Take Me Back Andrae

I was listening to an old Andrae Crouch song a few days ago. My parents used to play his records all the time. Please read the lyrics to this song. Andrae was and is one of the best Gospel writers of modern time. My prayer is that YOU make this the desire of your heart if there is ANY distance between you and God. I know I can always be closer. Literally stop what you are doing and pray these words. It will change your day.

Take Me Back

(Chorus)
Take me back, take me back dear Lord
To the place where I first received you.
Take me back, take me back dear Lord where I first believed.

(Verse)
I feel that I'm so far from you Lord
But still I hear you calling me
Those simple things that I once knew,
The memories are drawing me.
I must confess, Lord I've been blessed
But yet my soul's not satisfied.
Renew my faith, restore my joy
And dry my weeping eyes.

(Bridge)
I tried so hard
To make it all alone
I need your help
Just to make it home.

Andrae's website is found at http://www.andraecrouch.com/.

Oh Tom Cruise

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUAZCc12ZZQ&NR=1
Pretty Funny though.

I coulda made $18,990 today. Oh man. Stupid, stupid, stupid

Do you trade stock? Well I don't. If I would have bought 1 single solitary share at today's opening and sold it at closing today I would have made $18,990 in increase. What? Is that possible? It is when you are talking about the stock BRK-A. Oh yeah, it is going to cost $147,000 for one share so it is a pretty big investment up front. That is why I am not doing it.

Ha, musicians don't buy these types of stock.

Peace

Ok, not funny, where are my drill bits?

How do you lose drill bits? Well first I do have to take the steering wheel off. It is in the way of the drill. And to top it off I need a certain star bit to get the steering wheel off. What would happen if I used a Smith and Wesson 38 Special to get that little ignition switch out?

Probably not a good idea. I guess it is back to look for those drill bits. (and some star bits)

Peace

It is like stealing your own car

Because I am a musician I have to be a Do-it-yourself-er. We musicians have irregular income; feast or famine usually, and we have time during most days to work on projects.

My latest project is getting my Camry's ignition switch to turn. It is turning enough to unlock the steering wheel, but not enough to get to the "ACC" position or really any position. If you can't get it to the ACC position it looks like you have to drill out the tumbler in the mechanism. That is basically where I am at. I have looked for any other way to make it happen. I wiggled and jiggled the: brake pedal, parking brake, key, steering wheel, tilt, pushed car back and forth. Nothing worked.

Now if I could only find my drill bits. Seriously, where are they?

DDB featured on BreathCast.com

BreathCast.com selected Daniel Doss Band as a featured artist. Check it out. http://www.breathecast.com/Christian.Music.Radio/worship.htm

Peace

I am not a Glenn Beck supporter nor do I support Mormonism but...

...Glenn Beck gave a great speech on patriotism at Brigham Young University.
http://www.kbyutv.org/patrioticservice/player/byub.asp. Go about 55% of the way into this video. That is where his speech starts. It is pretty good. I was in awe and could not stop watching. Glenn Beck "gets it" on certain things.

Want to know more about Mormonism? Go here. That is a starting point. They believe in Christianity plus as I like to call it.

Peace

Bored-Again Christians...we are everywhere

If you are like me, you like positive music. You love hearing great music. You wonder if you are the only one out there that wishes there was more "arty" faith-based music. The reality is that Christian radio just can't survive that way.

I guess one great way to overcome the safe sound is to have bands made up of Christians get a secular deal, market themselves as a secular band and make sure their songs have a positive message. Plenty of bands have done this. Mute Math, POD, Collective Soul, and plenty of bands that I am just now getting to know thanks to a new podcast I just found. I was about the 11,001st person to find it though.

Check out the Bored-Again Christian site and subsequent podcast. I DO listen to Christian radio but sometimes I want to take a chance. This will help you find that music you are looking for.

Peace

SayNow has something to say

Hey people. The Daniel Doss Band has a cool service called SayNow. It is a way for fans to call us and leave a message. You can also hear what we have to tell you and what others are saying. It is a cool way to keep up with us and us to stay in touch with you.

Check it out and leave a message for us via the phone at (615) 823-7658, or you can go to the URL and listen to DDB and fans. That URL is http://www.saynow.com/danieldossband.

Peace

Daniel Doss Band featured on WorshipTogether.com

Hey everybody. Worship together has featured a new song from the Daniel Doss Band and has made it available for a free music chart download. My personal favorite song "Blessed Is the One" is what they picked to feature. There is also a "New Song Cafe" episode dedicated to this song. Go to http://rqst4.info/track/viewmsg.cfm?n35037s2093c11303373t2310 to check it out. We are pretty excited!

Peace

Mute Math

I am about a year slow on this one. A buddy let me borrow Mute Math's CD. The rhythm section does a fantastic job throughout the album. This might become one of my favorite albums. Check Mute Math out.

He IS my favorite artist

My favorite artist out there right now is Martin Sexton. He has a cult following of a few hundred thousand in America. He used to be a signed artist on Capitol Records. He was not getting much radio play and found that he was selling most of his albums at his concerts as opposed to in music stores and such. He parted ways with Capitol and started his own label. His thought process was that he sells more records than his label, why cut them in on it? They were not getting him radio play. Why pay them?

I heard an interview with him on NPR about 5 years ago and he said that he was clearing about $500k a year traveling independently and selling his own records. Now the rocker in me says it is way better to sell 2 million records and have sold out concerts to 50,000 fans, but is that more profitable?

Signed artist? Think about this. You give up much of your artistic license. You pay someone else for distribution. You actually give them ownership in your project. If you hit it big you make more than $500k per year. Most people do not hit it big and spend their time being broke. I dare say though that most people reading this blog have not heard Martin Sexton much at all if ever. He does not need to be a commercial or radio success to make a great living. Now with the integration of the internet distribution is even less important than it used to be.

So if you want to be big and important in the music industry go with a label. If you just want to make music for art's sake and make a living you might want to think about staying independent. It is just very hard for labels to be everything to artists. Too many cut backs and such to be as effective as they once were.

Wow, I started this post to tell you about my ALL TIME FAVORITE ARTIST and ended up on a soap box. That was unintentional. Yes, I do play for a signed artist/band and they do treat us exceptionally well. I am just trying to dispel the "pie-in-the-sky" ideas that we all have when we start looking for that deal.

PLEASE check out Martin Sexton!

Peace

I'm as confused as a baby racoon

I watched the DNC and RNC. It is the first time I feel that both candidates actually have something to offer to America. I have no idea how I am going to vote. The next 2 months should be interesting. To be honest I do not like either candidate or party very much. American politics is very broken right now. Hopefully we can pull ourselves out of the muck.

Peace

BTW the title of this post is a quote from a movie. Do you know which one?

DDB caught on a security camera...

...stealing the show.