<TimeLine 1990>

TimeLine : 1990

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    1990

  • By the late 1980s and into the early 1990s, touring became quite rare for Daniel Amos or the Swirling Eddies. The band's live shows were often limited to the occasional music festival. The most common place to see some version of DA live was the Cornerstone music festival near Chicago, Illinois.
    Terry: "Well, financially we just can't do it. We have to wait for Cornerstone once a year, where some people drive a thousand miles and stay over night to see the band. Those are the kinds of fans that follow DA. That's a wonderful thing to see, an incredible thing; the loyalty that's there. We look forward to that one concert. We try to do fly in things, but it's hard to fit those in when you have to make other commitments to maintain an income. There once was a time when we used to say, it doesn't matter that we're losing money, those were the early days... the kids start needing things like shoes. We went through a period of bickering with concert sponsors so that they would put up enough money for us to be able to afford to play, but you just can't keep that up. We're not kids, we all have families, we just can't go out in and sleep in our van to make that happen, it's tougher to get us to come out and play."


  • Stunt Records and Tapes is formed by Terry Taylor and new friend Tom Gulotta. Terry had been wanting to do an indie label for a while. If everyone remembers correctly, Tim Chandler had the idea for the name of the label, along with the original concept of the logo which would have been a horse smoking a cigarette. Eventually the idea of the bubble-pipe replaced the cigarette.

  • Terry meets future DA webmasters the Townsend brothers over the phone. The Townsend brothers had made a sizeable donation (in the form of an auction bid) to Stunt Records which resulted in the production of a single for the Swirling Eddies.

  • Crumbacher/Duke's Worlds Away is released on Frontline Records. Ed McTaggart handled the art direction and design for the album.

  • Chuck Girard's Fire and Light is released on Myrrh Records. The album was Coproduced by Chuck Girard and Rob Watson. Rob played keyboards and Tim played bass.

  • D-Boy's The Lyrical Strength of One Street Poet is released on Frontline Records. The artistic strength of Ed McTaggart handled the art direction.

  • Jon Gibson's Jesus Loves Ya is released on Frontline Records. Rob Watson plays keyboards and arranged horns; Gene Eugene recorded and mixed the album and played Clavinet; Ed McTaggart provided the art direction.

  • Benny Hester's United We Stand / Divided We Fall is released on Frontline Records. Ed McTaggart handled art direction.

  • Idle Cure's 2nd Avenue is released on Frontline Records. Ed McTaggart handled the art direction.

  • Sacred Warrior's Wicked Generation is released on Intense Records. Ed McTaggart handled art direction for the album.

  • Scaterd Few's Sin Disease is released. Terry Coproduced with Ramald & Omar Domkus, Cowrote the largely instrumental "Kill The Sarx II (Apocalypse)" with Greg Flesch, Ramald & Omar Domkis. Terry also wrote the sleeve notes.

  • Mike Stand's Simple Expression is released on ¡Alarma! Records. Ed McTaggart handled art direction for the album.

  • Tamplin and Friends An Axe to Grind is released on Intense Records. Ed McTaggart handled art direction for the album.

  • Dave Raven, Tim Chandler and Greg Flesch form the Smokin' Globes.

  • Rob Watson is featured in CCM magazine's "Christian Musician" Keyboardists colum, along with John Lawry of Petra, Michael W. Smith, John Andrew Schreiner, Mark Heimermann and Eddie DeGarmo.
    "Rob Watson: CCM Keyboard Special"


  • Stunt Records mails out their newest Vertigo Newsletter.
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    March 1990

  • The Swirling Eddies are featured in CCM Magazine.
    "Still Spinning After All These Years"

  • CCM Magazine's Reader's Choice Awards name the Swirling Eddies as the second favorite Alternative Rock Band (The Choir was first), and Outdoor Elvis as the second favorite Alternative album (The Choir's Wide Eyed Wonder was first), and Terry Taylor as the fifth Favorite Producer of the Year (tied with Charlie Peacock and Lynn Nichols. Brown Bannister was in first place, The Elefante's were in second place, Keith Thomas was third and Billy Smiley was fourth.)


  • Swirling Eddies' video Spittle & Phlegm is released. View Video Reviews
    The video featured a concept video for the song "I've Got An Idea", concert footage of DA at Greenbelt, and a lot of wacky stuff.

