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I don't know about the rest of y'all but out here in CA you don't just run into somebody who knows/knew/cares about Terry and the wiser music we love. As a matter of fact I have met exactly one new person who likes DA since the day I found a doppleganger dub in the gutter by my church in '83. (other than you fine folks)
I've become so crazed with the idea of finding someone who has heard of them that I've taken to wearing the shirts to almost any appropriate event, in hopes of stirring an occasional, "Daniel Amos, cool."
You'd think that one of the thousands at Disneyland, Angel Stadium, Pomona Raceway, Huntington Beach, etc. would recognize the name of the greatest band in RAWK!!!
My question - How have you made contact with fellow Terry-ophiles? (besides this trekkie-like message board stuff)
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anne
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| My question - How have you made contact with fellow Terry-ophiles? |
by converting them!
ha ha
(actually not really kidding... i turned my college roommate into a swirling eddies fan 
, and i just had a visit from a college friend who was dying to hear my lost dogs gift horse cd, since she'd lost hers.)
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BD
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I've never run into a DA or TST related fan out in the real world...
I too wear my shirts to a lot of places (I wore my "Hats" shirt to work today 
). But no one ever knows the names on the shirts. Even at Churches or "Christian" gatherings.
I have met hundreds over the internet from all over the world! Some I have met at local concerts, or talked to on the phone... but that's about it. The DA fan is spread far and wide. 
BD
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Mark
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Unfortunately you are right BD.
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wes berlin
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I wore my "Hats" shirt.... |
still waiting for mine.
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BD
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I wore my "Hats" shirt.... |
still waiting for mine.
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Hey maybe I could burn you a copy of mine? Oh wait, that doesn't work for t-shirts.
I should have remembered that from the last time. I ruined a good 77s shirt that way.
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04-28-2003 20:08 |
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anne
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what's this?? no one's impressed with my conversion story?? fine, then. *pout*
i rather thought i outdid myself with the swirling eddies one.......
oh yeah, and i'm turning my lil bro into a DA fan. and he recently told me he's been playing songs like New Car, etc for one of his friends, trying to share the light...
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Joey T.
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geez.... when i was in high school i worked at a winchell's donuts and was playing vox humana on my radio one day....
a guy walked in and said those guys are great, have you ever seen them? i said yeah, and it turned out we had both been to one of the same shows in orange county.... we lived in l.a. county....
i didn't think it was a big deal then, because i thought Da was world famous........
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BD
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Originally posted by anne
(actually not really kidding... i turned my college roommate into a swirling eddies fan
, and i just had a visit from a college friend who was dying to hear my lost dogs gift horse cd, since she'd lost hers.)
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That is so amazing anne! how did you do it?
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I did think it was a great story, but of course like everyone else, I was just thinking of myself again. Please forgive my rudeness. 
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While looking for a church I went to one and decided to go there - didn't worry about looking elsewhere. The next week I was chatting to one person and he liked DA during the Shotgun Angel era and then a month later I met a guy who liked them up until Horrendous Disk and then lost track of them.
However while yakking with the youth group the other month one of them la-la'd a few notes from the soundtrack of this computer game they loved. Neverhood. I enlightened them and we had a great sing-song while everyone else looked at us like I'm used to being looked at anyway. Eyes rolling eyebrows raised sort of thing.
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Woggy
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I enlightened them and we had a great sing-song while everyone else looked at us like I'm used to being looked at anyway. Eyes rolling eyebrows raised sort of thing.
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........that happens to me all the time!
Say, did I ever tell you that my lilbro, jimIny, turned me on to DA? No? I've never told you that? Well...........I know, I know, I'm a pain in the buttinski
LOVED your story, AnnieGirl. Tell me more
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anne
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That is so amazing anne! how did you do it?
I did think it was a great story, but of course like everyone else, I was just thinking of myself again. Please forgive my rudeness.
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LOL
how did i do it is a good question.... because i'm sure you've all had the experience that i often have of trying to share some cool music with someone & having them react in a less-than-thrilled way.
i think it helped that i didn't pressure her at all to like them or push it on her (because that probably would have just made her resistant), although my own enjoyment and appreciation of it was evident.
and she heard them enough times during the 4+ years that we lived together for them to become familiar. ...what we might call a "mere exposure" effect -- people tend to like things that are familiar. (i think that can actually make a big difference, although it takes patience.)
anyway, eventually, much to my surprise, my roommate began to request me to play swirling eddies, spontaneously dance around the apartment to songs like disco love grapes, and even asked me to sing "Strange Days" at her wedding (i refused!!!)!
thanks woggy
you want another story? ok:
i turned my dad into a lost dogs fan too... i think just hearing lost dogs songs played a lot around the house for years, and hearing me enthusing about them helped a lot. (plus, he's really sentimental, and i think he likes the fact that they remind him of me
- - he's cute that way)
also, i took him to a lost dogs concert in livonia, and we had SUCH a good time together, and he thought they were SOOOO funny, so that kind of cemented it.
but my current location isn't very fertile ground for making DA fans because i don't know very many christians (and many of my nonchristian friends aren't "openminded" about listening to music that is overtly christian, unfortunately).
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DaLe
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Originally posted by BD
I've never run into a DA or TST related fan out in the real world...
I too wear my shirts to a lot of places (I wore my "Hats" shirt to work today
). But no one ever knows the names on the shirts. Even at Churches or "Christian" gatherings.
I have met hundreds over the internet from all over the world! Some I have met at local concerts, or talked to on the phone... but that's about it. The DA fan is spread far and wide.
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ditto... 
I even wore a Choir t-shirt out of the house last week
no one took the bait
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anne
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i always like that story...
my bigbro turned ME on to DA
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Woggy
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see how sweet brothers can really be???
(psst, a secret just for you annegirl........me and jim are going to NY in June.............isn't that cool? I love my brother
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DaLe
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my bigbro turned ME on to DA
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ditto...
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I wore my Doppleganger shirt to a Christian camp when I was a counselor and the guy who was the head of the paintball field told me that he loved DA and Doppleganger was his favorite record.
When I was on staff at the Baptist Church I helped start a Christian club at our middle school (it has since been banned) and the teacher I was working with told me that he was a big fan of da in the early 80's. Sadly, when I got him to buy Songs Of The Heart he hated it.
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Captain Pedantic
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Saw Fearful Symmetry on a book store and never looked back...
You could say that it was the naked guy doing situps that turned me on
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to DA of course
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Ron E
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I think I turned my little bro on to DA, he's not rabid but he does listen.
I wore my Phil Keaggy, Find Me In These Fields t shirt in Monaco a few years ago and a guy ,walking by said, "Hey, Phil Keaggy!" That was it. And speaking of turning on to so and so and Phil Keaggy. Phil and gasp.. Twila Paris were touring together a few years ago. I loved Phil back then, and my younger sis loved Twila. My mother thought Phil was just another rock and roll guy, but Twila, I mean her name is in the hymn book right! So anyway, she took my sister to the concert and loved Phil, but thought Twila was too showy, too much flash, not enough substance. That's it.
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