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| | Taylor Guitars | On Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) |
 | | With a Berklee music diploma and a stage résumé that includes nearly a decade as a low-ender with Keneally (as well as stints with Ahmet and Dweezil Zappa’s former band, Z, ex-MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer, and Steve Vai), Beller certainly is no stranger to intense, technically challenging material. |
 | | On the opener, “Bear Divide”, Beller gently awakens the senses with a sweet solo acoustic melody on Taylor AB4, before segueing from the sound of a soothing stream into the bleating freight train entrance of “Seven Percent Grade”. |
 | | Equal parts intricate and ferocious, it’s an ambitious jazz-rock feast that builds around a five-note figure reminiscent of “Eleanor Rigby”, with Beller, Travers, Musallam, and Keneally (on piano) weaving through the melody in a searing fusion that surges and recedes for a few rounds, escalating to the point of terminal velocity. |
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