Terry Scott Taylor TimeLine
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A Biography/Timeline of Terry Scott Taylor
March 20, 1980
SOURCE: Giovanni Audiori Website quoting CCM Magazine March 1981 �Whatever Happened To Horrendous Disc?�
While waiting for the problems to be sorted out with HD, Daniel Amos engaged in a brief national tour.
SOURCE: Giovanni Audiori Website quoting Brian Quincy Newcomb in �The HRS-Terry Taylor Interview Part One�
Terry: We had this idea (on the tour), this thing we were doing at the time, called "Preachers From Outer Space." It was a live shtick, which included several songs, "Mary Baker Eddy" and "Secret Scripts In 3-D Glasses", and we had each created our own costumes for this thing (see the photo on the inside of the gatefold of Horrendous Disc)
Editor�s note: D.A. also did the Amos �n Randy tour during this time.
Late 1980-early 1981
Horrendous Disc is finally released.
July 1980
SOURCE: Giovanni Audiori Website quoting CCM Magazine March 1981 �Whatever Happened To Horrendous Disc?�
Two members - Mark Cook and Alex MacDougall - left the group to pursue other Godly and financial supportive endeavors.
SOURCE: Giovanni Audiori Website quoting Brian Quincy Newcomb in �The HRS-Terry Taylor Interview Part Two�
Terry: We still love those guys, and continue to have relationships; I saw Mark a few years ago, he's a pastor in Virginia, and I still do projects for Alex at Maranatha! Music.
1980 or 1981
Terry�s son Andrew was born.
January 31, 1981
SOURCE: Giovanni Audiori Website quoting CCM Magazine March 1981 �No False Alarma�
Daniel Amos signed with the NewPax label and delivered Alarma shortly after.
March-April 1981
SOURCE: Giovanni Audiori Website quoting CCM Magazine March 1981 �No False Alarma�
Alarma is released. Songs that didn�t make the final cut include �Only One� (which would later be released on Dr. Edward Daniel Taylor), �No Spaceship�, and �Out Of Town� (which would both be part of the CD release of Alarma).
1981
SOURCE: Giovanni Audiori Website quoting Street Level Artist Agency�s �Daniel Amos Biography�
Marty Dieckmeyer leaves DA; Tim Chandler joins DA prior to the Alarma Tour �81.
Terry produced Randy Stonehill�s Between The Glory And The Flame (which featured DA as the band for the album).
1981
Terry records �The Christian Life� for Maranatha�s God Loves Country Music.
1982
SOURCE: Giovanni Audiori Website quoting �The Spinning Vortex Into An Overnight Success� (HRS 1988)
Terry meets Rob Watson thru DA�s engineer Doug Doyle. Rob plays some keyboards on Doppelg�nger.
Late 1982
Doppelg�nger is released.
1983
Jerry Chamberlain (Lead Guitar) leaves DA. Terry co-produced an album with Mark Heard by Tom Howard; Terry also produced Randy Stonehill�s Equator, which again featured DA on many of the album�s tracks.
SOURCE: �dANIEL aMOS Rides Again� by Fred Clark, NOTEBORED Mar/Apr 1993
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.�
1984
SOURCE: Giovanni Audiori Website quoting �The Made Genius Of Terry Taylor� (CCM July 1987)
Rob Watson (keyboards) joins DA; Vox Humana is released. Greg Flesch (Lead Guitar) joins DA in time for the Vox Humana Tour. Terry produced Shelter�s Prophets And Clowns.
SOURCE: Terry Taylor
Rob Watson couldn't make it to the photo shoot for the cover of VH, so they had a friend, Leo Sorentino, "stand in" for him. The others on the cover are Terry, Ed, & Tim (Greg joined the band after the album was released).
July 1984
DA performs at Cornerstone.
1984 or 1985
Terry�s Grandfather Borthick passed away in Bakersfield (SOURCE: album credits for Knowledge & Innocence). His grandfather called Terry �T-Bone� -- but no one knows why.
July 1985
DA performs at Cornerstone.
1985
Terry painted part of the album cover for Mark Heard�s Mosaics. Terry also records Gospel Rap with Rob Watson & Doug Doyle as �The Rap�sures�.
SOURCE: Giovanni Audiori Website quoting Brian Quincy Newcomb in �The HRS-Terry Taylor Interview Part Three� RE: The Rap�sures
HRS: It's kind of strange, the guy behind the founding father of Christian bands, becomes the first Christian rap artist to make a nationally distributed record.
Taylor: Well, there wasn't any on the Christian labels. We do a kids thing, we see it as appealing to 7 and 9 year olds. No one was doing it. We just brainstormed a little bit, Rob (Watson) and Doug (Doyle) and I, we were just looking for something to do, something to work on, we did it and then didn't that much about it, and it was successful. Don't ask me why.
