“In 1977 British Poet / Songwriter Steve Scott signed a recording contract with Solid Rock Records and began recording two albums for the company. He assembled a top-notch band of well-known musicians and performers in the Christian music scene: Larry Norman, Randy Stonehill, Mark Heard, Tom Howard, Alex McDougall (Daniel Amos), and Jon “Wonderfingers” Linn. Both albums (Moving Pictures and Closeups) were completed, but before they could be mixed, mastered, and released, Solid Rock’s distribution company Word Records got cold feet because of Scott’s lyrics which touched sporadically on “crises of faith” and other legitimate questions that the faithful can occasionally have. There were moments of soul-searching buried in the albums’ tracks, questions that the stalwart distribution company didn’t want addressed.
The albums never got released so they sat in the Solid Rock archives for 47 years until they began to be reconsidered as the tour de force they were all along.
This is the intention of this Kickstarter campaign: To get these recordings mixed, mastered, and properly released to the world like they should have been long ago. Your pledges will help offset the cost of that process, including the studio expenditure of restoring the master analog tapes and transferring them to digital files, much of which has already been done. You can hear the pristine results in the video at the top of this page. A large chunk of change will be used to manufacture the gatefold double album on 180g vinyl, the full color inserts, the record mailers, as well as the CD versions of the albums.”