{"id":6696,"date":"2010-08-10T16:38:38","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T23:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=6696"},"modified":"2010-08-12T09:05:10","modified_gmt":"2010-08-12T16:05:10","slug":"jethro-tull-in-jerusalem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=6696","title":{"rendered":"Jethro Tull in Jerusalem"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ian Anderson Old Train Station Jerusalem 2010\/Photo: Elizur Reuveni<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sylvan troubadour with a wild gleam in his eye, Ian Anderson was in fine form in Jerusalem last night at the Old Train Station. The August 9th concert was the last of Jethro Tull\u2019s current tour in Israel and the band leaves behind a throng of admiring fans \u2013 after all, not everyone can get the crowds swaying and clapping to Bach.<\/p>\n

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Jethro Tull in Jerusalem 2010\/Photo: Elizur Reuveni<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After getting off to a relatively mellow start with songs from the early years, Anderson informed the audience, \u201cYou have the dubious distinction of being the audience to attend the quietest rock concert ever. This venue has an 85 decibel limit. It\u2019s not us, it\u2019s the locals.\u201d With Jethro Tull\u2019s blend of electric\/folk\/rock\/blues with a classical twist and Anderson\u2019s humor and earthy sensuality \u2013 who needs decibels?<\/p>\n

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Ian Anderson in Jerusalem 2010\/Photo: Elizur Reuveni<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A rocker version of Pan with his flute, Anderson led the audience on a tour through time and sound. From the recent A Change of Horses written with Anoushka Shankar to 1968\u2019s Dharma for One, and several stops in between, including a (very brief) version of Thick as a Brick.<\/p>\n

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Ian Anderson and Shlomo Gronich Jerusalem 2010\/Photo: Elizur Reuveni<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Ian Anderson and Shlomo Gronich Jerusalem 2010\/Photo: Elizur Reuveni<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Special guest Shlomo Gronich joined the band onstage for Bouree \u2013 which Anderson described as \u201cJ.S. Bach \u2013 we\u2019re doing it in sleazy cocktail lounge jazz style.\u201d Anderson and Gronich, in addition to being amazing musicians, share a similar sense of play and a touch madness lurking not to far beneath the surface \u2013 they were meant to jam together. Gronich even snuck a few bars of Hatikvah into Bouree.<\/p>\n

At the end of their Bach interlude, Gronich asked to say a few words to the audience in Hebrew and told the audience that it would be Anderson\u2019s birthday the following day, saying, \u201cLet\u2019s sing to him in English the song that he knows,\u201d and everyone sang Happy Birthday to a very surprised Ian Anderson.<\/p>\n

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Ian Anderson in Jerusalem 2010\/Photo: Elizur Reuveni<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The band ended the evening with Aqualung – there is nothing like hearing a crowd of people singing together in the Jerusalem night air, those moments when music is everything and everyone. Coming back for an encore of Locomotive Breath, the stage was surrounded by fans. It was a great\u00a0evening with a great band, and until Jethro Tull’s next visit to Israel, there are the memories and Elizur Reuveni’s wonderful photos:<\/p>\n

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Photo: Elizur Reuveni<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Ian Anderson Jerusalem 2010\/Photo: Elizur Reuveni<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Ian Anderson Jerusalem 2010\/Photo: Elizur Reuveni<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Jethro Tull in Jerusalem\/Photo: Elizur Reuveni<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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AYELET DEKEL<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sylvan troubadour with a wild gleam in his eye, Ian Anderson was in fine form in Jerusalem last night at the Old Train Station. The August 9th concert was the last of Jethro Tull\u2019s current tour in Israel and the band leaves behind a throng of admiring fans \u2013 after all, not everyone can get […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}