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King's X - Over My Head (Patreon)

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2025-08-10 15:00:13
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2026-06
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I have always liked religious music and rock music to be seperate.

As a former Catholic, I was used to liturgical style music during mass and I wanted to keep it that way. To be fair, I am a fan of gregorian chant style music and didn't want it mixing in the music I was playing in church.

Anyway, the dissonance is strong with Ty and I love the cruchy feeling it gives me!

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Kevin (WhirlwindMediaStudio)

Doug, Ty and Jerry met in Missouri and began playing together. Together and separately they became support musicians for several artists in the CCM industry. Eventually they grew disillusioned with that industry. From there they moved to Houston. Christened themselves as King’s X and the rest is history. Often interviewers would bring up the C-word…much to their chagrin…as they wanted to be judged on their music. Not being labeled and boxed in by preconceived ideas about religion. As for my worldview: People should have the freedom to speak their truths in whatever musical style they wish. I find it an anathema to segregate artistic expression into little boxes and dictate how, where and when (and IF) someone is allowed to express themselves in a certain manner. For example, look at Voice of Baceprot and all the criticism and derision they have endured because they didn’t fit into someone else’s idea of how women of a particular religion should express themselves. Anyway, enough of my sermonizing, back to the original thread: Texas is known for (at least) three power trios…ZZ Top, King’s X, and Khruangbin. Not too bad of a representation for the Lone Star State!

Kevin (WhirlwindMediaStudio)

Oops… I forgot the Eric Johnson generally plays within the power trio format 🤦‍♂️

P in D

Ok, so to put this in perspective, King’s X never got their due …. Despite radio hits like Dogman and Black Flag they hit their stride as the American recording industry was yeeting every rock band they could find. Often called your favorite bands favorite band, and, the act nobody wants to follow on stage, they somehow managed to evade stardom but gain the respect of nearly every musician they encountered. dUg and the boys are still actively touring playing small venues and pleasing crowds everywhere. The guys have some of the best 3 part harmonies in the biz and can still pull them off live. You can actually follow them closely on FaceBook where the band is accessible and chatty, posting about nearly every show. dUg is now 74, Jerry the drummer is 67, and Ty is the youngest at 63 … but they sound the same as they always did. Its no surprise that Ty lists among his greatest influences, The Beatles and Brian May. The whole band grew up in different places but were all influenced by Christian rock in some way. All 3 of these guys have been part of numerous side projects, but have always been members of King’s X. Ty even opened a recording studio (Alien Beans Studios) and has mastered music for others. For many years other guitarists have chased Tabors sound … unsuccessfully. It was revealed in early 1996 when Tabor finally spilled the details that the cornerstone of his tone was an old Gibson L5 amplifier. His thick, warm, and often compressed sound was achieved with a combination of a Gibson Lab Series L5 amplifier and a Fender Elite Stratocaster. If you were to pick up one King’s X album for a listen, as opposed to Dogman or Faith, Hope, Love - I’d recommend their second studio album, Gretchen Goes to Nebraska. The song here comes from that album. There is a song … call it an anthem, called Go Tell Somebody – Not musically worth analysis for Nittpicc but drives the point home of not wanting to follow this band at any venue … ever. When I am feeling like a crusty old curmudgeon another one of my favorite King’s X songs to listen to is Complain 😊 .

P in D

I was actually a little foggy on the bands relationship to Texas as well, knowing they came from Missouri ... I had to look it up: King's X has a strong connection to Texas, particularly Houston. The band, originally from Missouri, relocated to Houston in 1985 with the hope of securing a record deal. While that specific deal fell through, they found a mentor in Sam Taylor, who helped them change their name to King's X and eventually secured them a contract with Megaforce Records. Houston also became the band's base for a period, and they were involved with the local CCM scene, even touring with Morgan Cryar.

Zelbinian

I do love me some King's X. Dogman, in particular, is the killer grunge album from the 90s that no one knows about.

Bill W

NittPicc, I grew up Catholic as well, grade school and high school. I know a lot of kids felt like attending church was a punishment. I never had a problem with it, except that it cut into my Sunday morning wrestling. Many years later I began attending a non-denominational Christian church. It took me a long time to adjust to the overall lack of formality...the contemporary music, the dress code, etc.. I also appreciate a good traditional hymn- Amazing Grace, How Great Thou Art, The Old Rugged Cross, Be Thou My Vision etc. I also love Gospel music as well, which as we know, was blended with RnB to become Soul music. The only real difference is the lyrical content. I ended up joining the church band and learning their Christian rock songs (we didn't play Josh Groban😀 ), and I tried introducing some older stuff like Jackie Wilson - "Higher and Higher", Van Morrison - "Brand New Day" (both with slightly altered lyrics), B.B. King - "Working on the Building", Hank Williams - "I Saw The Light", Johnny Cash - "Why Me, Lord", Edwin Hawkins Singers - "Oh Happy Day". I don't have a problem with Christian rock as a musical genre or form of expression, but I still have mixed feelings about it when used during worship service. From a band standpoint, at some point the worship is sometimes confused with entertainment/performance. And from the congregation standpoint- people always say "If my church had music like that I'd go all the time". Well, then you're there for the wrong reason. Anyways I stopped going some years ago mainly out of laziness. 😀

Bill W

This was an interesting meld of genres... the guitar leads were really melodic, like you said, and a little bit shreddy like a lot of 80s metal, but the rhythm parts were a bit grungy in tone, and with the bass and drums, kind of funky. ..which really lent to his soulful voice/vocals. Reminded me a little of Sly Stone, especially with the high pitch screams/howls. In a way parallels what Hendrix did...playing psychedelic rock, but always infused with Blues...and Jimi sang like a Blues singer, sounded a lot like Muddy Waters in his vocal style. ..and that breakdown in the middle was definitely Gospel inspired.

Bill W

Weren't there 2 forms of Gregorian chant? I seem to remember hearing/reading that the earliest form/style was limited to 1 (or 2) notes. Every verse, every word the same note. Then later adopted polyphonic singing. Memory gets fuzzy as you get old.