Reaction From The Magic Band
The band members disliked the simple material and sluggish tempos. Drummer John French has said, "At the time I hated that album... A lot of that stuff was really boring to play, because it was so simple and it wasn't going anywhere. For another thing a lot of the tracks were just so slow... We just hated it." Guitarist Bill Harkleroad simply said "I hate that album. It sucks." He attributed the album's lackluster performances to the emotional toll of Van Vliet's behavior toward the band: "We were just emotionally beat to death by his particular environment...we were playing really anemically and it sucks because of that."
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