Path: sipb-server-2.mit.edu!senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!grapevine.lcs.mit.edu!olivea!hookup!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!mcshub!informer1.cis.McMaster.CA!muss.cis.McMaster.CA!not-for-mail From: u8807385@muss.cis.McMaster.CA (P. Bhatia) Newsgroups: alt.music.amy-grant,rec.music.christian,rec.music.info,rec.answers,alt.answers,news.answers Subject: AMY GRANT FAQ: V-5.1 [1/2] Followup-To: poster Date: 31 Oct 1994 00:25:05 -0500 Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Lines: 847 Approved: dallin@cs.colostate.edu,news-answers-request@mit.edu Expires: November 30, 1994 Message-ID: <391v3h$6kl@muss.cis.McMaster.CA> NNTP-Posting-Host: muss.cis.mcmaster.ca Summary: Provides useful info on the life and music of Amy Grant Xref: sipb-server-2.mit.edu alt.music.amy-grant:1585 rec.music.christian:39229 rec.music.info:4405 rec.answers:8140 alt.answers:5340 news.answers:28362 Archive-name: music/amy-grant-faq/part1 Posting-Frequency: monthly Last-modified: 1994-Oct-30 Version: 5.1 888 888 888 8888b. 88888b.d88b. 888 888 .d88b. 888d888 8888b. 88888b. 888888 "88b 888 "888 "88b 888 888 d88P"88b 888P" "88b 888 "88b 888 .d888888 888 888 888 888 888 888 888 888 .d888888 888 888 888 888 888 888 888 888 Y88b 888 Y88b 888 888 888 888 888 888 Y88b. "Y888888 888 888 888 "Y88888 "Y88888 888 "Y888888 888 888 "Y888 888 888 Y8b d88P Y8b d88P "Y88P" "Y88P" d8b 8888 d8 8' .d88 .d88 Yb dP 8ww. 8 w8ww 8 8 8 8 YbdP wwww `8 8 8 `Y88 `Y88 YP Y88P w 888 8P =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Frequently Asked Questions (1/2) for newsgroup: alt.music.amy-grant x-posted to: rec.music.christian, rec.music.info, rec.answers, news.answers, alt.answers =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Contents: Part 1 * Getting the FAQ * Biography * Factual * Trivia * Friends of AMY * Concert Itinerary * Obtaining pictures, newsletters, lyrics * ART Server subscriptions (info on subscribing/posting for those without Usenet access) Part 2 * Discography * Amy's Top 20 * Videography * Video Reviews * The Collection * Amy's Achievements on Billboard Magazine -- Revisions from V-5.0: - New section, Getting the FAQ, has been added - 4 sections pertaining to audio/video have been shifted to part 2 - Minor changes to Discography to account for vinyl releases - Concert Itinerary has been updated: some concerts have been dropped from the Pacific Rim, North American itinerary posted - Obtaining... section has been updated to include the new WWW site. - The Collection now includes a few more articles. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= .d88b w w w 8888 db .d88b. 8P www .d88b w8ww w8ww w 8d8b. .d88 8www dPYb 8P Y8 8b d8 8.dP' 8 8 8 8P Y8 8 8 8 dPwwYb 8b wd8 `Y88P' `Y88P Y8P Y8P 8 8 8 `Y88 8 dP Yb `Y88Pw wwdP The latest version of the alt.music.amy-grant FAQ can usually be obtained from the following ftp sites: rtfm.mit.edu /pub/usenet/news.answers/music/amy-grant-faq/ OR ftp.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de /pub/art/faq/ If you do not have access to ftp, you can send mail to: mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with first 2 lines of message containing: send /usenet/news.answers/music/amy-grant-faq/part1 send /usenet/news.answers/music/amy-grant-faq/part2 To access the FAQ by WWW, use one of the following URLs: http://www.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de/ftp/pub/art/faq.html OR http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/music/ amy-grant-faq/top.