Daniel Amos
Daniel Amos (aka DA or DÄ) is an American rock band formed in 1974 by Terry… Read Full Bio ↴Daniel Amos (aka DA or DÄ) is an American rock band formed in 1974 by Terry Scott Taylor on guitars and vocals, Marty Dieckmeyer on bass guitar, Steve Baxter on guitars and Jerry Chamberlain on lead guitars. Current members include bassist Tim Chandler, guitarist Greg Flesch and drummer Ed McTaggart.
It could be said that the roots of Daniel Amos began to grow out of Jubal's Last Band, an acoustic quartet consisting of Taylor, Kenny Paxton, Chuck Starnes and Steve Baxter, who spent their time performing for Bible study groups and at coffee shops throughout Southern California. In 1974, JLB recorded a demo tape together and eventually lost Starnes and Paxton. Bassist Marty Dieckmeyer and guitarist Jerry Chamberlain were brought in to fill the empty spots. Sometime in the middle of 1975, Jubal's Last Band (minus Baxter) auditioned for Maranatha! Music and Calvary Chapel in hopes of signing a recording and performance contract. Another band at the meeting, led by Darrell Mansfield, had a similar name - Jubal. The two bands decided to change their names to avoid confusion. Mansfield renamed his band Gentle Faith (taken from the name of co-band member Henry Cutrona's earlier band), and Jubal's Last Band became Daniel Amos.
Daniel Amos succeeded in landing a recording and performance contract, and quickly recorded their first song for the label in 1975, Taylor's Ain't Gonna Fight It. A full album, produced by Al Perkins, followed. The band released their first, eponymous album in 1976 (produced by Al Perkins) and enlisted Ed McTaggart on drums. Previously, McTaggart had been the drummer for Bill Sprouse Jr.'s The Road Home.
By 1977, the band had begun to shed their country sound, with the album Shotgun Angel, which took some fans by surprise. Shotgun Angel was half country and half rock-opera. The 'Side 2' of the LP featured lush orchestrations and a string of rock songs linked together in a way that was reminiscent of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album. The band even made a number of concert performances at this time with a full orchestra backing them.
By 1978 the band had recorded their first entirely rock effort, Horrendous Disc, with help from newly added percussionist, Alex MacDougall, and keyboardist Mark Cook. MacDougall is a well respected percussionist that has toured with Loggins and Messina, Leon Russell and The Beach Boys, among others. Cook had been the keyboardist for the Warner Brothers band Spring Canyon. Also around this time, the band began to tour with singer/songwriter Randy Stonehill. DA would perform their own set and serve as Stonehill's backing band on the tour. That tour, known as the "Amos n' Randy Tour," became legendary for DA and Stonehill fans.
Although Horrendous Disc was recorded for Maranatha! Music, the label ended up dropping it because of a major change in the focus of the label. The label decided to stop releasing albums by rock and roll acts and wanted to focus on praise music. The band shopped the new record around to several labels, including Warner Brothers, but settled on Larry Norman's Solid Rock Records. Solid Rock ended up delaying the release for nearly three years and the album was not seen on record store shelves until a week before the release of the band's newly recorded fourth album ¡Alarma! in 1981. ¡Alarma! was the first of a four part series of albums entitled The ¡Alarma! Chronicles, which also included the albums Doppelgänger, Vox Humana, and Fearful Symmetry. The band raised eyebrows on the tour that followed each release, by presenting a full multimedia event complete with video screens sychronized to the music, something that was unusual in the early 1980s for any band. By the end of the series, new band members Tim Chandler and Greg Flesch joined the band to fill vacant positions previously held by Dieckmeyer and Chamberlain. Keyboardist Rob Watson would also occasionally join the band in the studio or on the road.
The band released Darn Floor - Big Bite in 1987, which to this day many fans consider to be one of their best albums. They began a followup in 1988 but abandoned it in favor of a chance to do something different. Many of the band members became The Swirling Eddies for a string of releases through the early 1990s. In 1990, D.A. would form their own independent record label, Stunt Records, with help from friend Tom Gulotta. One of the first albums released by Stunt was the half comedy, half rarities and best of compilation from Dr. Edward Daniel Taylor, The Prickly Heat Telethon of Love. Over the years that followed, Stunt became the primary source for new DA material, including the live albums, Live Bootleg '82 and Preachers From Outer Space!. Jason and Eric Townsend, producers of When Worlds Collide: A Tribute to Daniel Amos, would join the Stunt Records organization in 1999 to help with promotion and production work.
