Despite production by Bob Thiele, Frank Kofsky's horrifying liner notes comparing Eden's Children to Jimi Hendrix and Cream are the only thing worse than this music. It's a weak album, for sure, regardless of Kofsky's proclamation that Richard Schamach is a better vocalist than Jack Bruce. He isn't, nor can this Boston band reach the heights of Blue Cheer, never mind Mountain. "Goodbye Girl" is one of the better tracks, resembling very bad Bachman Turner Overdrive. The modulation makes it painfully clear how weak a singer "Sham," as ABC wanted the non-existent fans to call Richard Schamach, really was. There's no need for songs like "If She's Right" with half-baked fuzz guitar, no groove, and drummer Jimmy Sturman all over the map. Emerging from a world where the Beacon Street Union, the Remains, Listening, and the Lost were making musical waves, these poor souls are way out of that league. To be hyped as better than Cream no doubt created expectations this trio could never live up to. "I Wonder Why" is no "White Room," and "Stone Fox" is a total embarrassment -- you actually have to hear this to believe how bad it really and truly is. There is a photo of the legendary Bob Thiele working an amplifier next to keyboardist/guitarist Richard "Sham" Schamach, and maybe he needed the gig, but this is nothing to be proud of. "Bad Habit" displays atrocious guitar sounds, which descend further on "Just Let Go," a seven-minute-thirty-eight second epic. It is dreadful. That bassist Larry Kiley was 20 with Schamach and Sturman only a year older says something about the desperation of ABC to jump on a bandwagon. "Just Let Go" begins like a track off the Velvet Underground's first album mutating into bad Jimi Hendrix. The sound quality deteriorates as the record progresses. Unpleasant, difficult, quite disheartening when one thinks this budget could have been spent on another album by Listening or the Remains.