Dittos!
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 08/27/2010 10:13:33 AM PDT by wastedyears
Not sure about their posting rules so I'll leave this as-is.
UP THE IRONS!!!
Might have to check this one out. Haven’t bought a new release of theirs since Dance of Death...
Dittos!
Hit #1 in the UK where I can see them getting lots more airplay than here. Rap is far less popular and rock in general is more popular.
Hitting #4 here is still impressive. 63,000 units sold.
Yes, it was Kerry Livgren.
I really wanted to see them last time they came to the Bay Area (in part because they had Dream Theater as their opener), but I decided to work the NASCAR race at Sears Point instead.
Ritchie Furay from Poco/Buffalo Springfield, John Lodge from Moody Blues and Rick Wakeman from Yes are three to add to list...of course I believe James Brown stayed true to his Christian roots throughout his career..
BINGO!
I too think the world of Nico!
He’s done TV shows for kids too.
The real secret is there are FAR MORE Christians in Metal than Pop.
Iron Maiden rocks!
Metal Merchants & Rivetheads RULE.
Rock doesn’t even get airplay in America anymore. Even “modern rock” on the radio is white guys rapping over bad industrial techno riffs.
It is hard to say how many “went” as some could have always been. I’m pretty sure Alice Cooper always was.
Gordon Gano of the Violent Femmes is a Christian as well.
3 of the 4 members of U2 are Christians. I’m blanking on the fourth’s name, but his atheism almost caused the breakup of the band. Had that happened it might have been the best thing atheism every did.
Dream Theater was pretty solid. This tour was focused on newish stuff, largely because the last tour was focused on the 80s stuff. But plenty of fun, everybody still has a ton of fire, they still get a HUGE crowd that’s insane in the right ways (lots of banging heads and yelling with the lyrics no fights), and they’re still amazingly tight playing hard songs really well.
Actually, Alice isn't quite sure himself. He was raised in the faith and says he always believed it intellectually but never embraced it until the mid-80's when he was getting off the booze.
Steve Taylor (of the band Chagall Guevarra)
Buddy Miller
Bill Malonee (of the band Vigilantes of Love)
Thad Cockrell
Jars of Clay
POD
Mike Farris
Depends what you want to call “rock”.
Nickelback is a lot of things, but it isn’t rapping. They are also played on the radio far more than I would like. there are a fair number of bands like that that are played on the radio. Although rock stations seem to be pretty depended on older stuff to fill out their playlist. The local rock stations might as well have been the Red Hot Chili Peppers station.
Actually, it was John Elefante. John and his brother, Dino, started a Christian music production company, 'Pakaderm Productions' and later Selectric Records. Both John and Dino have been active in the Christian music industry since the late '80's.
All Christians are born again. John 3:3
Adam Clayton, the bassist.
He's an agnostic, apparently, and he didn't want the band to become too overtly Christian.
What I mean is that they don’t specifically exalt Jesus in their music, except for Mike Farris and Thad Cockrell.
It'd be like playing Slade, Black Sabbath, and Eagles on the modern rock station in 1992.
Maybe that's because there is no good "modern rock", and they have to have something to play without driving their audience away.
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