Despite production by , 's horrifying liner notes comparing to and are the only thing worse than this music. It's a weak album, for sure, regardless of 's proclamation that is a better vocalist than . He isn't, nor can this Boston band reach the heights of , never mind . is one of the better tracks, resembling very bad . The modulation makes it painfully clear how weak a singer "Sham," as wanted the non-existent fans to call , really was. There's no need for songs like with half-baked fuzz guitar, no groove, and drummer all over the map. Emerging from a world where , and were making musical waves, these poor souls are way out of that league. To be hyped as better than no doubt created expectations this trio could never live up to. is no is a total embarrassment -- you actually have to hear this to believe how bad it really and truly is. There is a photo of the legendary working an amplifier next to keyboardist/guitarist , and maybe he needed the gig, but this is nothing to be proud of. displays atrocious guitar sounds, which descend further on a seven-minute-thirty-eight second epic. It is dreadful. That bassist was 20 with only a year older says something about the desperation of to jump on a bandwagon. begins like a track off 's first album mutating into bad . The sound quality deteriorates as the record progresses. Unpleasant, difficult, quite disheartening when one thinks this budget could have been spent on another album by or . ~ Joe Viglione