In the seventies, when my family and I were attending
Warehouse Ministries in Sacramento, a part of the Jesus movement, as I have
written before, many of the musicians who were finding new life in Christ came
there to give concerts. Barry McGuire who was well known for his song “Eve of
Destruction,” and who sang with the Christie Minstrels had become a vibrant Christian
and often sang at Saturday night concerts. Keith Green, John Talbot (before he
became a Catholic) and his brother Terry Talbot also gave concerts there. At one
point in time they began planning an album about the Book of Acts and Pentecost. It was Firewind.
They planned a concert at a school where they would sing
some of the music before recording it. This was to be a concert that required
buying tickets something that the Warehouse never did. I lined up with a group
to buy tickets, feeling a little guilty since my husband had just had back surgery
and we were living on almost no income. But when it was my turn to purchase a
ticket I was told that someone ahead of me had paid for our tickets. So I have
more than one reason to remember the concert.
The main reason I remember the concert was because the music
was so good. You can imagine with all of the great sixties and seventies
musicians that were performing. When they
did make the album they included the members of Second Chapter of Acts. I did
have a tape of the concert—many years ago—and long ago lost. And for some
reason I never got the album. So when I found, a few weeks ago, that someone
had recorded each song separately I was extremely pleased.
One of my favorite songs on the album is sung by McGuire, “Die
for my Jesus”:
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