By the time 1993 rolled around, Daniel Amos had been around the block a couple times with their rock music:

In the 70’s, the band Daniel Amos was part of the Jesus music that grew out of Calvary Chapel in Costa Mesa. In the 80’s the band shifted into a new wave band with incisive lyrics and ponderings about such literary greats as William Blake. But as the 80’s wore on, the band found their fanbase waning and their sound falling out of fashion. The band reinvented themselves with a new name. Band members hid behind clever non-de-plumes (such as Terry Taylor taking on the name “Camarillo Eddy”, etc.) and the band reappeared as The Swirling Eddies. Hiding behind their anonymity, the band took on a more satirical side as Taylor penned lyrics cutting at televangelists pandering for money and missionaries taking on their duties as if going to war.

Cornerstone Festival 1990 was perhaps the peak of this era with The Swirling Eddies opening for themselves as Daniel Amos. Randy Stonehill was the first opener and he joined the Swirling Eddies at the end of the show for a rollicking good time. I think the show was actually released as a VHS tape, but I could not find any footage on YouTube so you’ll just have to go on eBay and buy it somewhere.

When 1993 rolled around, Daniel Amos had “reunited” into a leaner rock outfit. This footage features the opening song from their 1993 show, “If You Want To.” There’s a lot of fun parts in this video from Terry Taylor’s customary “HOWAREYA?” greeting to Riki Michelle dancing around in the background to a long-haired Tim Chandler on bass to Sharon McCall in her leather jacket and chewing gum strumming away on the side of the stage. This is a fun era of Daniel Amos that I’m sad I missed as I really didn’t get into their music until the end of their career about 7 years later.