| Barry Banks's Orestes was a bit overwrought and his timbre veered on reediness. |
| Making it worse is the fact that whenever the band forgets itself and goes into Dire Straits mode, his voice starts edging towards reediness. |
| Certainly it is still a recommended CD: the combination of the wisdom of Mr. Hancock, the reediness of Mr. Gilmore and the muscle of Mr. Ely is potent. |
| Assistance from below decks was summoned by a screech whose panicked reediness wiped out all accumulated dad-points, and with my children on barge-pole duty, bow-to-bow contact was restricted to a glancing blow. |
