Ok the first in a new series. I've had a bit of writers block with one thing and another over the last few weeks.
So a new series. Lift To Experience was a real experience. I've never seen a performance like it.
Josh T. Pearson was character like all great artists, who is probably a little unhinged and possibly dangerous to know. Amazingly he is still relatively unknown - this could be because he has gone deaf from the amazingly loud set up he had in a club as small as the Charlotte. The rig consisted of stadium sized Marshal stacks and a huge rotary leslie that wouldn't have been out of place on a World War 2 bomber.
The noise he produced from this set up was literally awesome! (as in shock and awe).
Supposedly JP was a serious Christian with lots of Christian imagery in their songs not least 2001s The Texas Jerusalem Crossroads . I believe he thought of Texas as being some sort of promised land?
If all Christians produced music this earnest with as much sonic firepower they could have a chance.
check out Falling from cloud 9 as well
I could put Josh Pearson in my series of gigs I have missed too as he played a solo acoustic slot a couple or three years, just to prove he wasn't dead I suppose. I haven't heard from him/them for a few years, got this bit from From Wikipedia
According to their label the band is no more with no hope to get together again. Frontman Josh T. Pearson is currently pursuing a solo career. Andy Young formed a project with Elbow frontman Guy Garvey called Western Arms, which appears to be in a long hiatus, with one song, Blue on Blue, available on their MySpace page.
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