And what point was that?I mean no disrespect here but you've totally missed the point about ACAS.
I thought it was a great album personally.I suppose you preferred the musical hash of Dirty Diamonds which is a trainwreck to listen to.
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As a personal and friendly recommendation, when it comes to something involving multiple parties such as this, you should really consider ALL sides of the story instead of just one before coming to your conclusion.GailsFriend wrote:That goes for all reunions. Its time to let go of that era....it was great, but so is everything since. Alice is great....he wanted more theatrics, THEY didn't. It's that simple. I think they made the wrong decision.
As GNDM correctly pointed out there is no debate, the ACG were and are still fantastic.GailsFriend wrote:If the other guys in the ACG were so fantastic----what happened to their record deals, and arena concerts?.....certainly Alice didn't keep them from attaining that.
Something tells me that their ideas fell flat....
I believed that Alice with ACG were great TOGETHER until they were unable to work together anymore....which is why there was never a reunion. Plus, i am sure the rehearsals are brutal.....
That goes for all reunions. Its time to let go of that era....it was great, but so is everything since. Alice is great....he wanted more theatrics, THEY didn't. It's that simple. I think they made the wrong decision.
Unless, you believe that Alice is a ego-maniac that wanted to break up the band because he wanted to work with better musicians, and was chasing the money and fame.
Yeah and Alice has made another great album, but those who disrespect what the ACG did will always get pulled up on it by fans on here, and so they should.GailsFriend wrote:Yeah. Great. Religious. Fantastic. Next....now, it's 2008.
The guys in the ACG were NOT simply Alice's back up musicians!GailsFriend wrote:.I only liked Alice...it's still that way. Alice's musicians have never been that interesting to me in any era....I just usually don't care about Alice's backup musicians...
GailsFriend wrote:.I only liked Alice...it's still that way. Alice's musicians have never been that interesting to me in any era....I just usually don't care about Alice's backup musicians...
alicespoisonuk wrote:The guys in the ACG were NOT simply Alice's back up musicians!
You're blaming Shep for the other guys in the ACG not attaining commercial success after the break-up? On what basis or proof?Parish wrote:GailsFriend wrote:If the other guys in the ACG were so fantastic----what happened to their record deals, and arena concerts?.....certainly Alice didn't keep them from attaining that.
You're right, it was Shep
Baz wrote:No one can deny Alice`s role in the ACG, he was the figurehead, the face the press saw, but the ACG was much more than that.
It was five guys who were something very, very special. Their albums were a thing of beauty, the band had a mystique about them, they were never the greatest musicians , but they wrote some of the greatest rock songs ever put to vinyl.
ACG, were five guys, not a singer plus four, though the `plus` four never got the credit they deserved. They chose to let Alice face the press, to do the interviews, to be the face of the ACG, so I suppose it was no good complaining about the fact later.
To be a fan at that time was a magical time, we didn`t have internet back then, and we had to glean all the snippets of news we could from the music press of the day, but when they contained news of ACG, oh what joy.
Mssrs, Cooper, Buxton, Dunaway, Bruce and Smith were the greatest band ever, and IMO, nothing has ever come close since.
RIP. GB.