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January 25, 1977
Daniel Amos records "Black Gold Fever" and "Praise Song" at Maranatha! Studios.
January 26, 1977
Daniel Amos records "Shotgun Angel," "Days and Nights," "Father's Arms," and "Meal" at Maranatha! Studios.
February 1, 1977
Daniel Amos records "Posse In The Sky" at Maranatha! Studios.
April 11, 1977
Daniel Amos records "The Whistler" at Maranatha! Studios.
April 12, 1977
Daniel Amos records "Lady Goodbye" and "He's Gonna Do A Number On You" at Maranatha! Studios.
April 13, 1977
Daniel Amos records "Better," "Bereshith Overture" and "Sail Me Away" at Maranatha! Studios.
June 4, 1977
Daniel Amos performs at Calvary Chapel in Costa Mesa, CA .
Shotgun Angel
Shotgun Angel is released.
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Terry: "An expression of all the places we wanted to go as artists. That was the seed from which all the branches are now growing. I wanted to be the Beatles, not the Eagles. I wanted to do all kinds of music. I wanted people to love to go into the record store and buy our record because they were going to be surprised by what they heard."
Alex: "...I had already played on the first album, and
they had asked me to play on Shotgun. I remember coming into the studio for
percussion/sound fx overdubs on Shotgun and crying when I heard the tracks.
It was overwhelming. It still holds up, in many ways, even today."
Bill Hoppe of Aslan remembers: "I had the distinct pleasure of performing on "Shotgun Angel," though my name was mistakenly excluded from the album's credits. I was recruited by DA and their producer, Jonathan David Brown, to create the "bomb whistle" sound effects at the end of "Sail Me Away" with my ARP Odyssey synthesizer. I also added a spur-of-the-moment synthesizer percussion effect in the middle of "He's Gonna Do A Number On You." At roughly the same time as "Shotgun Angel" was in production (early 1977), Jonathan David Brown also produced Aslan's recording debut, the song "Who Loves The Lonely," for the "Maranatha 6" LP.
I still remember sitting in the studio's control room (we just plugged the synthesizer directly into the recording console) with Jonathan and some of the DA guys and trying to produce the sounds that they wanted. After a bit of patience-trying trial and error (remember, this was long before digital keyboards--everything had to be patched manually), we succeeded.
Afterwards, the guys were so excited about the entire project that they asked me to stay at the studio for awhile to listen to it from start to finish. When it was over, I felt as if I'd heard what was perhaps the Christian equivalent of the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper." Yes, of course I was overwhelmed, but this was 1977, not 1999. Truly nothing like it had ever been done. I could only hope that Aslan's planned recording project would sound half as good--alas, we didn't get the chance, and that never happened."
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The Maranatha Music Show radio show airs a special on the making of "Shotgun Angel". The show includes interviews with the album's producer, Jonathan David Brown, and Maranatha's Tom Coomes.
The show also featured the following cuts from the album: "Days and Nights", "Posse In The Sky", "Black Gold Fever", "Father's Arms", and "Shotgun Angel." Interestingly, the show also features studio out-takes of the making of "Black Gold Feaver."
(The Maranatha! Music Family)
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Alex MacDougall plays drums on Larry Norman's "Something New Under The Sun" (which was later released in 1981).
September 3 1977
Daniel Amos performs in Anahiem, CA at the Anaheim Convention Center as part
of the Everlasting Life Concert.
September 10, 1977
Daniel Amos performs at Calvary Chapel in Costa Mesa, CA .
October 23, 1977
The Rock and Religion radio show airs part one of a special on "Shotgun Angel".
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October 30, 1977
The Rock and Religion radio show airs part two of a special on "Shotgun Angel".
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October 31, 1977
Terry Taylor performs a rare acoustic solo show at the Christian Chapel (somewhere???) in Arizona.
November 15, 1977
Daniel Amos performs in Oil City, PA.
Late 1977
Very shortly after the release of Shotgun Angel in the summer of 1977, new songs were being written and played live. Among these were "Hound of Heaven", "Happily Married Man" and "After All These Years". At that rate, they probably had most of HD’s songs written by the new year.
Terry: "People loved the Shotgun Angel thing. We did the Anaheim Convention Center, in which we had a full orchestra, and Chuck Smith spoke after the band played. And we did that all over, in Sacramento and at Riverside, so there had been a lot of acceptance."
(Source: Brian Quincy Newcomb in “The HRS-Terry Taylor Interview Part One”)
A young Steve Taylor used to go see Daniel Amos perform at Calvary Chapel.
Terry: "I've been told that Steve used to come to Calvary Chapel and sit in the crowd and watch DA perform - the young whippersnapper."
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