Switch To Solid Rock Records
By 1978 the band had recorded their first entirely rock effort, Horrendous Disc, with help from newly added percussionist, Alex MacDougall, and keyboardist Mark Cook. MacDougall is a percussionist who has toured with Loggins and Messina, Leon Russell and The Beach Boys, among others. Cook had been the keyboardist for the Warner Brothers band Spring Canyon. Also around this time, the band began a lifelong personal friendship and working relationship with singer/songwriter Randy Stonehill. The band began touring heavily with Stonehill in the late 1970s - both performing their own sets, and also serving as Stonehill's backing band at each show. That tour, known as the "Amos n' Randy Tour," became legendary for DA and Stonehill fans. DA backed Stonehill in the studio as well on albums like 1981's Between the Glory and the Flame, 1983's Equator, and 1992's Wonderama. Although Horrendous Disc was recorded for Maranatha! Music, the label ended up dropping it because of a major change in the focus of the label. The label decided to stop releasing albums by rock and roll acts and wanted to focus on praise music. The band shopped the new record around to several labels, including Warner Brothers, but settled on Larry Norman's Solid Rock Records. Solid Rock ended up delaying the release for nearly three years and the album was not seen on record store shelves until a week before the release of the band's newly recorded fourth album ¡Alarma! in 1981.
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