# Ian Anderson and Cady Coleman play the first ever Earth to Space duo.

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**Created:** [April 12, 2011, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ian-anderson-and-cady-coleman-play-the-first-ever-earth-to-space-duo/578145 "2011-04-12T21:15:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ian-anderson-and-cady-coleman-play-the-first-ever-earth-to-space-duo/578145/1 "2011-04-12T21:15:59Z")

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In honour of Yuri Gargarin’s first space flight, Ian Anderson and Cady Coleman played a duo version of ‘Bouree’. [Video here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zuSY7Hm56Ns#at=16).

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**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ian-anderson-and-cady-coleman-play-the-first-ever-earth-to-space-duo/578145/2 "2011-04-12T21:23:57Z")

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That was sweet - how did they get over the whole delay thing I wonder?

Jesus H, though, what’s happened to Ian’s head? He looks like a Swan Vesta.

(Also, Ron McNair was meant to play sax for Jean-Michel Jarre on _Rendez-Vouz_ from the Challenger, which sadly never happened.)

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**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ian-anderson-and-cady-coleman-play-the-first-ever-earth-to-space-duo/578145/3 "2011-04-12T21:24:03Z")

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In zero-G you can play the flute standing on _no_ legs!

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**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ian-anderson-and-cady-coleman-play-the-first-ever-earth-to-space-duo/578145/4 "2011-04-12T21:31:56Z")

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> [@jjimm](#):
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> That was sweet - how did they get over the whole delay thing I wonder?

My guess is that Ian wasn’t hearing Cady. He was just playing to the backing track, and the backing track plus his part was beamed to the shuttle, where Cady added her part, and that’s what we heard.

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**Author:** ![Saganist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Saganist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saganist)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ian-anderson-and-cady-coleman-play-the-first-ever-earth-to-space-duo/578145/5 "2011-04-12T22:00:31Z")

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There was no temporal overlap at all in when they played their parts.[Link](http://www.examiner.com/classic-hard-rock-in-national/video-ian-anderson-and-astronaut-cady-coleman-s-earth-to-space-flute-duet)

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**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ian-anderson-and-cady-coleman-play-the-first-ever-earth-to-space-duo/578145/6 "2011-04-13T06:54:51Z")

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> [@Saganist](#):
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> There was no temporal overlap at all in when they played their parts.[Link](http://www.examiner.com/classic-hard-rock-in-national/video-ian-anderson-and-astronaut-cady-coleman-s-earth-to-space-flute-duet)

Well that’s rubbish.