Re: not of the world

My first DA experience was a concert in Allen Park, just outside Detroit around 1977.  A friend invited me and I had no idea who they were.  I believe Daniel Amos was the opening band for a local band, ironically named "Jubal".  I believe they were playing stuff from SA, but that it hadn't been released yet.  I was immediately hooked.  During that time I would listen to a few CCM groups, including 2nd Chapter of Acts, Stonehill, Norman, the "Archers" (I can't believe it now) ,  Keith Green and that guy who did Monster Mash, but the love for these never lasted.  Like many on the list I wasn't thrilled with conventional CCM and lost what interest I had over time.
 
Although the first album and to a lesser extent SA might seem terribly dated now to those who discovered DA later, at the time these 2 albums were incredibly fresh, honest, hip and spiritual in a non-churchlike way.  It's kind of like showing a current friend, a high school yearbook picture of a girl who was hot then and having them not understand how that could possibly be true, big hair and all.  It's possible that at the time that the gulf between standard CCM and DA was greater than it is now.  But then, that's the kind of stuff old people always think.
DAve 

--- On Tue, 2/8/11, The Fenske's <[email protected]> wrote:


From: The Fenske's <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [DADL-OT] not of the world
To: [email protected]
Date: Tuesday, February 8, 2011, 11:14 PM


On 07/02/2011 4:24 PM, Peter T. Chattaway wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Feb 2011, Johne Cook wrote:
>> My first exposure to DA was via Horrendous Disc, which was amazing. If I'd heard Shotgun Angel first, there's no telling if I would have ever searched out anything of there's ever again.
> 
> I have no idea what my first exposure to DA was.  It might have been through KLYN's Saturday-night rock-music program, which I taped on a few occasions; the programs I taped included songs like 'Dancing on Light' and 'New Car', the latter of which was preceded by a recorded intro by TST which was a heck of a lot more serious than the actual song turned out to be; the Saturday-night show also held a trivia contest every week, and on one occasion it was I who won, and my prize was a vinyl copy of Vox Humana, which became the first DA album in my collection (and when I realized it was Volume III of a four-part series, the completist in me just *had* to pick up the other albums...).  But I actually *might* have heard DA through KLYN's regular playlist first; when I got around to picking up the CD version of the band's first album, I was surprised to see that I recognized 'Walking on the Water', because KLYN had played it all the time.  As one who had
 been listening to the Alarma! Chronicles and Horrendous Disc and Darn Floor Big Bite for years, it never occurred to me that the band that made those albums might have recorded that song too.
Heh.  I too listened to KLYN's solid rock radio program (was that the title), but mostly, I think, after I became a DA fan, because I didn't like most of what I heard.  I was introduced to DA by an Art's column which ran in Peter's old paper, Christian Info, by a local theatre producer and actor(?) named Ron Reed.  It was at a time when I had "re-discovered" exciting music after nearly settling into a steady diet of MOR CCM.  Nothing wrong with some of that, but I was listening to a lot of it, and then my brother got U2's War for Christmas, and I borrowed it, as I'd read that some of the group were Christians, and was blown away by the volume and sheer energy of it.  At that time, I was also getting into Bruce Cockburn's music, around the time Ron Reed had written an article about the real Bruce the Boss (Cockburn rather than Springstein!), and shortly after that he wrote an article about "Temporary Christian Music," and how average a lot of the CCM
 was.  That was about where I was too, so when he said in his next column he's reveal what was worth listening to, I was waiting.  Of course, it turned out to be DA, and so I went out and bought Doppelganger and Vox Humana, and that was that.  Upon the release of FS, I thought the band was brilliant, and recall hearing The Pool and Instruction Thru Film and Strong Points Weak Points rotated on KLYN's saturday night show with some regularity.  They also sampled quite regularly from DFBB.  Ah, those were the days.

Looking back, I can see that Ron Reed's columns made a fair impression on me, and played a role in my increasing musical sophistication! So Peter, and Ron wherever you are, and all you other writers out there, you never know when your words, or even which words, will make a big impact on people.  Write thoughtfully and carefully!!  It's a grave responsibility...

Dave



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