| | Amazon.ca: Music: Birds Of Fire (Rm) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07) |
 | | Clearly, guitarist McLaughlin was the creative lightning rod, as his chanting solo on the title tune suggests, colored as it is by the cathartic melodic fire of late Coltrane and Hendrix. |
 | | Although it has much of the screaming rock energy and sometimes exaggerated competitive frenzy of its predecessor, Birds of Fire is audibly more varied in texture, even more tightly organized, and thankfully more musical in content. |
 | | The first album was dominated by Hammer and McLaughlin and it was hard to distinguish the difference between side A and side B. Birds of Fire of is more a fusion ablum, accessible to a wider audience, while Inner Mounting Flame would be preferred more by jazz enthusiasts. |
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