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 888b. w 8 8wwwP w .d8b. .d88 8d8b .d88 88b. 8d8b. Yb dP 8 b 8 8' .8 8 8 8P 8 8 8 8 8P Y8 YbdP 888P' 8 `Y8P' `Y88 8 `Y88 88P' 8 8 dP wwdP 8 dP At the tender age of 16, when Amy went into the recording studio to make her first recording, she was scared stiff and couldn't do it. Finally, this was resolved by turning off all the lights in the studio. This let her concentrate on her feelings for God (since this was a religious tune), and just sing her heart out about it. (a) Here are a few highlights from the biography written on Amy. by: Bob Millard (1986) [aside: This is an unauthorized biography, and it is interesting to note that Bob has never met Amy in his life. Shortly after the book was published, Amy commented "He was pretty kind to me, for the most part"] (b) Amy entered her career rather naively. There was some confusion in her mind when she was told that she could do her first concert for $300. Not realizing that her hosts would pay HER for the privilege, rather than the other way around, Amy protested. "I only have $500 in my savings and I need it," she said. (71) "When I first started doing concerts I didn't have to go on the road because there wasn't any big demand for me," Amy recalls. "People would just call about once a month and ask if I could come to their place and sing. I'd pack up my guitar and just fly out there. It has really only been [since 1980 or 1981] that I've done any real touring at all. But one of the first concerts I can remember doing I had one thousand kids show up at the Will Rogers Memorial Auditorium in Fort Worth, Texas. "I had no idea how the promoter did that. I knew maybe three people in Fort Worth and couldn't understand how the promoter got one thousand people there. I hardly knew any songs. I just knew the songs I'd written plus maybe five or six more. I remember playing everything I knew and I'd only played for like fifty-five minutes and I finally said, 'I don't know any more songs.' But the kids yelled from the balcony, 'Why don't you just sing your songs over again?' It was so informal. I just said okay and started singing 'em over again." (79-80) "I had a dream," she says. "I dreamed I was in heaven and God put His arm around me and said, 'Amy, what have you done for me?' I had my album behind my back and said, 'Look, Lord, I've been singing for you. Here's my album.' He was a little disappointed. That's when I woke up and realized I was a little too proud of myself and that my whole life at that time was just a piece of plastic, a round record." (83) "Let me tell you what Amy did when she first started writing songs and getting a few royalties," Amy's mother says. "One year at Christmas she gave each one of her sisters one of her songs. They each get a royalty off it twice a year." The sisters' names do not appear as writers on any of the album jacket credits and no one in the family or management team has revealed which songs they are. Given the continued, steady sales of her albums, Amy's gift of songwriter credits has undoubtedly been worth hundreds of dollars to her sisters and will continue to ring up royalties, as long as her records stay in print. Amy's generosity to her sisters is a quiet, personal thing among the tightly knit family. (94) Amy and Gary spent long hours together both on and off the road that summer. Chapman's warmth and wit were winning one heart in the wings along with all the hearts and souls he was winning over in the audience. Amy learned a lot about performing by watching Chapman's timing and humor. And Gary couldn't help but notice the forthright honesty which magnified Amy's charismatic rapport with her audience. In front of the largest crowd, a thirty-thousand-strong festival of young people held in Kissimmee, Florida, Amy blurted out something to the crowd of high school and college students that immediately tore down all the barriers of pretense which an elevated stage and musical message can create. She told them that she was horny. "We're sitting there, I do my sound check. All these girls are in halter tops, great figures, everybody's wearing nothing, we're in Floriday," Amy says. "I'm eighteen and I know what they're thinking. I said, 'I really want to know Jesus and I really want to love him except...my hormones are on ten and I see you all... sitting out there getting chummy and praying together--and we're horny. My feeling is why fake it? I'm not trying to be gross, I'm saying let's be honest about what's coming down. Do you want to get to know Jesus? Fine. Let's be honest about who we are.' " (103) "I get tired of Christians trying to tell me what being a Christian is," Amy said when she was twenty years old. "I get tired of that kind of