Verve
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There maybe a thread like this somewhere already, but I am curious.
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LuR KiNG
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There maybe a thread like this somewhere already, but I am curious. |
since the beginning .
how long?
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bkratzer 
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Registration Date: 07-02-2007
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Favorite 77s album: sticks and stones
Location: missouri
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Hey, this is a great question...maybe because I normally wouldnt remember this type of detail, but in the case of the 77s, I do!
I was saved in 86 after a life of crime 
, and for awhile only listened to Jimmy Swaggart, John Starnes, etc. This was sort of whiplash after growing up on CCR, Motown, Nazareth, Ted, REO, BadCo, and on and on. Also, my wife didn't view Jimmy as "mood music" - go figure. So, I began looking for better stuff. I first found Russ Taff, then Bryan Duncan, then about a year later began doing music reviews for Syndicate magazine. This was a great opportunity, because you know Q is in tune with everything available. Anyway, a couple of Syndicate readers contacted me and were raving about Sticks and Stones. I was literally on the phone with them at my father in laws house, and this dude offered to drive over just to GIVE me a copy of Sticks and Stones. He showed up within an hour, and to this day, it (along with Charlie Peacocks "Secret of Time") ranks as my favorite album/disc. So, there you go! More than you asked for!
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Birchell
Praying Naked
Registration Date: 10-08-2004
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Favorite 77s album: Impossible to pick!!!
Location: Covington, KY
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"All Fall Down" cassette tape of a tape of a tape that a buddy lent me in 84. I listened to it and said, "Mercy Mercy!!"
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jeffrey k.
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Being that I wasn't even into my teen years when the 77's first released records, I didn't actually hear of the band until the 1987 self-titled record came out. A friend of mine had a well intentioned older brother that hoped to free me from what he called the "evils" of listening to U2, and played me the tape. I still remember where I was....sitting in the drive through window line of a Wendy's on Manchester Rd. in St. Louis. I remember thinking "Do It For Love" was a cool song....but when "I Can't Get Over It" came on I was hooked.
jeffrey k.
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Rod
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Favorite 77s album: When #s Get Serious
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I worked at a Christian bookstore in 1982, when Ping Pong came out.
Word required that we buy at least 3 records and 2 cassettes of each release. They sat on the shelf for a long time. We did sell a lot of The Imperials, Dino, Evie and Keith Green. Of course, Amy Grant was starting her stranglehold on the industry with Age to Age.
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JR88
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Registration Date: 05-28-2004
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Favorite 77s album: 88
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somewhere around '91.......found Sticks and Stones in a Christian bookstore and digged the cover then I found 88 and I was hooked!
Two reasons I picked up The Lost Dogs first album.....ROE and TAYLOR......
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snowblind
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Favorite 77s album: Sticks and Stones
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I had a couple of friends that were big into the 77s back in the early- to mid-80s and kept telling me that they were great. Someone even tried to give me their tape of Ping Pong, but my musical tastes had not matured enough to appreciate good music -- so I declined. Later on, I bought a cassette of the Island Records s/t release and then I was hooked.
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PennSt8
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Heard "Renaissance Man" on the radio late one Saturday night, but couldn't find the album anywhere in podunk western PA. About a year later, found All Fall Down in a bookstore at Penn State. Still have the vinyl.....
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Sharon
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Favorite 77s album: 88 Miserable Crows Drowning
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I saw the video of "Different Kind of Light" on a show called "Real Videos" back in the early 80s and have followed them ever since.
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dennis
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Favorite 77s album: "88"
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a buddy of mine gave me a mix-tape of 77s tunes from the first two records.
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dennis
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Favorite 77s album: "88"
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a buddy of mine gave me a mix-tape of 77s tunes from the first two records. |
This would have been in fall or winter of 1988.
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05-20-2007 10:42 |
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LuR KiNG
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a buddy of mine gave me a mix-tape of 77s tunes from the first two records. |
This would have been in fall or winter of 1988. |
so you became a 77s FaN in '88 
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dennis
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Registration Date: 10-03-2004
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Favorite 77s album: "88"
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tom tom blue
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Registration Date: 05-30-2004
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Favorite 77s album: STICKS & STONES
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1984 with ALL FALL DOWN...the tape cover looked cool and at the time i discovered VECTOR and Charlie Peacock...ever since that time...i have been listening if i remember right i bought the tape thru one of those record clubs
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zing
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Registration Date: 01-22-2005
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Favorite 77s album: Depends on the day!
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One day our high school band director told us that everyone could choose a christian music cd and he would order and pay for it. (still can't figure that one out, since there were over 50 people in the band). I heard this one guy talk about how great the 77's were and I thought I'd give them a shot since the CD would be free. I ordered Sticks and Stone and I've been hooked ever since.
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Squidzit
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Who are the 77s? 
Driver8 got me hooked. I resisted at first, but after he got me to listen to Sticks and Stones I thought they were a good little band. 
Too bad they broke up. 
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Alex
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Registration Date: 05-01-2005
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Favorite 77s album: Eighty Eight
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Got to hear "You don't scare me" when I was sixteen. Loved it - but the whole AFD album was too much pop for me. I was more into AC/DC style hard rock back then. Years later I grabbed a cheap copy of 88 at a christian concert CD- table and was hooked.
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Audiori J
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Saw glimpses of them in magazines, our music store had a walkman/headphone setup where you could pre-listen to stuff before you buy. I think I heard them first there.. would of been All Fall Down I think. I had seen the Ilsand record in music stores before that but had not heard them.
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