Comments on: Dusting off some old classics…

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By: Chris W.

Chris W. — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:21:44 +0000

A brief aside about Sacred Warrior… When I lived in Illinois, the band lived very close to where I lived. I met and talked to the keyboardist, Rick Macias (I believe his name was), at my local mall. The lead singer, Ray, was dating a female friend of mine while she was still attending the high school I was going to. (she and her family were listed on the thank you’s of the first album and I think the second one too.) Of course I got to talk to him at length as well. Nice guys as you’d expect!

By: Chris W.

Chris W. — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:05:02 +0000

Lemme get this out of the way… The reason for the late comment is that Safari for some odd reason didn’t let me know about all these blog updates!!

Dude!! You weren’t kidding that one time you said we’re practically in the same musical mold! All, and I mean ALL of the albums you pictured here are classics in my tape collection (or memory). (I even met Vengeance Rising, during their Human Sacrifice tour, at the Cornerstone 88 festival in IL.) The first tape I ever bought when I was a little teen was VH’s 5150 album (the second tape was Iron Maiden’s “Somewhere In Time”). I have fond memories of the Believer “Extraction” and Vengeance Rising “Sacrifice” albums… oh and the “Pyromania” album of course; in fact, I think I wore all these tapes out!

When I accepted Christ in my life, yes I was bombarded the same way you were… although the church in question that I was attending was not a good one, in the sense that they acted “cultish”. I was suckered into throwing out most of my old secular collection when I was around 15. However, (I remember this and my feelings vividly) I didn’t have the heart to part with some real secular classics. I just had too much respect for the music, not the lyrics! Probably the budding musician in me.

Yeah, I have a separate Christian Rock and Metal genre listing on the trusty iPod. I never got into One Bad Pig (I think it was too punkish for me; I started to respect punk later in life), and I didn’t listen to Xalt, Haven, Sacrament, or X-Sinner. Buuuut, I love Barren Cross, Deliverance and Sacred Warrior and Whitecross’ first album (“Nooo waaaay I’m…. goin’ down!!”…. most memorable!) and yes, of course, good ol’ Stryper. Remember Holy Soldier? I miss hearing their first album! Of course, there’s Rob Rock and Theocracy today, and a handful of others, to keep the flame alive.

Maybe I’ll make a similar entry on my blog soon, now that I just made a blog entry within your blog entry! Sorry about that. Ok. I’ll stop now!