In addition to recording several albums by The Swirling Eddies, the members of DA returned in 1991 with Kalhöun. 1993's MotorCycle followed, which also marked the return of Chamberlain, who would hang around long enough for two additional DA releases in the 1990s, BibleLand in 1994 and Songs of the Heart in 1995. Songs of the Heart was a concept album that followed the fictional couple, Bud & Irma Ackendorf, on a trip down the historic Route 66. The concept was explored in greater detail in the 2002 3 CD "book set" entitled When Everyone Wore Hats. That collection not only included the entire 1995 album, but also the entire album reworked as an acoustic band, three new songs, an interview of Taylor by Starflyer59's Jason Martin, photos, expanded liner notes and a newly written short story by Taylor.
In 1999, the band released all four parts of The ¡Alarma! Chronicles on CD packaged together in a 200 page hardcover book which featured color photos, interviews and the entire ¡Alarma! Chronicles story. The book collection, which is certainly an unusual release in the music world, received a lot of praise from music critics.
In 2001, DA released what many critics called their best album to date, Mr. Buechner's Dream, named after author Frederick Buechner. The album also pays tribute to Walker Percy, T. S. Eliot, G. K. Chesterton, Flannery O'Connor, Lewis Carroll, Dorothy L. Sayers, and other authors that have inspired DA's lyrics for years. The album was released on Stunt Records, with distribution by longtime friend Dan Michaels' label Galaxy21 Music.
In early 2004, Stunt Records began the long and difficult task of digging through the vast DA archives and remastering most of the back catalog for rerelease. The first release in the series, a 30th Anniversary Deluxe edition of the band's first album, Daniel Amos, was released in June 2006. The 2 disc special edition included an expanded booklet of never before seen photos, additional liner notes and an entire extra disc of bonus material including early demos and live recordings from the pre-DA years. Work began on the next reissue in the series immediately following its release.
It could be said that the roots of Daniel Amos began to grow out of Jubal's Last Band, an acoustic quartet consisting of Taylor, Kenny Paxton, Chuck Starnes and Steve Baxter, who spent their time performing for Bible study groups and at coffee shops throughout Southern California. In 1974, JLB recorded a demo tape together and eventually lost Starnes and Paxton. Bassist Marty Dieckmeyer and guitarist Jerry Chamberlain were brought in to fill the empty spots. Sometime in the middle of 1975, Jubal's Last Band (minus Baxter) auditioned for Maranatha! Music and Calvary Chapel in hopes of signing a recording and performance contract. Another band at the meeting, led by Darrell Mansfield, had a similar name - Jubal. The two bands decided to change their names to avoid confusion. Mansfield renamed his band Gentle Faith (taken from the name of co-band member Henry Cutrona's earlier band), and Jubal's Last Band became Daniel Amos.
Daniel Amos succeeded in landing a recording and performance contract, and quickly recorded their first song for the label in 1975, Taylor's Ain't Gonna Fight It. A full album, produced by Al Perkins, followed. The band released their first, eponymous album in 1976 (produced by Al Perkins) and enlisted Ed McTaggart on drums. Previously, McTaggart had been the drummer for Bill Sprouse Jr.'s The Road Home.
By 1977, the band had begun to shed their country sound, with the album Shotgun Angel, which took some fans by surprise. Shotgun Angel was half country and half rock-opera. The 'Side 2' of the LP featured lush orchestrations and a string of rock songs linked together in a way that was reminiscent of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album. The band even made a number of concert performances at this time with a full orchestra backing them.
By 1978 the band had recorded their first entirely rock effort, Horrendous Disc, with help from newly added percussionist, Alex MacDougall, and keyboardist Mark Cook. MacDougall is a well respected percussionist that has toured with Loggins and Messina, Leon Russell and The Beach Boys, among others. Cook had been the keyboardist for the Warner Brothers band Spring Canyon. Also around this time, the band began to tour with singer/songwriter Randy Stonehill. DA would perform their own set and serve as Stonehill's backing band on the tour. That tour, known as the "Amos n' Randy Tour," became legendary for DA and Stonehill fans.
Although Horrendous Disc was recorded for Maranatha! Music, the label ended up dropping it because of a major change in the focus of the label. The label decided to stop releasing albums by rock and roll acts and wanted to focus on praise music. The band shopped the new record around to several labels, including Warner Brothers, but settled on Larry Norman's Solid Rock Records. Solid Rock ended up delaying the release for nearly three years and the album was not seen on record store shelves until a week before the release of the band's newly recorded fourth album ¡Alarma! in 1981. ¡Alarma! was the first of a four part series of albums entitled The ¡Alarma! Chronicles, which also included the albums Doppelgänger, Vox Humana, and Fearful Symmetry. The band raised eyebrows on the tour that followed each release, by presenting a full multimedia event complete with video screens sychronized to the music, something that was unusual in the early 1980s for any band. By the end of the series, new band members Tim Chandler and Greg Flesch joined the band to fill vacant positions previously held by Dieckmeyer and Chamberlain. Keyboardist Rob Watson would also occasionally join the band in the studio or on the road.