    March 9, 1990

    The Swirling Eddies in Concert
    (The Swirling Eddies in concert. Arthur Fhardy, Mary Baker Eddy, Gene Pool, Hort Elvison, Camarillo Eddy, Spot, Berger Roy Al and Prickly Disco)

  • The Eddies performed their first concert in La Marida, California at Biola University with Randy Stonehill. The show was dubbed the "Amos n' Randy n' Eddie tour". Over the next couple of years, they performed their next two shows at the Troubadour in Hollywood.
    Tim: "We came out in complete drag and, under the circumstances, just burned a hole in it. Mark Heard was there recording Randy Stonehill. At the end of our set, which ended in disaster - threats of lawsuits, people fired, jobs lost, lives changed - Mark asked if he could join the band. At one show, Marc Sercomb and Dan Michaels came out dressed in nothing but black silk stockings, sport coats, and high heels. I didn't know it but they went to a K-Mart and bought L'eggs just for the occasion. They would contort and writhe to the music. Dan Michaels would be whipping around a pair of nun-chucks."
    View Concert Review

    March 16, 1990

  • Mark Heard's Dry Bones Dance is released on Fingerprint Records. Jerry Chamberlain and Sharon McCall sing BGVS on "Everything is Alright", "Mercy of the Flame" and "Fire". Other musicians on the album include Sam Phillips, Fergus Jemison Marsh and others.

    April 18, 1990

  • Adam Again's Homeboys is released. Terry wrote "Occam's Razor."

    May 9, 1990

  • Terry produces Jacob's Trouble's second album at Mixing Lab B with Gene Eugene Engineering.

    May 10, 1990

  • Terry produces Jacob's Trouble's second album at Mixing Lab B with Gene Eugene Engineering.

    May 11, 1990

  • Terry produces Jacob's Trouble's second album at Mixing Lab B with Gene Eugene Engineering.

    May 12, 1990

  • Daniel Amos and the The Swirling Eddies perform 2 songs ("Walls of Doubt" & "Let's Spin!") before Randy Stonehill's 20th anniversary concert. Sharon McCall sat in on bass, because Tim couldn't make the show. Other performers include Amy Grant, Russ Taff Michael W. Smith. The entire performance - including the Eddies was filmed professionally. Stonehill's set was released on VHS. To this day, the Eddies performance remains unreleased due to poor sound quality and mix of the audio.

  • Rick Elias' Rick Elias And The Confessions is released on ¡Alarma! Records. Ed McTaggart handled art direction for the album.

    May 14, 1990

  • Terry produces Jacob's Trouble's second album at Mixing Lab B with Gene Eugene Engineering.

    May 15, 1990

  • Terry produces Jacob's Trouble's second album at Mixing Lab B with Gene Eugene Engineering.

    May 16, 1990

  • Terry produces Jacob's Trouble's second album at Mixing Lab B with Gene Eugene Engineering.

    May 17, 1990

  • Terry produces Jacob's Trouble's second album at Mixing Lab B with Gene Eugene Engineering.


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    May 18, 1990

  • Terry produces Jacob's Trouble's second album at Mixing Lab B with Gene Eugene Engineering.

    May 20, 1990

  • Terry produces Jacob's Trouble's second album at Mixing Lab B with Gene Eugene Engineering.

    May 21, 1990

  • Terry produces Jacob's Trouble's second album at Mixing Lab B with Gene Eugene Engineering.

    May 22, 1990

  • Terry produces Jacob's Trouble's second album at Mixing Lab B with Gene Eugene Engineering.

    June 1990

  • Terry Taylor writes and records Loud, Proud And Born Again with Rob Watson & Doug Doyle as "The Rap'sures" for Star Song Records.

    June 29, 1990

  • Future DA Webmasters and Junior Stunt-men Jason & Eric Townsend meet with Daniel Amos backstage prior to the band's Cornerstone performance. While Terry had met the Townsend Brothers via a phone call earlier in the year, this was the first face to face meeting.


