Title: Rolling Di Meola in Dullness and Powdered Sugar
Product review: You might want to skip this review if you appreciate Phil Collins's drumming and the Frankie Goes to Hollywood sound of the Fairlight CMI. Both drive me crazy, perhaps the former more than the latter. Whatever the case, Di Meola's a gifted, highly expressive, innovative guitarist when playing on albums alone or with musicians of his own caliber. Here Collins's typical thud-thud-thudding detracts from everything on the lower register and the Fairlight sprinkles the middle and upper ranges with powdered sugar. Innovative people make mistakes, of course, but the mistakes are not necessarily worth owning. "Elegant Gypsy," "Friday Night In San Francisco," "Trio" and "Casino" are among the truer testimonies to Di Meola's gifts.
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