Mark Mangold the nearly-man of the AOR soft rock scene. Some of you may know him from the band Touch, whose claim to fame was that they opened the first Monsters Of Rock at Donnington Park. This is what he was doing before then. This was the last release of this period and it came out in 1977. They would resurface many years later with an album called White Flags on British label Escape Music. It’s very easy to see why they never made any headway, as it’s OK, but there is that missing ingredient that every band needs for success – and that’s good songs. It’s not that it’s a bad album – it’s just ok. It’s amazing how much effort record labels put into bands thinking they would get some sort of return for their investment. It took CBS 3 albums before realizing that American Tears were not going to make it.
5/10 from The Grooveman.
