Title: jeff does dylan?
Product review: This is one of Jeff's duller albums even though Jeff plays great, has a terrific band with Max Middleton on electric piano and Cozy Powell on drums and Rod Stewart-soundalike Bob Tench on vocals. The problem is the songs. Jeff hasn't quite got his technique for instrumentals perfected (that will arrive with Blow by Blow), so the ones here sound tentative and odd. Other songs seem like throwaways--including the guitar god's cover of a very minor Dylan song. Strangely, two of Jeff's best ever songs are here: the bizarrely titled Ice Cream Cakes (the lyrics are never the point on a Jeff record) that features spine-tingling interplay between Jeff and keyboardist Max, and the over-the-top almost Hendrexian Going Down, with some of the most mindblowing feedback drones ever waxed. The album's almost worth it for just those two songs, but then again they make you realize how much better the whole project could have been.
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