FOREVER MERCY * 4k Re release * The Altar Boys * Official Youtube Video

Описание: Altar Boys website: https://www.altarboys.net * Official Youtube channel:    / @thealtarboysofficialyoutub7553   * Altar Boys 6th album "No Substitute available on lo fidelity records: https://thealtarboys.bandcamp.com * iTunes:   / altar-boys   * Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/7bN5ft... * Original video produced by Dave Baker * 4k reformat by: Chad Ashton at Kountryjoe Production!
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Altar Boys Lineup:
Altar Boys 1982 - 1983: Mike Stand, Jeff Crandall, Steve Pannier and Ron Baca
Altar Boys 1983 - 1990: Mike Stand, Jeff Crandall, Steve Pannier and Ric Alba
Altar Boys 1990 - 2022: Mike Stand, Jeff Crandall, Steve Pannier and Mark Robertson
(1992: Mike Stand , Jeff Crandall, Bob Wohler, Dave Brighton)

Hey now! take a look outside
There's and angel looking through your neighbors eyes
In a fire of compassion burning on
Mercy for everyone

Forever mercy, forever mercy
Forever mercy is what we cry
Forever mercy, forever mercy
Mercy is what we cry for

Hey now! we've come a long, long way
From the streets of anger and battles we fought yesterday
Wounds that tore our hearts
Healed with God's embrace

Forever mercy, forever mercy
Forever mercy is what we cry
Forever mercy, forever mercy
Mercy is what we cry for

Mercy to love, mercy to give
A love without conditions
Is what we live for

Forever mercy, forever mercy
Forever mercy is what we cry
Forever mercy, forever mercy
Mercy is what we cry for

Like most bands, the Altar Boys started in a garage. Drummer Jeff Crandall and guitarist Mike Stand literally fumbled through a few original songs. As they selected appropriate members, including guitarist Steve Pannier and a host of bassist beginning with Ron Bacca, later replaced by Ric Alba, Mark Robertson, then Bob Wohler. Mark Robertson remains the permanent bassist on the group and has sealed that role by participating in the 2018 release of NO SUBSTITUTE.

As Altar Boys' chief songwriter, vocalist and guitarist, Mike led the band to produce five hit records: Altar Boys, When You're A Rebel, Gut Level Music (GLM), Against The Grain, Forever Mercy, (in addition to three compilation albums, The Collection and now No substitute). Together they film countless videos, including the package, Mercy Is What We Cry for and toured the globe. Although Mike was very much the driving force of the group, it is important to note that The Altar Boys were very much a "band of brothers," where the sum of the parts were greater than the whole.
In 1988, while simultaneously continuing with the Altar Boys, Mike released his first solo effort, Do I Stand Alone. He followed this up with the 1990 release Simple Expression.

After 10 1/2 years of continually touring and recording, Mike and the other band members felt that the Altar Boys had accomplished their goals and mission. It was time to move on. Many of the band members, along with Mike, decided to finish college.

In early 1991 the group began planning a 6th release and commenced work on a new project titled “No Substitute. In July 1991 a photo shoot for the album was completed and Mike Stand recorded a “very detailed and meticulous” recording of 7 of the songs. Try as they could, The Altar Boys were never able to release this project, and it was indefinitely shelved as the band went on a permanent hiatus beginning on New Years Eve 1992.

For the sake of posterity, another set of songs for “No Substitute” was recorded in early 1993 as a sort of tribute to what could have been. By late 1993 many of the songs for “No Substitute” were doled out to Mike’s latest project Clash of Symbols.

Nevertheless, the majority of the tunes were set aside just begging for just an opportunity to be heard.

In late 2017, through a series of unbelievable events, Mike and the band revisited the songs from “No Substitute.” What they discovered was a perfect “time capsule” that just needed a little more TLC. They all agreed it was time to finish what they had started in 1991 and that they had been given a “window of opportunity” to complete this lost project. On “No Substitute” the heart legacy, vision and message of the Altar Boys continues to punch through with an edgy and distinct musical direction that is a nod and hearty salute to the band’s earlier recordings.