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The ¡Alarma! Chronicles Years
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1981
- Petra's Never Say Die is released. Alex MacDougall played percussion on the album.
- Tamarack's self-titled album is released. The band includes future DA keyboardist Rob Watson.
- Allan Aguirre of Scaterd Few returns to the United States after spending time in Guatemala.
Allan Aguirre: "My uncle turned me onto some early Jesus movement music and one of the albums was Shotgun Angel from Daniel Amos. There were some real gems on there like 'Meal,' 'He's Gonna Do A Number On You' and 'The Whistler' that I could relate to. Even though I was a punk rocker I knew the importance of the Beatles, Elvis and I was a Bowie freak so... Then on a trip back to the states in '81 my cousin Eric and I picked up DA's Horrendous Disc, ¡Alarma!, a band called Lifesavers and their album Us Kids, Andy McCarrol and Zionic Bonds and a band called Barnabas. Hey, now we have some Christian New Wave! I remember telling my cousin that if I ever went back to the states to do music, I wanted Terry Taylor to produce it..."
- Larry Norman's Barking at the Ants is released on Larry's Phydeaux label. The cover of the record featured a large photo of Terry Taylor and Randy Stonehill in concert, with a white strip across their faces that read "The British Invasion."
Additionally, there were four sharp, black fingernails drawn on Terry's hand. Since the record was released, the image has created a lot of questions among fans of both artists and even among the folks at Solid Rock. Some assume it is a silly, meaningless scribble - similar to drawing a fake mustache on someone's photo. Others have speculated on a variety of "meanings" to the scribble. Taking everyone at their word, there doesn't seem to be a clear picture of how the drawing got there or why it was there in the first place.
In 2000, Larry told DanielAmos.com via email that he never noticed it before and had to get a magnifying glass to see it. He later said that he thought that one of his relatives had done the drawing. He also said that it was "a stupid, childish thing" and apologized for allowing it to get released that way.
In 2003, the following seemingly contradictory text was included on the LarryNorman.com website in reference to the image.
"One of the musicians who was a fan of Daniel Amos gave Terry Taylor black nail polish to 'Anglify' the underground reputation the band had. Less than a year
later it was being rumored that the black nail polish was actually sharp, pointed claws to demonize him. File this under "Can't Get A Break" because when Larry
returned to America there was a conspiracy theory to rival the 'Paul Is Dead' paranoid fantasies."
January 18, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs at Calvary Chapel in Riverside, CA.
March 1981
- Daniel Amos is featured in CCM Magazine, in two different articles.
"Whatever Happened To Horrendous Disc?"
"No False ¡Alarma!"
- The same issue of CCM included an editorial, written by John Styll, documenting the steps leading up to the completion of the article, "Whatever Happened to Horrendous Disc?". ("Trials, Tribulations, and Happy Endings")
March 4, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs at San Gabriel High School in San Gabriel, CA.
March 5, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs at a High School in CA.
March 6, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs at a High School in CA.
March 7, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs in Pasadena, CA. with Randy Stonehill.
March 18, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs at Calvary Chapel Riverside in Riverside, CA.
Set List: Walking On The Water, Baby Game, ‘Aint Gonna Fight It, Hound of Heaven, Ghost of the Heart, We’re Gonna Live Forever/River of Life
March 20, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs at East Hill Church in Gresham, OR. (Above Ad found in the March 20, 1981 edition of the Oregonian.)
March 21, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs in Everett, WA.
March 27, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs in Vancouver, B.C. Canada. With the Orpheum Theatre closed by a strike, Anvil Productions chose St. Andrew's Wesley Church as the shows venue.
The concert was reviewed for the July 1981 Issue of CCM Magazine ("Caught in the Act")
March 28, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs in Kelowna, B.C. Canada.
March 29, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs at the Cowles Auditorium at Whitworth College in Spokane, WA.
March 30, 1981
- Final masters are created from the 8-track masters by Word Records for Horrendous Disc. While all involved were pleased with the final track order, it is unclear who actually made the call. The final released track order differs from all previous working track orders.
