Artist : Ace
Country : UK
Release : Time For Another
Year : 1975
Genre : Rock
File Type : mp3 320
Info:
UK outfit Ace were formed in December 1972. Previously known as "Ace Flash and the Dynamos", the band was made up of members of two UK progressive outfits, Warm Dust ( Paul Carrack on keyboards and Tex Comer on b ass) and Mighy Baby (Alan "Bam" King on vocals and guitar, also previously with Action), together with guitarist/vocalist Phil Harris and drummer Steve Witherington. They started playing the club circuit and Witherington was soon replaced by Chico Greenwood (ex-Jasper). They signed to Anchor Records in the late summer of 1974, at which point Greenwood left (to form Moonrider). Ex-Bees Make Honey drummer Fran Byrne joined, and it was this line-up of Carrack, Byrne, King, Comer and Harris that featured on this debut album. ''How Long" reached the UK Top 20 and went to the top of the US Top 100 by the end of 1974. They ended up emigrating to the US in 1976, by which time their second album, "Time for Another", had been released to a luke-warm response. Jon Woodhead replaced Phil Harris and he appeared on the band's final album, "No Strings", which emerged in 1977. Ace split in the summer of 1977, with Carrack, Comer and Byrne all going on to play for Frankie Miller. Carrack, the best known member of the band, went on to feature with Eric Clapton, Squeeze and Mike & the Mechanics.