MICHIGAN RECORD A DAY : Dr. Jack Van Impe "The Greatest Love Story" Diadem 1978 Lp
Apr 11, 2020
Well
since its less than 24 hours away from Easter and the previous John
Outlaw post got some cats feeling like poseurs, here is well...the
opposite. Gotta love the "turn this off right now" category at the
Olzone crib, rare demand natch but usually victim to Italian
hardcore or super rough Michigan bluegrass but sermons in general
are for solo ears only at the hut post 11pm in low volume and this
is one, phew, super gnarly. Big money Diadem job that's pretty
common in the bins, cause A: bring up Dr. Jack's name to anyone esp
in his home state and find yourself ALONE real quick and B: ish is
a grim as it gets. Has the same paranoid dispensationalist zeal as
fellow TV minster boi Hal Lindsey but with an utterly grim fidelity
that, minus the content, hits RAW when Van Impe thumps his crude
aged wooden pulpit with his worn out & memorized bible. Makes your
neck hair revolt, fast. This is titled "The Greatest Love Story"
but in actuality a full account of the last days of a "formless
from every bone broken" Jesus in all its gory detail from violence
and being spit upon in conjunction with the Van Impe speed -
hammering out verses to seal the experience. Utterly not chill,
utterly not supposed to be. The pastor has a gaggle of stark
records to help you form your personality : classics like
"Nightclubs to Christ", "Hell Without Hell", "Demons and Exorcism!"
and more via heavyweight local labels like Singcord and Victory.
Would love to hang as a trio with Jack and "Tremendous" Jones and
fully dive into this "New LSD" they were yammering on about in the
mid seventies. Maybe out of some kind of personal self torture
these "no hope" paranoid Sermon records keep calling out to be
digested in the Olson household but what is really fascinating is
the Michigan chasm that houses both C.L Franklin's powerhouse Chess
Series Lps in nearly the same era as Dr, Jack's "Coming War with
Russia", only miles apart. Unbelievable really, grab your Accorgan
and sing your own song. Have to clean out the cabbage with some
pulp Sci Fi after diving into these icy lake
waters.