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Title: With all the big names it still comes up excruciatingly short
Review: I'm curious what the initial concept for this album actually was. I popped it in to my CD player expecting to be blown away by blistering keyboard leads (ala Jordan Rudess and Kevin Moore) but instead was greeted by a VERY guitar heavy album devoid of any real direction and loaded with half- hearted improvisational solos. The fact that Derek refuses to take center stage on his own album is absolutely dumbfounding and profoundly disappointing.To make matters worse, a large portion of the songs sound as if they were the rejects from a BLS or Malmsteen recoding session and were probably written mostly by the guitarists themselves rather than Sherinian. The final song "In The Summertime" does not belong on the CD at all (except maybe as a hidden track) and fails to bring an appropriate ending to an already sub- par album. Derek, if you don't like taking the lead on your own song's than don't bother to put out a solo album.
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