Editing Jethro Tull (band) (section)

===Anderson, Barre, Pegg, and Perry: the "hard rock" Tull (1987–1994)===
Jethro Tull returned in 1987 with ''[[Crest of a Knave]]''. With Vettese absent, Anderson contributed synth programming, and the album featured early Tull 1970's-style electric guitar from Martin Barre. Three of the tracks on the album used a drum machine, with Doane Perry and Gerry Conway sharing drum duties on the others. The album was a critical and commercial success. Keyboard player [[Don Airey]] (ex-[[Rainbow (rock band)|Rainbow]], [[Ozzy Osbourne]], [[Michael Schenker Group]], [[Gary Moore]], [[Colosseum II]]) joined the band for the ''Crest of a Knave'' tour.

In 1989, Jethro Tull won the [[Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance Vocal or Instrumental]], beating the favourite [[Metallica]] and their ''[[...And Justice for All (album)|...And Justice for All]]'' album. The award was controversial, as many did not consider Tull to be a hard rock band, much less heavy metal. On the advice of their manager, who told them they had no chance of winning, no-one from the band attended the award ceremony.<ref name="ArtistWiki">{{cite web|url=http://www.last.fm/music/Jethro+Tull/+wiki |title=Artist Wiki: Jethro Tull |publisher=Last.fm |date=26 November 2013}}</ref> In response to the criticism Tull received after the award, their label, Chrysalis, took out an advertisement in a British music periodical with a picture of a flute lying on a pile of iron and the line, "the flute is a heavy metal instrument". Anderson joked in an interview, "We do sometimes play our mandolins very loudly." In 2007, the win was named one of the ten biggest upsets in Grammy history by ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'',<ref>{{cite magazine| title=Grammy's 10 Biggest Upsets| magazine=Entertainment Weekly| url=http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,1567466_20010834_20010795_0,00.html| access-date=13 February 2007| archive-date=13 June 2011| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613062128/http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,1567466_20010834_20010795_0,00.html| url-status=dead}}</ref> and ranked #1 in EW's 2017 listing of Grammy upsets.<ref>{{cite magazine| title=The 10 biggest Grammys upsets| magazine=Entertainment Weekly| url=https://ew.com/grammys/2017/02/08/grammys-biggest-upsets/| access-date=27 August 2020}}</ref> In 1992, when Metallica did win the Grammy in the hard rock/metal category, their drummer [[Lars Ulrich]] joked, "First thing we're going to do is thank Jethro Tull for not putting out an album this year". (A play on a Grammy comment made by [[Paul Simon]] some years before, who thanked [[Stevie Wonder]] for the same thing.)

The style of ''Crest of a Knave'' has been compared to that of [[Dire Straits]]. Anderson no longer had his previous vocal range and used lower registers, and Barre's guitar sound drifted towards [[Mark Knopfler]]'s. Two songs in particular—"Farm on the Freeway" and "Steel Monkey"— were given heavy radio airplay. The album contained the popular live song "Budapest", the longest song on the album at just over ten minutes, which depicted a backstage scene with a local female stagehand. "Mountain Men", with lyrics which described a scene from World War II in Africa, was more popular in Europe. The band promoted ''Crest of a Knave''  with "The Not Quite the World, More the Here and There Tour" on which Anderson played occasional rhythm guitar, the first time in Jethro Tull's history that two electric guitarists had played together on stage.

In 1988, ''[[20 Years of Jethro Tull]]'' was released, a five-LP themed set which was also released as a three-CD set, and as a truncated single CD version on ''20 Years of Jethro Tull: Highlights''. The set consisted largely of rarities and outtakes from throughout the band's history, including a variety of live and remastered tracks, with a booklet outlining the band's history.  Many of the outtakes were later included as bonus tracks on remastered releases of the band's studio albums. In 1989 the band released ''[[Rock Island (Jethro Tull album)|Rock Island]]'', which was less successful than ''Crest of a Knave''. The opening track, "Kissing Willie", featured bawdy, double-entendre lyrics and over-the-top heavy metal riffing that seemed to make fun of the group's Grammy award win. The accompanying video was not given much airplay because of its sexual imagery.   A couple of favourites emerged from the album: "Big Riff and Mando", a wry account of the theft of Barre's prized mandolin by a starstruck fan; and the upbeat "Another Christmas Song", which was re-recorded for the 2003 ''[[The Jethro Tull Christmas Album]]'' release. 1991's ''[[Catfish Rising]]'' returned to generous use of mandolin and acoustic guitar, and made less use of keyboards than any Tull album of the 1980s. Notable tracks included "Rocks on the Road", which  featured acoustic guitar and lyrics about urban life; and "Still Loving You Tonight", a bluesy, low-key ballad.