It was…Jesus, 55 years ago when I saw Jethro Tull give a fairly great performance at the Boston Tea Party. I always admired how flute-playing lead vocalist Ian Anderson could play for long stretches with his left leg tucked up and touching his right knee, pied piper-style….it must have been grueling to balance himself like that. Long curly hair, twizzly beard, strong hearty voice..quite the iconic rock-star presentation.

And now, at age 77, the still-bearded Anderson is not only egg-bald but looks like a mixture of Donald Pleasance in Escape From New York and an aged Don Logan (“no no no no no no…no!…no!”). Old Ian seems to be in a good spiritual place, but I’m still finding this a bit difficult to handle.