Christianity. I don't mean that in a disrespectful way, but it's especially true in the college- age group. People asking, 'Have you had your quiet time today?' We have such a regimented idea of what Christianity is. In college, everybody wears the same thing and they want their walk with the Lord to be the same way. Sometimes I just want to scream, 'I had a loud time with the Lord this morning!' Sometimes I just feel like Christians are boxing themselves in." (107) "I felt that initially I was really accepted and well- received by the audiences, but among the music people I was really looked down upon," she recalls. "They were all thinking...all the young kids buy [her records] because she sings so simply. They all thought that the three-year- old kid next door could write my songs. But that's just it; the three-year-old next door was not writing them." (114) "Sometimes I think it's a little unrealistic to think the only thoughts a person has are Christian thoughts," Amy recalls. "I remember going to a fraternity party and you just sense the electricity starting to happen. Some guy's paying you some attention and then somebody goes, 'Hey, this is the gospel singer' and phhht, there it goes. I felt like saying, 'Hey, look, I can flirt, I can date, I will kiss good night, we can embrace.' But once the stereotype is there-- wham!" (118) Many Vanderbilt boys were intimidated by her status as a "professional Christian." They avoided Amy in any normal social situation. "They think you're a female Billy Graham with a guitar," she complained (119). "I'll never be a star. I just prefer to wish upon them, Greet them at dusk, And watch them fall." That's how the postcard poem read. The message comes from her heart, a young woman's rejection of the Hollywood star-making machinery and its counterpart in the gospel music industry. Recognitions of her in the world of professional entertainment was growing each month, as the Grammy nomination and the GMA Dove Award nominations of the two previous years attested. The legion of Amy Grant fans continued to grow. (122-123) "Our big thrill was when we sang in a place called Brugg. This is not Bruge, Belgium it's Brugg, Switzerland. We sang at some kind of a ruin, it was like a circle of stones and obviously had pillars. There were about six thousand people there and we were invited to be part of a music festival there. They were cheering when we walked out and at first they told us to do six or seven songs, but by the time we got up it was only two songs. We were the nobodies so they cut us way down. We walked off and said, 'This will be incredible, the record company will be so excited. We've spread our names and spread our music.' "We walked off and someone came up to shake our hands and they said, 'Now what is your name?' We said Gary Chapman and Amy Grant. They said, 'They didn't introduce you, they just said here's the two Americans.' " (137) "Historically, any time a gospel artist has tried to cross over, it has been just death for them in the Christian music realm," Amy reflects. "I don't understand it. I don't understand the mentality that says you can't express several sides of your life. B.J. Thomas does it but he's highly criticized, and unfairly so. A person is a person and you have feelings. You know, I love my husband, I struggle in my relationship with my family, this is what I feel like when I'm driving home from work, this is how I brush my teeth. Not everything has some heavy spiritual emphasis. But I feel like there have been so few gospel artists that there's a real protective feeling in the gospel music industry."