Title: The Bay of Gigs
Product review: Other than a great drum solo by Tony Williams that starts this disc out, a burning solo by McLaughlin on "Dark Prince" and a decent version of Pastorius' "Continuum", there is really nothing here to listen to. Much of the rest of this CD is Pastorius playing away from the changes and McLaughlin trying to salvage the proceedings by playing either louder or faster. Williams tries desperately to hold it all together while Mclaughlin and Pastorius twiddle away at each other. McLaughlin was never happy with the results of this meeting in the first place and stated for years that he never wanted this recording to see the light of day. Knowing Pastorius was going through a lot of personal problems at this time and probably wasn't in top form here, I bought this mostly out of curiosity. You're better off spending your money on both the new essential McLaughlin and Pastorius CD's that just came out. You can get this if you're really that curious, but don't expect much.
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