the inner world of Ian Anderson and the beauty that abounds where he lives and farms
Waw it is a pittty ( Pena ) that a good profesional apears in such a sheety documentary. He was one of the great rock real musicians so please leave hem alone with his gut and flute
In case anyone s wondering. In the early scene with lan talking to that guy in front of the trailer, that guy is Martin Barre,lead guitarist, Jethro Tull.
Whatever you think about landownership, he allways Seems to respect the people living on the Land and he provides work and care for the people. That is all that matters. Only thing that bothers me is the Bird shooting. Killing animals "for fun/sport" is a sin.
What beautiful countryside. It sounds as if he may have bought this estate in 1979. I'm wondering if he still owns it, and still is giving farming a go. I'm pretty sure I have bought, or at least seen that brand of salmon here in NJ. A little cream cheese, capers, tomato and onion...yum.
He sold the Estate to the John Muir Trust in 1994 for £750,000. His salmon farming business turned out to be successful though and was worth circa £10 million by the mid-nineties.
I don't know why they even mentioned Tull in the title. This is the Ian Anderson documentary, and having watched him for quite a few years, both on and off stage I'm sure that's exactly the way he likes it. I am an admirer, but there's so much more to Tull than IA
49:07 an embryonic 'Farm on the Freeway'! Interesting to find out that Ian played the keyboards on 'Crest of a Knave', he surely is a man of many talents! It's also super cool to get a glimpse of his home studio! Anyone know the gear he was using here?
Funny. Being an American I’ve never been exposed to Ian this way. He made some comments after 9/11 and it was transferred through the good ole USA media as derogatory. Maybe it was maybe it wasn’t but none the less you gotta love how this guy built this thing of his and kept it local.props and good on you Ian. Philly loves ya!
I was impressed with Anderson's business acumen and multi talents in this documentary. I would love to see a sequel to find out how the estate has been doing, if he still owns it. I know that in British Columbia, fish farms are being closed down due to problems with sea lice and the escape of Atlantic salmon stocks into the wild population. Is there a backlash against the industry in Scotland as well?
What happened to that jethro tull documentary from 1979 that was on youtube ten years ago? One in which David Palmer was composing a piano part for a song of the band. It just disappeared.
I hate to say it, but Ian Anderson kind of is Tull. Just like Mark Knopfler basically is Dire Straits. Not that the other members aren't vital, but Ian Anderson really is what makes Jethro Tull, Jethro Tull. I mean, you never really hear anyone say "Wow Tull has the greatest drum or guitar rifs of any band". Its all about the flute baby
I only recently discovered Jethro Tull. Locomotive Breath was the first I ever heard. Gonna record an Ukulele cover of it tonight. Cant replicate the flute but I'll do my best with the chords and vocals. Thanks for the upload.
