The keyboards could be louder/more prominent on the BCC debut IMHO. I guess I'm spoiled by how loud the organ/keyboards were on those early seventies Deep Purple and - even more so - Uriah Heep recordings, Ken Hensley took no prisoners in the mix. I don't like layered background keyboards you only notice when they are not there, I like a gurgling B3 or C3, a percussive piano, a raging synth solo and generally organ work that is pumping and rhythmic rather than just giving a harmonic halo (which can have its place).
The BCC songwriting grows on you after a while, but I miss the immediate catchiness the, say, Hughes Thrall album had in the early eighties. I do like the two songs sung by Bonammassa though - his voice isn't totally unlike Glenn's (I'm sure Bonammassa has done his share of DP Mk 3 hearing, you can hear it both in his singing and some of his guitar licks), but has less histrionics to it.
Given Glenn's instability within bands, you can only hope that these guys stay together for some time, not so much as a steady outfit at the expense of their solo careers and day jobs (Foreigner), but as an off-and-on project with a CD every few years and some short tours similar to those Transatlantic proggies from Dream Theater, Flower Kings, Marillion etc.
