Music

April, 1993

Vic GarbariniIn 1988 Vernon Reid's blissfully unhinged fretwork on Cult of Personality marked him as the first black guitar hero since Hendrix to conquer the mainstream. His band, Living Colour, got to flex its musical muscles on the 1990 sophomore effort Time's Up. Reid's guitar still sounds like a psychotic laser on the band's latest album, Stain (Epic). So why is the overall effect unsatisfying? Because they are four excellent musicians who sound out of sync and stiff. Their usually excellent...