HRS: Were you at all familiar with rap?
Taylor: No. We thought, no one will take this seriously, we're just doing it for kids, a little Bible story kind of thing. Megamouth was kind of the same thing. We looked at it that way.
1986
DA�s Fearful Symmetry, DA�s The Revelation and Terry�s first solo album Knowledge & Innocence (dedicated to Terry�s Grandfather) are released. Terry sang backing vocals on Common Bond�s Heaven Is Calling, he produced, arranged and sang backing vocals on D.O.X.�s D.O.X., and produced and sang backing vocals on Wild Blue Yonder�s Wild Blue Yonder.
October 3, 1986
Terry�s Grandmother Borthick passes away (the source of inspiration for A Briefing For The Ascent released the following year).
Late 1986-early 1987
Rob Watson (keyboards) leaves DA.
1987
DA�s Darn Floor - Big Bite and Terry Taylor�s A Briefing For The Ascent are released. Terry sings backing vocals on (as well as wrote) �Walls Of Doubt� on Common Bond�s Anger Into Passion, as well as produced and performed on Isaac Air Freight�s Over Our Heads. Terry records OT Rap with Rob & Doug Doyle as �The Rap�sures�.
SOURCE: Giovanni Audiori quoting Brian Quincy Newcomb in �The HRS-Terry Taylor Interview Part Three� (RE: Darn Floor Big Bite)
Terry: when Iook back on all my records I think I'm proudest of that record.
SOURCE: Giovanni Audiori Website quoting Thom Granger in CCM Nov. 1991 �Da-The Band That Won�t Go Away�
It was a liberating thing for us, but it didn�t sell well at all. Here we had finally found a musical voice of our own, and like it or not, no one else could have done that record. The fact that it didn�t connect was a real blow to us and our record company
July 1987
DA performs at Cornerstone.
Early 1988
Terry went into the studio with Tim Chandler, Greg Flesch and Dave Raven and recorded at least two songs (�Like Lazarus� and �Stones Of Venice�) if not more, under the moniker �Crime Horse�. They wanted to release a full album of this material, but these songs were rejected by the label which preferred a less serious approach. As a result, the Swirling Eddies were born!
SOURCE: Terry
the name "The Swirling Eddies" came from a weather report..a swirling eddy is a weather condition. I believe that Tim Chandler suggested it
1988
The Swirling Eddies� first album Let�s Spin! is released, as well as their tape of elevator-music-style covers of that album called Swirling Mellow is released. Terry also sang lead vocals on �He Fell In The Water� on Ojo�s Relative.
July 1988
DA performs at Cornerstone.
early 1989
Swirling Eddies� video Spittle & Phlegm is released, which featured a concept video for the song �I�ve Got An Idea�. They also released Apology Video by Camarillo Eddy.
1989
SOURCE: Giovanni Audiori Website quoting �Still Spinning After All These Years� (CCM 1990)
Swirling Eddies� Outdoor Elvis is released. From this album, the song �Driving In England� reached #1 on the Rock Airplay Chart, Terry first and only #1 song. Terry produced, co-wrote, played guitar, and sang backing voclas on Jacob�s Trouble�s Door Into Summer. Terry also wrote some lyrics for �Ghost In The Rain� off of Riki Michele�s Big Big Town.
1990
DA�s Live Bootleg �82 and Dr. Edward Daniel Taylor�s Miracle Faith Telethon are released. Terry wrote �Occam�s Razor� off of Adam Again�s Homeboys. Terry also produced and co-wrote Jacob�s Trouble�s Knock, Breath, Shine and Scatered Few�s Sin Disease. Terry records Loud, Proud And Born Again with Rob & Doug Doyle as �The Rap�sures�.
July 1990
DA + Swirling Eddies perform at Cornerstone.
1991
DA�s Kalhoun is released. Terry produced Dig Hay Zoose�s Struggle Fish.
1992
Two compilation albums are released - No Sense Of History and Shirley Goodness & Misery --which feature several never-before-released DA songs from as early as 1978. Terry also forms another band called Lost Dogs; they release their first album called Scenic Routes. Terry produced Deliverance�s Intense Live Volume One, produced, co-wrote and sang backing vocals on Deliverance�s Stay Of Execution, produced, played guitar, and sang backing vocals on Mercy River�s Coyote Moon, produced Mortal�s Lusis, produced and co-wrote Randy Stonehill�s Wonderama, and sang backing vocals on �Promenade� off of Undercover�s Devotion.
