Original Jethro Tull by Gary Parker

Author:Gary Parker
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2018-09-06T16:00:00+00:00

Friends having fun onstage. Martin Barre (left) and Ian Anderson in the mid–1970s. Courtesy Ian Anderson.

At other times, Anderson also pointed to the band’s tax-induced sabbatical as reason for a lack of harmony in the group. Not surprisingly, Terry Ellis agrees.

“I’d been down to visit them during the recording of the album,” Ellis recalls, “and I sensed it wasn’t a happy time for the band. In retrospect, it wasn’t a good idea for the group to record so far away from home. Strains and frictions arise at times like that and they take a toll.”19

Looking back from a perspective of forty years, Dee Palmer comments on Monte Carlo and Ian Anderson.

“It was a glitzy playground,” Dee Palmer says, “but Ian was holed up either in his rented house or in the studio. When I went down there, I was down there for about eight days recording. Ian and I spent a lot of time late at night in the studio discussing what we’d recorded that day and what we were going to do the next. The band, of course, with so little to do, might be in the hotel swimming pool. Of course, Ian doesn’t like that kind of stuff. He just doesn’t like it. He’s a Presbyterian Scot. He needs to be seen to be working. He’s a tolerant person but there was a limit and he’d be scowling at them having a good time. It’s a moral rectitude of everything in its place, and if it’s not in its place, somebody’s going to pay. I mean, we’ve all got warts and all our good points and bad points.”20

And insofar as Ian Anderson’s perspective on the sour relations within the band at the time, Martin Barre was later to suggest that the problems encountered during the recording of the album, in fact, might rest with Anderson. “Ian didn’t like being there,” Martin state. “He doesn’t like beaches or people who sit on beaches and he really resented those sorts of people in Monaco. But it was up to him if he chose to do that. It was Ian’s choice to go into the studio on his own for hours on end. But in retrospect, Monte Carlo was a bad place to go because he should have realized that he wouldn’t have been happy in the environment.”21

In the second half of 1975, Jethro Tull would tour extensively in Germany, France and the U.S. And armed an excellent new album to promote and string of sold-out arenas awaiting their arrival, the band, from all outward appearances, seemed to be riding high. But neither the record buying public, nor those who packed the stadiums during the summer and fall of 1975, had any way of anticipating that this group, a band that seemed so inviolate, would, in just weeks, be rocked by an event that would change them forever.

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