FULL NAME
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Michael Phillip Bloodgood
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NICK NAMES
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Mikey, Mikey B. Goode, Mr. Bloodgood, Dude
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PLACE OF BIRTH
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Glendale, California
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CURRENT RESIDENCE
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Redmond, Washington
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HEIGHT
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6'
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BIRTHDAY
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June 5th
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INSTRUMENTS
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Guitar, Bass
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WIFE
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Marilyn
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CHILDREN
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Paul, Adam and Mark-David
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SIBLING
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Mark
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PET
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Angel fish
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EDUCATION
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Crescenta Valley High School, Glendale Community College, California University at Northridge, Northwest Bible College
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DAY JOB
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Senior pastor
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CHURCH
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Calvary Chapel Redmond
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BANDS BEFORE BLOODGOOD
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Cypress, Morning Star, Bear Foot, Teddy Turner & the Red Hot Burners, The Beach Buddies, Mystic 5, Thirteenth Dynasty, The Beatles (okay, okay, we were lip-singing to the Beatles)
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FAVORITE ACTIVITIES
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PC games, movies, and reading to my kids
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FAVORITE ANNUAL EVENT
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Christmas
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FAVORITE METAL BANDS OF YESTERDAY
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Dio, Bon Jovi, Whitesnake, Iron Maiden, Van Halen, Led Zeppelin, Iron Butterfly, Def Leppard, Stryper
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FAVORITE METAL BAND OF TODAY
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Creed
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FAVORITE NON METAL BANDS OF YESTERDAY
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The Beatles, Bon Jovi, Aerosmith, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Louis Armstrong, Dave Clark Five, Herman and the Hermits, Elvis, The Doors, The Zombies, The Voxpoppers, Paul Schaffer and the World’s Most Dangerous Band, Teddy Turner and the Red Hot Burners, The Crypt Kicker Five , The Byrds, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Johnny Rivers, Blackeyed Susan
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FAVORITE NON METAL BANDS OF TODAY
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The Wonders, Foo Fighters, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Cheryl Crow, Aerosmith, Creed, B.B. King, Johnny Lang, Delirious, Third Day
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FAVORITE BEVERAGES
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Coffee, Grande Latte (extra hot)
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FAVORITE BIBLICAL PASSAGE
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Hebrews 12:1,2
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FAVORITE BIBLICAL PERSON OTHER THAN JESUS
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Paul
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FAVORITE BOOK OF THE BIBLE
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1 Peter
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FAVORITE BOOKS
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The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, Why Grace Changes Everything (Chuck Smith), Knowing God (J.I. Paker), everything by C.S. Lewis
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FAVORITE CHILDHOOD MEMORIES
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Christmas mornings. Riding my Schwin Stingray. Playing army. Seeing The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show
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FAVORITE COLLECTIBLES
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Beatles memorabilia, Word War II memorabilia, Civil War memorabilia, “Wilson” antenna topper (from Cast Away)
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FAVORITE BLOODGOOD PERFORMANCE
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Cornerstone ’87. We’d just finished a nightmare part of our Detonation tour and we were all feeling a little beat up. We walked up on the stage, and it was wall-to-wall, standing-room-only fans cheering us on. Someone in the audience even had a banner that read, “Jesus loves Bloodgood.” It really kept us going, that show, (along with all the fans at Cornerstone and the good people of JPUSA).
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FAVORITE BLOODGOOD SONGS
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Awake!, Black Snake, Never Be The Same, Out Of Love, Seven, S.O.S
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FAVORITE BLOODGOOD ALBUMS
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Out Of The Darkness, All Stand Together
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FAVORITE BLOODGOOD SONGS TO PERFORM LIVE
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Never Be The Same, Seven, America
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FAVORITE BLOODGOOD TOUR
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To Germany With Love Tour (1993)
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FAVORITE CONCERTS ATTENDED
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The Doors, Three Dog Night, Wings (’75), Ringo Starr All-Star Band, Creed, Dio (Holy Diver tour), every Darrell Mansfield show I’ve seen (and I’ve seen a few!)
