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The Choir (alternative Rock Band)
The Choir is an atmospheric Christian alternative rock band currently comprising Derri Daugherty on guitar and vocals, Steve Hindalong on drums, and Dan Michaels on saxophone and lyricon. Long-time bassist Tim Chandler died in 2018, and guitarist Marc Byrd was the fifth member of the band between 2005–2014. As of 2022, the band has released 16 full-length studio albums, three EPs, five live albums, one single-disc compilation, one retrospective box set, and is still actively recording new material. History Southern California period (1983–1993) The Choir was originally formed as Youth Choir in the early 1980s by Derri Daugherty and Steve Hindalong. Daniel Amos bass guitarist Tim Chandler introduced Hindalong to Daugherty, who was the band's roadie and sound man.Alfonso (2002), p. 139. Hindalong and Daugherty quickly became friends, and Youth Choir was part of the Calvary Chapel Christian punk and alternative music scene, which also included the bands Undercover, Crumbäch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orange County, California
Orange County is located in the Los Angeles metropolitan area in Southern California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 3,186,989, making it the third-most-populous county in California, the sixth-most-populous in the United States, and more populous than 19 American states and Washington, D.C. Although largely suburban, it is the second-most-densely-populated county in the state behind San Francisco County. The county's three most-populous cities are Anaheim, Santa Ana, and Irvine, each of which has a population exceeding 300,000. Santa Ana is also the county seat. Six cities in Orange County are on the Pacific coast: Seal Beach, Huntington Beach, Newport Beach, Laguna Beach, Dana Point, and San Clemente. Orange County is included in the Los Angeles-Long Beach- Anaheim Metropolitan Statistical Area. The county has 34 incorporated cities. Older cities like Old Town Tustin, Santa Ana, Anaheim, Orange, and Fullerton have traditional downtowns dating back to the 19th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crumbächer
Crumbächer was an American Christian new wave, synthpop and dance-pop band in the 1980s, headed by Stephen Crumbächer. History After five years of friendship, Stephen Crumbächer, Dawn Wisner and Jim Wisner played their first performance as Crumbächer at a New Year's Eve show in 1983. The following summer, the band entered the studio for the first time to begin recording a six-song EP for Calvary Chapel's MRC label with Ojo Taylor of Undercover producing and Derri Daugherty of The Choir engineering. Once the label heard the early results, they requested that the band record a few additional songs so that it could be released as a full-length album, instead of an EP. The album, '' Incandescent'', was released in April 1985 on Broken Records, which was classified as a new wave material. The band signed with the newly formed Frontline Records and began work on their second album, the self-produced ''Escape from the Fallen Planet'' which was released in 1986. The followi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Circle Slide
''Circle Slide'' is the sixth studio release, and fifth full-length studio album, from Christian alternative rock band the Choir, released in 1990. Considered by some critics to be the band's best album, and even called "one of the best Christian albums ever made,"Thompson (2000), p. 123 ''Circle Slide'' was listed at No. 53 in the book '' CCM Presents: The 100 Greatest Albums in Christian Music''. This would be the final album the Choir would record for Myrrh Records. Background Despite '' Wide-Eyed Wonder''s positive themes of new fatherhood and family relationships, Myrrh Records' substantial promotion of the album, and the resultant high-profile tour with heavy media coverage, it was a period of personal turmoil for every member of the Choir. The extensive time spent in a crowded van for months at a time took its toll on the band's relationship with bass guitarist Robin Spurs, who quit the Choir during the recording of ''Circle Slide''.Conant, Palmer (2001), p. 25 She initi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wide-Eyed Wonder
