How was the eLater career of Ian Anderson (musician)?
While Anderson has recorded a small number of critically-acclaimed projects under his own name, and frequently makes guest appearances in other artists’ work, he has been identified in the public eye as the frontman of Jethro Tull for 40 years. This is undoubtedly because a signature motif of Anderson’s career has been a highly distinctive stage image, which has often been counter to the prevailing rock music culture. While he has habitually drawn inspiration from British folklore – at different times deploying stylistic elements of Medieval jester, Elizabethan minstrel, English country squire and Scottish laird – at other times he has appeared as astronaut, biker, pirate and vagrant. His personae often involve a large degree of self-parody. Ian Anderson plays the Orchestral Jethro Tull – in Butzbach (Germany) 6. June 2007 As a flautist, Anderson is self-taught; his style, which often includes a good deal of flutter tonguing and occasionally singing or humming (or even snorting) while
