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Re: children of the Lord



I am not a religious guy but know enough not to make fun of someone's 
deeply
held beliefs, if for no other reason than common courtesy.  Perhaps you are
attempting to be funny rather than outrageous in which case I apologize for
not getting the joke.

Mike Killian

Mark Sottilaro wrote:

> Are we forgetting that Jesus died and came back to life?  That made him
> a zombie, so along with the hammond, I wonder why theremins and basic
> horror movie music are not used at this time of zombie children of god,
> ex slaves eating crackers and bunnies.
>
> Mark Sottilaro
>
> On Sunday, March 31, 2002, at 08:13  PM, Matthias Grob wrote:
>
> > I have been admiring Gospel and related music for 25 years. It has some
> > incredibly power that drives tears into my eyes immediately: "The color
> > purple", Aretha, Mrs Jackson, S. Wonder, Sweet Honey on the Rocks,,,
> > Today I finally went to Church to see where it comes from. And I was
> > deeeply moved by the sounds I heard, even hours after I left. I admire
> > those people and their way to praise!
> > Not only was I the only white skinned, not dressed up, but for some sad
> > reason, they painted Jesus oversized on the front wall looking just
> > like me, even simpler dressed ;-)
> > They also got a problem because I put a CD of mine into the basket
> > instead of $.
> >
> > The most holy was the real Hammond Organ with two Leslies (you may find
> > that trivial, but in Europe they only have pipe organs and in Brasil
> > only Asian plastic, so for me the Hammond was a rock and jazz
> > instrument). I always loved (and modified) Hammonds and today, at the
> > first chords of the lady, I understood how all that power was attached
> > to the sound! Sure it was an inspired work of Mr Hammond who almost
> > broke his fathers enterprise to give something better than clockworks
> > to the world, but it may be the use of the instrument that really forms
> > its spirit...
> >
> > While sitting there, just one thought looped in my mind:
> > I only believe in sound!
> > Words are twisted, especially after being brought through generations
> > and translations. Some professional musicians may learn to lie at work
> > just like lawyers must, but the churches little black drummer was only
> > about 8 years old and he certainly lies to his mother as we all did,
> > but he played relaxed and naturally - how could he lie?
> >
> > When they started to yell at me that the only truth was in the bible, I
> > left.
> > But I had loved to praise Jesus for teaching us to be sincere up to
> > whatever hard end and to find faith and valorize our inner voice and
> > destiny.
> > The result of it lives on after we are gone, thats probably as close as
> > we can get to resurrection...
> >
> > So trash these words and thank for your talent to put out your sound
> > and listen to it over and over and over !
> > or to mine if you want :-)
> >
> > http://www.mp3.com/MatthiasBira
> > http://matthiasgrob.iuma.com
> > http://Matthias.Grob.org
> >
> > There is actually a collection of all my work at:
> > http://matthias.grob.org/sound/
> > User: listener
> > Password: sunpeace
> > This link is not meant to spread, since the servers capacity is
> > limited...
> > --