YOU ARE LOVED *4k Re release * The Altar Boys * Official Youtube Video

Altar Boys website: www.altarboys.net * Official UA-cam channel: / @thealtarboysofficialy... * Altar Boys 6th album "No Substitute available on lo fidelity records: thealtarboys.bandcamp.com * iTunes: / altar-boys * Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/7bN5ft... * Orignal video produced by John Hasbrook * 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)
Hard times in the city
They just don't go away
Out here the anger and frustration
Never takes a holiday
Well, I've seen the faces and
I'm not gonna turn away
Hey! I'm talking to you
I'm trying to get thru
God cares about you more than you think!
Chorus: To all the hearts that have been broken
To all the dreamers with abandoned dreams
To everybody in need of a friend now
You are loved! You are loved!
To all the rebels wounded in battle
To all the rockers that have lost that beat
To all the users all used up now
You are loved! You are loved!
In a flash he walked out!
He just couldn't take anymore
What he thought was happiness
Just turned around and smashed on the floor!
Well I see the faces and
I'm not gonna turn away
Hey! I'm talking to you
I'm trying to get thru
God cares about you more than you think! (To Chorus)
You don't need to stand alone
There's someone you can hold on to
I want to let you know
You are loved! You are loved!
This world is such a hard place
You just get lost in the crowd
To some you're just a number
To others you're just somebody hanging around now.
I see the faces and
how can I turn away
Yea! I'm talking to you
I'm trying to get thru
God cares about you more than you think! (To Chorus
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.

[@IndieVisionMusic]

So good!

[@maxcap60]

great 4K. just shared with all I know on socials

[@jedireach]

I LOVE IT

[@Neptuneman07]

A few days ago, I was broken and in tears and this song came out of nowhere in my mind. I literally haven't listened to it in years.

[@cpdrack]

Well done, Chad! Such an iconic song by Altar Boys from back in the day. I shared this song with so many of my friends growing up. It became one of our anthems…Thanks 🙏

[@kountryjoe]

Thank you

[@elkstalker6236]

Love it

[@JohnyC562]

Great to hear this again

[@kelliefette2332]

AWESOME !

[@holmesa8980]

One of my favorites of yours. Great stuff.

[@coolnegative]

It may not sound very "Christian," but those were better days.