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...JETHRO TULL. Every unfounded rumor that Ian Anderson's group has disbanded, ceased recording, stopped performing, and so on blames the group's alleged demise on Anderson's frustration with critics who don't take his music seriously. The problem is that he takes himself so seriously that he hardly leaves room for anyone else. Tull's work is sometimes imaginitive. It is almost always pretentious. But Boston Garden--where you sit two miles from the performers--seems like the worst place to enjoy Anderson's flute-playing acrobatics...
...JETHRO TULL. Fri. Sept. 28 and Sat, Sept. 29 at 8 p.m., Boston Garden...
...Jethro Tull is back in town this weekend. The band's been hanging on for a long time so they must be doing something right. The weekend's concert is entitled "A Passion Play"; a Cartesian mind like mine assumes that Anderson and his gang will be performing stuff from the new album of the same name. Ian Anderson traditionally puts on a good show for his audience -- the way he handles his flute is a master-piece of modern erotic theater. With Livingston Taylor, Boston Garden, Friday and Saturday...
Vaudevillians. Fortunately, that public by and large insists upon a modicum of quality. Bizarre vaudevillians like Jethro Tull, the manic-impressive group for which Anderson is lead singer and flutist, are still artisans right down to their self-mocking codpieces and plaid jerkins. Singer-Composer King, 29, spins out her multitextured ballads with craft and sensitivity and raises her piano playing to something more than mere accompaniment. Nilsson, 31, blithe and winsome with his pen as well as his voice, first projected himself as a sort of sad-clown chronicler of Middle America (Nobody Cares About the Railroads Anymore...
...good promotion man must get radio play if his song is going to go anywhere on the charts. (An exception to the rule is the record, always an LP, that gains a following through exposure on FM stations, as many Jethro Tull albums have done.) This is really what all the planning and promotion is about. It is no easy task in these days when nearly all major radio stations play only the Top 40 current hits...