''Wide-Eyed Wonder'' is the fifth studio release, and fourth full-length studio album, from Christian alternative rock band the Choir, released in 1989. This would be the first studio album with new bass guitarist Robin Spurs, and would mark the band's first attempt to cross over to the mainstream market.Conant, Palmer (2001), p. 21 Background After Spurs officially joined the Choir the night that '' Chase the Kangaroo'' was released,Conant, Palmer (2001), p. 19 the band's new lineup spent the majority of 1988 on the road, including appearances at the Cornerstone Festival in Chicago, the Greenbelt Festival in England, and the Flevo Festival in the Netherlands.Conant, Palmer (2001), p. 20 In September of that year, drummer and lyricist Steve Hindalong's first daughter, Emily, was born, and this event would have a measurable impact on the lyrical content of the Choir's follow-up album, which began production only two months later. Recording and production With the release of ''Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Again
Adam Again is an American Rock music, rock band that was active from 1982 until the 2000 death of founder, leader and vocalist Gene Eugene, with Riki Michele on vocals, Paul Valadez on bass, Jon Knox on drums, Greg Lawless on guitar. Dan Michaels often played saxophone. Thom Jurek of AllMusic has described them as "inventive and artfully canny." The band never achieved commercial viability and quit touring and recording together after March 20, 2000, when Eugene died in his recording studio, the "fabulous" The Green Room (recording studio), Green Room. On September 20, 2013, bassist Paul Valadez died. Discography * ''In a New World of Time'' (1986) * ''Ten Songs by Adam Again'' (1988) * ''Homeboys (album), Homeboys'' (1990) * ''Dig (Adam Again album), Dig'' (1992) * ''Perfecta (album), Perfecta'' (1995) * ''Worldwide Favourites'' (1999) * ''A Tribute to Gene Eugene'' (2000) * ''Adam Again Tribute Boxed Set'' (2001) Reissues * ''In a New World of Time'' (1990) Reissue o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riki Michele
Riki Michele (born Michele Bunch, currently Michele Palmer) is a female Christian alternative rock artist. Best known as one of the vocalists for Adam Again, she has also recorded four eclectic solo albums. A reviewer for Knight Ridder describer her as a "funky diva... a diva in the "female artist who knows what the heck she's doing" sense." She was married to Gene Eugene, and though they divorced in 1994 she continued to record with him until his death in 2000. Discography With Adam Again * '' In a New World of Time'' (1986) * '' Ten Songs by Adam Again'' (1988) * '' Homeboys'' (1990) * ''Dig'' (1992) * '' Perfecta'' (1995) * '' Worldwide Favourites'' (1999) * ''A Tribute to Gene Eugene'' (2000) * '' Adam Again Tribute Boxed Set'' (2001) Solo * ''Big Big Town'' (1989 – Broken Records) * ''One Moment Please'' (1993 – WAL) * ''Surround Me'' (2002 – independent) * ''Come Let Us Adore Him: A Parable Christmas'' (2003 – Parable Christian Stores) * ''Push'' (2015 – i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gene Eugene
Gene Andrusco (April 6, 1961 – March 20, 2000), better known as Gene Eugene, was a Canadian-born actor, record producer, engineer, composer and musician. Andrusco was best known as the leader of the alternative rock band Adam Again, a member of The Swirling Eddies (credited as Prickly Disco), and as a founding member of the supergroup Lost Dogs Lost Dogs are an American musical supergroup formed in 1991, comprising vocalists, songwriters, and guitarists from multiple Christian alternative rock bands. Their current lineup includes Terry Scott Taylor (Daniel Amos, the Swirling Eddies), .... References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Eugene, Gene Canadian record producers 20th-century Canadian male singers Canadian rock singers Canadian male child actors People from Huntington Beach, California 1961 births 2000 deaths Canadian audio engineers Canadian performers of Christian music People from Fort Frances 20th-century Canadian male actors Lost Dogs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vector (band)
Vector was an American rock band formed in Sacramento, California, in the early 1980s by Jimmy Abegg, Steve Griffith and Charlie Peacock. The band had several drummers over the years, including Aaron Smith and Bruce Spencer, both of whom also played drums for the 77s. Although the lyrics of Vector's music did not always contain the overt lyrics of contemporary Christian music with which the band was sometimes associated, Vector's albums were released under Christian labels, and were an example of Christian rock Christian rock is a form of rock music that features lyrics focusing on matters of Christian faith, often with an emphasis on Jesus, typically performed by self-proclaimed Christian individuals. The extent to which their lyrics are explicitly Ch .... After a lengthy hiatus, Vector released a new album, ''Vital'', in August 2021. Discography Albums * ''Mannequin Virtue'' (1983) * ''Please Stand By'' (1985) * ''Simple Experience'' (1989) * ''Temptation'' (199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Heard
