Dear Mr. Steve Howe...

...stop trying to write lyrics, and really stop trying to sing them.

While your voice is no longer the atrociously thin, tuneless, toneless and horribly offkey vehicle it was on your first solo album, Beginnings (way back in 1976), it is now simply thin, tuneless and toneless. Stick to trying your hand at being Chet Atkins.

Your vocal calamity has ruined almost everything it has touched (in terms of your solo output). I guess I need to put Turbulence on just to wash out my ears.

p.s. cut it out with the overuse of pedal steel (i.e. the constant upper register whine on tracks like Chariot of Gold). Yes, we know you can play a lot of different string instruments. No, we do not need to be reminded of it on every occasion. Just play the tunes macrobiotic boy.