After insisting he was not AI, the musician wrote about how people were using AI to take advantage of fans. “It has come to our attention that fake fan websites and social media accounts are displaying AI-generated content purporting to be by me – whether lyrics, music or social commentary.”
With AI able to create from a simple prompt, it could produce a song in a matter of minutes. Only needing the lyrics – AI could write them in a few seconds. But again, with all the advantages of AI, there are countless critics. And adding his name to the list, Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson labeled AI “insidious” and “childish.”
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The 78-year-old frontmanstill has the energy and desire to keep going.
He told Classic Rock magazine: “Who knows what the future holds? I hope to be physically capable for a few more years and mentally capable beyond that,.
“What I can tell you is that, in terms of energy and commitment, I’m very far from wanting to retire.”
While Jethro Tull released a new album, Curious Ruminant – their third record since 2022 – Ian doesn’t yet have any further new music in the pipeline but thinks whatever comes next will be “a bit different”.
He said: “It would be foolish to say I have a new album planned for next year because I haven’t written anything yet.
“In the months to come, I may well get the itch again, call our record company and say, ‘How about another one?’ but it all depends how well Curious Ruminant does.
“If we do make another record, it will necessarily have to be a bit different.
“I can imagine a reversal to something quite basic – not all the way back to our blues roots, but maybe something more stripped-down.
“I sometimes toy with the idea of a four-piece band.”
He said "I wanna be free of feeling that I am in any way having to comply with other people's wishes and other people's demands. And the more demanding an audience are, by the way, the less I enjoy it, because there are occasions where sometimes you get a volatile audience due to the cultural tendencies in particular places.
I could name Brazil, for example, where audiences think it's okay to whistle and shout and boo and shout out the names of songs they wanna hear.
I mean, I actually find it incredibly rude, and I really don't enjoy that. It's not every concert I've played in Brazil, but I encountered it a couple of times last year when I was on tour in Brazil, and that's the way they are. There are other national stereotypes where people do behave that way. You will encounter it sometimes in the USA, where people think it's okay to shout and whistle.
It's not okay. I'm trying to concentrate on playing sometimes quite difficult music, and I don't like to be interfered with. I like to have the flexibility to be able to do that. And so if the audience set out to somehow manipulate you or influence your way of playing, that's not good.
For me, it is absolutely sufficient, at the end of a song, to see smiles on faces and somebody applauding at the appropriate time. That means everything to me. I don't wanna be interrupted while I'm performing.
