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Escape From The Fallen Planet - Crumbächer

Artist: Kernie Erickson

Release: 1986

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ALTAR BOYS | No Substitute | Album Release Show

ALTAR BOYS | No Substitute | Album Release Show

Talk about a blast from the past. The Altar Boys have a new album No Substitute and an Album Release Show wsg crumbacher

The Altar Boys at Anaheim House of Blues on Sunday Sept 16 with Crumbacher!

Transparent Productions Presents: Altar Boys – No Substitute Record Release Show with special guests Crumbacher Sunday, Sept. 16 The Parish at House of Blues Anaheim 6:30pm Door / 7:30pm Show All Ages…

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Speechless by Crumbacher

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Pretty happy with this one. Haunter! Just in time for this season. PS I'm free for commissions! #art #artist #painting #mixedmedia #watercolor #watercolours #winsorandnewton #crumbacher #ink #drphmartins #fanart #pokemonart #pokemon #nintendo #haunter #holloween

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 Crumbächer’s Incandescent released from Frontline Records!

Last heard on cassette in 1985.  Now freshly re-mastered, with bonus track. 

Frontline Records, a label of Meis Music Group, in collaboration with Ojo Taylor & Innocent Media, is making this Broken Records album available digitally on July 16th.  

 On this debut record, Crumbächer created the Euro-synth-pop niche in the Contemporary Christian Music industry.  CCM announced the album as revealing "a new group on par with Vector." Stephen Crumbacher’s vocals have the bouncy style of Men Without Hats and producer Ojo Taylor's arrangements resemble the minimalist synthesizing of The Human League.

Stephen Crumbacher recorded his first commercial release, a solo version of It Don’t Matter, on the MRC sampler What’s Shakin’ in the summer of 1983, exactly 30 years ago.  On the heels of that success which introduced Crumbächer to CCM, Stephen was invited to record a six-song EP for Maranatha! Music’s MRC label.

Stephen and long-time friends, Dawn Wisner and Jim Wisner, gave their first performance as Crumbächer five months later on New Year's Eve, 1983.  The full band, with the addition of Dan Hohulin on guitar, entered the studio for the first time to begin recording.   Ojo Taylor of Undercover was back at the helm producing and engineering.  Derri Daugherty of The Choir was brought in as tracking engineer and Chris Taylor mixed. Once the label heard the early results, they were so excited they requested that the band record a few additional songs for release as a full-length album.  Those additions were Jamie and Infrared X-Ray Eyes, which turned out to be the group’s biggest songs from that album.  Incandescent was released in April 1985 on Broken Records.

Incandescent was only distributed on vinyl and cassette. Bruce Neher, owner of Disc & Dat gave these tracks a tune-up for the first appearance of the record in any digital format.

Incandescent is available on iTunes, Amazon MP3 and at http://FrontlineRecords.us/ for Frontline $5.99. 

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CRUMBACHER - NEW YEAR'S EVE, 1987

Thoughts from Dawn Wisner-Johnson

Video credit - Joe Prainito

25 years ago, my band, Crumbacher, played New Year's Eve, Music Night Celebration at Knott's Berry Farm at the Wagon Camp Stage.   This video captures two songs we played that night, Thunder Beach and Backyard Changes. The lineup at this time was, Stephen Crumbacher, Chris Duke, Jimmy Wisner and myself.  (Dan Hohulin had recently left the band).  We had been playing the New Year's Eve Music Nights since 1985.  For us, it was tradition and one of our favorites.

This New Year's Eve, I asked my brother, Jimmy Wisner (drummer of Crumbacher), how he felt about those nights we used to play at Knott's.  "Oh, they were the best", he said, "and I miss them!" 

I too, look back on those days with fondness.  We were young and we had opportunities that many musicians do not get sometimes.  I'm grateful for those years of playing, recording records, and touring. 

Our families were all involved as well.  We had a great extended group of people who joined us as we traveled and played.  I'm grateful for the lasting friendships with band members, crew and fans of the band too.  Those relationships are still some of the closest friends I have today. 

Other bands that were there that night - Steve Taylor, Altar Boys, Fourth Watch, Benny Hester & Band, Randy Stonehill, The Choir, D.A., Isaac Air Frieght, Sheila Walsh, Michael Peace. Some of the friendships I made back then with other bands are also still some of my cherished friends today (whether I see them often or not). 

I've been contributing to this blog for Frontline Records for a year.  This year, as the New Year approached and we celebrated with friends and family, I enjoyed thinking back to the "good 'ol days!". 

Thank you Frontline Records for your help in making these memories.  Thank you Adel Meisenheimer for making the music available again and making those memories easier to relive now. 

"Once More For The Band"

1/1/13 - Dawn Wisner-Johnson

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List of the some of the top Christian Artists from the 80's -  organized by number of songs they had that charted.

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Steve Taylor has always been one of my favorite people.  I can't even remember when I first met him - because it has always felt like he has been a friend. That is a true measure of his character. 

My band, Crumbacher, played with Steve Taylor several times.  Within a couple of shows, Steve even knew my parents names.  I can honestly say that he is one of the nicest people I have ever known. The "nice" is genuine.  Not the "nice" that smiles at you with a quick, "hello, how are you?"   But the kind of nice that permeates into your heart and lets you know this person really does care about the answer to that question.

When I heard that Steve Taylor was partnering with Donald Miller for the film project, Blue Like Jazz, I was amazed and excited for the outcome. 

Donald Miller is another favorite person of mine.  And even though I have never met him, he has impacted my life in ways I could never even explain.  Through my pastor a few years ago, Tommy Green (from the band Sleeping Giant), I was directed to Donald's books and his work.  I have not been the same since.  Blue Like Jazz affected my life.  The book changed my perspective on many things at a time when I really needed a change. 

There could not be a better pairing of people to produce/direct a film, in my opinion.  Read this blog post from Donald Miller.  He says more about Steve Taylor and his brilliance.  But mostly, it's about WHO Steve is and you should meet him too. 

Dawn Wisner-Johnson