(141) "I felt like meat on a hook," Amy told Contemporary Christian Music magazine. "We'd go to places like Johnny Carson. The talent director would take me into the inner sanctum while Gary and my manager sat outside taking bets on how I'd do." (151) "Parents encourage their kids to go see Amy because her lyrics are clean, they're acceptable, and her venues are wholesome," explains GMA executive director Don Butler. "She doesn't want the conservative fundamentalists coming to her concerts. She wants young people who will get up and move to the beat, people who want to be pinned against the back wall by the volume for two hours. That's what she gives them. Besides, Amy never had the traditional gospel music fans, so how could she turn them off? She has never been the darling of the fundamentalists." (153-154) "There are a lot of songs that I just write and the only differentiation between them and secular pop music that I would say is that they are an observation of everyday life from a Christian perspective," Amy explains. "Like, I wrote a great song about my great grandmother one time and somebody who was really serious about what the lyrics should say might say, 'You know, you say you're a Christian singer, but I've played this song about your great grandmother for my friend and they were not saved. You're a failure.' A hard-line gospel songwriter might say that. But my point of view would be that instead of just writing about this one little piece of the spectrum, I'm just, as a songwriter, approaching life." (155) "There is a point at which we all have to say we're satisfied," she says. "I can't let the number of albums I sell dictate what I think of myself. If you start equating a song with dollar signs, you'll lose your value of what a song is all about." (159) "Gary's really great," she said. "Sensitive--maybe too much so--but that's balanced by a terrific sense of humor. Like most couples we fight about everything. 'You're so pushy,' he'll say. 'Stop manipulating me,' I'll say. It's a great marriage." (161) In Detroit, Amy was confronted by young fans who presented her with a bouquet of flowers attached to a note that read: "Turn back. You can still be saved if you renounce what you've done." "I cried in the shower, then went into the room and Gary was in bed, and I said, 'Would you hold me for a while?' and I just cried," Amy confesses. "Gary prayed for us, then the words of my pastor echoed in my head: "You are called to love them." (162) "I feel like in the past we have felt, we as Christian artists have felt like every song, every album had to encompass everything that means to be Christian," she says. "I feel like a lot of us now feel like 'let's approach all aspects of life from a Christian perspective.' Now it doesn't mean that suddenly every song doesn't have to be 'Blood on the Cross.' That's never not included. But it's just saying there's so many areas of life to be discussed and it's important to have somebody discuss it from a Christian perspective. How great to have a song that says, you know, it's really bad between me and my husband but I know that love perseveres." (167) Amy's enuncitation is often poor from behind a microphone, occasionally obscuring her lyrics, which, after all, are the heart of a gospel song. Many of her young fans know her lyrics by heart anyway, so they found a palatable invitation to faith in her Christian witnessing in her performance. There was the added communication of her mid- concert monolog, delivered partly while Amy lay flat on her back, legs crossed and kicking into the air like the B-grade movie stereotype of a teenage on the telephone. She came as close as she ever has to delivering a full-scale Christian witness during this part of the concert. "For maybe five of ten minutes [during concerts], I'll say who I am and what Jesus means in my life," Amy says. "I don't want to browbeat a crowd for two hours." (168) "I do what comes the easiest to me and people fall in the aisles," she says. "That's the difference with music. It's a talent that people will know who you are, but that doesn't mean it's a greater talent than any other. There are times when I've felt, 'What a farce,' that my sisters work so hard with their kids and get no attention. I do what comes naturally and get enought attention for all of us and forty times more. It's a humbling thing." (173) "When people express shock at the idea of crossover they're assuming that you're leaving something essential behind," Amy said to her critics in the Christian community. "I want to keep singing what I've always sung, but I see an opportunity to do both--to sing for a larger audience