{"id":11725,"date":"2021-10-23T12:28:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-23T19:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11725"},"modified":"2021-11-07T12:31:01","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T19:31:01","slug":"thick-as-a-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/10\/23\/thick-as-a-trick\/","title":{"rendered":"Thick As A Trick"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/features\/jethro-tull-story-behind-thick-as-a-brick\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Louder Sound<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Jethro Tull: the story behind Thick As A Brick<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1971, Jethro Tull\u2019s Ian Anderson set out with tongue-in-cheek to make \u201cthe mother of all concept albums\u201d. With Thick As A Brick, he ended up fulfilling his ambition \u2013 and then some<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/author\/malcolm-dome\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Malcolm Dome<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Thick as a brick - Lisa simpson\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vmWq6yTcXNo?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Monty Python. It might seem a little odd to mention the influential British comedy troupe as we begin a journey through the story of the groundbreaking album Thick As A Brick. But Jethro Tull mainman Ian Anderson believes there\u2019s a common thread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMonty Python lampooned the British way of life,\u201d says Anderson. \u201cYet did it in such a way that made us all laugh while celebrating it. To me, that\u2019s what we as a band did on&nbsp;<em>Thick As A Brick<\/em>. We were spoofing the idea of the concept album, but in a fun way that didn\u2019t totally mock it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s often been said that the seeds for 1972\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Thick As A Brick<\/em>&nbsp;(the band\u2019s fifth album) were sown when its predecessor, \u201971\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Aqualung<\/em>, was wrongly perceived as a fully-blown conceptual piece. Myth has it that Anderson was angry about this misconception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNot angry, no,\u201d explains the man nearly four decades on. \u201cI was actually mildly irritated and wryly amused. However much I insisted that\u00a0<em>Aqualung<\/em>\u00a0wasn\u2019t a concept album, the media still persisted in treating it as such. They seemed to believe the whole record was a major religious story. The truth was that three or four songs were linked by questioning the nature of religion. But the rest were stand-alone tracks. So, after this whole scenario, I thought, \u2018OK, we\u2019ll not only now do a real concept album, but we\u2019re going to make it the mother of all concept albums!\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/features\/jethro-tull-story-behind-thick-as-a-brick\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Lounder Sound<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Louder Sound Jethro Tull: the story behind Thick As A Brick In 1971, Jethro Tull\u2019s Ian Anderson set out with tongue-in-cheek to make \u201cthe mother of all concept albums\u201d. With Thick As A Brick, he ended up fulfilling his ambition \u2013 and then some By\u00a0Malcolm Dome Monty Python. It might seem a little odd [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}