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R4G Accepted or Rejected
life is good
Life is good. we had a busy blessed weekend. Put alot of miles on my jeep. Lower Burrell to Washington to Lower Burrell to Springdale to McKeesport to Homewood to Lower Burrell to Uniontown to Rochester to Lower Burrell to Uniontown to Lower Burrell. Sleep.....
The future is wide open for us. With the Keys and what Tony adds to us. I can't wait until we get some time under our belts. Did someone say recording???
The future is wide open for us. With the Keys and what Tony adds to us. I can't wait until we get some time under our belts. Did someone say recording???
tough choices
So here we are again.... convicted... feeling forced to go along with what everyone is expecting from R4G... everyone except me. You see I've been fighting with the choice between who we are and who I think we are supposed to be. Our biggest strength has been our approach to what we do and the sound, But for a while now I've been feeling that we need to change. I felt I heard the MAN tell me to lay down my sword (guitar) and make the switch but i ignored that, i let everyone else influence that. So now R4G is stuck in a rut, we have taken all the momentum and totally stalled. See I gave everyone what they wanted and lost sight of what's important. Sure it was cool to have R4G be popular. And it felt good to be up on stage ripping it up. But lately there's been no peace for me. So after this Saturday's revival (it's too fast to change over) I am laying down the sword. We're switching over to a piano based sound (think Pink Floyd, Allman Brothers, Elton John... Jason Upton) I'm sure this will have mixed reactions but I'm not worried about what man tells me, I more concerned with doing what the MAN tells me to.
A price on the Gospel $$$$$$
Someone asked me the other day why our cd's are so plain. If you haven't seen them, they are in a plain paper cover (sometimes in color and the cd itself has nothing written on it, no picture, just a label that says Renegades4God.com on it. We did that because we don't have to ask for a specific $$$ donation for them. They cost very little to just record and by keeping the cost down we are able to stick to one of the mission points of the ministry. You see we took a page out of Keith Green's carrer. He would give his albums away and it really caused a stir with the record company.
Well we recorded the cd ourselves, we produced it and we ran off all the copies just so we can give them away. You see there should be no price on the gospel and we believe in our hearts that God has called us to this ministry. So if you can give a little bit for a cd we won't turn it down but if you can't take one anyway. We didn't write the Word so who are we to take credit for it.
Well we recorded the cd ourselves, we produced it and we ran off all the copies just so we can give them away. You see there should be no price on the gospel and we believe in our hearts that God has called us to this ministry. So if you can give a little bit for a cd we won't turn it down but if you can't take one anyway. We didn't write the Word so who are we to take credit for it.
ch-ch-changes
well it's june 1st and changes are in the air for the renegades 4 God and I mean alot of changes. I can't really say anything right now but theres alot of stuff on the table and a few of them are major changes for us.
the cd is done and available for a "love offering" we'll have them with us everywhere we go.
may 23, 2009
So recording is actually almost done. Ok the band is done, I still have guitar parts and vocals. Then it's total mix down, but even that makes it sound too simple what I hope happens is by wednesday all the parts are done and rough mixes are given to the guys to listen for a few days, in the car, ipod whereever and then we make changes. I'm still hopeful that by June 1st it's all done and then we start burning them. by we I should say I have more work, the guys get to sit back.
May 19, 2009
So I'm writing the first blog on our new web page and no one can even see it. The page isn't ready yet but there's news, isn't there always. You see yesterday we started recording the demo. We put down the basic tracks to 5 maybe 6 songs so far and we have another 5 or 6 to go. Then I get to take it and add guitars and vocals and anything else I can think of to make it sound good. You see the whole point here is to get some attention so we can record it the right way, but we like alot of others are broke....lol
Anyway no complaints here. We've been blessed so far and if it ended today it was all worth it. But there's no reason to think we can't glorify JESUS on a much larger scale. Like has been said there's revival coming, there's no reason we can't be in front.
That's all for now. It doesn't make alot of sense to me to be blogging when I know you can't read this. But soon you will.
Anyway no complaints here. We've been blessed so far and if it ended today it was all worth it. But there's no reason to think we can't glorify JESUS on a much larger scale. Like has been said there's revival coming, there's no reason we can't be in front.
That's all for now. It doesn't make alot of sense to me to be blogging when I know you can't read this. But soon you will.