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FAVORITE DESSERT
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Hot Fudge Sundays
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FAVORITE FICTIONAL CHARACTERS
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Ebenezer Scrooge, Gandalf, George Bailey (It’s a Wonderful Life)
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FAVORITE FOODS
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Mexican, Italian and Chinese
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FAVORITE GAMES
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Medal of Honor, Half-Life, Beach Head 2000
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FAVORITE INVENTION
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PC’s
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FAVORITE INTERESTES & HOBBIES
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Beatles memorabilia, World War II, Civil War, reading, collecting music, walking, movies
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FAVORITE MAGAZINES / READING MATERIAL
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Bible, Newsweek, World War II, Civil War Times Illustrated, HM, Mojo
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FAVORITE MOVIES
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It’s A Wonderful Life, Saving Pvt. Ryan, The Cast Away, A Hard Day’s Night, The Matrix, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Princess Bride, Willow, Shrek, The Santa Clause, That Thing You Do, Jurassic Park, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Glory, Star Wars, The Hunt for Red October, Young Frankenstein, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, Alien, The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Others, A Knights’ Tale
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FAVORITE MOVIE GENRES
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Science fiction, war, fantasy
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FAVORITE MUSIC GENRES
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Rock and roll, classical, blues, oldies
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FAVORITE MUSIC GEAR
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Vintage Gretsch guitars, Rickenbacker guitars, Hofner Beatle bass, Kubicki X-Factor bass, Vox amps, Fender tube amps
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FAVORITE MUSICIANS/SINGERS
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George Harrison, Stevie Ray Vaughn, B.B. King, Louis Armstrong, Les Carlsen, Paul Jackson, Tiny Tim, Brian Setzer, Chris Cornell, Paul McCartney, Will Lee, Jimi Hendrix, Darrell Mansfield, Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Russ Taff, Larry Norman
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FAVORITE PART OF DAY
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Evenings
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PEOPLE MOST ADMIRED
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My wife, my parents, the Apostle Paul
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FAVORITE PEOPLE OF HISTORY
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Jesus Christ, Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill, Admiral Nimitz, C.H. Spurgeon, C.S. Lewis, Charles Dickens, Shakespeare, Jeb Stuart, F.D.R., John the Baptist
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FAVORITE PLAYS/MUSICALS
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Henry V, The Music Man, Little Mary Sunshine, Singing in the Rain, Romeo and Juliet, Arsenic and Old Lace
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FAVORITE QUOTES
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"Build a bridge and get over it."
"What if the hokey pokey is what it’s all about?"
"It’s deja vu all over again!"
"It’s a fiendish thingy!"
"If you lost me granddad, I’ll cripple ya!"
"If they’re going to die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population!"
"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few."
"Is that all you got?"
"Is that the extent of your powers, little one?"
"Boo! to the queen of putrescence!"
"She needs to sort out her priorities."
"No, we’re just good friends really."
"No matter where you go, there you are" (my dad’s quote).
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FAVORITE SONGS
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You Can’t Do That, I Should Have Known Better, Rainbow in the Dark, You Really Got Me (Van Halen version), Everybody’s Trying to Be My Baby, That Thing You Do, Love Me Two Times, Ticket to Ride, This Is Love, Chain of Fools, Livin’ On A Prayer, Babe, I’m Gonna Leave You, All Along the Watchtower, My Generation, Don’t Be Cruel, Medals, And I Love Her, Devil’s Radio, I Got You Babe, My Glorious, For the Cross, The Heart of Worship, Twist and Shout, You’re Gonna Lose That Girl, She Loves You (to name a few)
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FAVORITE SOUNDS
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My wife’s voice, my kid’s voices, my parent’s voices, a Rickenbacker 12-string
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FAVORITE SMELL
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A new guitar
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FAVORITE SPORTS
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Baseball
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FAVORITE TACTILE SENSATION
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None of yer bee’s wax
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FAVORITE TIMES OF YEAR
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Christmas, summer
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FAVORITE T.V. SHOW
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I don’t really do TV these days
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RANKED FROM MOST FAVORITE TO LEAST FAVORITE
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1 Talking with fans
2 Recording
3 Writing music / lyrics
4 Performing
5 Interviews
6 Rehearsing
7 Traveling
8 Business related
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WHAT MAKES BLOODGOOD DIFFERENT FROM MOST OTHER BANDS?
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Jesus Christ, an original sound, integrity
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WHAT SONG WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO COVER IN BLOODGOOD?
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The Word (from The Beatles’ Rubber Soul album)
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WHAT MADE YOU WANT TO BECOME A MUSICIAN?
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Seeing girls screaming for The Beatles
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WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF BLOODGOOD?
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To bring the Gospel to the lost, and to encourage believers in their faith. [ Read more here ]
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WHAT DO YOU SEE AS BEING YOUR ROLE IN BLOODGOOD?
