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Mark Cook records an album for Warner Brothers with his band, Spring Canyon. Spring Canyon played concerts with bands like Styx and Crazy Horse.
(The Way was John Wickham, Gary Arthur, Alex MacDougall, Dana Angle, Bruce Herring)
Alex MacDougall once again joins The Way as their drummer. The band releases it's second album on Maranatha Records, "Can It Be?".
Mid 1975
Marty: "After about a year, we worked up enough courage to go to a Maranatha Music Group meeting. These meetings were where all the bands affiliated with Maranatha or Calvary would meet and share their experiences with each other in the presence of Chuck Smith. It was kind of scary. Here we were with bands like Love Song, The Way, Children Of The Day, Mustard Seed Faith, The Road Home, Karen Lafferty, Eric Nelson, all in the presence of Chuck Smith. Plus, we were the new comers and we didn’t know what to expect. No one ever heard of us. Anyway, Tom Stipe asked all the new bands to come up and check in. So I went up to check in and about the same time I went up Daryl Mansfield came up to check in for his new band. We were still going by Jubal, at the time, so that was the name I was going to give. I told Daryl to go ahead and go first. I didn’t want him to hear what our name was; I was embarrassed with the name Jubal. So he told Tom their name was Jubal! I looked at him with my mouth wide open and told him that’s what we were called! In a panic, He went back to his group and I went back to my group. I told the guys what just happened. After checking our list of names, we decided to go with the name Daniel Amos. I went back to Tom and told him we were called Daniel Amos and Daryl Mansfield went back and told him they were going to be Gentle Faith."
Terry: "Daniel Amos was a name that was chosen out of the Bible, the Old Testament. It's the prophets, Daniel and Amos. We were a country band at the time. We thought it would be a little different to put a couple of names together that sounded like an old country gentleman sitting out on the fence, strumming his guitar. Of course, it has caused some problems: 'Who's Daniel and who's Amos?' There's no Daniel Amos in the band."
(Source: Rudy Grande of KLYT quoting Terry Taylor - June 1982 “An Interview With Terry `Daniel Amos’ Taylor”)
Daniel Amos (minus Steve Baxter who didn't show up) auditions for Tom Stipe, who was in charge of the Saturday Night Music ministry at Calvary Chapel. Songs included "'Aint Gonna Fight It".
Marty: "We rehearsed every day for about a week and I don't think anyone slept.... we played 2 or 3 songs for Tom and he thought we were great! We auditioned for Tom on a Tuesday evening and he immediately booked us for that Saturday night!"
Terry: "So we went down to audition with the hopes that we might be able to play on a Thursday night at Calvary Chapel, and there was another band there that was this sort of rock band that had a whole PA system, and had roadies and the whole thing... and we were just this little acoustic band.
These guys played and Tom was very gracious with them but told them that they weren't ready to play... and then we played and he came up and said 'how would you like to play Calvary Chapel?' and we thought... ya'know this was the Carneghie Hall of Christian venues... we nearly fell off our chairs, and we said 'well, what Thursday would you like us to play?' and he said 'no, I'd like you to play Saturday night' - which blew us away.
...the following week I was at my construction job and had a skill saw... it was just a few days before we were supposed to play at Calvary Chapel and it was at the end of the day... and the skill saw kicked back and took my thumb off and part of a finger. So, I played Saturday night with bandages... with these huge bandages on my hand. Which was cool with most people because they thought it was some sort of a slide guitar device..."
Kenny: "I will never forget when Terry, Steve, Jerry and Marty played Calvary Chapel for the first time. It was the first time they had someone play on such short notice, sandwiched in between the main performers. There was no drummer, Marty stood and the other three all sat on stools. The crowd of several thousand went nuts. It was truly awesome."
Marty: "We were the first Christian Band at Calvary Chapel to receive a standing ovation."
(Very early DA on their first tour. Left to Right: Jerry Chamberlain, Steve Baxter, Terry Taylor & Marty Dieckmeyer. Photo courtesy of Marty Dieckmeyer)
June 1, 1975
Daniel Amos performs at the Pavillion in Venice Beach, CA with Aslan and Bethlehem.
July 15, 1975
Daniel Amos performs at Calvary Chapel in Lancaster, CA.
Late 1975
“Ain’t Gonna Fight It” is released on Maranatha 5 becoming the first DA song.
Album Info, photos and artwork
Terry: "We were scared people at the time, there were four of us in the band... Ed wasn't in the group. We went down to this massive recording studio and sat around a mic and sang... and then Michael Omartian put strings on the song and we thought it was beautiful and stunning... and it was, actually."
(Left to Right: Steve Baxter, Terry Taylor, Marty Dieckmeyer & Jerry Chamberlain . Photo courtesy of Marty Dieckmeyer)
Daniel Amos signs with Maranatha! Music in 1975 and their first album, " Daniel Amos", is recorded in their studio.
(Source: CCM Magazine March 1981 "whatever Happened To Horrendous Disc?”)
September 5, 1975
“Bill Sprouse (seated at the center) of Costa Mesa, CA, lead singer and keyboard player for the Road Home, died of a heart attack. “ Ed McTaggart (pictured at the far right), future drummer for DA, was a member of the Road Home between 1973 and 1975.
(Source: Harmony Magazine Sept/Oct/Nov 1975)
October 11, 1975
Daniel Amos performs in Buena Park, CA for Maranatha nights at Knotts Berry Farm.
December 1-2, 1975
Daniel Amos first album, the self-titled "Daniel Amos" is recorded at Mama Jo's
Studios.
December 16, 1975
Daniel Amos records "Servant's Prayer" at Dubbington Downs, LTD. Studios.
December 31, 1975
Daniel Amos performs, at the Good News Celebration at Knotts Berry Farm.
Daniel Amos performed in the Birdcage theater with Aslan and other artists. Apparently, the owner of the theater wasn't very happy with Knotts Berry and Maranatha booking rock and roll acts and made no attempt to hide his feelings from the bands.
(Source: Bill Hoppe of Aslan)
1975-1976
Many of Daniel Amos' early performances at Calvary Chapel were also broadcast on the radio. Songs that actually aired included: "Ridin' Along", "Dusty Road", "Losers and Winners", "Freedom" (Later known as "Love in a Yielded Heart"), "Aint Gonna Fight It", "Skeptics Song", "William", "Walkin On The Water", "The Bible", "Meal", "Abidin'", "Shotgun Angel", "Praise Song" and the unreleased tracks; "You Must Be Born Again" (Later rearranged and released by the Rap'Sures), "Farther Along", "In Everything Give Thanks", "Holy Rollin' Again", "Jonah and the Whale" (Later rearranged and released by the Rap'Sures), and "You Can't Go Around The Cross" (Later released by Mercy River).
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