It is also unclear exactly which master was used in the original pressing of Horrendous Disc. During production of The Deluxe Horrendous Disc Box Set, all available masters were reviewed and to our best educated guess, it sounds as though an inferior quality copy of the masters were used, and not the ones intended for release. When the Deluxe Edition was put together, original high quality masters were used to achieve the highest possible sound quality.
March 31, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs in Longview, WA.
April 1981
- The previously ran Solid Rock advertisemtent for Horrendous Disc reappears in CCM magazine, this time with the caption: "After 744 Days Captive.... It was released April 1st. Vanishing now at your corner bible store!"
View One Readers Response to the Advertisment
- JWS reviews Horrendous Disc and ¡Alarma! for CCM Magazine.
View Album Reviews for Horrendous Disc
View Album Reviews for ¡Alarma!
April 1, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs in Kalamath, OR.
April 3, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs at Disneyland's Main Street Plaza Gardens as part of the Nite of Joy. Other performers include Al Green, Joe English, Sweet Comfort Band, Jesse Dixon, Joe English and others.
April 10, 1981
Horrendous Disc
- Horrendous Disc is finally released, three years after it was recorded.
View Album Reviews
Album Info & Lyrics
Terry: "We did 'I Love You #19', which apparently inspired three or four of the Christian heavy metal bands you hear today. Jimmy Brown and Deliverance thought that was their spiritual anthem when they heard it. Sort of heavy guitar... it was recorded much too slowly. We picked up the tempo as a band when we did it in live performance.
Jerry: "We gave 'I Love You #19' the #19 designation because Terry and I took a trip down to our local record shop and perused the yellow-paged directory of recorded music that used to perch atop the counters of major record stores in America. I remember counting the number of songs listed with the title, "I Love You". There were 18 listed at that time..."
Terry: "It was a very creative record. A total departure from anything even remotely to country rock. It was purely a rock and roll record." (1996)
"I really don't know why it was delayed. I don't know why any of the Solid Rock albums were delayed as long as they were. Why people had to be so frustrated and angered about it. I really don't know. To this day, it remains a mystery to me."
Terry: " That followed us around for a while, you know, this may be the number one band in Christian music. I think it was that pause, which did it; the delays. The momentum came to a standstill, and by the time the audience heard us again - three years later, we'd been through all these undocumented changes. We were really confused ourselves. What do you do with a band with a record that's been in the can that long, but needs to survive by going on, and creating and leaving the past behind. How do we live with that, how do we continue. And it's just that it had to confuse people."
Alex: "A tremendous creative experience for me during the recording process. I remember a feeling of exhuberance planning percussion overdubs/sfx for the title track. It was a labor of love. I remember we all recorded the basic tracks in our pajamas. Terry's brilliance was shinning through. Mark was great with arranging and Jerry was such a good vocal 'thinker.' Ed was just right, and Marty was great on bass. It was a team effort."
Doug Doyle: "HD was the first Christian album I ever bought. I was saved in 1978 and started looking frantically for something that was any good in the Christian market. And came upon Daniel Amos. Didn't know them from Adam. God is good I had no idea in a couple years I would be engineering their albums praise God."
Larry Norman: "The original Word pressings on Solid Rock were made from third or fourth generation copies. For some reason Word didn't wait for the master reel and made their pressings from an 8-Track sub-copy of a copy of a copy." (Note: This was corrected with the release of the Deluxe Horrendous Disc Box Set in 2018.)
The green and red flying disc seen on the album cover is in fact a various artists LP from 1978 entitled Push For Excellence, released on Myrrh Records (MSB-6617). Side One was painted, the label on Side Two lists the following tracks: 1. "All Of Me" - Danniebelle, 2. "Your Love" - Bili Thedford and Danniebelle, 3. "Christ Has Made The Difference" - Jessy Dixon, 4. Rev. Jesse Jackson, 5. "Soon And Very Soon" - Andre Crouch.
