Bozzio Levin Stevens - Black Light Syndrome
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Free Music Review: Best album ever!
Hit: 5 Stars
If you like excellent musicianship, excellent compositions and excellent tone and do not own this CD what year are you living in?
When I first heard this album, I did not know who Steve Stevens even was. I was familiar with Terry Bozzio and Tony Levin, and actually heard of this project from the liner notes in the first Liquid Tension Experiment CD and though I would check it out. When I finally got the CD, I read the liner notes before I got to play the CD and remember thinking "can a guy who played with Billy Idol (never really listened to the Rebel Yell solo too much at the time) keep up with Terry Bozzio and Tony Levin?"
Turns out that I was most impressed by Steve Stevens... what a guitarist and that is tone to kill for! I do not think I have ever heard a better guitar tone than on Falling on Circle, but it's just about as good throughout the album, or pretty much anything else that Steve has ever played on for that matter.
Chaos/Control, The Sun Road, Falling In Circles and Book of Hours are my favs but the entire album is great start to finish. This album probably gets more play time than any other album I own other than possibly their second album and the new Steve Stevens (but that's new too) and I've owned it for ten years.
Free Music Review: Just a lot of noise
Hit: 2 Stars
Granted, the afficianados will say "you must not play any instruments" but as far as enjoying what I am listening to, this ends up being just a lot of noise. The talent is unquestionable, the result for me of this product is that I feel like just deleting it from my hard drive so I am not tempted to try to like it. The two stars are out of respect for other works done.Free Music Review: Very good musician, poor music !
Hit: 1 Stars
I like a lot Tony Levin's work with Peter Gabriel, I knew Mr. Stevens for his work with Billy Idol, I must admit that he impressed me a lot on this CD, he's a top guitar player and Joe Satriani should invite him at his next G3 tour, finally, I know Terry Bozzio is a first class drum player...so you have everything to make a great album...this is not the result here. As another reviewer said, musical performance is top rated, but the emotion is missing, no harmony and music goin' nowhere. Free Music Review: Great Instrumental Album
Hit: 5 Stars
What happens when you throw three lauded musicians together in a studio and let them go at it? The result is a truly wonderful all instrumental album that should please fans of general progressive rock as well as those who enjoy these musicians individual projects. BLS is Tony Levin (King Crimson, Peter Gabriel, many others) on bass / stick, Terry Bozzio (Missing Persons, UK) on drums and Steve Stevens (Billy Idol) on guitar. I have been familiar with Levin's work for years, and I was familiar with Bozzio through his work with UK, but the big surprise here for me was Steve Stevens. I had always pretty much written the guy off as another average guitarist working with a well known singer. How wrong I was, this guy can burn on guitar as he does throughout this album. Highlights of the disc include the 14 minute plus "The Sun Road", the acoustic "Duende" and the title track "Black Light Syndrome". Really every thing on this disc is great. Call it prog, fusion, metal, whatever, this album covers a lot of ground. Great stuff and a must purchase for fans of these individual artists.Free Music Review: Eh....fairly Disappointing.
Hit: 2 Stars
Disappointing in the sense that I really wanted to believe that these 3 guys could put out some good work. I hate spending good $$ on a CD only to have it be mediocre at best.
Sounds rushed, or hurriedly put together as evident from the liner notes of a 4 day recording window. Too bad because such good musicians should have know better than to try and crank something out for the sake of producing an album. Situation Dangerous is better, but still lacking.
If you're think of this in the sense of Liquid Tension Experiment forget it. The only commonality is Tony Levin. LTE is light years ahead of this.