Track listing on this edition is all messed up. Label and cover have the tracks listed in the same order as they're presented (what was side two of the LP first, followed by the two songs from side one in reverse order) but the indexing doesn't match what comes out of the speakers. The actual listing should be:1. Marbles / Siren2. Don't Let The Dragon Eat Your Mother3. Purpose Of When4. Dragon Song5. Devotion

This is quite a bit different from what you generally expect out of John McLaughlin. Here he goes more of a psychedelic rock approach, and gets help from organist Larry Young (someone John McLaughlin would bring back when he collaborated with Carlos Santana on Love, Devotion, Surrender), drummer Buddy Miles (best known for playing in Hendrix's Band of Gypsies), and bassist Billy Rich. What you get here are extended psychedelic guitar jams, with repeating bass and guitar lines, with spacy psychedelic sound effects and phasing. It sorta reminds me of Tony Williams' Lifetime's Emergency, but more rock-based, and without vocals. I guess that isn't too surprising, as McLaughlin and Young had played on that album (with only Tony Williams in place of Buddy Miles). The drumming is much more rock-oriented than say, Tony Williams or Billy Cobham, and the album overall has a much more rock than jazz approach. Even here you can still recognize this is the guitar work from McLaughlin. While I find the album very good, it also demonstrated he needed a band consisting entirely of virtuoso musicians. Of course that band being Mahavishnu Orchestra. While the other musicians are still good, they sounded like they had trouble catching up with him. As a lover of psychedelia and space rock (there are elements of space rock here!) I was surprised someone associated with jazz and fusion attempting this, and doing a rather good job. Even rock critic Robert Christgau liked this album giving this an A (he referred to McLaughlin as the Duane Eddy of the Aquarian Age), and this is a guy I frequently don't agree with him on ratings or opinions. McLaughlin wasn't happy with the mix, as he wasn't present during the mixing, which leaves me to believe the album's psychedelic feel (the phasing and other psychedelic sound effects) was probably due to mixing and not likely what McLaughlin had in mind. While I enjoy this album, don't expect breakneck fast playing from all members as you do Mahavishnu, but I recommend this for those who fancy the idea of John McLaughlin doing a psychedelic space rock album.