>...that song represents a side of fusion I'm SO not fond of
>with the musicians playing those rhythmically complex (well)
>melody-lines in absolute perfect unison; it has very little to
>do with what I like about jazz or rock or anything else for
>that matter.

Well, for me what I like about jazz and what I like about rock are two different things. Is is that a lot of fusion is very written, rather than improvised?

>Also, the song-like a lot of fusion in that
>vein-never really gets going IMO, it's just a long sequence of
>buildups to me; tension that isn't really tense not getting
>released.

Even the 8:30 version, with Erskine playing the ending vamp as a shuffle? Shit is orgasmic to me.