00:00Love Song was a band that was a bunch of hippies in the right place at the right time.
00:06If you were in 1968 America, the world was completely unraveling.
00:11Social economic disaster, political disaster, a lot like it is today. All kinds of instability.
00:18The ground was shifting like crazy. Everybody was experimenting with different religions and drugs.
00:27This is a culture that connected through music.
00:31As that movement began to unravel...
00:35Everybody talked about peace and love.
00:37There was a lot of disillusionment.
00:38All the things we were experimenting with, sex, drugs and rock and roll, it all just came to a dead
00:44end.
00:44It was a convergence of all kinds of things happening all at once.
00:47That set up hundreds of thousands of people to be open for the answer to come in a package you
00:54didn't expect.
00:57I didn't realize it, but I walked right into the middle of a spiritual awakening.
01:06Hundreds of thousands of people, if not millions, got saved during that Jesus movement.
01:12The Jesus People movement and Love Song in particular impacted me.
01:16It's like you're one and Jesus was in the midst of this.
01:19It was wild.
01:20And so when God poured his spirit out, he used music.
01:31The key was the music drove it.
01:33This is awesome!
01:37Love Song played an important role in changing the tide of Christian music.
01:43They were actually pioneers of writing songs that spoke to people outside the walls of the church.
01:48Love Song had this thing.
01:54You could feel the presence of God in the music.
01:58We started singing and people's hearts would change.
02:01Wow!
02:01These guys are like a combination between the Beatles and the Beach Boys.
02:05They were it.
02:06They broke the ground for what later became contemporary Christian music.
02:12I'm not really sure that I would be doing what I'm doing today.
02:15It hadn't been for Love Song.
02:16We were rock and roll guys.
02:21With a heart to tell our generation that Jesus is Lord.
02:25They gave us, in many ways, the initial soundtrack of the Jesus movement.
02:30Really, it was a thing of God.
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