Cassettes and Christian Classics
My newly aquired truck has a cassette player, which is great to have back again. I am listening to my old Christian music from long ago.
I loved Keith Green, Petra, Rez Band, Amy Grant, Rich Mullins, Kim Hill, the Imperials.
Here you see a man with an, "Awesome Dog."
Brian Duncan is still around, right? Okay, I admit it.... I used to listen to Evie Tournquist. Please believe that I'm not my music. Don't judge me by my lack of cool in listening to her. I make up for it by listening to Larry Norman.
There was a time I took Stryper very seriously.
Now, it's hard to avoid laughing at the hair and Spandex. I've even got some old David Meece. Does anyone remember him? Silverwind sounds like Abba. Ferrell and Ferrell had a few good songs, especially, "All You Need Is Jesus." Now, please tell me that you know who Phil Keaggy is.
Music now is much better than those days. Christian talent is in it's prime. Today's songs seem more likely to stay listenable for a long time to come. But those older songs were really able to get inside of me and totally capture my attention. There are only a few songs today that can do that. I could listen to the same tape over and over until I knew every word and every little sound. I don't know if I'll ever have the desire to do that again.
The message in today's music is different. The old music had a little bite to it, like they were trying to raise the bar on my convictions. Music now is more about feeling like God is real, being encouraged, and about worship. It seems like a lateral move to me.
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I think I still have that Mercy album. I'll have to get it out again. It's on CD.
I can play, "Jailhouse Rock," on the guitar. It's probably my best song, but it sounds nothing like when Ferrell and Ferrell do it. (This is not the song by Elvis.)
I think I listened to the David Meece albums daily for almost all of 1979. My fav was, "Never Gonna Serve Anyone Else But You." What do you mean, "The personal stuff?" I think about the song, "Everybody Needs a Little Help," a lot these days.
Well, there was the Once In a Lifetime album which talked about his growing up. There were serveral on it that could make me cry but especially "My Father's Chair."
Yeah, I know that "Jailhouse Rock" isn't Elvis! :-D
Is Evie T. the same Evie that sang 'MIRROR, mirror, MIRROR mirror, ON the Wall, on the wall......... ' ???
Yes, I've answered my own question! It is the same Evie. My Mom had bought the album with "Mirror", the song, on it. Only remember that one song cause I liked it!
I don't think I ever heard that song, "My Father's Chair." I'll try to find it.
David was at summer youth camp. He explained the stories behind a lot of his songs. He meant a lot to our whole youth group.
I love Rich Mullins. I still listen to his stuff regularly.
I had a David Meece tape years ago, but I threw all my tapes away a few years ago. (I regretted it later.) Not too long ago, I found a tape I had made for my friends from my tapes (before I threw them away, of course). On it, I found a couple of David Meece songs, including "My Father's Chair". I was so glad.
I've recently discovered Stryper (well, I vaguely remember them from the eighties, but I was a kid then and not allowed to listen to them), and, don't tell anyone, but I like them. To hell with the devil!
Rich Mullins, though, is one of my absolute favorites.
Oh, hi, Anita, I'm Jus Me.
Hi, Jus Me.
I really like Rich Mullins. In my opinion, he is the one who started the trend in the kind of worship we do these days. Some of the worship chorus stuff we sang in church in the 80's and 90's were kinda like campfire sing-alongs, and destined to pass. That song, "Awesome God," had that worship chorus feel, but it also sounded like regular comtemporary music. Sonic Praise latched onto that new sound really well.
And I love Rich M.'s hammer dulcimer. It sounds like a music box with an attitude.
Hi, TechMusicGospel
I wish I knew how to load my cassettes onto MP3.
I can fix a squeeky cassette, though! Wanna trade technology?
Someone else who has heard of the Imperials!!!! WooHooo!!! 'Sail on...when the water gets high, sail on....when the wind starts to die...sail on...'
I still listen to Keith Green. His biography was a great read as well.
Thanks for the flashback, Anita.