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Mind Garage
12+ albums
Psychedelic RockGarage Rock70srockJesus Movement
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Mind Garage is a five-man psychedelic rock and roll band from Morgantown, West Virginia, and progenitor of Christian rock music. The Mind Garage 1967-1970 In July 1967, the Glass Menagerie group disbanded after touring the Midwest, and Larry McClurg, Jack Bond, and Norris Lytton returned to Morgantown where they were all students at West Virginia University. Jim Straub, drummer, left for parts unknown. John Fisher, lead guitar, joined the Shadows of Knight as a bass player from 1967-1971. At the University, Larry, Norris and Jack met John Vaughan, Ted Smith and the fiery, young, controversial and imaginative campus minister, Reverend Michael Paine. Soon a new, as yet unnamed band was formed. Reverend Paine's wife, Tori, named the band the Mind Garage. Christian Rock Genre Christian rock music did not exist in 1967 for mainstream American media. The Mind Garage is perhaps the first Christian Rock band [1], with documentation going back to 1967 in local media and national magazines and newspapers and television such as The Village Voice[2], Billboard and Rolling Stone magazine, ABC and NBC TV.[3] Because the Mind Garage never limited itself to one kind of music, in 1967 at the suggestion of Reverend Paine, in the tradition of Bach who used popular tavern songs in his music, the psychedelic hard rock band began writing rock music for church in Reverend Paine's attic, with a serious intent[4] to get the message across. They took Rock 'n Roll into churches, playing an actual M
