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Radioactive Hatchling
Registration Date: 11-17-2004
Posts: 9,890
Favorite 77s album: The one's Mike plays guitar on Location: Springtown
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I thought How Long was a chinaman.
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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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Ron E
Drowning with Land in Sight
Registration Date: 05-19-2005
Posts: 389
Favorite 77s album: Sticks and Stones Location: our house, on the corner of our street
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around 91
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LuR KiNG
Flower in the Sand
Registration Date: 09-17-2004
Posts: 1,631
Location: thrown of course
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1983
a Christian Book store had Ping Pong Over the Abyss LP
buy one, give one to a friend, so I did.
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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 heard "You don't scare me" first in 1985. I liked it a lot, but I didn't like the AFD album too much, then I lost track of the band. What got me hooked was the "88" live CD that I bought in the early nineties. It really blew me away. During my wild, crazy and troubled years it was one of the few christian CDs I could listen to. Those guys seemed honest and human to me, not like the spandex- wearing white metal warriors of that time.
I later bought the 1-2-3 box set, then the rest, one after another. But "88" ist still my favourite. The "Cornerstone 2002 bootleg" comes close. Of the studio CDs I like DWLIS best, but they're all so different that it changes from time to time. PPOTA and AFD will probably never be my favs.
Alex
P.S. I also came back to liking Stryper. Their "Reborn" CD is killer, as Eddie'd say.
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Sharon
Baby Elvis
Registration Date: 06-07-2004
Posts: 108
Favorite 77s album: 88 Miserable Crows Drowning Location: Ohio
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I don't exactly remember the year, but it was the early 80s when I saw the "Different Kind of Light" video on "Real Videos" and got "Ping Pong over the Abyss" record.
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God-rules
Happy Roy
Registration Date: 06-03-2004
Posts: 6,359
Location: buffyverse
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I can't recall for sure it was either 83 or 84. I remember who turned me on to the 7s, and I ment him mid 83 he moved back to CA mid 84. So sometime in that area.
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JohnL
Baby Elvis
Registration Date: 07-11-2006
Posts: 275
Favorite 77s album: Crows Location: Bastrop, Tx
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Wow compared to others here, I must be a nubbie. The first CD I bought was DWLIS. Have been a fan ever since...
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07-20-2006 05:37 |
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Nailtatt
Rocks in your Head
Registration Date: 05-28-2004
Posts: 24,078
Favorite 77s album: Sticks and Stones Location: The NFP
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Got intro'd to the band in the early 80's. Lost track of them for a year or 2 then came across the Island recored in a used CD store shortly after it came out and have been with them ever since!
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herringostarr
Praying Naked
Registration Date: 09-03-2005
Posts: 619
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I was completely oblivious until, yes, I'm afraid to confess, 2000!!
A buddy of mine was a truck driver and had heard "Pray Where You Are" while in Ohio. He liked it, purchased the disc, then later, purchased "Gift Horse". He loaned it to me, I played it non-stop for about two months. I had NO IDEA that these guys had solo projects and other bands. As I was telling a friend at church about the CD, he explained to me how he was a big fan and how they all had a nice discography. Then I began to see how they were the Traveling Wilburys in the Christian scene. He loaned me a huge collection of, well everything. Mike, Terry, The Choir, Adam Again, Daniel Amos, and ah...The 77's. So I began online with my investigating. I was instantly hooked on ALL OF THIS GREAT MUSIC. Thanks to a few bloody wars on eBay and these websites, I have every recording of all the guys' stuff except "Darn Floor" and "Echos o Faith"(and of course the fan club releases I missed before my discovery...*%##@!!). This music seriously changed my life. I continue to spread the news of the 77's.
And one of the best things is through these bands, you stumble across stuff like The Strawmen, Dr. Edward Daniel Taylor, The Raptures...I hope it never ends! Woo Hoo!!
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MefLiszto
Baby Elvis
Registration Date: 06-14-2004
Posts: 238
Location: Hamilton, OH
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I heard Ping Ping back in '83. The album was OK, though I seriously LOVED Renaissance Man and I still like Time Is Slipping Away and Denomination Blues. I really took to the band when All Fall Down came out, especially after seeing them at Ichthus n '85 (see the DVD).
Darin
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Nailtatt
Rocks in your Head
Registration Date: 05-28-2004
Posts: 24,078
Favorite 77s album: Sticks and Stones Location: The NFP
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I heard Ping Ping back in '83. The album was OK, though I seriously LOVED Renaissance Man and I still like Time Is Slipping Away and Denomination Blues. I really took to the band when All Fall Down came out, especially after seeing them at Ichthus n '85 (see the DVD).
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Ping Ping?
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Marti
Radioactive Crow
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.
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BigDork
Happy Roy
Registration Date: 05-28-2004
Posts: 6,116
Location: lI was lonely and hungry, but not so lonely I wouldn't eat
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bought PPOTA in 83 and everything since.
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larryl
Rocks in your Head
Registration Date: 06-01-2004
Posts: 18,659
Location: hotlanta
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some of you are awfully old
i've been listening to everything mike roe that i could get my hands on since around 1991
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Sharon
Baby Elvis
Registration Date: 06-07-2004
Posts: 108
Favorite 77s album: 88 Miserable Crows Drowning Location: Ohio
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Marti
Radioactive Crow
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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Alex
Mr. Magoo
Registration Date: 05-01-2005
Posts: 894
Favorite 77s album: Eighty Eight Location: Frankfurt, Germany
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Amen!-- from the roots of my gray hair.
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I wish my hair would gray... it just gets less. 37 years, if you want to know.
Alex
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