The band released Darn Floor - Big Bite in 1987, which to this day many fans consider to be one of their best albums. They began a followup in 1988 but abandoned it in favor of a chance to do something different. Many of the band members became The Swirling Eddies for a string of releases through the early 1990s. In 1990, D.A. would form their own independent record label, Stunt Records, with help from friend Tom Gulotta. One of the first albums released by Stunt was the half comedy, half rarities and best of compilation from Dr. Edward Daniel Taylor, The Prickly Heat Telethon of Love. Over the years that followed, Stunt became the primary source for new DA material, including the live albums, Live Bootleg '82 and Preachers From Outer Space!. Jason and Eric Townsend, producers of When Worlds Collide: A Tribute to Daniel Amos, would join the Stunt Records organization in 1999 to help with promotion and production work.
In addition to recording several albums by The Swirling Eddies, the members of DA returned in 1991 with Kalhöun. 1993's MotorCycle followed, which also marked the return of Chamberlain, who would hang around long enough for two additional DA releases in the 1990s, BibleLand in 1994 and Songs of the Heart in 1995. Songs of the Heart was a concept album that followed the fictional couple, Bud & Irma Ackendorf, on a trip down the historic Route 66. The concept was explored in greater detail in the 2002 3 CD "book set" entitled When Everyone Wore Hats. That collection not only included the entire 1995 album, but also the entire album reworked as an acoustic band, three new songs, an interview of Taylor by Starflyer59's Jason Martin, photos, expanded liner notes and a newly written short story by Taylor.
In 1999, the band released all four parts of The ¡Alarma! Chronicles on CD packaged together in a 200 page hardcover book which featured color photos, interviews and the entire ¡Alarma! Chronicles story. The book collection, which is certainly an unusual release in the music world, received a lot of praise from music critics.
In 2001, DA released what many critics called their best album to date, Mr. Buechner's Dream, named after author Frederick Buechner. The album also pays tribute to Walker Percy, T. S. Eliot, G. K. Chesterton, Flannery O'Connor, Lewis Carroll, Dorothy L. Sayers, and other authors that have inspired DA's lyrics for years. The album was released on Stunt Records, with distribution by longtime friend Dan Michaels' label Galaxy21 Music.
In early 2004, Stunt Records began the long and difficult task of digging through the vast DA archives and remastering most of the back catalog for rerelease. The first release in the series, a 30th Anniversary Deluxe edition of the band's first album, Daniel Amos, was released in June 2006. The 2 disc special edition included an expanded booklet of never before seen photos, additional liner notes and an entire extra disc of bonus material including early demos and live recordings from the pre-DA years. Work began on the next reissue in the series immediately following its release.
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Daniel Amos Lyrics
A Sigh for You A sigh for you rides the wind A cry for you…
Abidin' No bribin', no conivin', no strivin' will do They'll never …
Ain't Gonna Fight It No, I ain't gonna fight it, His Spirit is taking…
Alarma It's a brain-drain overload laid out on the reel-to-reel A …
Angels Tuck You In You hold an image, it provides a common thread No sense…
As the World Turns I'm checkin' out, checking on a late night flight LAX a…
Autographs for the Sick Uno, dos, one two three is quatro Autographs for the sick…
Baby Game She was so sweet once she was innocent Now she's a…
Bakersfield I won't go back to Bakersfield My friend died there, I…
Banquet At the World's End The beautiful people, all send their excuses: (Real estate …
Beautiful One Leaves of sound are shed they fall On this murmuring mind …
Better 2nd man: (smugly) Take my groceries and put 'em in the sack,…
Bibleland We're going out to Bibleland By a Motel 6 and a…
Big Warm Sweet Interior Glowing He will always trust his own vision Could be a dangerous…
Black Gold Fever Goin' down to Texas where you can't see the top…
Broken Ladders To Glory When the day is done, we'll get out of here When…
Buffalo Hills I float on a cloud between the boy and the…
Can You're just too good to be true I can't take my…
Central Theme Central theme, the most important thing Central theme, the t…
Child On A Leash I'm asking you why I never get inside the place that I…
Constance Of The Universe See that kid, give him some toys See those girls, gotta…
