Just a comment… nothing special
Thanks for your work assembling the material for this zine. I can’t decide if it’s really cool to see where these musicians are today, or if it’s simply sad to witness how so many of them have legitimately struggled with their beliefs, only to turn away from the Christian faith. That’s not to say that I have any great love for the Christian music industry: I was in a band on Tooth & Nail “way back when”, and I know how the Christian music industry chews bands up and spits them out. Touring as a “Christian band” can be quite detrimental to your spiritual health.
The ’80’s seemed to be a really great time for bands that were “Christian” by classification, but weren’t really sure how to correlate their faith and their art. This tension produced some fantastic music, which I still enjoy. Apparently it also produced (or revealed) a great deal of angst in many of those artists; an angst which they are still dealing with today. Thanks for bringing these artists back into the light so that we can get a chance to take a second look.
Jamey Bozeman
(Nothing Special? The cool thing is that we also get letters to the Editor that are as cool as the articles themselves….)
Hi DownTheLine Guys!
Hey. Thanks for your work. I just read the Gene Eugene special yesterday and thought it might be funny for you guys to hear that we played “Dig” to ten thousands of people when my wife and I supported Whitney Houston on her European dates. There´s a video of that on our little homepage:
Hope you enjoy it!
Love from Germany,
Daniel Benjamin
(I checked this out – it is legit! About 6 minutes in to the video is when the Adam Again song is played. Crazy thing is that Gene used to play “I Will Always Love You” in concert from time to time, even though he pointed out it was a Dolly Parton song.)
Comment on “Issue # 8 Is On The Way” [in reference to who all would be in this issue):
Will any of them be coming out?
j/k
Love the work you are doing and can’t wait to read!!!! DTL!
Rhu
(Any of them? All of them! We only print coming out articles now. Or do we?… 🙂
Sterling Speaks Again
Wow! To be in the same issue as Ojo……… Thank you Steve for not editing or sugar coating anything we talked about. I admire Down the Line for its journalistic integrity………… Godspeed………
Brian Kirsch (aka Sterling)
(I think we should say thank you for being so honest. We can only print what people say to us, so we love it when the people we interview make us look good 🙂
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