and to keep singing truth. And then I just go woooooo! Do it! Go for it!" (176-177) "What I want to do is to, in the way that I communicate and express myself, is to say what it means to be a vibrant Christian woman in the eighties," Amy explained. "And it doesn't mean, hey, my breasts are going to hang out over my shirt. I mean, that's gross to me. But it means to be wholesome and alive. I think a lot of times to me something that's very sexy, if you want to call it that, appealing to me is something that's very alive." (177) She stopped saying "maybe" to the possibility of crossover into the country or pop industry and in 1985 announced, "I want to play hardball in this business." "I want to be the U.S.A.'s top pop singer with the wholesome image," she says. "It's fun to fantasize with a Madonna. All through history there have been singers that projected a popular image: Carole King, Karen Carpenter. There's no balance to what kind of image is being presented to kids today. I want to be there." (177) "I see myself as sort of a combination performer and evangelist," Amy explains. "I hope people enjoy my singing, but at the same time their lives are affected by the words." (177-178) ---- ==> From Friends In Motion. (a) Thanks to Traci Miklos for this information. (b) From Lori McAlister -- thanks for the update! :) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 8888 w 8 8www .d88 .d8b w8ww 8 8 .d88 8 8 8 8 8 8 8b d8 8 8 8 8 `Y88 `Y8P Y8P `Y8P8 `Y88 8 Name: Amy Lee Grant :^) Born: November 25, 1960 at St. Joseph Hospital in Augusta, GA Sisters: Mimi, Kathy, Carol Brother-in-law: Dan Harrell (married to Kathy) Husband: Gary Chapman (born August 19, 1957 in Waurika, OK) Married: Saturday June 19, 1982 - wedding at Vine Street Christian Church in Nashville, TN Father: Dr. Burton Paine Grant Mother: Gloria Grant Grandfather: Dr. Otis Grant Great Grandfather: Andrew Mizell Burton (multimillionare and philanthropist) Great Grandmother: Lillie May Armstrong Burton (Mimi) Cousin: Wilson Burton (founder of City magazine) Cousin: Barry Burton (Vanderbilt Univ. football star) First piano lesson: 10 years old Baptized: at Church of Christ congregation in seventh grade First took up guitar: seventh grade Grammar school: Ensworth private High School: Harpeth Hall Got top honor at her school - Lady of the Hall Switched to Belmont Church (of charismatic Christians) in her teens Original album, 'Amy Grant' recorded at age 16, released in 1977 50,000 copies sold in first year--now more than 250,000 have sold! Gave first concert for $300 Entered Furman University in Greenville, SC, in September, 1978 majoring in English. Presented first Dove award at age 17. First serious concert [according to her] in July 1978 at Lakeside Amusement Park in Denver, CO. Father's Eyes was most popular tune of the year. First big tour in 1981 with Ed DeGarmo and Dana Key. Went to Vanderbilt University next after taking a year off after sophomore year. Age To Age released in May 1982. El Shaddai was most popular tune of the year. Six Dove awards off Age to Age and a Grammy -- ===> from Friends in Motion newsletter. --- 88888 w w 8 8d8b w Yb dP w .d88 8 8P 8 YbdP 8 8 8 8 8 8 YP 8 `Y88 Eyes: brown Hair: brown, naturally curly (never permed it until I had children!) Weight: 128.4 lbs. Height: 5'7" Worst year: sophomore in college Fave food: spaghetti Least fave food: can't think of any Fave ice cream: Baskin Robbins Chocolate Chip, Haagen Dazs Chocolate Fave dessert: Something that involves chocolate and peanut butter. It can be a Reeses Peanut Butter Cup or just a blob of peanut butter with Nestle chocolate chips. Pets: 2 cats, 1 German Shepherd, several horses, a mule, some chickens Hobbies: writing, long walks, manual labor, sitting in barns Fave pasttime: gardening and cleaning Fave thing not to do: scrub the toilet Fave TV show: Seinfeld Fave comic strip: The Far Side Fave recent movie rave: Forrest Gump !! Movies NOT my type: Terminator, Rambo, etc. How I started singing: sang at school for my friends Wrote my first song: 15 years old Colleges: Furman University in Greenville, SC and Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. I am only 20 hours short of graduating. :( Number of A's in high school: 5 Number of F's in high school: 1 in English Lit Major in College: English Lit Number of traffic tickets: Speeding, 1; Parking, 14+...I stopped counting My own favorite source of trivia: Harper's Index First romantic Kiss: Spring of 7th grade Last romantic kiss: about 2 hours ago Pet peeves: too many interviews Scariest thing that happened to me: radial karetotemy eye surgery Best thing that happened to me that same year: radial karetotemy eye surgery. It corrected my vision and I no longer have to deal with contacts or glasses! 8^) Fave casual restaurant in Los Angeles: California Pizza Kitchen Current number of nieces and nephews: 19 Fave ethnic foods: crunchy shrimp rolls & bagels with smoked salmon and capers 6th grade music obsession: Cher 7th grade music obsession: Carole King 8th grade music obsession: Bette Midler First car I learned to drive on: beat up, green, '63 VW bug First car owned: maroon, '73 MG GT Only album title shared by a book on the history of law in the frontier days of the South: Lead Me On Longest tour: Unguarded (June 1984 - September 1, 1986) Longest camping trip: 21 days, summer after 9th grade Number of baths in those 21 days: 3 Longest flight: to Niarobi, Kenya to visit a friend Fave sport to participate in: snow skiing and GOLFING Fave professional sport: football ---- Thanks to David Ragsdale for compiling this section from the 'Friends of Amy' newsletter, and a BIG ROUND OF APPLAUSE goes to Lori McAlister for researching it in the first place. ;^) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 8888 w 8 d8b db 8www 8d8b w .d88b 8d8b. .d88 d88b .d8b. 8' dPYb 8d8b.d8b. Yb dP 8 8P 8 8.dP' 8P Y8 8 8 `Yb. 8' .8 w8ww dPwwYb 8P Y8P Y8 YbdP 8 8 8 `Y88P 8 8 `Y88 Y88P `Y8P' 8 dP Yb 8 8 8 dP dP (...or everything you've wanted to know about FRIENDS OF AMY, but were afraid to ask:) (info provided by Lori McAlister) "Where can I write to Amy Grant?" Send any and all correspondence to: Amy Grant Friends of Amy 9 Music Square S., Suite 214 Nashville, TN 37203-3203 e-mail: amy.grant@nashville.com Anything sent to Amy's attention at any other address (including her home) is forwarded to FOA. For time and security reasons, Amy doesn't open mail from anyone she does not personally know. She does receive a random sampling of her mail which she reads as time permits. She also has a question/answer section in her tri- annual FOA Newsletter. Every word of every letter Amy is sent gets read and dealt with in a confidential and responsible manner. "Brevity" is the key to getting your requests and questions answered most quickly. HERE'S WHAT'S AVAILABLE: [ALL PAYMENTS MUST BE IN U.S. DOLLARS] ** FOA Newsletter (April, August and December issues) includes post card notices of tour itineraries, snapshots, recipies, question/answer, sneak peek lyric previews, behind the scenes and whatever else Amy feels like writing about. $5/year US $6/year CANADA $8/year other foreign ** A personalized, autographed, 5x7 B&W photo of Amy $2 U.S. $3 all foreign (be sure to include name for personalization) ** "Meet Amy Grant Chapman" info package: autobiographical info, trivia, personal spiritual journey, discography, her career start and most current project news. $7 US $8 all foreign ** "The Music Business From Amy's Perspective" info package: How Amy got started, her thoughts and advice for aspiring writes/performers, addresses to write for more information. $2 US $3 all foreign ALL FUNDS MUST BE IN U.S. DOLLARS. All the above prices include shipping and handling. Make checks payable to FRIENDS OF AMY. Include your COMPLETE & LEGIBLE name and address with the order. Thanks! ==== "AMY GRANT merchandise availability..." At this time, official Amy stuff is available only at the concerts. We HOPE to be able to offer some items from the HOUSE OF LOVE tour, but have no confirmation of this as yet. Music and video product are available wherever WORD or A&M products are sold. If what you're looking for is not in stock, ask the store to special order it for you. If that fails, in the