Source: �Taylor Made Production� by Bruce A. Brown, CCM 1992
RE: Randy Stonehill�s Wonderama
Would you say that Randy Stonehill's Wonderama album was the peak of productions you've done so far?
TERRY: As a producer, I'd say that was one of my most rewarding experiences, if not the most. We went for a variety of sounds and textures because we had a vision and we didn't want to cheapen it or take the easy way out. I think it's one of the great albums in contemporary Christian music history. It still hasn't been recognized in the way it should.
1993
DA�s Motor Cycle and Motor Cycle Tracks, and Lost Dogs� Pray Where You Are (EP) and Little Red Riding Hood are released. Terry performs �Will Have To Do For Now� on the Browbeat Alternative Unplugged album. Terry produced Tourniquet�s Intense Live Volume Two, Rose�s Intense Live Volume Three, Die Happy�s Intense Live Volume Four, and Mortal�s Intense Live Volume Five, has a spoken part on �Secret� off of Dig Hay Zoose�s Magentamantalovetree, produced recorded, produced and co-wrote Riki Michele�s One Moment Please, and produced the new tracks on Randy Stonehill�s Stories.
SOURCE: �dANIEL aMOS Rides Again� by Fred Clark, NOTEBORED Mar/Apr 1993
Motor Cycle is dedicated to Mark Heard, whom Taylor very much admired as a songwriter and craftsman.
July 1993
DA performs at Cornerstone.
1994
SOURCE: Giovanni Audiori Website quoting Jeff Elbel �An Interview With Terry Taylor�, True Tunes News - Summer 1994
DA�s BibleLand is released. BibleLand is an actual amusement park close to Palm Springs. The album was recorded live in studio (�most of the tracks are first takes�). On the song �Theo�s Logic�, there is a line that says, �Had a quarter in my pocket, I pumped way too much gas. Like those bread and fishies, my little quarter turned to cash.� That's a true story that happened to Terry. Preachers From Outer Space - Live In Concert 1978, and Swirling Eddies� Zoom Daddy (also recorded live in studio) are released. Zoom Daddy is basically just Terry, Tim, and Dave Raven in the studio, with a few overdubs done by the rest of the Eddies. Terry says of the album:
Terry: With Swirling Eddies, Tim, Dave Raven, and I would go into the studio. We'd set up the drums, guitar, and bass and just start making stuff up. The first song that we did was �Zoom Daddy,� the title track. Frontline said that they needed a song for a sales conference. I did have a vocal mike up in the studio, so while I was playing with the tracks, I could shout out instructions. �Bridge!� or �chorus!� or whatever. For some reason, when it came to the chorus, I started singing �zoom daddy,� don't ask me why I did, but I did. Tim was always encouraging me. He would ask, �Why are you singing Zoom Daddy?� I would go, �I have no idea.� Then he would say, �That's great! That's the song title!� That set a precedent. For all the other songs, we'd be in the studio doing the songs, and someone would come up with a partial title, and someone else would finish it out. We'd write that down on the track sheet. I had no idea what these songs would be about. So, when we were working on �CIA,� Tim said, �This sounds like a perverted spy song. It's like, 'I had a bad experience with the CIA.' � And I'd go, �Yeah, and now I'm gonna show you my feminine side,� and we just broke up. We thought that was great. I'd come back in and I'd look at the title on the track sheet and wonder what in the world that song was about or what possible spiritual significance could a song with that kind of a title have. After all these songs were done, track-wise, I put them on a cassette and took them home. My folks were away, so I went to their house and put the thing on, and got my notebook out with all the titles listed. It became a challenge to me, at that point, to make sense out of what these titles were, and make these songs work lyrically. That's what I did for about three and a half weeks. I was stubborn about it. I wouldn't let the title go, even when the meaning completely escaped me. It was like a giant jigsaw puzzle; you find a little piece, you insert and go, �Oh, I have a corner here; I'm going to keep working that way!� It was a puzzle to be solved and I kept looking for the light at the end of the tunnel. The other challenge was that all of these songs, because of their titles, could easily be turned into some kind of satire or novelty song. I told the other guys this in the studio: �I don't want this to be a joke record. I don't want it to be Outdoor Elvis. I don't want it to feel that way to the listener,� although the titles of the songs would make it easy to just go for laughs. Our real names are on this. Camarillo's dead, but who knows, he may rear his ugly head yet.
RE: the song �Bakersfield� from the album BibleLand
Terry: The references to (LA Dodgers sportscaster Vin) Scully are there because my grandfather was the guy who always had Vin Scully on the radio in his garage when I was a kid. Inside his garage, the wallpaper was all baseball players and football players, that sort of thing. It's just one of those images that stayed with me. Of course, that's why I became a Dodger fan. Those were the days when we would all go down to the old Coliseum and see Duke Snyder, Sandy Koufax, and Don Drysdale play; all those old Brooklyn boys.
