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Tours of Duty + Spirit West Coast 1999
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From all my lame defeats and oh! much more, — C. S. Lewis |
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 spirit west coast 1999Laguna Seca, CA
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Pretty much the view from our tent. The Main Stage is that big black object left of center. Those big tents right of center are more stages and the infamous Exhibitor's Tent, where we spent four fun-filled, allergy-infested days. (This is also the view latecomers got of dc Talk.) |
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 left) Dan setting up camp with 50 year-old tent and trusty truck. above) Our crummy view from the campsite looking away from SWC. We complained about the way-too-pristine view; too many trees. |
 Inside the tent. What sorta made us mad here is that the refrigerator didn't keep the Diet Coke at the perfect 36 degrees and room service was a tad slow. |
 Dan at the booth displaying the Forty mags, bookmarks, tracts, shirts, bumper stickers, etc. (To those who aren't specially trained in the photographic arts this is actually a collection of images all stuck together. Why, you can hardly tell!) |
 Our booth got people so excited we were required to post this sign. |
 Dan drives home a point. If you see signs that Dan is disagreeing with you, be afraid... be very afraid. |
 Mark's sensitivity to some people's inablility to pick up minor, plain-as-day(!) apologetics is evident in this image. |
 Dan jams a bit with the boys from SmallTown Poets. He knocked them out. They asked if he would tour. He had to decline. |
 Mark gets down with Chasing Furies on the Air1 alternative stage. They asked him nicely to leave, because he has no body piercing. Dang! |
 After being asked (thankyou!) to join SwitchFoot for a couple numbers, Mark (in the green) signs autographs with the boys. They were swell (get it? a surfing joke? Swell? sheesh!, ferget it!). |
 When we were playing these gigs, people would watch our booth. Here BJ Aberle formerly with Plumb, playing now for The Normals, keeps an eye on things and answers questions. (We suspect he took a little more than the handful of M&Ms we said he could take.) |
 MOST TASTELESS RIDE:This is a fun thing where little kids get to climb to the top of this sinking Titanic air-filled balloon thing and slide down the decks to the water below. Isn't that clever??? We thought the decks should be made of real wood, the water should be below freezing, and they should be watching their family members perish below, just so the kids would really experience all the glorious fun of the real Titanic. |
| THE WOMAN AT THE WELL AWARD goes to a lady who visited our booth with young son at her side. After seeing our tract about AIDS she said, "I am a nurse and when they came around the hospital asking for donations for AIDS victims I told them I would if it was for kids and blood transfusion victims but if it was for some f-gg-t who got it through his 'lifetstyle' choice, they can just forget it!!" Hmmm... |
 BIGGEST REVELATION!Ever wonder how Bob and Larry can do all those things on the Veggie Tales stories? It's cuz they got hands and feet and HERE is photographic evidence!! |
| MOST INTERESTING LOGIC AWARD goes to a lady who spent 10 minutes telling us why we shouldn't use the term "apologetics" in our name because it was an arcane word that nobody understood, but then left literature for us to read about how the King James Version was the best and only translation worth reading. Go figure. |
| Pete Stewart |
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| Newsboys |
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| Chasing Furies |
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| Jars of Clay (the little guy) |
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| small town poets |
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 Mark & Dan on way home. Notice thrashed appearance. I mean the thrashed appearance of the naughty "I'm going to blow out on Interstate 5 in the middle of nowhere" tire in back of truck. |
 God is our pilot as we sleep on the freeway after driving all day. Mark later sucked up a bird in that wide open turbo mouth. |
 What it was all about. Seriously, this image describes for us what Spirit West Coast was all about, the focus being on our relationship with the Lord and not on ourselves or the music. People really worshipped at concerts! This was all new to us in 1999 having been jaded to death by some really raunchy capitalistic festivals years earlier in southern California. [As of 2004, we're jaded again.] |
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