MUSIC
From the very beginning, music always
played a key role in the Agape Force in one way or another.
From the early days of the UnChoir to the glory days of
Silverwind, and Candle, who captured the ears of a
generation and raised the bar for Christian Children's
Music with "Music Machine", "Bullfrog & Butterflies"
and more, music remained a constant among us.
Many of us had guitars and a few could
actually play them. Whether we knew hundreds of chords or
just 3, those guitars became the brushes we used to paint
the colors of our devotion. We read our bibles and wrote
songs from what we read. We heard messages and made songs
of the themes that moved our hearts. In the earliest days,
the thought of albums of those songs never crossed our
minds. These were songs we wrote for the Lord and each
other and sang to the Lord and each other.
Kathy Salerno was a great painist. And
initially the UnChoir (later called the Tour Team) was
really more like a choir and keyboard driven. The UnChoir
sang songs and chorus's written by Carrie Gonzalo, Andre
Crouch and others of that time. They were a blend of peppy
or powerful songs and very different from what most people
heard in church, but not THAT much different. Slowly, the
songs we wrote ourselves started finding their way into the
ministry we did. First, through little insertions into the
program - for instance Jim and I would step out and do a
song or two in the middle of a service that was mostly a
Tour Team thing. Later there were other bands that had
their own ministry gigs. Before long we were thinking about
doing an album. After that it seemed like it all just
started to snowball.
As we find musical tidbits, we'll put up some QuickTime
files that will take you back to that time and give you an
ear full of memories and perhaps insight into what we were
all about.