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Wade A. Tisthammer
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Date Posted: 11/15/01 4:27pm
In reply to:
Biff
's message, "Who's Larry Norman?!!" on 11/15/01 1:32pm
>>Ah. Who’s Larry Norman?
>
>Are you being serious? I guess he may be before your
>time. He's credited with being the first to put
>Christian lyrics to rock music (in 1956).
Ah. I was born in 1981, so I think it's safe to say this was before my time.
Actually, I'm pretty ignornat of music in general. Britney Spears could walk though my lane where I cashier and I probably wouldn't recognize her.
>He epitomizes the statement:
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>"'Cause I aint's soft to say it,
>Even if DJs don't play it."
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>An anecdote: Larry, with his band People, were set to
>release their first album on Capitol records entitled:
>"We Need a Whole Lot More of Jesus, and a Lot Less
>Rock and Roll." Capitol, believing that title wouldn't
>sell, changed the name without their knowledge to "I
>Love You." Larry quit the day the album was released
>and went on to found his own record label.
>
>You have to recognize at least some of these
>songs/album titles:
>
>Upon this Rock
>Only Visiting this Planet
>The Outlaw
>Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?
>One Way (this song started that whole raised finger
>thing)
>The Great American Novel
>and of course: I Wish We'd All Been Ready
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>He also wrote the musicals: "Alison" and "Birthday for
>Shakespeare." Pete Townshend credited him with
>planting the idea for "Tommy." Ringing any bells yet?
Nope. But like I said before, I'm incredibly ignorant of music stuff, in part because I have a lousy memory.
>>There probably is. I’ve heard of several
>>non-apocalyptic Christian movies before, though I
>>can’t recall off hand. The Apocalypse is one of the
>>more interesting subjects in Christianity though isn’t
>>it? There are even quite a few non-Christian movies
>>that focus on that subject.
>
>Yes, but I can't help but think that it's just a
>commercial spin-off from the whole "Left Behind" thing.
Yeah, I can't help but think that too. A lot of those movies did come out at about the same time (within a few years of each other).
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