To this day, the green and red painted disc remains in Larry Norman's private collection. Larry nearly accidentally sold this record at the Cornerstone festival when a fan was purchasing copies of the HD test pressing. Larry looked in the sleeve and realised that it was the green disc and decided to keep it. (Source: Larry Norman & Kerry Hopkins)
The photo below was taken at Dightmans Bible Book Center.
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April 15, 1981
- Alex MacDougall's brother Beau releases a solo album, "This Side Of heaven" on Milk & Honey Records. Beau (Alex's brother) sang and played guitar, Tom Howard played keys, Marty played bass, Alex plays percussion, Jerry sang BGVs. The album was produced by Alex and Beau MacDougall The album was produced by the MacDougall brothers.
April 20, 1981
- Maranatha! Music releases Praise V: Time to Praise the Lord. Alex MacDougall played percussion on the album.
April 22, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs at the Bijou Theater in Knoxville, TN with Randy Stonehill.
May 1981
- CCM magazine's "Feedback" column runs two letters in response to the March 1981 article, "Whatever happened to Horrendous Disc?". One from StreetLevel Artists Agency, the other from DA's attorney. ("Whatever Happened To Horrendous Disc?")
May 9, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs at Calvary Chapel in Downey, CA.
May 15, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs at Young Life in Sacramento, CA.
May 16, 1981
- Cash Box publishes a review of Horrendous Disc.
View Album Reviews
May 17, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs at a Prison in Long Beach, CA.
May 22, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs in El Paso, TX.
May 23, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs in Albuquerque, NM.
May 29, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs in Glendora, CA.
Spring/Summer 1981
- DA eventually signs with Benson Music's NewPax label after they were released from their contract with Larry Norman and Solid Rock (contrary to some reports, DA did not break their contract with Solid Rock. Their contracts were legally and validly rescinded because of their nature).
Terry: "...the Benson Company took a chance. They said we'll just do it in good faith, and let the chips fall where they may. We appreciated the people there for that. So we went in and did the record, and the two albums came out within two weeks of each other, something like that."
June 1981
- Ed McTaggart's fourth child, Jerusha is born.
June 1, 1981
- ¡Alarma! is released.
View Album Reviews
Album Info & Lyrics
Daniel Amos combined personality and concept on the outside and inside of their ¡Alarma! album, conceived by the group. Photographed by Scott Lockwood and designed by Karen Knecht.
Terry: "I really like this record. I think there are a lot of good songs on it. It has it's own sound. A lot of people think it's very new wavish... I guess there was a certain degree of that element to it. The songs seem to hold up well over time, and I'm happy about that."
Terry: "They're very personal songs that were written out of the experiences of the last three years. "
Terry, on "Central Theme": "I was watching a news program and they were talking about the rings of Saturn and they were saying that the winds blow through the rings causing these vibrations that they said sound like solar screams. And that was just awesome to me, and another thing that I had read was concerning the mysteries of the moon, and one of the mysteries of the moon is that when an object strikes the moon , that it echoes like a gong. And I felt deep down inside of my heart just how incredible our Lord is. The maker of the universe and yet, him becoming man and walking among us."
Terry, on "Walls of Doubt": "Whenever I attempt to pass on a bit of inspiration or challenge to others, it always begins with me. I need to remind myself of these things and in doing so I'm hoping it will be of value to my listeners. The song is about faith - not blind faith - but faith based on reason. This song is saying that your questions concerning God or faith or whatever can be answered to an extent, but sometimes, even if you don't have all the answers, you just need to let go and surrender."
Terry, on "Hit Them (With Love)": "I don't recall any specific incident that might have inspired this song. I think it was more of an accumulation of total experience, having seen this kind of religious bludgeoning over the years. I may have even done a little of it myself in the early days of my zealotry. The crux of our relationship with God and our neighbors is love, not self-righteousness and judgment. This is the simple message of the song."