US you can write to: Family Music Club P O Box 10659 Des Moines, IA 50336-0659 ==== "How can I meet Amy?" Occasionally, when Amy is touring, a local concert promoter or sponsor will arrange for an autograph party in that city. We do not attempt to make arrangements for individuals either in their cities or here in Nashville. It would be a security and logistical nightmare to accommodate such requests. (Amy wanted me to add that if you ever pass her on the street, don't hesitate to stop and introduce yourself!) ----- "regarding packages and gifts..." As of April 1990, we adopted a policy of not receiving packages or gifts of any kind. Packages with return addresses are returned. Those without are simply left at the post office. ----- "regarding music, lyrics and demo tapes..." Amy simply does not have the time nor does she feel particularly qualified to critique music and lyrics sent to her. As for "pitching" your song to her, she only receives material presented through a reputable publisher and by her own request. In the past, we have attempted to return any lyrics submitted witha note of explanation. As of January 1992, we will only be returning those lyrics that are sent with a self- addressed stamped envelope. For legal purposes, all others will be destroyed. ----- "regarding working for Amy or trying out for a band..." Honestly, you've got to know somebody on the "inside track" to even be considered for a position either in her personal staff or touring entourage. Prospective musicians/vocalists are welcome to submit resumes, demo tapes and inquiries to Mike Blanton at: Blanton/Harrell, Inc. 2019 Poston Ave Nashville, TN 37203 (this is Amy's management office) ----- .d88b w 8P .d8b. 8d8b. .d8b .d88b 8d8b w8ww 8b 8' .8 8P Y8 8 8.dP' 8P 8 `Y88P `Y8P' 8 8 `Y8P `Y88P 8 Y8P I T I N E R A R Y T h e P a c i f i c R i m NOTE: At this time Australia has been POSTPONED. I have no further information about when the tour might go to Australia, but it won't be this fall. Sorry - I just post 'em as I see 'em. -Lori Mc NOVEMBER 1994: updated Oct 27/94 15 Tokyo, Japan Kanni Hoken Hall 16 Osaka, Japan Imperial Hall 19 Manilla, Phillipines Cuneta Astrodome 20 Manilla, Phillipines Cuneta Astrodome 25 Singapore Indoor Stadium 28 Tai Pei, Taiwan Convention Center 29 Tai Pei, Taiwan Convention Center Michael W. Smith will open November 19-29 N o r t h A m e r i c a 1995 HOUSE OF LOVE TOUR - Gary Chapman opening all shows U.S. - Arena Tour Updated Oct 27/94 JANUARY: 17 Little Rock, AR Barton Coliseum 19 Tulsa, OK Mabee Center 20 St. Louis, MO Kiel Arena 21 Moline, IL The Mark 22 Dayton, OH Nutter Center 26 Knoxville, TN Thompson-Boling Arena 27 Atlanta, GA Omni 28 Charlotte, NC Charlotte Coliseum FEBRUARY: 2 Denver, CO McNichols 3 Lincoln, NE Pershing Auditorium 4 Norman, OK Lloyd Noble Center 5 Houston, TX Summitt 9 Edmonton, CANADA Northlands Coliseum 10 Calgary, CANADA Saddledome 12 Vancouver, CANADA PNE Coliseum 13 Tacoma, WA Tacoma Dome 14 Portland, OR Coliseum 17 Oakland, CA Coliseum 18 Anaheim, CA The Pond 19 Las Vegas, NV MGM Grand 20 Phoenix, AZ America West 24 Austin, TX Erwin Center 25 Dallas, TX Reunion Arena 26 Wichita, KS Century II 27 Kansas City, MO Kemper Arena MARCH: 2 Cleveland, OH Gateway 3 Chicago, IL United Center 4 Minneapolis, MN Target Center 5 Ames, IA Hilton Coliseum 9 Ft. Wayne, IN Coliseum 10 Toronto, CANADA Maple Leaf Gardens 11 Auburn Hills, MI Palace At Auburn Hills 12 Kalamazoo, MI Kellogg Center 16 Indianapolis, IN Market Square 17 Pittsburgh, PA Arena 18 Buffalo, NY Buffalo Arena 19 Worcester, MA Centrum 21 Philadelphia, PA Spectrum 23 New York City, NY Paramount Theatre 24 Washington, DC US Air Arena 25 Roanoke, VA Civic Center 26 Lexington, KY Rupp Arena 30 Springfield, MO Hammons Center 31 Memphis, TN The Pyramid APRIL: 1 Jackson, MS Jackson Coliseum 2 Birmingham, AL JCC All dates subject to change. Contact local venues or promoters for specific ticket and time information. ** Advance/discounted tickets are available in blocks of 20 or more. Contact the venue or local promoter for exact details. The band personel that have been confirmed to date (July 20) are: Wayne Kirkpatrick, band leader - guitar and background vocals (bgvs) Jerry McPherson - guitar Bill Owlsley - guitar, bgvs Rick Palombi - keyboard Chris McHugh - drums Millard Powers - bass, bgvs Tabitha Fair - bgvs =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= .d88b. 8 w w w 8P Y8 88b. w8ww .d88 w 8d8b. w 8d8b. .d88 8b d8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8P Y8 8 8P Y8 8 8 `Y88P' 88P' Y8P `Y88 8 8 8 8 8 8 `Y88 wwdP P I C T U R E S, N E W S L E T T E R S, L Y R I C S SITE INFO: There are several sites I am aware of at the moment that carry Amy files: 1. cs.uwp.edu 2. ftp.