{"id":807354,"date":"2020-05-12T08:38:08","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T14:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=998027"},"modified":"2020-05-12T08:38:08","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T14:38:08","slug":"ian-anderson-reveals-incurable-lung-disease-to-dan-rather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/ian-anderson-reveals-incurable-lung-disease-to-dan-rather\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian Anderson Reveals Incurable Lung Disease to Dan Rather"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In a recent interview with Dan Rather<\/a> on his AXS TV series The Big Interview<\/em><\/a>, Jethro Tull<\/a>\u2019s Ian Anderson<\/a> revealed he suffers from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to tell you something I\u2019ve never told anybody in public before,\u201d Anderson said.  \u201cSince it\u2019s you, I will take this moment to say I am suffering from an incurable lung disease with which I was diagnosed a couple of years back.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI do struggle,\u201d he continued. \u201cI have what are known as exacerbations: Periods when I get an infection, it turns into severe bronchitis and I have maybe two or three weeks of really a tough job to go out there onstage and play. Fingers crossed, I\u2019ve gone 18 months now without an exacerbation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anderson claimed that although his \u201cdays are numbered,\u201d he\u2019s on medication and does relatively fine in a pollution-free environment. He cites that a probable cause for his diagnosis is the smoke machines onstage.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve spent 50 years of my life onstage amongst those wretched things that I call smoke machines,\u201d he told Rather, \u201cToday[they] are lightly referred to as \u2018hazers.\u2019 As if they\u2019re somehow innocent and not damaging to your lungs. I really do believe that\u2019s a very significant part of the problem that I have.\u201d<\/p>\n

The full episode of the interview, where Anderson also discusses his new album and playing the flute, airs on Wednesday on AXS TV at 8 pm E.T.<\/p>\n

Anderson recently spoke with Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> about his time in quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic. He\u2019s been in isolation at his home in southwest England, where he\u2019s surrounded by 40,000 hardwood trees<\/a> he planted himself.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the time for reflection,\u201d he said. \u201cI think people should invest in understanding and learning to handle the truth. And the truth is not pretty, but in a way, you know, I\u2019m an eternal optimist. I think we will get through this, but I hope we\u2019ve learned some positive lessons along the way and that a year or two years from now that we look back on this and say, \u2018Hey, you know, let\u2019s continue to curb our relentless consumption of resources.’\u201d<\/p>\n

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In a recent interview with Dan Rather on his AXS TV series The Big Interview, Jethro Tull\u2019s Ian Anderson revealed he suffers from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). \u201cI\u2019m going to tell you something I\u2019ve never told anybody in public before,\u201d Anderson said.  \u201cSince it\u2019s you, I will take this moment to say I am […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-807354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-11 09:08:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}