Jerry, on "Colored By": "This song starts out with a weird sound - it comes in the intro and it's also during the guitar/bass solo - I played an instrument it's called 'The whirly tube, corrugaphone, or bloogle resonator, also sold as Free-Ka in the 1960s-1970s, is an experimental musical instrument which consists of a corrugated (ribbed) plastic tube or hose (hollow flexible cylinder), open at both ends and possibly wider at one end (bell), the thinner of which is rotated in a circle to play. It may be a few feet long and about a few inches wide. The faster the toy is swung the higher the pitch of the note it produces, and it produces discrete notes in the harmonic series like a valveless brass instrument, but the fundamental and second harmonic are difficult to excite.' And believe me - it's very, very hard to get to the second or third level. You just have to swing it faster and faster."
Jerry, on "Shedding the Mortal Coil": "We were on tour in Canada with good friend and brother Randy Stonehill. One night, we were relaxing between concerts and Randy, in his customary and humorous way, used the term 'Shed the mortal coil.' Which means to die. And we all nearly fell off our chairs with laughter because I had never heard it before and I'm not sure Terry and the other guys had either. When we got back to Southern California, Terry, Mark Cook and I wrote this song before Mark quit the band - so we had it before Alarma! started. When we went into the studio, the song had started out as a pretty normal sounding progression of rock but we got into the studio and it became very eccentric. I was sent out of the control room into the studio to do my guitar part. I couldn't hear what everyone in the control room was cooking up because I had my headphones on, but they instructed me to put some paper beneath the guitar strings to mute the sound. So I did that, and through the headphones as I played the guitar part, I started hearing the sound of my guitar get more and more bizarre as they kept adding all of these effects. The paper underneath the strings is really why it sounds so weird. What you hear is the result of all of our collaborative efforts, and that's why it came out sounding so strange."
Songs that were recorded as demos prior to the album sessions but did not make the final cut include "Only One," "No Spaceship", and "Out Of Town."
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June 5, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs in Fresno, CA.
June 6, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs in Oakland, CA with Randy Stonehill.
June 7, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs in Visallia, CA.
June 11, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs at a Prison in Downey, CA.
June 13, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs at a Prison in Alhambra, CA.
June 18, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs three sets at a Prison in Sylmar, CA.
July 1981
- Chuck Girard recently played Vancouver's PNE Gardens. Band members were Larry Myers, Wayne Brazel, John Patitucci, David Spurr and Rob Watson - later a member of DA.
- CCM magazine receives an angry letter from an upset reader about the April 1980 Solid Rock ad for Horrendous Disc.
View The Readers Response to the Advertisment
- An article about Daniel Amos appears in CCM Magazine. The article is largely a review of the bands March 27th concert in Vancouver, BC Canada.
"Caught In The Act"
July 4, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs in Sacramento, CA. for Warehouse Ministries.
(DA Photographed by Alex MacDougall)
July 5, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs at the Veterans Memorial Building in Santa Rosa, CA at 7:30 p.m.
Mid July 1981
(Marty Dieckmeyer)
- Marty Dieckmeyer leaves DA to persue his Masters in Engineering in Southern California.
Marty: "After 7 years of making records, touring the country and a wife with young twins, I decided to hang up my music career to focus on my other passion... landscaping. I came to the realization... how could I be a good father and husband when I was on the road so much? I was missing out and wanted to be home with my new, young family."
(Tim Chandler - photo by Ward Bigler)
- Following Marty Dieckmeyer's departure, Derri Daugherty tells Terry about his friend and bassist Tim Chandler. Tim soon joins Daniel Amos as their full time bassist.
Tim: "I got a call from Terry before I knew him at all. I had already been a fan-boy and had the records. He told me what songs to learn. I sat in my apartment in Newhall, CA and learned Marty's great and perfect parts from Alarma! and Horrendous Disc, specifically. I learned them in absolute-note-for-note."
July 11, 1981
- Cash Box reports that Daniel Amos has signed with Benson's NewPax records.
