{"id":12,"date":"2009-07-31T21:08:41","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T15:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=12"},"modified":"2009-07-31T21:08:41","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T15:08:41","slug":"interview-coming-ian-anderson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2009\/07\/31\/interview-coming-ian-anderson\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview Teaser: Ian Anderson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several months ago I was fortunate to score a phone interview with <strong>Jethro Tull<\/strong>&#8216;s legendary leader\/founder, Ian Anderson. Our talk came at the tail-end of\u00a0 long day for the UK-based flautist\/vocalist, but he graciously spoke with me for more than an hour. Our wide-ranging conversation covered the creative process, the ups and down of the band over the years, the effects of aging, and even the then-current US presidential race. The incredibly articulate and engaging Anderson was endlessly quotable; the problem was, at the conclusion, I had an hour-long recording, almost all of which was worth sharing verbatim.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/live_jethro_tull.jpg\" alt=\"Ian Anderson, Nov 2007. Photo (c) Bill Kopp\" align=\"right\" height=\"143\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" width=\"215\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But I type something like 18 words per minute, with 12 mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>Enter my good friend David Molnar. Yet another former bandmate (Dave was the best and last in a long line of bassists in my retro-psych garage project <strong>The Echoes of Tyme<\/strong>), he&#8217;s also a terrifyingly good transcriptionist. He&#8217;s agreed to type up a record of the proceedings for me (and for you). Watch this space for details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several months ago I was fortunate to score a phone interview with Jethro Tull&#8216;s legendary leader\/founder, Ian Anderson. Our talk came at the tail-end of\u00a0 long day for the UK-based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interview","cat-41-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}