Please don't misunderstand; I have been into the Yellowjackets' music since their beginning, and I have most of Mike Stern's CDs, as well. Separately they are great! However, when these two "different" sensibilities get together here, it becomes "Mike Stern, with the Yellowjackets Accompanying". Mike Stern's amplified fuzzy guitar sound, to me, just does not mesh well with the acoustic leanings of the Yellowjackets. When the 'Jackets play without Stern, things seem to return to normal. I feel that if Mike Stern had put down his electric guitar, in favor of a mic'd acoustic guitar, the results would have been more integrated and pleasing.
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