"NASHVILLE - NewPax records recently announced the signings of Daniel Amos and Brown Bannister to long-term recording agreements. Daniel Amos is a Los Angeles based four-man band that entered the contemporary Christian music field six years ago via Christian 'Country-pop' music. Daniel Amos is composed of band members Terry Taylor, lead vocals and rhythm guitar; Marty Dieckmeyer, bass and keyboards; Jerry Chamberlain, lead guitar and vocals; and Ed McTaggart, drums and Vocals.
July 14, 1981
- DA begins rehearsing for their upcoming tour.
Tim: "I drove to (then) Rebel Base in Orange County. Rebel Base was an indusrial park facility with an office in front, huge storage room, and a rehearsal room built into it. I was 21 yrs old, way over-prepped and ready, and, of course, it was initially awkward. I also had giant, fluffy Neal Schon (of Journey) hair and a bad mustache. It's a wonder they didn't tell me to get lost right then. After schlepping my stuff in and setting up, the first song Ed counted off was "I Love You #19". As the song ended, Ed put me at ease by laughing and saying 'Well, that's about as good as that one gets.' Yes, I have very specific memories about that time."
July 24, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs in Anaheim, CA.
August 1, 1981
- Mark Heard's Stop the Dominoes is released on Home Sweet Home Records. Alex MacDougall played percussion on the album.
August 10, 1981
- Maranatha! Music's God Loves Country Music is released. The album features vocals by Terry Taylor on the track "The Christian Life."
Mid August 1981
- Tim Chandler has a mishap during DA rehearsals for the upcoming Alarma! tour.
Tim: "I had been in DA for about a month. We were rehearsing for a national tour. One day, Terry, Ed, and I got into Terry's blue Honda Civic and went to a strip-mall. They got out, went into a music store for supplies, and I went next door for a box of doughnuts. I went back out and got into the back seat of Terry's blue Honda Civic to wait. I started to eat a doughnut and was looking around the car. I'd been in this car for about ten minutes. I started to think '...wait a minute...,' then I saw Terry and Ed walk to Terry's ACTUAL car a few spaces down. They looked at me sitting in a stranger's car, for no reason (and eating a doughnut), shook their heads and thought 'well, we've obviously made a big mistake.' Yes, I sat in the wrong Honda Civic eating doughnuts for ten minutes. It's a wonder I didn't get shot (Orange County is just south of Los Angeles. Everyone and their mother-in-law is armed.)"
August 20, 1981
- Randy Stonehill's Between The Glory And The Flame is released on Myrhh records and Rebel Base Productions. Terry Produced and plays the Electric Slide Guitar; Jerry sings Backing Vocals, plays Lead And Rhythm Guitar; Tom Howard sings Backing Vocals, plays Synthesizer String Arrangement, Piano, Harmonium, and Acoustic Guitar; Marty Dieckmeyer plays Bass Guitar; Ed McTaggart plays Drums & Percussion; Alex MacDougall plays Percussion.
Album Info and Artwork
Randy: "The chemistry with Daniel Amos and Terry Taylor has been so encouraging to me that I want to go ahead and keep the momentum that has welled up in doing the new album and go do some commercial things. Obviously I am not going to sing about anything that compromises my faith, but I am talking about some high energy rock and roll that represents my world view as a Christian and go and take it to a major label. I guess I just want to run it up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes. I have the freedom within the guidelines of my Word contract to sign a secular contract." (Source: CCM Magazine 10/81)
August 31, 1981
- The first 'DA Nuz Leder' is mailed out.
View DA Nuz Leder
August-September 1981
- A positive letter regarding Horrendous Disc appears in CCM magazine's "Feedback" column. Full page ads for Alarma! and the Alarma! Radio Show also appear in the issue.
View The Readers Letter
September 1981
- Alarma! is reviewed in Group Magazine.
View Album Reviews for ¡Alarma!
September 1-12, 1981
- The ¡Alarma! Radio Special airs across the country. The special was produced by Bruce Brown.
