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Anderson may well have borrowed some of Roland Kirk , but he took it to a different level in a different music field , and was certainly an innovator.

Anderson didn't take it to any level, much less was he an innovator. He ripped off Kirk & quickly reached the requisite standard of vapid prog-showmanship to impress his clamouring public (even as the music went up the tubes - witness the bombast of the Bursting Out live album; compare Sweet Dream with the original) and that was it - end of. I know for every disciple of Rahsaan Roland Kirk vainly crying "Why don't they know?" in the cultural wilderness there'll be 10,000 Jethro Tull fans stomping them into the dust. But Truth is Truth.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enjkGjRxjkU