Terry co-produced Paul Aldrich�s The History Of God And Man.
1995
Terry performs "On My Feet Again" & "Simple Man" on the Alternative Worship: Prayer, Petitions & Praise album. DA�s Songs Of The Heart, and The Swirling Eddies� The Berry Vest Of The Swirling Eddies are released. Terry produced, wrote and sang on Crystal Lewis� Wild Blue Yonder.
SOURCE: TST quoted in an article called �To Craft The Night Watch: An Interview With Terry Taylor� by Devlin Donaldson, Mars Hill Review 5 (Summer 1996) RE: Songs Of The Heart
�One day, Tim, Greg & I were sitting in Tim�s rehearsal hall, and Tim had these old records on the wall. There was one with an old couple on it, in front of Oak Creek Canyon. I thought, `Hey, what would it be like to explore their lives?� I took that up and built the lyrics around it. We even used the original cover. It was the picture of this exact couple, and the name of the album was `Songs Of The Heart�, released in like 1963. We used a fictional name for the couple in the record.�
1996
Lost Dogs� The Green Room Serenade Part One and Swirling Eddies� Sacred Cows are released.
DA performs �Strong Hand Of Love� for the Mark Heard Tribute album called Orphans of God. Terry produced Loam�s Stereoscopic. Terry wrote the opening and closing theme music for the CBS television cartoon Project GeeKeR. Terry does the music for a CD Rom game called The Neverhood. The CD soundtrack is also released.
SOURCE: on-line chat with Terry
Dana Key of DeGarmo & Key apparently told someone that he knew that D&K shouldn't have recorded "I love the J word".
November 1997
SOURCE: Stunt Web Site
Terry has agreed to be the head of west coast A&R for the Killen Music Group (KMG Records), a Nashville-based record label. This label, owned by Buddy Killen (Hank Williams' bass player, producer of Heartbreak Hotel, etc.) will be predominantly Christian and has acquired the old Frontline catalog
July 1997
TST & Friends perform at Cornerstone.
Summer 1997
Terry�s Ten Gallon Hat EP (preview pre-release of John Wayne) is released.
1998
Terry did the music for a Sony Playstation game called SkullMonkeys and also for a movie called Mothman. Still awaiting release of the CD soundtracks for both. Terry was credited with production assistance on The Insiderz� The Insiderz Present Skalleluia, and produced Rich Young Ruler�s Rich Young Ruler. Terry also wrote, mixed and produced 12 of the songs on a various artists album called Surfonic Water Revival . He sang backing vocals and played guitar on all tracks. Terry, DA, & Lost Dogs performed one song each on it.
July 1998
TST & Friends perform at Cornerstone.
Summer 1998
Terry�s John Wayne and Farm Beetles� Meet The Farm Beetles are released.
October 1998
DA�s Our Personal Favorite World Famous Hits is released.
December 1998
Terry co-produces a group out of Phoenix called "Straw Theory"
January 1999
Terry left KMG as head of A&R.
February 1999
Terry was part of a Jesus Music Reunion two-day film shoot in Nashville by Larry Black to be part of a five video box set, featuring other artists like Larry Norman, Tom Howard, Dallas Holme, Honeytree, etc. Apparently, Terry & Larry were seen talking, laughing & repenting togther. Perhaps �Horrendous Disc� on CD *WILL* happen one day?
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MISCELLANEOUS
SOURCE: an on-line chat with TST
- Terry�s wife teaches pre school kids for a living.
SOURCE: TST quoted in an article called �To Craft The Night Watch: An Interview With Terry Taylor� by Devlin Donaldson, Mars Hill Review 5 (Summer 1996)
- �Debi had a miscarriage of our first child�
SOURCE: Giovanni Audiori Website quoting Brian Quincy Newcomb in �The HRS-Terry Taylor Interview Part Three� RE: The band �The Choir�
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: Giovanni Audiori Website quoting Jeff Elbel �An Interview With Terry Taylor�, True Tunes News - Summer 1994
Terry: We live in a fairly affluent area. I'm sort of the oddball guy of the town. There are a lot of yuppies here; professional people, doctors, and lawyers. I go to the baseball games, and they're all in their suits, and I'm who I am. I'll tell you, I've talked to a few of them, and they're very envious of what I do. �You mean, you make music, and that's what you do for a living?� And it'll dawn on me, �Yeah, that's what I do for a living.� I could be going to Fashion Island to work in one of the offices with my suit on, and playing that game. So, it does crash in on me every once in a while how fortunate I am. It has its struggles like anything else, but basically, I enjoy getting up in the morning and going to do what I do.
