Re: Tull on Zep/Is Plant capable of getting along with any
Mark
> Raja, The Great wrote:
>> On May 16, 4:39 pm, Darrin <darrin...@aol.com> wrote:
>>> Long before the Coverdale feud, there was Ian Anderson of Jethro
>>> Tull!! eh Here's an excerpt from The Anderson Interview, ala
> Aqualung
>>> Remastered:
>>>
>>> IAN ANDERSON: "The album was recorded not far from here....in then
>>> newly opened studios of Island records....to whom we were still
>>> affiliated through the Chrysalis distribution deal.....label
>>> arrangement with Island..and both Led Zeppelin & Jethro Tull were
> in a
>>> way the guniea pigs for the new studio...and being as I think I
>>> recall..a converted church..Basing St...it had by the standards of
>>> them...all the latest in technology and the latest in studio ideas.
>>> Unfortunately many of them were wrong (laughter)...and the studio
> was
>>> very, very difficult to work in. Both studios...both studio 1 &
> 2...I
>>> think Zeppelin had maybe a slighty easier time...they were in a
>>> smaller studio..I think downstairs..we were in a very big room
>>> upstairs...most of the time...so it was a very difficult
>>> album...technically to make... because we didn't know what we were
>>> hearing...everything just sounded bad in the room...everything
> sounded
>>> jarring and unpleasant.. And when it came to mastering the
>>> record...alot of my confidence...out of the whole processs....it
>>> really didn't sound to me like a good album..it still sounds in many
>>> ways to me..frought with alot of modifications..."
>>> INTERVIEWER: "So you had a larger studio than Led Zeppelin? Was it
> due
>>> to a pecking order?" (snickering)
>>> ANDERSON: "It had nothing to do with the pecking orders because we
>>> would have been much more comfortable in the smaller room. We didn't
>>> have it quite as bad...I think we did actually do some sessions in
> the
>>> smaller room...which is why I am saying that...it had to do with
>>> Zeppelin who took the place before we did....and got the more cozy
>>> environment in the big studios. Larger part of the church had been
>>> converted like that...it was really more orchestral size....it
> wasn't
>>> really a rock group studio. Nothing like a cozy studios in those
>>> days...you know, places that kind of had that...atmosphere...the
> Abbey
>>> Road kind of anonymity of the more traditional orchestral big band
>>> studio...."
>>> INTERVIEWER: "What was Led Zep doing?"
>>> ANDERSON: "I can't remember what it was....it was...Zeppeilin...we
>>> already toured with Zeppelin in 1969..as a support band. Although we
>>> all got well with Jimmy Page and Peter Grant the manager...and even
>>> with John Bonham...who provided a generous amount of some of the
> hard
>>> to handle moments (laughter) that he was capable of providing. For
>>> some reason....probably entirely unimportant....lost in the midst of
>>> time...Robert Plant and I never got on. With hindsight...whatever
> the
>>> reason or reasons were..I am absolutely prepared to take the blame
> for
>>> it. Because I do recall...what I thought was in good spirit...making
>>> some not badly intended comment in Melody Maker. Saying: "with my
>>> lyrics and Led Zeppelin's music (laughter)..we could be a pretty
> good
>>> little rock 'n' roll band (laughter)." Something like that.
>>> Stupidly...you know... heavy-handed about that...not remembering of
>>> course that Robert Plant actually wrote the lyrics. The one thought
> at
>>> that time was that Zep was being kind of a blues-based band. Most of
>>> his music and alot of the lyrics from early-on were not lyric-
>>> writing...so much as taking ideas that were traditional in White
>>> middle-class reworkings of Willie Dixon repertoire. It didn't seem
> to
>>> be as I was saying anything particularly hurtful....because I
> probably
>>> wasn't recognizing things...the other anthemic contributions of the
>>> world at that time...like Stairway to Heaven...which like Aqualung,
> is
>>> still Sunday morning fare on Classic Rock stations throughout North
>>> America..."
>>>
>>> My comments: Anderson was right on the $$$! I've always said that
> Zep
>>> was far stronger musically than lyrically. Particularly when you
>>> consider that half of their discography is comprised of remakes.
>>> Compare Zep's lyrical prolificacy with Tull, let alone Dylan or
> George
>>> & Ira Gershwin! LOL! Yes, I intentionally omitted The Beatles,
>>> because like Zep, they too were musically superior to lyrical
> content.
>>> Some of early Fab was enjoyable, yet Godawful. Do the math: "I Wanna
>>> Hold Your Hand!" vs. "Like A Rolling Stone" by Dylan! LOL!
>>>
>>> Question now begs: why is Plant so sensitive to constructive
> criticism?
>>> ehe Even when artists (see Whitesnake) pay homage to Zep, he still
>>> gets all bent out of shape?eh If Page and the rest were able to
>>> befriend Ian Anderson, why couldn't he? Why must Plant hold life-
> long
>>> grudges against fellow musicians?
>>
>> Ian Anderson has a voice of a donkey. He has no right to make fun of
>> the Robert "God-voice" Plant.
>
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>
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>
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