Title: Collaboration, or competition?
Review: This is a prime example of someone who should be doing a solo album attempting to do a collaborative musical effort. As I listened, I heard John McLaughlin overpowering his bandmates, over and over again. It was quite frustrating to only catch a glimpse of what his backing band could do. His guitar solos were overwhelming, and overdone, and I felt as if he were crying out, "look at me, look at me!" The entire album struck me as an attempt to show the world just how great John McLaughlin was, and not to show how wonderful the group worked as a band. It seemed to me that John McLaughlin did not want to be part of this band, but rather he wanted to be the entire band. This was not a group effort, but one man looking for attention.
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