    Daniel Amos at Cornerstone 1990 Daniel Amos at Cornerstone 1990

    (Photos of Daniel Amos at Cornerstone 90, courtesy of Eric & Jason Townsend)
  • Daniel Amos performs at Cornerstone 90 in Grayslake, Il. with Randy Stonehill opening.
    Set List: I Love You #19, Walls of Doubt, Memory Lane, Mall (All Over the World), Darn Floor - Big Bite, The Pool, Sanctuary, Dance Stop, I Didn't Build it for Me


    Swirling Eddies at Cornerstone 1990 Swirling Eddies at Cornerstone 1990

    (Photos of the Swirling Eddies and Randy Stonehill at Cornerstone 90, courtesy of Eric & Jason Townsend)
  • The Swirling Eddies perform at Cornerstone 90 in Grayslake, Il. with Randy Stonehill joining the band for the encore.
    Set List: Snowball, Let's Spin!, I've Got An Idea, The Big Guns, Attack of the Pulpit Masters, Arthur Fhardy's Yodeling Party, I Am Woman Hear Me Roar, All the Way to Heaven, Driving in England, Potential, Hide the Beer the Pastor's Here, Don't Hate Yourself, Mystery Babylon, Encore: We Gotta Get Out of this Place (with Randy Stonehill), I Want To Hold Your Hand (with Randy Stonehill), What A Wonderful World (with Randy Stonehill)

    Jerry: "The sweat was dripping from us and the fire flies (aka lightning bugs) were outside in full force. While Sharon kept playing bass during a song, Tim set down his bass and leaped into the crowd, in pusuit of a heckler. And Larry Norman was in the audience. Another one for the books.."

  • Terry also takes part in a press conference at the fest.


  • Issue 3 of Vertigo, the Swirling Eddies Spinning Vortex Fun Club Newsletter is also available at the fest.
    View Newsletter

    July 14, 1990

  • In a single 10 hour recording session, DA records a new version of "The Pool", a cover of "Ghost Riders in the Sky", and the longtime DA concert classic "I'm On Your Team," which at the time had never been released officially. This session was the first time that Taylor, McTaggart and Chandler played with Jerry Chamberlain since he left the band in 1983.

    Summer 1990

  • Jacob's Trouble's Knock, Breathe, Shine is released on Frontline Records. Terry Produced, Directed, Cowrote "Look At U Now", "Islands, Buildings and Freeways", "There Goes My Heart Again", & "I'm A Little World" with Jerry Davidson. Terry also Cowrote "Beggars and Kings" with Jerry Davidson & Randy Stonehill. Terry also sang background vocals.

    Jerry Davison, "Beggars and Kings": "This is a song Terry and Randy Stonehill had started some months before we came out to record. They hadn't finished it and Terry thought it might fit our record. So he had Randy come by and the three of us sat down and finished it. Rather, Terry and Randy finished it while I sat there in awe of the fact that I was sitting with Terry Taylor and Randy Stonehill. They put my name on the credits anyhow. Nice fellas. When I asked him why he wanted to give me credit as a songwriter he said, 'Because they came out of that head space that you helped create. You are a part of those songs whether or not you wrote any of the actual music or lyrics.' I always thought he was just being nice."

    Jerry Davison, "Islands Buildings and Freeways": "The credits say this was written by Terry Taylor and Jerry Davison but I can tell you this is Terry's song all the way. I was in the room when he wrote it and maybe tossed out a few suggestions here and there but the whole thing is pretty much his start to finish. And as such, it's not surprising this was one of the most popular and enduring songs from the record."

    Jerry Davison, "About Sex": "We had demoed the song, 'About Sex,' intending it for Knock, Breathe, Shine, but Terry declined to produce it. Unfortunately Frontline had their hearts set on including it so Terry and the band created this song literally from thin air, and called it 'About Sex (Part II).' I already mentioned the tension and conflict which swirled around our original demo for '"About Sex.' This song came about as Terry's effort to appease the powers that be at Frontline. They had their heart set on 'About Sex' being on the record and Terry had his mind made up that it would only be on the CD over his cold, dead body. So Terry came up with a plan to have a song called 'About Sex' on the record that was not our song 'About Sex.' He sent me into the drum booth and I sat down behind the kit. 'Start playing,' he said over the talk back in my headphones. 'What do you want me to play?' I asked. 'Anything,' he said. 'Just play and I'll tell you when to stop.' So I did. That's the drums you hear on this song. After that he sent Mark and Steve in respectively and told them what to play over my drum track. They pounded away and when they were done, they came out and sat down next to me looking just as confused as I probably looked at that moment. Terry then began to feverishly construct what became 'About Sex Part II' literally ex nihilo. He put in a call to Frontline's offices and had some guy there start looking up statistics on divorce, abortion, sexually transmitted diseases, etc. I think it's the same guy who researched all that stuff who drove over to the studio and read it into the microphone!