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Pastor, personnel director, driver, roadie, bass player, song writer, singer, chief cook and bottle washer
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WHAT IS THE MOST DIFFICULT BLOODGOOD SONG TO PERFORM?
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Rounded Are The Rocks
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WHAT IS YOUR PHILOSOPHY OF MINISTRY?
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To be direct and unapologetic with the Gospel in a loving way
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WHAT ACHIEVEMENTS ARE YOU MOST PROUD OF?
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Being married for 26 years and having a loving family around me
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WHAT BANDS OR MUSICIANS INFLUENCED YOU MOST?
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The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Dio
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WHAT WERE THE WORST BLOODGOOD SHOWS?
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I always felt the shows themselves were all great because we always poured ourselves into them knowing God had orchestrated each one. However, some of the circumstances surrounding the shows were tough at times. Like driving 16 hours to a show and finding all the promotional posters for that evening’s concert still sitting on the promoter’s desk.
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WHAT WERE THE BEST BLOODGOOD SHOWS?
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We had a lot of awesome shows over the years
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WHAT WERE THE WORST BLOODGOOD TOUR EXPERIENCES?
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Being housed at someone’s home that thought Christian heavy metal was satanic. Having a promoter supply bologna and cheese sandwiches as our only meal. Traveling two days to do a show, and then having the promoter stiff us.
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WHAT WERE THE BEST BLOODGOOD TOUR EXPERIENCES?
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Just being with my family and my band mates.
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WHAT WAS THE MOST DIFFICULT BLOODGOOD ALBUM TO RECORD?
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"Bloodgood," the first time in the studio doing a "real" album is always the toughest. After that, you begin to feel more and more at home in the studio.
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WHAT IS THE EASIEST BLOODGOOD ALBUM TO RECORD?
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Rock In A Hard Place
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WHAT IS THE BEST THING ABOUT BEING IN BLOODGOOD?
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Developing life-long friendships with people like Les, Joyce and Paul. Having the Lord use you to touch people’s lives.
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WHAT ARE THE MOST OFTEN BLOODGOOD RELATED QUESTIONS YOU GET ASKED?
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"Is that your real last name?"
"Why did you start the band?"
"Why did you break up?"
"When are you getting back together?"
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WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE SOMEONE INTERESTED IN GETTING INTO MUSIC MINISTRY?
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Make sure the Lord is calling you into it. Just because you’re a musician and a Christian doesn’t mean God has called you into music ministry.
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WHAT IS BLOODGOOD CRITICIZED THE MOST ABOUT?
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Our hair, our clothes and our music
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WHAT DO YOU THINK FANS LIKE THE MOST ABOUT BLOODGOOD?
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Our hair, our clothes and our music. (Actually, I think our straight-ahead Christian lyrics and our music.)
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WHAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO SAY TO CRITICS OF BLOODGOOD?
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"Build a bridge and get over it!"
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WHAT IS YOUR MUSICAL BACKGROUND AND TRAINING?
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Self-taught, mostly, although I did minor in sacred music in Bible college.
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WHAT DO YOU MISS THE MOST ABOUT THE 80'S?
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The shows and the costumes. Bands today have it too easy! I miss great guitar playing.
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WHAT DID YOU DISLIKE MOST ABOUT THE 80'S?
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Spandex
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WHAT DO YOU MISS THE MOST ABOUT THE 90'S?
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Nirvana
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WHAT DID YOU DISLIKE MOST ABOUT THE 90'S?
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Most of the Christian music that came out was too subliminal. You couldn’t tell they were even a Christian band by looking at their lyrics. What’s the point?
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WHAT DO YOU EXPECT TO BE DIFFERENT ABOUT BLOODGOOD OF PRESENT AND FUTURE COMPARED TO BLOODGOOD OF THE PAST?
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We’re older and, I hope, a bit wiser. We don’t have anything to prove, so we can be in control of what we want to do and when we want to do it.
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DESCRIBE THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF HOW YOU BECAME SAVED
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I was dating my wife, Marilyn, when we were in high school. She was a fairly new believer. We fell in love but she realized that our relationship could never develop with me as a non-believer. So she put me on a prayer list and I started going to church with her. It wasn’t long after, that the Lord revealed Himself to me and I prayed the Sinner’s Prayer receiving Christ as my personal Lord and Saviour. It was in the middle of my senior year in high school.
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WHY DID/DO YOU WANT TO BE IN BLOODGOOD?
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Basically the Lord told me to put the band together
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WHAT ARE THE MOST UNUSUAL THINGS ABOUT YOU?