John Mark Heard III (December 16, 1951 – August 16, 1992) was an American record producer, folk rock singer and songwriter from Macon, Georgia. Heard released sixteen albums, and produced or performed with many artists, including: Sam Phillips (aka Leslie Phillips), Pierce Pettis, Phil Keaggy, Vigilantes of Love, Peter Buck of R.E.M. (who co-produced VOL's album ''Killing Floor'' with Heard), The Choir, Randy Stonehill and Michael Been of The Call. Heard produced part of Olivia Newton-John's ''The Rumour'' (1988), which also included a cover of Heard's own "Big and Strong" (originally called "How to Grow Up Big and Strong"). Early life and music career After graduating from the University of Georgia in 1974 with an ABJ (bachelor of arts in journalism) degree in television, Heard traveled to Switzerland to study at L'Abri under the influential evangelical Christian philosopher Francis Schaeffer. Singers Larry Norman and Randy Stonehill stumbled onto Mark one day playing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Peacock
Charles William Ashworth (born August 10, 1956), known professionally as Charlie Peacock, is an American singer, songwriter, pianist, record producer, and author. His albums include ''Love Press Ex-Curio'', ''Arc of the Circle'' and ''No Man's Land'' (2012). He is the founder of re:think, a record label that signed acts such as Switchfoot. Early life Peacock was born in Yuba City, California, and his father was a trumpeter and educator. As a youth he was inspired by the music of John Coltrane. During junior and senior high Peacock received instrumental and theory instruction from his father and a local educator. Peacock, then known as Chuck Ashworth, left Yuba City High School after his junior year at the age of 16. Career After leaving California State University, Sacramento in 1976 Peacock began playing jazz piano in the band, The Runners. He met author Frank Kofsky at California State University in Sacramento and through him met various jazz artists such as Andrew Hill. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diamonds And Rain
''Diamonds and Rain'' is the third studio release, and second full-length studio album, from Christian alternative rock band the Choir, released in 1986. It is the first release under the band's new moniker after dropping "Youth" from their name. Background After '' Shades of Gray'' was released, Shadow Records folded, so Youth Choir once again found themselves without a record label. Conant, Palmer (2001), p. 12 Around this time, Myrrh Records was looking to expand their roster of artists specifically in the rock genre, so record executive Tom Willett moved from Nashville to Los Angeles to establish MyrrhLA. With little success finding new artists during the first six months of the new imprint's existence, Willett was dragged by a local promoter to see a Youth Choir concert, and he found them to be "creatively inventive and musically prophetic." The band was signed to the new label in June of 1986, just after Youth Choir's third appearance at Cornerstone, Conant, Palmer (2001) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shades Of Gray (album)
Shades of gray or shades of grey refers to variations of the color gray. Shades of gray, Shades of grey or variations may also refer to: Film and television * ''Shades of Gray'', a 1948 documentary produced as part of the U.S. Army's Professional Medical Film series * "Shades of Gray" (''Heroes''), the nineteenth episode of the third season * "Shades of Gray" (''Star Trek: The Next Generation''), the twenty-second episode of the second season * "Shades of Gray", the tenth episode of the first season of ''Danny Phantom'' * "Shades of Gray", episode 110 of the seventh season of ''Homicide: Life on the Street'' * "Shades of Grey", the fourth episode of the second season of ''The Joy of Painting'' * "Shades of Grey", the eighteenth episode of the third season of ''Stargate SG-1'' * "Shades of Gray", the sixth episode of of the first season of ''Voltron: The Third Dimension'' Literature * ''Shades of Gray'', a superhero novel by Jackie Kessler and Caitlin Kittredge * ''Shade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