View transcript
(¡Alarma! Button)
September 4, 1981
- Daniel Amos begins the ¡Alarma! Tour with a performance in Denver, Colorado. The road crew was headed up by Wes Leathers and Derald Daugherty. Randy Stonehill opened the show.
- View Street Level's 1981 Daniel Amos Bio
September 5, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs at the Paramount Theatre in Denver, CO. with Randy Stonehill.
Set List: I Love You #19, Alarma!, Colored By, Everyones Fallen Down, Surfin USA/Wipe Out/Endless Summer, Hit Them (With Love), Baby Game, Big Time Big Deal, Ghost of the Heart, Through the Speakers, I'm On Your Team, Faces to the Window, I Love You #19 Reprise
September 6, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs in Boulder, Colorado at the Blue Note Club.
Set List: Alarma!, I Love You #19, Through The Speakers, Everyones Fallen Down, Faces to the Window, Little Things, Big Time Big Deal, I'm On Your Team, Surf Suite, Baby Game, Colored By, Hound of Heaven, Off My Mind, Bad Boy, Hit Them, Ghost of the Heart, Walls of Doubt, I Love You #19 reprise
September 7, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs in North Platte, Nebraska.
September 11, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs at Glenbard East High School in Naperville, Illinois.
Set List: Alarma!, I Love You #19, Through The Speakers, Faces to the Window, Everyones Fallen Down, Big Time Big Deal, Colored By, Hound of Heaven, Baby Game, Ghost of the Heart, Surf Suite: Surfin USA, Wipe Out, (Near Sighted Girl with Approaching) Tidal Wave, Endless Summer, Walls of Doubt, I Love You #19 (reprise)
September 12, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs at Notre Dame university in South Bend, Indiana with Phil Keaggy.
September 17, 1981
- The South Bend Tribune runs a short review of the September 12 concert with Phil Keaggy. "Warming up the crowd Saturday were Christian Music's Angry Young men, Daniel Amos. This controversial group takes its name from two Old Testament prophets. Daniel Amos, known for its high energy 1980's rock, lived up to that reputation with a loud heavy-metal, punk sound." The songs were "Characterized by machine-gun drums, erratic melody lines, lyrics with cosmic imagery and visual theatrics. Daniel Amos portion started with a spoken narration from the Alarma! album."
September 26, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs at Point Loma College in San Diego, California.
October 1981
- Daniel Amos has two new albums on CCM Magazine's sales chart simultaneously. ¡Alarma! is #7 and Horrendous Disc is #8.
October 2, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs in Medford, New Jersey.
October 3, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs in Bay Shore, New York.
At one of DA's shows in the 80-81 time period - and likely in the New York area, the band meets doo-wop, rock and R&B star Dion when he attends one of their shows.
October 5, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs in Middleton, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Tim: "One of the very first times I ever played with DA was in Nova Scotia in 1981. That was during a period of time in which some of DA's audience wasn't caught up on the fact that the band had moved on from country music. When we walked out on stage there was nothing but a Sea of Cowboy Hats in front of us. We played a loud blasting version of 'Through the Speakers' for the first song. When we finished the song, there was no applause - and in fact there was nothing but total stunned dead silence. Crickets chirping and tumbleweeds blowing by. It was hilarious. All I could do to keep from bursting out laughing."
- Daniel Amos performs at St. Andrew's Wesley Churchin Vancouver, BC.
Set List: Alarma!, I Love You #19, Through the Speakers, Hit Them (With Love), Everyone's Fallen Down, Happily Married Man, Big Time (Big Deal), Walking on the Water, Surf Suite: Surfin USA, Wipe Out, (Near Sighted Girl with Approaching) Tidal Wave, Endless Summer, Faces to the Window, Ghost of the Heart, Walls of Doubt, Hound of Heaven, Ain't Gonna Fight It
October 6, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs in Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada with Randy Stonehill.
October 7, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada with Randy Stonehill.
