On the Park Bench with Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson  Jethro Tull
frontman Ian Anderson doesn’t like virtual music games - or any
other kind of game, for that matter - but that didn’t stop him
from giving us the longest and most wide-ranging interview we’ve
yet had on the site. Nearly 40 years after recording the Rock
Band tracks “Aqualung” and “Hymn 43,” Anderson has plenty of
sharp thoughts on music, politics, cyberspace, and the world at
large…  In Part One, he discusses his preference for playing
acoustic over electric guitar, the upcoming non-Tull band tour,
and reveals what was the worst song he ever wrote.   jump to
comments  Ian Anderson: I do my bit within that context, but you
have to understand that I don't play those instruments you're
associating. I don't do the kind of big, electric guitar thing.
While I've played some electric guitar, it's something you kinda
do, and you make that noise and it's about turning this sound up
to that and sorta putting in this effects unit or using these
kind of strin