Dance Stop DANCE STOP!!! 1: Well, tell me please how love can be Wi…
Days and Nights Now take me back home, where you wait Words on a…
Distance and Direction Distance and direction, resistance and dissection Assistanc…
Divine Instant Where there are no things, there is no time I see…
Don't Light Your Own Fire I feel the darkness falling all around me now It's very…
donna nietche and her super race of kickboxing uber parrots Would you like a drink of water From the fountain of…
Dusty Road Dusty road, toil and trouble Seems I'm goin' down that way…
Earth Household Sleeping by the hearth of the earth household Content and r…
Easy For You You own it In a moment It's all in the book If you…
Endless Summer Surfer boys, surfer girls And all those hoping to catch tha…
Evangeline She's speaking like a gibbering foreigner Got a cripple in …
Faces to the Window I go to work I work hard, I do come…
Fairy Tale When I was just a boy All the grown ups never…
Father Explains His bare feet are calloused, he hikes up his pants His…
Father's Arms Alright, okay, oh yeah Keep your cool and don't hurt nobody…
Fingertips Who's soflty slipping Down the stairs? Is someone sitting …
Flash in Your Eyes Once, we lit a candle in the Cold dark street And hoped…
Forward in Reverse Forward in Reverse I found a haystack in a needle I caught…
Gate of the World You saw me at the gate of the world You washed…
Get Into the Bus, Aloha Last night I dreamt Aloha was floating, Hanging like a pictu…
Ghost of the Heart Way back in my heart, is the motive for this I…
Gloryhound Bombs and money, and a death wish I don't need your…
Grace Is the Smell of Rain The cauliflower ears The crocodile tears The hearts too ha…
Guilty Well I'm in a mess What can I do? yeah, I've second-guesse…
Happily Married Man I don't cheat on my woman There's no adultery in my…
He's Gonna Do A Number On You The morning paper is not that sane A man is smiling,…
Here I Am Slide #1- Here I am, here I am, driving to…
Hit Them I hit them too hard I did it with a book He…
Hole In the World Hole in the world I can hear dead loved-ones breathing hol…
Hollow Man We are the empty men, we are the masked men Resting…
Home Permanent What I believe, is in my fashion Clothes make the man,…
Horrendous Disc He turns the TV high The walls are paper-thin He hopes the…
Hound of Heaven He got lost among the stars Hollywood flash, cash, mansions…
I Believe In You Falling from some cloud in the sky Others hit the ground…
I Love You #19 Now if I said it real pretty in a pretty…
I Will Return And the city stood In a glowing splendor 'Til her ashes…
I'll Get Over It What I'm thinkin' I've been shaken up It's a secret I've …
If You Want To I'll pick you up I'll set you down We'll fall in love If…
Instruction Through Film "And so the angel told Tom if he'd be a…
It's Sick Hey! We cannot sense, we cannot know What they're going th…
Jesus Is Jehovah to Me I can tell you're a sincere man And I'm tryin' my…
Lady Goodbye Lady of the sky Where'd you go, Where'd you fly? To some…
Little Crosses Little crosses- I see on my T.V. Take my money- and…
Live and Let Live 1: 'Oh well, live and let live' Your indifference forms my…
Losers And Winners ain't namin' names But I sense that some pride remains And…
Love Has Open Arms Run away from what you know is right Turn your eyes…
Love In A Yielded Heart Well, you say you want freedom There ain't nothing you woul…
Loveland It's a different world, but it's still you and me We've…
Low Crawls & High Times Blood, frogs, and feces (Won't somebody talk to me) Red nec…
Mall Mall all over the world Mall all over the world. Moving int…
Mall All Over the World Mall all over the world Mall all over the world... Movin…
Man In The Moon I saw Mr. Moon last night You know he's on the…
Maybe All I Need Maybe all I need is Maybe all I need is Here right…
Meal I'm thirsty, Lord, my soul's on fire I'm thirsty, Lord, my…
Memory Lane You have gotten much thinner You're lookin' like a shadow …
Motorcycle Going places in our crash helmets Accidents happen but fo…
Mr. Buechner's Dream Old Chesterton with his cherubs face Greets Lewis by the fir…
My Frontier Would-be believers beat plowshares to spears will miracles…
My Hand To God There's a displacement in the air Someone else is breathing…
My Room I live in my room, it's warm here in my…
Never Leave You Only you, can turn my world around Yes it's true, my…
Neverland Ballroom Neverland, you pay your money They stamp your hand, Paradis…
New Car! Well, I know what I want, I know what I…
Nobody Will You'll see, we'll be Fine everybody If we climb, everybody…
