i've been here before but it's been quite some time. i discovered the church a long time ago. i was sitting on a sofa in a living room in my old house.
i was pretty young (early 20s). it was 1981 or '82, when mtv still played music. sometimes they actually played some pretty good music. once in a blue moon
they would load up a great song. i would sit and listen to the music and watch the videos for hours.
it was all new then, and i was searching for something different. i'd outgrown metal mania. i liked interesting lyrics and vocals. i loved jangly guitars, the more guitar the better. i loved good melodies. nobody was really hitting that sweet spot i was looking for. i played guitar and i had ideas in my head. i just wasn't good enough at expressing them through music... yet. then mtv played a video by a band called 'the church'. i instantly liked the name, and when i heard peter playing that intro i was instantly in awe. my mouth fell open as steve stepped to the mic and sang 'so hard... finding inspiration'. as i listened my eyes got wet. this was the sound i had dreamed of. the lyrics were introspective. the guitars were perfect. the singer sang with emotion. the melody was true.
the next morning i went to the record store and found one cassette copy of 'the church' (us capitol release). i was particularly blown away by bel-air. so melancholy, and the way it built slowly from start to finish. i loved the metaphors kilbey used.
so that's where it all started. not long after that i got the blurred crusade, then sing songs and seance and on from there. i guess seance was my favorite church album until starfish was released. odd i suppose, but i liked the darkness and the use of keyboards on seance. i still love seance, heyday, starfish, p=a, hob, aent, hell i love them all. these guys are like old friends on some level although i've never spoken a word to any of them outside of a 30-second how-do-you-do behind some club somewhere far away.
i still play guitar. as you may suspect, mostly church songs, old and new. i would love to put together a tribute duo, trio, quartet, whatever. right now it's solo. there is no density of musicians into the church in the deep south. we're a little short-handed.
enough, i may be rambling.
W@
it was all new then, and i was searching for something different. i'd outgrown metal mania. i liked interesting lyrics and vocals. i loved jangly guitars, the more guitar the better. i loved good melodies. nobody was really hitting that sweet spot i was looking for. i played guitar and i had ideas in my head. i just wasn't good enough at expressing them through music... yet. then mtv played a video by a band called 'the church'. i instantly liked the name, and when i heard peter playing that intro i was instantly in awe. my mouth fell open as steve stepped to the mic and sang 'so hard... finding inspiration'. as i listened my eyes got wet. this was the sound i had dreamed of. the lyrics were introspective. the guitars were perfect. the singer sang with emotion. the melody was true.
the next morning i went to the record store and found one cassette copy of 'the church' (us capitol release). i was particularly blown away by bel-air. so melancholy, and the way it built slowly from start to finish. i loved the metaphors kilbey used.
so that's where it all started. not long after that i got the blurred crusade, then sing songs and seance and on from there. i guess seance was my favorite church album until starfish was released. odd i suppose, but i liked the darkness and the use of keyboards on seance. i still love seance, heyday, starfish, p=a, hob, aent, hell i love them all. these guys are like old friends on some level although i've never spoken a word to any of them outside of a 30-second how-do-you-do behind some club somewhere far away.
i still play guitar. as you may suspect, mostly church songs, old and new. i would love to put together a tribute duo, trio, quartet, whatever. right now it's solo. there is no density of musicians into the church in the deep south. we're a little short-handed.
enough, i may be rambling.
W@
