Chords for DeGarmo & Key - 700 Club interview from 1985.

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DeGarmo and Key recorded their [A] first album together in [D] 1977, officially [E] launching their
careers in [A] Christian music and establishing them as [G] innovators [E] in the field of recording,
[A] producing and writing.
[Bm] But the friendship [Gm] between Ed DeGarmo and Dana Key goes back
a lot further than that first album eight years ago.
I understand you guys have been friends for _ many years.
There's something about _ your relationship
spiritually being established in a room closet or something?
Strange background.
Could you
[E] explain yourself please?
First of all, Scott, Eddie and I grew up together in the same neighborhood
and we actually met in the first grade and we discovered when we [C] went to school in the
first grade that we lived in the [E] same neighborhood and we began to develop our relationship,
you know, very [F] early.
And we did give our lives to Christ _ [Ab] within the same [Gm] 24 hour period
in high [B] school and that did take place in a [Gm] broom closet because we couldn't find a
[E] place private to discuss [Bb] _ Jesus [Gb] Christ.
And it was actually my fault because [Ab] Eddie had
come to school and he'd been to church that Sunday, giving his life to Christ and he wanted
to talk to me about it.
[Gb] And I didn't want him to talk about Jesus in front of my friends
because I didn't think it was very cool to talk about Christ in the [E] hallway.
So I suggested
that we step into the janitor's [F] closet and that's where I gave my life to [Db] Jesus.
You'd
been involved musically up until that time, hadn't you?
You mean practiced music?
Well,
we started our first band in the sixth grade.
And [Bm] of course, we tried to get one together
before that.
And I was going to play trumpet and he was going to play trombone.
This is
true.
And we looked in the catalogs and we're going to buy our instruments and all that.
_ [B] Sixth or seventh grade was when we started [Gb] getting a little serious.
[F] I mean, we entered
talent contest [N] and we had the Beatle beats that came up to the knees and the love beats
and the whole bit.
Never won one.
If that says anything.
Never won one.
I think one
of the major problems we had in sixth grade is touring was difficult because we had to
be in by 9.30. So that is, [Gb] _ especially when your mother shows up at 10, she says, why
aren't you home?
That's right.
That's right.
Since those [Am] early days, Ed and Dana have recorded
eight [D] albums and [Ab] produced two music [F] videos.
One of those videos, called 666, _ [A] has been
the subject of controversy in recent months.
The original version of the video [E] contains
this scene where a figure representing the Antichrist is set on fire.
[F] _ [D] 666 was initially
[A] rejected by MTV because it was considered [B] too violent.
_ [E] And of course, what that was
meant to portray was that we can't hurt this individual.
He [Bb] comes out of it all right.
_ [Gb] In other words, that fire, we can't burn him up.
We can't, you know, the only way that
we can get away from this individual is turn to Jesus Christ.
And it's really no more violent
than what a John Wayne movie would be.
But the thing that we do support is that we were
named in a list of about 75 major artists that were asked to remove questionable violence
from their videos.
So, [F] to comply with MTV's new standard, [Am] the scene was re-shot in a way
that Ed and Dana feel may pack [B] even a stronger message.
[Ab] Music videos are just [Gm] another tool
_ to [E] win people to Christ and [Ab] encourage Christians to walk with Jesus.
[Gb] _ And one thing that Eddie
and I have learned is that we have to use all the available means that we can to communicate
to people.
And if God gives us the ability and the avenue to use TV and cable [Bb] and satellites,
we feel like we ought to [C] use it.
Future plans for Degarmo and Key call for the [D] release of
a third music video called Competition, as well [F] as a recently completed [G] album with a
rather unique [Am] title.
We have a new [F] album [G] that we're really excited about called [Bbm] Commander
Sozo and the Charge of the Light Brigade.
Do that [B] again. _
Commander [Ab] Sozo and the Charge
of the Light Brigade.
Sozo means to heal or to replenish in Greek.
_ And it's the most daring
album that we've ever recorded [Gbm] in all the albums we've done.
I'm not saying it's the
most rock and roll.
There is a lot of rock and roll on the album, but it's the wildest,
I should say, album that we've ever recorded.
We had a lot of freedom [Ab] to record it.
The
record company gave us the money and said, [E] you guys just do whatever [Em] you want to do.
We're not going to [E] tell you a thing.
And that's exactly what we did.
And boy, they regret it now.
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_ _ _ _ That's interesting to note that _ MTV is asking several artists, _ _ _ Degarmo and Key, among them,
to cut back on violence on videotapes.
I think that's marvelous.
Yeah, something's happening
to MTV, huh?
_ But some of the stuff they have on there is just, it's atrocious.
It really
is.
And for these guys to be confronted in that way is rather interesting to me, you
know, because they, and it's also good, however, that Christians are able to be in the midst
of that MTV idiom and be solved in light and make a statement for the Lord, you know.
And
there are other Christians that are getting on there, too.
It's very good.
Excellent.
Listen, who is coming up next on your entertainment? _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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