There Oughtta Be a Law!

I'd read of Sons of Thunder and remembered only that I wanted to check them out. A guy whose taste was heavy into industrial and other heavy music also gave them a big recommendation. So when Nolan (at Rock 'n' Sports) said he could get me a Sons of Thunder CD, I said, "Yes." He asked if I knew the album title. I didn't, so he read me the song-titles from the CD he found. They sounded Christian, so I said, "Go for it." --By the way, Nolan's had to move his business to a bigger place. Way to go Nolan!

In the meantime, I went back to Mark Allan Powell's Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music and read that Sons of Thunder was an early '70s girlgroup --despite the name. I weighed this against the headbanger's recommendation and was really quite unsure as to what I'd get.

Nolan surprised me one time by having an order in for me in less than a week, so I dropped in that Friday afternoon to check on the order (I'm hard to catch at home on the phone). He said it'd be the first part of next week, at the earliest. --Sorry, Nolan.

I checked the following Tuesday, chomping at the bit all Monday. I really wanted to check Monday, but resisted. Anyway, Sons of Thunder AND Red Sea CDs came in.

Red Sea looked about right, but, Sons of Thunder's appearance didn't seem to fit its descriptions. Three heavy-set and one not-so-heavy black guys were on the front cover of this 2000 CD. None of 'em looked very happy. Well, it sure ain't no girlgroup! Maybe that recommendation was right and they were heavy rappers on the line of P.O.D.

I got home and put Sons of Thunder in my player. It wasn't girlgroup. It wasn't heavy. It wasn't rap. It wasn't even rock. THIS Sons of Thunder was more a gospel quartet. There oughtta be a law against using previously-taken band names!

I debated. Do I take it back? Do I try to re-sell it? Do I give it away? This Sons of Thunder is good at its particular musical style, so it became part of my collection.

There's a heavy metal Deliverance, and a gospel Deliverance. There's an alternative Overflow (see August, '03's article and elsewhere at Christian Rock), and another one which recently started getting air-play on my local A.C. Christian radio station. One of them will likely have to change their name. I don't want to see it have to be the band I met, but the other would be quite disappointed to have to get a new name as well.

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