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Posted by Andrew on 03-17-2002 at15:08:

  Naked guy doing situps

I saw this tape on the self and the cover interested me.

I had a small listen and without paying too much attention bought it.

Put it in the walkman and while cycling home I was astounded. I'd been a christian for about 5 months and I'd never heard anything like it before.

I went back the next week and picked up DFBB.

A year later I saw this tape called Vox Humana that looked like the same thing but that was a band called Daniel Amos not the great DA of FS and DFBB.

Two weeks I looked at the tape again and saw the words "Alarma Chronicles Volume 3"

And life has gone onwards and upwards since then.

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Posted by ™ on 03-18-2002 at12:55:

  "-but for now we're alive on our motorcycles!"

"-but for now we're alive on our motorcycles!"

Yeah, it was Motorcycle that hooked me too. But it was the 'Eddies' that introduced me to TST.

I kept tellin' the music buyer at the Christian bookstore I worked at for awhile about the music I was into (Crimson, Belew, Talking Heads, Gabriel, The Tubes, etc) and were there any 'Christian' groups in this style?

He showed me the 'Eddies' (first 2 albums)...

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Posted by jamespop on 03-18-2002 at15:18:

 

For me, it happened in college, but almost dodn't. I'll explain. It was 1987. I was big into jazz music and classic rock, so I was listening to a lot of Blood, Sweat and Tears and early Chicago. (At this time I had very limited exposure to anything labeled as "Christian music".) A friend of mine loaned me a copy of "Let's Spin", telling me that it sounded a lot like BS&T. It didn't. I didn't even listen past the second track before returning the tape.

A couple of years later, another friend and I were driving and he asked if he could pop in a new tape he had recently bought. OK. Out of my speakers poured the poignency of "Hide the Beer the Pastor's Here". I was immediately hooked (who could resist a group of Christians who had the courage to record and release that track?) Shortly thereafter I was huntaing down any Daniel Amos material I could find.

Eventually (without really planning or intending it that way) I realized that I was listening to them several times a week. Thus the body of evidence before me compelled me to declare them my favorite band.

The end.

Thank you for listening.

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Posted by Woggy on 03-18-2002 at15:19:

  talk about yer late bloomers......and I don\'t mean underwear!

Okay, so I'm cruising through life, listening to the likes of Amy Grant, Cindy Morgan, Susan Ashton, Sara Groves, (I like chick singers........can ya tell?) Larnelle Harris (still like him a lot), SCC, whatever's on my local Christian station(s).....and brother JimINy asks me if I've ever heard of Terry Scott Taylor. Says he's gonna see him 'LIVE' in the Cities (that's Mpls/St Paul for you non-MN folks), and I say, "who??" The only Taylor I ever knew was James, and he's my hero...........anyhooooooooooo, brudder lets me listen to Lost Dogs "Green Room Serenade", and I think.....WHAT'S THIS? Christian music? Huh? When did I miss this stuff? That was about a year ago......

I'm probably the newbiest one here....and that's cool, cuz it just gives me more to challenge my utricle (OH, you pigs! That's a part of the ear!!

I've been enjoying a number of bands that are "new" to me....DA, The Choir, Adam Again, TST, others.......

You CAN teach an old dog new tricks, ya know

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Posted by Woggy on 03-18-2002 at15:48:

  HEY, Andrew................

quote:

Originally posted by Andrew I saw this tape on the self and the cover interested me.

So WAS that one of those self-help tapes, hmmmm???

And was it because it had a naked guy doing situps on it, er what?

YER SCARIN' ME, BUDDDDDDD!!

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Posted by Andrew on 03-18-2002 at16:22:

  Yuo think your'e scared

quote:

Originally posted by Woggy quote: Originally posted by Andrew I saw this tape on the self and the cover interested me. So WAS that one of those self-help tapes, hmmmm??? And was it because it had a naked guy doing situps on it, er what? YER SCARIN' ME, BUDDDDDDD!!

You think your'e scared! I have to live with me.


ARRRRRGGH

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Posted by Bulldog on 03-18-2002 at17:50:

  What?

Back in the summer of 1977. I was helping with vacation bible school at the church I was attending and the people I was working with kept playing the "Daniel Amos" album and at that time I didn't know Christian music existed, but I listened and I have been hooked ever since.

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Posted by ™ on 03-18-2002 at18:42:

  Andrew, Wog-meister...

-youse guys're like off OFF topic!

(Wwwooooooooooooooooooahhhhhhhhhhhh Nelly!)

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Posted by Balso Snell on 03-19-2002 at07:12:

  \"Shedding The Mortal Coil\"

My youth pastor loaned me a tape of "Alarma!" the summer I worked at a Bible camp. I'd herd rug-rats around by day, then sneak out of the cabin at night to listen to "Brave New Waves" (thank you, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) on my buddy's contraband radio. "Shedding" could have fit right into BNW's typical programming - I was duly impressed that a band of Christians could come up with something so "au courrant" (to use my second vernacular).

Darrell R.

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Posted by bdavis on 03-19-2002 at13:13:

 

I first heard DA's Shotgun Angel played on the local Christian radio station around 1979 to 1981. It was probably the only release I ever heard on a Houston Christian radio station, although I do remember portions of Alarma recieving secular airplay in Houston. After they started playing a harder rock style, the local Christian station quit playing them. And now some two decades later the local Christian station still doesn't play them either in their CCM or modern rock format. Sound like Houston needs new DJ's or DA needs to proactively promote themselves in Houston, God knows I have been trying. I guess my all time favorite is HD.

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Posted by wes berlin on 03-19-2002 at17:48:

 

probably it was "i love you #19" or "nearsighted girl".

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Posted by BigDork on 03-19-2002 at22:44:

  OVER 300 VIEWS!!!!

and only 30 replys?

seems a little strange?

(i don't think this looks like someone rolling their eyes, just someone with glasses on like me)


BD

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Posted by ™ on 03-20-2002 at10:47:

  yeah, dontcha luv that "views" feature?!

that is a smooth feature of the new board-

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Posted by ™ on 03-20-2002 at10:48:

  whoops, grey background, I\'ll try it again

that is a smooth feature of the new board-

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Posted by Twink on 03-20-2002 at19:25:

  doppelganger, baby

Believe it or not, I hated Doppelganger when my college roommate played it often in my dorm room. But it really grew on me . . . it's still one of my top three favorite DA records.


Twink

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Posted by Andrew on 09-02-2002 at21:18:

 

This was the first thread I posted on inthe new DAMB so I thought I'd dredge it up and the newbie's canpost their turn ons...

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Posted by brdhsnyrsoul on 09-03-2002 at12:12:

 

my turn ons are:

Hey - none of your business.

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Posted by Mark on 09-03-2002 at12:17:

 

OK now. That's not what he was asking and you know it.

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Posted by Gamgee on 09-03-2002 at12:18:

 

quote:

Originally posted by brdhsnyrsoul my turn ons are: Hey - none of your business.

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Posted by brdhsnyrsoul on 09-03-2002 at12:21:

 

I know...that was lame.

I first heard the record - rock around the world - it had "home permanent on it" I thought that was the coolest thing I'd ever heard. Got Vox Humana on record and tape. Then got Doppelganger on vinyl - revelation project and fearful symmetry on vinyl - and then the CDs - those beautiful CDs. I've gotten everything else since. Even those rare Maranatha CDs.