Vernon Reid - Mistaken Identity
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Free Music Review: A broad and rythmetic collection of guitar riffed tunes
Hit: 4 Stars
I loved it. With the type of range he has you never get tired of this album.Free Music Review: I dig Vernon Reid
Hit: 3 Stars
I really dig Vernon Reid, his touch and style on his instrument is very tasteful. This is a good release... but the DJ scratching is REALLY getting tired. Ain't there nothing new happening out there! This is like drinking yesterdays wine, I'm ready for something fresh not phat. But Vernon, you're pure gold and I have the faith that innovation comes from artists like you. By the way, really dug your performance with Fogerty and Billy Bob Klintoon...Free Music Review: I was HUGELY Disappointed
Hit: 2 Stars
I bought this on the strength of the previously written reviews, which I felt were misleading at best. One guy called this "instrumental (save for one or two raps, and some funny interludes)" which is a grave disservice to those of us who like instrumental music. There are vocals, talking, raps, conversations, and those bad hip hop, sampled 'drop in voices' on 10 or 11 of the 16 tracks - if you like instrumetal guitar, pass for that reason alone. Add to that the totally overused, unoriginal bad scratching sound ruining several cuts including the, "flat out power soloing of "Mistaken Identity" " - which incidentally is quite a laid back cut overall, with slow , drawn out soloing, not power soloing.The comment made about, "There's moments of pure shred joy here" might be literally true, but they are so few and far between you'll fast forward all over the place looking for them. Try again Vernon, maybe with a real drummer this time.
Free Music Review: Vernon Reid really likes noise!
Hit: 1 Stars
Actually that title line I've used is somewhat of a quote. It was Martin Popoff - reviewer extraordinaire - that made the point that Reid really likes noise while reviewing a Living Colour album (Type from memory).
Anyway, since I thought Living colour were totally awesome in a range of ways when the chance came to pick this up cheap I leapt at it.
Which proves the adage - always look before you leap!
This is nonsense. It's worse than nonsense because nonsense might be funny. This isn't. Get yourself a drill and drill a hole through the door of your car. The scraping and screaming sounds will give you an idea of what this CD will sound like if you unleash it on your stereo. Beyond experimental into just plain pathetic.
Right down to the cover - and as for the fold out it is 20% Living Colour style and 80% like some first year graphic designer did it on a computer he didn't know how to use. And as for the stuff actually written on it? Try "To God in all manifestations I deeply bow". No problem with the sentiment on my part - but what on earth would someone put that on their album for? Or how about the credits? Vernon Reid: Guitars both real and imagined, whispering.
Luckily many years later he went back to LC and they gave us a great reunion/comeback disc that swats this gunk aside. Get yourself the entire LC catalogue instead of spending cash on this!
Free Music Review: This album is such garbage, AMAZON.com themselves didn't review it
Hit: 1 Stars
Anticipation was high as hell, getting a solo vibe from LIVING COLOUR's axeman VERNON REID, I couldn't wait to have my ears blown away by V.R's wicked ways. To make a long story short, I let a friend borrow the CD, I haven't asked for it back.
Where was the rest of LIVING COLOUR when Vernon attempted this waste of glass? BISCUITS sounds like a JIMI HENDRIX classic compared to this. Go ahead, diss my review. VERNON REID is still the man (one of my favorite axeman next to JIMI (Hendrix), PRINCE, SPACEY T, ROCKY GEORGE, The other JIMI (Hazel), DR. KNOW,etc...). I just don't know where he is going here...do you? Can you tell me?
Prince Paul co-produced the album so guess what. It sounds like one of his own solo albums. Vernon Reid is not a hip-hop artist so why waste Epic Records' time on believing that there's a hip-hop epic here?