Please Don't Touch!

This release signifies a total break from the player's history with his former progressive rock group. He recruited various singers such as Richie Havens and Randy Crawford to inject a sense of soul and surprise into his elaborate musical arrangements.

Rich instrumentation and novel studio methods represent the ambitious mood of art rock during the latter years of the seventies. The outcome is a colorful assembly of songs that weighs soft acoustic passages against the bold, odd narratives that define his distinct solo direction.