BRIDGE ACROSS FOREVER

I consider this album as a glimpse of what could have been, had this band went on to make another album. As Roine Stolt has said, they were just "scratching the surface" of what this band could do at this point. On this album, there was true collaboration. And the result is that much of it seems disjointed and uneven. Now personally, I like it well enough. But I don't feel that either of the huge epics (1st and last tracks) hang together particularly well. I am fan of epic tracks, but I think both of these could have been edited down to the 15 minute range and been outstanding songs. Or better still, broken into 4 shorter songs. Still, I can enjoy them as they are, but just feel that another album would have allowed them to really make their collaborations work seamlessly (as opposed to here, where the seams are very obvious). Duel starts out great, and maintains greatness until about 16 mintues into the track, where I think it starts to drag and peter out. Again, had it stopped at about the 16 minute mark I think it would have been nearly perfect (aside from the seams showing, that I mentioned above). Suite Charolette Pike is a fun piece, done as several connected songs in the style of side 2 of the Beatles Abby Road album. The live album comes across much better, by interweaving the far superior songs from Abby Road. Here the seams show, but they are supposed to. A decent track overall. Bridge is not a particularly good track. It is just Morse and a piano, singing a song he wrote originally for Prince. Not my taste, and brings the album down. Final track Stranger In Your Soul suffers from the same problems as the first epic, but I think this one hangs together better overall. Still could have used some serious editing though.

So overall, not as good as the first, but more of a group collaboration. The sad thing about this album is that it could have been a precursor to a real masterpiece of solid collaboration between these guys. Oh well, I guess we'll never know. Just barely 3 stars.

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