Playing Just Like Steven Curtis Chapman
Monday, August 18, 2008 at 08:06AM Dear Church Music Director,
Thirty years ago you could pull in quite a crowd on a Sunday night just by having live music. Didn't matter if they sounded like the garage band from H-E-double-hockey-sticks – live music was hard to come by. Bands were a novelty. Although the sight of someone whacking at drums might still be a novelty on your stage, I assure you that everywhere else the image is more common than a rerun of 'Friends'. The sight of people playing rock band instruments is utterly ubiquitous. For those of you from Overisel, that means everywhere. You can buy a cell phone that downloads music videos so you can hang up on your husband and watch Clay Aiken while you're driving. Friends, we swim in a culture of music and live bands. The world is like a great big jukebox, and people will (God bless 'em) put their nickel in and expect to hear a song - even in church.
I mean, it’s easy, right?