Talk:Gerard (album)

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I created this page and a lot of work went into researching it and also obtaining the cover. It links to a bio on Gerard McMahon and is an important part of his history/the article and is refered to in the same. Gerard were also one of the most popular rock bands in Colorado in the 1970's:

"After attending a concert one evening that showcased Tommy Bolin, Chicago producer Jim Guercio walked out mesmerized by Gerard's opening set"

—G.Brown, author, Colorado Rocks!: A Half-Century of Music in Colorado[1]

Having much admiration for McMahon and his band, Guercio offered the band a deal to record an album at his newly built Caribou Ranch, a popular recording studio subsequently favoured by many prominent artists. The resultant album, produced by Guercio himself, was the appropriately titled Gerard. It was released in 1976 on Guercio's Caribou Records label. There did, however, seem to be one downside to this union, seemingly echoed in McMahon's frustration with the music press at that time, in so far as every review of Gerard's album, an album for which he had written twelve original songs, compared his music to that of Chicago's.

The article on Gerard McMahon was my first article. I have subsequently read of other editors' frustration in that they have spent much of their free time time creating articles to assist in improving Wikipedia only to have them deleted. I had wanted to believe that perhaps there was some justification for this other than a particular administrator's personal preference. However in view of the template left on this page, I am now having to consider that this is in fact not the case. This would seem to me to be very wrong. If someone devotes time and effort into creating articles to help improve Wikipedia, for which they are of course not paid, and more importantly is able to provide the number of sources that I have appertaining to the same, then I would certainly not consider any relevant content to be unworthy of entry, which it would seem to me is what is being indicated here. Whilst I feel I can contribute much to Wikipedia, if this is deleted I shall apply my efforts elsewhere.  ♫ Яєdxx ♪♫♪♫♪Talk 13:51, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

  1. ^ Brown, G., Colorado Rocks!: A Half-Century of Music in Colorado. Pruett Publishing, 2004. Retrieved on 2008-03-25.