I bought this LP in '85 when it came out, and I gotta say I loved it at the time. Listening it now, I like it a lot, it was a very creative project, and by 2018 standards, an extremely creative project. You would not see a major label releasing music like this nowadays. There's enough experimentation here to justify the fact that Bernsen was not necessarily trying to get played on radio stations, or at least, that was not the main priority. This is art. Just listen to "Steppin'" where Bernsen plays a guitar synth duet with Peter Erskine on drums...it sounds bizarre, but it's cool. "Sir Yellow Bird" is also a bit strange, but it's cool. Although Jaco Pastorius is only on a few cuts, his influence here is huge. Echos of the Word of Mouth Big Band abound, as well as elements from Jaco's Word of Mouth solo recording, and all of those Miami players that Jaco played with are here, as well as the University of Miami horns. Little bit of Metheny influence. Yeah, there's a lot of early 1980s Florida here. I like Bernsen's use of the Roland Guitar Synth, having had one myself back in those days, I could almost envision the knob positions of the GR-300 he was playing through.Randy Bernsen would go on to record and tour with the Zawinul Syndicate in the early 1990s and release more solo albums well into the present day.Music like this is all too rare nowadays. Big record companies will never release stuff like this ever again. Music created for the sake of creating great music. Even the so-called hip and cool new jazz groups of 2018 have an air of pretentiousness to them. But this album is from a different era, a different time, when it was all about the music. Highly recommended.