================================================ Subject: NCR Lifehouse not Christian From: "~Kristin ~" To: Date: Thu 2 Aug 2001 19:43:26 -0700 ================================================ What makes you say Lifehouse IS?? Here's an article I found which states the opposite.. http://www.canoe.ca/JamMusicArtistsL/lifehouse.html and here's the text.. Friday, May 4, 2001 Crossed wires Lifehouse often mistaken for Christian band By MIKE ROSS Edmonton Sun Surfing to www.lifehouse.com on the Internet brings you to the home page of the Christian youth ministry of South Dakota. Tough luck, rock band, they had it first. Then it comes out that Lifehouse singer Jason Wade was raised by not one but two Christian ministers. Geez, both his parents. Factor in religious imagery on the band's debut album, No Name Face, and you can see how people could get the wrong idea. Rock musicians raised by Christians can often go two ways - become Christian rock musicians like Audio Adrenaline or rebel to become anti-Christian rock musicians like, oh, Marilyn Manson. Wade didn't do either. Just to set the record straight, Lifehouse, which opens for matchbox twenty at Skyreach Centre tomorrow night, isn't a Christian band - nor do they engage in any of the immoral excesses of other rock bands whose names we won't mention here. Wade recalls that his dad actually came on the road with Lifehouse for four days and "he's very proud of us." Dad didn't mind all the heroin and prostitutes on the tour bus? The 20-year-old singer laughs, "There's none of that ... I'm still living the same as the way I was raised. It's kind of a clean rock thing." Clean rock. There's a concept. Lifehouse could've easily gone Christian rock all the way, Wade admits, "but I just felt I had more of a universal message with my music. I could reach more people in the regular mainstream." Besides, with the Christian music community embracing "clean" rock bands like Creed or Collective Soul, it's a scene, Wade says, "that can easily turn on you." The Los Angeles-based band has only been playing live for about seven months, but thanks to the smash hit Hanging By a Moment, they've opened for Pearl Jam, Fuel, Collective Soul and even Green Day. It's a heck of a whirlwind rock 'n' roll apprenticeship for a band that was jamming in a garage only a year ago. The band credits producer Ron Aniello (who conveniently lived down the street) for their rapid success. "We basically started as a garage band that wasn't very good and we met a producer that whipped us into shape and it just started developing," Wade says. "But that's all I did every day. It's one of those things that if you really stay dedicated to something, you'll eventually get good at it." The singer is a firm believer in the "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" school of thought. While what doesn't kill you will sometimes leave you maimed and broken, in this case, it seemed to work. He recalls being a victim of racism while living in Hong Kong as a kid (not just ministers, his parents were missionaries, too). Neighbours actually killed and ate their family cat. "We were never really accepted by the people there," he says. "But I look at it like it made me stronger." A broken family made him stronger, too. Wade didn't start writing songs until his parents split up and he ended up living in L.A. with his mom. "That was my initial inspiration," he says. "That whole experience led me to the place where I realized I had a gift in writing songs. I honestly think I wouldn't be doing music if my parents were still together. You should never regret your past, even though some of it's hard. It can open you up to something else that's better." OK. We come now to the inevitable grumbling that accompanies a big radio band. The Christian music scene may be fickle, but the mainstream scene can be vicious. Just ask a music critic. Since the big radio hit, Lifehouse has been carved for being a clone of Creed, which in turn was accused of being a clone of Pearl Jam. Lord help us if the three bands ever get on the same bill. Wade, who does possess the distinctive "Eddie Tenor" voice (named for Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder), has heard it all before. He's not worried. "I feel like as long as you're honest and open and don't come across as pretentious, people will always embrace you. "People will always compare you to someone. To be honest, I'm more of a Kurt Cobain fan than I am of Eddie Vedder. I always say, man, I was trying to rip off Kurt Cobain, not Eddie Vedder. I don't know what happened!" he laughs. "But what do you do? You just have to make your music and be yourself and eventually the next band will come along and if we're established, people will say they sound like us. So you just have to stick around and kind of make your mark early." ~Kristin "We may rise and fall, But in the end, We'll meet our fate together.." -----Original Message----- From: karen lunan m00nlitjewel@NETSCAPE.NET Sent: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 13:06:44 -0400 To: CREED-DISCUSS@WINDUPLIST.COM Subject: Re: help me please I know Lifehouse is. *~kay~* Taylour l manly wrote: >Hey guys speaking of christian music i got a question. you ever heard >P.O.D. and lifehouse(obviously) well, i read that they're christian bands >and i was just wondering if anyone could confirm that or not.! thasnks > >Also i went to a real good rock concert. these guys are already known >mostly(i didn't know they were already famous!)in S.C. but they're >called TWO LEPTA. i like the name and it relates to a biblical story >about a woman who gave all she had so they give all they have, and they >do! the Drummer looks Like Flip exactly and plays just about as well to! >they're hilarious also. there was a part when they were doin a song >called 'i wanna dance' and the singer just breaks into this geeky looking >thing and one of the guitarists started to do a country hick dance, then >they both collapsed on the floor and fiinished the song! i laughed so >hard i cried! they played games with us and after everyone left my friend >and i were the only ones left and steven(lead Vocals) turned to us and >asked us if we had a ride(half tempted to say no) i told him we did but >he wasn't here. then he floored me and asked us to came hang out with the >band. his concern was so touching to me. they way they play(not sing) >made us decree them the Creed of the christian world. like i said playing >only, they even sound country! well gotta go! i highly recommend the cd. >X.C.F. for R.C.M ___________________________________________________________________________ Visit http://www.visto.com. 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