‘What d’you mean, you quit?’ asked Geezer, at an emergency meeting down the pub a few days before Christmas. ‘It wasn’t my scene,’ said Tony, with a shrug. The drinks were on him. ‘How can being in Jethro Tull not be your scene?’ said Geezer. ‘You played a gig with John Lennon, man!’ ‘I want to be in my own band. I don’t want to be someone else’s employee.’ ‘So Ian Anderson’s a tosser, then?’ I asked, getting to the point. ‘No – he’s all right,’ said Tony. ‘He just wasn’t . . . We didn’t have a laugh, y’know? It wasn’t like this.’ Bill, already on his third pint of cider, looked like he was
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