<TimeLine 1997>

TimeLine : 1997

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  • Terry's son Andrew begins playing drums for a local California band called The Sarah Abrams Attack Tank. (Source: Leah Terrell)

  • Tim Chandler goes back to school.
    Tim: "Realizing that I wasn't going to make any real living for my familiy as a musician, (took me long enough to figure that one out) I went back to school to learn as much computer-dorkery as fast as I could possibly learn it. I was lucky enough to be taught by this guy who was the equivilent of Jedi Knight of computer-dorkery network engineering. He was a larger than life 300 pound black man with a shaved head who suffered no fool (other than me for some reason). He was a former LA gang member, and then later a US air force officer who not only made good but became someone who was known as being a computer dork badass. I was lucky to have landed in his orbit. I became his teacher's assistant. He was my mentor (younger than me by 3 years) and remains a great friend.

    I then worked in the lab at the same college, worked some side-gig computer dork jobs, and then taught at the college (tech school actually, although they used the word 'college' in their title...the requirements for teaching tech school are that you can prove that you know the subject, and have enough previous hours--lab time for me--to qualify. I got a california cert, and was hired to teach.) They (the tech school) asked me at one point to 'teach' a course I wasn't prepared to teach (fake it, in other words). Realizing that this was just wrong to fake a class for people who were paying large money in an effort to learn something to be able to change their lives like I was able to do, I asked them to please not try to force me to teach the class. They insisted that I teach the class. I then asked all of them (the people who ran the college), in rather colorful language, but politely, if perhaps they wouldn't mind lining up one at a time to kiss the living hell out of my ass for asking me to commit fraud. Oddly enough, they let me go. (soon after, having nothing to do with my leaving, the entire program collapsed. so actually, I was lucky enough to have left when I did.) During this time, I began to realize something about how computer dork work affected me. I could be in a recording studio playing music for 18 hours in a row and walk out the front door feeling like I could go another 18 hours. When I did computer dork work, it drained me completely -- I had some sort of affinity for it, but it completely wore me out. It still does to this day."

  • Tribute: The Songs of Andrae Crouch is released on Warner Brothers. Alex MacDougall contributed vocals.

    March-June 1997

  • Terry begins writing the memoirs of his life in Christian music.

    April 1997

  • The Giovanni Audiori catalog surveys it's readers to find out what songs they wanted Terry to perform at Cornerstone. Out of the hundreds of entries, the #1 choice was "Walls of Doubt". Terry performed the song at Cornerstone and mentioned the survey.

    May 8, 1997

  • The Choir's live album Let It Fly is released on Tattoo Records. Tim Chandler played bass, and cowrote "Kissers and Killers", and "Sad Face".

    June 14, 1997


  • Doug Doyle masters the FarmBeetles recordings at Digital Dog studios, eleven years after the project was started. Three or four of the songs were recorded in 1986 during the Fearful Symmetry sessions and the remaining tracks were recording in the mid 90s.

    June 21, 1997

  • The San Bernardino County Sun newspaper publishes an article about a local band by the name of Walnut Grove, whose bassist is former DA bassist Marty Dieckmeyer.
    "Walnut Grove, meanwhile, takes the "Feeling groovy" approach. It leans on a cheery 1960's-era pop sound. It formed about 18 months ago when a mutual acquaintance introduced voalist Kristen Proffit, 28, to bassist Marty Dieckmeyer, 41, a veteran of the Orange County music scene. Proffit was a chorale and choir singer. Dieckmeyer said that after he heard her "I thought, 'what a great voice.' It wasn't 'Gee, we'll be successful.' I just heard something with enough potential to put a band together."

    Dieckmeyer, who has ihis own landscaping business, hired Hollywood guitarist and engineer Mark Christian to help the duo put together a demo tape. Christian brought Tustin drummer Roger Smith with him. When the tape - Surprise - landing them their first gig at the Coach House, a well known club in San Juan Capistrano, Walnut Grove was born. Christian and Smith signed on.

    Since then, they have become semi-regulars at the Galaxy theatre in Santa Ana and the Coach House. They've played with artists such as Paula Cole, Throwing Muses and Common Sense. Among their frequent Inland Empire gigs are regular shows at Main Street events on Court Street Square in San Bernardino. The foursome also has recorded a video to be shown on the city's local public access station Channel 3.

    "The hardest part is getting everyone together, because everyone works," said Dieckmeyer. Proffit, with a supportive husband, is the only one who quit her day job selling computers to devote all of her energy to the band. The rest of Walnut Grove and Bol (another band featured in the article) do such things as security work, deliver pizzas, go to schoo, teach music, run flea markets and do social services work for the county. Said Dieckmeyer, "Relationships and chemistry in the band have to be positive. You have to be able to take constructive crticism from each other."

    July 1997


  • Terry Scott Taylor & Friends perform in Bushnell, Illinois at the Cornerstone festival in Bushnel, IL. Billed as a "20 year retrospective," Terry's band included DA members Tim Chandler, Jerry Chamberlain and Ed McTaggart, the Prayer Chain's Andy Prickett, The Choir's Steve Hindalong and Derri Daugherty, and multi-instrumentalist Phil Madeira.
    Set List: Broken Ladders to Glory, Can't Take My Eyes Off of You, Alarma!, The Glory Road, If You Want To, I'll Get Over It, Driving In England, When Everyone Wore Hats, You Lay Down, Walls of Doubt, John Wayne, Zoom Daddy, Safety Net, Let's Spin!, Encore: Ain't Gonna Fight It, Buffalo Hills, The Twist, The Glory Road (Reprise)



  • Terry films about 30 minutes of footage for the 700 club, a tour of Cornerstone for a livelier-than-normal cardboard Pat Robertson. Very little of the footage aired because the 700 Club found it too "controversial".

    Neverhood Songs

  • Neverhood Songs, a soundtrack CD to The Neverhood video game is released at the festival.
    Album Info & Lyrics

  • Terry's Ten Gallon Hat EP (preview pre-release of John Wayne) is released at Cornerstone. Only 1000 copies were printed.

  • Terry also takes part in a press conference at the fest. After the press conference, Terry went back to the Stunt booth and played some songs on his acoustic guitar.

    September 11, 1997

  • Celtic Psalms is released on Straightway. Alex MacDougall was the executive producer.

    November 1, 1997

  • Phil Madeira's 3 Horse Shoes is released on Stunt Records. Terry sings backing vocals on "Christmas this Year".

    November 1997

  • Terry spent a couple of weeks in Nashville, writing songs with Derri Daugherty, Phil Madeira and Steve Hindalong for Derri's upcoming solo project.

  • Terry has agreed to be the head of west coast A&R for the Killen Music Group (KMG Records), a Nashville-based record label. This label, owned by Buddy Killen (Hank Williams' bass player, producer of Heartbreak Hotel, etc.) will be predominantly Christian and has acquired the old Frontline catalog.

    November 11, 1997

  • Jai's Heaven is released on BMG/RCA. Rob Watson is credited with programming and cowriting the track "Don't Give Me Away" with Joel Bogen and Jason Rowe.



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