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The ¡Alarma! Chronicles Years
1983

  • Steve Hindalong and Derri Daugherty form a new band called, the Youth Choir, a name given to them by Terry Taylor. Hindalong and Tim Chandler also form a band called The Lucky Stiffs.
    Steve: "I had played in about 10 bands with Tim Chandler, and he knew this guy named Derri he met at this Dwight Thompson TV evangelist thing. And he said, 'this Derri guy knows the guys in Daniel Amos and he's got connections!' And I said, 'wow! That's really cool!' Becuase to me at that time, the ultimate would be to play at Calvary Chapel in Costa Mesa. That would be making it. If we could do that, we'd hit the big time."
    Terry: "I gave them the name Youth Choir, but they were a little afraid of going the way of the Beach Boys so they dropped the “Youth” thing. (Source: Brian Quincy Newcomb in “The HRS-Terry Taylor Interview Part Three”)

  • Terry co-produced an album with Mark Heard by Tom Howard that was never released. Terry meets David "Raven" McSparran on this project.

    (Terry Taylor and Thom Roy during the Equator sessions)

  • Terry also produced Randy Stonehill’s Equator, which again featured DA on many of the album’s tracks.
    Randy: "The real joy of making a record is the comraderie and teamwork that is required in the recording process. You can write a song by yourself or you can do a concert performance by yourself, but the producer, engineer, musicians, and background vocalists, all play an invaluable part in an album project. It has been a pleasure working with gifted people like Terry Taylor, the Daniel Amos band, and Tom Howard. I think working with friends adds an extra warmth and cohesiveness to the music."


  • Rob Watson's band, Body & Soul, releases a single "Somethings Going On Here"/"The Graylands". Only 800 copies were printed.

  • "What's Shakin'" is released on MRC, which includes a song by the Youth Choir and a song by Sharon McCall. Sharon's track includes husband Jerry Chamberlain on guitar, Tim Chandler on bass, Alex MacDougal on percussion, Randy Stonehill and Terry Taylor on background vocals.

    January 1983

    Doppelgänger


  • Doppelgänger is released.

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    Terry: " It was a pretty dark record. And, you know, it wasn't planned. I never think in terms of what is going to be the overall effect of the record -- whether it's going to be dark or sort of light and airy or whatever... It just sort of happens. I think the dark and almost industrial feel you get from this record is because it was very Bowie-esque in approach. It was a production piece more than a band going in to record. Sort of a Sergeant Pepper kind of thing.... sort of artsy, but much more successful than Fearful Symmetry."

    Randy Stonehill: "I think this is a landmark recording, sadly underrated and ahead of its time. It encouraged me to keep 'pushing the artistic envelope' in my own work."

  • The Doppelgänger radio special airs across the country. The special was produced by Bruce Brown.
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    Early 1983
  • Rob Watson joins the band on keyboards.



    (Left to Right, Top Row: Ed McTaggart's Mask, Terry Taylor's Mask,
    Bottom Row: Rob Watson's Mask, and Tim Chandler's Mask.)
  • Daniel Amos begins the Doppelgänger Tour. The show started with the guys wearing masks and walking onto the darkened stage while "Hollow Man" was playing. The masks had small battery packs and lightbulbs attatched to them, which DA would put inside their mouths. They then lip-synched to the words of "Hollow Man". Everytime they would open their mouths the lightbulbs would eerily light up their masks.

  • Daniel Amos replaced the Joe English Band at a concert in Rancho Cardova, CA. where they were heckled and much of the audience walked out.

    March 1983
  • Daniel Amos is featured in CCM Magazine.
    "A Band for a New Age"

    March 2, 1983
  • The Manhattan Mercury prints the following article by music critic, Ifan Payne.

