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Posted by Eis on 05-27-2004 at13:37:

Alarma Records

Did the guys in DA have anything to do with this record company? Alot of people were on it in the 80's, just happens to have the same name as a DA album. Just curious as to DA's involvement with the record label...

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Posted by Joey T. on 05-27-2004 at13:43:

 

that was just a division of frontline.....

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Posted by Lost Canine on 05-27-2004 at13:47:

 

I remember it. Was it named after the Alarma Chronicles?

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Posted by Joey T. on 05-27-2004 at13:50:

 

i'm sure.... audiori?

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Posted by dennis on 05-27-2004 at15:49:

 

It seems like it had to have been named after the iAlarma! record.

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Posted by audiori on 05-27-2004 at15:54:

 

The guy that started Frontline was the guy that used to be
Calvary Chapel's music leader (Jim Kempner) durring the whole
Daniel Amos, Sweet Comfort, Parable, etc. days.

He hired Terry to produce most of the Frontline releases,
and Ed did most of the artwork, and a few other people were
involved in that.

They had a distribution deal with Benson Music Group,
and released a ton of stuff durring the mid 80's with that
'super- production team'.

They all worked very long hours getting all those releases done.
Terry even wrote songs for some of the releases like D.O.X
and they used some older songs of his for things like
Wild Blue Yonder. Terry had a hand in the mixing and production
work of a large number of those releases.

The Alarma name (I am sure) being a sub-group of the Frontline
label, which Terry was a part of, being used was no coincidence.

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Posted by dennis on 05-27-2004 at16:03:

 

Frontline/Alarma was the best Christian label ever.

The industry has suffered from it's loss.

Frontline/Alarma was a lot like "Island Records" in the 80's. If it even looked cool, it was worth buying. If it looked cool, chances were that it was a great record.

Those days are long gone!

I still say if I ever win the lotto, I am buying the label. )

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Posted by dennis on 05-27-2004 at16:05:

 

think about it...

Scaterd Few, LSU, Jacob's Trouble...

Great bands and great records!









































even Pat Nobody was kinda cool!

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Posted by audiori on 05-27-2004 at16:16:

 

Ha! I forgot about him.

We liked the Crumbacher CDs, even though they might not
have been much of a 'live' band. The music was kinda cool.
"Tame The Volcano" was a pretty cool song.

Terry told us once he would love to have reissues done of a
lot of those bands where one disc would be the album and the
other disc would be the demo that band submitted to the label.
That would of been really interesting.

He talked about a lot of them were sort of 'discovered'
by Frontline, and therefore took quite a bit of work to get
them album ready, studio-wise. (Not all of them.)

Scaterd Few for example, as one that didn't need a lot of work,
I think Terry is still friends with Alan.

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Posted by mindgasket on 05-29-2004 at09:47:

  sorry...

I thought Jacob's Trouble sucked.

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Posted by audiori on 05-29-2004 at12:13:

 

Jacob's Trouble "Door Into Summer" was really good I thought,

I liked "Knock, Breath Shine" .....

They started out sort of acoustic Beatles -ish and by the
end had morphed into the Monkeys.

by "Let the Truth Run Wild" they were the Christian Monkeys I think.

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Posted by Asherman on 05-29-2004 at12:37:

 

quote:

Originally posted by audiori Jacob's Trouble "Door Into Summer" was really good I thought,

Well, the only reason why they didn't suck at the beginning is the simple fact that their original sound seemed Taylor-made.

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Posted by audiori on 05-29-2004 at12:41:

 

Aye. Mark Heard had some to do with the original sound as well.

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Posted by Asherman on 05-29-2004 at13:50:

 

I'd love to see some re-issues from the Alarma label...


I'd also love to see Sir Stonehill's "Between The Glory and The Flame" on disc.

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Posted by audiori on 05-29-2004 at14:32:

 

Oh yeah that and Equator. I wonder who owns those..

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Posted by Asherman on 05-29-2004 at14:34:

 

Wasn't it on the Refuge label?


"Between the Glory..." was methinks.

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Posted by audiori on 05-29-2004 at14:39:

 

Not certain off hand. They both were produced by Terry
but not sure who they were distributed by.

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Posted by Eis on 05-30-2004 at15:20:

Myrrh

My Dad has the cassettes...Equator was on myrrh originally.

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Posted by Asherman on 05-30-2004 at15:31:

 

what about Between the Glory and the Flame?



Ahhh..myrrh!

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Posted by Asherman on 05-30-2004 at15:34:

  RE: Myrrh

quote:

Originally posted by Eis My Dad has the cassettes...Equator was on myrrh originally.

ya mean these?...