3.12.2006

A Little Gigging History

Some friends back in the mid-80s at Smyrna First Baptist all came together to form my first 'band'. I don't even think we had a name. But soon afterward we joined in with a couple of guys from Berry College in Rome, Georgia and formed a group called 'Staircase'. We layed down three or four songs one day at some studio in Avendale Estates in Stone Mountain, Georgia. We played at churches, coffehouses, and a college or two. Later, after a few years just doing my own stuff, I came out with my first project in '92 called 'Too Much For Me'. I released it through my own record label called Too Much Records.

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I also started touring with a couple of guys not too long after that....Mark Blackburn and Frank French. Mark had played with Jacob's Trouble and Frank was best known from the band Drivin'-N-Cryin', and pruducing the first Indigo Girls album. We became known as 'Carder, Blackburn and French'. Here is a photo of me and Mark. Look at that hair. You got to check out Blackburn's site. Here is a link with him singing with 70's star David Cassidy.

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t00-m0ch,
Chris

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3 comments:

  1. Anonymous10:19 PM

    Hey Chris, glad to see you are blogging. You probably don't remember me but you and Rob came and did a youth conference at Riverland Baptist in Fort Lauderdale a few years back when I was a youth minister.

    I also saw you stand up at a Third Day concert in Louisville when Mac introduced you. I was attending Southern at the time.

    Anyway, glad to see you are doing well.

    Chris Bell

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  2. Chris7:13 AM

    Hey Chris Bell......yeah I do remember coming down to Ft. Lauderdale.....the city that never seemed to end. I hope you are well. What are you doing these days? Are you pastoring somewhere. I didn't know you had come up to Southern. Last week I caught Rob on TV when he preached at SBTS. We had dinner that night and it was sooo good to see him. I loved being with Rob anywhere. Let me know what is going on in your life. God bless Bro.

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  3. Anonymous7:10 PM

    The cliff notes version.

    Married for 11 years now.
    Three Children (6,4,2)
    Graduated from Southern in 2004
    Planting a chruch in North Miami.

    I started listening to Rob's sermon - He is hillarious just like I remember. I would have really like to see him show up in chapel with anything other than a suit. (Really, I would have liked to have seen Mohler's face).

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