    Daniel Amos is an eye-opener

    Daniel Amos is...
    Daniel Amos is a four person rock group that has moved onto the new wave.
    Daniel Amos is the gospel band turned mod.
    Daniel Amos is the collective apostles of Future Christian Music.
    Daniel Amos is the group that will be performing in the Manhattan City Auditorium on Friday evening.
    FCM... Future Christian Music... is the current development of contemporary Christian music. FCM, according to Terry Taylor, the group's chief songwriter, "demands that you turn off the vacuum cleaner and listen to the voice on your consciousness."
    Having consistently strived to create something more life changing and thought provoking than praise and worship music, Daniel Amos has set out to counter preconceived notions about Christian music in general.
    The group started six years ago -- born again out of the ashes of an earlier group, Jubal's Last Band -- playing Christian country pop. But the group has come a long way since then.
    "What started out as a four piece country band, minus drums," said Daniel Amos, "then graduated to a six piece band, heavy on drums and percussion, and is now... come full circle... to a four piece unit playing rock 'n'roll."
    The group has cut four albums; Daniel Amos, Shotgun Angel, Horrendous Disc, ¡Alarma! with a fifth one Album 5 (Doppelgänger) on the way.
    For those with a preconcieved notion of gospel music, Daniel Amos is an eye-opener in terms of its music being charming, stimulating and interesting in its own right.
    Daniel Amos is Jerry Chamberlain, guitar; Marty Dieckmeyer, bass and keyboards; Ed McTaggart, drums; and Terry Taylor, guitars and vocals.
    Daniel Amos is performing in the City Auditorium at 8PM on Friday.
    Daniel Amos is... musically really an exceptional group... is Daniel Amos.

    March 4, 1983
  • Daniel Amos performs at the City Auditorium in New York, NY. Randy Stonehill opened the show.

    March 5, 1983
    (Live in Oklahoma, courtesy of Bryan Hahn)
  • Daniel Amos performs at the Community Center Auditorium in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Randy Stonehill opened the show.

    March 10, 1983

  • Daniel Amos performs at Ingraham Hight School in Seattle, WA with Crystal City Rockers.

    June 1983
  • A Daniel Amos concert is reviewed in Windstorm Magazine.
    "Daniel Amos in Concert"

    Mid 1983
  • Terry and Debi Taylor attend a friends wedding at the south Pasadena Hotel in California. Other guests include the (Randy) Stonehill's, the (Mark) Heard's, the (Tom) Howards', Billy Batstone, Holly Benyousky, Ray Ware and others.
    At one point during the reception, with Randy on the far side of the room, Tom Howard gets up and starts to dance solo. He begins dancing very humbly, but eventually begins to cover a third of the dance floor. Randy turns from his conversation and notices Tom. Tom notices Randy and their eyes lock. Without excusing himself, Randy maintains the eye contact and moves onto the dance floor towards Tom. Soon, they lock arms and are spinning together in the middle of the dance floor. Before long they are doing a hysterical blend of every type of dance they can think of, contemporary or ethnic.
    Soon, the dance floor clears so that everyone can see this improbable pair dance. When the song ends, Tom and Randy alone remain on the floor, bowing to a rousing standing ovation.
    Sandi Stonehill: "This is a tradition. Every wedding these guys go to they dance."

    August 13, 1983
  • Daniel Amos performs in Pleasantvill, CA at the Alameda Country Fairgrounds Amphitheatre.

    September 5, 1983
  • Daniel Amos performs in San Diego, California.

    Late 1983
  • Jerry Chamberlain (Lead Guitar) leaves DA.
    Terry: "Jerry was married and wanted to establish a family life. He was tired of the road and tired of the problems that any Christian rock 'n' roll band encounters. Jerry's one of my very, very best friends. On a social level and a spiritual, fellowship level, we always remained friends." (Source: "dANIEL aMOS Rides Again" by Fred Clark, NOTEBORED Mar/Apr 1993)


    (Left to Right: Fill-in guitarist Milo Carter, Tim Chandler, Terry Taylor, Rob Watson and Ed McTaggart.)
  • For a brief period Milo Carter, of the Lucky Stiffs, occasionally filled in as lead guitarist for the band.