Oh man things are so much better than they have been in a long time for me. I had a medical scare with some medicine that I had been taking for my Arthritis so I had to stop taking it for a while and since then I have found out that it was doing me more harm than good. I feel so much better now like a vale has been lifted off my brain. Modern Medicine is a good thing but sometimes it's best to just go "all natural"
On another High point. Zak and I have been writing more songs and getting very experimental. It's so refreshing to just throw off all the rules and just see where it takes you. We have been jamming on this new song called "Opium Den" and we made a recording of it. It's really spacey and cool check it out at our myspace page
myspace.com/tombstoner
We hope to be recording our demo soon and booking some shows for this summer!!!
Friday, March 28, 2008
Friday, March 7, 2008
Christians Who Rock VS. Christian Rock??? Rock N Roll does not have to be the Devils music
I never realised that such controversy existed until just the other day. I have now for a few months been making it known that I'm a proud Christian. I have also recently started a Doom Band. I posted up on a local Portland Oregon Musicians chat board pdxrocks.com and told them about my knew band. At no time did I make the statement that it was a "Christian Doom" band or that I was proselytizing and trying to convert people over to Christianity with my new band. I'm simply a Christian who plays Doom.
A lot of the people on that board do not see it that they think because I'm a Christian that I must play Christian music. I said well there are a lot of Jewish people who play Doom also but no one is making a big deal of it and calling it "Jew Doom" Why can you not be who you are and play the music of your choice with out someone trying to put you into a box.
I also said though that I was not going to be playing anything praising or promoting the Devil or Satanism and or anything critical or Negative of God or Jesus. But they act like if you aren't one of the other then you are nothing. That's pretty sad that peoples imaginations are so small that the only thing they can find to write about are religious topics. There are so many more things to write about that that. I think you can be a Christian and play any kind of music you want as long as it "bears good fruit" if it does that then you are OK.
It's becoming really obvious that there is some kind of war on Christianity in the music world. Anyone who has good Christian values is relegated to the back pages of the Music Magazines but anyone who is anti-Christ is all but guaranteed a big article. I have also noticed that even if you are not a Satanic band that if you mention: The devil, Satan or hell any were in your interview there is a good chance of them blowing that quote up and using it as the lead. Why is that? What kind of agenda do these reporters really have?
Like I said I'm a proud Christian and there should be nothing wrong with saying that and I should be able to be a Christian who plays heavy music with out having to defend myself. Rock N Roll does not have to be the Devils music
A lot of the people on that board do not see it that they think because I'm a Christian that I must play Christian music. I said well there are a lot of Jewish people who play Doom also but no one is making a big deal of it and calling it "Jew Doom" Why can you not be who you are and play the music of your choice with out someone trying to put you into a box.
I also said though that I was not going to be playing anything praising or promoting the Devil or Satanism and or anything critical or Negative of God or Jesus. But they act like if you aren't one of the other then you are nothing. That's pretty sad that peoples imaginations are so small that the only thing they can find to write about are religious topics. There are so many more things to write about that that. I think you can be a Christian and play any kind of music you want as long as it "bears good fruit" if it does that then you are OK.
It's becoming really obvious that there is some kind of war on Christianity in the music world. Anyone who has good Christian values is relegated to the back pages of the Music Magazines but anyone who is anti-Christ is all but guaranteed a big article. I have also noticed that even if you are not a Satanic band that if you mention: The devil, Satan or hell any were in your interview there is a good chance of them blowing that quote up and using it as the lead. Why is that? What kind of agenda do these reporters really have?
Like I said I'm a proud Christian and there should be nothing wrong with saying that and I should be able to be a Christian who plays heavy music with out having to defend myself. Rock N Roll does not have to be the Devils music
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