Irving, TX 1986 (Bart, David, Steve)
Steve states:
I have played in bands most of my life. Not so much in the last 10 years but I still have played some reunion shows with one of my first bands called Rotting Corpse that dates back to the 80s. We played a primitive style of metal called thrash. It amazes me that the younger generation is getting to this but everything seems to come around again in fashion. One thing about playing in bands is that you meet a lot of people and with the Internet (Rotting Corpse webpage), I’ve been able to reconnect with several people I knew back in the day.
One of those is a fellow named Bart Blair. We played in a band called Eldritch Rite together for maybe a week in 1986. He was slotted to be the replacement singer but the band broke up instead of going on. I have a band photo taken behind Pipedream Records by Stu Taylor with Bart posing with us (he has the glasses on). He went on with the guitarist David of ER to form The Answer doing music in a similar vein as Eldritch for a year or so. I had lost touch with Bart since seeing him one time quite on accident at a grocery store in northern Austin (maybe in the early 90s?) while I was visiting a friend. I had heard that he had gotten into government work and didn’t want to be associated with his metal roots or friends. So I was quite surprised when I got a myspace friend invitation from him. He is now a worship leader for Grace Community Church in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. I’ve put in a video clip of his testimony and how he wound up from Northern Texas to frozen Canada. He has a much cooler conversion story than mine.
2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!
