![]() "Of course, I didn't know that we would start a band like Petra or anything like that," he said, as his voice trailed off. "I really felt a calling, so I knew I would be involved with music ministry all my life." "I felt called into the ministry, the music ministry, when I was twelve years old at church camp," Glover revealed. And this was back in the early '70s, so this church was way ahead of its time."īill says he developed a desire to use his abilities for the Lord in whatever way he could - and it was about more than just music for music's sake. I was first chair drummer, but we had several drummers. ![]() So it was a very enthusiastic atmosphere for music. But he had taken several musical groups from our church down to Nashville to record an album. "Yeah, in fact, our music pastor was a guy named Paul Craig Paino, and he had already established a couple of bands and he ended up being Petra's first manager. He told me his first experience in a recording studio came when he traveled to Nashville with members of his church. He maintains a very active social media presence and still plays drums with a group called Bandana. It had a music ministry - you know, choirs and different church bands that went out and played and sang and recorded."īill lives on Florida's Gulf Coast these days. It had a Bible college and a youth ministry, a bus ministry, you know, the whole shootin' match. I was already playing drums at this church. "The rest of the guys came in - Greg Hough from Indiana, Bob and John from Ohio. "We all met in Bible college at my home church, Calvary Temple in Fort Wayne, Indiana," said Glover. The churches and the Christians didn't really like it because they couldn't, in their minds, marry the two - rock 'n roll and Christianity. We did get some airplay on the secular stations in Fort Wayne, Indiana, but only because the DJs knew us. ![]() "We knew that what we were doing was radical because nobody would play our music on the radio unless they knew us personally," recalls drummer Bill Glover. It was a rhetorical shot across the bow and there would be no turning back now.įittingly, it was said by a group whose name literally means rock. The sentiment was actually lifted from a secular song, but that didn't lessen the weight of those words. Other Jesus Music artists had been walking right up to that imaginary line in the sand but always stopped short of such an audacious proclamation. ![]() Somebody in the Christian music world finally just came right out and said it. ![]()
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