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I’m a heavy metal musician who’s greatest influence was the Beatles and not Iron Maiden. I’m a musician that can actually talk in complete sentences. I haven’t cut off my hair. I’m a pastor.
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WHAT CHARACTERISTICS OF PEOPLE ARE YOU MOST ATTRACTED TO?
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Genuiness, faithfulness, integrity
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WHAT ARE YOUR DREAMS & GOALS?
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To hear the Lord say to me, “Well done, good and faithful servant” (Matthew 25:21). To continue growing in my relationship with the Lord.
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WHAT ARE YOU MOST THANKFUL FOR?
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My salvation and my family
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WHAT ARE YOU LEAST LIKELY TO DO IN LIFE?
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Be a model for Abercrombie and Fitch
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WHAT DO YOU DAY DREAM MOST ABOUT?
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Paying all my bills on time
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WHAT DO YOU SEE YOURSELF DOING IN 10 YEARS?
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The same thing: preaching and playing rock and roll.
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WANT DO YOU WANT TO BE REMEMBERED FOR?
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A man that loved God with all his heart, soul and body and who was a good husband and father.
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WHAT DO YOU WISH YOU WERE BETTER AT?
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Auto mechanics
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WHAT WERE THE BEST DECISIONS YOU'VE MADE?
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To receive Christ as Lord and Saviour. To marry my wife. To have kids. To pastor. To buy my first guitar.
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WHAT WAS THE WORST DECISION YOU'VE MADE?
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Applying for a credit card
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WHAT IS YOUR IDEA OF A PERFECT LIVING ENVIRONMENT?
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Heaven
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WHAT IS YOUR CALLING OR PURPOSE IN LIFE?
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Being a husband, a dad, and a pastor
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WHAT IS YOUR PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE?
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Live by the Spirit, walk by the Spirit (Galatians 5:25).
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WHAT IS YOUR POLITICAL PERSUASION?
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Not to be persuaded by liberals
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WHAT WERE YOUR MOST HUMBLING MOMENTS?:
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Knowing that I was representing Christ. Showing up in England and being told I was teaching a two-hour bass guitar clinic without any prior notice.
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WHAT WERE THE BEST EVENTS OF YOUR LIFE?
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Seeing each of my sons being born
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WHAT ARE THE CRAZIEST THINGS YOU'VE DONE?
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Touring. Starting a band. Starting a church
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WHAT ARE THE SCARIEST THINGS YOU'VE DONE?
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Touring. Starting a band. Starting a church
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WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY?
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Being in God’s will and knowing it
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WHAT IS ONE OF YOUR PERSONAL STRENGTHS?
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Loyalty
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WHAT SUBJECTS DO YOU MOST LIKE TO TALK ABOUT?
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The Lord, music ministry, the Beatles, history, guitars.
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WHAT WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO SEE CHANGED ABOUT THE WORLD?
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The Second Coming of Jesus Christ
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WHAT PLACES YOU WOULD MOST LIKE TO VISIT?
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Normandy Beach, Australia and New Zealand, The Pyramids, Ford’s Theater, and Pearl Harbor.
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WHAT IS THE WORST JOB YOU'VE EVER HAD?
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When I got out of college I cut off my hair, bought a suit and went to work for the Campbell Soup Company. Chicken noodle, anyone?
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IF YOU WERE RULER OF WORLD
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I’d feel very sorry for the world
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IF YOU COULD ASK GOD ONE QUESTION
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Can I please see a Tyrannosaurs Rex?
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IF YOU COULD DO SOMETHING OVER AGAIN
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Be at my dad’s retirement dinner and my brother’s wedding
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IF YOU COULD HAVE ANY JOB
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I like the job I have now. However, I’d like to produce Paul McCartney’s next album.
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IF YOU COULD LIVE AT ANOTHER TIME
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There’s no time like the present
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IF YOU COULD MEET SOMEONE FROM HISTORY
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Besides the Lord? Definitely the Apostle Paul. After that: Moses, David, Joseph (Old Testament), Lincoln and C.S. Lewis.
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IF YOU COULD MEET SOMEONE LIVING TODAY
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President Bush, Billy Graham, Tom Hanks and Paul McCartney.
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IF YOU COULD PICK A SUPER POWER TO HAVE
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Easy: fly!
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IF YOU COULD UNDERSTAND ONE THING THOROUGHLY
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The Parables of Jesus Christ
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<Bloodgood History
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