Consumer Guide Album

Larry Coryell: Larry Coryell at the Village Gate [Vanguard, 1971]
Between the first and last words of this working-trio album--"Welcome to the death of rock and roll" and "Bliss is all-eternal"--Coryell manages to play a lot of guitar, much of which (unlike the singing) sounds like rock and roll: themes over a steady beat. Even as an improvisor he's more into modal flights and electronic extravaganzas than inventing melodies off the changes. So ignore the rhetoric and face the music. B+