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de 3. http://www.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de/art/ Note: I refer to the 1st one hereafter as 'uwp' and the 2nd one as either 'art' or 'uni-tuebingen'. The 3rd one is the newly established 'Amy Grant - the Archive' World-Wide-Web site. The AGtA site carries everything the art site carries, plus sound files, newsgroup archives, photo thumbnails, plus much more! It's hot, it's here, check it out!!! PICTURES: A lot of scanned images of Amy album covers and other poses can be found under the /g/grant.amy/pictures directory at uwp, and under the /pub/art/pictures directory at uni-tuebingen. A big round of thanks goes out to Andreas Haug for his initial picture scans. Some more recent additions include all of the pictures from the cd's: House of Love, My Father's Eyes, and In Concert. Also, there is Amy's layout from People Magazine's '50 Most Beautiful People in the World 1992' issue, as well as her recent layout from the October '94 _Release_ Magazine. The art picture archive has now doubled with additions of some really nice photos from the September '94 'Details' magazine, October issue of 'In Style' magazine, the August '94 issue of the 'Friends of Amy' newsletter, the House of Love '94 Radio Special, as well as her recent layout from the October '94 'Release' Magazine, and finally, many scans from Lead Me On and Heart In Motion CD singles. So, check out uni-tuebingen for all the magazine and CD singles scans mentioned here. You'll find them under respective folders in the art/pictures/ directory. NEWSLETTERS: As well, the first 2 volumes of the newsletter, Friends in Motion, can be found under the directory /mail.list or /fim respectively. The filenames appear to be incorrect; the correct filenames can be found at the top of each newsletter. There have been 4 volumes in total. LYRICS: Both sites carry almost all the lyrics to her albums under the /lyrics directory. Thanks go out to Sam Stoddard (alias the Rink) for his tremendous effort. Credit also goes to David Yoshihara for his contributions. Since the music archive @ cs.uwp.edu is mostly based on logical directories, you can switch to the /grant.amy directory by typing cd /grant.amy at the main level. In this fashion, you can switch to the general /lyrics directory, /picture directory, etc. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= db 888b. 88888 .d88b. dPYb 8 .8 8 YPwww. .d88b 8d8b Yb dP .d88b 8d8b dPwwYb 8wwK' 8 d8 8.dP' 8P YbdP 8.dP' 8P dP Yb 8 Yb 8 `Y88P' `Y88P 8 YP `Y88P 8 S U B S C R I P T I O N S For those that are interested, a mailing list (server) has been set up to transmit articles for fans without access to Usenet or to the alt groups hierarchy. If you know someone who wants to participate (ie. friend at another campus without alt group access), please tell them to send a mail containing the word "subscribe" to the Amy Response Team (ART), care of: art-request@ipc.uni-tuebingen.de Note: ART is a 2 way listserver. All posts to the alt.music.amy- grant newsgroup are mirrored by the ART server to all ART subscribers. Articles posted _directly_ to the ART server will also be mirrored to other ART subscribers AND posted via a gateway to the newsgroup. To post to the ART server/gateway, write out your mail as usual and send to: art@ipc.uni-tuebingen.de =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= This FAQ maintained by Pradeep Bhatia. Thanks to all the contributors! 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