Billy Sheehan
Compression
Review by Gary Hill
Billy Sheehan is a bass legend, and, of course the bass work on this disc is very very good. Interestingly enough, so is the guitar, drums and vocal work. Even more interesting about that is the fact that Sheehan is responsible for the majority of that as well. He does all the instrumental work, vocals and drum programming on the disc with the exception of a few small cameos by people like Steve Vai and Terry Bozzio. He also wrote all the material. The result is a very coherent and well-performed album that really touches in the harder edged prog sort of genre. In fact, whether this belongs in the progressive rock section or not is debatable, but I am including it here since Sheehan has played in at least one or two prog outfits.
This review is available in book format (hardcover and paperback) in Music Street Journal: 2001 Year Book Volume 1 at garyhillauthor.com/Music-Street-Journal-2001-and-2002.
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