- Tom Howard's Danger In Loving You is released on NewPax records. Terry coproduced the album with Tom for Rebel Base Productions. Terry Taylor, Jerry Chamberlain, Randy Stonehill and Bill Batstone sing background vocals, among others. Alex MacDougall plays percussion.
October 8, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs in Presque, ME.
October 9, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs at Barrington College in Providence, Rhode Island with Randy Stonehill.
October 10, 1981
(Boston Ticket Stub courtesy of Craig Burguiere)
- Daniel Amos performs at the Converse Hall in Boston, MA with Randy Stonehill.
October 11, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs at the Civic Center's Crouse-Hinds Theater in Syracuse, New York. with Randy Stonehill
October 13, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs in Washington, Pennsylvania.
October 14, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs in Grove City, Pennsylvania.
October 16, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
October 17, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs at Geneva College in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania for their annual Homecoming Celebration. Andy Pratt also performs.
October 18, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs in Fenton, Michigan.
- DA guitar roadie Derri Daugherty met his future wife, Marlei, while on tour with DA in Michigan.
October 19, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs in Fenton, Michigan.
October 20, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs in Cleveland, Ohio.
October 21, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs in Columbus, Ohio.
October 22, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs at the Oasis in Springfield, Illinois.
Set List: I Love You #19, Alarma, Colored By, Everyone's Fallen Down, Surf Suite: Surfin USA, Wipe Out, (Near Sighted Girl with Approaching) Tidal Wave, Endless Summer, Hit Them (with Love), Baby Game, Big Time (Big Deal), Faces to the Window, Ghost of the Heart, Through the Speakers, I'm On Your Team, I Love You #19 {reprise)
October 23, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs in Milwaukee, WI.
(Photo taken at Bethel College in Minnesota, courtesy of Mark Prinsen)
October 24, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs in Roseville, MN.
October 25, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs in Souix Falls, South Dakota.
October 26, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs in Souix City, Iowa.
October 27, 1981
(DA in Independence, MO. Photos courtesy of Dave Hartung)
- Daniel Amos performs at the Englewood Theater in Independence, MO. with Randy Stonehill.
October 31, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs Calvary Chapel in Downey, CA.
November 1981
- Once again, Daniel Amos has two new albums on CCM Magazine's sales chart simultaneously. ¡Alarma! is #12 and Horrendous Disc is #14.
November 9, 1981
- Word Records releases the Various Artists album Back to the Rock. Future DA keyboardist Rob Watson's band Tamarach performs "Good Times Bad Times" & "Here I Am". Rob also plays keyboards on John Mehler's "Can't Live Without Him", and wrote "Good Times Bad Times".
November 13, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs in Fresno, CA.
November 28, 1981
- Daniel Amos performs in Pheonix, Arizona.
Alarma! Tour T-Shirt
November/December 1981
- An Interview with Terry Taylor appears in Encore Magazine.
"The Many Dialects of Daniel Amos"
December 1981
- Daniel Amos is featured in HIS.
{"Scene and Heard")
- Alarma! is reviewed in Campus Life Magazine.
View Album Reviews for ¡Alarma!
- CCM Magazine contributing writer Brian Healy wrote a parody of Karen Marie Platt's article "Whatever Happened to Horrendous Disc?" in the form of a letter from a reader commenting negatively on Randy Stonehill's LP, "Between the Glory and the Flame". The letter was a joke and was not intended for publication, but for unexplained reasons, Platt thought it would be funny to print the letter as if it was actually from a reader. The letter was published in the December 1981 issue of CCM. ("Closer to the Flame")
- In CCM Magazine's "Year In Review" issue, Horrendous Disc is listed as one of the top 15 selling albums of the year.
- "I Love You #19" is listed as #19 on the CCM Magazine Top Airplay chart.
December 31, 1981
(DA in Ventura, CA. Photo courtesy of Greg McNaughten)
- Daniel Amos and Randy Stonehill perform a New Years Eve Concert at the Buena High School Auditorium in Ventura, California.
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