Noel She lives in the little green house and drives an electric…
Note To Anna Ring it under Deep waters Clue to the crime Nobody save…
Off My Mind You're just too good to be true I can't take my…
On The Line You know He calls you long distance No doubt He's dropped…
Out In The Cold We were fumbling for words on that strange, desperate night …
Pete And Repeat Foul foul mouths, music in the ears of a foul foul…
Pictures Of The Gone World Pictures of the gone world, memories handed down Pictures o…
Posse in the Sky And when the faithful disappear The world will take it's fin…
Praise Song Love that brings a light To a darkened room Then there is…
Prayer Wheel Oh, oh, oh These are the fasting days Gonna' break our…
Pregnant Pause Wonder if the water (is) running Wonder if the well (has)…
Prelude: Servant's Prayer Father, Oh, blessed Jesus Spirit reveal in me A servant's he…
Pretty Little Lies Don't bruise my head Leave me for dead My work is never…
Props Down to the city on a country road I rode I…
Real Girls Girls with cars Girls with cameras Girls on game shows Gi…
Return Of The Beat Menace Again you announce while you whirl and bounce Intentions to…
Ridin' Along Ridin' along on a dyin' prairie (ya-hoo) My bones are tired…
Safety Net Down to the black bridge of sighs She drains her head…
Sail Me Away My love, I had a dream last night I saw a…
Sanctuary Should the stars get in your eyes tonight Remember, remembe…
Shadow Catcher His eyes, make pictures when they close He follows, pure br…
She's A Hard Drink There's a sad clown A slap stick comic With a neon crown …
She's All Heart Spoken: She says I complicate things I say she over simpli…
She's Working Here He gets sidetracked (hungry for her love) Makes a wisecrack…
Shedding the Mortal Coil It's falling off It's unraveling It's come undone It's di…
Shotgun Angel Well, I've been drivin' all night And I know I'm gettin'…
Sins of The Fathers There's that counter kid with the Insufficient mustache He's…
Sky King Clouds are gathering around my head It's a rainy day withou…
Sleep Silent Child Sleep, silent child, steal away (You sigh) In starry fields…
Small Great Things She cast her drag net Out on the ocean Pulled out…
So Certain I′m hoping, I'm not too awfully late To tell you what′s…
So Far So Good One true Desire An invitation One blood One fire An imi…
So Long So long...…
Soon Ooooooohh-aaaaaahhh The river flows from the throne of Go…
Steal Away Steal away when the tide is rising There's a promise in Di…
Stone Away Just as I was leaving Just as I stopped feeling Just as…
Strange Animals Strange animals, strange Strange animals, strange Too co…
Sudden Heaven Familiar scene, no dream, I look 'Cross hills of green and…
The Bible Oh, the Bible, the Holy Bible Let your mind find peace…
The Bubble Bursts I'm not quite as bad as you think I am Not…
The Double My double's sitting in another world My double's laughing i…
The Glory Road Glad we're together on the Glory Road We've seen some sight…
The Incredible Shrinking Man Look out your window Here comes a bomb The dogs of war Dr…
The Organ Bar Years ago, my friend Bob worked Pacific Ocean Park As a kn…
The Pool "The pool is very deep and cool and nothing here is…
The Whistler The whistler stands below The street a crimson glow A devi…
Theo's Logic He said I wasn't going to heaven then I'll see him…
This Is the One This is the one It's our big break Time to have fun End…
Through the Speakers You're speeding, you're going, running everywhere Can't tel…
Tracking The Amorous Man There's Eleanor by the pool Red fingernails tapping a file …
Traps Ensnares ...and He committed Himself to no man because He knew what…
Travelog This river channels out to my private shore My boat's a…
Turn This Off Too many empty heads Cold hearts, eyes dead Inert and inbr…
Uneasy Lies The Head of the Confidence Man Through hoops and secret panels Down the Slip-n-Slide Fait…
Virgin Falls god and goddess on a silver screen Archetype lovers in a…
Walking On the Water A storm at sea, and there sits me in a…
Walls of Doubt There's that look in you eye I know what you're thinking It'…
When Everyone Wore Hats Here's to the long-lost world of Chain-smoking dreamers Wa…
When Worlds Collide 1: Stay my love Here in my arms Let me say I…
William Ol' William in school Readin' a Bible, we laughed till we…
William Blake Tyger, tyger burning bright In deep forests of the night …
Wise Acres Gonna have to pass by Wise Acres You can smell the…
Wonderful The sun and I watch rainbow days go by Then he drifts…
Youth With a Machine Youth with a machine He needs to know how to…