![]() ![]() ![]() Arranged chronologically, the three-disc set highlights the band’s continuous musical evolution with blues-influenced early tracks (Beggar. 50 FOR 50 provides a sweeping overview of Jethro Tull’s rich and diverse catalog, which includes numerous platinum and gold records. Over the next half century, Neil would see the ridgetop of fame and fortune, then the lowest valley of substance abuse and despair, and finally the mountaintop of sobriety, spirituality, and serving others.Īfter almost two weeks battling on a respirator, Neil Lasher died of the coronavirus. A career-spanning three-disc set that features 50 songs chosen by Ian Anderson from all 21 of the band’s studio albums. Neil and I were two Buckeyes in Exile, leaving there independently, “runnin’ down a dream” and never looking back. While credible half-century anniversaries with a full-provenance band can be reasonably counted on the number of hands needed to pick up a flute, it’d be a churlish cove who denies Jethro Tull’s admission into this rarefied club. Neil and I were both Northwest Ohio radio deejays in Winter 1972, like two pebbles dropped in the inky black cold still water of some long-abandoned limestone quarry south of Toledo, with the ever-expanding concentric circles rippling out seemingly forever. The best of 50 years of Jethro Tull, hand-picked by Ian Anderson himself. This edition of In the Studio is fondly dedicated to music industry maven Neil Lasher, who helped to facillitate my relationship with Ian Anderson. ![]() This is the most highly-detailed oral history of Jethro Tull’s first formative years from the “ Inside” by Ian Anderson that exists anywhere, with some stories he’s never previously revealed, such as why Mick Abrahams exited Jethro Tull after the debut This Was how the late Joe Cocker was involved in Tull’s #1 success with Stand Up in the UK and which member of the band YES wore paper underpants on tour! ![]()
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