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- From: aa595@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Dan Duvall)
- Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll.classic
- Subject: Ian Anderson reveals musical influences
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 07:06:15 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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- Ian Anderson wrote the following in 1982 for Trouser Press magazine:
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- My own musical history goes back to about the age of 11,
- when my father bought me a cheap Spanish guitar and encouraged me to
- play. I never did learn to play to his satisfaction - probably
- haven't to this day. I sort of scratched around, just about picking
- out a tune on one string. (I'm self-taught on the instruments I
- play.) It wasn't till I was 15 that I tried to figure out what these
- mysterious "chords" were, and went on from there to pick up a
- basic understanding of music from listening to people like the
- Rolling Stones and the Beatles.
- The Stones' influence on me wasn't so much musical as an
- example of how one could rebel against the popular concept of
- being a "rock" or "pop" musician. The world was full of people
- like Herman's Hermits: very slick, very showbiz bands, the kind
- you could have on the Carson show and everything would go really
- smoothly. Even the Beatles were sort of smug and nice lads...or so
- it appeared in those days. It seemed particularly brave to take
- something as exotic as American black music and shift it into a
- kind of British R&B as the Stones did. There were a few other
- bands doing it, too, like the Animals and even, to a lesser extent,
- Manfred Mann. And then there were real wizards like the Graham Bond
- Organization with Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker, and Dick Heckstall-Smith,
- taking it more from a jazz angle.
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