This was new to me. I had heard about them from my buddy Dave back in the day, but never actually heard them. Dave was pretty dialed into what was happening in Christian music and generally had decent taste. By '86 my interest in a lot (not all) of CCM (for the unwashed in the secular world that stands for Contemporary Christian Music) because most of what I was hearing was inferior. I know Larry Norman asked, "Why should the devil have all the good music." He wasn't entirely right, but he was close enough to bury a good chunk of what passed for music being sold in Christian Bookstores. One of the hallmarks of being a Christian artist was trying to copy what was popular in "secular" music. The problem was there was a lag of about five or more years. Of course I'm generalizing, there were a handful of bands that were just plain good, but for me most of what I heard was borderline awful. Around this time some smaller rock oriented labels started to pop up...
A place where I just blather on about shit I either miss, or am excited about, or just found and want to share. Or I could just be deliberately trying to waste your time. I generally don't know what I'm talking about, but sometimes I do. This generally reads like a stream of consciousness brain dump. I like to think of it as a reaction video, without the images ... mostly it's just me rambling ... it's meanderambling. #oldenoughtoforget