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Registration Date: 06-01-2004
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Favorite 77s album: Drowning with Land in Sight
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Amen!-- from the roots of my gray hair.
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mr. magoo 
Baby Elvis
Registration Date: 07-10-2006
Posts: 225
Favorite 77s album: Eighty Eight
Location: Chicago 'burbs
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around 87/88
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Zudrak
Baby Elvis
Registration Date: 07-18-2006
Posts: 263
Favorite 77s album: A Golden Field of Radioactive
Location: National Park, NJ
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Indeed!
...says the guy who listens to Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley from time to time, despite being a mere whelp at the age of 33. 
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Someone New
Registration Date: 07-17-2006
Posts: 7
Favorite 77s album: All of them
Location: Virginia Beach
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i probably heard them first on the radio in the early 90's but didn't really get into them until probably 93 when i first saw them in concert.
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Alex
Mr. Magoo
Registration Date: 05-01-2005
Posts: 894
Favorite 77s album: Eighty Eight
Location: Frankfurt, Germany
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I wish my hair would gray... it just gets less. 37 years, if you want to know.
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I wish my hair would gray... it just gets less. 37 years, if you want to know.
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I'm about to hit 39 and mine is graying. The beard is already at about 50 to 60% gray. 
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Skevin
Someone New
Registration Date: 07-15-2006
Posts: 21
Favorite 77s album: Sticks & Stones
Location: Antioch, TN
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rob 3.0
Radioactive Crow
Registration Date: 05-28-2004
Posts: 12,194
Favorite 77s album: Drowning With Land in Sight
Location: Where the River Bends
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And so I say, I don't know why, I don't know why
The years go down, the years turn 'round
And now it's comin' down it's comin' down again
Was I ever on the inside?
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Kit
Flower in the Sand
Registration Date: 06-02-2004
Posts: 1,695
Location: AUSKIMG TEGSAGS
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Since the Summer of 1991 when a friend played me "MT."
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MarkyMark77
Drowning with Land in Sight
Registration Date: 03-24-2005
Posts: 465
Favorite 77s album: 99
Location: Illinois
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Well...
In 1992 I was a freshman at Kentucky Christian College (now university). In the small bookstore, there was a music section. Listening to the demos, I came across a tape by the 77's that was titled by the serial number. I thought that was cool. Seeing the old men on the cover made it more cool, of course. And then I heard "Woody".
I had never heard Christian music sound like that, and it had great lyrics (more like what sin and death is really like), it was complex and guitar-laden, Zeppelin-esque and I drooled a little bit, I think. Then I heard the rest of the CD, and I was disappointed that there weren't more tracks like it. It took me a few more months to appreciate "Kites Without Strings", "The Rain Kept Falling In Love", et. al. I had a chance to see them in Lexington, KY for that tour, but I didn't go. I had to stay, hang out and do nothing with my ex-girlfriend. I have since reprioritized.
What a great introduction (along with Adam Again's "Dig") to really good music that meant something. I still remember a couple of guys interviewing Mike at that show that I missed because they played it on the college radio station. I listened to it, but didn't know why they made such a big deal over "The Lust, The Flesh...". Boy, am I glad people grow.
BTW, when I got to hear "Woody" live in Upland, IN (I think that version might be on "When Numbers Get Serious"), I was thrilled. And the setlist from Cornerstone this year makes me wish I had made the trek. It's pretty much my dream set list from the 77's.
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Registration Date: 05-30-2004
Posts: 2,818
Favorite 77s album: STICKS & STONES
Location: NORTH CAROLINA
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must we sing this song?
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Marti
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Registration Date: 06-01-2004
Posts: 10,098
Favorite 77s album: Drowning with Land in Sight
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I somehow (thanks, God!) picked up a couple issues of Syndicate magazine in the mid-90s during the height of the drama right after my divorce. I read some amazingly candid statements by a singer that had just gone through his own divorce, and was curious about the music. I ordered Drowning with Land in Sight, The Boat Ashore, and Safe as Milk (curdled version), and have been a fan of the 77s and alt rock by Christians in general ever since. For both objective and sentimental reasons, the 77s is, are, were, will be my favorite band out of the lot.
I don't feel too bad about not getting around to it until the mid-90s, because I've run into very few people out here that even know who they, or a lot of bands from that genre, are.
This post has been edited 1 time(s), it was last edited by Marti: 07-20-2006 07:59.
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Someone New
Registration Date: 10-13-2004
Posts: 20
Location: far out north...eh, norway
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Baby Elvis
Registration Date: 12-02-2004
Posts: 80
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1992 or 93. Picked up a tape of 88 and fell in love then I saw them at Ichus (sp?) or maybe it was the other way around either way 92 or 93. Then I saw them with the Prayer Chain and instantly bought everything; including the 123 set at the show! SOOOOOOOO glad I did!
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peawinkel
Mezzo
Registration Date: 09-30-2004
Posts: 3,685
Favorite 77s album: Tom Tom Blues
Location: Alabaster, Alabama
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1984.
Was blown away by the song, PPOTA.
In-your-face rock and lyrics.
Knew at that moment that I would follow these guys.
Add 'em to Livgren, Keaggy, Prodigal, White Heart, Steve Taylor, & Ark Angel as bands/artists that I would follow (at that particular time) to conclusion.
I was sold.
I would like to add that the rock vocal in that song is very strong & lends tremendous variations of range and style.
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Just solid rock
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Buddy
Someone New
Registration Date: 06-18-2007
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'83 or '84 starting with Ping Pong
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