    By this time, we felt a little like our record had been hijacked. The recording continued without us. I think we wandered off into the next room and played golf on the Nintendo. Terry brought in Dan Michaels of the Choir to play some terrific saxophone stuff. Greg Flesch came in and was amazing on lead guitar, as usual. The preacher's voice is from an old cassette Terry had of Jimmy Swaggart losing his mind and screaming about sex in pretty graphic detail. All the vocals were Terry and guys from DA or the Eddies. Other than the initial drums, bass, and acoustic guitar that we played without even knowing what we were doing, we had absolutely nothing to do with the song. Please don’t get me wrong; I am not slamming Terry. He did an amazing job assembling this complex and riveting track literally from nothing right there on the spot. It’s a tribute to his genius, no question. It jus wasn't us. It didn't sound like us. It didn't feel like us. It didn't flow with the rest of the record. It was purely politics resulting from a producer being pressured by a record label."

    August 1990

  • In a CCM magazine survey, readers were asked what classic albums they would like to see on Compact Disc. The number one choice was Welcome To Paradise by Randy Stonehill, number two was Dancing with Danger by Leslie Phillips, numbers three and four were two AD albums, Time Line and Art of the State and number five was Daniel Amos' Horrendous Disc.

    When asked which artists' back catalogues the readers would like to see reissued on Compact Disc - the number one answer was Daniel Amos.

    August 15, 1990

  • Randy Stonehill's Until We Have Wings is released on Myrrh Records. Jerry Chamberlain and Sharon McCall sang BGVs; Dave Raven played drums; Mark Heard produced and played bass guitar and keyboards; Tom Howard played keyboards.

  • Randy Stonehill's video One Night in 20 Years is released on Myrrh Records. Terry is seen telling a story about Randy, along with clips of Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, Tom Howard and others.

    September 1990



    Miracle Faith Prickly Heat
    Telethon of Love


    Dr. Edward Daniel Taylor ~ The Miracle Faith Telethon of Love

  • Dr. Edward Daniel Taylor's Miracle Faith Telethon is released.
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    Album Info

    The whole Telethon was basically recorded as an improvised sketch with very little script and no rehearsals. Ed McTaggart handled the art direction and design for the record.

    Terry: "We just decided to combine everything we'd ever done, it's kind of a mixed bag from the Frontline era. They wanted to do a 'best of,' but I didn't think, without my entire body of work, that it would have been a real good project... so rather than do that we'd have more fun with it, make it more of a collectible thing. There are a lot of fans out there that are eager for this kind of stuff, that we couldn't normally put on a early record. I included a little history on each of these cuts, little anecdotes, so that collectors will have fun with it."

    Telethon anecdote:
    Tom: "OK Gene, you do the voice for this character."
    Gene: "No way man, I don't do voices."
    Terry: "What about that little mousy voice you do for that little band of yours."




  • September 13, 1990

  • Angelica's Walkin' In Faith is released on Intense Records. Ed McTaggart handled the art direction.

    October 1990

  • Terry Taylor is featured in Harvest Rock Syndicate.
    "The HRS Interview Part One"


    Daniel Amos ~ Live Bootleg 82


  • DA's Live Bootleg '82 is released.
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    Album Info

    October 15, 1990

  • Tourniquet's Stop the Bleeding is released on Intense Records. Ed McTaggart handled the art direction.

    October-November 1990


  • A Vertigo Newsletter "Update" is mailed out to members of the Swirling Eddies Fun Club.
    View Newsletter

    November 19, 1990

  • Lowen and Navarro's Walking on a Wire is released on PGD/Polygram. Swirling Eddie David Raven played drums and percussion.

    November 14, 1990

  • The Choir's Circle Slide is released on Myrrh Records. Jerry Chamberlain and Sharon McCall sing BGVs on "Merciful Eyes". Mark Heard also sang background vocals.

    November/December 1990

  • Noteboard magazine reviews Dr. Edward Daniel Taylor's Miracle Faith Telethon.
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    December 1990

  • Syndicate Magazine reviews the CD reissue of Shotgun Angel.
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