I Am Michael Alago by Michael Alago & Laura Davis-Chanin

Author:Michael Alago & Laura Davis-Chanin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Backbeat
Published: 2020-02-18T00:00:00+00:00

I signed another artist to Geffen: Kane Roberts. He had been Alice Cooper’s lead guitarist. He was a big, attractive guy, who was very talented, and he knew a lot about writing catchy rock tunes. I had seen him live with Alice, and I knew about his work on MCA. He totally impressed me.

Right away, it was clear that we got along musically and that we had a similar sense of humor. I knew I wanted to make a commercial, hard rock top-forty record with him.

I contacted the hottest producer of the day, Desmond Child, to come work on Kane’s Geffen debut album, Saints And Sinners. Desmond was hot off the heels of Cher, Ricky Martin and Bon Jovi, among others. He was intensely busy but he wanted to make this album with Kane. However, he left it largely in the hands of his engineer, Sir Arthur Payson. At one point, Kane and I discussed the problem of Desmond rarely being in the studio, because it started to bother us.

Ultimately, though, we realized the songs were there, so we figured, let’s just move forward. We also decided to pull a song off of Cher’s album Heart of Stone, because we loved it so much. The song was called “Does Anybody Really Fall in Love?” and had been written by Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, and Diane Warren—who, at the time, could do no wrong. Every song Diane wrote turned into gold. We recorded it, and it eventually became a semi-hit for Kane, peaking at #38 on the Billboard charts.

I was doing my best to keep the vibe of the record alive in the California Geffen offices, but they were not feeling it. At some point they stopped promoting the album, and Kane was dropped. Fast forward to 2018: I executive produced the new Kane Roberts Album, The New Normal on Frontiers Records, which was released in 2019.

Given everything that had happened at Geffen in the early nineties, though, I was very proud that I was able to sign two remarkable artists to the label during this first stint at Geffen. I wasn’t a happy camper working in the New York satellite office, though, so I left. I felt like I wanted to go home so I called Krasnow at Elektra and asked if I could come back. He was very gracious and welcoming and said, “Of course.”

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