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sprinklerhead 
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I remember watching a video called Hells Bells when I was a youth group leader in L.A. It was mostly references to obscure bands and scare tactics. The end just killed me. We had a room full of kids watching this thing and the guy says that there are plenty of alternatives to the evil rock music. Then he shows these ladies dancing to totally goofy music and expects kids to burn their albums and listen to that crap. It was ridiculous.
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I had another dream about lions at the door
They weren't half as frightening as they were before
But I'm thinking about eternity
And I'm wondering where the lions are...
I'm wondering where the lions are...
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ladrtrk55
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sprinklerhead, we were at the last performance, in San Antonio, of Stryper before they broke up.
As we were leaving, there was some bunch of kooks from a Baptist church there in SA. They didn't buy tickets, of course, and were out front as the crowds left, extoling to evils of the Christian rock bands.
As there were lots of plain old rockers there, we decided to run interference for them. We engaged the Beatmenace folk out by our cars, virtually blocking them from the unsaved and the weaker brethern.
They didn't realize what we were doing, as several of our party had taken them out of the 'fight'.
As the confrontation wound down, I asked what church they represented and who their pastor was.
Later that week, I wrote a personal letter of rebuke to the pastor. I included several testimonies including those of the musicians, scripture backing(Ps.150,etc), and the names and numbers we and our chuch pastor could be contacted for further discussion as to the proper witnessing techniques at rock concerts.
Never heard one word back from them.
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Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send, who will go for us?"
"Here I am, send me!"
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DwDunphy
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"Kris Klingensmith, the former drummer/lyricist for Barnabas, attended the recent Southern California edition of Cornerstone, and came back with some interesting thoughts:..."
I'm sorry, but I've been all over Underoath's "Define The Great Line" and although they're on Tooth And Nail and thank Jesus in the liner notes, all that comes across is a lot of screamo angst. I'm not saying they can't rock, and I'm not saying they have to be bumper sticker theologians, but I got nothing about man, God or whatever lies between from that recording. I got that the band was really angry, sad, upset, confused but you get that from any emo/screamo band.
I'm just wondering what Klingensmith would have gotten from that performance.
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joey
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Location: the biggest fans are often the biggest critics ... sometimes taken as complaining ... get used to it. :P - mountain fan
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only a small portion of it...........
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jiminy
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the Rev at his best................
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Ron E
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FUnny, just the other day, I heard or read something which said, the music issue is dead, that people don't care about style anymore, just the message. Oh well, apparently there are still pockets.
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joey
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Location: the biggest fans are often the biggest critics ... sometimes taken as complaining ... get used to it. :P - mountain fan
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most people don't anymore...
keep in mind he said bob jones university graduate..... 
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jiminy
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"down in Carolina way..
Lives a man named Big BJ
BJ went and got a school
founded on Caucasian rule"
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ladrtrk55
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...came out, it both hillarious and sad at the same time. In the land of musical ignorance, resided a population who, in the words of Ozzie himself, was the last bastion of headbangers during the post punk/new wave era.
When queried by a local reporter as to why, during a low-time in metal history, metal was dead, why was he in South Texas for a concert.
Oz replied that no matter how bleak it may look for metal, they could always depend on the fans of South Texas.
Conversely, there was no one here reaching out to those "pimply-faced, leather clad, stainless tethered, longhaired, fistpumping, headbanging, teens" of the day.
We had a prominent Baptist preacher who was most vocal about the evils of not only Christian rock, but almost all contemporary Christian music. If it had bass, too much drum, any guitar distortion, and if Jesus and or the Cross not mentioned in every verse, it wasn't Christian.
He went so far as to repeat a veritable urban legend of all urban legends....the "rat killing rock guitar distortion" device.
The story goes like this:
A local farmer had some problems with rats in his barn gobbling up the feed. This farmer also was quite the guit-box picker and liked to do some picking on his small amp and electric guitar out in the barn.
One day, as he was playing, some thing happened to the amp. Either as power surge or some sort of malfunction caused the amp to squeal and growl. Immediately, all the small animals ran from the barn.
The next day, the farmer found several dead rats littering the floor.
This enterprising farmer found some way to duplicate the frequencies, made a small box to house the lil' noise maker, and market it.
To this day, there is some sort of pest irradicator, marketed to the rural folk, which mimicks the sound of a distorted heavy metal lead guitar, that kills rats.
true story..............
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Isaiah 6:8
Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send, who will go for us?"
"Here I am, send me!"
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Terry said this about the song:
"Let me begin by saying I don't like Ed. Never did.
"Aside from being one among many interesting and amazing instrumental interplays between Greg's symphonic guitars and Tim's eccentrically brilliant base lines, 'The Beat Menace' contains lyrics that at first glance seem to be resurrecting (and railing against) the old 'drums are of the devil' controversy. A closer look however reveals my intention to bemoan the Church's seeming inability to embrace and support the Christian artist as visionary, save for those 'artists' whose work is primarily a means to religious proselytizing and/or driven by hidden profit motives. The key line of the song '...imagination on the rise again, so hide your heart away...' reveals the 'beat' I'm primarily concerned with.
"The line '...re-styles his hair like girls in Tupelo...' seems to be a fan favorite, and since I have not the foggiest idea how girls in Tupelo actually style their hair, this line most likely came from the deep and darkest waters of my disturbed psychic brain-pool."
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Ritchie_az
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I guess it's kind of like Livgren's song Mainstream:
Overkill, have you had your fill
Come to expect it
Off the wall, too short or too tall
System rejects it
Lost the handle, what's it all been for?
Tired of trying, seeing so much more
It's so predictable and everybody judges by the numbers that you're selling
Just crank 'em out on the assembly line and chart 'em higher (higher, higher)
Just keep it simple boys it's gonna be alright as long as you're inside the
Mainstream, are we moving too far away
Is it worth it if it doesn't pay
The centerline is status quo, it's
Mainstream
If you stay within the tried and true
You'll remain among the chosen few
Survive another year
The market is dead, accounts in the red
Media saturation
We're deep in a rut, the arteries cut
Sensory deprivation
Really loved it, didn't earn a cent
No one's buying your experiment
For the masses in Consumerland
Give 'em everything that they demand
Survive another year
Corporate mold, packaged and sold, 16 to 30
Jobbers and racks, they're movin' in stacks
Tactics are dirty
We're in business, what else is it for?
Profit motive, welcome to the war
Just be careful not to rearrange
And don't let 'em catch you getting strange
Survive another year
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