STAND UP

Here comes the Prog. Not a totally prog music, but this is a good album in which you can see how the prog was borning. This is 1969 a key year in prog rock. Here you have since the blues to one of the first experiences with "classical music". Maybe the music still sounds so traditional in its melody and general structure, but not in its instrumentation. A group of several non traditional instruments are incorporated and played by Anderson in this record. It has also themes that overpass the blues or rock classidication, like Fat Man. And the same blues are more elaborated, mor complex. Just one year before, The Beatles made his White Album, where these characters are present. The birth of prog rock was not a one - group creation. Jethro Tull takes part in it since Stand Up. I think that 4 stars is too much, and 3 stars is not enough. I'll give it 3 stars, but are 3 and 1/2 stars.